Backup. Smooth flow of traffic. There is a that drizzle kari was talking about. This morning the wait is almost over. The road to rio culminates with an explosive celebration tonight during the olympic Opening Ceremony. Live pictures from rio this morning. For months nbc bay area has been preparing to take you inside all the action and all the local ties to the biggest competitions on the planet. Nbc bay area anchor Jessica Aguirre is live with us from rio de janiero with a sneak peek of ceremony that promises to be a party, jess. It is so great to have you this morning. All the build up, all the excitement, all the nerves, a lot of questions about whether rio is ready. Yes, that is the question. Bon dia, sam and laura. This is the olympic park is where im standing right now which is the rio de janiero. This is one of four clusters that will be holding the olympic games. And this is in the magic city. Now, tonight this city is getting ready to host one of the biggest spectacles on eart
We have david spark looking at conditions right now. Lets get into it. How you doing . How about this break in front of the heat. That brought our numbers down a little bit. Its not going to go too far away. Dont get too comfortable. It will get hot again. As we finish off the weekend we will be warming up. Joy this little reprieve. Here is a live look at the beit bridge and some patchy fog developing and some areas. Enjoying the nice weather. Here we have that onshore flow that is starting to develop and looks fairly aggressive from yesterday. Complements of another system. A little weakening High Pressure we call it flattening in the southwest. It will be a return player and that will be by the end of the weekend and into next week. Lets check out right now 53 for San Francisco, santa rosa 49, hayward 57, over the hills mid50s. Not a major drop off. For oakland, warm but not as hot. Temperatures will get to 69. Hears this afternoon, the warm up is still happening but those inland loc
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South bay and the east bay. This is where i expect well see the most of the smoke, the haze from the fires today. Why . Take a look at the upper level wind profile coming from the south ushering that smoke into the bay area. So what does that mean for you saturday . We will see elevated levels of smoke and haze for today. Watch what happens as i advance on into sunday. You see a shift, more of an on shore flow. This should help to reduce some of that smoke and that haze at least at the lower levels. We may still see it at the upper levels but i think it will help to reduce in some areas tomorrow. Over all air quality wise, not as bad as it could be. We are moderate area wide. Not good but not bad. Well take what we can get. Forecast wise, you can definitely see gray skies, low fog starting off the morning. Temperatures in the 50s, near 60 degrees for most locations around the bay. Later today, warming up to near average for this time of year. Temperatures topping out in the low to mid
We want to get you a hit in the ground running this morning or hitting the road running, very smooth start. Unfortunately hitting is what we want to talk about. Very light traffic flow over in the east bay. Southbound 880 around the 92 interchange, a crash happened a short time ago. I have not seen any slowing. The lanes should be clear though chp has yet to confirm that. A live look out there will show you the san mateo bridge, traffic moving lightly. How clear is it out there . Were seeing the marine layer up to about 2,000 feet this morning, patchy low clouds and cooling temperatures. Again, the big story moving forward of highs today running in the 80s around san jose, 60s around San Francisco. Big change from ned, 70 degrees in the hills yesterday, today in the mid 60s. Today looks pretty good but watching closely changes coming friday. Notice the humidity levels going down, wind speeds picking up for friday. What are the changes in the forecast well be watching as we approach the