Good morning welcome to Washington Post life. Im a political reporter for thee Washington Post i would like to welcome our first guest this Morning Health secretary at hhs and remember president trumps coronavirus passport. Thank you for joining me. Good morning its great to be here with you this morning thank you for the invitation. N. I got the correct . T i am from deep down by you louisiana country you pronounced it pretty close thats a pretty good first try. Admiral you are the Public Health policy recommendation so was wondering if you could uave us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today everyone understands and then to have a significant increase in the number of cases and they are starting to go up and we do however h know to defeat the pandemic but social distancing is incredibly important American People did a really good job. Also with good hygiene. And to have a program a smart testinge and we will be talking a lot about that but we do have the power to co
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Falls by its did not come through, but we are looking at some strong winds likely on into wednesday and and i know those numbers were really fast there. But yes we are going to be looking at strong winds impacting us over the next couple of days as for what we can expect for your current temperatures, it is 50s and 60s out there berkeley at 64 degrees timber on 63. Oakland dublin, and livermore each in the 50s right now a cool start to a morning that eventually does turn into a pretty warm afternoon by the time we work into the afternoon and are all the sunshine daytime highs rise into the 90s inland. 80s by the bay and even near in the 80s for some coastal areas. We have more details in your forecast ahead robin all right, thank you for the update lets update traffic your morning commute for the early birds for checking in on the bay bridge toll plaza. And its looking pretty good right now no problems into San Francisco 4 westbound 80 on the oakland side were smooth and quiet through
Outside of San Francisco right now from seizure tower. No fog or cloud cover whatsoever and we have plenty of sunshine just around the corner today will be yet another relatively calm one before winds pick up tonight. You see into the evening tonight right along the coastline that some of our winds become very breezy spreading to the north bay and eventually into the east bay come tomorrow and thursday are 2 windiest days of this forecast and the stew over days that are going to offer up some of our highest a fire danger after that friday does begin to come down at a much calmer and cooler weekend just around the corner. Right now were in the 50s and 60s a cool start to this day with a low 60s and pittsburgh hayward and San Francisco upper 50s right now in oakland, san mateo and livermore later on today it will be 80s and 90s for inland areas with 70s and warm 70s at that right along the coastline. Rob. All right. Thank you john, lets update your morning commute now for the early birds
Around the corner which as you guys mentioned could cause a lot of us across the bay area problems, especially if you are in one of those areas. We could lose power as fire danger increases, looking outside this morning at least we do have a beautiful start to the day. Its dark but it is very clear out there to kick off this morning, pretty calm for now, but winds pick up tonight across especially the coast and across the north bay, those winds will gradually spread be really widespread for portions of the in one north bay into the inland, the east bay by the time we work our way into wednesday and thursday now these winds paired with increasingly warm temperatures means fire danger is going to be of concern vacaville atlas peak Calistoga Sonoma seeing winds gusting regularly and into a 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour range that paired with low humidity and hot temperatures of so theres a lot this season way too much is going to result in the high fire danger out right now temperatures 40s 50s