People in Santa Clara County are already registered to vote and the registrar of voters hopes by the end of today that number will jump to more than a million. Recently became a u. S. Citizen and register fing to vote for t first time ever. He doesnt want to throw away his shot. So just want to make sure that i proactively be a part of that voting process and make a difference. Reporter across the bay area on this National Voter registration day we saw stepped up efforts to get people to vote including this teen Voter Registration event in richmond. 16 and 17yearolds can even preregister. In Santa Clara County the registrar Voters Office offered free swag to people registering. Thats a lot higher than it was four years ago. Reporter others are trying to get your ballot counted. Thats why the sap center says therell now be a drop off point. The Sharks Foundation has now launched a Voter Campaign to help people register. We now have a landing page created on our website and there we have
Minutes. Roberta has the forecast. Official sunrise is at 6 38. Good morning. Were already seeing the sun rising in the mount vaca area. Clear skies not a cloud to be seen but thats not the case along the seashore where we have some patchy stratus. Right now we are in the 50s and 60s. Santa rosa what the at 49 degrees at 3 a. M. Serious heat for the next four to six days in the hundreds. Hot at the coast at 80 near daly city. Clouds breaking up sooner today. Temperatures in the 60s, 70s, 80s, through the low 90s. Outside number will be 93 degrees. And that will be in the brentwood area. As you just heard, we had a second landfall for Tropical Storm harvey. This is what it looks like. We have a little bit of good news. Its beginning to see some steering winds help it lift north towards the Tennessee Valley buying relief from the folks in houston. For an update on harvey, we send it to michelle. Harvey is taking aim at parts of texas and louisiana as it moves back onshore for a second ti
This tropical moisture will work around us and until then it is all systems go for the big warm up. It is 70s, 80s, 90s and 100, and tomorrow we could see 110 for some. Okay, sal, even at your castle it is going to be hot. That is the way it goes. Lets take a look at the commute from vacaville, fairfield and cordelia area, not a bad commute. Traffic is light. We do have some areas of road work so be careful driving by them, but not a lot of slow traffic. Here is a look at the east shore freeway with 18 minutes the ideal time it takes to get from the carquinez bridge to the maccarthur maze. It is light at the toll plaza so right now you can take advantage of this light commute. We are following a couple of wildfires burning out of control in california, the sierra foothills fire in novato county off of hwy 49 near grass valley. It is burned 200 acres with mandatory evacuations issue for the area. The fire is only 10 contain and it his burned several homes, threatening 200 buildings and
Some of it is moving in, the san mateo coast and from the santa cruz down to monterey, so we do have a little bit. Offshore, that is the direction the wind is coming from but slight. Do north that vacaville so falling into place with the offshore breeze. 50s and 60s on the temperatures with full readings, tropical clouds out of the picture for now, all systems go for the sunshine and warm temperatures. Tropical storm lidia heading toward baja at 45 miles an hour. That is not a hurricane string but there are many warnings and watches hurricane strength but there are many warnings and watches in that area. It is 6 01 am. We have the crash on the nimitz freeway at tennyson and they have opened the lanes to move things to the shoulder but the traffic is already slow from 238 south to union city, so give yourself extra time. The lanes were closed for a bit so it is still causing a traffic delay. You could use mission boulevard for an alternative. The south bay is looking good with some slow
It is been a long and hot summer, and it is getting worse. Wish we didnt have to talk about the sparetheair, but the airquality is going down with that heat and smoke. We have an excessive heat warning kicking in friday and saturday, patchy fog at the san mateo and santa cruz coast. We have a little bit of fog onshore but that is decreasing with the offshore picking up. Livermore in the east wind along with hayward, sfo holding onto the westwind but not for long. 50s and 60s on the temperatures, low to mid 50s for some. Gilroy, morgan hill, are also in there. Cupertino 53 along with santa clara. The fog is going down the coast, but the north wind will take care of that. Tropical clouds not making a dent but hopefully by sunday and monday. For us warming up to 90s and 100s inland, 70s and 80s on the bay. We have slow traffic in the usual spots, 205 and 580 for those coming in from tracy, routine. As you drive on 205 and 580 with people getting on the ace train, out of the Central Valley