Fall as this is the last friday of summer youre more than the rest of your forecast is still ahead james all right john thank you 6 oclock. Lets take a quick live look here at the bay bridge. So far so good youre still making good time from oakland in a San Francisco, the morning backup really hasnt taken hold yet. And maybe well enjoy a friday light commute well have to wait and see but for now anyway, its looking all right. The san mateo bridge also moving well. Volume a little heavier here, but you can still see the traffic moving pretty much at the limit even though it is getting a little more congestion out there on your right from san mateo out towards foster city and then one final stop for you we have the Richmond Sandra fell bridge and in this one we do have a few lanes beginning to backup as the morning commute begins to but no major incidents, no problems reported on the span itself so once you get past the toll plaza. Youre making good time into marion county. The big story
Our dangerous heat wave arrived today, and its only going to get hotter tomorrow. Were tracking the recordbreaking temperatures. Excessi creating several concerns. One, health. Two, slow business traffic. Three, potential power shutoffs. Raising money for the Boulder Creek volunteer fire department. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us, im indion lim. Imatcri is on, another scorr tomorrow. Lets get to meteorologist drew tuma. Were tracking even hotter temperatures tomorrow, eric and dion. Right now, a warm night, 79 in the city. 80 san jose. 77 in oakland. The air quality is moderate across the entire region, however, if you have been smelling a pretty strong, new smell of smoke, there is in fre start today, the creek fire. It did send a lot of smoke into the atmosphere. There are no new fires in the bay area tonight, but there is a lot of smoke in our atmosphere from that fire in Fresno County. Future tracker temperatures, get your workout in early by 8
Maybe getting confused with those current numbers. I mean look where were heading this afternoon only the 70s. Ill talk more about that still to come back to you darya thanks john lets get back to the big story which is in the east bay, the city of martinez has decided to pave over. The black lives matter mural that is in front of the citys courthouse, it has attracted a lot of local and National Attention since it first was painted in july all along it was supposed to be temporary kron fours reyna harvey is live with the plan right now. We are you good so the city is going to pan over next month, this is a part of the citywide plan that they have here for their streets now like you mentioned lot of folks have been talking about it that people tell me they were happy it was here and some other people tell me not so much theyre ready to see it gone so the city is going to be removing it next month when this all started it was put up in july you might remember a local group of black live
Clerk you can do it. It makes sense to do so. President yee is there a motion to continue this item to a particular date . Clerk the date noted on the agenda is october 27th. President yee made by supervisor press ki peskin and d by supervisor mandelman. Lets have Public Comment. Clerk operations, do we have members of the public queue in the ready to speak on continuance to october 27th for items 5255, the 617 sanchez street appeal . No callers in the queue. Clerk mr. President i recommend we wait just about 20 seconds in case theres someone watching television and they are faced with the delay. Anyone in the queue . I have one caller. Clerk please put them through. That caller hung up. There are no other callers in the queue. Clerk thank you. President yee thank you very much. I will call Public Comment is closed now. Theres been a motion and seconded it. Madam clerk, lets go ahead and call the roll on the motion. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without object
Spare the air days. This is completely unusual. This is not something usual. I have never experienced anything like this. That was aaron richardson, a spokesperson for the bay area Quality Management district. He went to urge people to stay inside as much as possible when air quality levels reach the very unhealthy level. We talked to some local Hardware Stores who say air purifiers are flying off the shelves. We sold out of them very quickly and have not been able to get any out of the warehouse. We have almost sold out. We have at this location when left. We are expecting more on monday and tuesday. Lets bring in meteorologist mark tamayo with more on the air quality. The question everyone is looking for is if there is any relief in sight from the unhealthy air. We may have to wait a little bit but we were starting to see some changes showing up on the weather map as we head into as early as sunday but a better bet into the early portion of next week for monday, tuesday and into wedn