Is our berkeley cam one of my favorite games to share with you so you guys know what this one looks like usually it definitely doesnt usually look like this a definite orange glow to it from the city lights down below now with conditions as i mentioned not having changed much since yesterday at this time we still do have that marine layer which is shielding or lower elevations in the bay for some of the worst of air quality. Well our inland areas are looking at very poor conditions. So that smoke is still sitting right above us and you have those water droplets in the atmosphere that are going to be refracting light in a pretty similar way to yesterday so theres likely to be orange pockets and if not orange at least grey and smoky so not a good day to plan a whole lot of outdoor activities. 50s and 60s for current temperatures, we remain cool day yesterday and today with lighter winds that smoke really hasnt gone anywhere. Its going to still sit across the bay area still a very dense l
7 is giving us that shot in san jose. So when the sun comes up. Weve got you covered, yeah and masks masks masks covering you today because the bad air quality john what expect. Yeah i agree we need those mass today youve been wearing in many ways, but today were going to have significant ash falling from the sky even if you can smell the smoke. So the mask will be very helpful and yes as we make our way through the next hour or so well see eventually what you those skies eventually do take what we are looking at is going to be a darker a smoky day much like yesterday smoke is a little bit lower in the horizon than yesterday its gradually sunk been very slow in doing so though so for some parts of San Francisco. Youre not quite smelling it yet. As that marine layer was still president overnight. Even in areas with slightly better air quality you still need that mask because we do have ash if you had your car outside overnight youre seeing it having settled on your car and as you step o
With a boycott during the playoffs. Speaking up. Pandemic politics. Vice president pence paints a positive picture of the president s Coronavirus Response at the Republican National convention. What this says about how the gop thinks it can win. But first, heres todays eyeopener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Welcome to cbs this morning. Theres a lot going on. Are we going back to the eyeopener. Welcome back to cbs this morning. This is one of those rare days where anthony, as you know, there are so many things going on at the same time. Thats what i was trying to say. We could have had several leads. Theyre all very, very troubling. Well begin with the one everybody is talking about at this hour. Hurricane laura. The country, as you know, being tested in many ways. First we have a coronavirus, an economic csis and weve got a reckoning on systemic race sichl. Now were being tested again by one of the strongest storms ever to hit the u. S. The last thing anybody needs. Her name is hurri
9 00 p. M. For most of the bay area. So pretty much everyone except the immediate coastline under a heat warning or heat advisory as we head through the next several days. Due to the dangerous heat. Well talk about what you can expect specifically for your neighborhood coming up in a few minutes. Michelle . Mary, thank you. And due to the dangerous heat, state officials have issued a statewide flex alert for today and were all being asked to voluntarily conserve energy between 3 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Concord broke the record high yesterday at 101 degrees. We spotted some people taking advantage of the slightly cooler temperatures last night to get out and enjoy the plaza in downtown concord. Iethe day, an ice cream shop near the square had a line out the door. Its good. Its nicer out here than it is at home. Lets go downtown and get something to eat. When theres excessive pete like this theres a lot of air conditioning use and of course that drives up the electricity demand. Everyon
To it from all angles in fact, heres the San Francisco Police Department so looks like they brought out their mobile unit as well the command center at this location so it looks like they obviously will be part. The investigation whether or not this was intentional or not you can clearly see 13th street here and im located at 13th and harrison you can see the signs that they have blocked this off to allow trucks from the Fire Department, the Police Department to arrive at the scene without anybody getting in their way. This is an area that is very busy south of market as you talked about robin, a tropic is only moving from the left to the right from this way so this is as close as people. Are allowed and as we speak right now it looks like its not just my imagination right it looks like the smoke is now turning a little bit wider which is a good sign that they have turned the corner when its thick and his black in its just hard to see through that means that the fire is reaching new ma