Under red flag warnings throughout the course of this past evening, well be throughout the day today and into the middle of the day tomorrow as winds continue to be quite gusty up in the north bay. Its been 20 to 30 mile per hour gusts, pretty consistently across many of our north bay cities in our inland east bay areas. The deeper red contours on here showing you where winds are the most problematic right now. In addition to the already very dry conditions. We remain windy through the morning. Hold back the winds a little bit this afternoon coming down for some areas and then it picks right back into gear come the evening tonight, staying windy through early tomorrow before we do eventually see some common conditions. Midday tomorrow through the weekend just around the corner which will offer us really from the heightened fire danger were in the midst of as we speak, 60s and 70s for current temperatures already pretty warm in oakland in livermore at 75 degrees each well some 50s up in
As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning, it is monday , april 6, 2020. The u. S. President warned americans to prepare for a pivotal week, with the Surgeon General drawing comparisons to the 1941 pearl harbor attack in the 9 11 terror attacks to describe the dark days likely ahead. This morning we are doing what we always do, opening up our phone lines and letting you talk about it. If you are in the eastern or central time zones, text messagesand this morning, if you would like to join us that way, the number is 2027488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. You can get us on twitter cspanwj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Good monday morning, the front page of usa today with a picture of Surgeon General jerome adams on meet the press yesterday when he was asked about of the advice he has given to governors who have not issued stayathome orders. Say. Is
It will be the hardest moment for Many Americans and we really need to understand that if we want to flatten the curve among everyone has to do there per. Doing theircans are part even in states where they have not had a shelter in place order but if you cant give us 30 days, governors, give us what you can so we dont go on the Health Care System in the next week and then let us reassess that last point. At a minimum. You have to be rosie the riveter. Part. Ve to do your host also yesterday from the white house, the White House Task force held a briefing starting at 7 00 p. M. Andident trump led off talked about the tough days ahead but also said there is light at the end of the tunnel. The president. We see light at the end of the tunnel. Things are happening. We are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully, in the nottoodistant future, we will be very proud of the job we all did. You can never be happy when so many people are dying, but we are going to be very proud
Good to have you with us. No deal as the debt ceiling dead line is just days way. Away. Nearly two weeks after the government shut its doors, now the u. S. Senate is the site of talks. The nfnlg i the engine is bearing down and the question is whether the congress will come to the rescue and save this country. With all this back and forth i want to bring in john terrett on capitol hill. This is not a movie and theres no script but do we know how this ones going to end . I like that movie analogy. Thats very good. We had a double feature and now weve got a grainy on black and white movie, thomas. Today we had the house and Senate Working on this issue and the house has captain late capid given up. Now its all eyes on the senate. To that end Senate Democrats are meeting with president obama in the oval office. To make sure all the democrats are on the same page, followed a meeting this morning with chuck sheurschumer and lamar alexande, harry reid the majority leader has given a statemen
The masks are important, not to protect yourself, but to protects others if you are asymptomatic and unknowingly carrying the virus. It is really important advice. Advice that could save lives. Advice that the president promptly says he wont follow and says you dont have to either. So, with the masks, its going to be really a voluntary thing. You can do it. You dont have to do it. Im choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it, and thats okay. It may be good. Probably will. Theyre making a recommendation. Its only a recommendation. Its voluntary. I wish he would think not about his own image, but about setting an example for the country. What would people gain from wearing a mask and why are you opposed to wearing one yourself . Well, i just dont want to wear one myself. Its a recommendation. They recommend it. Im feeling good. I just dont want to be doing i dont know, somehow sitting in the oval Office Behind that beautiful resolute desk, the Great Resolute desk, i think