Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20170901

Heat advisories along the coast. The high temperatures today. Yes, we will be reaching over 100 degrees widespread and its been a long time since we had weather this hot. Well talk more about this. As we head to mike you have some breaking news. An overnight crash. This is 580. High temperatures, were always worried about fire. This crashed car rolled over, caught a fire. A fiveacre fire. They had a couple lanes also closed. They had all lanes closed for about ten minutes while they airlifted the person involved in the crash, two lanes blocked for quite some time. Now all lanes have reopened. The crash on the shoulder and the brush fire. Cal fire took care of that. They are being vigilant all around the area. Speed sensors are not a problem. Well be on watch for anything like that this morning. Back to our micro climate alert as we brace for record breaking temperatures this morning. We know it will stretch long into this weekend and its a Holiday Weekend. Today in the bays pete suratos is live at the Alameda County fair grounds with how scorching temperatures will impact. Its hard to plan ahead for this kind of heat, pete. Reporter thats right. Good morning to you, kris and marcus. There will be several events with this heat wave coming in. A big one here. 152nd annual. Organizers tell me they are expecting about 35,000 people to be here on saturday and sunday and folks coming down theyre prepared for the heat. All of the buildings that house vendors are airconditioned. Well have five misters, where water and mist form, very refreshing. Five stations to help with people. Its easy to get out of the direct sun. Reporter air conditioning and shade is what hes telling us. They will shield folks away from the heat. An organizer tells me plenty of medical assistance as well. Two things come to mind. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke. The symptoms are faintness, nausea and weakness so you want to move the person out of the heat, have them drink cool water and cool them down by spraying or sponging down with cool water. Heat stroke symptoms include fever, rapid pulse, rapid breathing. Maybe place ice packs on their neck, use a fan while misting with cool water. If someone has a heat stroke you may want to get medical help asap. The key point is to stay hydrated and cool down when you can during the heat wave this week. Were live at the Alameda County fair grounds. Pete suratos, today in the bay. You can track the heat wave from the palm of your hand. Click on the tab for temperatures in your neighborhood. Hurricane harvey evacuees are starting to move home, the storm now a tropical depression. A live look out of downtown nashville. The latest headlines from nbc news. The storm pushing as far north as tennessee. Nashville is very stormy looking. There are several reports of water rescues as well. But in texas a flooded Chemical Plant in crosby is still smolderi smoldering. Our sister station found a history of violations, reporting it is a question of when not if that remaining unstable material will degrade, catch fire, and even possibly explode. There are 38 stormrelated deaths though people are still missing. People are starting to get access. Others are just now feeling the brunt of hurricane harvey. Reporter well this is part of the recovery effort. The drugstores around the houston area are beginning to open. Medicine is available in the houston once again. Stores that say they open 24 hours a day are limiting those hours. The stores are not fully operational. Theres more recovery as well as victims assessing the damage caused by harvey. And victims feeling it almost a full week by now. A task force from the bay area was back in rescue mode racing to the town of wharton. We are unable to identify things like barbed wire fences to posts. Reporter from the san jose fire department, the team rescued victims of the san jose floods back in february. Now theyre doing the same here around the houston area. It seems every day theres a different flood. Thats why they say they have no idea when theyll be able to go home back to the bay area. Im damian trujillo, today in the bay. Thank you, damian. Our coverage continues online. Tweeting updates and videos almost 24 7. Get behindthescenes looks by following him online. His handle is newsdamian. And coming up san diegos seaworld wants three people banned from the theme park. The issue is going to court. Well explain what they did. Before they can stand tall. They must first learn to stand out. Get everything they need to shine, for less. This week at staples, shop our ninetyseven cent deals. Staples. Its pro time. Food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. 