Some good news for tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a few degrees cooler than today au gres. But it will still be hot. Hot enough we are looking at the excessive heat warnings and advisories. Two colors on the map. The pink is the excessive heat. The difference is important. That only applies over here, pleasanton, san jose this is where the heat is more serious. This is 108. We talk about extremes. The excessive heat use a significant rest of heat related illnesses of you are not in the air conditioning and hydrating. This is the heat advisory in the day. This is in effect until 9 00 tonight. The National Weather service will probably extend this. This is about 1 degree of importance below a heap morning. It is still you have to read the fine print, theres still a risk of illness. This goes well into next week. I will show you that coming up in a bit. Look what else is on the weather map. A lot of lightning. That ties into a red flag warning for us. Coming up, we will put that red flag warning into some perspective along with the heat. Back over to you. We have post a link to more information for potential for power problems and what you can do to prevent them on kpix. Com. At some point im just taking Water Bottles and sprinkling water over my head. In the east bay the cooking is not only in the kitchen, it is hot inside and out. The bad news for outside dining. We are live in downtown pleasanton. What does the saturday night dining scene look like tonight . Reporter its not looking very good. This is the first week along heat wave to hit the bay area since city started outdoor dining. We are talking about 6 00 right now. There are people. Some tables have people. Most tables are empty. Its not looking very good. Restaurant owners are not happy right now. Business is slow. I do not think people wanted to come out. Reporter restaurants are seeing a lot of canceled reservations. This weekend is down maybe about 45 . I have thought about doing misters but we have not pulled the trigger yet reporter the heat kept a lot of people home. This is how looked around 12 35 in surrounding areas. Very quiet. People decided to take the food to go. Its not as comfortable as it normally is. Im just trying to do my part and maintain distancing. Reporter pleasanton shut down main street during the ssw through hurdles in these challenging times. This heat wave is the latest test. Its doing okay. I guess we will survive. Reporter i want to know if its hot enough to cook an egg. Its 3 00. The hottest part of the day. More than 100 degrees in downtown pleasanton. Lets give it a try. Sunny side up. We will come back in a few hours. And at some point i just take Water Bottles and sprinkle water over my head. A lot of airconditioned sing and a lot of fans. Staying out of the sun. Reporter its also humid. We found two sisters braving the heat to dine out. I cant wait to get back inside to the air conditioning. Reporter air conditioning and water is the best solution. We have to find some humor in the heat. Lets go back to our cooking experiment. This is how it looks. The yoke, as the photographer was sing, it looks kind of loat cooked. The white stuff is all flaky right now. In case you are wondering if it does cook. It does the trick somewhat. Just a couple of weeks ago, a lot of owners were trying to find heat lamps to keep customers warm outside. Now they are looking for fans intense to keep customers cool. They are going through a lot of challenges. Live in pleasanton, kpix 5 news. Been tobumper. The excessive heat clearly driving thousands out of alameda and contra costa counties to cool off. John ramis is in Half Moon Bay. This rning, you are ly still stock in traffic. Reporter when the weather heats up, people head to the beach is. Normally thats a welcome thing to Half Moon Bay. During the pandemic, it can become way too much of a good thing. By noon, traffic at Half Moon Bay was back more than an hour clear back to san mateo. When you got to the beaches, they look like this. Lots of people. It was hard to find anyone wearing a face mask. The mayor says they tried to close the beaches on july 4. , but most people ignored it. I said there are Police Officers on the beach that will take you f the h. Wee. Lkedrigh rter cabin fever brought pe e ri we came wi friend to celebrate both of their birthdays and get out of the inland valley heat. We knew it was going to be 109. We have been in our homes five months and we are looking for something to do. We would rather be by the ocean. Renew people would do social distancing and everyone would stay safe. Most people their distance on the beach. This many people jamming into a small town is wreaking havoc. Beachgoers are clogging neighborhoods parking everywhere and leaving behind trash and worse. I