Winds start to accelerate. Well talk about how much longer is hot temperatures sticking around. Well look at that and the forecast coming up in 12 minutes. Trying to escape the heat, thousand of people gathered at ocean beach in San Francisco this Holiday Weekend leaving no room for safe social distancing at all and forcing mayor reed to control those crowds. Live in San Francisco, the beach is looking better behind you today, roz plater . Better, a lot of people arrived. These are different crowds, family and children. Of course the night is young. This is ocean beach this labor day. A balmy 80 degrees off the ocean and dozens of families trying to beat the heat. It is so hot. Thats why we came out to the beach because it is insanely hot at home. Reporter for the most part they seem to follow the new covid19 rules. Stay with your pod, wear a mask and keep a good distance. I plan on being away from everybody from the spotlight more down there. Reporter it is a far cry from two nights ago when more than a thousand people packed a beach with their version of a burning man celebration complete with bonfire. The art Music Festival held at the desert was cancelled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Few were Wearing Masks and mayor london reed is calling it reckless. She ordered to shutdown the parking lot. It made it difficult getting here this morning. It is what it is. Reporter now all those families said they came early just so they can enjoy the beach before it got too crowded. Thats probably a good idea. It is starting to pick up a little more now. Well have to see what the night brings. Nbc bay area news, roz plater. Shopping malls, people are looking to cool off. How a new covid19 related ruled, 20 of capacity. We found people looking for deals and airconditioning. Restaurants serving drinks got huge business today. Diners had to wait in 104 degrees heat to get a table. People in Northern California wa counties had been warned. Pg e says the Public Safety power shut offs could run through midday wednesday. Shut offs are respond to increase fire dangers with the wind forecast could pick up tonight on top of our extreme hot temperatures. Today the local Hardware Store saw steady through customers looking for flashlights and generators and batteries. In previous years pg e had the power on and off and you lose a lot of power and etc. Reporter businesses can be shielded from any outage. Theyre part of a new micro grid set up by utilities to allow the lights to stay there. You are looking at the view from your live cameras across the bay area. Haze from all the smoke and hot temperatures everywhere you look. Our spare the air alert has been extended through wednesday which means try to stay in doors but it is really hard when you need to cool off and you dont have ac. Melissa colorado is live at the beach. Melissa. Reporter i can tell you families flocking to the beach. Number one the water is warm and shallow. Shallow you have for me to stand here and talk to you guys. I am signatuurrounded by a bunc kids. Famililieies have been spending last couple of weeks at home and they were willing to take the chance to come out. Reporter one thing is visible at crown beach in alameda, the crowds. Nobody is Wearing Masks. Reporter sheong the beach, digit temperatures peaked at 1 12 degrees. We have to protect ourselves. Reporter beach goers trying to claim six feet of space and also breathing the poor air. Our 23rd consecutive poor air. Dr. Frank is an urgent care physician. Todays weather condition is a perfect recipe for heatstrokes. Reporter owe bebese and old people could feel a range of symptoms after spending too much time outside. Feeling light headed and having a headache and feeling nauseous or triggering fullblown attack and such as conditions or asthma. I dont want to stay indoors. This is what we can do, this is what we are going to do. Reporter hes worried hes going to see a repeat of after 4th of july. We are not seeing a whole lot of face masks but plenty of families out here and i am seeing a lot of smiles and clearly families enjoying the last bit of summer, 2020. Melissa colorado, nbc bay area news, alameda. As temperatures continue to soar, find out how hot it is going to be in your neighborhood. Go to our website, nbcbayarea. Com, click on weather, you can see the hourly temperature forecast for your neighborhood. While the growing number of wildfires across california has the state setting records that no one wants to see. Wildfires have gobbled up to 2 million acres across the state this is year. A record. The number keeps on growing as fires continue to race. Historically zeseptember and o october are the worst months. The quick fires exploded over the weekend forcing National Guards forcing people out of the bay area. Reporter flames on both sides. This is at the park four friends made. This video was shot in the backseat as they drove through intense heat in their honda crv. It is intense. Reporter the five friends just begun their Labor Day Weekend backpacking trip when they heard thunder decided to hike back two hours to their car. They drove an hour before running into a ranger who led them down a road to safety. Just gratitude to that ranger, she saved our lives. Reporter the National Guard and helicopter pilot saved lives too. The Helicopter Air lifted 200 trapped people out of the flames. Many left with no other options. About 20 others rescued by rangers on foot today. She focuses on not on what ifs. Reporter marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Here is another example of just how devastating fire season has been so far. This is a satellite image from the santa cruz mountain. The fire indianapols current ll. Take a look at the area now. You can see the burned scar. This is the bonnie dunes area. Now to the north bay, the area of the lnu complex fire. You can see the burned area surrounding the entire lake down to the edge of vacaville. Lets look at the scu fire burning in the east bay and south bay. This is the bay right here and then this is san jose and thats the burned area, it is a remote area, you can see how large the fire got. East of fremont and milpitas and over this is Mount Hamilton down to the area of morgan hill. Jessica. Crews continue to make progress on those fires. Cal fire are using helicopters to find the hot spots to put them out. The czu fire is burning more than 86,000 acres. One person has died. It is now 76 contained. 