I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Lets get to meteorologist mary lee with the hot forecast. Here we go, we are looking at our extreme heat continuing for us today and with it, with those daytime highs, likely tying or breaking records. We have some cooling centers open. Santa rosa will have them from 11 00 to 7 00 four people trying to get some relief from the heat at Rincon Valley library and the Salvation Army senior center. If you do go out there, you will need to wear your mask as well as social distance. In santa rosa, highs are in the triple digits. It is 104 in concord and around the bay, low to mid 80s. 80 for San Francisco and 86 for oakland. Because of this extreme heat, excessive heat warnings remain in effect due to this persistent and dangerous heat and it remains in effect not just for today but actually through 9 00 wednesday. So we are still looking at the heat and going to cool down a little bit. Temperatures will be slightly erdeils up in just a bit firefighters are battling the extreme heat once again this afternoon for those burning around the bay area. For the latest on those fires burning in napa county, lets go live to keit do. We were just up near the fire lines and we can see a lot of preparation for the fight later on today and a lot of orange glow in the sky, telling us the fire is still very active. Out here, this is the farthest the republican go. There is a chp roadblock around his age canyon road and silverado trail. It is here. Containment is 0 contained and 205 structures are threatened and mandatory evacuations are in place. The fire is a very active burn night. This was the scene along lower chillys valley road. It started sometime around noon yesterday and by sundown, it blew up to more than 2000 acres and by nightfall, crews were still battling the flames as they came down ridgeline and close on the historic nicolini family winery. They helped the fire fires by opening gates, and also ensuring access to water. The winery says they have done their best to get ready for this moment. We are always prepared for a fire. We prepare every year and we fire safe our structures and prepare our buildings and when things like this happen, we just execute our plan to keep it as safe and free from fires as we can. The fires can be overwhelming and you just have to do the best you can. There are fiveing d offices the wiry property but ey area. Cused on nd coiobeer een deru terhowiy fothe fire th were on a burning elsewhere. Reporter keeping an eye on other fires in the bay area, starting off in contra costa county. There are mandatory evacuations in place. This is near brentwood, a fire about 1500 acres right now and it is 0 contained. This is at deer valley road and marsh creek road southwest of friendswood. It is the deer zone complex fire and there are about 150 homes that have been evacuated. Those fires are believed to have been sparked by lightning. To santa clara county, hundreds of people in sunol are still under evacuation. Flames have burned through almost 1800 acres. The fire is also 0 contained at last word. We are hoping to get some updated information from cal fire but earlier yesterday, the fires briefly forced a mandatory Evacuation Order for residents oflastnight, the win and temperatures came down, so cal fire likely was able to strengthen those containment lines a little bit overnight. They had a large firefight ahead of them today before those residents will be allowed home. In a state wide flex alert, they are in effect. There were not any rolling blackouts last night. This comes as san jose mayor sam liccardo is accusing pg e of lying to its customers about Power Outages. Folks in this neighborhood lost their power saturday for nearly 48 hours because of a broken transformer. It was finally restored yesterday afternoon. Mayor liccardo blasted pg e, claiming utility was dishonest when it blamed its rolling blackouts on the California Independent system to turn off power. Certainly the heat is in the debating factor. The fundamental reason is the inadequate infrastructure that pg e has failed to maintain and replace over many years. . I have zero trust in pg e. There is no rolling blackouts that went into effect last night as expected. Pg e said outages could continue through thursday depending on the evolution of the heat wave. His go outside to the bay bridge and take a look at the traffic. Cars are starting to stack up so lets go right over to gianna with your morning commute. It is getting busy. Those lights have been flipped on. You can see how traffic is getting busy and slow. Past this point, it is pretty much bumpertobumper up the incline. It is extra slow there. Once youre past that portion, it eases up into the city. Looks better off the skyway but it is slow. I want to update you on some closures along 128 due to the hennessey fire between the silverado trail and napa county but those are still in effect. Back to our fire watch, a wildfire burning in Santa Cruz County has now more than doubled in size. The fire broke out north of davenport and flames have scorched 120 acres with containment at 5 . Lightning is being blamed for sparking the fire. It comes as Santa Cruz County has just gotten word it is now off the watch list. Five other counties were just added. Mendocino, and Sierra County is under the microscope. There are a total of 42 counties on the watch list and then eagle county may be removed as soon as today. We are seeing an encouraging trend in californias fight. The governor says the numbers are down and there are 6400 new cases over the past 14 days. The test Positivity Rate is averaging 6. 5 and hospitalizations are down 21 . Dr. Anthony fauci will speak at a Commonwealth Club on monday at 11 00. You need to buy tickets to join the program virtually. Looking live at San Francisco, where today Health Officials will decide whether to reopen walkup covid19 testing at outdoor sites. They were suspended yesterday over the heightened risk of lightning. Weather conditions will be monitored today. In napa county, a testing site will be relocated today from the calistoga fairgrounds to the napa valley expo. That is due to fire response needs and for a full list of all the testing sites across the bay area, go to our website, kpix. Com. Police in marin are cracking down and planning a sting operation aimed at catching anyone not wearing a mask. Several marin officers are prepared to write citations for people not wearing masks, which come with the fine ranging from 25 500. They will begin patrolling larkspur, and other areas looking for anyone without a face covering. Memorial health last night at American Canyon for a teenager shot and killed outside a safeway in napa county happened. 