Abc 7 news contributor and chronicle insider is here with his perspective. First though lets hear from abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz breaking down the debate. At least we had a debate tonight. We did. A total 180 from the debate a few weeks ago. The candidates were still as contentious and combative but did allow each other to speak in part because the mics could be muted which led to a healthy debate on several topics starting with coronavirus. The two sparred on how to reopen the country. If you have a restaurant you need plexiglas dividers so people cannot infect one another. You need to be in a position where you can take testing rapidly and know whether the person is in fact infected. You need to be able to trace. These are businesses with no money. Putting a plexiglas up is unbelievably expensive and its not the answer. Youre going to sit there in a cubicle wrapped around with plastic . The candidates also sparred over health care and national security. The president went after bi
Because of this red flag warning. Didnt need the alarm to go off this morning because we could hear the wind overnight and already seeing some vegetation fires out there. Yeah, unfortunately thats what we were expecting with this. Now that high fire danger will continue throughout. Much of the morning as were still looking at some gusty winds. That wind advisory will expire at 11 00. Were looking at the highest wind gusts mostly throughout this morning. What we already measured so far, mt. St. Helena has winds up to 89 miles per hour. A little bit more breezy elsewhere. Were going to continue to watch those numbers, bring you the latest updates all throughout the morning as we head over to you, mike, how is this impacting the morning drive . First of all, a lot of entries but a lot of them are because of that wind. Wind advisories. For the bridges across the water, the bridges tend to get gusty winds overnight. Its not prevalent for most of the areas. Earlier today, we dont have the sl
Exclusive fire Investigative Unit one year to the day after the kincade fire started tearing through the north bay. And coming as the region copes with more extreme conditions. Today in the bay starts right now. And a good morning to you on this friday. Im marcus washington. Oh, yes you are. And im laura garcia. Were all happy its friday. Get through the show this morning. Look at you in your sunshine shirt there. Dark and early in the morning. Exactly. Wearing a yellow shirt, kari. Thats really nice. Love that combo. Lets check it out for our friday forecast. We are starting out with clouds now. I do have some things im watching as we go into the weekend even though the wind is now calming down and we have cooler weekend temperatures. We turn our attention to another high wind event as we head to the beaked where we may see wind gusts topping 70 miles an hour. Our high temperatures for today right now. Its going to be a nice one. Get out there and enjoy it before we have those other c
Cause a high fire danger by sunday into monday. As we check out our temperatures for today, San Francisco will reach 67 and some sunshine for the inland areas reaching into the upper 70s. Well talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, we have a couple of notes. So, folks, while we show you the big view, and you do see its dominated the map green, thats the color we want to see with Speed Sensors at the limit. A lot of slowing for a couple of minutes on the right side. South 880 through hayward and whipple just cleared. Marcus, were also looking at eastbound 580 just past North Livermore. Word of a roadside fire im tracking. It sounds like its all right. The time of year were worried about any reports of fire. Back to you. Very true. Keep your eye on that, thanks. Pg e this morning is still in the progress of restoring power to customers who lost it from this weeks high fire danger. The latest shutoffs now appear to be just a small
You sound like oprah. Well be celebrating in cooler weather, too, what were expecting today, a calming wind as we go into the next couple of hours and throughout this afternoon as our temperatures continue to drop. But, unfortunately, there is another high wind event well be watching by sunday into early next week as our temperatures today reach mostly into the 70s across the bay area. Well talk about this coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the morning drive . Kari, its looking like friday. Im not going to sing it like marcus because what i do is not called singing. Over to the bay bridge where your traffic is humming along through the area with no metering lights. A little brake tapping earlier. It started itself out. Green sensors and the approach. Over to the maze and the upper east shore freeway. The north bay without any problems. The south bay and hayward, 880 south showing slowing just building a bit. Thats about it. Back to you. All right, thanks, mike. Pg e this morning is