With record dry fuels and vegetation. Then, adding the gusty offshore winds, this is a high concern. A red flag warning for most of the bay area highlighted in red. Looking at our Higher Elevations, gusts up to 70 Miles Per Hour. Even our lower elevations, valleys and coasts with gusts up to 40 Miles Per Hour. We have a wind advisory for most of the region due to these windy conditions. Until 11 00, the wind advisory is in effect. As we head through the afternoon, we will see plenty of sunshine and unseasonably warm temperatures. We could see some record breaking highs. Mid60s along the coast. Low to mid 70s inland this afternoon. I will show you futurecast as we take you through the day and when this high fire danger will decrease across the bay area. I will have details on that coming up in a few minutes. It is a busy one. We have a wind advisory for the bay bridge this morning. Be extra careful, especially if you are traveling in a high profile vehicle. On top of that, meter lights
Colors only on cbs this morning. The singer reveals the lineup for her latest concert to help lgbtq kids who dont have a home. Its a good one, but first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. I want to be very frank to the american people. The vaccines critical. But its not going to save us from this current surge. The sweeping new lockdown in california. Doctors and nurses across the country are being pushed to the brink. Were not likely to see a peak in the number of infections in hospitalizations until probably at some point in the middle of january. As bad as things are right now, theyre going to get a lot worse. Rudy giuliani says hes getting great care and feeling good as he recovers from coronavirus in the hospital. President elect joe biden is poised to nominate California Attorney general Xavier Becerra as health and Human Services secretary. To the last line of defense. All eyes on two critical runoff races in s is in georgi will determine which party control
Heres a look at the latest numbers. As of this morning our state has recorded 1,264,539 confirmed cases of the virus and almost 20,000 people have died. After approval meantime operation warp speed hoping to have that Pfizer Vaccine out the door by december 15th with doses allocated to states by population. For example, some 300,000 to california, 170,000 to new york, 19,000 to minnesota and 12,000 to maine. Yesterday the United States had the single deadliest day since the pandemic began. More than 3,100 americans died from the coronavirus and that shatters the previous single day record set back in april. Hospitalizations also at a record high nationwide above 100,000. They are bracing for a surge upon a surge from holiday gatherings. December and january and february are going to be rough times. I actually believe theyre going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. Meantime dr. Anthony fauci telling cbs news that he will be meeting with members of
Several days with high temperatures that will keep getting hotter as the weather goes on. The weather will bring the risk of power outages. And its why we have Team Coverage on whats to come and how to handle i. We start with sandhya patel. Hot enough to make you sweat, dion and dan. Lets take a look at the red flag warning first. That goes into Effect Tomorrow night. It runs until 8 00 a. M. The winds at 35 to 50 miles an hour. The diablo winds will dry it out even more and any fires that develop will quickly spread. Heres a look at the hour by hour wind forecast. As we head into tomorrow night and sunday, the winds begin to increase. These are lower elevation winds, cal stoeg, a 29 miles an hour. 24 miles an hour at middletown. Now on sunday we have a second round of gusty winds coming. That has prompted a wind advisory from 2 00 a. M. To 10 0 a. M. Tree limbs may get knocked down by the gusty winds. The human with the down sloping wind is really going to drop. So tomorrow afternoon,
New overnight in the east bay, police are investigating a double shooting outside a 7eleven in antioch that happened shortly after midnight on buchanan road. Investigators say that two people were in a white suv w they were shot. A woman in the to the hospital. Police believe that they were targeted. And some coronavirus testing sites will hopefully decrease your wait time. There will be wrist bands issued. They have been seeing long lines over the past few weeks. And jewel glulian glover is how this will work. Reporter yeah, ive seen these massively long lines it the at the testing sites firsthand, sometimes folks getting there hours in advance forcing them to take off work. And now the new wrist band system is aimed at saving these folks some time. So we actually got to see this system in action a couple weeks ago at independence hst school. You can given a wrist band that is linked to an hour when you would return to the site to tested. So once you check in, there is a lot of people