Care of us and theres others that are elderly. While that was happening. A short period of time. Pg and e was also using voice mail and Text Messages to get the word out. Rolling blackouts are going to be with us at least for awhile. Because there was not sufficient supply to meet the demand in the state of california. The outages mean she, her husband and their three kids are in limbo. Nothing gets done. My husband doesnt work. My kids dont go to school and you know, its right now it is a necessity in life to have our power. If youll lose power today youre less likely to lose it again in the near future. Really the primary factors are how many mega watts need to be taken off the grid and who has already experienced a rotating outage and we try to do our best to make sure that folks that already experienced one do not have enough one. They know people are nervous. One message this morning from pg and e saying possible Power Outages. Mean while, san jose mayor this afternoon blamed the outages on poorly maintained infrastructure. You may remember last year he advocated a plan to turn the utility into a customer owned cooperative. The most likely time is 3 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. It suggests you get charnled up before then. Bay area news. Good thinking. The source of the strain to the power grid and the humidity not helping the situation either. In some cases we have been seeing the humidity high. Lets start off with the temperatures because thats the driving force behind the power reserves coming down to less than adequate levels around california as the heat settles in. You can see our temperatures. We had 81 earlier also in San Francisco so the heat is continuing to bake into the bay area and were looking at two more days of very similar temperatures through the middle part of the week. Right now not much wind but the combination of heat and earlier thunderstorms making for wild wind shifts on the showers around the bay area. Its flying off to the right side of the screen. It shifts back in the opposite direction as west winds pick up. So thats some of the challenges the firefighters are dealing with. Lightning started fire and then thunderstorms pushed fire by the gusty winds. Look how the low clouds got set across the ground. Currently were not seeing much. Still isolated showers on the northern end of the county but those showers and the rest of this big area of tropical moisture is starting to pull away from the bay area. So i think that we see less humidity, and less thunderstorms but with the dry air and hot temperatures in place the heat and power issues are likely to linger until this excessive heat warning expires wednesday at 9 00. Well talk more about when cooler temperatures arrive and how much cooling we can expect coming up in a few minutes. Thank you very much, rob. Well, no matter where you live in the bay area you have been dealing with this weird at times even dangerous weather. Nbc bay areas jackie ward joins us from San Francisco. If its not one thing its another. Now you have this weird weather. Expect the unexpected. All the lightning forced the city to shut things down and others to change their plans too. The weekend of wild weather stretched into a third day today as people in the bay area saw, heard and felt everything. Rain in napa and lightning and thunder stretching and excessive heat just about everywhere thats not by the ocean. Either its so hot that youre just wilting or suddenly the lightning strikes and thunder. Planning on a morning run along ocean beach with this group when weather turned and forced them to alter their plans. She lived in San Francisco and says shes not used to planning around the weather, especially this time of the year. Actually we cut the run short on the beach because he saw lightning. And rain and were afraid were the tallest thing on the sand. For these east coasters that lived in california for nearly 50 years this weather reminds them of summers in new york. A little bit of everything. It woke us up and people were outside of our, we had our windows up and we could hear people going wow, wow, everybody was looking outside. The risk of lightning is also effecting covid testing sites. The city has shutdown all walk in covid sites that are outdoors. Well a wildfire exploded this evening and is threatening homes in wine country right now. The hennessey fire started before 7 00 this morning, possibly by lightning. This is the view from nbc bay area sky ranger. Its now up to 2,500 acres. Its generating a lot of smoke and as we mentioned dozens of people are being evacuated. Jodi hernandez is live where the unsettled weather is making this fire fight extremely difficult. Jody. It really is. Ill tell you, the hennessey fire has really taken off today. Were standing in the voluntary evacuation area but more than 200 homes have been told they must leave. Not only is it hot out here but the threat of lightning is making battling this fire really hard. Youre looking at video captured by chp cameras at the Napa County Airport at 6 38 this morning. Lightning that may have sparked a wildfire. You can see the flash and you hear it, you know, within seconds. Bill woke up to the flashes too. A short time later flames erupted on his familys winery. The wind totally shifted. This cell phone video shows the fire burning on the land their families owned for 130 years. This isnt our first fire after 130 years so we think were ready. More than 200 houses have been evacuated as the fire continues to grow. The volatile weather has made fighting it tough. Its the hot dry conditions we have been having. With all the lightning strikes that we have been having its very it could be very hazardous for the fire conditions. Theyre sticking with their place. Its been in the family for several generations. In