Are going to do everything we can to protect it. Getting word, another wild fire is burning nearby . Thats right, the gamble fire is off of knoxville road west of berks somewhere around 375 acres right now as of 1 00 this afternoon. It has 0 containment so a couple of different hotspots burning from the Lightning Storm here in napa county this afternoon. The trouble can be traced back to this ind yon see the ou clouds in this timelapse. Lets get to paul heggen tracking these Lightning Storms as well as this extreme heat. Paul . The fire crews are going to be battling over the next several days as a continuation of the heat wave even as the Stormy Weather pattern quiets down. These heat indices are the feels like temperature, the equivalent to the wind chill. Its officially 89, the feels like tempter in napa itself north the purple shading indicates plenty of heat indices around or above 100 degrees. Tomorrow is going to be another day of extreme heat. Temperatures from 12 to 17 degrees above average putting us near record territory once again on tuesday. In terms of the storms that are beginning to move farther to the north, a lot of ground clutter south of the bay, but these are thunderstorms continuing just to the west of cloverdale. Now to the north, that activity will push farther and farther to the north and the weather pattern is going to calm down in terms of the storms. The heat is going to back off slightly but not going away anytime soon. Take a look at the 7 day forecast in a few minutes. In Sonoma County, powerful storms took down trees which then fell into homes, narrowly missing those inside. The weather moved quickly through Sonoma County bringing with it lightning and heavy wind. It is a dramatic daytime display of weather more like the midwest than the bay area. Lightning strikes were scattered but the wind also caused damage. I wanted to be ready to get out of here. Jason was in his room when this oak lost one of its limbs. The tree fell through my bathroom. Rachel grossmans house took a tree. Pretty scary with all of the thunder and lightning that has been happening. The giant tree crashed into there, and like jason she was in a different part of the house. At one time there were 15,000 customers without power but by this afternoon everyone had their power restored. In Sonoma County, don ford, kpix 5. Rolling blackouts , the electric grid operator says more than 3 million homes could lose power anytime now. Outages have started in alameda , the city start earning power off two hours ago. The areas impacted our mid island, east of broadway and bay farm. Also potential blackouts for napa county. Emily turner reports that Governor Newsom is demanding an investigation into these shutoffs. Reporter they want answers, and it is not just the governor, it is lots of the people we have spoken to today that dont understand how this could happen and who is responsible. This Grocery Store lost power for three days. On top of these rolling blackouts they say this is just not for the future. I am not pleased with what has happened. I take a backseat to no one. From the governor to the board of directors apologies dominated the day. The governor is calling for an investigation into the rolling blackouts to figure out why and how they happened and where the buck stops. Its extremely frustrating. Hundreds of thousands were left without power in the middle of the heat wave. They said they thought they had the weekends demand covered but then there was an imperfect storm of events they did not see coming. One case and suddenly we lost energy into another case the power plant tripped off because they had some sort of production problem. In both cases we were running very close to the edge so when that happens, they had to start cutting. Will some of the factors have been fixed, the blackouts will continue due to increased demand from the heat wave affecting all of the west so the Power Sources they would usually use for backup will be holding onto their own supply leaving hours in short supply and you in the dark. The power went out, we can to have dinner so it was so hot, there was no fan. The blackouts could begin around 4 00 p. M. And next directed to last between one and two hours. More than 10 times as many newcomers as this weekends outages and at its worst could lead more than 3 Million People to have no power making it the worst in state history. Let me make this clear we feel to reject and plan the shortages and that is unacceptable. The weekend of cloud cover and some cases have no wind. Anything that can fix this so it doesnt happen in the future . The question is in the short term, they can try to buy more energy but with everybody in the western half of the country under heat wave theyre not wanting to sell it. This is going to be something that will take years to fix i have more on that coming up at 6 00 because it is interesting, the perfect storm of events that made it happen and its going to be happening in the future potentially quite a bit. Coming up in the next half hour, i spoke to a stanford economics professor who specializes in Energy Markets and we will take a closer look at what is behind the blackouts, how did this happen and how can we prevent it from happening again. That is coming up at 5 30. Breaking news in santa clara county, the marsh creek complex fire exploding to nearly 2000 acres. This video from chopper five, smoke and