So, lets jump right in to weather. Let me take it from here. We have some issues out there as kumasi talked about. You can see it over my shoulder. The red flag warning in effect for the diablo range and east bay hills and also the north bay mountains and this goes through 5 00 this evening as winds could still gust 50 to 60. That is looking less likely but still possible but extremely dry out there. 8 to 18 relative humidity. We could have extreme fire behavior because of that. Winds are still running anywhere from 35 to about 41 in knoxville. So, that is still pretty critical as far as fire starting and fire spreading. Look at this. 8 in the Oakland Hills to about 10 , 11 relativi relative ty ty rest of us. For the rest of us extremely dry air and temperatures in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Away from the coast in the mid 70s. Okay, mike. Thank you. Oakland police are investigating an incident along mcarthur boulevard. One person is dead and we have reached out to investigators for more i
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