have constituents send me message people were defecating in their front lawns. Because there was no bathrooms for people to use. Reporter angry wod beach is closed on weekends during the pandemic. That would require from eight different jurisdictions. This man wishes they would be more courteous. As long as they take what they brought home with them, we are happy. If i do not have to clean up i front yard in the morning because of it, i totally understand it. Reporter all the town can hope for is that cooler temperatures and cooler heads will prevail. In Half Moon Bay, john ramis, kpix 5 news. People are being warned to stay away from the oakland estuary after one of last nights Power Outages unleashed a 50,000 gallon sewage spill. The outage caused a pump at the Treatment Plant to fail. That led to a backup at the station. Just before 4 00 a. M. , raw sewage build into the estuary. A ing from e water came too late for some boaters out this morning. Unfortunately, the crew had no idea there was a sewage spill in this area on the estuary. Was we heard that, we started texting and alerting membership the first thing to do is take a good shower when they get home. Thete we are concerned about him. They will release a full report on this bill on the coming week. The chance of thunderstorms and dry lightning is prompting a red flag warning starting at 11 00 tonight. Earlier in San Luis Obispo. This fire started this morning. They had pretty good rain this morning. More than 100 acres burned. Its the whale fire because his running near the whale rock reservoir. Residents are encouraged to prepare to evacuate. Two big fires scorched Angeles National forest. Massive columns of smooting too bad air quality in the South Land Park 21 buildings have been destroyed. The flames are threatening thousands. Both fires combined burned more than 15,000 acres already. Investigators are looking for a man who may have started one of the fires. The suspect lived in re origin new deo inthe last hour , chp rescue crews pulling off a Helicopter Rescue after hot air balloon wrong. It landed near a waterfall in the heavy wooded napa county heels. Rescue crews wasted four passengers and the pilot out of the reaping. The pilot had to climb in ridge to find selfservice and call for help. A Domestic Violence call turns deadly. They want him repeatedly, do not make us his you. Went wrong as soon as the went. Suspect was caught. In their own words, the effort to help one Area Community hit hard by the pandemic. It could be the next big shortage of 2020. Moving vans. People are driving away from San Francisco in droves. Their reasons are not what you might think. A reminder, kpix 5 news has a new app for access to our newscast. And it is available in i got it all from you im always pushing through i know well make it to the finish line i know youre waiting on the other side im like you ondemand glucose monitoring. Because theyre always on. Another lifechanging technology from abbott. So you dont wait for life. You live it. A use of force investigation is underway after a Domestic Violence suspect died shortly after being tasered. It happened around 8 00 this morning. A man came out of a home on river road holding onto a woman. And deputies tried to separate them, the man fought back. After warnings, the deputy tasered the suspect and put him in handcuffs. Thats when he suffered some sort of medical emergency. Paramedics were unable to revive him. That taser just aggravated him. To my count, he was tased four times. Those deputies, i think they actually acted a little passive with all of this stuff going on. While he was on the ground, i said hey, listen relax and calm down. These guys will help you. Donot i do not care. I said the harder you struggle, the worse it will get. He said i do not care for there was an altercation between the individual and the deputies. There were no shots fired. A taser was deployed. The man passed away as a result of the incident. Santa rosa police have taken over the investigation, and the Sheriffs Office is reviewing whether the deputies violated any policies. The departments had, quote, anytime force is used, the Sheriffs Office takes it seriously. Our thoughts are with all those involved in this incident during this difficult time. A suspect wanted for a cowardly assault on an elderly man downtown concord. Police said unprovoked assault along colfax street last week. The suspect caught on camera shoving an elderly man. The victim had severe injuries. If you recognize the suspect, you are asked to call concord police. In oakland, blal officials e focu one imity is been hit particularly rd thpaact tring revealed the virus is spreading through the man community. They immigrated from guatemala. Because they are an ethnic mnority with their own link