Dangerous heat, likely record breaking high temperatures as we head through the day today. The daytime highs well above average, more than 20 degrees above average for this time of year and also dealing with that extreme fire danger with the red flag warning that has been extended until 6 00 p. M. Today for all the areas highlighted in red north bay, mountains, and Santa Cruz Mountains with offshore winds, low relative humidity values dropping down to the Single Digits and teens. Were talking dangerous fire conditions, critical conditions as we head through the day today. Tracking some changes as we look to the weekend, we have cooler air with the ocean breeze finally kicking in. Details on the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Thousands of people remain without power in parts of the bay area and Northern California after pg e shut it off to prevent strong winds from damaging equipment and sparking wildfires after the heat wave. 30,000 customers are still in the d
High if that wave continues to build and coronavirus hits that is going to be the worst of all worlds combined with that recession. Against the white house to the incumbent democrats will pick up a witch. Well Something Like i think a million and a half people have already voted in california. So whats behind that tsunami david of early voting or the eager to vote for somebody eager to vote against somebody whats fueling this you see turnout turnout turnout thats what democrats want thats what the Biden Campaign wants so we have more democrats requesting ballots than republicans republicans are telling us over and over again that they want to wait until election day they want to go to the polls and that kind of late breaking want to see what happens even though democrats have been voting early and often what all of this sets up. Is the president ial election is coming down to a battle for florida. We see the challenger opening up a double digit lead in substantial lead sizable lead in
Of something wrong came mid morning. We had the report of 16 firefighters that were possibly exposed to Carbon Monoxide. Reporter the firefighters were assigned to the glass fire, but werent actively fighting flames when they fell ill. At an offsite location from the base camp unrelated to the fire area. Reporter they were taken to the fair grounds and were examined on site. Of those 16 firefighters, one firefighter was transferred to a local hospital for further evaluation, and all of the other firefighters have been released back to duty. Reporter investigators are trying to determine what sickened the firefighters including the source of any Carbon Monoxide. The victims were part of the same group of firefighters. It was an Engine Strike Team assigned to the incident. So a group of five fire engines with 16 personnel on it. Reporter firefighters are usually the ones responding to Carbon Monoxide which is known as the silent kill person symptoms include nausea, headache, and confusio
It is another morning of smoky, hazy skies across the bay area and when is it finally going to clear up . Cruises scrambled to clean up the toxic waste and ashes after the lnu fire raced through the area. We have the new Police Body Cam video releasing what he showed on the night of the George Floyd Protests in san jose. Good morning on this saturday, september 12th. I am emily turner. I am devin fehely. The air is still hazy smoke lets look at an update on the weather and when we get some relief from this bad air. It will take a couple of days. Lets start off with the right now air quality readings and no doubt youre familiar with the color coding on the map. Red is unhealthy for everybody. If it is purple you are in the very unhealthy category. San rafael and oakland, here is you right now with everyone else in the red on here. North bay looking at red as well. That will not change today but ictly. Early next week things will get better. There is a lot of fog in addition to the smoke
We wont get much out of this, except cloud cover. It is on its way. Maybe a little patch of all. 50s to 60s on the temperature. 59 san jose. Mild warmer. Thats five above average. Looking at the do southwind a very mild 66 degrees, which is 13 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago. They are the outlier by four. Modifications running a little cooler. Sfo and Half Moon Bay at 2. As a file does have a gust at 29 miles an hour. Are some pretty good gusts from the system coming up. The when will pick up later on. Increasing high clouds. Patchy fog on the coast. Breezy to windy with highs near 70s. Some near 80 degrees. Still, slightly below. Over to sell now. Things picking up at 6 00. Is it still okay . They are still okay. Right now traffic is moving along pretty well around the bay area. You can see traffic at the bay bridge, i will show you thatso major issues. It should start getting a little bit slower in the next few minutes. We will see what happens. We are getting a little slow down, bu