air quality is good for almost all the bay area, an improvement from yesterday. current temps are mostly in the 50 s. a nice way to start this morning ahead of what will be just a really nice day in general, blue skies and temperatures that had war must are only going to be in the low 80 s this afternoon. i ve got plenty more details about this beautiful day ahead of us and yes, right to your holiday weekend forecast. still to come as well. john, thanks for that. all right. let s get a look at the bay bridge traveling into the city. a little under 2 minutes. once you reach the mace to that fremont street exit 5, 1880, moving along nicely not seen any hot spots out there at this time. san mateo bridge as you head across towards the peninsula a little under 14 minutes for you to make it into the city or make it across towards the peninsula at this hour. let s go and get a look at the richmond sandra fell commute as you re heading at a richmond across towards center fell. you
thousands are holding out home stuck outside of the walls of kabul airport waiting with no guarantee they ll be able to be safely evacuated, in a new interview, he is defending his call to pull off troops from afghanistan. you don t think this could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes? no. i don t think it could have been handled in a way that we re going to go back in hindsight and look and to think that there is a way to get out without chaosen chaosenuing, you don t know how that happens. even if americans and our afghan allies are still trying to get out, they re going to leave. we re going to do everything in our power to get all americans and our allies out. does that means troops will stay beyond august 31st if necessary. if depends on where we are and whether we could ramp the numbers up to 5,000 to $7,000 a day coming out. if that is the case, they ll all be out. because we have like 10 to 15,000 americans in the country right now, right?
catherine heenan. grant and vicki have the night off. let s take a look now at covid cases and deaths across california within the last 24 hours more than 10,000 new cases of covid have been reported. 6 people have died. more than 1300 are in the icu across the state more than 21 and a half million californians are fully vaccinated. that s about 63% of the population. health experts say that we could still be weeks away from seeing the peak of this latest covid surge being fueled by the delta variant. experts say what we do now between now and then will determine how bad things will get and kron four s haaziq mattoon has the latest on that story. the covid-19 delta variant it is more contagious and that is surging here in the bay area. but when will this current wave of the virus reached its peak for hospitalizations and deaths. now the current models are showing the peak sometime in early september. there s a lot of variables that go into that. nailing down the exa
our going to start in a little warmer day today from here on out today is going to be a big day back into the low 80 s for some of our inland areas by saturday and sunday climbing a little bit further through those 80 s actually setting us up for a fairly warm. start your work week next week. so just get ready for those changes as we do advance to the next couple of days. you look outside right now at san francisco, things are definitely on the green side yet again. but no big surprise there. cloudy blanket is low enough that there are patches of cloud cover that are actually making contact with the ground. so watch out for some lower visibility pockets out there, although fog isn t super widespread this morning mostly sitting just above a level by the time we reach late morning, we should see a lot of clearing having occurred 50 s for most of our current temperatures hayward, you re at 57 currently oakland at 58 degrees. san mateo 54 while dublin delay how and napa each at 5
area yesterday we saw ourselves moving out of that. and today really going to be a nice cool down for us. so a nice change of pace for those of us that just worked to fund to those triple digits, which i don t imagine we re very many of us looking outside this morning. at a court toy at coit tower. cam. you can see it s all lit up. nice and or the low gray. that is really shrouding the bay area this morning. good news is that visibility for most areas is ok, it s just a cool and brisk starts. you absolutely need the jacket as you re getting out there for coastal areas. you want the jacket all day long today while elsewhere, you ll be able to get away without it is the sunshine does eventually come back out. radar does show dry skies aside from those low great conditions and some drizzle that is being seen near the coastline and up into the hills of the east north bay, too. the high pressure ridge that brought us that heat wave that rain was talking about has gradually slid th