Im marcus washington. Right now we want to get to meteorologist kari hall with a look at the forecast that we can expect today. Talk about what is behind you there. This is the last image captured in the Santa Cruz Mountains shortly before midnight before flames overtook this camera. We know this fire is spreading rapidly across the Santa Cruz Mountains, as well as the rest of the bay area as weve seen some very warm weather. Lets take you to the north bay. Several fires burning here and temperatures this morning mostly in the 70s. The humidity is coming up just a little bit but look at the gamble fire. Humidity levels only at 21 . Very dry. So that causes those fires to spread more quickly. As we head to the Santa Cruz Mountains, we had a lot of smoke coming into the south bay and our Current Conditions, our temperatures in the upper 70s. Early in the morning, we havent seen a good recovery here where we look for lower temperatures and lower humidity, as well. As we look at what is go
Frances. We have lots of sunshine this morning, dealing with morning clouds and fog. Live doppler 7 you can see the coastal clouds as well but the fog is thick in Half Moon Bay, visibility is limited down to one mile, petaluma down to five miles. Our day planner toward the bay bridge sunrise at 6 20, temperatures and its going to get hot there this afternoon n the mid90s. We may even see tripledigit heat in a few spots around the bay, near 08 degrees and at the coast, still mild because of the sea breeze in the mid to upper 60s. Sun sets at 8 08, a few mainor changes in the sevenday forecast, ill tell you about that coming up. Breaking out of San Francisco this morning, a twoalarm fire is burning at a multiunit complex near dubas park. The Fire Department shared this photo of the building on the corner of waller and caramelitas street. The red cross will be called for residents who are displaced. No unchryes reported and we have calls to the department for details about what sparked th
Nationwide. And tonight a key model is predicting covid will kill nearly 300,000 americans by december 1st, currently 160,000 americans have died from covid19. But if the data from the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation plays out that would mean an additional 136,000 people will lose their lives to this virus over the next 4 months. In a statement, researchers at the institute say consistent maskwearing could save about 70,000 lives a message that was echoed by the nations top Infectious Disease expert. Now is the time. To accelerate the fundamental preventive measures that we will talk about masks social distancing avoiding crowds out to his grade than indoors, washing hands, et cetera. Those kind of simple things can actually prevent that uptick from becoming a surge. Earlier this week doctor deborah birx warned of an uptick in the covid19 test Positivity Rate in several cities as well as in californias central valley. But the severity of the pandemic in california is now mu
At temperatures a little bit cooler today. I am tracking that strong ocean breeze to kick in. Below average temperatures today but warming up to above average for our weekend. Here is the san jose area. It is 57 right now in san jose and also for San Francisco, upper 50s for concord and mid 50s for santa rosa. Through our day, temperatures are mostly sunny and land in the mid to upper 70s to low 80s and around the bay partly sunny to mostly cloudy in the 60s and cool, cloudy and breezy along the coast. We will talk about that weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. Good morning, i am in the traffic center. Righ toona are t seeing as many cars as we normally do. If are going onat are to miles an hour in the go youre past that you will have no trouble getting up to 680 and we did see some brake lights on 84 that is getting a little closer. If you are communicating, things should be at the limit. We are following some breaking news out of stockdale, shooting involving two deputies fr
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