Sunday, mothers day. Welcome to mornings on 2, it is sunday, may 10th. Im mike mibach. Good morning, im claudine wong. Lets start with a quick look at the weather. Rosemary, happy mothers day to you. A lot of people probably have brunch plans, outdoor plans. Yes. Happy mothers day to you claudine and to mike. You may laugh but everybody celebrates mothers day. If you have morning brunch, maybe avoid the coast. Some drizzle there. Mother nature serving up a near repeat of yesterday, meaning low clouds, a little fog, even that patchy drizzle for the Morning Hours. As we go into the afternoon these clouds are going to peel away and well be left with mostly sunny skies, at least away from the coast so. Mostly cloudy for today along the coast. Mostly sunny elsewhere. Its very widespread. As i shift into the east bay well look at the areas that are seeing sunshine, 80 three livermore, not going to have it. You have gray skies. Antioch, brentwood, oakley, a lot like yesterday, Discovery Bay a
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