Dangerous and record setting heat in areas today. Lightning strikes kaugtd on camera by the california highway patrol. Thunderstorms are expected to be strongest in north bay. A wildfire in st. Helena started around the wildfires. Its been so strange. And power knocked out in mill valley. A bolt hit power lines. You can see pg and e responding, and a salon owner says they were working with clients outside when it happened. We got so scared but five seconds later, the big line happening again. Sop we move everybody inside. We heard like an explosion, and it was a small one and a big one like a bomb. Mother nature is mad because something is going on here. Rough weather. That is what is going on. Pg and e reports power has been restored. Thank you for joining us, those issues are not enough, more than 3 million homes statewide could have their power shut off. If that total is reached, it would be the largest shut off in state history. I know that its going to be highly disruptive to people and i truly, truly wish there for more options. In our case, supply and demand has to be more equal. If you dont take steps which is what our operator are doing. They dont know whose power will be shut out but the outages would last two hours. He did sign an emergency proclamation today allowing them to use back up to avoid pressure on the individual. And a fire in napa county. We learned the fire has burned 2400 acres east of st. Helena. There is no containment on the fire yet. Nbc 7 is live from the scene. Wayne . Reporter good afternoon, dan. Highway 128 is behind me, and 128 right now is closed through 121 as it goes through the fire zone. The henesee fire is what caused the lightning strikes. Lets go to sky 7 earlier. One witness told us, he counted 20 different strikes. He said the big one sound like an explosion, and he saw flames almost immediately, and that is the one that begam, its in steep terrain. Got off to a fast start. By 10 00 p. M. , the local sheriff began evacuating residents. We are told there is no containment, 200 structures are threatened. We saw one of them up close, and a narrow road with claims on a mountain. And cal fire was preparing to make a stand. Clearly this is a fast evolving situation. Lets go to napa to the the Community Church for information only, not for shelter. Meantime, the fire continues to burn, and again, cal fire says no containment as of now. The biggest concern, the good news, the humidity is high. They hope the wind days down. If that doesnt happen, kit be much worse. Live in napa, wayne freeman. Abc 7 news. For that update. And sky 7 took the pictures today of four fires. And over 1700 acres have burned. Mandatory evacuations from homes on the road. And residents in eastern Contra Costa County are out of homes because of the deerfield fires on the northeast side. Burning nearly 1200 acres by noon. No homes have been destroyed. Lightning strikes are a big problem. Lets get the latest from abc 7 news sandia. Yeah, the thunderstorms continue to rumble through the counties and take a look at live doppler 7 tracking the storms. These storms here off the coast, by 5 23, tracking them in ft. Ross, just a cluster of storms, to hopland. There is a red flag warning that just got extended. New fires are possible as the dry lightning conditioning. And conditions near the fire. Its hot. Relative humidity, is helping the firefighters but the wind is not good. And out of north, 7 Miles Per Hour gusting to 11. Could make it difficult for the firefighters along with the heat that is continuing. 10e 5 degrees tomorrow, and its going to be returning later on in the week into the weekend. I will be back with details coming up. Dan and anna . Thank you so much. And you can stay on top of the weather where you live with the free abc 7 news app. We will send notifications of Power Outages or breaking news. Changes announced today to californias covid19 watch list. Santa cruz county was removed from the list on friday. Californias data glitch on july 25th froze the list until friday. Five counties have been added. Most are farther north. Every bay area county remains on the list. So what about your brain during covid . A stanford scientist says part of what is happening may be good for us. The Fatal Shooting of a teacher in napa county. But the family is telling abc 7 news about what happened. And another live look at the wildfire that is burning right now in napa county. A live look at sky 7. For spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub . Rewarded get a free delivery perk when you order. [group] grubhub. I felt gross. It was kind of a shock after i started cosentyx. Four years clear. Real people with psoriasis look and feel better with cosentyx. Dont use if youre allergic to cosentyx. Before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. An increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. Tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, if your inflammatory bowel disease symptoms develop or worsen, or if youve had a vaccine or plan to. Serious allergic reactions may occur. Learn more at cosentyx. Com. With the world racing