Steadier rain moves in which is off the Mendocino County coast. Heres a look at your storm impact scale today. Light to moderate rain and then just some scattered showers as we head into the evening hours. Its going to be breezy especially this morning before the steady rain rolls in. Gusts could get up to around 35 Miles Per Hour and blowing southwest to northeast. They could affect some of our east west bridges and definitely our higher elevations. Temperatures mild even with the rain low to mid 60s today. Well take an hourbyhour look and what to expect coming up. Back to you. Thank you. Expect changes with businesses in your county and that starts today. Governor newsom says he had to pull the emergency brake on reopening because new cases of coronavirus nearly doubled in just ten days. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Heres a look at where the bay area stands. And look at all that purple. Heres the easiest way to put it.
Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
Low visibility. All of us one to three miles as you see from our exploratorium camera there appier 1 peeat pie. And the air is calm, so it wont move. We wont see the sun for the third consecutive day. And remember when you are driving this morning, advivisiby is low so use your low beams. The only escape is around the monterey bay. Well will have better air quality this weekend and ill talk about that coming up. So there is some light at the end of this tunnel. In case you forget what it is supposed to look like outside, here are two videos. You see the dramatic difference in air quality from late august to just yesterday as the cameras pan on a clear day, you can see all the way to twin peaks. Now it is totally smoke. I think we have those flipped. Julian glover is live for us in san jose this morning. Reporter pretty hard to keep track of it all at this point. You might as well spare the air month at this point. The 26th consecutive day of the spare the air alerts pretty much as long
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