Today low to mid 60s. 61 to 66. Some upper 50s at the coast. Kumasi, reggie. Mike, thank you. Happening today, president elect joe biden talking about his plans for health care. Hes already at work tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile President Trump and his team defiant claiming that the election was stolen but providing no evidence to back that up. Abc News Reporter alex presha live in washington. Goodern moi morning, reggie kumasi. No evidence right now to back up those claims of Election Fraud. Meanwhi meanwhile, we know president elect joe biden is set to address health care. Supreme court looking at the Affordable Care act today. But on the coronavirus front, some good news. Drugmaker pfizer announcing that its vaccine has a 90 or more than 90 effectiveness rate in some lateround clinical trials. As the u. S. Passes 10 million covid cases president elect joe biden is welcoming pfizers vaccine breakthrough but warning more work is still to be done. The challenge before us
Breezy as yesterday. The Mountain Meadow fire real quick. West wind at the surface and you go up a couple hundred feet and look how much faster the winds are blowing. 30 to nearly 40 Miles Per Hour. That is a concern and will continue to be in the afternoon hours. For the crews fire, wind never really have been a major concern and they wont be today. They are five to eight and now may get up to ten to 15 this afternoon. With more on the fires, lets get back to kumasi. Happening right now in santa clara county, the crews fire just north gilroy is continuing to burn. Flames have scorched 5,400 acres since it started friday afternoon and dozens of people have been evacuated. Cal fire says the fire has destroyed at least one structure and is 20 contained. Solano county what is being called the Mountain Meadow fire burned dangerously close to several homes in fairfield. Burned several acres since it started yesterday afternoon. Flames destroyed an outbuilding and no one was inside and no on
Air quality this afternoon. Now, look at the heat away from the bay shore and the coast. Were going to hit the 90s and triple digits. Not only today starting at 11 00 but all the way through thursday. We have four days of dangerous heat. Now, that is a heat advisory in the orange. Even hotter in Solano County. Temperatures triple digits today and for the next four days for sure. Thats why youre under an excessive heat warning. Fairfield 100, antioch, 100. Look at the rest of the upper 90s and mid 90s in the south bay and low to mid 90s in the north bay and low 80s around the bay and even an 80 in San Francisco today. Well talk more about this heat coming up next. Mike, thank you. As mike mentioned, today is the first spare the air day of the year. Light winds, high temperatures and vehicle exhaust all combine and that makes the air quality unhealthy. Officials say even with less traffic right now, there is still enough exhaust to allow smog to build up during hot weather. People with r
Get closer to his graduation date, which wont happen. It made me sad. It made me sad realizing were not going to be able to see that and its coming to more fruition that ive seen him play his last baseball game last fall. He had shoulder surgery, so it was this time last year the last time i saw him play baseball. That got to me. Let me see, i have 39 days that its gotten to me. Lets move on and talk about some happy stuff. Sunshine. Pretty Clear Conditions out there. Little fog along the coast and the visibility is five miles right now. Run through the 12hour planner. Fullon sunshine everywhere this afternoon. And upper 60s at the coast and low to mid 80s most neighborhoods and the deeper you get into the north bay and the east bay. Well talk more about the heat coming up next and the cooling trend. Heres reggie. Thank you, mike. Shelter in place provides an opportunity, case in point, cal trans using this time when very few of u on the road to get going on a new project that was supp
Abc 7 news desk. Breaking news at the live desk this morning. A cruise member from the grand princess cruise ship has died. Sky 7 is flying over the cruise ship right now. We want to get you that so you can see the area. The crew member died in a San Francisco hospital after being tra transferred off the ship last month. Hundreds of workers remain on the grand princess docked at its home port in the San Francisco cruise terminal. 14day quarantine ends tomorrow. A coalition of unity groups and experts will hold an Emergency Press conference later today. Theyll be talking about worker safety, as well as testing. Reggie, ill send it over to you. I had forgotten that that ship is still here in the bay area. Bay Area Public Health officials are now recommending that you wear a face cover when youre out in public. We are talking about cloth face coverings, not the n95 specialized mask that people in the hospitals need. Amy hollyfield is live in walnut creek with more on this. Amy . There hav