to develop a vaccine for covid19, there is an ethical debate about a strategy that could potentially speed up the testing. That includes exposing volunteers to the virus. Critics say its its its itss danger. They are lined up in Clinical Trials across the u. S. Thousands of volunteers will recease doses and return to their normal lives and researches will follow them for signs of inmumty. What if if they dont have to wait. And expose them to it deliberately. A technique known as a human challenge trial. These things are not down very often. Reporter this Infectious Disease researcher, the vaccine on an before the Clinical Trials, they are getting back on a vaccine. But with dangers included. Of course the risk of a healthy young person is not zero no matter what. So you could still risk somebody getting very, very sick. With the busy, there is still no approved treatment for it. And on friday, it was confirmed the u. S. Is working on a virus that will be needed. Fauci said the move is only precautionary. And at a recent briefing, dr. D. Erts said there are people disagreeing. There are people subjected to. And one group at oxford has requested permission from the uk to conduct a challenge trial. If the volunteers were to drop and advocates argue that tests with the virus can be conducted quickly and safely. Still w millions of doses required worldwide, the stakes may be historically high. If we dont produce the safe vaccine, we will lose the confidence of the public, immediately. Its very hard to regain that. Abc 7 news. And with no shortage of current patients, dr. Fauci says we know these are challenging times. Rest assured, you are not alone. Weve all had to adapt. And with summer here, your energy bills might go up with rising temperatures. Together, we can save energy and money. Try closing your shades during the day. Setting your ac to 78 or higher. Or cooling off with a fan when you can. United we are always stronger. Stay well, california, and keep it golden. The Napa County Sheriffs Office had made the arrest of a 18yearold safe way employee shot working sunday. Liz pena has been covering the story and today she spoke to his family. Reporter emotionally shattered. The parents and siblings of 18yearold nathan are holding on to the last memories of him. I didnt get to speak to him, see him or hold him or hug him for a while. And now i cant his mother came back to the news of his passing. She described him as her miracle child. She was the youngest, six older sisters, and he was our only boy. And he filled the room. He filled our life. Sunday around noon, garza was working at the safe way when a suspect drove up, shot him and fled the scene. We are getting callers, three shots heard in the parking lot. There is a subject down on the ground. He was simply doing his job, according to coworkers, delivering groceries in this parking late. There is nothing that can explain what happened or justify it. It was awful. Reporter less than 24 hours after the shooting, napa county sheriff confirmed 24yearold christopher plart nez was arrested and charged with murder. The napa police department, i want to give them my love. They dont get a lot of thank right now, but they deserve more. Reporter nathan garzas high school friends, and a player who dreamed of going pro. And his coworkers left candles and balloons, and today, they are holding a vigil, an vigil, d they are essentiallyisearching he was good to people. People loved him. And we miss him. Abc 7 news. Our traffic is just clearing this hour in south bay. Highway 101 was shutdown in san jose this afternoon in both directions. Police were involved with some sort of stand tough. The preponderasuspect got in hi escaped. Place caught up with him 90 minutes ago in san jose where he was arrested. And San Jose Police officer fired shots in an dealer. And neither was hit by gun fire. They were taken in custly. Hi there, it has been an active day, especially across parts on of the north bay. Earlier in the morning, we will take a look at live doppler 7. I will show you as we zoom into where the thunderstorms are firing up. Basically, north of gurnville. I want to take new closer here to street level radar. You will see thunderstorms across clover dale, and as we head to North Redwood highway. They are going to continue to impact this region until the sun goes down. So please keep that in mind. And off the coast here, you notice there is Still Development happening. So this activity here will be heading up to the north. So definitely hail, definitely downpours, dry lightning, a Wider Perspective showing you what is left only former Tropical Storm fausto. And its creating heat in the north bay, and as we take a look at the temperatures, in the sing the digits, 101 in fairfield. And only records were in salinas and believe it or not, the temperatures are down compared to 24 hours ago. But the humidity is what is making it feel so really sticky and uncomfortable. The dew points right now in many areas, in the low 60s. That is in the humid range. 