Its still in the 80s right now. Whats ahead for our weekend people are hot. Heat wave . People are frustrated. Ill show you exactly what to we have reports on the heat and the Power Outages it triggered. Expect and some showers going to move close to the bay area. We begin with nbc bay areas ill detail that for you in about seven minutes. Cheryl hurd in foster city. You just got off the phone with pg e. What did they tell you. Reporter they just want to be perfectly clear. This was not a psps, Public Safety power shutoff. Thats what we see during fire season. This was something completely different. This was the state and pg es way to conserve power. Thousands of people here in foster city were without power starting at 7 00, and if could happen again tomorrow. James harris of foster city was just about to settle into his evening routine when the lights went out. Well, with this heat, its pretty brutal without a. C. We opened the windows, the doors, and just kind of enjoyed the outside and the backyard. Reporter some 34,000 People Living in the area lost power along with tens of thousands we made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. More across the bay area and an army family who is always at the ready. Across the state. None of these houses have so when they got a little surprise. Airconditioning. Airconditioning is like the two . They didnt panic. Biggest use of power, i mean, they got a bigger car during a hot summer day. For their soontobebigger family. Reporter the heat wave after shopping around for insurance, forcing state Energy Officials they called usaa to direct pg e to conduct who helped find the right coverage for them and even some muchneeded savings. Rolling blackouts. We were directed by the that was the easy part. California grid operator, the usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it california iso, to turn off easy. Power to anywhere between 200,000 to 250,000 customers this evening because of the challenges, the supply and demand challenges as a result of the extremely hot weather. Reporter temperatures in the east bay and trivalley area rose past 100 degrees. We have really hot weather regionally, but what took place today was extremely hot temperatures all throughout the state of california, and there was also some cloud cover today, which i think had an impact. Reporter california electric officials will be closely monitoring the situation throughout the weekend. Pg e says they know what can help prevent it. The best thing that our customers can do to help in this situation is to really conserve as much energy as possible. Reporter so right now all power should be back on, but Energy Officials say there could be a strain on the system between 5 00 and 9 00 p. M. Tomorrow, so there could be another round of rolling outages. We just have to wait and see. Reporting live in foster city, the u. S. Postal service is im cheryl hurd, nbc bay area warning 46 states including news. California that some vote by thanks, cheryl. Mail ballots may not make it to well, the north bay hardest the polls on time this year. Hit by the Power Outages tonight. Lets join nbc bay areas jean theres also growing criticism tonight about changes being elle. Pushed by president trumps shes in san anselmo. Newly appointed postmaster not just residences, but general. Changes which critics say are businesses inconvenienced too. Reporter thats right, designed to slow down operations janelle. Here restaurant staff workers leading up to the election. Tell me the power went off at nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana 7 00 right during the dinner rush hour here on san anselmo has more. Reporter in palo alto, these avenue downtown. Notices were recently pasted we know at least one restaurant onto several local blue usps closed. The streetlights went out. Nearby neighborhoods went dark. Post boxes. They were to be removed because but at stefanos pizza, they surprise to a few neighbors. Were prepared with a generator. Sales of stuff. Workers say it took about an reporter the United States hour to get things up and post office is now reversing that decision, meaning the boxes will not be ripped up and carted running, but then they were able to continue serving. Away like these ones in oregon. People dining in the dark street but it still doesnt sit well say they were grateful to find with neighbors. Dinner because they couldnt what this smacks of is a very make it at home. Organized effort to what i we were cooking, and we have consider blatant, inyourface electric, you know, appliances. Voter suppression. Reporter over the last few so we ended up coming out to eat weeks, newly confirmed after that one. Postmaster general louis dejoy has been under fire for shutting down hundreds of lettersorting machines across the country and reporter it was dark driving slashing overtime for postal along sir Francis Drake boulevard during the outage. Workers. President donald trump is Traffic Signals were flashing defending dejoy, who is a red and streetlights were out. Longtime political ally. After a few hours, the rolling you direct the postmaster blackout was over. The power came back on at about general to reverse some of the policy changes that have 9 30, so 2 1 2 hours without occurred in order to prevent power here in san anselmo. Delays . No, i wouldnt do that at lots of people in marin county all. No. I want the post office to run were surprised by this rolling properly. Reporter a lot of this is happening in part because of the blackout. Jean elle, nbc bay area news. Coronavirus pandemic. Thanks, jean. California and other states are as we mentioned, the rolling trying to reduce long lines at outages are over for the night, the polls on election day, so theyre sending out ballots by and pg e is switching the power back on for customers who were mail to all registered voters. In the dark. Any voters who are concerned this map shows where the outages about the post office as we get are at this hour. Closer to november, they can green and yellow mean just a few avoid the post office. Dozen customers, very spotty we have approximately 100 ballot around the bay area. These are actually not dropoff boxes. They kind of look like necessarily tied to those rolling outages. Mailboxes, but theyre our we remain under a boxes. Reporter california ballots microclimate weather alert. It is still uncomfortably warm will be mailed out october 