For joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Mike is keeping an eye on our commute for us. First kari hall with a forecast on what we can expect for today. We are starting out with low clouds, but we will clear out and it will be a nicer day ahead meaning cooler temperatures, as well as a light wind. Now were still dealing with the smoke drifting in at times, especially once the morning clouds clear out. And so were looking at temperatures here in walnut creek in the upper 50s reaching into the 70s as we go into late morning. Mike, youve been following a couple issues out there for the commute. Yes. Still over there in the east bay, kari. Hayward into union city. Lets look at 880. The nimitz freeway the second and third crashes of the last 45 minutes now block your right lanes southbound and jammed up to about fremont boulevard. Tow trucks are en route. Im told a total of six vehicles that have to be cleared. Well track that. The only slow drive right now, laura. Back to you.
And were standing by for an and weve probably been in 50 or update on the czu fire keeping so of these hurricanes. Thousands of people out of their so, you know, this is quite a homes. The third hour of today in the storm. It is the strongest storm that bay starts right now. Made landfall in this part of and a good thursday morning to you, thanks so much for the region right at the starting your morning right here with us. Louisiana texas border. Im marcus washington. Im laura garcia. A check on your commute with category 4. 150 mimileanhour winds and, mike in just moments. Cut across this area and left a but, first, some incredible lot of damage here. We know that buildings and homes images coming out showing the have been damaged extensively. Powerful hurricane that slammed flooding continues to be an into the louisiana texas border issue here. Overnight. Hundreds of thousands of people hurricane laura made landfall as a category 4 storm. Without power at this point. And the danger p
Now. And a good morning to you on this thursday. Im marcus washington, thanks for joining us. And, yes, thanks for being here. Im laura garcia. We will get to mike in just a moment. Want to get to our own weather system and see whats going on out there. Good morning, meteorologist, kari hall. Good morning. Starting out with some nicer weather for the bay area. As we see the fog roll in during this Morning Hours and bringing in higher humidity. As we go through today, were going to see it a little bit cooler than the past couple of days with some upper 70s for the east bay at noon and reach into the upper 80s in some of the warmer spots while the south bay will be in the low 80s. Well talk more about this coming up. Mike, any issues for early commuters . Kari, i have a Traffic Alert which should be clearing any second. Well take you to the maps and talk about mostly green sensors as you expect for the morning commute. Closures still in place for the czu and lnu fire. We slowly saw just
Press conference and a couple minutes from now. Before we bring you that line, here are the top stories for today. Firefighters are slowly getting the upper hand on three major complexes of wildfires that are burning around the bay area. Evacuation orders have been lifted for uc santa cruz for the czu august lightning complex fires , the biggest of fire is czu august lightning complex fires. They have burned 574 square miles in parts of the east bay, the south bay and the central valley. The lnu lightning complex fires are one third contained. These have burned 564 square miles, between sonoma and yolo counties. Protests continue into the morning in oakland, over the Police Shooting of jacob lake in kenosha, that it was mainly a peaceful protest. Hundreds of people gathered in downtown oakland, but some of the crowd set fires and smashed windows of several businesses. At the courthouse, glass doors were shattered. A fire was set inside. Oakland police say that several people were arres
With a boycott during the playoffs. Speaking up. Pandemic politics. Vice president pence paints a positive picture of the president s Coronavirus Response at the Republican National convention. What this says about how the gop thinks it can win. But first, heres todays eyeopener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Welcome to cbs this morning. Theres a lot going on. Are we going back to the eyeopener. Welcome back to cbs this morning. This is one of those rare days where anthony, as you know, there are so many things going on at the same time. Thats what i was trying to say. We could have had several leads. Theyre all very, very troubling. Well begin with the one everybody is talking about at this hour. Hurricane laura. The country, as you know, being tested in many ways. First we have a coronavirus, an economic csis and weve got a reckoning on systemic race sichl. Now were being tested again by one of the strongest storms ever to hit the u. S. The last thing anybody needs. Her name is hurri