John we are tracking President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Movement as they visit some of the communities hardest hit by Hurricane Helene. President biden will take an aerial tour in western North Carolina. He just touched down. And in moments we do expect Vice President harris to land in georgia, where she will survey damage there. A couple days after former President Trump did. Im John Roberts in washington. Good happy with us today. Gillian things for having me. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Towns in North Carolina completely unrecognizable. Especially the western part of the state. Asheville Mayor R faced of their resources. The pictures you can see right there on your screen proved that is the case. Emergency crews are working to reach the isolated communities that have been devastated by catastrophic flooding. Residents there are heartbroken, desperately pleading for help. There has been landslides. Our valley got wiped out. They had to rescue people, the Nati
With Judge Jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, Greg Greg Gutfeld and Dana Perino. Its 5 00 in new York City, and this is a Special Edition of The Five. Happy Labor Day Weekend, everybody appeared we are celebrating with a lot of fun instore. We have some of our best moments from the past year on topics like Airplane Etiquette and the craziest stories from concerts. But first, we are taking your Fan Mail questions. Weve got one from facebook. Norinne c, whats scary to you, greg, the Bottom Of The Ocean or Outer Space . Greg what if they are the same thing . Jesse i never thought about that. Greg what at the oceans Outer Space. What if aliens are actually living in the ocean. We always assume they are coming from up there but where they live down there and what if they were so tiny that we can see them and they have a huge world underneath us. Jessica we did have this question in advance . Greg no, i decided to go for it. Jesse this is what comes to the tip of his tongue. That is scary. They
Monday. It was noisy last night due to the winds. Thats part of the equation for the red flag warning. Outside the Santa Clara Valley were still dealing with the potential of damaging winds through at least 11 00 this morning. Now, you factor in drier air thats rolling in after 11 00, thats why we have the red flag warning thats going to extend until 5 00. It does not include the Santa Clara Valley. Youre missing out on both of these. The San Francisco bay shore and San Francisco also not in the red flag warning. Lets look at the winds right now, up in the Higher Elevations, still pushing well over 40 Miles Per Hour. Weve been up around 50 and 60 during the night. Thats why its been noisy in some neighborhoods. Down at the surface, seeing 37 at Half Moon Bay. 33 at fairfield. 24 in San Francisco. 31 in santa rosa. This is also going to help us push into record territory this afternoon from 66 in Half Moon Bay to 74 today in santa rosa and also in antioch i should say also in fairfield.
You can see just around napa American Canyon and vallejo about a half mile visibility. This is going to drift maybe slightly south and slightly east and the winds are light and variable this morning. Definitely not going to be a big player like it was yesterday. Sunshine will be this afternoon and look at these temperatures 58 the cool spot at Half Moon Bay and 61 in San Francisco and oakland 64 along with san jose and san rafael and napa and 67 today in concord and santa rosa. Ill give you an update on the thanksgiving forecast. Heres reggie. Californias Health Secretary is warning that more counties could go into the purple tier, which is the most restrictive as soon as today. We anticipate some tier movement. A handful of counties moving to a more restribbive tier. Three counties in the red tier but could slide back to purple. San mateo and marin counties. Dr. Mark ghaly defended the restrictions in the counties in purple. It is necessary to help curve the spread. Watch at abc7news.
Heres a look at your surface winds. They are calming down a bit. Theyre fast enough out there. We have some windchills. Were talking about feels like 31 in santa rosa and also in san ramon right now, feels like 32 in san jose. Also in half moon bay, 32 in concord. So you definitely want to dress for that. All right. This afternoon a mix of high clouds and a lot of sunshine. Temperatures around 58 to 61, except along the coast where well have mid to upper 50s. Thank you. Lets look at in video from overnight. This is new video in of flames from a huge fire at the georgiapacific packaging warehouse in san leandro. You can see how big those flames are. With winds expected to get strocke stronger, firefighters are worried that winds could spark other fires. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is joining us live from san leandro with what it looks like now. The big issue now is the smoke. We pulled into san leandro and wondered what on earth is going on. I think this is something people will n