flames this afternoon. The fire erupted yesterday. There are several different fires burning in the same area. Take a look at the video you can see the flames spreading across the hills earlier today, crews were stationed near a cement plant, hoping to keep the flames from jumping the road. They also have been trying to protect a neighborhood with about a dozen homes near welsh creek. Nearby there are evacuation warnings in place, all residents of the canyon are being told to be ready to leave if the fire gets out of control. We talked to a construction worker working on house in that area. We are just doing what we can, taking precautions and getting our crew out of here to make sure things are put away safe and buttoned up until we get better news. The shelter is open for residents who need it. Located at the residency on wolf house road in livermore. Now getting a look at the wildfires around brentwood as evacuation orders remain in place this evening, massive flames could be seen near mount diablo and 150 roads in marsh creek road were first ordered to evacuate last night, and those orders remain in effect. The deer zone fire is believed to have been sparked by lightning on sunday morning. More than 1100 acres have burned due to the fires round valley regional preserve and parks are closed. The fire nearly tripled in size overnight. We are on its way to the hennessey fire in napa county burning around 2400 acres and we will stay on top of all of these fires and you can always find the latest on kpix. Com. Still ahead on kpix 5, streaming cbsn bay area, a dangerous highspeed chase sparks major delays on highway 101 in san jose. The suspects unusual pitstop and how police finally cornered him. Night one of the Democratic National convention about to kick off. We have never had one like this. We talked to ed okeefe about what we can expect from tonights headliners. The encouraging trend in californias fight against coro new at 5 00, some details on a Wild Police Chase this afternoon. It started as a standoff along highway 101 in san jose. Lets take you through this pretty strange set of events. Shuts down the freeway in both directions about 1 00 this afternoon. The driver hops into his car and splits, he fled the scene. Chopper five was there to capture it all, the driver making reckless moves, turning into oncoming traffic at high speeds, veering around other drivers in residential areas and here is something we have not seen in a while. At one point the driver pulls into two different gas stations, a shell and then at the 76 station. He actually fuels up as he tries to give police the slip. Just before 4 00 the driver pulls into a liquor store when police finally catch up to him. Quite a few places you can see after a brief standoff in the parking lot, the driver exits his vehicle. The driver was arrested, taken into custody, nobody got hurt buckley in all of this. How about campaign 2020, an hour away from the start of the National Convention where the party hopes to rally support behind joe biden and his pick, kamala harris. I spoke with ed okeefe about what we can expect to see this week. Certainly a very different kind of convention, how will Party Leaders keep some energy going if they dont have everybody packed into the room, no balloons dropping . Its a good question, i think its going to be difficult for some speakers whove grown accustomed through their years or decades of arena wotheaking to a basketball now they hado it to a cara the crowd, one of the ways that democrats will do this in some cases you will see certain speakers speaking in facilities that allow them to bring in virtual fans, very similar to the nba with games in orlando right now. In other ways, some of these will be held life in landmark locations others like that from Michelle Obama have been prepared and produced in a slicker fashion to keep the bullseyes on the presentation. As far as Bernie Sanders, is part of his job to rally progressives who arent all that enthusiastic about biden harris . There is some suggestion that a lot of his supporters didnt think she was sufficiently progressive enough to be on the ticket. So he is getting at least eight minutes tonight which for Bernie Sanders is not a lot of time. To talk about why he thinks biden is the better alternative. Hes expected to focus on that the president needs to be defeated and give some sense of synopsis of why he now supports biden. If you can do it in eight minutes and and the skepticism he will have delivered a big bit of favor to joe biden. You touched on some of the themes, any other themes we should look for tonight and the rest of the week . They are focusing on the three main topics of concern, the pandemic of course how the Trump Administration has responded, the ongoing economic downturn, what democrats are doing to turn things around and the Ongoing National reckoning of a race in policing. Obviously a big concern to a lot of people across the country but i nod as well to minority voters and Younger Voters who have been really motivated and concerned about that justifiably in the last few months. All designed to show that they get it and that they want to do something about it if democrats take back control of the white house. President trump is launching counterprogramming on a campaign swing. The president rallied a group in minnesota ahead of his visit to minnesota and pennsylvania. As president , my goal to restore safety to our streets democrats are elevating left wing war on cops and bring it up to the white house in the form of sleepy joe biden. The headliners are senator Bernie Sanders and former first lady Michelle Obama. We will have coverage starting at 7 00. That is followed by cbs monday prime time shows, and a special edition of kpix 5 at 10 00 and our news at 11 00. Stick with us all week long for the latest on the convention. For more coverage, had to kpix. Com. A couple of small earthquakes rattled the south bay this afternoon. 