Continued dry weather with mild days and clear but cool nights. No rain is in the forecast for the next 7 to 10 days. A spare the air alert is in effect for today, saturday and sunday. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. james james we continue to follow breaking news this morning out of Southern California. Wildfires causing mass devastation and now there is another fire burning in san diego county. darya this is new video from that fire. So far all of the fires have forced more than 200thousand people out of their homes. The fires have also combined to burn more than 140thousand acres. james and here is a map showing exactly where these fires are burning. Firefighters are still struggling to get the upper hand on any of these fires. darya Kristen Holmes is in Ventura County this morning with the latest. Purple is the new red in california as officials announce the fire weather is so extreme they are amending its colorcoding system to include
Ballot, not just my name and my opponents name. Anchor and with such great focus on New Hampshire right now president obama spoke earlier today at unh also hoping to israeli support for clinton and these final hours. In the newsroom, kim khazei, 7 news. Anchor so beyond the presidency you will also vote on several other issues tomorrow. Five states including massachusetts and maine will decide whether or not to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The one state in particular is considered critical in anchor california could become the largest state to make pot legal all together and if it passes there it could mean the beginning of the end of the war on marijuana. Kris anderson has more for us. At develop us beach in california a doctor will prescribe you a medical marijuana card for 40 bucks but people on the boardwalk will tell you pot is so easy to get that some people dont even bother with a prescription. Its come here, feels like amsterdam or Something Like tha. Arizona, nevad
8 00 oclock is your time and we want to get a check on the forecast with aj because it is ever changing these days. There look at storm fox Doppler Radar a couple of showers around with the sprinkles, but by far the more impressive rain to the south and west just getting into mansfield a beautiful shot at burke lakefront it appears badges are going smaller and smaller visibility down to attempt of a mile so there is dense fog in pockets out there. Seventy to the top outside right now 71 in akron canton. Partly cloudy thean full corn moon pockets of shower that will dissipate by sunset tonight. The foam and will likely be up there and all its splendor. Traffic time with the one and only patty harkin. Kind of busy right from the get go this morning. We do have an accident d with chris responding do expect some delays down in the area they just process of 77 so residualti slowdowns to 21. Seventyseven at route 18 so no longer blocking the active claim that is good news. This is 90 at hill
Check it out and more than likely, youre seeing rain in the lighter to darker shades of green and that is more of a light rain. One is from carol county and into parts of canton, akron and lorain, and the heavier rain coming down in Ashtabula County and that is if youre hitting 90, going east or westbound, between ashtabula and conneaut. And into north lake erie and were keeping an eye on this and this is like yesterday. Current temperatures, 61 degrees in cleveland. 58 in ashtabula; 60, New Philadelphia and hourbyhour, much of the stage same. Between the much the same and a chance of showers and rumbles. Kristen. And a wet weather commute, lets go to the maps. You can see the green on the screen showing were wet on the ofand everyone to ton is and to 71 and 480. Not looking good now and heading outside, light look at the odot view on 90 and east 55th street and its slick out there. We have another alert this morning for the weekend. The east side train service, r it, a said that biges
Then there will be some rain coming in. You do not want to leave your house today without an umbrella. That being said look at the temperatures. Were above freezing in boston but thats about it. Elsewhere we are running in the 20s to around 30 degrees. So cold air is in place with still some clear skies. You can see off to our south and west there is rain. And this is moving in our direction. And the concern this morning is that the temperatures outside of the city of boston may not be warm enough as that rain comes on in. You can see here by 8 00 this morning, still perhaps a glimpse of sunshine. Then were clouding over. Looks like the rain comes in to the boston area after lunchtime today but out of the western part of the state, it could come in before lunch. At that time, west of worcester out toward the berkshires, it could be cold enough for just a couple of areas of freezing rain. That is a concern because you dont need a lot to make things very slippery. You can see here on the