fact, they say its napa valleys oldest family owned winery. This family has been through a lot. Well get through it. Thats our hope. Just to, you know, not let it burn down. And were back here live and youre looking at the dark smoke, the dark skies where that fire is burning. Of course if you are told you should evacuate, you absolutely should do that. We are told that a resident should have their to go bags ready and be waiting to leave if necessary. Again, so far, 2,500 acres have burned out here more than 200 houses have been told to evacuate. Reporting live in napa county, im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Not just napa county. Firefighters are battling fires being called the deer zone fires. Theyre burning near deer valley road and marsh creek road southwest of brentwood. So far the flames burned more than 100 acres. And lightning is a possible cause. Its burned about 1,700 acres. This is in the area. Ten homes are under mandatory evacuation orders. From fires to lightning strikes. Youre sharing your pictures and videos of the wild weather over the past 24 to 48 hours. We put together a gallery of the images. You can go to nbc bay area. Com. Governor newsome says things are improving. Positivity rate is at 6. 5 . Hospitalizations down. Icu admissions down. The stats come after the state reconciled its backlog of case reporting. The numbers that we put out today are the latest numbers, 6,469 positive cases. Those case numbers are high but they are trending in the right direction. States monitoring list has also been updated. Santa cruz county removed from the list on friday. But five other counts are now on the list. Well, in this era of covid an arena filled with thousands of supporters is not happening. The Democratic Convention is officially underway and the week long event will be done virtually. Former Vice President joe biden and his running mate will accept the partys nomination on thursday and there is one of the actresses introducing some of the speakers tonight, eva longoria. She is hosting the start of the Democratic National convention with some of the speakers. Tonights keynote speakers include michelle obama. We have much more coming up at 6 30. Facing fines for not complying. The coffee shop owner being forced to pay up amid the coronavirus rules. From standoff to i achase in the south bay. While officers were after this man and how they finally caught him. And our alert continues for more record breaking temperatures. Air quality issues as well. Well take a closer look at that and our forecast when we come right back. 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They surrounded him with guns drawn until they could get him safely out of his car and on to the ground. He was arrested and taken into custody. A candlelight memorial held for a young man shot and killed in american canyon. This is napa county sheriffs deputies making an arrest in the case. This man, 24yearold Christopher Young is linked to a white cadillac connected to the shooting. Nathan garza was shot a little after that yesterday. He graduated fairfield high in june. He was headed to the college this fall to follow his dreams of playing baseball. No word on a motive. Santa clara county is cracking down on businesses violating new Covid Public Health orders. Supervisors voted to fine businesses that dont comply but Small Businesses struggling to survive right now say the fines are too high. Nbc bay area is in gilroy at one of the first businesses in the south bay to get ticketed. Marianne. The owner of first street coffee house here in gilroy says she is doing everything she can to follow the Public Health orders but the county says she is not doing enough and could be looking at 750 in fines. As first street coffee house in gilroy serves up lattes Santa Clara County served up this warning friday. This letter says the owner violated several Public Health orders and it gives her 72 hours to fix them. If not, she could have to pay 750 in fines. The county investigated several times after customers and others reported violations. Specifically, the coffee shop is accused of having tables within six feet of each other outside. Not posting the correct health order guidelines in the front window and not requiring customers to wear a mask. We feel very strongly about american disabilities act and hippa and thats essentially what we gave them as our position in terms of forcing people to wear masks. My i personally feel that its not our responsibility to police citizens. She says she even offers free masks to customers. She admits it is a challenge and says with business down 50 she cant afford the fines. Connie thomas says she shouldnt have to. I dont know how these little businesses can make it through this. But other customers support fining repeat offenders in order to help fight covid19. There has to be a way to enforce, we think these new rules. She has fixed all the problems including the issue with tables. Today an Environmental Health specialist returned to the coffee shop. She passed the inspection so it appears she will avoid the fines. In gilroy, nbc bay area news. A number of bay area hair salons joined in in a statewide protest against the covid closures. Walking into the popular salon blue on market street, by law youre not supposed to see owner James Griffith conducting business indoors. He says the state is treating hair salons unfairly considering the strict licensing standards already set by the board. Back on july 23rd he opened without permission for the first time. Police and the state inspector came calling and shut him down. Griffith reopened today telling us he isnt concerned about a citation or even being arrested. Yeah. I invite them, please come down. The sooner we get to court, the better. Its still another day of triple digit temperatures. That humidity boost at times. We saw that this weekend with all the lightning that flew around the bay area. Round two was earlier this month. Now some of the more tropical air is starting to move out but the temperatures are not going to be changing much over the next couple of days. Walnut creek, hazy skies from smoke. You can have enough smoke in the skies to keep your temperature slightly cooler but that was still 99 degrees from a high. Down from the 105 yesterday. 