I take my paper and my booking came in right away. Of the sites are a bit more of a destination. Alameda county reached out to us and they were interested in using us as a polling place because we are a big warehouse and of course we jumped on it right away. Were just really happy to be a part of democracy. Voting rules mean you cannot drink your beer on the premises. It is nice to be able to come here, do my voting in person and pick up a treat afterwards. One after another told us that this emergency arrangement is how it should be every year. Its a saturday and i can vote right now. You can vote on a saturday. Yes, yes. I think this should be the norm. Where you get a couple of days. We did not see much in the way of lines today. Just a lot of voters were happy to have an option on the saturday afternoon. It feels good to vote for sure, yeah. It was really my first time at a little bit of an advanced age but this year i got really involved to see whats going on out there i feel pret
Lightning in the sky than we have gotten used to for this time of day. Its just coming up on 6 01 and about five seconds and the view from the top of the mark r kammer on the roof of the mark hopkins looking off towards the east. The sun is not up yet but thats going to happen in 34 minutes. It will happen at 6 35 today. Lets take a couple of other quick views. There is the best view really and as far as though he feels that they are at this point its in the 40s for many locations. Concorde, 47. Oakland, 49. San jose, 48. Its go going to be one of the cooler feeling mornings you had so far this season. There is a bit of his reported out of oakland. Daytime highs are not budging. We are going right back up into the mid80s again if you are inland, 84 the bay. 72 for the coast. Just to leave you with three takeaways on this forecast, we are staying above average temperaturewise for today. And you can see that they are on the top line. Theres a beach hazard at the coast. We will talk about
Be the strongest we have seen so far this fire season. Pg e not taking any chances. Its getting ready to cut power. In the last 15 minutes the Utility Company releetsed where the Public Safety power shut offs could happen. The area in yellow. On this map. You can see every bay area county with the exception of San Francisco could be affected. These areas include the north bay mountains, east bay. Also the Oakland Hills and communities in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It could start sunday morning and go through tuesday morning. We have Team Coverage tonight. Lets start with chief meteorologist of course keeping a close eye on the strong wind. Everything really is materializing for the wind to not only impact the mountains but whats different about this that we havent seen lately is the low elevations getting in on the wind. The large low pressure system. Its expansive. Disrupting the atmosphere. As that starts to drop down. Sunday, monday and tuesday. Its going to bring a cold blast to us.
The hazy us but none are looking all too great and everybody has these apps on their phones. Now right a look at the air quality. And how it is around the bay area you see it is fairly uniform. This thats updated in real time, its purple air shows the amount of particulate matter in the air the dark purple. Represents the worst air that dark red is only slightly better and then the lighter shades or even better, but we dont have that much see a Little Orange and yellow well near ukiah almost but the bay area pretty red at least were not purple. Like parts of sacramento, all the way up into portland that is really bad right now, but the air we have its considered dangerous for all sensitive groups and for the general population. If theyre exposed for too long and by the way general. Sensitive groups that includes kids. The elderly and people with heart and lung disease called for chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now. Lawrence when can we expect some relief from the smoke in
President trump arrives in california today in a smoky haze is blaming the wildfires plaguing the west coast. Not on Climate Change but on the failure to properly manage the forests this came up in a public discussion between the president and governor newsome and those 2 kept a very civil very point. The governor has acknowledged that Forest Management is an issue but not the issue newsome pointing out that most forest land in california is federally owned still should our leaders be addressing more thoroughly both concepts Climate Change and Forest Management i asked our political analysts. Over 45 of californias 33 million acres are controlled by the u. S. Forest service and therefore its measured budget has all gone to fighting fires. So trump can blame this all in california. And you can remove Climate Change from the equation. The droughts are killing all vegetation that are tinder for fires. We didnt have fire tornadoes before the world got warmer, super fires are now the norm n