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Fight. Our marine layer is getting more and more diffuse. Yesterday it was setup right below the golden gate bridge. And this morning as the High Pressure ridge to the south of us builds back into the bay area were seeing less of a marine influence. We still have the haze, the smoke. 2 miles Half Moon Bay, thats with the fog. And as we look at the air quality we can see its not good for sensitive groups in the south bay, also around livermore and into oakland as well as walnut creek. But moderate air quality up in the north bay. So up towards santa rosa. Its better right now but you know how those winds shift and move that smoke around throughout the day. We can expect that oakland, San Francisco 56 on the coast, and by 9 00 weve got 60s. The fog is at the shoreline, but by the afternoon were warming up into the ening dttays offsho building across the region. Thats going to lead to a high disturbance list. These are the three fire zones spread across the bay area. The lnu complex to th
Low clouds along the coast. You can see here with this live shot of the Golden Gate Bridge things will clear quickly. Temperatures near 60, warm sunshine by the afternoon for almost everyone except at a few beaches and warmer afternoon with inland temperatures topping off mid90s. Around the bay really comfortable, near 80 degrees and at the coast thats going to be warming up. Sunset there at 8 10 and temperatures will warm up through the weekend, and well have a slight cool down next week, and ill tell you about that with the accuweather seven day forecast. More than 8,400 new cases were reported in just 24 hours but the states numbers had been inaccurate for a week thats because of a Testing Backlog in the hundreds of thousands. Abc 7 reporter amanda del cutillo has more on that glitch. Reporter californias Health Leaders have breaking the states massive backlog on two issues, a july 25th server outage and the states failure to renew a certificate at one of its largest commercial labs
62 in oakland, mid50s in nevado, 56 in mountain view. Heres a look at the Golden Gate Bridge and as we go through the day today numbers will be climbing. By noontime were around 80 degrees. Still cool at the coast, but inland will come up about 8 degrees or so for a high around 90, upper 70s around the bay. So the big question is will it last for the second half of weekend . Its been a cool week. The latest rise in the coronavirus pandemic the cdc is forecasting there could be 175,000 deaths by august 15th mech here in california for the second day in a row we reported a Record Number of deaths. Yesterday it was 159, two more than thursday with total. Now, some Health Experts and Decision Makers say the only way out is to shutdown again and start over. Reporter more than 150 Health Experts across the u. S. Say its time to hit the reset button. They have signed an open letter to lawmakers. Among them dr. Travis porco at ucsf. I i think everybody sees this for what it is, a crisis. Repor
Be careful out there if you are out early. 56 in richmond, and 59 in hayward, san leandro. Throughout the day today once again the clouds will peel back but its the wind were going to be watching. Gusty onshore winds will allow for temperatures to be cooler as that cooler air is transported into our east bay. Notice were not looking at 90s but some mid to upper 80said in our arme our warmest locations. Were talking winds up to 25 miles an hour. Even stronger on sunday. Detailing the warmer week ahead coming up. Liz . Lisa, thank you. This morning we are keeping an eye on a brush fire burning overnight in brentwood. This is happening off deer valley and its called the deer fire. Crews say it was contained at 20 acres just before midnight. Firefighters were on the scene until Early Morning mopping up any hot spots. No evacuation warnings were given. There is no place in our mornin accusedent or of participating in a closed Facebook Page full of racist posts. The police union has already