5th, and they can be returned immediately either by mail, or over many spots. They can be dropped off at any livermore still in the upper 80s at this late hour. Official ballot dropoff box chief meteorologist jeff ranieri joins us now. Like this, or can be taken to jeff, this is only the beginning any polling station on election of the this dangerous heat. Yeah, it is going to continue day. In san jose, im sergio as we head throughout next week. Quintana, nbc bay area news. Take a look at this map. It was just slightly sweltering it shows the vote by mail method out there. States are using in november. We shattered records. The states in dark blue are temperatures got up as high as mailing every person a ballot 106 in concord, also in for the election regardless if they request one or not. You can see thats california livermore. And one of the hottest down into and a few states around us. Gilroy, 107 today. The states in light blue allow even san jose and downtown up to absentee voting for anyone who 103, which was also a new record. And downtown San Francisco, 95 applies. The states in yellow require an degrees. Now, we havent seen temperatures like this since excuse to request an absentee ballot. This means voters have to apply and have a strong reason for 2017 for august this widespread, so its been a couple of years. Voting by mail. Most people in those states will have to vote in person. Right now take a look at the heat. Were holding on to 84 degrees new at 11 00, oracle park in livermore. Thats close to where we should workers struggling during this be for the daytime high. Pandemic protested outside so we are not cooling off really tonights giants game. They work for the giants Food Service Contractor bon appetit. All that much this hour. Heat warning in effect until without fans in the stands, they next wednesday. Arent working and are upset the these areas in red over fairfield, vallejo, concord, team hasnt negotiated with bon appetit to help support them livermore, san jose, and morgan during this pandemic. Supervisor matt haney says the hill will all see temperatures team makes so much money, it can ranging 96 to 104 on and off as afford to help these workers in need. The giants can step up and do we head into next weeks more, and the reality is that forecast. Look at this. These workers may work for a tomorrow morning, 9 00 a. M. , starting in the mid to upper subcontractor, but when you look 70s. At their shirt, it says and as we roll through the mid giants. The giants take credit for these part of the day, were going back up. Employees. They champion, and they give 101 there in concord. Ill talk more about this heat, they celebrate their employees and their workers. When well get some relief, and the giants told nbc bay area also some showers were watching this weekend that are going to they recognize its a tough time for their ballpark family, and get really close to the bay thats why they raised area. Ill have that in about 15 minutes. Thanks so much, jeff. 1 million when the pandemic started and gave hundreds of despite some showers possibly nearby, this will be concession workers grants. The hottest weekend of the year. Big changes at the beach. Tens of thousands will flock to Santa Cruz Police are now bay area beaches. Banning vendors from doing they were already packed today. Business along the beach. The worry, heat and crowds could the wharf and west cliff because make a dangerous combination. Its too crowded and not enough nbc bay areas ian cull shows us space to social distance. How people are cooling off tonight and why some health Officials Say its okay to go outside if you follow the rules. Reporter there will be crowds at the beaches this violators could be fined up to weekend. Its inevitable. People need to get some airconditioning from the ocean. 500. Keep tahoe blue and safe. The temperature in capitola was locals in lake tahoe are protesting the influx of 30 degrees cooler than san jose, visitors there. And people took notice. Its happening at four different try to get out and beat the places around the lake. Heat. Come over here to capitola and truckee, meyers, Incline Village feel the breeze just like and kings beach. Everybody else. Reporter the Atkins Family made a lastminute decision to rallies are expected again on come here for the weekend. Sunday. Locals arent just complaining going in the water and about the potential spread of enjoying ourselves on the beach. The virus. They say theres also been a we looked at the temp it was litter epidemic. Going to be here, and we said some of the signs protesters are lets go there. Reporter they arent alone. Waving this weekend will say dont trash our home. From monterey bay to marin its very tempting to go up county, thousands of people to lake tahoe or to the beach. Heading to the ocean. It will be evident this weekend thats the only place well in traffic and in parking lots, probably find some relief. Lets get a check of our something coastal communities forecast and this heat wave with will be watching closely during the pandemic. Before you come to half moon jeff ranieri. Yeah, it really has been so bay, dont worry about politics at all. Down right dangerous across many wear a mask, period. Reporter broadly, Health Cities today. Theres been a little bit of officials understand its relief at the coastline where we important to stay cool in the heat, but theyre reminding had some 70s around half moon bay. Social distancing rules still but were in for a lot more heat apply. Stay home if possible, and if ahead. So i wanted to go ahead and show you how hot we got today in case you missed it because today is temperatures within homes become the hottest day over the next elevated, we do we recommend seven days. Weve kind of got over that people to go outside, to find a hump. But, again, more heat ahead. Gilroy got up to 107. Cool place. Reporter for many people that was one of my hottest. Without a. C. , its simply too hot to stay inside and time to concord, 106. Enjoy our natural coastal livermore, 106. Novato, 105. Cooloff. When you hit like 9 00 in the redwood city also 103. Morning, you already feel the hottest august temperatures heat, and youre like, you know what . Im out of here. Widespread since 2017. Reporter in capitola, ian cull, nbc bay area news. So where is all of this heat coming from . You can get up to the minute i want to show you. Its this area of hot high weather alerts sent straight to your phone with our nbc bay area pressure. When this thing moves in, it app. Its free to download, and you produces dry, sinking air, and can set it to get ale for your area. You get the friction moving in we have reach the fight aga the atmosphere. It helps to heat up the air covid19. Globally the number of confirmed molecules even more and creates cases has topped 21 million. Friction, and you get those the u. S. Leads the world in higher temperatures. So we have htoo. Infections with 5. 