News station. Youre watching kron 4 news every tear. Like the whole neighborhood with gun and claims. Now at 10 the threat of wildfires is still here a grass fire near the landmark South San Francisco sign filling the sky with smoke. The danger hitting too close to home for families which were forced to evacuate we want to have more on this in just a moment, but first tonight, the bay area as a whole is still not out of the woods when it comes to fire danger, thank you for joining us tonight at 10 im pam moore and im grant lotus in tonight for ken way we saw another day of record breaking heat here in the bay and a red flag warning that was set to expire this morning was extended for some regions until tomorrow our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow standing by with the latest on the fire danger tonight, lawrence yeah guys, this red flag warning now extended until 8 oclock. In the morning tomorrow morning thats because this ridge just really stubborn not breaking down very rapidly and
Didnt get quite as dry. So now weve got blue skies, the more active again. The visibilities increase, so that means the smoke layer isnt laying down on the fire. Any time we get a little bit more visibility, thatll allow more air flow. The fire does start to burn a little more actively. Its nice to see blue skies psychologically, but i think it does invite more fire. And so do you sort of dread seeing the better area right now . Well, im conflicted. So in the cant win department, lets go to darren to see whats up next. Well, i will take the good air quality. Yeah, me too. It is registering green, a. K. A. Good, bay area wide right now. Thats right. There is Something Else thats starting to come into the picture. Look at the view from the top of the salesforce camera. You can see mt. Diablo again. We havent been able to do that for a while. Im going to take the camera and switch our view now. Instead of looking east, were going to take the camera on top of the salesforce camera and look
Tower thats impacting visibility in areas like San Francisco or bridges. Even as north the san pablo bay. So watch your travel as you drive into work, especially closer to the bay itself. Air quality up north in the moderate category well a little bit cleaner and better the further south in the bay, you get so definitely not completely in the clear but a lot like yesterday things have improved a lot 50s for your current temperatures for most of us with concord at 56, hayward right there with oakland at 58 degrees to start the morning. And later today, well be back into the low 90s inland 70s and 80s for most bayside areas. Robin. All right, thank you john were checking in on the morning commute which continues to pick up all around the bay area but were still trouble free. So were checking the drive into San Francisco. Heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza which looks good right theres more traffic rolling in. But we dont have any big problems that you have to stress out about
This afternoon for much of the north bay and some unhealthy air conditions the further north you get right now temperatures mostly in the 50s oakland and san jose both at 58. Alameda at 56 a bit cooler up in the north bay. Robin. All right, thank you john starting off with a major hot spot in San Francisco, 2 cars flipped over at the monterey boulevard onramp to northbound 2. 80 emergency crews on the way traffic is at a complete standstill so avoid northbound to 8 if you can stick with one oh one heading into San Francisco. Ill give you another update coming up in just a bit well talk more about the delay and check in on some more bridges started james, thanks a lot robin on to our top story, its been more than 2 days now since the president was airlifted to Walter Reed Medical Center of the president s medical team says hes doing well and could potentially return to the white house. Perhaps as early as today, washington dc correspondent anna werner key live in dc with the latest anna
As for air quality not quite as Crystal Clear as yesterday was but Still Holding on to much better conditions and last week were starting off the morning with good for most of the bay area do expect moderate conditions to return by the afternoon right now were in the 40s for the north bay 50s for most of the rest of us. And im talking some 70s 80s just a few 90s then the rest of your forecast ahead. Robin. All right, thank you john still tracking to overturn crashes one in San Francisco wrapping up involving 2 vehicles that flipped over at the monterey on ramp to northbound 2. 80 in San Francisco. This at the 2 right lanes blocked there moving this off to the shoulder and traffic is already improving so much much better there for northbound to 80 no delays at the bay toll plaza an easy drive into San Francisco and the nation and overturned big rig east 7. 80 and military west the offramp is still blocked daria back to you thanks a lot robin lets get to the big story which is President