Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Covid curfew now in effect, affecting nearly every corner of california and the bay area as San Francisco may be right behind. Questions still linger over whether these silent streets do enough to stop the spread of covid19. Good morning, everyone, its sunday, november 22. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Well get right to those curfews taking effect overnight and new Holiday Travel concerns this morning. But first, as always, lets start with a quick look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Liz, good morning to you. If you were with us early this morning, temperatures dropped below freezing. Were beginning to recover. If youre just weiaking up, it might be hard to believe. Its a chilly sky out there. Its 47 downtown, balmy 53 in oakland. As we look at the north bay, mt. Tam. Inland valleys, upper 30s from santa rosa to novato. The fog has cleared. Low 40s, youre below freezing in danville thi
Is going on outside. We have a little bit of fog out there and especially thick up across the north bay. Look at that. The usual spots the fog has moved in through the coast and coastal valleys and petaluma, geyserville in that area and remain there for the better part of the morning commute. Heres a look down in the south bay where were looking pretty clear on 87. Temperatures not as warm today, but definitely above average from 62 in Half Moon Bay and low to mid 70s around the bay and mid 70s to even a few 80s inland and especially 80s in the east bay. Lets get back to you for the news. Thank you, mike. Happening now the polls are officially open and voting is under way in many states along the east coast, the midwest and the south. This is a line forming outside of the American Airlines arena in dallas, texas. You can see its pretty early there, but people are already up in line waiting for their chance to vote this election day. Now, voters in swing states they will likely decide t
A lot of these questions whats going on with red flag warning john yeah, robin is something weve seen a lot so far this season, its a pairing of the already hot temperatures that weve had that are only getting hotter dry conditions and the noticeable increase in wind speeds today these offshore winds will be pushing into the bay area consistently starting today lasting through tomorrow into early friday, too. And red flag warnings are officially in effect as of just a few minutes ago looking outside at our sutro tower right here skies are crystal clear. No fog. No cloud cover it is dry at least it is a beautiful start to the morning as i mentioned red flag warnings really just took effect from 05 00am this morning until 11 00am on friday and really lighting up the vast majority of the bay area here upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains from the inland east bay all the way out to the hills right above oakland, san leandro down through fremont and then all across the north bay to
7 is giving us that shot in san jose. So when the sun comes up. Weve got you covered, yeah and masks masks masks covering you today because the bad air quality john what expect. Yeah i agree we need those mass today youve been wearing in many ways, but today were going to have significant ash falling from the sky even if you can smell the smoke. So the mask will be very helpful and yes as we make our way through the next hour or so well see eventually what you those skies eventually do take what we are looking at is going to be a darker a smoky day much like yesterday smoke is a little bit lower in the horizon than yesterday its gradually sunk been very slow in doing so though so for some parts of San Francisco. Youre not quite smelling it yet. As that marine layer was still president overnight. Even in areas with slightly better air quality you still need that mask because we do have ash if you had your car outside overnight youre seeing it having settled on your car and as you step o
Will be 80s in sf but really close to the 90s were already off to a warm start this morning cloverdale timber on in berkeley of all hovered right around 80 degrees during morning hours. So even as you open the windows. Hoping that a cool breeze makes its way in some of us havent yet seen that relief because evening lows have been so warm and daytime highs will be more than warm its going to be another really hot one livermore in cut up to a 110 conquered at one o 9 today, santa rosa nap of the lay ho through morgan hill, san jose in Mountain View Fremont Livermore all these areas well into the triple digits again so it is not the ideal labor day to be doing too much outside i know that he is going to keep a lot of us indoors. Find a good spot to stay cool and take it as easy as possible. Excessive heat warnings remaining until 09 00pm tonight in pink really all across the bay areas that are affected by excessive heat warnings will be under heat advisories and that really is just San Fr