the northeast breeze, and lynn temperatures will get to 100 today for a few. water temperatures are very cold, fog will be in our near future, not until thursday or friday. 60s and 70s. san jose is 64 degrees. excessive heat warning is out, at 11 am, going to thursday evening. possible records today, it will be close for many. all right, we will check in with stephen a moment. the hot holiday weekend is getting people outside of their houses, while some follow health guidelines, many others are not. we re joined now by sara for the details, good morning, sara. reporter: good morning, pam, it has been a warm past few days. people want to get out of their house and enjoy the nice weather on memorial day. we saw a lot of crowded bay area parks. crown beach and alameda county, half moon bay, and san francisco are some of the spots that we checked out to see if people were following health guidelines. somewhere, some were not. the east bay regional park district up staffing to
goodrich. i m brian hackney. we have a live look at doyle drive or what s left of what was doyle drive. the construction has been going on for six years. now it s in the home stretch. crews are racing to get the work done by monday morning. right now, they are pouring concrete and paving the roadway. the concrete is a quick set variety and if all goes as planned it will be cured by tomorrow morning. workers also need to install medians and striping along the new parkway before they can open it up to traffic. it will happen in different stages. but that will be sunday before we really see any striping. we may even wait until it s already done. work is still on schedule even after rain. a big crowd made it to the presidio for a special ceremony today despite the doyle drive closure. mayor lee and other dignitaries broke ground on the new korean war memorial. it will be built at lincoln and sheridan. the project has been years in the making and the presidio has a strong
moments ago of his leaving the process of veterans into the presidio cemetery. he has other events today. in oakland he will be at the lazy at 4:00, but first he appeared here. we wanted to ask, why in. you decided to come, why? i am the chairman of united states senate chairman of veterans affair and the needs of the veterans and families who made the ultimate sacrificed. we were surprised and it is great he is taking the time out to honor our men and women in the service and it is important that he participate and with a special holiday especially given he wants to be the leader of our country. it was nice he was representing. i shot the interview with my cell phone, it was bit shaky. this is one of the largest memorial day events in the country for tuning on korea and vietnam veterans and the anniversary of the buffalo soldiers. there are 2,500 people expected to be here. 2,500 people who got quite a surprise, a visit from a presidential candidate, bernie sanders
least likely area to have drizzle is 55 and sunny by noon. warmest temperature barely gets to 80. we will be back in the upper 60 s by 7:00. clouds will dominate the coast. the big-rig driver is hauling lumber across the bay bridge and trying to get it off the bridge. it now is stalled near the fremont exit. we are hooking at heavy backup beyond the s-curve to the tunnel and that is where we had the stall originally blocking a lane. now it is further to the west so helpfully they can get that off the bridge. eastbound we are looking at traffic but over to the tolls, you can see the metering lights are on and traffic is backing up significantly. an update on a breaking news from the presidio. a fire near the san francisco national cemetery brought out firefighters overnight. you can see the flames as they burned and abc7 news reporter is on the scene. this is contained, cornell? that is right. the smell of smoke is still in the area at the presidio. firefighters have gotte
i m juliette goodrich. michelle has the day off. you can see the firefighters standing among the tomb stones trying to keep back the flames. the fire burned up to four acres in and around the san francisco national cemetery. sue kwon is at the scene where crews got it under control. reporter: they are using a unique method. what they ve been doing all morning is coming down and filling up their trucks with 500 gallons of water and drawing it back up the hill where they are putting out the fire. there are hydrants within the cemetery but this fire was tricky to fight because they weren t placed in areas good for them. the fire broke out on the north side at the crest of the hill at around 2:00 in the morning. fire crews are stationed here on the presidio. this quickly grew to 3 to 4 acres. now, it is wet though. quite a bit of fog as many people know. and the cemetery is groomed with a lawn. fires like this are pretty rare. what we asked this morning is how it might have