Area and satellite radar showing nhl, the indianapolis 500, and a much calmer picture compared to what we saw firing up this prime times number one show, morning with thousands of monday night football, only on lightning strikes in the area. Nbc. The radar you can see kwi thor captains responsibilities, there. For claude giroux, to help his the futurecast is showing possibility of thunderstorms team get back on point after a setback in game two and for shea popping up into the over night weber to continue to lead his hours and monday night. Team and show them the intensity well pay close attention to the needed to win in the playoff game number 3 is next. Threat for lightning. I want to make sure everybody stays vigilant. Were not in the clear yet. Did i mention, were in the middle of a heat wave. 100 degrees in the inland area. Fire crews battling the mars. Near the reservoir. This is the currently the largest fire burning in the bay area. You can soo see the smoke from the traffic camera. Heavy smoke. 600 acres have burned so far. Sky rangers of over had had two hours ago. You can see the flames burning along the rugged terrain. There are no evacuations in effect. We have a crew on the scene. Update tonight after the stanley kaup play offs. More fires. These are the deer zone fires. A collection of fires burning south of brent wood. Smoke drifting across parts of the east bay. The haze right here in the sky. In this live look from the cam are. The air quality is a concern right now. The deer zone fires have burned more than 300 acres. We have more. Along marsh creek road firefighters made their way into the hills with smoke in the sky. People stopped along to get a closer look after a long night. The thunder just went boom in my house. It was awesome. It was scary but was amazing. She was driving with the lightning started. Her daughterinlaw took video of the rainbow when light i think struck again. Today smoke could be seen from a distance. They watched it drift. The high temperatures and wondered about a friend in the area. Since we started first thing this morning we probably had six different fires all as a result of lightning. The east Fire Protection dikt working near the preserve in a joint effort. They have a couple different fires. We have a few that are starting to come under containment. We have one very large one out in the middle of the park. In rper Morgan Territory roae urged to be prepared. Just about everyone in the bay area saw the spectacular and dangerous show. Scenes like this in hay ward and this taken from emery ville. Something people wont soon forget. The strikes were all over the place. It is not just the bay area. Heres map of the big fires burning statewide. A lot of them. These are just the ones cal fire crews are battling. The unusual conditions playing a big role in the fires. Absolutely. One of the biggest threats when it comes to the moving thunderstorms and the dry lightning is because those lightning strikes are the ones that start and spread fire. Which is why theres an air quality advisory in place because of the areas of smoke and expected to see between good and moderate air quality. Again as i have been mentioning were not in the clear yet. Were monitoring this over night. For possible lightning strikes. The main concentration maybe portions of the north bay. And that red flag warning was extended through monday morning because of the threat for more lightling strikes. That gives you an idea and the inland temperatures are seeing triple digit heat. The high humidity talking about it feeling very a lot of people have been referencing miami, florida like weather. Thats what we have been seeing. Certainly seeing a another night of this whacky weather. Sp speaking of, today rob was supposed to have the day off. But just to give you an idea of how unusual this is. We cant think of anybody better to describe how unusual it is. That meteorologist who has 17 years of experience in forecasting in the bay area. Is this something you have ever seen before . Lets bring him . Thanks for coming up with the math. 17 years. We were woken up this morning between 3 00 a. M. And 7 00 a. M. Whether you want to or not. Due to the high number of lightning strikes. And the time i have been here 17 years i have not recalled a morning quite like this. You can see how prolific it was. It started with a marine weather warning around 3 00 a. M. Strong winds, downed power lines. Then those storms spilled ore with a severe thunderstorm warning. Which we havent seen region wide around the area in many years. That was on goeng 4 00 a. M. To a. M. The strong intense thunderstorms raced up through the range. Lightning sparked fires got going. And all in all as we widen out, this is powered up by a tropical storm. Surge. We had the extra warm mois moist air. You had an unstabl environment. 