outreach efforts in spanish may not be effective. Officials say the community is especially vulnerable because many continued to work throughout the pandemic, and because at overcrowding at home. A lot of people are living in overcrowded housing. Sometimes 10 people in one place. It is really hard to stay isolated. Stay physically distant from one another. The main message they stressed today, where your mask. Lyft is offering free rides to cooling centers through tuesday. The promo code, ca heat relief 20. That roles right off your hong kong. Its valid for two. This is for contra costa and solano county. We were keeping a list of the cooling centers on kpix. Com. You will find the link at the top of the page. Now its time to bring in darren peck to find out how long this heat will last. To think about this as a seven day heat wave. I do have good news about today. And good news about tomorrow. It is shortlived. We will not feel cool. But some of us did get a break today. Tomorrow we will do it again before the heat turns right back on again for monday. Take a look at the numbers. Is the change in 24 hours. There is a pattern. If you are in the bay, you got it 10 degrees cooldown in places. He word was 8 degrees cooler. It was still really hot in san jose. I did not want to downplay this. It is a move in the right direction. Tomorrow we will do just about asuch agin the right direction. Tomorrow you will notice it for concord and livermore. Tomorrow you will get improvement by about 5 or 6 degrees. Monday you go right back up. Monday, tuesday, wednesday of next week are just as hot if not hotter. Santa rosa did not change today, but tomorrow you will be getting in 8 degree dip. If we get down onto the Golden Gate Bridge and take a look up. We are still in the low hundreds. See the high clouds . We will do it again. We will look at her for the bay bridge. Plenty of high clouds. That is unique for us. There is no marine layer in this situation. Those clouds are getting pulled up from the southwest. It is subtle, but maybe you have noticed, it feels a little humid out there. Its not like alabama, but for us, you do not need much here to notice the difference. That is add to these numbers. If you look at what is going on, you didnt see anything on the satellite, you see this area of low pressure off the coast. That will help us today and tomorrow with the on shore surge. It does not last long. The dominant factor is this big center of High Pressure over the desert southwest. That one stays. Watch the next few days, they are both working to pull the clouds are way. The area of low pressure disappears after tomorrow. It will still pull the clouds are way. It will pull some humidity our way. It still feels a little humid tomorrow. Here are tomorrows numbers. San jose only going to be 93 tomorrow. That is a bit of an improvement you are around 98 today. We will get you a drop there. Fremont goes to 80. Redwood city 88. Instead of 100 or 108 and livermore, you will only go to 90 tomorrow. It will still be hot, but it will be an improvement. Oakland 83 for the daytime high tomorrow. It was 95 today. Santa rosa at 92. That is a drop. You hit 103 today. Tomorrow does feel better. Having said that, heres the 7 day forecast i know ive been harping on monday and tuesday. Now you see why. We do not want that to catch you offguard. We are not out of this. We have to get through wednesday or thursday of this coming week. Keep your fingers crossed the cooldown holds for the end of the week going into the weekend. Some of the wells are saying it might not. Thats where the forecast stands for now. Over to you. Coming up in sports, one team trying to get the western concepts ttkes pain Training Camp for the 49ers. This the 49ers first game will be played in less than a month. If all goes according to plan. The team took part in his first practice of Training Camp. The defending nfc champions held practice in the heat this afternoon in santa clara. George kittel was bought it boarding a 2020 tshirt at his press conference. He practiced after signing a fiveyear, 75 million deal that made him the leagues highestpaid tight end. He appears to have opened the door for others at his position to receive bigger contracts. Tight ends are occasionally forgot about or not advertised in a the fact that guys are exploding through the ceiling that was set. Its fun to see. I think the tight ends will prove we are worth a lot to the team. Now i am taking care of in my family is taking care. I could just go play football and run through someones face. Im excited about that. In las vegas, the raiders have opened the first camp. They will use their first draft pick on alabama wide receiver henry. He seemed like a perfect fit since he ran the fastest 40 yard. They say hes as fast in person as he is on tv. We saw henry run his 40 and he was like, he just got to skating. Its like, its as advertised or even crazier in person. It just looks like effortless. I know it is not but i mean i have not seen anything like it. The blazer season has been theyd e win in e lakek. Arted. Are ngthtws e postseason. The rookie of the year favorite drives in and gets the slam. He finishes with 35. 