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And samsung has secured a permit to test a selfdriving car in california just months after rival apple got permission. Samsung received a similar permit in south korea to test the car fitted with sensors and software. It plans to use the car to develop technology that could drive in adverse weather. However, samsung says it has no plans to make actual cars. Back over to you. Thanks. New this morning san diegos seaworld is going to court seeking a restraining order against three peta protesters. Seaworld says the protesters barged into the orca encounter show last month demanding the whales be released. Backlash against seaworld intensified in 2013. You may remember after the release of the documentary showing the dangers of keeping orcas in captivity. The company is starting to phase out some of its whale shows. Kari is telling you to be ready for the heat. Today is the peak. We will be feeling some extremely hot weather today. An excessive heat warning, poor air quality and today is the day you try to stay cool as our temperatures in concord reach up to 108 degrees by 2 00 this afternoon. We will talk about micro climates and what you can expect up next. And were looking at a nice, easy drive. There are quite a few cars for this time of morning. A smooth drive at 4 42. Were looking at the rest of your commute. Ill have a note for the rails coming up. Also still ahead, california lawmakers spending millions to send letters to their constituents. What are those letters about . Well take a closer look. If the subway club were a club, itd be called the subway club club. And everyone would want to get in for the turkey, black forest ham and roast beef. And dance music. Turkey ham turkey ham. high voice roast beef. Subway®. So much sandwich. Without pg es assistance, without their training our collaboration with pg e is centered around public safety. We could not do our mission to keep our Community Safe. Anytime we are responding to a structure fire, one of the first calls you make is for pg e for gas and electric safety. Its my job to make sure that they have the training that they need to make the scene safe for themselves and for the public. Its handson training actually turning valves, turning systems off, looking at different wire systems all that training is crucial to keeping our Community Safe and our firefighters safe. Together, were building a better california. I wanna destroy you you re watching today in the by and the bay area under a heat welcome back. It is now 4 45 and its already hot out there. Youre watching today in the bay, and the bay area is under a heat warning once again. Live pictures from our network of cameras. Look at the map, a lot of red there. Likely you are under that part of the map. It seems like no relief out there today. That little sliver is very small. And thats where you have the heat advisories in effect. It will be hot all around the bay area and it is some of the hottest weather so far this summer. We could be setting new records and well talk about that as you walk out the door it already feels warm. Its in the low 70s in the south bay and the peninsula, the trivalley at 66 degrees. Also in the north bay, mild in San Francisco with the start out at 70 degrees. Our high temperatures,gilroy a high of 108 degrees. 103 in downtown san jose. And 113 degrees in antioch. Danville, 110. Hayward will be up to 101 degrees. In belmont expect a high of 98 degrees and 101 in palo alto and San Francisco will be reaching into the low 90s in the mission district. The outer sunset will be warm at 86 and 103 in sonoma. Santa rosa a high of 105 degrees and that sevenday forecast is up at the bottom of the screen. Youll see we will have several days of this high heat and more poor air quality. Its unhealthy for all groups and is the first time weve had that type of poor air quality in several years. Even if you have breathing problems or if you dont, its not the time to go out for a long walk or a jog as those temperatures really heat up. We have several temperatures that may be setting some new records. Weve been talking about the potential of reaching 115 degrees in parts of the trivalley, san jose expecting a high up to 104. And the old record is 101. Some of these temperature records go back to 1950 and we may see those going by the wayside. So we are dealing with some extreme temperatures today as youre getting ready this morning. It will be a great day to go swimming, go to the beach, and of course you dont want to forget the sunglasses. Also something to help keep you cool or give you shade at the beach if youre going to Half Moon Bay look at these temperatures here. For this afternoon well be up to 88 degrees. I think there will be a lot more people in the water than we normally see. And as we go into the next several days in San Francisco, the only thing that may break the heat could be the chance of some thunderstorms heading into sunday as well as labor day. The chance right now looks very slight. Will still be well above average. Well be up to 112. 110 tomorrow. Just as hot and then that chance of some isolated thunderstorms on sunday and monday. Well talk more about this and mike starts out with some closures for mass transit. One of them for the week, one of them already started through the weekend. Those stations are closed through tuesday. Theyll reopen for tuesdays commute. Track work going on there. The lake merritt station is where the focus is. Weve seen this before. That starts tomorrow, though. Friday is open for service today. Now a look at the roadways. A smooth drive. The Speed Sensors are not seeing any problem. A smooth flow of traffic with waze and well look further north, starts out of highway 4. The obvious choice you might think cutting the corner is faster. It is not. Stick to the freeways 4 to 680. Thats the fastest route. Make sure you check your waze team because youll be using it through the Holiday Weekend if youre going to the beach. You want to check the best ro e route. Nbc bay area wazers. I dont think i can help you get out of the hot weather. Governor jerry browne is heading to russia next week. Hes scheduled to arrive on tuesday. Browns effort to promote International Collaboration on fighting Global Warming as the white house takes a back seat on the issue. News comes as the u. S. Demands russia close its consulate in San Francisco