Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, taking a live look from our exclusive Sales Force Tower at the glittering city of San Francisco. Theres monday morning, august 3. Thanks for joining us. Im an a vic in for michelle griego. I hope you had a great weekend. Lets get to your forecast first. Good morning, darren. Good morning. I am in for mary lee. I will be filling in all week. Were looking from the top of the Sales Force Tower come out to the west the moon appeared to set the marine layer off the coast. That is the only place we waking up to low clouds. It is hugging a little bit of the coastline along the peninsula. Everybody else waking up to clear skies. Looking at the current numbers right now theres not a cloud on here. We are all around 60. Sr is what to expect, sunny and warm. It is going to be cooler inland by tomorrow. A noticeable change in store for tuesday. I will show you that coming up in a bit. Here are the daytime highs. Low to mid 90s inland today, mid50s at the beach. Back over to you. Crews in the east bay on scene of a fire at the contra costa way center in pittsburg. You can see smoke pouring from all of the garbage as firefighters hose it down. It happen less than 30 minutes ago and no words on cause. And outofcontrol wildfire burning in Southern California has forced thousands from their homes overnight. Those flames are continuing to spread over more than 20,000 acres as cbs lori perez reports it is largely burning into the sambar needed no national forest. Reporter local say they for not this early, not this big. And not on this part of the mountains. The area has not burned in over 200 years. So it is filled with this is the worst i have ever seen. Reporter he was among the residents ordered to evacuate the cherry valley. He was stopped from coming home as flames ran up the hills near bluff street overtaking this neighborhood and coming dangerously close to his house where his buddy, sean letc d el the heat, basically. It was close enough i thought the house and everything in it would go down. It didnt think is to the 1200 firefighters working since friday to push the flames away from homes. Calfire had engines in every neighborhood as ariel support dropped retardant and water and land crews faced a dreaded combination of hot, windy weather and a rugged, remote battleground as the fire moved into the forest. The accommodation of the weather, the typography, the terrain, where they are at. If there is access, some of it is steep terrain where you cannot get the dozer crew and or a hand crew in. Reporter . Below you can see crews snapping out hot spots and digging a fire line. During the day you can see this valley and all the hills around it burned throughout the last few days. The good news is, in all this there are now no reported injuries. Lori perez, cbs news. Help from the bay area is arriving on the fire lines. Two strike teams made crewfrom cont costan the fire has burned through 400 acres in lake and colusa county. Video shows a plane dropping retardant entrces in the area as flames whip up in the hills and evacuations are underway along the go to road. A dozen structures are being threatened right now. This time lapse video capture the moments that the flames sparked yesterday. It was the afternoon and at this point fire crews say the fire is 20 contained. Jack this morning in interview you will only see on kpix, the Solano County da office defending the controversial inotg. The willie mccoy case will be reviewed by a special prosecutor. Is the former dna of said San Bernardino county. A judge decided that ramos improperly deleted emails and Text Messages leading the family to ask for the appointment be reconsidered. The Solano County da office said i youre talking about somebody who is a prosecutor for 29 years. He has a wide background in loss of elections. He is a consultant noun. To find someone who hasnt had the Solano County da said she was accounted appointing a special prosecutor because her office has quote lost public trust. The initial investigation has not been completed. Happening today, oakland teachers are winning the School District if they dont have a deal on Distance Learning today, theyre going to make their own plan. Students are set to return in over a week so far it is unclear exactly what they will be returning to. The state requires districts to provide 180 days of instruction withe da on grade level. But what it hasnt specifically laid out is how much of that instruction must be done live and how much can be delivered through prerecorded content and paper packets. Right now the district is holding teachers to the regularly contracted workday of 375 to 390 minutes. The union wants to cut it to 300 minutes across the board. It is also proposing teachers spend an hour a day with their students for the first week. And use the rest of the time to plan rest lesson plans for the year. The union is seeking wellness time which is described as opportunities for teachers to engage in a stressere is no har on the deal right now, the goal is to finalize the agreement before classes resume on august 10. For the latest updates premier School District, head over to kpix. Com back to school. Looking live at capitol hill, where have talks set to resume in washington to finalize the coronavirus aid package. It comes as the cdc predicts 11,000 people will die of covid 19 every week this month. Cbs Laura Podesta has the latest. Reporter whitehouse coronavirus nadideh at it is a phase. What we are seeing today is different from march and april. It is extraordinary widespread. Reporter dr. Birx once the virus that is rural areas. No matter where you live in america you need to wear a mask and socially distance. Reporter many are ignoring the advice. This past weekend large Public Events took place across the country including one in illinois that was