10398. The blazers come back off the mist 3 for use of your kitchen gets the putback and the foul. He found out this morning his grandmother passed away from covid19. That gives port the lead. The blazers up 1. This one falls. Cj scores 29 and portland wins 126122 to clinch the final spot in the western conference playoffs. They will get the lakers on tuesday. The pelicans fire the head coach after five seasons. Gentry was a warriors assistant on the 2015 championship team. He made only one playoff s. E next coach will inherit a pretty talented, young roster that includes last years number one pick zion williamson. The bruins has one of the top goalies in the league opted out of the playoffs. Charlie coyle shot this one is deflected in by a shorthanded goal for the bruins. Boston wins 31. They read the series two games to one. The avalanche looking to take the lead on the coyotes. Less than a minute to play, htet 1, Brad Richardson gives the coyotes the lead. They win 42. Colorado leads the series 2 games to 1. The pirates game is postponed. This after rays player tested positive for covid19. The cardinals returned to the field for the First Time Since july 29. After the outbreak of coronavirus. St. Louis scored 4 in the 1st and be the white sox in the first game 51. In the second game, oneil hit a two run home run. The cardinals win the second game 63 to sweep the doubleheader. Its the third round of the championship from north carolina. The third hole, the tee shot on the par 3. Take a look at this. One bouncing into the cup for a holeinone. Kim did not see it go in. He nearly its the second ace. The ball rolls across the cup and out. Kim saw this one and he could not believe it did not go in. He shot 8 under 62 and leads by 2 in the final round. He was on shock on that first ran. Francisco. I that we mean, some big time moving a tour of the city and what people told us as they packed up those moving vans. Protesters send a message to the head of the Postal Service. When it comes to counting the votes in november, we cannot just mail it in. This heat wave could get worse before it gets better. Were not just talking about you are watching kpix 5 news. No reason to stay here, when i could work remotely there. You cannot throw a rock in San Francisco without hitting a moving truck most of them are headed out. According to zillow, inventory in the city in orange has soared by 96 yearover year. Of course its always tight. That percentage may not account for a huge number of homes. Still, compare that to the other big cities on either side. We saw plenty of people loading up moving vans this morning. We sent Wilson Walker to ask them where they are this is something could feel happening in San Francisco for a little while. Reporter its hard to turn a corner and not see it in front of you. I started this in january. I got it working moment. Every one is working remote and policies are not so amended. Theres no reason to stay here when i could go back home and work remotely. Reporter a tech work with the job but no office. Another set of boxes under truck. San francisco is now crawling with moving vans for evne di ing . My familyin oo. Itds. It sounds t to go to hawaii. We love the city as well. Its basically just to get the kids in school face to face. For the first time in my career, i virtual. A lot of things which dress to San Francisco. We want to be close to the opera and symphony. All the Small Businesses are close. Theres nothing there anymore. Everything is closed. Reporter not every departure is voluntary. A lot of people really do not want to leave him a that people are losing jobs. Reporter hes been moving people for about 20 years. Has a big ever seen anything like this . No. Not really. People are moving all wants. Reporter a lot of people are getting out of town. Our jobs are here. Our lives are here. Reporter paul and ashley were also moving today from the mission to bernal heights. Rents take a dive in San Francisco. With everyone working from home, we had to upgrade from the studio to a onebedroom. We are taking advantage of that here. Reporter everyone we talked to who they were part of a larger move that can now be seen across San Francisco. I feel like im catching the head end or the tail end of an exodus. I think its kind of temporary is my guess. Depending on what happens with vaccines and treatments. This is a city that is rebirth and rebirth