Helping. Abc7 news meteorlogist sandhya patel has more on the conditions theyre facing. Low humidity is a problem, too. It has been indeed. Lets look at the current conditions. It is 78 degrees, still warm. Relative humidity is 12 . It is still very dry. Winds have eased a bit. Hopefully that will help the firefighters but it wont be the case the rest of the week. As we take a look at the satellite picture, you will notice the large plume of smoke just emanating from that fire as you will see here from earlier today. And it has been hot and dry. That has contribute to the explosive growth. Breezy to gusty and you have dry vegetation that has gone up in flames. It is going to be hot. Temperatures in that area. Ill be back with our excessive heat coming up with the humidity in a few minutes. All right. Thank you. Developing news in berkeley and emeryville. Several water main breaks are causing problems. There are reports of businesses being flooded with the water setting off fire alarms
On this. Reporter good morning. Yeah, i cant help but look at this sign behind me and think about what the first day of school is supposed to look like here in these hallways filled with excitement and nerves. But of course no one will be here, everyone will be at home. Orinda, San Ramon Valley and la fayette all starting Distance Learning today, all those districts sending out messages about how this will be different but they plan to get through it together. School Officials Say they have worked hard on preparing Distance Learning and that it will be an improvement from what parents and Students Experience in the spring. They will mostly be in front of their computers receiving real time alter it em based especially b the age. Well be making sure that we have a balance so kids arent on a computer screen all day long. And the biggest thing is that it is looking at what developmentally is appropriate for a student. So well have less time on a computer with the young than we would a fif
But we need a way to stay cool the next several days. From noon tomorrow through 9 00 p. M. Sunday, an excessive heat watch. And here is a quick look at what to expect today and what you will notice the lack of clouds first of all from t at these temperatures, already 80 to 90 away from the coast at noon and mid to upper 80s to near 100 at 4 00 and still 70s and mainly 80s at 7 00. And temperatures wont cool off overnight. Ill explain why coming up. And developing news in berkeley, roads are still closed because of several water main breaks. Possible overpressurizing may have called 11 lines to street. Streets are still closed because of the damage. East bay has crews at several locations and has been making road repairs all night. So here is just a few of the trouble spots. There is closure at edward street and dwight way because of road damage. And in emeryville, several blocks of hollis street are shut down. And today a Court Hearing could lead to uber and lyft temporarily shutting
Host welcome to book tv and in depth. This is a Monthly Program with one author, talking about his or her book and we are pleased this month to be joined by west moore who is the author of three books plus Childrens Book in a novel. In his first book came out in 2010. Its called the other west more braided is a bogeyman in 2015 in this most recent book is about baltimore during the arrest and death of freddie great and just come out five days. Thats what that is called but in your folks, you write is a military save your life. What you mean by that. Wes moore i think of the military played an incredibly Important Role in my life where some of the most important times of my life is wearing suits, tshirt and jeans were is very uniform in this country. I was first introduced in the military system actually one is about 13 years old. I was into a military school. And there was issues and challenges and when i was younger, my mom was pregnant when we went to military school. I was eight yea
In the meantime we are keeping an eye on the numbers in the bay area. They are now over 5,000 cases. And a good morning to you. Im marcus washington. Mike will have a look at traffic in just a bit. First, a look at the its friday, right . It is friday. It could be freak friday, who knows . It is one of those days we want to kind of enjoy and think about the weekend is here. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking the forecast for us. Kari, what is it going to give us today . Yeah, it looks really nice for today. As we look at san jose and look at our temperature trend we had a lot of clouds yesterday morning to start out. I think it will be clearer today, and were starting out with mid50s. Well see our temperatures trend very nice going into the low 70s today, slightly above normal. As we get climates and what to expect today were going temperatures for the inland areas in the upper 70s once again and staying cool along the coastline with some low 60s as we get a little bit more suns