92 there in walnut creek and in dublin, 96 you can see more of the smoke there too hanging out around the trivalley and in san jose, a lot of smoke there looking toward the south. High was 96 in san jose and on the topic of the smoke, the worst of the smoke pollution settled in south of livermore and off to the south and east. In terms of new lightning strikes, off to the west and well watch that. That is drifting northward. Seeing a few showers too but look at the lightning bolts. You can see how a lot of that activity is starting to the move to the north and the west as that moisture plume moves out. The heat is still locked in on us. Look at the temperatures. By lunchtime tomorrow. Mid to upper 90s inland again. As hot as upper 90s to 106 degrees and more hundreds in the north bay without thunderstorms or clouds in the way. So high temperatures will carry us through wednesday, thursday and friday. Well begin to see a cool down. It may not feel like much. Hopefully that will be enough room there to keep us out of the potential of rotating outages as the temperatures come down. Well send it back to you. Those temperatures look really high. Thank you very much, rob. Up next, they have the technology. And back to class, and to try to help their own kids. Its time for one of our favorites. They team up. And people are still encouraged to adopt what can be done virtually as well as donate to their favorite shelters for the entire month of august. Clearly new technology can be intimidating for everyone. Especially if you never used a computer before and your kids are counting on you to help them with their distance learning. Thats why they started a series of workshops. Theyre learning the basics. Its important that they become familiar. Super helpful. The classes are being taught in english, spanish and vietnamese. Schools throughout the bay area find themselves having to adapt to Power Outages during the record heat. Students that lost connectivity at home were allowed to spend the day in class at the library. One student told us so many kids showed up the school had to open a separate room for the overflow. Once power was fully restored los gatos high will return to all student learning. Theyll be part of a covid19 testing. Staff, students and their families and its a Ground Breaking collaboration and the spread of covid19 in the area though well exceeds guidelines. Schools wont go back to school there. Democrats kick off the dnc tonight. Our political analyst joins us next with what to look out for. Plus making inspectors work as consultants. We investigate californias new plan to address mounting coronavirus concerns at Nursing Homes. This years Democratic National convention is certainly not conventional. The message the party is trying to get out in a very new way. Opening night of the convention is underway and for the first time in our countrys history, it is virtual. Right now at whats happening online at the dnc, singer leon bridges performing right now and just minutes ago, the family of george floyd spoke. Now tonight, two of the keynote speakers, senator Bernie Sanders who lost to joe biden in the primary and former first Lady Michelle obama. Mrs. Obama will speak in roughly an hour but we have a sneak peek of her speech where she talks about bidens leadership qualities. Peophe will tell the truth a trust science. He will make smart plans and manage a good team, and he will govern as someone thats lived a life that the rest of us can recognize. Joe biden will accept his partys nomination on thursday. Senator Kamala Harris as his vp running mate on wednesday. Is it the right thing to do to go virtual . Is it going to make an impact to go virtual . Nbc bay area political analyst joins us. Virtually as well. Given the circumstances of the pandemic and really the nature of these conventions, its like a big pep rally that goes on for several days. Why dont they just cancel it this year . What is the significance of having it even now . Well, first thing is, both sides have the dilemma right . So the stage is equal so to speak, right . This is an opportunity for each side to make their case and the democrats have some bullets here. Number one of course its mismanagement of the pandemic. Number two, its the ravaged economy and number three of course sits plea for social justice and you know, its not just a matter of inumerating these things, its interviewing a former thats about to lose his crop and maybe his house. Its watching people petition for justice. All of these things in video form if you will as people talk over it can be very powerful and i think that we have seen the democrats do this in the opening. So lets talk about the fact that theres several republicans that are speaking at the dnc over the next couple of days. Molinar, casic, what message is that sending and what kind of an impact can that have . Theres a cookie cutting formula where you begin by talking about the problems and you end by talking about the hope and in this first day or two, youre seeing everybody else talk about their problems and what better than to bring the folks from the opposite party on. And just how much this president let them down. And they look forward to it. By the way, dont be surprised if you see democrats with the republicans a week from now. We have independents all joinings through