Visits to the respiratory urgent care center. Now at 10 wildfires continue to rage up and down the west coast leading to some of the worst air quality on the planet. Right now right here in the bay area, thank you for joining us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis a thick blanket of smoke has been hovering over the bay area for days now making it. Hard to breathe unhealthy to be outside. This is what many people experienced today. And unfortunately that smoke is expected to linger right on through the weekend chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us live as we went from orange on wednesday to gray worse today and the air quality really deteriorated as the week progressed, yeah, you know all that smoke from up above all the orange skies. That all makes down to the surface down thats where we sit we dont have a real way to get out of town unless were to get a storm. Good wind event to start to mix that out were not even seeing the heating that we normally see
Fresh air get out there and enjoy it for today starting off with some patchy fog along the coast and right around the bay and even a gray start for the inland locations with the sea breeze kicking in for us. The daytime highs 86 in concord and looking at 82 in san jose and 74 in oakland and 68 for San Francisco. A fire weather watch with critical fire weather conditions for saturday and 11 00 a. M. Until 8 00 a. M. On monday. From north bay mountains and east bay hills and interior valleys and talk more about the high fire danger for the weekend coming up in a few minutes. Now lets check in with gianna for the latest on the dry through the Altamont Pass. Its been a tough one this morning mary. A broken down big rig at greenville. The drive times are improving. However, i am now getting word of a brand new trouble spot. Westbound 580 at the 205 connector. Already busy anyway coming out of tracy as you work just past north flynn with your drive times now at 41 minutes. So thats actually
Hotels would be allowed to wanted to hear it is raining reopen to the general public, men. One of our regulars. Thank you for the request. Not just essential workers. Send me a song. Facebook, twitter, instagram. It is saturday. Hit us up on social media. Use the hashtag ktvu. Hair and nail salons will be allowed to operate and do business outdoors. Outdoor pools would be able to reopen, and, the new reopening it is friday, dance a little bit. It is friday, the last insipid includes the city of berkeley, which has its own health offices. Trip is today. Joe biden is weak. We look at bay area sports and a whole new light. We are grateful to have a he takes his marching orders season. A the mentality is the same. From liberal hypocrites. Maybe donald trump has failed. At its most basic level, donald we want to go after it and training. Still to come, we will show trump is not understand the presidency. You how athletes and fans make the Political Party conventions are over, and adjustment
Good morning. The airquality is finally improving. Hope lee felt it yesterday or today we will continue with air quality proving moderate especially along the coastline and inside the bay. Temperatures are expected to warm slightly but its only going to be brief. We will cool it down in time for your bay area saturday. Details on these conditions and what to expect, we will check in on airquality because it is a spare the air day. More on that in just a little bit at 7 01 am, lets check out the highways. Good morning. Right now we have traffic moving along very well throughout the bay area. A couple of slow spots. There is a lot of fog out there in some of these areas. Dense fog on the Golden Gate Bridge. On the richmond bridge, driving if you are driving to the bay bridge, a little bit of a backup at the toll plaza. Today, Governor Newsom at noon is expected to announce plates or reopening more businesses in california. The California Restaurant Association hopes the governor will let
Reopen as planned for 30,000 students on august 12th. Its been pretty challenging. Simply because the district, no one was really prepared for this. Reporter mike flynns son will be a junior in the fall, a critical year for college admissions. Hes worries worried his educational and social needs are not being met. Online is working at the moment because its all we have, but we need more to go forward. Everything is possible right now. Virtual learning, a hybrid model, a full reopen. Reporter three districts across the bay area are considering it. They are guided by an education code, no guidebook on how to reopen schools and but the pandemic. They are collaborating with other School Districts in santa clara county, following the directive from Public Health officer doctor sara cody. With limited class sizes the possibility. When we have the health order that tells us what size those groups can be, if that information will help us develop our plan for anything that might be instruction