Streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live from our exclusive Sales Force Tower camera. Looking east, you see the bay bridge and city, all the sparkling lights. Good morning. It is friday, november 20. You can see the weekend too. I can see that very well. Right there. Lets get a check on our weekend forecast with meteorologist mary lee. Good friday morning. Good morning michelle and len. The weekend is in view and it looks like a beautiful weekend. We are looking at mostly sunny skies, mild temperatures today. Enjoy it. A live look at the Mark Hopkins Hotel camera. Its a cold start. We are down to the 30s, 40s, 50s this morning. 44 livermore, 50 San Francisco, san jose 48. Santa rosa is down to 36 degrees, definitely a cold start for you. Many locations are colder compared to yesterday at this time from 2 to 11 degrees colder compared to yesterday with the 24 hour temperature change. It is not as foggy as yesterday but we are dealing with areas of fog, three miles for the visibility in
Reporter it is a big news in its exciting news. Doesnt mean that Everybody Needs to rush out and grab dinner at a restaurant. There will still be a slow opening. San francisco is the only bay area county in the yellow. San francisco has a lower death rate. The department of Public Health said that 25 people in the entire city or in the hospital. American ducting 5000 tats a day. Next week nonessential offices will move to 25 capacity. The following week restaurants moved from 25 to 50 including places of worship, museums and movie theaters. And then by november they aim to reopen bars even if they do not serve food. This is an intentional and slow step by step process. We continue to slow the spread of the virus. The because of that we are moving to a yellow tear for the state. And we can continue the gradual reopening. Reporter the gradual reopening is the key here. It will only continue as we continue to keep our rates down. Its important for folks to continue to be cautious and wear
Current temperatures and later on today as i mentioned warmest were only going to be in the low to mid 80s. No 90s left in this forecast and even cooler in the days to come. Robin. Thank you john lets check in on the traffic now which is picking up around the bay area over to the bay bridge toll plaza more folks heading into San Francisco, not encountering any so its still a great trip a minor weight off and on right down the middle read 11 minutes off to fremont street, heres a trouble spot. This is the east shore freeway this is traffic coming into emeryville we have a crash working 80 west at powell street so as crews try and get that out of your left lane, its backing up into berkeley so 80 west slows from berkeley down to emeryville because of that crash. Were also checking construction on the nimitz this is saw between the hayward in union city southbound id say right around 10 a son and whipple between those 2 exits the 2 right lanes are blocked for late construction. So thats b
Through the bottom of the maze and its spilling over to 5. 80 west when you make it into San Francisco. Other some heavy traffic on the northbound central freeway as well the whole stretch of the northbound central is packed, heres 92. Its had its share of problems this morning we had 2 drivers that struck a deer at the high rise that was followed by a stall and this is whats left lots of heavy traffic leaving hayward youre up to 34 minutes now the highest its been all morning from the nimitz to the bayshore checking traffic tracker no other hot spots but an increasing drive time for highway 4. Its up to 21 minutes now antioch to concord but one oh one looks good very quiet from san jose to menlo park back to you. All right, thank you robin. Well happening today, thousands of nurses will be on strike in Alameda County as they demand better protection against covid19 the strike is at 3 east Bay Hospitals and kron fours reyna harvey is monitoring at live in san leandro with a look at how
Afternoon which ill get to still to come robin all right, thank you john now were checking in on your morning commute which is off to a fantastic start i have not found any hot spots that you need to stress out about in San Francisco. So were checking in on the bay bridge you can get a live look at your approach to the toll plaza if youre about to roll in right now. You are looking good. No problems here from the oakland maze right on through downtown 7 minutes is a good drive time 92 is busy but not bad a little crowded west of the tolls but only 12 minutes to the peninsula. And heres one more the Richmond Sandra fell hot spot free a great time to get out there news at 6 minutes into the north bay more traffic updates coming up a little bit later back to you. Thanks robin. So to our top story this morning, President Donald Trump abruptly ended Coronavirus Relief talks that would have put money in the hands of americans and Small Businesses but House Speaker nancy pelosi is pledging a