Streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live from our exclusive salesforer looking west as we start this new week. Good morning. It is monday, december 7. Im len kiese. Im anne makovec in for Michelle Griego this week. Lets get right over to mary lee. We are looking at a high fire danger. This is a rare and late season offshore wind event. Tracking the winds picking up. Up in the mountains, when discussing up to more than 60 Miles Per Hour and it is windy for many locations this morning. A red flag warning is in effect for most of the bay area until 5 00 p. M. All the airlines highlighted in red. Higher elevations with gusts up to 60 Miles Per Hour. Our valleys and coasts up to 40 Miles Per Hour wind gusts. The wind advisory for most of the bay area until 11 00 a. M. So watch out for flying debris, broken blanches and the possibility of power outages. You can see how strong the winds are, the camera really shaking in the wind this morning. Our temperatures are running in the 40s and 50s. A
More frequent skin tense. Joining me to explain why is scott stevens, professor of fire science at uc berkeley, welcome. So far this year weve been hundreds of square miles of acreage burned in wildfires in california. How does this compare to previous years . Southern california and Central California are ahead. I think weve had a real dry period in southern california. El nino year, usually that means 150 precipitation in southern cal, this year they got about 75 . Very dry. They really are ahead, they have really dry conditions. North of the golden gate we havent had that many fires. As you alluded to theres a terrible fire in lake county. Will things get worse as september and october roll around . Thats when the santa ana winds kick in. Thats right. We go into later into the season, we would expect worse conditions. Especially in southern california. The santa anas come in october, november. Really severe winds out of the east. Thats our worst season. California has had five years
More frequent skin tense. Joining me to explain why is scott stevens, professor of fire science at uc berkeley, welcome. So far this year weve been hundreds of square miles of acreage burned in wildfires in california. How does this compare to previous years . Southern california and Central California are ahead. I think weve had a real dry period in southern california. El nino year, usually that means 150 precipitation in southern cal, this year they got about 75 . Very dry. They really are ahead, they have really dry conditions. North of the golden gate we havent had that many fires. As you alluded to theres a terrible fire in lake county. Will things get worse as september and october roll around . Thats when the santa ana winds kick in. Thats right. We go into later into the season, we would expect worse conditions. Especially in southern california. The santa anas come in october, november. Really severe winds out of the east. Thats our worst season. California has had five years
More frequent skin tense. Joining me to explain why is scott stevens, professor of fire science at uc berkeley, welcome. So far this year weve been hundreds of square miles of acreage burned in wildfires in california. How does this compare to previous years . Southern california and Central California are ahead. I think weve had a real dry period in southern california. El nino year, usually that means 150 precipitation in southern cal, this year they got about 75 . Very dry. They really are ahead, they have really dry conditions. North of the golden gate we havent had that many fires. As you alluded to theres a terrible fire in lake county. Will things get worse as september and october roll around . Thats when the santa ana winds kick in. Thats right. We go into later into the season, we would expect worse conditions. Especially in southern california. The santa anas come in october, november. Really severe winds out of the east. Thats our worst season. California has had five years
Hinojosa in every movie role hes had, from dances with wolves to the last of the mohicans to avatar he brings depth and authenticity to the characters he plays, changing the way audiences see native americans. Legendary actor wes studi. Im maria hinojosa. This is one on one. Wes studi, you are an amazing actor, the star of. Well, lets just say avatar, dances with wolves, last of the mohicans, geronimo. What an honor to have you on our program. I have to tell you, i want to go to a movie that came out several years ago geronimo, an american legend. Because you were. You carried that movie. Im sure many of our viewers saw that. The moment that i want to talk about for a second is the moment when you first appear onscreen in that movie. And when you are looking at the american soldiers, and you have this look. The camera just kind of zeroes in on your face, and you have this look of distrust, disdain, and interest, and you captured that so well. And i just said it has to be because in you