3. 3 before 1 30, 2. 9 right on its heels in the same area, no damage. We are following some breaking news in napa county, lets take a live look where the hennessey fire is burning around 2400 acres. Crews are dealing with rough terrain and warm conditions there. They are mainly stationed along Hennessey Ridge road in the valley road, east of st. Helena. More than 200 residents have been told to evacuate and it is 0 contained. We saw the pictures here, you were going to tell us that this stuff is sticking around for a while. The storms are exiting so we are not going to see any additional lightning strikes but the storms over the past couple of days, as unusual as they were, sparked numerous fires around the bay area. Conditions right now in napa county, temperatures, it is hot. Low to mid 90s, humidity in the 25 to 40 which could be worse and so could the winds. They are light up to around 10 Miles Per Hour to move the fire but not enough for it to outpace the efforts of the fire crews. With the fire crews have to battle is the heat. Unfortunately the heat is going to slack off a little bit but not go anywhere as we had through the rest of the week. He to dome is anchored over vegas with the air rotating around it and that is why we see the unusual pattern with the weird summertime thunderstorms. Wherever the airflow is it will grab it and pull it towards us with moisture in that direction courtesy of the tropical pacific. There was a Tropical Storm that fell apart but the remnants got caught up in the southerly flow and went up towards us. You need warm, unstable air, moisture and some kind of trigger to get started and usually we lack at least one of those in the bay area but all three of those factors were present early yesterday morning and again today. We are still seeing a few thunderstorms with a few showers off the north county it is ground clutter around the radar site. Lightning strikes in the vicinity and south as well. Zooming in to put it in motion with activity moving to the north but still a few more lightning strikes and while there is rain on the radar a lot of it evaporates on the way down. The Movement Means that rain doesnt stay in place long enough to put out any fires caused by the lightning strikes. In addition to the lightning theres also the heat that we have to contend with. 93 in concord and 100 degrees in livermore with relief in the city. Upper 60s downtown, mid to upper 80s, not quite as hot and looking at the reason why cloud cover overhead is a combination of debris from the thunderstorm but also smoke overhead. The clouds are going to act like a blanket to keep temperatures warm overnight most spots dropping into the mid to upper 60s most of us in the 70s. 78 degrees to start the day. 59 degrees along the coast thanks to the layer trying to reassert itself so temperatures along the coast only reach the low 70s. Upper 80s, low 90s and further into the 90s if not above 100 degrees the hotspots as usual east of the diablo range in antioch and brentwood. Low 100s but the humidity while noticeable should ratchet downward a little bit. Its unpleasant but at least we dont have to worry about the unusual murkiness mugginess as well. Even hotter temperatures farther north including were some of those fires are ongoing for crews have to battle 105 degree temperatures in the vicinity throughout the afternoon tomorrow. Temperatures back off slightly as we head into wednesday and thursday. But they are well above average and its going to be hot. It just wont be recordsetting heat through the rest of the work week into the weekend. The base temperature should retreat to the 70s by the end of the week. At 5 30 we will take a look at tomorrows records, how close we will be and the hour by hour temperatures as we heat up. Hard to believe that 97 seems cool. A coronavirus search on campus, the outbreak forcing one college to reverse its plans at the end of the semester. The new reward announced. Are record for the nasdaq. 110 points finishing over 11,000 leading the charge, the s p gained nine points ending just shy of its re we love our new home. Theres so much space. We have a guestroom now. But, we have aunts. Youre slouching again, ted. Expired, expired. Expired. Thanks, aunt bonnie. Its a lot of house. I hope you can keep it clean. At least geico makes bundling our home and Car Insurance easy. 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We have some video from the ground, you can see how massive the flames are up close the crews are trying to keep them away from those homes and so far containment is zero but we will keep you updated with new information as it comes in. Here is a look at other top stories, the marsh fire exploding to nearly 2000 acres today. This is what it looks like this afternoon. Evacuation warnings are in place nearby for residents of the canyon. There is a shelter