Where he was staying. Massive forest fires in the Arctic Circle. We have a special report on the blazes moving across siberia. We start with coronavirus and figures from the World Health Organization showing that new weekly coronavirus cases in europe now exceed those reported when the pandemic first peaked in march. The un body has also warned of alarming rates of transmission across the region. It came as the uk government announced almost 3 00 new infections on thursday. To help prevent the spread of the virus, almost two Million People living in the north east of england will be subjected to tougher restrictions from friday. Spain recorded almost 5,000 new infections in 2a hours, up from just over 3,000 the previous day. Almost 2000 were in the madrid region, which is planning targeted lockdowns. And in france 10,593 cases were recorded on thursday the highest single day count since the pandemic began. Well have a report from our correspondent in marseille, a new french virus hotsp
You need to be doing should be just fine as you are getting out there. Right now temperatures are coolest nears the coast and up in the north bay 60s for most of our inland areas, some of our warmer spots with pittsburgh at 63 livermore dublin and conquered all at 62 to start this morning. Skies are generally clear the further inland you get with some of the low fog near the coastline do watch out for hayes in our inland valleys though, as we still do have some smoke coming up from wildfires. Nice calm winds around our north bay fires this morning as well as what were seeing in the south bay, some really calm winds in the vicinity there so that is definitely good news. The best news that weve got this morning as air quality is at least starting things off on a really good know we are looking at moderate with little impact poor air quality near the coastline and through the east bay, some of our worst stuff is still up in the north part of the Central Valley and now to the sierra foothi
Contained and the czu august lightning complex fires burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Now 19 contained calfire seeing cooler weather and extra resources coming from outside the bay area has certainly helped crews gain some ground on these fires and weve got Team Coverage of the czu lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties. And you can take a look here at the map and it shows you the areas burned by that fire or complex of fires which has destroyed more than 440 homes and other structures kron fours will tran is live now at the Cal Fire Base Camp in Scotts Valley with the latest well. No i can tell you the conditions are favorable for firefighters at this particular time it is cold, its still smoky. And yes, the fires are still burning but slowly its not chewing through all of that dry vegetation that we saw over the fast the first couple of days of this fire, lets get right to the video it is tearing through parts of Santa Cruz County including bonny doo
And 60s for your current temperatures double in pittsburgh. Livermore in the low 60s right now oakland at 63 later today, weve actually got a pretty comfortable afternoon to look forward to our warmest only in the upper 80s with 70s near the bay. Robin. Thank you john back to the bay bridge if you need to get into San Francisco this morning get out there early because youre gonna have to sit in traffic. Thanks to an earlier motorcycle crash as we take a live look this is your back up as traffic is still recovering so it was westbound 80 right after the metering lights. We have the 2 left lanes shut down thats all been cleared the the carpool lanes look a lot better, but cash lanes and fast track lanes its backed up and heres your back up through the maze from the east shorts backed up through Emeryville Berkeley and albany. If you come from 5. 80 that is solid from 24 and if you come out of west oakland on 8. 80 that northbound connector ramp is still solid, so you may want to take the
Standoff with turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean. 2 people are shot dead in the u. S. City of can im sure in violence that has followed the Police Shooting of a black man. I also ask people to stop the violence and looting being done in the name of justice while at the same time u. S. 1st Lady Melania Trump calls for the calm and unity during her address to the Republican Party convention. And in sport barcelona say they have now won tangshan allowing leon messi to leave the club methinks starting the footballing world by handing in rounds for request on shoes day. Well start with breaking news out of iran where an agreement has been reached to give the u. N. Nuclear watchdog access to 2 suspected former tomic sites leaders in iran announced it in a joint statement in tehran there with the International Atomic Energy Agency the i. A. E. A. A president Hassan Rouhani there also promising to continue cooperation. Is in teheran for us now just take us through this announcement 1st of all