To make tackling the pandemic is very First Priority when he hits office. Tonight we now know that former fda commissioner David Kessler and former u. S. Surgeon general doctor vivek murthy will lead that team kessler who once served as the head of the u. S. C f medical school from 2003 to 2007. Today the biden team also unveiling its official transition website. Build back better dot com and lays out the executive actions that president elect biden is set to take on day one of his term many of them aimed at reversing many of President Trumps policies. Oakland native and Vice President elect Kamala Harris is now set to become the most powerful woman in washington. But question of what a biden presidency presidency will mean for the bay area. Kron fours dan thorn talked with some congressional leaders from the bay area about what theyre hoping to see with this new administration, yeah well one of the good things is having somebody like Kamala Harris is from the bay area. Having the ear
For changes that make things a little more convenient for the boaters sounds good at least the last part of it the convenience or Catherine Heenan host of inside bay area politics talk to an expert about that a captain at you know a grant of income people still have a lot of questions of course we know. Lots and lots of people are voting early both in person by mail. This was the scene in San Francisco recently but what happens to those ballots being returned before election day. If you return one early does that mean it will be counted early well, generally, yes, we talk to somebody with the Santa Clara County registrar of voters office. Boats come in and that person happens below biz scanned thats the signature area is scanned. That signature is compared many only by human eyes. To what we have on file and if the signatures match and then the humble of goes to the pass as they call it where it is open and the ballots are removed now we we do process the ballots before the close of po
Spots, lets get a look at the numbers, san jose you were in the 30s now youre back at 42 degrees palo alto morgan hill, dublin and on up to the lay whole all in the 30s welfare fielder last spot along with sailing actually still hanging on to the upper 20s right now santa rosa you are there at 29 degrees within the last hour. You now see temperatures rise to 34 degrees. So it is a chilly morning more than chilly frigid for many areas and talk to the rest of your forecast still to come robin all right, lets check in on the morning commute shall we starting off with some residual delays on capital quarter. Theres a problem in oakland where car was stalled out on the tracks they finally got it cleared so train 5. 23 which was on hold is now on the move but running about 20 minutes late so if you take capitol corridor do expect delays on 5 23, but at least its moving right here in the bay bridge toll plaza were not moving too fast at the pay gates and stocked up from the bottom. Of the maz
Start to actually really calm to close out this friday. And thats the way were going to stay through saturday and sunday too much calmer conditions. So that is actually helping a lot with the heightened fire potential that we had been seeing 60s 70s, even a couple of 80s on the map this morning and those areas where winds are president helping to keep those areas like berkeley and saint helene on the warm side in the low 80s fairfield conquered in oakland also quite warm at 77 degrees. Well alameda 82 right now so were already to a warm start and its going to be a hot finish to the day a whole lot like yesterday. Couple of triple digits on the maps close to triple digits for a lot of the bay area once you head inland up into the mid 90s upper 90s on average inland. 90s right along the bay and even some upper 80s towards the coast, ive got more details on what exactly to expect all through this weekend still to come robin all right sounds good. Thank you for the update john now lets upd
With winds. Consistently all morning long having been to that 30 mile per hour range while 20 mile per hour wind gusts down into the east bay and even right along the coast in Half Moon Bay. As i mentioned winds do gradually afternoon, this is by 02 30pm right here. Definitely a noticeable difference but this is also going to be our peak temperature hours of the day. So still some high fire danger even with that lighter breeze winds continue to come into the evening tonight and leading into tomorrow for a much calmer rest of the weekend just around the corner. Now 70s and 80s are some of our current temperatures look at alameda right at 80 degrees to start this morning. Were already off to a pretty warm start for a lot of areas in this sets us up for just a downright hot afternoon, 90s and even if you triple digits, inland with solid 90s right along the bay and 80s for coastal areas. Robin all right, thank you john we have some heavier traffic rolling into San Francisco right now so pr