and it always thrives. It will thrive again. Reporter no one is hoping for a faster rebirth than those who are staying. We call San Francisco home. We hope things get better. We want to be a part of that. Reporter not every moving van necessarily departure, but just drive around and you will see a tremendous change underway in the city in San Francisco, Wilson Walker. Kpix 5. There is no shortage of people searching in San Francisco to escape the stifling heat. This was the scene at ocean beach today. One woman told us she understands the calls for people not to crowd beaches. On days like this, we have to do what we can to keep cool safely. A lot of people want to come out here. I wouldnt be here if i had a backyard. Five people are socially distancing. Its okay. Is not just the bay area that is baking. 80 Million People across the west are under some sort of heat morning. Also a watch or an advisor. Reporter britt conway, shows us the fire risk. Reporter dangerous mix, scorching heat and dry conditions raising fire concerns across the west. Friday into the weekend, 11 states expecting to report the hottest temperatures of the summer. Temperatures nearing 110 degrees. That is hot reporter from texas to california, 85 Million People are under some sort of heat warning, watch or advisory. That is making things more difficult for crews already battling wildfires in colorado, oregon and california. In los angeles county, authorities issued evacuation orders for areas impacted by two large wildfires. The ranch to fire burned about 25 acres. Authorities are looking for this man, who they say intentionally started that lays. The lake fair near seneca leader burned more than 17,000 acre so far. It destroyed more than 20 structures. There have been areas of the fire that have not burned in decades. Its inaccessible terrain which added to the complexity of the fire. Reporter the triple digit heat creating a power emergency. A higher demand for electricity forcing rolling blackouts. In colorado, crews are battling three different fires, and in oregon, a fire also giving firefighters a hard time with no relief in sight. Its going to be very, very hot, dry weekend. Because of that same pattern, we have something we see very rarely in august. Lightning on high death doppler. Its not in the bay area yet. This has moved through santa barbara, San Luis Obispo county. Its moving north. When we talk about fire, whether concerns. That is the reason. It is not likely will will see a lot of that. As we get into the early evening and overnight, if we see it at all, that would be the timeframe. The national rather service painted the map reade. From 11 00 tonight to 11 00 sunday. There is a 12 hour window in addition to the heater advisories in mourning, we are under red flag warning for elevated fire risk. It looks like we will come through this one okay. Weve got to be aware of that as well. I will be back with the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. A group of protesters sent a message straight to the home of the u. S. Postmaster general. They chanted and paying drums outside louis dejoys residence in washington, d. C. Demonstrators think he is dismantling the u. S. Postal service in favor of President Trumps reelection. They say his actions could contribute to Voter Suppression in the november election. The Postal Service sent letters to all 50 states and to washington, d. C. Urging them to change their mailin voting timelines and warning several of them, quote, the significant risk that some routes will not be returned by mail in time to be counted. Democratic lawmakers are accusing President Trump to fu post office. The president have been a plane he does not trust mailin voting. He told reporters today, its the democrats who are holding up the funding. To they need money, but they are not willing to approve the money they need if they cannot get the money they need for universal mailin voting, i dont see how they can have it. Thats not only post office, thats also foreboding itself. Get ready to pay more for shipments. The Postal Service is planning a temporary price hike to try to stop the bleeding on its balance sheets. It will start in mid october. The hike continues through the end of december. Package will cost anywhere from 0. 