California has performed more than 13 million coronavirus tests. The sevenday and 14day average test Positivity Rate are both 3. 6 . Thats the lowest in a very long time. Optimism is warranted in the bay area. This graph shows the number of cases every day. The yellow line is on the declin good evening. Thank you for joining us. Coronavirus impacts every bay area county but in different ways. In the south bay, private Health Care Providers are being threatened with fines if they dont make coronavirus testing more accessible. Chris has that story now from san jose. With Santa Clara County in the red tier as part of the color code framework for reopening the economy, experts say any improvement theres largely depend on the expansion of covid19 testing throughout the region. It is really foundational to Community Wide safety and foundational to being able to reopen more and get people back to work and back to school. This afternoon, county leaders called on local Health Care Systems to do
We will get a weak sea breeze today, but an excessive heat warning throughout the day today into 9 00 monday night from upper 90s to about 110. Where you see the red shading there and where the orange is, thats the heat advisory. 11 00 today through the same time period monday night heat illnesses are possible even at the coast. The spare the air alert today. North bay and inland east bay moderate air quality for your sunday. Right now were in that moderate category except for santa rosa, good air quality there. The winds are very light right now, theyll get gusty as we get into the end of the Holiday Weekend. 9 00, 7 o0s and 80s. Mid70s San Francisco. It will be nice at the coast, but you heard about some of the local closures there. By 5 00 it is oppressive heat in our inland valleys, and were looking at just a little bit of relief along the coast tonight. Well talk about how long the heat wave lasts and a red flag warning that goes into effect labor day evening coming up. All right,
Observer newspaper in North Carolina. Cspan interviewed him about the upcoming president ial race and what the impact might be on voters if the Republican Convention were split between charlotte and another city. Joining us via zoom from charlotte, North Carolina is jim morrill for the charlotte observer. A lot of mixed messages between the president s tweets, the rnc, and the Business Community in charlotte. What is the state of the Rnc Convention this august . Jim that is a good question because people down here arent sure. One thing we do know is that the president wants a big rally for his acceptance speech. And he cant get that here, at least right now. So theyre looking at other cities for that. But they are planning to have the official business of the convention in charlotte. That not sure exactly what means, whether its meetings of the rules committee or things that. Or whether the actual nominations might happen here, it is all up in the air. People are still talking. There a
Between vallejo and fairfield and over toward the sacramento valley. That is going to change later today when we get the bay area rain. Sierra snow begins to fall, lasting saturday into sunday. We have advisories to talk about. A flash flood for the north bay and the winter storm warnings for the sierra. Details on this, coming up in just a few moments. Time now is 6 01. Lets check the highways this morning with sal. We do see that we have slow traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza, which is not unusual, but it was slower than usual. A crash just west of the span has been cleared up, and affect is moving again. I think we are going to be okay. I dont think it is going to be a huge delay. Still if you want to use a decent route. Coming up in a bit, well check out the south bay commute. Thank you, sal. We have an update to the breaking news from florida. We have an active shooter situation on the military base has apparentthe county sheriff announced a gunman has been killed in that situa
I heard a noise was fog. Never seen fog like this in concord. That was probably the fog saying come out and see me. Because it is thick out there. Sounds like 40 to me. Morgan hill with 99 humidity. 42 san march teen. Gilroy is also in there. Low 40s santa cruz mountains, thick morning fog and then sunny and mild. It is a visibility is awful. Anywhere from 0 at a quarter of a mile, and even out to the napa airports and on the crocker bridge as well as down towards hayward. On the peninsula as well. 101, watch out. 30s, 40s on the temps. Pattern is locked in. What you see is what you get. Fog and uns. 50s, 60s and 70s. 5 02 speaking of the fog and how to navigate it, please tell us. Weve had issues with fog. Sometimes wrecks ople driving too fast. Dont see something thats coming up. Be careful. 205 and 580 and livermore to pleasanton looking good but you will see visibility thats not the greatest. Interstate 880 comes to mind and also coming up to the bay bridge toll plaza. Especially i