this goal. Thats what were going to see a lot of through the first day or two. Putting out that hey were all one happy family here. And then later we have it. He keeps touting. Theres no question about it. And it does the democrats no good to talk about how the election isnt going to be rigged but they can complain about the Postal Service and how the Postal Service is keeping people disfranchised and how thats undemocratic and what the democrats are going to do is make their case. They then want to talk about hope and how they can do better. The democrats are going to get a bump after this. Theres no question about it. You can kwaurn tee guarantee it. At the end of the day its simple math. How many points did one side gain and how many points did the other side gain and who gained more . And the side that gains more will have abadvantage as we go into the last 8 or 9 weeks. It wont be guaranteed for anything but at least an advantage so we wont know that until the end of next week and then beyond. Coverage begins right after this at 7 00. Turmoil and with more than 3,500 nursing home deaths the state Health Department is pushing to overhaul regulation by making inspectors Safety Consultant for the same homes theyre charged with overseeing. The idea is to improve it but critics fear it could compromise it. Thats the states hot nursing home regulator. Each would adopt and regularly visit two or three homes amid the covid crisis. To improve care while retaining their federally mandated oversight role. Inspectors are visiting the states 1,200 Nursing Homes more than ever before. Were already noticing a big difference in the places that were going as well as were noticing a difference in the ability to minimize the amount of death in cases. While inspector cases were up. He says under the state plan theyll be put in the awkward position of citing the same position that he or their fellow regulators would be advising. Which would give incentives to not find problems because any time there are problems its going to make them look bad. That approach had been used nationally during the 1980s but the law with you changed after the institute of medicine. A Government Policy Advisory Group concluded that the approach undermines the ability for providers and repeating violations. Going back to the consultation model would be especially bad timing now he says. Its happening during a pandemic. He says citations are all about laying blame. Not getting to the root of the problem. The incredibly dedicated front line staff are often left in tears or with broken moral after a surveyor comes into a building. And that part of the process needs to be dealt with. The Union Representing the surveyors would not comment for the story. They arent interested in being consultants. But lisa coleman, says state health care inspectors she has talked to feel caught in the middle. The surveyors do not like this. They feel like this is a conflict of interest for them. The surveyors dont like the idea of being consultants if they wanted to be a consultant, they would be doing a different job. The state hopes to workout the final details of the plan within weeks. Nbc bay area news. Up next, cruise searched for them for 8 days and finally found them. The update on the couple lost in the woods. The city is reopening its drivethru window. You can drive up to the window at city hall to pay certain utility bills and get garbage tags. You can still pay your bills online or by mail or over the phone. The city wanted to offer another option to people in santa clara. I needed registration forms for my kids school so that was very convenient for me. It worked out good. Its open on weekdays from 9 00 in the morning until 4 00 in the ach. The east bay said fairwell to a long time resident today. Law enforcement gave a salute and a final escort to world war ii veteran who is 105 years old. He was generous in sharing memories of his service aboard the uss essex that saw the south pacific. Many of the same officers that said goodbye today participated in a birthday parade for him outside of his home. Well, a very lucky couple is fully recovered. These are photos of carol and ian as they are back to feeling 100 healthy. You may remember in february they went missing for 8 days while hiking in the inverness area. A couple in their 70s went for a hike on valentines day and they got lost in the dark. Roughly 400 people searched for them for more than a week before they were found. So so glad to see that they are recovered and theyre sitting outside so theyre not afraid of the outside, no matter what happened to them. Staying close to home, enjoying the outdoors. Its really hard to because its so hot, the humidity making it feel really muggy outside too. When is this going to end. Yeah, there were times over the weekend, especially it felt maybe more like miami than the bay area. Well the humidity is moving out but the heat is not going anywhere. Well talk more about the excessive heat warning and how long the temperatures will last in our forecast when we come back. Con artists are ripping their ideas from the headlines and whipping up new schemes to take your money. Well have three scams to expose next. Its time for the biggest sale of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed. You can adjust your comfort on both sides. Your sleep number setting. Can it help me fall asleep faster . Yes, by gently warming your feet. But can it help keep me asleep . Absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. Will it help me keep up with mom . You got this. So you can really promise better sleep . Not promise. Prove. And now, all beds are on sale. Save 50 on the sleep number 360 limited Edition Smart bed. Plus 0 interest for 36 months on all smart beds. Ends monday. To learn more, go to sleepnumber. Com. They