In the progress here. But take a look at these wind speeds around fairfield we are already seeing gusts at 30 miles an hour and the high winds will be the issue as we go into today as our temperatures once again stay pretty hot reaching into the 90s and up to 103 degrees today. Ill continue to monitor this and well talk about the fire danger as well. Mike, youve been watching the roads. How is it looking . Its looking great right now, kari. Things are moving smoothly on the freeways despite a crash. Well take you out. Green sensors and the crash approaching the benicia breaks affects industrial, the off ramp, but not the freeway heading to 780 and the bridge itself. A live look at the palo alto shows you the span through 101 on the peninsula. A smooth, easy drive. You see the taillights, no problems there. There may be a crew further north. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Now to our breaking news and whats already a record year for wildfires. Across the state 2 million acres have burned
Heavier. So that is more than likely send thoif indications on any reaching the ground. Power outages or other breaking and you can see just off the news as it happens. Happening today, we expect coast, this is a rapidly forming governor newsollpowim ekal tut t thunderstorm, those six or seven waveovid1 lightning bolts within just the last few minutes. So our action is igniting a ind mi ancht live here and ool throughout the morning. These will stay off the shore and head more towards the north also on our website and app. Education is one of the five bay, but more is developing south and they could roam off key areas that were focusing on as we work to build a better bay into other parts of the bay. Area and this week thousands will start the new school year but it is definitely near the with distance learning. Coast in the north bay that has the best chance of those showers the San Francisco unified school and thunderstorms today. District will have its first all of us will be hot on
Be changing of course were going to be anywhere from mild. So even warm in some spots not hot though were going to be very below normal for this time of year. So i will get to all those details in just a few minutes now back to the news okay. Thank you very much were back at 6 oclock weve got update you on the latest with the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Is set to very soon now pass. Another grim milestone with a 141,000 americans dying from the virus across america nearly 60,000 people are currently hospitalized with infection. The cdc now forecasting more than a 157,000 americans will be killed by the virus. By august 8th, and now Health Officials and government leaders are pushing for americans to where masks. Our decisions not our conditions are decisions that will determine our fate and future as it relates to the spread of this virus. Months after the cdc first recommended doing it President Trump is now also telling americans that its necessary to wear masks in fact tweeted a
Now, that fog. Right. Were seeing that as we look now from the cupertino hills in the south bay. Right now not a good view of it, but hopefully tomorrow youll have a better chance. Lets go through our temperature trend. Were going to see our morning start in the 60s, and then as we go throughout today, its going to reach up to about 80 degrees, and this will actually be one of the coolest days of the week as we reach into the mid80s in the south bay and some mid80 force parts of the inland east bay with concord reaching 86. Well talk about hotter weather ahead in the forecast. Mike, how is it looking right now for the morning commute . Kari, the bay area toll plaza just turned on about 10 minutes ago. You see all lanes have filled in, so that was pretty quick. Theyre not stopped up, but theyre close to getting there. Looking at the map, there is no problem on the approach, just the backup on the toll plaza. The rest looks good, so does the rest of the bay. Back to you. Thank you, mike.
Weve got the latest on the coronavirus this morning, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher lots of angles to cover most importantly you probably the schools that are being impacted around the bay area number of them closing over fears of coronavirus and more are deciding that this not safe for the kids to be in school. The west Contra Costa County unified School District. Is the newest and biggest says they are out as of noon today kron fours will tran live in el serino with more. Yet classes are only be a few hours from now were in front of el serino high school in the lights are on but. New name out so shut it off because they will know they will not be any school for the next 3 weeks but the kids they could be dropped off a lot of parents have no choice and we will get their reaction which is give you a map of how big were talking about the School District encompasses dozens of schools, thousands of students in cities like hercules richmond else or read open all. No positive tests o