The tarmac there skies are generally going to clear as we work our way through this morning and as that happens more and more favorable weather for waiting in lines at the polls even this morning, although it is cool and gray for some areas still not at all about morning to get out there were in the 40s and 50s for most of us oakland, the warm spot right now at 57 degrees while the cooler side in areas like santa rosa starting off this morning at 45 degrees later today, its 70s and ill give you more details about what to expect. Later on still to come robin all right, thank you john a little busy out there traffic still jammed up crossing the bay, especially heading into San Francisco, heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza approach and yes, its still pretty crowded from the bottom of the maze. Its been like that for the last 2 hours or so its not a terrible commute, but its definitely crowded and still under 15 minutes to make it and so thats considered pretty good. Were check
Mikes here getting a look at that commute for us. Well get to that in just a bit. First, lets start out with kari hall with that forecast for today. Different day than yesterday. Eerie looking out there for a lot of us. What does it look like for us today . Still looking at a lot of smoke across the bay area. This is a look at the smoke pollution we have in the upper levels of the atmosphere over the past 24 hours and still really thick across the bay area, we do expect that to continue today as we are not seeing it right now close to ground level, it will be higher up in the atmosphere. So, were still looking at some times of unhealthy air quality especially for people with breathing problems. Well talk more about this coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Its pretty smooth, kari. I want to give a note out there south bay and a puppy reported running around on 280. Lets look at the map and circle right around meridian. No updates in the last few minutes and thats good n
One of the biggest fires is in the north bay. It spans napa, sonoma, and solano counties. Lets get to nbc bay areas cierra johnson. This is where the Evacuation Orders have just been issued. And i know youve been with us since early this morning. How have things changed . Reporter yes. Good morning. Since the suns come up, weve really been able to get a better feel for just how dangerous this fire was. At last check it was 46,000 acres that this fire caused by lightning a couple days ago has burned through earlier this morning before the Evacuation Order was even put into place, folks were leaving because of just how bad things were. This is a cattle ranch im on. And you can see bales of hay just going up in flames. Entire homes were destroyed. 50 structures in all is the latest count that were burned. Right now families were working to get their animals out. 100 acres and they were looking to make entire houses burned to the ground. We have video from English Hills road and canalo roa
Through. We have 50s and 60s on the temps. 63 in san jose still an onshore breeze, it is to fall apart, collapse, temperatures will bump up. This afternoon, most locations should have son and warmer temperatures. We are going back to normal. Lets go over to sal to see if there is anything new out there. Good morning. Good morning. Right now, we dont have much going on. Lets look at the south bay commute. You can see san jose looks pretty good. The san mateo bridge traffic is looking very good. At the bay bridge, we are light. It is 4 31. Lets go back to the headlines. Topping the news this morning, joe bidens running mate, Kamala Harris, is the fourth woman to appear on a Major Party Ticket in the united states. She follows Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. Republican, Vice President , sara palin in 2008, then Hillary Clinton nn for president four years ago. Harris is the first woman of color. Her running mate has renewed the debate over gender politics with women from both of the left and th
The temperatures have been up and down, then they bounced back up. They will settle into near seasonal averages. Fog is there trying to form, not as much as we have seen yesterday. We will see some often the distance. 50s on all the temperatures. Oakland, san jose, both at 59. Wild roller coaster ride on the high temperatures. Hotcool. Back to warm, now we warm it up a little bit. The high is nosing in. It is going to put its nose in a little bit in california, allowing temperatures to jump up a few degrees. Everyone else will be right where they should be for this time of year. All right. Lets get over to my good friend sal. Is there something you want to get to right away . It is friday lights, and we have traffic that is doing very well around the bay area. I like what i see. Lets go right to the bay bridge. You can see that to be traffic there is looking very good. Sometimes, i now, we have slow traffic at the bay bridge. At this morning, we do not. The san mateo bridge and the dun