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Hills, northeast gusts could be anywhere from 20 to 40 miles an hour. Relative humidity is dry, current check of the winds up to 37 miles an hour. Mount st. Helena, and mount diablo, 38 mile an hour gusts, theyre strong. Air quality is moderate. Not a spare the air alert today, but theres an advisory and we go in the right direction tomorrow. Winds will shift offshore to onshore later on today but just at the surface. Temperatures right now, 68 in mt. Diablo, 68 in walnut creek. Down the road, Half Moon Bay, youre in the 80s yesterday, yeah, thats right, 30 degrees cooler. So julian were going to talk about our cooldown on the way for sunday and then a return to some more critical fire weather as we get to the week ahead. All right, thank you, lisa. Well take the cooldown however we can get it. Developing news out of san jose. A double shooting left two men dead around 11 40 last night. Three other people were shot but are expected to be okay. Its unclear what led to the shooting. Well
And mt. Diablo, 29 mile an hour wind gusts above a thousand feet, mt. Tam, 22 miles an hour. So the low relative humidity and the dry conditions out there, good thing, though, the air quality isnt bad. We are looking at those warm numbers, in the upper elevations, 60s and 70s. But Half Moon Bay has cooled to 54. It is 50 in nevada. Look at that santa rosa, down to 49 degrees. Anywhere from two to 27 degrees cooler this morning. So without those east winds blowing as strong, yes, the temperatures are coming down. So 60s at 9 00. Our red flag warning will have expired and by noontime were in the 80s inland. Its another warm day with low 90s there. By the afternoon. But we are cooler at the coast, and bay with that weak onshore flow and more widespread cooling. Well talk about sunday and the week ahead coming up. Julian . Thank you, lisa. Now to some developing news as you wake up with us this morning in san jose. Police are investigating a double shooting. Two men are dead. Happened arou
Any that might be there. Well bring updates when we learn more. Back to the other fire, you can see how close it came to homes as firefighters worked hard to get the fire under control and take a look at this video just how intense the flames were at times. That fire was reported just before noon at the South San Francisco hillside sign. Cornell bernard joins us live with the very latest. Cornell . Reporter dion, so many neighbors breathing a huge sigh of relief that fire got way too close to homes, burning up to a few backdoors. Thats where it happened burning across the famous sign hill. Luckily, firefighters stopped it just in time. It took off in seconds flat. Reporter neighbors living near sign hill in San Francisco had moments to react. A fastmoving fivealarm grass fire took off through trees. I ran down to the end because this hill is full of trees and brush and being city owned and i was concerned there would be fire here and sure enough, there was. Reporter neighbors on ridge