And im naush nuanoushah ras. Its a serious situation across the bay area and the state tonight. Dramatic rescues under way near fresno as new fires burn out of control. In the bay area, a scorching sunday on tap, yes, hotter than today. Live look at the bay bridge. Parts of the bay area could see record temperatures. Lets begin our Team Coverage with vianey arana. Vianey. Hey there, terry and anoushah. You know, we saw some pretty hot temperatures today, but youre right. Tomorrow is expected to be the hottest day of this heat wave. So far right now, were not getting much cooling. Even right now nearly at midnight, look at the current temperatures. San jose still at 80 degrees. Livermore, 82. So not much relief overnight. Down to the 70s in San Francisco, but let me show you the 24hour temperature change compared to yesterday. So yesterday around this hour, we were about 14 degrees cooler in san jose. But look at oakland, palo alto. Were running 10plus degrees hotterment what are we expecting . Here keeping that unhealthy air quality. Weve got drifting smoke. That spare the air remains. Were talking about seeing temperatures upwards of 110, maybe even 115 degrees in through some of those interior valleys. Not only that, but were also monitoring the possibility of a wind event heading into monday, which will bring elevated fire danger. There is a fire weather watch that will go into effect on monday for the north bay mountains and east bay hills. Ill talk about that and this high pressure, how long this heat wave is going to last coming up in my full forecast. Back to you. This weekend we are tracking the chance of rolling blackouts because of strain on the state power grid. That all has to do with the heat. But next week, pg e is warning people they might lose power as the company tries to prevent its equipment from starting a wildfire. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana is in emeryville tonight for us with the details. Reporter this is time lapse from the National Weather service of the creek fire plume as it explodes near shaver lake in the Sierra National forest. The weather conditions are promoting the condition for big plume development. Reporter San Jose State University professor Craig Clements is closely monitoring the conditions there. The creek fire may be burning several counties away near fresno, but there is real concern about forecasted windy conditions starting monday here in the bay area. I think people should be ready for the psps events, the Public Safety power shutoff events because if this forecast verifies and we do have strong winds, we should expect psps events around the Northern California area. We are monitoring the possibility of a psps within our service area due to these conditions. And we want our customers to have a plan and be prepared as well. Reporter pg e has put customers in 17 counties on 48hour notice to prepare for the possibility of power shutoffs. The reason, to prevent pg e equipment from potentially starting a wildfire. Those outages could happen on tuesday or wednesday. All bay area counties except San Francisco could be impacted as of now. Pg e faced criticism for previous power shutoffs linked to fire danger, but the utility says people wont be in the dark as long this time around. Meanwhile, in alameda county, fire crews are on patrol all weekend. Extra personnel, fire trucks, and even a dozer are on Rapid Response duty because of the heat. And speaking of the heat, it is going to stay with us for the next couple of days. There were no rolling blackouts tonight because of the heat, but the California Independent system operator has issued a flex alert through the holiday weekend, asking people to conserve energy, especially in the afternoons and evenings. Sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Lets take a look at this usage map from cal iso. It shows how much power the state used throughout the day, and you see it racing up, peaking around 5 30, and then dropping off. Sergio mentioned the creek fire burning near fresno. New video tonight shows this group from the bay area. This is terrifying. They narrowly escaped the flames. They had to drive through the Sierra National forest to get out. The area is popular with campers and rock climbers. You can see flames on both sides of the car coming really, really close. Fortunately they were able to get out safely. Its a fluid situation right now in the Central Valley as that fire grew incredibly fast in the past few hours. Tonight firefighters from santa rosa are on their way to help. This video is of the crew getting ready to deploy. Lets show you exactly where this fire is burning. Its near shaver lake and Huntington Lake south of Yosemite National park and east of fresno. The area is packed with people celebrating labor day. This is video. Its timelapse video of the flames tonight. More than 36,000 acres burned today alone. The flames moving so fast that about 150 people were trapped near mammoth pool reservoir. Military helicopters have rescued dozens of people so far, and that mission is still ongoing. Lets take you out live to San Bernardino county. This is live pictures, flames from the el dorado fire are burning dangerously close to homes. These are live images from our nbc station in l. A. More than 3,000 homes are under Evacuation Order right now. The fire burning east of San Bernardino has burned more than 1,500 acres. In san diego county, the valley fire has triggered evacuation warnings and knocked power out to thousands of people. That fire has burned at least 1,500 acres since it started at about 3 00 p. M. This is burning in the hop atulle valley area near alpine in the mountains east of san diego. Closer to home, firefighters are gaining ground on the fires burning here. The lnu complex fire in the north bay is 89 contained. The scu complex now 88 contained. And the czu complex burning along the coast is 64 contained. The woodward fire, by the way, is