80 degrees inland. A perfect recipe for miami like weather with 2,000 lightning strikes. The most we have seen with one particular set up since june 2018. That had 5,000 plus lightning strikes. These 2,000 or so across a densely populated area. That lost sleep earlier this morning. And doesnt look like were quite done. Another round coming in. All right. Thank you. Thank you so much for joining us. That shows your dedication. Supposed to be your ta off. Thank you for that. All right. Incredible video now from al immediate county firefighters. Crazy flames and smoke there. Earlier this morning crews worked hard to get the upper hand on this fire. Called the fire in liver manufacture. No word on whether lightning sparked this one. Power outages a concern this evening. Tense of thousands without customer right now. Damaging equipment and comes as the state grid is already stretched to the max. California power officials and pg e asking you to conserve energy. They issued a statewide flex alert. Through 10 00 wednesday. Rolling blackouts over the past two nights. There are none planned tonight. But certainly possible chblt. Energy officials are hoping to avoid that by asking everyone to use fans instead of airconditioning. Unplug appliances youre not using and avoid them during peak hours. Knocking out power to thousands of people. This is map of the outage area. This is central santa clara. Silicon valley power discovered more damage than expected. The estimate on restoration is 20 minutes from now. At 5 00. The outage effecting businesses. Get up to the minute weather alerts to your phone. With our app. Its free to down load. And viewer videos and photographs of the lightning across the digital platforms sfl nor breaking news at this hour. A gunman on the run in napa county. After a deadly shooting in a sar way parking lot. The shooting happened shortly after noon today at the safe way. One person is dead. We dont know who the victim is. Were on the seen gathering information. The fight against the coronavirus at this h in the bay area. About 1,000 more than yesterday. The biggest increase from al immediate county. Adding 500 cases today. Not just the bay area of course. Cases across the state county to climb. 620,000 cases with the Positivity Rate of 6 . Higher than any other state. More than 11,000 people in california have died from covid19. Since the start of the pandemic. Bending the rules to prove a point. Tomorrow salon workers plan to move operations inside in violation of health orders. Organizers say salons should be in the same category as dentists and med spas which are open. Instead they are grouped with bars and restaurants. They invited lawmakers and the media to see a demonstration of the safe practices. A hope that we get regrouped. I hope that the governor or any Health Officials can see that we can do this safely. We are equipped with the guidelines they gave us. To do this safely. And open the salons. Stimulate the economy. Get us off the unemployment list. Bay area salons are currently allowed to operate only out doors which many stalists say doesnt allow to offer all services. Happening tomorrow a judge will decide whether to grant a temporary restraining order against Governor Newsom order to close schools if the schools are in a county on the watch list. It requires Distance Learning for the schools. The center for american liberty headed by a leader in the Republican Party filed the lawsuit on behalf of parents. The parents say Distance Learning has hurt children emotionally. And academically. Science drives the states decision. Stay with us for complete on the pandemic and how it affects you. Its all in one place. Head to our web site. Still ahead the rock is getting ready for visitors. Not everything will be unlocked. What tourists wont get to see. South bay family without power for two days. Why they say its so critical the lights get turned back on. We are under a alert. Lightning continues. Ill take you through the timing and what to expect. Check out this picture snapped by a viewer in hay ward. Wow is right. We put together a gallery of the pictures and video of the lightning storm. Head to our web site. [narrator] did you just reward yourself 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. The tribute in lights will shine on. You might remember theork city was called off over concerns about workers safety. Now its going to happen. The decision after new york Governor Cuomo said the state would provide the necessary resources to keep workers safe. Former mayor said he would help offset additional costs. A pop already attraction has the green light to reopen tomorrow. Talking about al ka traz. A live picture of the rock. Ferry operations will resume tomorrow as well as access to several parts of the island including trails. The main jailhouse will be off limits due to crowding concern. The number of daily visitors will be limited. Still to come. May have been in the dark for days. Why a south bay family is begging to have their power restored as soon as possible. And the solution they say the Power Company gave them in the meantime. First, check this out. Another incredible picture from the thunderstorm. Firefighters tweeted this shot of lightning hitting the tower at the training center. Make sure you head to our web site for more pictures