We kick off a busy tuesday. Early today starts right now good morning. Im Frances Rivera im phillip mena. Hurricane sally is creeping toward the gulf coast. The category 1 storm is one of four cyclones in the atlantic. Sallys outer bands have already started impacting floridas gulf coast. The impact is expected to make landfall anywhere between the Florida Panhandle and south easternlouisiana residents have already started evacuating in mississippi. I dont want to be here when the water is that deep and be stranded that wouldnt be smart reporter sally is churning at 3 Miles Per Hour. Forecasters say a slow moving hurricane like this one only means a prolonged impact and heavy rains, flash flooding and storm surges mandatory evacuations stretch from alabama the the bayou state. Janessa webb joining us now. She has the latest on this slow moving Freight Train Hurricane Sally is not moving and overnight the west side of the storm system has kind of collapsed. It will reorganize by the mor
Leaf the house. I wont go out. Today i was watching. It was about 102, so i put on my tennis shoes and came out. Reporter it was a breath of less toxic fresh air. Good enough for this older couple. Still not clear. I mean, im breathing. Its okay. Its sad that it has gone to this point. It is almost normal. Reporter normalcy for dog walkers. For the last week, you couldnt make out mt. Diablo or the foot hills. They were totally obliterated by smoke. So the fact that you can least see the outline today, thats encouraging to people. 260 golfers seized the opportunity to tee off when the decision was made to reopen today after four days of a complete shutdown. I cannot remember ever that weve ever done four days straight. In fact, before this year, ive never closed due to air quality. So whats the new normal . People and pets gradually coming out of hiding. More grateful than ever to be back outside. In the east bay. Abc7 news. Abc7 news anchor Spencer Christian with more on the changing a
Area. Both towers of the Golden Gate Bridge are visible today as we move it to moderate air quality. Thank you for joining us at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the smoke from the wildfires have choked our skies and theyve now reached the other side of the country in this picture. You can see how the smoke has been distributed across the United States. The National Weather service says the smoke was caught in a jet stream and was carried across the u. S. And into the east coast want to check in on condition this hour with our meteorologist dave spahr dave is this a better air that were seeing or is it going to be changing again as weve seen in the last few days, whats got a little better you pointed out and it will continue that trend it looks like as we get later on during the week with the promise front. How about this live shot to this but looking good all of this afternoon out of Half Moon Bay doesnt look very inviting shadows been a little darker more stark going on for today. Now we do have
Morning, august 27th. Dave, like you, nice cool air coming in in marin county but i have to tell you a very big smell of smoke. As we check in with mark tamayo i know it will heat up today and im afraid it will get worse. Yeah, it will not be a huge warmup but your observation is right on. We are seeing a bit more haze and smoke drifting over had this morning. And remember, we still have to spare the air alert right on through friday. The major story overnight was hurricane laura making landfall as a powerful category four storm in southwestern louisiana. Cameron, louisiana with wins of 150 miles an hour. We will be watching the storm all morning long. For us in the bay area, we have low clouds and hazy skies into the afternoon hours. The forecast i should be just a little bit warmer compared to yesterday. Yesterday was actually cooler than expected. Today a little bit of a rebound in most amateurs. Lets check in with sal, he is watching the roadways this early thursday morning. Good m
A quick recovery have been damaged the country about greece is the worst economic and humanitarian crisis in a decade and critics question the political will to stamp out rampant corruption and human rights abuses my guest this week is involved ways minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade see both these 2 more you as a former army chief he was also the face of the military coup that propelled among god what to power to zimbabwe ever be able to see genuine political and economic reform. Foreign minister a see both you so much oil welcome to conflict zone thank you. You were the face of the military overthrow of Robert Mugabe back in 2017 as a commander you got on television in your uniform to assure the public of a stable transition back then you were the heroes of the hour now you have an economy close to collapse with fuel food electricity shortages where is the hope in zimbabwe right now. World thank you very much sarah yes the change in 2070. And the advent of the curren