always seem to be one step ahead. The latest warning comes from the federal trade commission. That told us about this. There is no new payment thats been announced. Now if that happens youll hear about it. But crooks are already calling claiming they need personal information from you to get that check. Desperate people on online adds or phone calls and what they want is for you to pay up front and thats bogus and a legitimate employer never asks you to pay for an interview or application. Lets talk about sketchy mortgage assistance offers. Well see a ton more of this i think. Its like 20082009 all over again. Con artists are popping up with plans to help troubled homeowners like you for a price. Its illegal for a company to charge you up front for mortgage modification help or other relief and you might not even need it anyway actually. If you call your lender and you ask about what is called fo forebearance its possible to suspend your payments up to six months but you have to get on the phone with them and you have to do it in writing. One last note, older folks are scammers preferred targets, these here might sound familiar to you but check with your parents and grandparents and other seniors and make sure that they are aware. Mom and dad are watching upright now. Ill follow up with them right after this broadcast. Thank you so much chris. There might be a laptop shortage as the new school year gets underway, especially for the less expensive chromebooks. Acer warns its not even close to supply enough chrome books to support virtual classrooms. Sales have been 40 to 30 higher since march. Theres also supply chain issues possibly holding down the supply. Well, sfo is putting the International Back in San FranciscoInternational Airport on september 1st the airport will reopen concourse a in the international terminal. Its been closed since april 1st because of the pandemic. Not enough flights for the past several months to justify the additional boarding area. But more International Flights are coming back online so it will open. A man in australia saved his wife from a shark attack by punching the shark until it let her go. The shark was biting on her leg. Authorities are using drones, boats and jet skis to find that shark. Thats the husband i want. One that jumps on a shark to save me. Thats impressive. Hopefully you wont encounter any sharks. Stay out of the water and stay on the beach. Were seeing the cooling. Interesting clouds to the northwest. Walnut creek, and the hazy skies from the smoke outside. Its at its worst at times and at this hour, areas around gilroy, you know what im talking about. Its thick in the air right now. You have unhealthy for sensitive groups. Not much relief inland. For the most part the thunderstorms moved out with one glaring exception to the rule. Its this one cell here. Its off to your west. Well put a Storm Tracker on it. Between now and 8 00 if it holds together it will make its way up toward South Santa Rosa over the next 30 to 40 minutes. That too should start to lift away from the area as the big surge of humidity, tropical moisture moving into the bay area. That starts to move out. For tonight, coastal low clouds. A few high clouds passing by and thunderstorms and dry lightning are finally out of the forecast. So for the morning its going to be another warm start. 60s and 70s you can see there. Sap jose downtown, pretty close to 100 degrees. 105. Toward pittsburgh and you got numbers there between 100 to 105. Theres enough smoke in the skies. You may not see temperatures get quite that hot. Numbers in the 90s around palo alto. Upper 70s to 80s. And north bay temperatures will be hotter for you tomorrow with less cloud cover and less thunderstorms than youll see there. The forecast in the bottom of the screen shows you the brief cooling. Slightly stronger sea breeze thursday and friday and if you have weekend plans it does look like well see High Pressure build back toward california. So at this point, it looks like an only modest two day cool down. So we look forward to the two cooler days thursday and friday. Slightly cooler. Well, blistering heat and back in pads, Training Camp officially underway for the 49ers. Were going to take you to santa clara for their first real practice. 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. 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And heres a feel good story involving alex smithment his wife posted this video over the weekend of his family spraying him with champagne because he was cleared to play football again. He suffered a brutal leg injury in 2018. It was so bad at one point doctors thought they might have to amputate it. Over the past two years smith has had 17 surgeries on the leg. He feels lucky to be alive. Good luck toel alex smith. Wed love to see him play football again. That is impressive. Well, a welcome scene on San Francisco waterfront as tourists lined up to visit the rock. The rock with a mask. The famous island prison five months ago. Today visitors lined up at peie 33. Everything but the crowds and on a busy day, a busy holiday weekend. Last summer there might be 4 to 5,000 people during the course of the day. And now attendance is capped at 750. Even if they have to all stay six feet away from each other. Even if you just see the view its spectacular. Well see you at 11 00. Bye. Joe biden, Kamala Harris, and a convention unlike any weve ever seen. This is a battle for the soul of the United States of america. In the midst of a pandemic, the democrats take on donald trump and make their case for winning back the white house. The president is supposed to care, to lead, to take responsibility. Well hear this week from barack obama, bill and hillary clinton, jill biden, and from the candidates themselves. We have a chance to choose a better future