3 million. Governor newsom says california has cleared a backlog of covid tests. And there is going to be some the issues stem from a glitch in showers close to the bay area the states reporting system this weekend. So lots still happening here on late last month, impacting the weather boards. Nearly 300,000 test results. As we head through tomorrow today the state reported 7,900 morning, were going to start off mild. New cases. Now, more than half of these at 9 00 in the morning, well cases were actually stuck in already be at 75 in the south that backlog. Bay. Those tests were done last month 77 for the trivalley. But werent officially reported also 73 in the peninsula. Right here for the east bay, 76. Until today. Now, even with so many results officially being reported today, San Francisco, we should drop you can see were still way down down to 69 degrees. From the peak earlier this week and for the north bay, 73. Of 12,500 cases. Now, my forecast as we move through tomorrow, its going to more than 1,600 of those new mean really little to a lot of cases reported here in the bay you. Area. Temperatures are going to drop a several counties saw significant couple of degrees, but what i spikes. Santa clara county added 523 new mean by its not going to mean a whole lot to you is because we cases. 329 new cases in alameda county. Will still remain hot. So even though numbers are going again, those numbers are likely down one to three degrees, it higher due to the state clearing does little to help a lot of us that backlog of test he needed here because well be at 102 in morgan hill. 100 in milpitas. You got that down there in the south bay . Lets move it over to the east bay. We did have 106degree heat. Were going down to 103 in livermore. 101 in walnut creek. Still dangerous. Right through the peninsula, redwood city, 95. Palo alto, 96. San francisco, i still think we have a good shot to continue to see some 80s tomorrow. Right there in downtown and also for the mission, marina at 79. And the north bay, plenty of low 100s tomorrow from novato to napa right up to ukiah. Now, temperatures will be real close to some records for santa rosa, livermore, san jose, and San Francisco. So were still in that territory. But the big question i know you all want answered is when are we going to cool down . Heres your answer. As we hit next friday, 69 in San Francisco. That will be a lot more enjoyable. So we have to wait. Inland valleys, we are also going to see a drop from 102 on saturday to eventually 92 next thursday and 90 by friday. What i want you to also notice here is by next sunday this sunday, a 45 chance of some showers moving close. Right now i do not see a major chance of rainfall, but were going to be tracking that, and well have more updates of course this weekend. Ill be back with another look at weather coming up in probably about ten minutes here. Janelle. Hot weekend and a hot week ahead. Thanks so much, jeff. Well see you soon. Up next, will you be first in line . The eye opening survey about covid vaccinations and how man get one. And happening now, californias ban on high capacity gun magazines has been thrown out. The threejudge panel from San Franciscos ninth Circuit Court overturned the ban on grounds it violates the second amendment. The law passed back in 2017. 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Kaiser is donating 1. 5 million to help feed school kids through steph and aee shakurrys found day. Eat, learn, play. Thats going to provide meals at 24 different schools. The currys say their focus is for children to have access to regular meals, education, and a safe place to play. Were parents ourselves. Our kids are 8, 5, and 2. We just know firsthand how critical it is to a childs development, having those three things that we think are just such basic things but are a necessity in building amazing children, but some children dont have access to that. So we want to change that. Well, since march, the currys foundation has handed out about a million meals to kids in need. Okay. Were going to be back in just a moment with an update on this heat wave from jeff ranieri. Hi. Were glad you came in. Whats on your mind . Can you help keep these guys protected online . Easy. Connect to the xfi gateway. What about wireless data options for the family . You can customize and save. What about internet speeds that can keep up with my gaming . Lets hook you up with the Fastest Internet from xfinity. And now with our stores reopening, were putting Healthy Practices in place. Come visit a store today. Stop in or book an appointment online at a time that works for you. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Ask. Shop. Discover at your local xfinity store today. Okay. The weekend is here, and were going to have triple digit heat for another day. Lets check in with jeff one more time. Yeah, its going to be dangerous as weve been talking about. Were in this microclimate weather alert. San francisco, we have averages in the mid80s. Tomorrow we will get some cooler weather by friday. Down to 69 degrees. For the inland valleys, 102 tomorrow. We stay with low 100s through tuesday. Once we hit thursday and friday, we should have some low 90s coming back. Take your eyes back over here to sundays forecast. You can see a 45 chance of some showers moving near. I wanted to show you a better view of what thats going to look like, and you can see through the Central Valley near the coast, we could see a little bit of that wet weather develop close to us. Right now its not a big chance for us, but it is something we are watching this weekend. I think the big story, of course, will be the heat. So, janelle, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Everybody at home, stay healthy and, well, got a hot weekend coming our way. Try to stay in the shade and stay cool. Thanks so much, jeff. Have a great weekend, folks. Stay safe