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Commute, first the forecast for you. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking the conditions we can expect today throughout the bay area. Kari, what is it looking like for us . Well, we are starting out with two red flag warnings that will be in effect and watching conditions around both of those for this morning as we start out with this last day of heat for today. Were talking about highs reaching into the upper 80s. Well have two time frames were watching the potential of a high fire danger but it will be a much cooler weekend as we check out our temperatures and as well as the high wind gusts weve seen over the past 24 hours. Weve seen some of those gusts yesterday afternoon picking up to 28 miles an hour in the east bay. As we head out the door to work, mike, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, gusty wind, of course, especially as folks are traveling over bridges. No warnings from chp but well listen for karis update as well. No major problems but talking about a bridge, th
Bay down to the south county. Well talk more about our temperatures in the forecast in a few minute. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . The last half hour was busy as far as finding the slow spots but now as we look at the maps things have calmed down quite a bit, even san jose where we saw the slowing which sometimes sticks around until 6 30. I think 6 40, 6 45 well see more south bay slowing again. Little pockets through berkeley and oakland have cleared up for 24, 580 and i80. The bay bridge toll plaza and i80. We do see the middle lanes starting to stack up that has been the trend so a slow build for the last 15 minutes. No metering lights yet. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Right to that breaking news were following in San Francisco this morning. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live with the cliff rescue wrapping up in the presidio. Reporter yes, good morning. The last fire official pulled out just a couple minutes before you came to me, but a really dramatic resc
The markets. Ashley, first to you. Ashley well, guys as we say good riddance to september where all the major indexes posted a loss we embrace a new month but we havent come exactly flying out of the gates although green across the screen. The dow finishing slightly higher as you can see, about 1 10 of a percent after being down more than 100 points. S p up half a percent. But it was nasdaq showed the best performance of the new month up 1 1 2 . Like Charlie Brown with a rain cloud over his head investors are frustrated by congresss inability to agree on a new stimulus bill. With the markets going up and down with each competing headline from nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary and everybody else. As a result we saw stocks move for the most part today sideways in somewhat flat trading but as i mentioned the big tech stocks did manage to give the Broader Market some impetus. Amazon, microsoft, facebook, Alphabet Google all managed to make nice gains today which you can see gave the
With conditions good to moderate. That is nice to see. We will continue with good to moderate air quality through the day because of that strong ocean breeze kicking in, helping to clean out our skies and mix out all of that smoke and with that, with that sea breeze come we are starting off with foggy conditions and even some patchy drizzle along the coast and the bay. Oakland, that patchy drizzle for you in the mid 60s, low 60s in San Francisco and upper 50s for santa rosa with th fooon, wl see that clearing and temperatures in the upper 60s in San Francisco, mid70s in oakland in upper 70s in san jose and mid 80s for konger to let you know how long this clean, fresh air will last in the bay area in just a few minutes but now is check in with john and it is a foggy and drizzly start to the day. It is. Chp is issued an advisory. That is as you hit the roadway. The bay bridge a fog advisory is in effect. Be careful as you work your way across the span. You might have some limited visibil