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The third hour of today in the bay continues right now. Good friday morning to you. Im kris sanchez here for Marcus Washington. Boy, wasnt it nice to see his smile . Oh, yes. Were going to have him a little later in this hour as well. Im laura garcia. Before we get to weather right now i want to tell you about a small earthquake that hit the north bay this morning. A 3. 3 magnitude quake hit about 5 00 a. M. It was about 13 miles north of healdsburg. No reports of injuries or damage so far. But ...

Tracking that and the weekend forecast. Weve been dying to get out for a little walk, kari. Its been rough. Yeah. We can do that now that the sun has come back out. And we can see from our live camera from san jose, its be a beautiful morning now. Few lingering showers outside the sacramento valley, widening out the view to see what else is out there, the next storm is right there off our coast and will be moving in, starting in the north bay by tomorrow. So, as we look at how much rain we measu...

They are telling people to avoid that area. Twoalarm fire that we are monitoring. Thick smoke active right now. We will continue to follow that and bring you the updates as we get them. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Im marcus washington. The other big story. We are closely monitoring the guidance from the state this morning. Its been nearly 24 hours since governor gavin newsom announced new possible rollbacks. The number of available icu beds are dangerously low. A new statewide stayat...

Taco tuesday. Look, im here for that, too. We can combine them, terrific taco tuesday. All right, well check the commute with mike in just a moment. Kari, how are we looking weatherwise . A cold one again . Yeah, its cold and its foggy, so were seeing the combination of two things well have to deal with heading out the door this morning. This is a live look outside in san jose and for the most part weve seen the visibility looking a little bit better near the ground level in the south bay but hi...

In napa and clear lake and weve seen cold temperatures elsewhere as well. Well continue to watch that as well as the fog. How is it looking for the commute . Things are changing right now. We do have that deadly crash at camino diablo. Fog registering in the south bay. The metering lights just turned on before 6 00. Quickly filled in all of these lanes right here and a bigger factor looking at the oakland camera with that fog. The low clouds creeping down across the nimitz, the peninsula, south ...

A stalled vehicle on the ramp on first street to get on to 880 on the northbound lane so that might be something that may be a traffic hazard but aside from that were doing okay on that end. East bay drive times looking good. Northbound 880 from marina to broadway only nine minutes. Westbound 580 from estudillo avenue and from fish ranch road to the bay bridge only seven minutes. Ill have another update. Back to you. Sounds good. Thanks so much. With covid cases surging the bay area is on the ve...

The past two weeks, and the average test Positivity Rate now stands at 8. 4 . This is across the state. We have Live Team Coverage for you. As for more orders that will go into orders soon, bob riddell, a lot of people talking about that now and it will an app that wil on thursday. Good morning to you, marcus. Governor newsom Just Announced that california notify will be available thursday for download on your apple and android smartphones. This will allow users to anonymously alert other people...

Were turned on and it is a little busier, more traffic heading over there. Some slowing on the span shows up on our maps because there may be a disabled vehicle. A semi truck perhaps getting close to the Treasure Island so we may see more backup as they slow the metering lights down. Well closely track that and the drive. The rest of the bay shows no major problems. The slowdown in concord is not what it may appear to be. Ill explain that coming up. The rest of the bay lighter than you would nor...

About the north bay coming up. Two coronavirus vaccines appear to be getting close to a fullscale production and some breaking news this morning a third player just announcing promising results with its vaccine. Bob redell is joining live with a covid test in pleasanton with those developments. Good morning, marcus. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford Just Announced that its vaccine is safe and triggering a similar immune response in all adults. This is according to preliminary data from a ...

Volume of traffic and notice the low clouds in this shot that getting across the bridge the low clouds have hit the bridge there and the fog is an issue for the rich mamond san rafael bridge. All have fog advisory from chp and a possible crash near the toll plaza and well track that off the berkeley curve and dense fog through the trivalley a major issue for drivers. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, mike. So, lets check in with bob redell for more on the breaking news overnight. This...