60 to 69 degrees. If you feel a little uncomfortable, dangerous heat wave continues, and 9 00 p. M. Wednesday, all areas covered there in the pinkish state. Is there a high risk of heat illnesses, and San Francisco, the northern monterey bay, under a heat advisory, until 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Take an easy, stay high drited and keep cool. A view from the cam, you can sigh how has zi the skies are, and cooler for all areas thursday, and a warmer pattern this weekend. Lets check out the air uality, smoke from the wildfires in the area will continue through tomorrow. An air quality advisory continues, and that is moderate air quality for the area. Tomorrow morning, just like this torng, 60s to 80s. Really warm. Stilly and fog along the coast. And as we head in the afternoon hours, 104 in gilroy. 103 in morgan hill. 96 degrees in san jose. Still hot. Redwood city to palo alto. And 74 in the sunset district. North bay, sonoma, 97, these temperatures both morning and night, 10 to 20 degrees above average. East bay, head inland. And its going to be excessive and dangerous. 107 in brentwood. 106 be careful. The accuweather sevenday forecast, extreme heat. Heat eases on wednesday, cooler thursday, even though it will be the mid 90s. It heats up again, and monday, we have mid 100s showing up again. And hot and humid, we are watching genevieve. Its a system, a tropical system that could bring us another threat of thunderstorms and fire danger again. Next week, sunday night to monday, possibly tuesday, stay tuned. Dan and anna . Thank you so much. Just ahead, the power of the brain and how part of the pandemic may actually be good for us. And lets take another live look at the fire raging in napa county. And the skies over the scene. We just learned this fire has now grown since we came on the air to about 2500 acres. And it started an henessee road. And no containment. And you see, its a fairly large, and an active scene as authorities try to get a handle on the fire burning, stay with us. Coming up on abc 7 news at 6 00, we are keeping close watch of the state power situation. Homes under threat of losing electricity. Nasty, nasty. Another racist rant caught on camera. Two men on the peninsula. One of them has an Important Message for all of us. And the struggle facing students unable to pay for their College Apartments in the pandemic. The situation is not easy for landlords east. All of that coming up. Visitors are being calmed back to the rock. The National Park service area reopened alcatraz today after a fivemonth shutdown because of coronavirus. Visitors will not be able to tour outside the prison. Instead, it will be an outdoor only experience. Trails, gardens and an audio tour with commentary from prison tors will be available. A San Francisco restaurant that put up dining bubbles on the sidewalk has been told to take them down. They put up the domes outside the location along fifth and mission streets because it says the area is frequented by the homeless. A meal inside costs 200 a person. They ordered them to be removed because they lack ventilation. Finally, a look at how hour brains are dealing with the pandemic. The crisis has all side for some people. The pandemic presents new challenges every day. From dealing with Services Closed to the latest infection rates. It hasnt been easy since day one. Being in the middle of a sign fiction movie, and that was it was very scary. I remember sneaking out at 6 00 a. M. To buy disruption poses a challenge. We have been picked off, and we are all trying to figure out how to operate in the new world. A new book coming out titled live wired. And respond to changes and routines and to process new covid19 developments. We are doing things that are new for the brain, and that we are trying things out that we never did before, and never had the opportunity to be before. The brain creates now path reys and roadways to figure things out but it may be hampered by a lack of social interaction with friends and family. And to share ideas and nooge are impacted. Its an extremely valuable thing for the brain to do, and check its own model and i have seen people disagree with me. The brain is still trying to make sense of every aspect of the pandemic, and how we react to it every day. David louis, abc 7 news. World news tonight with david muir is next. For all of us here at bs 7 news, we thaw. Our next news cast is at 7 00 p. M. See new a bit. woman chattering [narrator] ordering dinner for the family . family gasps rewarded with a side of quiet. baby murmuring grubhub rewards you, scooter horn honking get a free delivery perk when you order. doorbell rings [group] grubhub. My psoriasis. Cosentyx works on all of this. Cosentyx treats the multiple symptoms of Psoriatic Arthritis to help you look and feel better. Dont use if youre allergic to cosentyx. Before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. An increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. Tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, if your inflammatory bowel disease symptoms develop or worsen, or if youve had a vaccine or plan to. Serious allergic reactions may occur. 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