burning at point reyes, is now 85 contained. Its not just the heat and the fires the bay area is dealing with. Weve been talking about the air quality. Its been so bad. Its been an issue for the last several weeks. Look at the haze in the sky tonight at sunset. It makes some pretty pictures, but you know its not good. A beautiful but dangerous sight. Despite scorching temperatures and a recordbreaking spare the air day streak, people in the east bay are still trying to make the most of this holiday weekend, and businesses are responding. More now from Ginger Conejero saab. Its pretty hot. Reporter stay indoors and come out as the sun goes down. That was this familys strategy to beat the scorching tripledigit heat today in pleasanton. Things are only expected to get worse tomorrow with temperatures that could cross 110 degrees. Try to get some ice cream. The line was too long. I think were going to just head back home. Reporter the hashimi family wasnt alone in deciding to head outdoors much later in the day. We just left, yeah. She forced me. Reporter this couple did the same to get a cool treat. They are the customers at businesses on main street are trying to welcome back in the midst of covid and recent fires that took a toll on businesses in the area. To help accommodate customers, this restaurant is keeping their hours flexible and getting creative. We do like cocktails. We do events from time to time. So live music generally brings people out because theyve been stuck at home. Reporter the restaurant is relieved that despite the heat and worsening air quality, people are still open to dining outdoors. I think people are still conscious of it, but i think its because its so much better than it was a couple weeks ago that people are now willing to finally come out, you know, and be outside and enjoy downtown pleasanton. Reporter from early evening when temperatures dropped below triple digits until now, there has been a steady stream of people getting outside and enjoying main street, something businesses hope will continue this labor day weekend. In pleasanton, Ginger Conejero saab, nbc bay area news. With the dangerous heat, many people turn to bay area beaches today. Some popular beaches were closed because of coronavirus concerns, which made those that were open even more packed. In pacifica, visitors were met with closed parking lots and very limited options to do anything else in town. Many loc tourists away. Yeah, they dont want the covid, right. Im 70, 71. So i dont want it. A short drive away in half moon bay, parking lots and both shoulders of the highway as you just saw right there were pac d packed. Despite the crowds, most people were keeping that sixfoot distance, and many were wearing masks. We will continue to follow the latest on this heat wave as well as the potential power shutoffs from pg e. Our website is a great resource as things change so rapidly. Head on over to nbcbayarea. Com. Now to our coronavirus coverage. Health officials statewide are worried about a spike in cases this holiday weekend. You can see on this graph we saw something similar over the fourth of july. Take a look. July 4th, almost 8,600 new cases added that day. Then jumped to a little more than two weeks later, july 21st, 12,800 cases added that day. One of our records for the most infections added in any single day. Now take a look. August 14th, 12,006 hup cases, but how weve improved since then. Whats going to happen next, we dont know. But right now, less than 15,000 newspaper cases reported. Now, if cases climb, so too will our positivity rate. The number of californians testing positive for covid19. Today it is at 4. 8 . You see it was so much higher. Down to 4. 8 , the lowest its been since june. Governor newsom says its important to keep this number low. A standoff between a Santa Clara Church and the county. At issue here is reopening for church service. North Valley Baptist Church is facing more than 52,000 in fines from the county because it continues to hold indoor church service. Tomorrow another service is planned for 10 30 in the morning. The pastor says he will continue to do so and claims that all other precautions are being followed. But video of some of the Services Show not everyones wearing a mask or staying six feet apart from members of other households. North valley baptist says it is pursuing its more fines. Still ahead, after police shot jacob blake, there were protests across the country. Tonight blake breaks his silence from his hospital bed. His message next. Plus amid the heat wave, one east bay hot spot is causing concern. The one place Health Officials dont want you to go coming up. We saw tripledigit heat today, but tomorrow could be an alltime hot day for the month of september. Were talking temps above 110. How long is this heat wave going to last . Ill have the full forecast coming up in just a few minutes. A call for action across the bay area. What you can do to help the red cross during the pandemic. Plus the heat is on. We are tracking dangerous temperatures as our newsroom watches for potential power problems. Today in the bay monday, 4 30 to 7 00. