You might have the best time ahead outside with those smoky skies booklets go to meteorologist mary lee with a check of the forecast. We have some good news this morning compared to yesterday. The air quality is a little bit better for most of us. Checking our quality conditions you can see a lot of yellow dots and it is moderate this morning. Those red dots are indicating unhealthy air for portions of the north bay as well as for the peninsula. As we go through the day we are still looking at that unhealthy air quality and that is why a spare the air alert is an effect and will likely be exndedfor t week. Temperatures are seasonal and we will talk more about the rest of the week including the Holiday Weekend forecast and alice check in with gianna and it is a slow ride on the Allatoona Pass. It sure is. We have brake lights into the Allatoona Pass out of tracy and mount house to grant line. The eastbound side has an accident around grant line road that was rocking one lane and they ar
Cbsn bay area, taking a live look at the city of San Francisco. It is monday. It is another work week. I am i am anne makovec, in for i am len kiese. We are both in red. Lets get right over to mary lee. What is going on . Good morning to you, happy monday to you. We have a new week and were looking at temperatures a little cooler compared to yesterday. We are going to cool down by a few degrees. Lets show you a look over san jose. We are starting off in the 50s and 60s this morning with mostly cloudy skies along the coast and bay. Through the afternoon, we are looking at 92 in concord and then we saw a high of 99, so it is 7 degrees cooler compared to today. Concord is 87 and 74 in oakland and 66 in San Francisco. We will talk about the rest of the week. It will get cooler tomorrow. It is back to school for thousands of students in oakland even though no deal has been reached between teachers and district officials regarding distancelearning. Negotiations are still ongoing. They have b
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, streaming on cbsn bay area, were looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look out east this morning. It is tuesday, august 18th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. And lets get your forecast with meteorologist mary lee and it is going to be another hot one for many of us. It will for sure. Temperatures are on the rise and it looks fabulous in green. I want to talk about what is going on because we have those wildfires burning this morning and i want to get to the current conditions. The hennessey fire is burning to the east of st. Helena and right now, temperatures are in the mid50s. Firefighters are against some warm conditions. The good news is there are calm winds this morning. For the marsh fire, burning east, temperatures are in the mid80s and winds northwest at six miles an hour. There are light conditions for the marsh fire. The deer zone fire, temperatures are in the upper 70s and h
0 contained five another day of dangerous heat is on tap. Of flex alert is in effect. We are asked to conserve energy today and tomorrow. Mary has another check of the forecast in a couple of minutes. Back to fire watch, or keeping an eye on a wildfire burning in Santa Cruz County that has doubled in size. It broke out north of davenport and flames have gone through 120 acres and it is 20 contained. The river fire continues to burn in the hills of south of salina, at least six structures have been destroyed and 1500 others are being threatened. We are lucky that we have kept all the houses right here. My brother is across the canyon and it came through that brush yesterday. I have never seen anything like that. Cal fire says that area is not safe for people to come back to but they hope to have a timeline for returning in the next few hours. We have learned that hundreds of San Francisco School Bus Drivers are about to lose their jobs. Some after decades behind the wheel. The president
At temperatures a little bit cooler for today. If it was too hot yesterday, especially inland, we will cool down by several degrees. Here is a look with our san jose camera. In san jose we have clear skies at 63 degrees and mid 50s in San Francisco with those clouds and 58 for oakland. It 62 for concord. That sunshine inland is 92 in concord, and yesterday was 99, and then 80 in san jose. There is some clearing around the bay. We are looking at 65 for pacifica. We will talk about temperatures that will be cooling down tomorrow. Details on that or coming up. Happening today, it is the first day of school for the Oakland Unified School district but five minutes after the pandemic, the district and the union are still negotiating the details about Distance Learning. We are live in oakland this morning with what this means for students. Reporter good morning, we are now in week four of negotiations, one of the main Sticking Point is the number of hours requirand thachersunwamit wants seven