24 to a dollar 50 more. A shakeup at the centers for disease control. Two trump appointees are resigning from the agency. Of s resigned yesterday. The two are planning to start a consulting firm. Both were appointed by President Trump. Members have criticized them for not being loyal enough. It was 75 years ago today , the end of world war ii ushered in a new era in world politics. Almost six years of bloodshed in europe, and it came to a dramatic conclusion on august 15, 1945. Japan surrendered unconditionally to the allies days after a pair of u. S. Atomic bombs laid waste to the cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. We first picture of the reaction to victor. President truman gives the announcement . Iteam full acceptance of the declaration. It specifies the Unconditional Surrender of japan. On september 2, 1945, a japanese delegation boarded the battleship missouri to formally sign surrender documents. In tokyo, the emperor and their prime mail Prime Minister attended a simmering with a commemorated the date and pledged never to repeat the tragedy of the war. Rate bitten mark the anniversary with military flyovers for and babock types. At pearl harbor, it prompted the u. S. To join the war. There were birds conducted a series of flyovers ahead of a ceremony on the battle ship memorial took. Ents havelot to learn before th head back to school. There are still parties going on in people not wearing masks. How colleges are preparing for back to school like never before. As if california fire crews did not have enough to deal with right now one mega church has won illegal battle to hold Inter Services in defiance of state health orders. Grace Community Church in sun valley has been fighting told Indoor Services on the grounds they were facing religious discrimination. Thousands were packing church pews last weekend l. A. County sought a Court Order Barring them from holding Indoor Services. They argued they were a health threat. Yesterday, a judge ruled the church can do it. Before traverse wear masks and practice social distancing. Across the country, it is backtoschool like never before. Some College Freshmen are moving into dorms this weekend. While there is a lot of excitement. We hear theres a lot of apprehension fueled by fears of the coronavirus. Reporter in fort worth, Texas Christian University freshman rachel moved in to her dorm this week. I feel fortunate we can move in a lot of my friends are getting second home this year. Reporter as parents across the u. S. Make plans, White House Task force member, dr. Anthony fouci, is urging everyone to follow the cdc guidelines. The driving forces the safety, health of the children and the teachers. Reporter bumps in the road backtoschool are already appearing. I definitely become my real when we realized on a chlor floor close to us. Reporter students are on higher alert at this school reported clusters of cases in two residence halls. There are still parties going on. Reporter the university of notre dame says it is confident it can continue in person classes after an early spike in cases. The school is ready to return to distance if a senior says, hes taking precautions. We checked it out early on. One party, one bar. It did not seem terribly safe. We are kind of sticking to ourselves for the time being and see how it plays out. Reporter Columbia University reverse course. They announced undergraduate classes will be virtual. Michael george, cbs news, new york. Stanford became the latest to announce its campus will remain closed this fall. Thousands of k12 students are starting the new school year from home. We have a complete guide for parents and students posted on kpix. Com backtoschool. Coming up, the next time you order a pizza, you may have to hold the pepperoni. Its the latest supply shortage like Everything Else you have covid19 to think for. A drone follows a daredevil into a Northern California river. The driver trying to returned to its rightful owner. We are not done with the heat wave. You think of this as we are just getting started. I do have some good news. Its about tomorrow. Do not get your hopes too high. Its coming up the first man Spacex Mission to the International Space station was a success. The companys next Astronaut Mission is facing delays. The target launch has been pushed back from late september two no earlier than october 23. The spacex rocket will carry four astronauts to the space station and back. Hope it will be as successful as the mission earlier this month. There is new video that will make your heart pound. Look at this. A man is seen climbing up the rainbow bridge in folsom as a group watches below. Moments later, he leaps into the American River. Thankfully, he resurfaces. It is unclear who the daredevil is. The video was captured by a drone that was later discovered at the bottom of the American River by a diver. He is trying to return the drone and the video to the rightful owner. Im just trying to return the valuables. Bridge strapping like this is not only dangerous, it is illegal. When you think you have seen it all, a bizarre obstacle for fire crews battling the fire near the Angeles National forest. Ferdinand, the bull took issue with their efforts to clear in a row no one was hurt. Ferdinand eventually returned fire,whimsical stories