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. New tonight, jacob blake is speaking out for the First Time Since being shot by police in kenosha, wisconsin. In a oneminute video tweeted out by his attorney, blake addresses the public from his hospital bed. He assures people there is, quote, a lot more life to live out there and encourages people not to take life for granted. Quote, you do not want to have to deal with this, blake says, describing how hes in pain when hes breathing, sleeping, moving or eating. Blake was shot seven times in the back as he leaned into a car with his three Young Children inside. Police say they were trying to arrest blake, adding he refused to cooperate and was armed with a knife. His Attorney Says he was breaking up a fight between two women when police arrived. Supporters of President Trump spending the long weekend showing support for him. Hundreds of people took part in this boat parade in st. Croix river near stillwater, minnesota. You can see quite the fleet showed up. In texas there was a protrump boat parade on lake travis. In San Francisco today, dozens rallied against the Trump Administration and for Racial Justice. The event was billed as an antidonald trump and antimike pence rally. In addition to political signs, a lot of Racial Justice banners and shirts. Speakers touched on issues ranging from human rights and Police Brutality to the environment and covid19. The demonstration was part of a series of organized protests in several cities today. Back to our coverage of the hot weather this weekend. Oaklands lake merritt, a lot of concern this weekend over potential crowds. Earlier today it was fairly calm. Most people appeared to be social distancing. Got to get out with the pandemic and the restrictions, like going outside is really the only thing to do. You cant go inside. So, yeah, i think its a lot of people are spending more time outside as a result. The vendors at the park, trying to control the crowds. But it was really hot out there, so a lot of people probably choosing to stay indoors with the a. C. Running. A lot going on, vianey. Weve got a lot going on, and unfortunately tomorrow has the potential to be one of the hottest days on record for the months of september in previous years. Well see what happens, but lets break down what were forecasting because its sort of a lot. As far as the temperatures right now in San Francisco, 78 degrees. We did hit a high of 93 today. And of course we had those smoky skies, hazy conditions. Weve been talking about that poor air quality. That is expected to remain. High pressure doesnt really do a good job of helping mix this out. If anything, it traps that poor air quality up above, right over the bay area. San jose right now 80 degrees. A high of 98 for today. Dublin, 82 right now with a high of 103. So lets talk about todays record highs. We did manage to hit three new record highs. Napa hit a high of 102, beating the previous record high of 100 set back in 2008. San Francisco Airport and san jose missed it by just one degree. However, tomorrow its going to be a whole new ballpark when it comes to those record highs. Dangerous labor day heat weekend will continue with that high pressure. Again, that excessive heat warning in effect through monday. So how hot are we going to be getting . Lets go through this timing right here. By 9 00 tomorrow, were already going to see 80s in through danville and livermore. Fast forward that timeline through about 11 00 a. M. Get any sort of Outdoor Activity out of the way early. Anything that involves being outside for an excessive amount of time, whether that includes walking your pet. If you usually like to run early on. 97 in livermore. 91 in san jose. 86 in San Francisco. If this hall pans out, again, this is according to the models, so well see. Sometimes the models struggle a little bit with forecasting the exact high. But look at livermore, 115. 110 in danville. 113 in concord. Down through cupertino, 106. Morgan hill, 108. Even in San Francisco, well be well into the 90s potentially for tomorrow. So this really has sort of that on tap to be one of those days where we dont see any relief at all. By 6 00, still in the triple digits, which is why now there is a new concern. Whenever we see dry heat like this, it means low humidity, and were monitoring the possibility of seeing some offshore winds kicking up on monday and tuesday. That has triggered a fire weather watch starting on monday for the north bay mountains and the east bay hills. So how long is this going to last . Well, well start to see a little bit of relief for San Francisco on monday down into the 80s. And then 70s for tuesday and wednesday. As far as inland temperatures go, we still see those triple digits on monday with a high of 107. And a high of 102 heading into tuesday. A couple of 90s by wednesday and thursday, but no real relief, at least not from the 90s, until saturday with a predicted high of 88. So tomorrow its going to be one to watch. Well see what sort of records we break here throughout the bay area, not just here. I mean throughout california. L. A. Saw recordbreaking highs. Sacramento is expecting the same. Its really just recordbreaking throughout the entire state. Ill send it back to you. Its going to be rough. All right, vianey. Thank you. A couple of allstars returning to where they should be today. Anthony flores is one, and Madison Bumgarner is the other. Anthony, welcome back. Yeah, one of us had a better day than the other. Madbum returns to San Francisco. How the giants spoiled his oracle park reunion. Stick around. Sports is next. Lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. 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An extreme athlete extreme is the key word here in austria broke his own world record today, spending more than 2 1 2 hours submerged in ice. Extreme indeed. He climbed into a custom made cabinet filled with ice cubes wearing nothing except for swim trunks. It took more than 440 pounds of ice to fill up that cabinet. There he is. He surpassed his own record by 20 minutes, which makes me think this guy this is what he does for like a living. Were calling him an athlete. Im not sure if thats the right word. He recovered from his ice bath by eating an ice cream cone. You may think this is nuts but tomorrow when its 102 in san mateo or 104 in novato, 115 in livermore, you may be thinking, where can i find this guy . Saturday night live is next. Have a good night. We made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. An army family who is always at the ready. So when they got a li shey didnt panic. They got a bigger car for their soontobebigger family. And even some muchneeded savings. 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