Streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live from our exclusive salesforer looking west as we start this new week. Good morning. It is monday, december 7. Im len kiese. Im anne makovec in for Michelle Griego this week. Lets get right over to mary lee. We are looking at a high fire danger. This is a rare and late season offshore wind event. Tracking the winds picking up. Up in the mountains, when discussing up to more than 60 Miles Per Hour and it is windy for many locations this morning. A red flag warning is in effect for most of the bay area until 5 00 p. M. All the airlines highlighted in red. Higher elevations with gusts up to 60 Miles Per Hour. Our valleys and coasts up to 40 Miles Per Hour wind gusts. The wind advisory for most of the bay area until 11 00 a. M. So watch out for flying debris, broken blanches and the possibility of power outages. You can see how strong the winds are, the camera really shaking in the wind this morning. Our temperatures are running in the 40s and 50s. A
Is around 4,000 feet. Its a great landmark. When all of that swept across the bay area. Very few places got measurable rain down in the communities where we all live. But the lightning was impressive, and so was the small hail, which came along with it and now its done. This is what it looked like at the peak, 3 00 in the afternoon with the light snowfall out in Mount Hamilton. A couple lightning strikes up in the hills of the east bay, thats all gone. But thats the view right now from the top of hill, the mark hopkins hotel, looking off to the west. And we now turn our direction to whats coming next. And that is not bad. But over the next 12 hours, theyre going to plummet so much so that we now have a frost advisory. For the north bay, lets come in for a close up look there. The whole corridor below 101, petaluma, and that also extends down into marin. So you are included in this, in it from 3 00 in the morning until 9 00 a. M. Some of the temperatures here could get down to the upper
November alone about one quarter of all us cases since the pandemic began. More than 256,000 people have awesome that died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in the bay area. Local Health Departments now reporting 185 new cases of covid19. Nearly 139,000 cases have been reported in 1900 deaths have been recorded here in the bay area since the start of the pandemic california seeing 14,000 new cases today. The states Positivity Rate over the past 2 weeks has now jumped to more than 5 . With cases skyrocketing all across america tonight, the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Now strongly warning folks not to travel for the holidays. The cdc says the safest way to celebrate thanksgiving is to celebrate at home with the people that you live with yet the tsa says friday and saturday. Where the busiest day since the pandemic brought air travel to a near halt in march and wednesday and sunday are expected to be the busiest travel days of t
Warning that the county is very close to hitting this mark. Some businesses are especially concerned about that curfew bars like the sycamore in the mission say they depend on those late night customers for their bottom line. The workers there say if theyre forced to close at 10 oclock and set of their regular time at midnight. It will hurt even more. As jeremy. Our business is already down closing early or would it bring us even further down its terrible, however i get it its its a good thing i just wish people stan cider. Can be saved. It would have to go through this again. So under the curfew folks will still be able to do a central activities like walk your dog. Pick up takeout or do some Grocery Shopping as well. Now we have seen more than 3 million new cases in just the month of november alone about one quarter of all the u. S. Cases since the pandemic began more than 256,000 people have also died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in
Im phillip ma. Were beginning what is usually one of the busiest weeks of Holiday Travel this year Health Officials are pleading with americans to stay home as covid cases surge to record levels. Despite the warnings, airports just saw their busiest weekend since the pandemic begin nbcs Blaine Alexander joins us from atlanta blaine, good morning. Reporter phillip, good morning to you we have heard those warnings from Health Officials, from the cdc for days now urging allamericans to stay home, not travel this week, but scenes from airports around the country show that many people are not listening and thats got dr. Anthony fauci now concerned about what this could look like after thanksgiving a direct and dire warning to travelers like these already packing airports ahead of the thanksgiving holiday. When you get a crowded plane, youre in a crowded airport, youre lining up not everybodys wearing masks. Friday and saturday the t processed more than 2 million travelers, the highest twoda