attended by as many as 1000 people. It is a perfect element for a problem. You got beautiful weather, lots of alcohol. Reporter beaches in california packed. Even though the state leaves the u. S. With 516,000 confirmed infections. People are far more afraid of losing Civil Liberties in reporter talks of a new ck. Coronavirus aid package are slated to resume today in washington. The 600 a week federal Unemployment Benefits expired last week but a deal does not appear imminent. We will come close to an agreement when we have and agreement. Im not optimistic there wont be a solution in the near term. Reporter the annual sturgis motorcycle rally in south dakota is set to begin as planned today. Shdesta,cbs news. A quarter of demands for action at san quentin prison as another inmate is confirmed to have died while being treated for covid19. According to state prison officials 48yearold Orlando Romero was pronounced dead at a hospital yesterday. Romero becomes the 11th death row inmate to die from covid 19. We cannot say we had a moratorium on the Death Penalty if people are being murdered in prison by that. Meanwhile outside the prison protesters gathering, demanding Governor Newsom cut californias inmate population. In half to slow the pandemic through the prison system. Kpix 5 spoke exclusively to those on the other side of the prison walls to hear their he to our website, kpix. Com for that. San mateo could be the next bay area county to impose fines for those violating health orders. The supervisor tells kpix 5 is businesses and people who do not wear masks and social distance. He knows he will hear from folks who are concerned about their freedom. Your freedom is killed killing people. Your freedom of not wearing a mask. Not socially distancing and going to these large parties and gatherings, you are killing people. The penalties range om10 300 tomorrow. Mao would join contra costa and Marion County that has enacted the fines. To palo alto where the closure parts of the University Avenue has attracted more diners to the area. But some restaurants say they h business was brisk at local union 271 but it was practically empty at nearby palo alto creamery and passado mexican eatery. As part of the summer Streets Program palo alto has close university. Restaurants on side street say it is taking their business away. I think the city was admirable in their idea to do it. It was a good idea for people to walk around but they have to realize that helping some and hurting others might be a risky take. We were starting to get traction on the side streets with opening up the outdoors and they go ahead and shut down University Avenue. And sales just plummeted. To Restaurant Owners plan to present that to the city council. Coming up on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, the backandforth over tiktok, the details from microsoft over talks with the chinese owners. Im giving you another live look at 4 41. The city 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. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . You know, if you turn on your subtitles. Thats almost reading. Get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att seven marines are missing this morning after the their amphibious vehicle, filled with water and sink last thursday. It was part of a Training Exercise near island. 16 people were on board and of the eight people recovered, one died and two are in critical condition. The missing are believed to be dead. It is now a recovery operation. The information we got, that he was nonrespoe hospital yeste afternoon. The nurse called my sister and said, i asked him if he could hear me and to squeeze my fingers. He squeezed her fingers. The marines have taken these vehicles out of service while they see what went wrong. Two nasa astronauts returned to earth yesterday in the first u. S. Splashdown in 45 years. Cbs news Laura Podesta reports on the retro return. Splashdown. Reporter their capsule parachuting into the mexico, pilots doug hurley and bob behnken return to earth sunday. They had been away, working at the International Space station for two months. Welcome back to planet earth. Thanks for flying spacex. Reporter the mission was a historic win. The astronauts were the first s spaceflights back to the re bot florida code coast and bringing capability back to america. Reporter the schedule splashdown was complicated by Tropical Storm isac off the atlantic. I prayed for this one. Reporter spacex ceo elon musk is officially the first owner of a private company to launch people into orbit, said yesterday was an achievement of humanity. This is one of those, one of those thgsersay good no matter where you are. This is a good thing. I hope it makes your day. Spacex has plans to corroborate with nasa on flights to the moon and then mars. Laura podesta, cbs news. That was fun to watch. The latest on the tiktok font Diane King Hall brings it down for us. Wall street close out july with gains saints to strengthen the tech sector. On friday the dow rose 114 points. The nasdaq rallied 157 and the s p 500 added 24. Yesterday microsoft confirmed that it has been in talks to buy tiktoks u. S. Ownership and is ready to resume talks after conversation with president trump. The president has recently threatened to ban the Popular Video sharing apps like siding concerns over National Security and privacy. Massacres microsoft said it would transfer all u. S. Yeutter data. It hopes to and talks by september. Lauren taylor is the latest bankruptcy. They filed production in loto18 e u. S. L ns orilclosedin h due quidn sale it has been more than 3 years since the fyre fe infamously imploded in the bahamas. But now, nonattendees get a chance to own a piece of the fiasco of the festival. U. S. Marshals service is auctioning unsold merchandise that was seized from the festival promoter who is