Talk about just that its really pretty out there actually get it from coming up, so its a brighter commute but the lines getting longer john so its pretty busy, especially on our bridges were checking out the trip here on the bay bridge 80 wesson to San Francisco you see all the headlights right. The backup is pretty long it goes back to the bottom of the maze and thats normal for this time of mourning, but at least you dont have any problems or crashes in the mix to add to the slow traffic so were up to 14 minutes and thats still a really good drive into San Francisco with no big problems right now were checking on highway 4 because i just got word of a crash in pittsburgh on the westbound direction thats the commute side. So thats bumping up their drive time to 25 minutes thats no longer highway 4. But this is a beautiful shot of the city right now to overview of San Francisco for coming up well check in on some more bridges star ian james and well see how the traffic is moving aroun
Shot and killed at least 12 Peaceful Protesters in lagos on tuesday. We will go to nigeria for the latest. Then as fighting continues in the south caucasus between armenia and azerbaijan we will look at the conflict which has already killed over 700 people. Cooks to put an end of the war controlledre by the major powers that is russia and also the u. S. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome toemocracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The confirmed u. S. Death toll from covid19 has topped 222,000 as a new report by Columbia University researchers blted the Trump Administration over its disastrous handling of the pandemic. The reports authors write we estimate that at least 130,000 deaths and perhaps as many as 210,000 could have been avoided with earlier policy interventions and more robust federal coordination and leadership. Even with the dramatic recent appearance of new covid19 waves globally, the abject failures of u. S. Government policies and cr
Red flag warning is set to go into effect later this weekend to parts of the bay area are bracing for what is expected to be the strongest wind event of the year. Lets go to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who is tracking the dangerous fire conditions certainly dont like to see an active fire were forecasting a potentially some of the strongest winds. Weve seen in quite some time at least this year maybe even longer, but certainly a possibility some firestorm events we continue to see this but. The winds out there right now in and around this active fire. The pope fire we continue to see some of those winds out of the west thats not a bad wind thats a more moist when thats developing right now. We saw as high as 80 Miles Per Hour this afternoon now to 8 to 10 Miles Per Hour. So just some light winds blowing now on likely going to see those winds pick up a more out of a westerly wind as we head toward tomorrow, but. Then things begin to change and so thats what were concerned about
Im grant lotus and im Ella Sogomonian in for Vicki Liviakis nearly 7,000 pg e customers across the bay area are bracing for another round of power shut offs pg reps say that customers across 19 Northern California counties have been notified about the potential shut up 6 of them right here in the bay area this is pg and es future outage map this is what they are predicting the areas with the yellow indicate that could lose power there in the bay area talking about alameda contra costa napa santa clara solano and sonoma counties all of this because of that. Hot and dry windy conditions expected tomorrow chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joining us now with all those details here lawrence they guys, yeah we may see their map get a just a bit too weve got a series of wind events headed toward the bay area fact red flag warnings posted by the National Weather Service Starting tomorrow, were going to see all the way to the coastline and the Santa Cruz County San Mateo County very gusty wi
As hot and dry conditions combined with expected. Strong wind gusts posen increased risk for damage to the electrical system which could potentially ignite a fire majority of those customers affected are in napa county and thats where we find kron 4 taylor bisacky. Who is live in calistoga with more taylor people must be exhausted by all of this. Grand for parts of calistoga this could be the second time without power within just one week. You know really seems to this area. Its been one thing after the other. These power shut offs come just a couple of weeks after folks he returned home from those glass fire evacuations. Another round of pge Public Safety power shutoffs could sweep parts of the bay area the napa county being the most affected. Pg says the possible psps is slated to affect more than 4,300 customers in napa county. Including those living in parts of calistoga were filling some gas for tomorrow because theyre going to shut off the power. Again chad taylor isnt the only o