Falling asleep. If that sounds like you, tonight some expert advice you havent heard before about dealing with pandemic insomnia. We are just hours away from a memorial for Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Plus unemployment scammers hating rodeo drive, and you are paying for it. Clothing, purses, renting airbnbs. Alameda, san mateo and solano counties are in the red tonight after moving up a notch on the states colorcoded Coronavirus Tracking map. Technically that means more businesses are allowed to reopen indoors. But, there are some great areas when it comes to what is actually changing. Reporter hearing San Mateo County the red tier couldnt come fast enough. But tonight we are seeing that the tears dont mean a thing to some other counties. Tonight in San Mateo County, indoor dining, exercising at gyms and fitness studios, going to a Movie Theater and church and once again resume with modifications. We are following the guidelines that the state has set forward. But not every county is.
Streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look out north at Golden Gate Bridge. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, september 23rd. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. To the forecast first, heres mary lee. Good wednesday morning to you len and michelle. Halfway through the workweek. And we are looking at near normal temperatures. Maybe a degree or two warmer compared to yesterday. But still, looking great across the bay area. Good air quality as we start off our day. That clean and fresh air continues for the region with that onshore flow. Now lets show you our daytime highs. Because we are looking at temperatures about upper 60s in San Francisco and mid 70s in oakland and mid 80s for san jose and upper 80s for concord. So looking at a degree to six degrees above average for this time of year although in San Francisco two degrees below average. Well talk about some changes as we look to the weekend and p possibility ely going
Smoke pushed back into the bay area. Now the latest on a Traffic Alert on 880. Yeah, its a couple of rs tangled up here and traffic is still slow. They had all lanes blocked though northbound 880 right at da toe that. The good news is theyve opened upmost of them. They are though keeping at least one or two of these slow lanes the right lanes closed until they completely clear everything off the roadway. Looks like there may be some debris in the road as well. So caltrans crews are also on scene. So a bit of a slow ride working your way along 880 for the early start to your ride. If you are headed there, just a headsup. Expect the brake lights out of fremont and gets a little bit better as you go to more in the union city area. If you are headed towards 680 or 238 you can use that, those are free flowing both directions. Westbound 580, a busy ride already out of the Altamont Pass. Were seeing our slowest spot right around Mountain House. From 2035 and it stays slow to north flynn. Anne
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Golden gate and settling down into portions of San Francisco as you can see from suture tower. And here on our fog mapmaking for low visibility closer to the coast and watch out for that if youre traveling into San Francisco for your morning commute. Elsewhere across the bay area things are actually holding up really well with nice clear skies early the vast majority of us as for air quality to state you noticed it too is youve got outside yesterday we saw some vast improvements and guess what were holding on to those continued improvements as we make our way through the day today. Definitely some problem spots if youre heading up into areas Like Northern portions of sonoma and napa counties as well as a bit further inland up into the Sacramento River valley, but bay area itself has seen some big improvements with the air quality yesterday. We should hold on to those at least for the most part through the day today. 50s for your current temperatures for most of the region right now nev