now in prison for fraud. Proceeds from the sale will be distributed to victims of that fraud. And that is your cbs money watch report. From or head over to cbsmoneywatch. Com. Im Diane King Hall. New data shows bay area cities are seeing some of the highest business closure rates in the en couny e pandemic. According to yelp, San Francisco and san jose are among the top four cities with the highest per capita closure rates in the country. For march 1 through july 10, more than 5000 businesses in San Francisco temporarily shut down or close. Permanently only los angeles with more than 11,000 and new york with 9500 have more without the opening a storefront, some businesses are trying to open up in different ways. I spent months painting and investigating ideas about the reflection of my heritage. People are spending so much time at home so it is a good moment to reflect what the home means to you and if everyone is taking on these home projects. According to the yelp report, or restaurants have closed permanently than businesses in poand hey veeratla toward rt the carolinas. Lets get an update on the storm with darren peck. We will start out with the way things look at home first. Then i will show you what isac look what is going on from our Vantage Point toward the west right now. You can see the moonilng what l is of the lar. Thisa to t you cae the clouds just hugging the coastline. We are in the mid 60s, 65 in in concord, 65 in oakland and livermore, San Francisco at 58. To show you how little we have, that is it. Just a little strip on the peninsula and barely into the city. Everybody else is waking up to clear skies today. And as a result it is going to be another warm one. We are not getting much of an influence from the coas nsto go the low to mid 90s for daytime highs inland, concord going to 93. Livermore only going to 88. Santa rosa, you will hit 92. San jose, 83, and we top out at 69 in the city for San Francisco. Is also goin ge afternoon, the winds will pick up. Watch the coloighten up into afrnoon. That is assigned we are starting to change this pattern. The winds are going to come back, the clouds along the coast are going to get thicker. They will reach further inland. As a result look at the cooldown in the sevenday forecast. You have to go to 94 today bye bye tomorrow it is only 84. Inland, by wednesday only 77. That is going to be a noticeable drop. We will warm things up as we get for the end of this coming week. Particularly by next weekend, back to the low 90s. And if you are in the bay, right around the mid to upper 60s toytllmoon that hurricane, the leftovers of atinits way up the east coast the next time i check in with you. For now lets get updated on your drive. Good morning. We take a look at the roadways right now. Out and about early, headsup. We got delay starting at tracy, working your way into the altamonte pass. Was about 580 commute is busy. Look at the sensors, we are seeing a lot of red. No accidents or incidents, that 18 miles an hour which means our slowest spot is off to a five, 580 area. It looks like traffic delays extend to northland at this point. I will keep a close eye on that this money. Taking a look at how a format, back to the limit a few minutes ago as i was looking at our sensors i did see some enough conditions on the eastbound side of 4 into bay point. Whatever it was has been cleared out of the lane and it is nice at the limit in both directions. Infect highway format, as far as drivetimes, in the green, 26 minutes from antioch toward hercules. The yellow is popping a lo there was an Early Morning crash on the east shore freeway, westbound 80 near but that is clear out of the lane. No major delay. All clear at the bay bridge toll plaza. The troubles out of the east bay. If youre headed to san to sanfranping the to help thei bay area restaurants survive. Here is a live look ou indowntown san jose. Good morning to you, san jose. Remember kpix 5 wants to bring good news happening in the bay area. Go to kpix. Com together. You can send story ideas remember how the weekend felt weatherwise . That is exactly what monday is going to feel like. Just as sunny, just as warm. Where waking up this money with temperatures actually in the mid60s right now in concord. In San Francisco. To leave you with a view of how today will go, we will break up the bay area at the coast, bay and inland. It is going to be 94 degrees today inland. It is going to be 72 in the bay and 65 for the coast. If youre getting tired of the heat i have good news. Im going to show you a cool down that starts tomorrow. We have five minutes before 5 00. When all the restaurants closed down in march it inspired a group to get creative. You can ask th thatit 10 volunteers have been delivering meals from a select restaurant to an area within walking distance. The service was made to help stop restaurants from going out of business. The San Francisco neighborhood it took a few weeks to go and build up. Now we are at the point that stg started. 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What it is really like inside san quentin prisons oureak. Thisrning, matesar eaking out. What they think ing th spread a it is 5 00 on the nose, monday, august 3. Thank you for joining us. I anne makovec in for michelle. Im len kiese. Lets get to the forecast first with darren peck. Im filling in for mary and in terms of it being any we get a new start as far as the weather is concerned, there is not a lot new here. Will what we did over the weekend. Of it was sunny and warm for your part of the day we are doing it again. Inland it was sunny and warm and we are going back there once again. If you take a look atwe de mari lar hugging th it is a sunny and sunny and warm day today. The cooldown comes with a return of the wound. Remember how it would get breezy in the afternoon . It seems to always do that and fo