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Far no major hot spots, no traffic to really get into but were going to. See that pick up as the day goes on because its still pretty early you can see here the bay bridge traffics moving along just fine here from the maze of fremont street. 8 minutes were still in the green, but you know that could change as the day goes on and take look at the san mateo bridge can see the westbound here brake lights right here traffic starting to build up especially from the last hour into now about 13 minutes...

This one, here at pier 30 on the embarcadero. With the surge in covid cases, many are reaching capacity. The lines are getting longer and longer. Reporter the Health Committee chairman from the Latino Task Force says demand is unbelievably high at this test site in the mission. Recently 500 people are getting tested every day. We are here to service the Latino Community but not exclusive to and so we take care of the folks that show up that need that test. Reporter he believes the city needs mor...

Danger expected. These two have a place to go if needed. Were super fortunate. We know someone out of town so its somewhere we can go and reside a little bit. This is the first time in recent memory we saw conditions broadly advising prevacatioevac. We want to make sure our residents living in the hills and also southeast berkeley are prepared and able to be safe in the event of a fire. And so were asking people to preevacuate if they live in parts of our hills in which theyll have guilty gettin...

When we talk about fire danger, that means there is a red flag warning. For a look at who exactly is affected and when the winds will pick up lets get to francis. We have a red flag warning in effect. Its first going to hit the north bay mountains and east bay hills tomorrow at 11 00 in the morning and spreads to the rest of the bay area for the coast and the rest of the lower elevations by 8 00 tomorrow. Winds will be from the northnortheast, so this is try land breeze, will bring humidity down...

It certainly has felt that way. Thank you, jeff. Pg e says the power will start going out in parts of napa and sonoma counties as early as 6 00 p. M. And could stay off for days. Heres a look at the planned outages across the bay area. More than 22,000 customers in total. Heres a braekds of outages by county. Napa is expected to have more than 9,000 customers without power including much of calistoga. Alameda county will have 5,300 customers without power, a majority in the Oakland Hills. Santa ...

Tonight Berkeley Police are asking for the publics help and have a 50,000 award for information. New at 10 00, ktvus amber lee joins us live at Berkeley Police headquarters. Reporter police are asking for help in solving this crime. The victims mother never imagined having to see her daughter die in front of her. Family and friends have set up a memorial for serenity henderson on the corner of prince street and ellis in berkeley. There morning the sudden death of the pregnant single mother. She ...

Status. I can tell you its a lot better than it was just about 3 oclock this afternoon when this fire behind me that happen in a where a wholesale bakery on starlite road. A rough day at around 3 oclock today you can see right now they have their firefighters here theyre wrapping up their hoses so obviously this is becoming under control here at this hour. Its been a crazy afternoon 9 alarms have been wrong in the city of South San Francisco. This fire only about a mile away from another grass f...

Our winds picking up today. If youre about to head out the door, get ready for the morning and maybe youre heading to the b. A. R. T. Station, in the low 60s. We reach into the mid80s already by noon. We know its going to be a hot day as we plan for that red flag warning. Any fires that spark could spread quickly. Make sure youre always aware of whats going on. Well talk more about this as well as whats ahead for the weekend. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Not bad, kari. There is stil...

Of the bay area, especially in the north bay but lets talk about what a red flag warning is. Its issued 12 to 24 hours in advance of relative humidity levels dropping 15 or less as well as winds frequently gusting over 25 Miles Per Hour. These two things are happening at the same time. So we are looking at some very low humidity. I want to take you through the afternoon as we look at our relative humidity levels that will drop down below 9 in the parts of the north bay and also going to see rela...

Happens over those next couple of days. Reporter this is a new picture of President Trump walking out of the white house to marine one yesterday. It was reported late thursday night, early friday morning on the east coast that he and the first lady tested positive for coronavirus. The white house has said these next couple of days are critical for the president s immediate and future health. We spoke to an Infectious Disease expert at stanford, who is also a Principal Investigator for various Cl...