sp video. Dear california, we know these are challenging times. And with summer here, energy bills are rising. Together, we can save energy and money. By taking steps to stay cool while using less. Keep safe and keep it golden. Dearand with summer here,these energy bills are rising. Together, we can save energy and money. By taking steps to stay cool while using less. Keep safe and keep it golden. Forcing democrats to return to washington. Thats where theyll question the head of the post office about voting by mail. The Democratic Convention kicks off tomorrow. Reporter top democ sounding the alarm cutting vacation short to question allegations mail short sorting machines with being removed ahead of the election. Millions are due to vote by mail because of the pandemic. To slow down mail is disgraceful. To slow it down in covid19 is despicable. Dejoy is a major donor to trump. 46 states and the district of columbia have been told m votes. Theres no sorting machines going offline. The controversy igniting democrats on the eve of the Virtual National convention. Joe bidens Vice President facing questions over her eligibility. Theyll engage in lies and deception. Attempt to distract from the real issues. The Convention Starting as a new wall street journal poll shows biden ahead 50 to 41 . We have got to do everything we can to come together to defeat donald trump. The most dangerous president in the modern history of the country. Sanders will rally democrats. Followed by former first lady obama. Back now to the coverage of the state heat wave. The lake fire continues to burn north of in l. A. County. Burning for two days and burned 17,000 acres and 4,500 buildings are now threatened. Evacuations are in effect with more expected to come. I have everything packed in my car. Ready to go. In case it comes this way again. With the warm dry weather expected to last for several more days, firefighters are not expecting any relief soon. Several neighborhoods have been without power for 48 hours now. In many cases a dozen or so houses are effected because they are connected to a separate line. Neighbors called pg e to ask about getting power restored and telling us theyre told the area is low priority and theres no estimate. On restoration. That has rebecca very concerned. Her husband is battling stage 4 cancer. And relies on an oxygen machine to breathe. I have been trying to call them to tell them my husband needs oxygen at night. I was told to take him to the shelter or an emergency room. We have reached out to pg e for the response. They have yet to get back to us. Unbelievable weather that were experiencing. Heat and the thunderstorms. Maybe break it all down. 2020 needs to chill. Needs to give us a break. Im all for Mother Nature showing off. It is put on a number this morning. Bay area residents were woken up by thunderstorms and lightning. Which is why i say down load the app because we have beenfocasti. It shows you the loop of whats to the thousands of strikes that we saw starting this morning. You can see activity to the east in the area. That storm system has shifted with the focus north ward. So where are we getting all this moisture . Does it feel so muggy and humid. Thats the number one comment from viewers. If you look off in the pacific to the south, thats the moisture in the tropical moisture were tapping into. Thats bringing this muggy, humidity into the area. Whats fuelling the thunderstorms. Lets look at hour by hour. What can we expect. The threat will remain with the possibility for dry lightning. Its shifting more north ward. The biggest possibility is focussed for areas in the north bay right now. Could mean the potential for local gusty wind. The hour by hour over night. Late tonight into early tomorrow monday morning. Whic through monday morning. Because of the threat. Were not in the clear. You want to keep a go bag ready fo go in case. We have a number of vegetation fires burning. Were in a heat wave and expected to remain for a couple days. Current temperatures in the triple digits. Believe it or not the 24 hour temperature change shows some cooling. A 15 degrees difference. And the dangerous heat warning will remain in place. Were expecting to see the high humidity which means you have to lookout for each other. Watch out for heat related illness and lookout for the pets. When will we see relief from the heat. Also the second number one question that i got. Todays whacky weather. Morning thunderstorms expected tomorrow. Through the morning show. Tune in nice and early tomorrow. Hopefully youll get more sleep. But again well see how it develops into tonight. Tuesday and wednesday look what happens in San Francisco. Still warm. It isnt until thursday we get some cooling and slight relief from the heat. Ill jump on instra gram live after the show to continue answering questions. Make sure to follow meteorologist he has great data and information about how this relates to previous events and all of the weather geeky nerd di weather stuff that you love and enjoy. 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