Hi there. What are you doing way back there . Come on up here. [laughs] thats better. Im glad you dropped by. I have a little story i think you would like. It is about a four Legged Friend of mine. I dont need i dont mean him back there. This happened a while back in the Beautiful Mountain country of new mexico on the Lincoln National forest. It was made time, dry and hot, but still nice and peaceful. All the animals in the forest were having a grand old time in the sunshine of spring. [applause] there was one little three month old fella in particular who did not have a care in the world. He was spending his time having fun. A growing and a prowling and a scratching. Thats right, that america did not have a care in the world. Until somebody, a two legged somebody got careless. It took several hundred men five days to extinguish that fire. 17,000 acres of timber were destroyed. Timber that could have been used for homes and furniture along with emails that could have turned it out. A l
Diablo range scrolling up to mount diablo the oakland hills. All those areas that typically everybody is on alert whenever the winds pick up around mount tam for instance and of course up in the wine country. Both napa and sonoma counties look at all that purple all those areas either have power thats already been turned off or those are locations of peach and he has an eye on today to shut the power if the winds continue and were out there with our live reporters keep a look at whats going on in those neighborhoods in Contra Costa County with will tran in the north bay. With Sarah Stinson and in the Weather Center thats were going to start with you john yeah because because it has been a very windy evening and continues to be this morning to something that will be causing you problems as you leave for work this morning as you will be encountering areas. Where youll be able to feel those gusts as you do into roadways as for conditions right now from suture tower it is beautiful, it is
Orinda with more dan. Well this is literally the calm before the storm right now there is absolutely no wind at this point but theyre expecting gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour in this region and other regions throughout the bay area beginning tomorrow night that coupled with possibly triple digit heat has firefighters on alert. As the sun bear down on Contra Costa County friday winds remain calm with temperatures in the 70s. But come this weekend a recipe for disaster high temps low humidity and winds gusting to 50 Miles Per Hour. Looking at very high fire danger and as you point out. We got an awful lot of dry fuel out thats just waiting to burn it was last october when Contra Costa County experienced similar conditions. And had a fire siege, 10 major fires and 15 hours including one that jumped the carquinez bridge. Sleep with one eye open. Those who live in Contra Costa County have been through this before and are ready, we know or pc is and all of our personal documents and should be
As it has been theres a look at the current particulate matter levels they particulate matter levels in the air much of the bay now in the yellow and orange which is much better than the dark purple and reds weve been seeing this past week and heres a look at the current air quality in the bay area as you can see. Much better tonight than the past few days the whole country theres feeling some sort of the bay area obviously. Producing a lot of it california producing a lot of it oregon washington, the whole west coast really for the most part. An incredible change from yesterdays air quality and that is good good news. No doubt about it. All right want to check in with our chief meteorologist right now. Lawrence karnow please tell me this trend will continue yeah going to get better to was certainly nice to see the skies begin to turn a little blue outside of weve been looking at this shot over the past few days we have been able to see the Golden Gate Bridge. How about that the Golden
That video the president left Walter Reed Hospital to salute cheering supporters from his motorcade very is wearing a mask. The president was driven by secret Service Agents who also wore protective gear. But now may have been potentially exposed to this disease that has swept through the white house in recent days that brief motorcade right now raising big concerns at the white house and from a number of top medical leaders alexander le mon has the latest now from washington. President trumps decision to leave Walter Reed Medical Center to drive around and think his supporters came as a surprise because the white house had called a lid on the president stay meaning that no additional activities were expected in fact no activities at all were expected because the president is being treated for covid19. In a surprise move President Donald Trump left Walter Reed Medical Center to waive that supporters gathered outside the president announcing the drive by just minutes before on twitter i