by tomorrow. Theres escalating tension as you likely know and this consulate in San Francisco is one of three closures by the u. S. State department. Yesterday dozens of russians living here lined up. Many of them scrambling to get their passports updated. The closure was a shock to them. I read the news, id better check if my passport is ready. Luckily it was. The other two closures are diplomatic annexes in washington, d. C. , and new york. We did check overnight and the only russian consulates remaining in the u. S. Are now open in seattle and houston. Jimmy gomez sent more than 200,000 pieces of mail to constituents to the tune of 62,000 paid for by taxpayers. One letter invited women to a selfdefense class. Another to a bird watching event. Last year state lawmakers spent more than 3 million sending similar letters. The legislative perk is supposed to be noncampaign related. The Associated Press reports most of the letters were sent right before lawmakers were reelected. New storm water fee. New legislation was approved. It will give local governments permission to charge for storm Water Management systems without going to the voters for approval. The supporters say this will help prevent flooding and save water. Opponents say this violates the right to vote on taxes. Taking on a controversial breitbart. Rightwing figures like my low yannapoulos arguing they just want to provoke people. Napolitano addressed the Political Science group last night saying White Supremacy cannot be tolerated but stopped short saying such people should be denied the right to speak on college campuses. 4 52 and looking live at the bay bridge will be closed briefly tomorrow as we say goodbye to the old eastern span. Crew also start the final round of implosions to remove the foundation piers that once supported the bridge. Divers who can take note drivers, i should say will briefly close the eastern span of the bridge for about 20 minutes for each of the implosions. There are 11 piers. Implosions began 10 30 saturday morning. If the seals get too close they could be delayed to sunday or monday. A chance to take to the field, Oaklands High School Football Team begins their new season with the home opener tonight. The team called the warriors just like the other winning team in oakland. They took oakland by storm last december beating la Jolla County Day School to win a 5a division championship. Tonights home opener is at 7 00. Some of the alumni and raderettes will be there. The heat wave is taking a toll on the bay area forcing a lot of event organizers to rethink what theyre going to do. Well show you the impact this heat wave is having on a long running wine celebration. But, first, happening now breaking news out of napa county. Firefighters are on the scene of a twoacre fire burning at a landfill in calistoga. We just checked with the fire department. Its about tcontained. More than 100,000 people have been displaced by flooding in nigeria. It is not immediately known whether anyone has died. You re watching today in the by live pictures from fremont another hot spot today in the bay area triple digit temperatures expected there. 4 56. A lot of pictures from fremont. The bay area triple digit temperatures expected. Kari halls forecast coming up in minutes. And the heat wave is forcing organizers to cancel this years harvest wine celebration in the trivalley. This was planned for sunday, but as weve been saying, it is going to be extremely hot in livermore. Dangerously hot. Organizers say theyre not willing to take the risk. This would have been the 36th harvest celebration. We have more news to share, an emotional day as we said goodbye to our president and general manager. Hes retiring after a long career here and we definitely wanted to say thank you for that. Hes been an awesome boss. We got to say goodbye and send him off in a nice way. Rich spent four days between sales and management inspiring a lot of folks here at nbc. We wish him the very best. He has a new grand baby so i think we know what hes doing. Hes excited about that, too. Well, coming up now a look at the forecast. A lot of people will be hot out there today, kari. Were all talking about the heat and the longest heat wave weve had in years since july of 2006. The valleys will be anywhere from 98 to 115. The coast and bay will be at 82 to 98 degrees with unhealthy air quality. Where it will be the hottest coming up. Live in fremont at the pg e Emergency Center where theyre gearing up to keep you safe during the hot weather. Imagine whats possible. With the world at your fingertips. Get everything they need to shoot for the stars, for less. This week at staples, shop our fifty cent deals. Staples. Its pro time. The Energy Conscious whopeople among usle . Say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. We re under a microclimate weather alert this morning. As the bay area braces for what may be the most severe heat prepare to sizzle. We are under a micro climate weather alert as the bay area braces for what may be the most severe heat weve seen in more than a decade. A live look outside at san jose and San Francisco. Some paths 110 degrees today. Certainly a hot one out there. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Im marcus washington. Hopefully laura garciacannon has some place cool to go. This is one of those unusual weekends where even the beaches will be heating up. Just a headsup about that. It will be a nice way to cool off. We have some much milder temperatures in san jose its 71 degrees. 64 in oakland and looking at the forecast today