Protection program was set to expire the senate votes to extend it. Today in the bays alex barr and what congress is going to do now. Reporter laura, this was a bit of a surprise that this extension was agreed to last night since theres not often a lot of bipartisan agreement in washington these days. This is one of these issues important enough. Lets be clear whats being extended is the deadline to apply. So now that deadline will be extended until august 8th. So that allows any Small Businesses with fewer than 500 employees that have not yet asked for this aid to jump in and request it. Whats kind of interesting is theres still 130 billion left in the pot to be distributed to Small Businesses. Thats a little surprising because early on this money was just flying out of the coffers and congress had to pass another installment to reinstate the money there. Theres question why theres so much left on the table. Some Small Business owners say they need help and need more help than what th
We begin in Contra Costa County were firefighters say they have seen a dramatic increase in the number of vegetation fire is. We have details on several fires in the past 24 hours. Reporter i spoke with fire officials in contra costa and alameda counties. They told me crews have been busy putting out brushfires every day. With professional Fireworks Shows canceled in the bay area, they expect a very different fourth of july. This video, posted on social media, shows a fire that broke out along interstate 580 in livermore shortly before 10 thursday morning. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Fire officials tell me there are homeless encampments in the area, but they did not rule out other causes, such as illegal fireworks were discarded cigarettes. Vegetation fires are keeping firefighters in the east bay busy. This fire in concord wednesday night was one of six brushfires in just one day in Contra Costa County. It burned near a pg e facility. Small and acreage, but concernin
That or the name of the moon event that we are having, but is that tonight or tomorrow night . Tomorrow night. So saturday night. The number all eclipse. The number all. It is about the outer shadow of the moon. Good morning everybody. Im going to start off with livermore. Humidity about 89 . Some are starting off with a little bit of that marine Layer Moisture coming in and is a take a look here at sfo, you can see above 55 degrees, low clouds are present, 52 in morn so weve had that on and very s yesterday where it is in north bay is where is it i am seeing at the most this morning. This is the last in 12 hours you can see it role in there. We have a little bit of visibility showing in livermore, little bit of reduced visibility in santa rosa and the north bay but you should not have quickly. In the mostly sunny skies once we kick this low clouds. Low 60s at the coast, some 70s around the bay. Another Beautiful Day in the band some 80s inland. Well talk a little bit more about your f
Independence day weekend along the water, our reporter dave clark, nice to see bridge. We dont see a big backup at tells us that they are raising you. Concerns about trash collection you are here a little bit later, the toll plaza. If you are driving to San Francisco it should be good. Because youre in for mike around the east bay we have a today. To fire danger, and of course, nice looking drive on highway the spread of the coronavirus. Yes, i am in for mike today. Four. Theres not a lot of slow traffic. There you go. You can see the spots where we have slow traffic are light at the moment. Lets go back to the headlines. Health experts see kyla grogan is and for skyrocketing coronavirus cases in San Francisco, city leaders steve. We have colleagues enjoying time off. It seems like they will have a are now warning travelers, do not visit the city this fourth like every fourth of july with the bay areas weekend, every Holiday Weekend, nice weekend. The moon this morning was of july week
Time anchoring here at nbc bay area. How is it going . Going well. Its going well. Good team. Good team. All right, kari, do you want to tell us about that forecast . It looks pretty good as we start out this morning. A live view in San Francisco. Were starting out with a clear sky this morning. Well get a lot of sunshine today as we head down to cupertino. Expect it to stay at least comfortable for the next couple of hours, but it will warm up today. Were looking at slightly hotter temperatures for this afternoon as we reach into the low 80s here during the middle of the afternoon. Well talk more about whats ahead in our forecast coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the morning commute . Take a live look out there, kari. We were looking at berkeley with a good volume of traffic. No major problems but i wanted to show folks how much traffic is heading down to the bay bridge. A live look shows you that. No surprises. The slowing just starting getting towards the incline but no problem