375,000 acres burned at the lnu fire. Five deaths and the scu fire in the north bay has burned more than 396,000 acres. Destroyed 26 trustructures. The good news is this fire is 93 contained. The woodward fire, also 93 contained. It burned 4800 acres. Hes only 17yearsold but he also has the ears of governor newsom. Plus, protesters and police showing traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge today. What was behind this demonstration. And from excessive heat warnings to critical fire danger Getting Started tonight. Well talk about those north winds and when cooling relief can return in our forecast. Well be right back. Ahead for us tonight, state of emergency, wildfires burning outs of control in california. The dramatic air lift rescue. Is Contact Tracing really working in the u. S. . All ahead on nightly news. 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. 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All of california of approximately 1,000 districts. It is not an advisory position, it is a full seat at the table. I am a full Voting Member at the board. Me and my vote represents the 6. 3 million students, millions of Public School students in california. Congratulations. Yes. I am just going to say thats incredible to have a students voice thats so key and important. What are some of the topics that you are going to be talking about this year and that you would like to advocate for in education . Yes, i guess some other topics that are coming up. We have a Board Meeting on thursday. One of the topics well discuss is how to stay safe during the pandemic and another topic coming up is regarding Civic Engagement for high school students. You are in your senior year or are you doing this virtually . I guess for the time being, i am going to be taking them from my living room at home. Such an important year and different for students. I know we were talking about seniors last year how hard it was to miss on prom and graduation. You are in your senior year, how are you making the most of it . I feel the most content when i am serving others. And also in any school district, some of the ways i am trying to make the most is going on walks around my neighborhood, social distancing of course. I guess making the most out of my senior year. Very inspirational. You will make a big change for many students this year, congratulations on your new role and your senior year. Thank you so much for your time. All right, looking outside at san mateo bridge where you can see a little bit of a traffic. Not too much. Lets turn over to our meteorologist rob mayeda. It is still in the 100s at some places at this point in the afternoon. Now as we move forward, we got this concern with the wind, when are we going to start to see some relief and how serious is this concern . Yeah, we are looking at 48hour window of critical fire danger for the bay area and much of california. Whats leading up to this is the twoday event of 100 degrees. Concord and livermore at 110 degrees and 105 at morgan hill. The thats smoke moving into San Francisco. Thats towards walnut creek at 107 degrees. Dublin at 107 degrees. Close to 110. San jose at 99 degrees. The winds starting to pick up. As we head towards tomorrow morning, we may see a patch or two of low clouds on the coast. Look out the morning temperatures starting off pretty warm. Not as warm as the mid70s today. Mid to upper 60s in lands. Look at our highs tomorrow. Still in the mid to upper 90s around san jose. Hottest place is tomorrow. Still near 100 degrees. It is not like we are getting a lot of relief. The winds will pick up but it will limit us from getting to 110. You can see in land still 100 degrees. Temperatures also into the 90s. Keep in mind the upper left hand portion of the screen. Look at the humidity and the wind. Thats the north wind. North bay humidity numbers below 20 with strong winds at times. Thatll be a major concern during the day tomorrow. The worst of the air quality pushed in land a little bit. The sea breeze i canning upicki. You can see the unhealthy air temporary early tomorrow morning and maybe it sent away from the bay area. Now speaking of the north wind, a wind advisory is up around 5 00 a. M. For the north bay through 11 00 tomorrow night. Look at the ridge top with winds of 45 to 60 miles per hour. May not see much in the valley. You can see this snap showing you the areas in purple there with stronger gusts across the north bay hills. Thats the wind machine. High pressure to the north, low pressure bringing snow to the rockies. The highs start to weaken. Thursday on friday, there comes the release. Cooling but in the mean time, we are looking at 24 to 36 hours. Dry and gusty conditions in the hills and hot temperatures in land. You have this record heat leading up and temperatures do drop back into the 80s and 90s by the weekend. Some relief. Things are expecting to get quite challenging especially with the august lightning and lake county and those are the areas of strong winds ochlt. Those are the ones well have to keep an eye on. Coming up, the creek fire dozens of people were evacuated. It is burning closer yosemite, what the park is doing to protect its building. Jean, did you know geico is now offering an extra 15 credit on car and motorcycle policies . Thats great thats 15 on top of what geico could already save you. So what are you waiting for . John stamos to knit you a scarf . All finished, jean. Enjoy thank you. I give. The stitch work is impeccable. Its just a double fleck pattern with a reverse garter stitch. No big deal. Is your hair this soft . Softer. Geico. Save an extra 15 when you switch by october 7th. We live in the mountains so i like to walk. Im really busy in my life; im always doing something. Im not a person thats going to sit too long. In the morning, i wake up and the first thing i do is go to my art studio. A couple came up and handed me a brochure on prevagen. Ive been taking prevagen for about four years. I feel a little bit brighter and my mind just feels sharper. I would recommend it to anyone. It absolutely works. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. A new Evacuation Order tonight. Fires now moving north. Evacuation orders for People Living up sky view road. The fire has burned nearly 350,000 acres and is only 24 contained. Yes, s yosemite is still open. The National Park tweeted, theyll be closing as precautions. A near by fire is affecting the air quality. You can see the web cam at 8,000 feet. The web cam showing the kappa t. Extreme fire conditions calling for extreme response. The areas close to the bay area are serbia, inyo and Sequoyah National forest. 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