You can see just around napa American Canyon and vallejo about a half mile visibility. This is going to drift maybe slightly south and slightly east and the winds are light and variable this morning. Definitely not going to be a big player like it was yesterday. Sunshine will be this afternoon and look at these temperatures 58 the cool spot at Half Moon Bay and 61 in San Francisco and oakland 64 along with san jose and san rafael and napa and 67 today in concord and santa rosa. Ill give you an update on the thanksgiving forecast. Heres reggie. Californias Health Secretary is warning that more counties could go into the purple tier, which is the most restrictive as soon as today. We anticipate some tier movement. A handful of counties moving to a more restribbive tier. Three counties in the red tier but could slide back to purple. San mateo and marin counties. Dr. Mark ghaly defended the restrictions in the counties in purple. It is necessary to help curve the spread. Watch at abc7news.
Is going on outside. We have a little bit of fog out there and especially thick up across the north bay. Look at that. The usual spots the fog has moved in through the coast and coastal valleys and petaluma, geyserville in that area and remain there for the better part of the morning commute. Heres a look down in the south bay where were looking pretty clear on 87. Temperatures not as warm today, but definitely above average from 62 in Half Moon Bay and low to mid 70s around the bay and mid 70s to even a few 80s inland and especially 80s in the east bay. Lets get back to you for the news. Thank you, mike. Happening now the polls are officially open and voting is under way in many states along the east coast, the midwest and the south. This is a line forming outside of the American Airlines arena in dallas, texas. You can see its pretty early there, but people are already up in line waiting for their chance to vote this election day. Now, voters in swing states they will likely decide t
So, lets jump right in to weather. Let me take it from here. We have some issues out there as kumasi talked about. You can see it over my shoulder. The red flag warning in effect for the diablo range and east bay hills and also the north bay mountains and this goes through 5 00 this evening as winds could still gust 50 to 60. That is looking less likely but still possible but extremely dry out there. 8 to 18 relative humidity. We could have extreme fire behavior because of that. Winds are still running anywhere from 35 to about 41 in knoxville. So, that is still pretty critical as far as fire starting and fire spreading. Look at this. 8 in the Oakland Hills to about 10 , 11 relativi relative ty ty rest of us. For the rest of us extremely dry air and temperatures in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Away from the coast in the mid 70s. Okay, mike. Thank you. Oakland police are investigating an incident along mcarthur boulevard. One person is dead and we have reached out to investigators for more i
Today low to mid 60s. 61 to 66. Some upper 50s at the coast. Kumasi, reggie. Mike, thank you. Happening today, president elect joe biden talking about his plans for health care. Hes already at work tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile President Trump and his team defiant claiming that the election was stolen but providing no evidence to back that up. Abc News Reporter alex presha live in washington. Goodern moi morning, reggie kumasi. No evidence right now to back up those claims of Election Fraud. Meanwhi meanwhile, we know president elect joe biden is set to address health care. Supreme court looking at the Affordable Care act today. But on the coronavirus front, some good news. Drugmaker pfizer announcing that its vaccine has a 90 or more than 90 effectiveness rate in some lateround clinical trials. As the u. S. Passes 10 million covid cases president elect joe biden is welcoming pfizers vaccine breakthrough but warning more work is still to be done. The challenge before us
Dangerous winds there, even in the lower elevations, 37 in fairfield. Down to 20 in concord. 30 in napa. 22 in novato. 27 in San Francisco. Look at the peninsula, 25 to 31 whether youre in san mateo or sfo. A noisy night out there, there will be a lot of debris on the road, so drive around that and be careful. Our lower elevations, still in the red flag warning until 11 00. Higher elevations until 5 00 tomorrow afternoon. The winds will subside for most of us after 11 00, its so dry and the winds will below wind advisory criteria, but still fast enough to have that high fire danger. Reggie . That breaking news is in the east bay, high winds are now blowing. Youre looking at what happened in concord after a tree toppled bringing down power lines on Birchwood Court late last night. Contra costa county firefighters responded to similar calls reporting either fallen trees or downed power lines. This morning nearly 107,000 customers throughout the bay area are in the dark. Pg e shut off pow