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5 00 right now. Covid cases in a nationwide surge. This map shows much of the midwest covered in red meaning a widespread number of new cases. Dark orange shows a significant surge. Thats most of the east coast along with parts of texas which just hit 1 million cases. California a lighter orange but cases here are also on the rise. The cdc has put out its strongest guidance yet on mask wearing citing growing evidence a mask can help protect a person wearing it. The cdc says adopting universal mask wearing policies could help future help prevent future lockdowns. As San Francisco struggles to get ahead of rising covid cases, leaders reopening rolling back plans. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson is live in San Francisco to explain why the city is hardly alone here when it comes to new concerns and confusion, cierra. Reporter ....
Forecast with kari, another warm one ahead. Were starting out with warm temperatures again this morning. This is what we look at for those fire conditions. Usually those Early Morning hours are critical and seeing some of the fire not spreading as rapidly and were looking at still another morning start where we have temperatures in the upper 60s, not much of a wind, but at times we get these gusts up to about 11 miles per hour. As we talk more about this well get a look at how our trends change for today. Thats coming mike, hows it looking for those routes . Kari, we actually have a couple of Traffic Alerts were watching. On the peninsula, getting more dale around the embarcadero exit. The speeds are okay on the peninsula but the big problem is the active Traffic Alert in S ....
Today. Hes holding a virtual town hall looking for smoke. I dont see any. West 580, look how light the traffic is. The map shows you right around the split around central and with the naacp. Carlson we do have reports of a fire visible from the freeway. We cannot leave this moment at least a little bit of smoke. Thinking we can once again turn away from racism, it stains at nothing major reported but well follow that and track it. Thats the third small fire along the freeway over the our very soul, from systemic course of the morning. Marcus, the freeways are all abuse that still plagues green. American lives. Back to you. Good to know, mike. Back to you. Breaking news in vallejo where multiple people are injured after an apparent joe biden has won two more driveby shooting. They have been working primaries, West Virginia and throughout the night to get the information for you and today georgia. Biden has the delegates needed to wi ....
But well start to see more clouds moving in as a new storm system approaches. Temperatures in the low 50s and well see it only reach into the upper 60s today and looking at where that rain is now still to our north but moving in later today. The forecast is coming up in a few minute. Laura . All right, thank you very much. Going to take you to washington because on capitol hill a dire warning on states just opening up too soon. A top expert with president Trumps Coronavirus Task force tells congress the disease is certainly not under control and it could affect students going back to school in the fall. Tracie potts is live in washington this morning with more steps on that and all the steps that are even being taken in our state of california. Good morning, tracie. Reporter good morning. California making National News because of the states schools deciding not to re ....
We are going to start out clear but will see our rain chances going up as we go today. We are having a dry start, temperatures with low 50s. Rain could start to fall this afternoon. Thank you very much. On capitol hill this morning a dire warning from the states top expert on the coronavirus saying that states could be opening just too soon. It could affect students going back to school in the fall. Tracie potts is live in washington this morning with that. Good morning, tracie. Reporter california and other states trying to reopen and thats participate of what we heard with remote testimony from dr. Anthony fauci with this morning that if we reopen too soon we could see unnecessary deaths. He talked about students going back to school saying a lot more testing for parents to be comfortable sending their kids back to school and talked about the more than 80,000 deaths so far in the United States explaining why that could be an unde ....