Christmas eve. It is Christmas Eve. How is it looking out there . Not waiting for you. Here it comes. Its starting out cloudy, cold this morning and as we go into tonight, rain will be arriving into the bay area, so as we take a look now at our current temperatures, ooh, we are below freezing in the north bay. Napa, santa rosa, down to 30 degrees, and were at 36 in livermore, where we are also tracking patchy, dense fog in the north bay, were concerned about some icy roads. As we go into the rest of the day were going to see a mix of sun and clouds. Mountain view reaching into the low 50s. Well talk about the rain coming up. Mike, youre tracking a crash on the peninsula. Thats right its 6 01. Why am i starting with highway 35 at kings mountain, a crash that cleared so minor slowing, because thats the biggest deal we have out there on the roadways right now. Its a smooth flow of traffic there and should recover nicely. 101 280 no problems. South bay, trivalley, out of the Altamont Pass
We have crews dealing with this and we have several lanes shut down the 4 left lanes are closed as they work with this crash. We have injuries reported as well and its already jamming up traffic toward el serino the westbound side is recovering from a crash near San Pablo Dam road. 14 minutes here on the san mateo bridge looking good with no but problems from hayward over to the peninsula now we want to get a peek of the forecast because i know its cold outside and we are expecting some rain should been that were expecting hot spots on Christmas Eve. But yes we are expecting rain on Christmas Eve ahead of us not necessarily during the day today though we are off to a calm start look at this view over San Francisco, nice inviting looking skies just a few clouds out there youre going to notice more clouds up above than what we saw yesterday a little less of a foggy impact but not necessarily for everyone across the bay there are some spots in the north bay such as napa where visibility i
Nice weather wise. We are seeing some clouds cloud cover is currently on the rise across the bay area we had seen such beautiful clear skies overhead, but you can see from the west were going have a blanket of cloud cover moving in across the bay area later on. Its going to make for a less blue day today than we had yesterday when the skies were just Crystal Clear now youve still looking at very low visibility weve been seeing some freezing fog actually for parts of the north bay. So some very slick spots on roadways and some of these areas up in the northeastern part of the bay, the rest of us have seen nice clear skies and all of us are going to be free of the fog later on just a couple of sprinkles right along highway, one south the Half Moon Bay this morning elsewhere weve been nice and dry. Its just been very chilly so bundle up this morning. In tonight if youre going to be out and about which i would recommend against take it easy tonight just bring the umbrella as you do head ou
The dow industrials up just a few points at the opening bell, 11, maybe, but look at that level. Back to 28,000. Modest small loss, small loss for the s p and also for the nasdaq. So look, everybody, sit back, you are going to watch financial history. History being made in hong kong, too. Sure looks like open rebellion. The street fighting has escalated. Police besieged one of the Main University campuses which they say was being used to make weapons. A Police Officer was hit by an arrow. Ominously, the Peoples Liberation army, chinese troops, in plain clothes, appeared on the streets on saturday. That was taken as a grave warning. Add all this up, it is beijing versus the people of hong kong, communism versus democracy. It is a bloody fight and it is not over. In the United States, the democrats want to remove this president from office because of a phone call. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart okay. Lets talk stock market, shall we . Dow closed in record territory friday, abov
Growth in the apriljune quarter. The growth trend is only down very, very slightly. This was a positive gdp report. And here is the market reaction, fairly muted. Around 2 00 even this afternoon, well find out what the Federal Reserve is doing with Interest Rates. A quarterpoint cut widely expected, but its what comes after that, that has invest terse on edge. The dows up a couple of points, same with the nasdaq. Look at these stocks premarket, facebook and apple. They report at four eastern today. Well be watching to see how apple forecasts upcoming holiday sales. As for facebook, we want to know how many people droppedded off the platform with all that negative publicity. We also want to know if their ad revenue continues to surge. Facebook and apple up premarket. Youve got to look at this, california faces a real crisis today. The fires are raging, and today the wind picks up bigtime. Our heart goes out to the millions without power and the hundreds of thousands evacuated. Californi