asidbecoming an increasing problem. Its because theyvadfires bout that. That have started lightning strikes in Central California this afternoon. It is possible. Theres a red flag warning because of it. Its not terribly likely. You have to be down in monterey or maybe in the santa cruz mountains. Ive got plenty of unpleasant news in this forecast to talk about. Im going to start off with good news. We will talk about tomorrows comparison with these numbers. We are about to get a drop. Let me skip right ahead to that image. You will see tomorrows numbers are now lined up in the middle column. Im calling this a little help. The daytime highs over here are one thing, but look at the numbers over here. That shows you how much cooler it is going to be for your part of the bay area tomorrow. These numbers are high. These numbers still keep us the heat advisory and the excessive heat warning. That stuff is still on. It is just a one day reprieve. When we get to the 7day forecast, you will see monday these numbers are going back up. Lets sort out the details. There a lot of colors on the scen wheat rnings and advisories. Pink is the excessive heat warning. Specifically, this is inland contra costa, alameda county, and through santa clara county. Concord, walnut creek, livermore, san jose, this is for you. This is the more serious. Is a significant risk of heat related illness if you spend too much time outside and you are not paying attention. All that stuff. You are the guys we are trying to get this message to. Look at the bay, now you see the other color. It is not as bad, but it still needs to be taken serious. Even if it does not say significant risk. It still says risk of heat related illnesses. For the bay and tell 9 00 tonight, you have to be aware of this. Its likely the National Weather service will issue this again on monday. Inthe excessive heat met for , that stays in effect until wednesday night. Hopefully, that sorts out all the messaging the National Weather service is trying to get across. That is new. Clouds, not marine later. Those are clouds that came all the way down from Southern California and mexico. Earlier they were dropping lightning in monterey. What this does, as they overtake us tonight, they will give us a little bit of a blanket. The overnight lows will not drop as much as they would have otherwise. The clouds are not really helping. Will give temperatures of bit of a head start in the morning. Thankfully, you will have just you couldve had a nicer morning tomorrow. You will still have a nice morning. Daytime highs tomorrow. We went over the spots. Palo alto 86, union city 85 its about a ditch to 8 degree drop. Concord 101. It was 107 today. At least its better. Oakland, the tim high tomorrow 83. San rafael 90. Ukiah, 101. Not all that different for you. The 7day forecast, heres why i said have a lot of unpleasant news. We call it next week 100 monday, 107 tuesday, 102 wednesday. This is an extended heat wave. Even though tomorrow is better. It is not good enough. It is not long enough. One day out of 100 does not mean we the break we need geat during the pandemic, its been hard for people to get their hands a number of things from toilet paper to coins. Now we hear many pizza places are being hit with a shortage of their own. Reporter who does not love Pepperoni Pizza . When you order Pepperoni Pizza, there could be a problem for the pizzeria people. The price has gone up. Theres a meet shortage. Reporter blame and coronavirus. The price of pepperoni is up 50 this summer. Is led to shortages. Big mamas and papas pizza in pasadena says is been hard to find at times. A couple of weeks ago we had trouble sourcing pepperoni. We have to try to find more. Reporter why the shortage . Who knows. Pepperoni is laborintensive to make mixing pork and beef and slicing it then. Meatpackers do not have enough workers. They are cutting back. Dont panic. Business at pizzerias is actually up. Easy take out. Almost pandemic proof. Eating a nice slice of the economic pie. Weve been able to hire people. We have through th pizza is american comfort food favorite. Pickup, delivery, easy as pie. Sales have been going up. Reporter pepperoni is on just about every one of these. Know pepperoni problem here. They have an issue with the cost of teas. Probably higher that ive ever seen it. Reporter nobody can really explain why. Cheese goes up and down. Its pretty spy now. Reporter unlike gas stations, pizzerias cannot change prices often. They just deal with pricier pepperoni and more expensive mozzarella. Greg mills, kpix 5 news. Thank you for watching. We will see you back here at 11 00. We dont know why pepperoni is more expensive or cheese. It is a mystery. Juliet, investigate. Tonight 11 00. 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