In the bay area specifically, there were more than 24,000 cases and 574 deaths. Hospitalizations across california also continue to rise. 100,000 new covid cases a day in the u. S. , more than double our average right now. That is the prediction from dr. Anthony fauci, is telling us we have to do more. Sara zendehnam joins us live with more on his testimony. Good afternoon. Reporter good afternoon, mike. The focus on the Senate Committee hearing was post how to safely reopen schools and businesses and they did talk about that. They gave us an update with alarming new numbers. Dr. Anthony fauci was joined by the heads for the center for Disease Control and convention. The. The fda and the department of health and Human Services on capitol hill for this three hour long hearing. Talty testified he would not be surprised if the country seas 100,000 coronavirus per day. There are 40,000 new cases per day per 10030 counties across the country with coronavirus hotspots. California is one stat
Gray for a long way because there is a big fog bank out there. Santa rosa 54 and not much change. Speaking of livermore northwest at seven and gusts up to 30 miles an hour and on the bridge i should add wind gusts at 30 and some pretty good gusts and mount diablo northwest at 40 as well. The quote cloud deck gives us the start of a cooling trend and we can change is windy and cooler as the load drops into oregon and northern nevada. Temperatures going below except for in livermore but you trend lines going down and not up anymore and 501 on friday morning. We dont have a lot going on. You have an nice start to friday and if you are out there there are people out there for sure and if you are driving 880 and oakland and that is moving while in both directions. 5 02 a. M. And lets go back to the headlines. Breaking news from fema. Firefighters busy battling this car fire. This is video of about 20 minutes ago. The car was fully engulfed in flames. This happened west of interstate 880 whe
It drop a little bit around santa rosa and petaluma. Storm tracker too there, you can see it hugging the bay, the usual places, and in fact the entire coast of california, yet again, this morning. Temperatures are nice out there, cooler in the bay, 57, good morning oakland. Nevermore, about 55, and san jose about 56 degrees. Today once we kick the fog it will be beautiful, and we could see a little drizzle this morning. Gorgeous in the bay, about 73 degrees for our high, and 86, inland. Not bad at all we do have a change coming, though, this weekend, as we head to the holiday, we will see warmer temperatures, we will talk about that more in a few minutes. But for now i am going to keep in my friend, sal , he is keeping an eye on the roads. No major issues around the bay, this is a look at the bay bridge, and you can see, traffic is moving along very nicely. Also, a good start to all of the east bay commutes, and we are expecting a lighter commas we get closer to the holiday. Adlines. T
Are dealing with illegal fireworks. Good evening everyone. The concern comes as the National Weather service issued a red flag warning in parts of the north bay. It just went into effect a moment ago. We have Live Team Coverage tonight, Azenith Smith with the concerns about fireworks. First we begin with chief meteorologist bill martin who is tracking the current conditions. Definitely the wind is coming up, the wind direction will shift around. This low Pressure Center that came in this morning brought the wind and brought the cool to mild weather that set us up with the Pressure Gradient that will give us some pretty significant trend in the wind. Most will not notice the fire concern wind, but in the Higher Elevations you will. Gusts can be up to 50 miles per hour. This red flag warning for the hills stays in effect through tomorrow night. The wind forecast, this is about 5 am tomorrow morning commander, you can see the real wind in the contours, right around clearlake, napa, thats
Clear and we have dry air in place in livermore is down to 352 and a high fire danger elevated in the hills north and east bay hills and that takes us through tonight into the north bay hills and look in vacaville and davids and travis west. Eastern Solano County and counter contra costa and up in the hills is the areas of focus and a pretty big system for the end of june. It was a wind producer for us but we bump up and 70s, 80s or 90s in santa rosa. All right. We think this will be a quiet week. Quieter than what we have and lets ask the man himself. Good morning, sal. Good morning, steve. As people queue up lets go up and take a look at what we have with interstate 880 and the traffic is moving along pretty well. I do want to mention there has been a deadly crash in byron and byron highway and in fact i will mention that port byron highway in Clifton Court road is good area to avoid. 880 on your screen and that looks good in both directions. Lets go back to the headlines. Happening