In june of next year. Natural gas is dangerous. Reporter rafael, who sponsored the legislation. Maybe most significantly, natural gas is a potent Greenhouse Gas that contributes to climate change. Reporter since 2010, as hundreds of coalfired power plants have closed, natural gas plants in many cases have replaced them. Natural gas produces about 40 of u. S. Energy needs. Former San Francisco mayoral candidate and activist Richie Greenburg doesnt believe california can make the transition from natural gas to all electric. The state of california does not have the ability to meet the energy needs, electricity needs and home heating through electricity at this point in time. Were not going to be relying on fossil fuels anymore in our buildings. Theres huge Greenhouse Gas savings. Theres Huge Public Health savings. And cost of construction goes down because youre not needing to install a gas pipeline. Reporter groups like earth justice cite the wildfires as a reason to move away. The sky
The sheltered valley locations down to the 20s and 30s. This frost advisory in effect until 9 00 a. M. Today. As we head through the afternoon, we will see the daytime high school the low average. We will have the sunshine but we are only talking about highs in the mid to upper 50s to low 60s as we go through our afternoon. 59 in the San Francisco. 60 in oakland, san jose, and concord. We will talk about how long this will last and our next chance to see some rain showers coming up. We are getting a Traffic Alert through martinez. Apparently there was some sort of debris in the roadway causing vehicles to spin out. They have now closed all lanes to get caltrans crews out there to clean up the mess. I will check in with chp shortly. We are starting to see a few brake lights moving. To plan for that this morning if youre headed toward the east bay freeway. We have a wind advisory in effect for all the mod pass this morning. Youve got some slow and go speeds dipping down to 15 Miles Per H
Arizona, georgia, michigan, and pennsylvania. Rnc says the purpose is to make sure there is no malfeasance. In the press release they did suggest democrats were engaged in some sort of manipulation of the vote count. Were going to keep an eye on that as we keep an eye on the ongoing vote count. A closer look at the numbers, starting in georgia which is just razor thin, a statistical dead heat, democrats have not carried this state in a president ial election since 92. Each candidate has 49. 4 of the vote. Theyre continuing to count absentee ballots but biden is ahead by 1100 votes. A live look in arizona, this is maricopa county. 90 of the vote in there right now, looking a little sleepy in the vote counting room. Biden is up about 47,000 points and maricopa has more than 200,000 ballots outstanding. So we are keeping an eye on that as well as pennsylvania this morning. It looks like we are going to have potentially some solid results by the end of the day. We will keep you posted. Bac
The strongest week since back to april. However, you have to put that in context. Two weeks ago was a lousy week in fact, two weeks ago the dow lost just over 1800 points, down by 1833 points last week the dow was up by 1821 points so that was a giveback for the dow kind of starting things over if you look at the other major averages, they got back much more ground than they had lost the previous week. Last week the s p was up 329 points after being down 195 the week before and the nasdaq was up by 983 points last week after losing 636 points the week before but again these gains this morning are significant ones they are adding to what we saw last week. Also, take a look at whats happening in the treasury market youll see that right now the treasury, the tenyear, is yielding 0. 812 so its stabilized after bouncing around quite a bit during the election and the election counting last week stabilized at 0. 812 andrew thanks, becky our top story this morning, president elect biden wastin
We are five to 19 degrees colder compared to this time day. St w eiill afwetensrnoon. Se 61 in San Francisco for the high. 65 four concorde. A little warmer, compared to yesterday. It is still below average for this time of year. Tracking the norms and details on the rain. Lets check in with you and the commute to altamonte. It is a busy one this morning, as you work your way out of tracie hating into the ultimate pass i was not drive to 80 and 285. Right around Mountain House is where it begins. And extend all the way to north line. It is typical for the morning commute. It is always up is the one as you work your way westbound looks better once connected to the dublin interchange. 29 minutes is the. Tentacle from 20526 80. 101 is looking good. There are no delays. There earlier trouble spot at old bayshore highway in san jose has been cleared. Were getting word of a new accident near allen rock. It looks like it is walking one lane with debris in the roadway. I will have more in the