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Call or go online today. It is a 6 13. Our excessive heat extreme continues for the bay area and because of that, warnings are still in effect. We have learned hundreds of San FranciscoSchool Bus Drivers are about to lose their jobs. Some after decades behind the wheel. The president of smart union local 1741 confirmed all 249 School Bus Drivers for sfusd are now being laid off. Many drivers are wrought with emotion. I am short of crying right now. They do not know what to do. To be told youre going to lose your health care and be unemployed in the middle of a pandemic, i think it is immoral. They say despite budget cuts other districts are still paying their drivers but sfusd which contracts out its bus services to a Company CalledFirst Student, has decided not to go that route. In a statement, the School District said quote the district pays First Student approximately 30 million annually to bus approximately 3500 sfusd students and we continue to face a budget shortfalls and cannot afford to continue paying for nonservice. We want prioritizing students, families, and staff. For students is a layoffs are intact but it will govern Health Insurance for laidoff drivers for the end of september. Some schools in Sacramento County are we opening their doors to students for in person instruction. Jackson elementary is one of five Elementary Schools reopening classrooms in the rescue union School District, just outside of sacramento. They plan to operate under a combination of in class and virtual instruction with students divided into morning and afternoon groups. And to stay uptodate on all the changes with the school year, check out the special section on our website, kpix. Com backtoschool. His get over to mary lee with how to cope with todays weather. Yes, it is going to be another hot day across the bay area with our extreme heat continuing. It is not over yet. I will say we are no longer looking at the threat of thunderstorms or the tropical moisture. It is to our north and away from us. We are not looking at the thunderstorm threat but still dealing with the ket. Santa rosa has cooling centers open from 11 00 to 7 00, and i want to talk about the smoke. We are looking at smoky conditions. This is the Mount Hamilton camera. This is because of the marsh lets show yoburning to the tob. Temperatures. We are in the 60s and 70s and we have a warm start our day. Concord is 71 and oakland is 66 and livermore is 73. It is 71 in san jose and 61 for santa rosa. We have the latest on the marsh fire. Current conditions are what firefighters are up against. Mid 80s right now for the marsh fire. At least in that area, looking at humidity at 33 and winds are light at five miles an hour. Firefighters are at least looking at those light conditions and the winds are not really a factor. The hennessey fire is burning east of st. Helena, with temperatures in the upper 70s and maybe at 53 humidity. Northerly winds around two miles an hour. The deer zone fire is burning southwest of brentwood and temperatures are in the upper 70s. This morning, we have warm temperatures but there are calm e goat gh are goto upnst the today. Excessive heat warnings are in effect for the bay area due to this persistent and dangerous heat and we will stay in effect all the way until 9 00 tomorrow. Lets show you the temperatures. Through the afternoon, record tying or recordbreaking highs are a possibility, especially for santa rosa, livermore, and concord. It is because of the strong ridge of High Pressure. The inland heat continues and as we go through later on into the week, that ridge moves away and the system will usher in some stronger onshore flow. We are not quite as hot later in the week. There is some relief from the heat coming our way. Here are the daytime highs. 95 in san jose, 94 for santa clara, 104 in concord and pleasant hill, 102 for livermore and low to mid 80s around the bay. Mid to upper 90s to triple digits around here. Heres the extended forecast. Temperatures are heating up once again tomorrow and then a little cooler as we look into thursday and the rest of the week. That is your look at weather. Lets look at traffic now. We have cooler temperatures at some point. Was bound bay bridge, the commute out of east bay into the city is a busy one. There are brake lights at the toll plaza. You are back to the overpass, almost to the foot of the maze. It is slower. We will see traffic off the east shore freeway and westbound 580. There are a lot of brake lights and it eases up as you work your way across the rest of the upper deck. It is still busy as well here. There is roadwork near washington. It should be wrapping up shortly. In earlier crash in the area kind of slowed things down pretty earlier for that ride along 680. Of there and southbound 680 into the sunol grade. You might want to stick with 880. That is an easier commute. The connector from 80 to 680 is okay. There is a crash westbound 205 right around International Parkway with more on the 580 towards north flynn. Other than that, it is the usual stuff, and i took a look at highway 4. There is east shore freeway. It is okay. It is bogging you down near the island. That is a look at traffic. The time is 6 20. Coming up, streaming on cbsn bay area, new selor is helping out pet owners who need it most. The special virtual memorials. Itsame davere at banlier they gigin. Were live. Its game on, with gigspeed internet from xfinity. Start him. Sit him. Trade him. Xfinity delivers fast, reliable internet with speeds up to a gig. Learn more, or get started with xfinity internet for 24. 99 a month for 12 months. 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A bay area woman getting a lot of attention this morning. How she is using her coronavirus connection to throw support behind biden. We are tracking more triple digit temperatures today and when we will start to cool off. It is tuesday, august 18th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Lets go to meteorologist mary lee. We are counting down the cool off. We are for sure. Relief is on the way. It is coming eventually for us by the end of the week and in the meantime it is about the extreme heat that continues in effect for us in the bay area. At least we are not dealing with a strong thunderstorms like we did yesterday and over the weekend. An excessive heat warning remains in effect and all th way until 9 00 wednesday due to this persistent and dangerous heat. We are looking at 80 degrees in San Francisco, 86 in oakland, 95 in san jose and 104 in concord. Highs are 12 to 17 degrees above average for this time of year. Temperatures will skyrocket this afternoon. Here is the latest on the hennessey fire. Current conditions are 79 degrees and humidity is 53 and northerly winds are at two miles an hour. Firefighters are battling back fire and stealing with the calm conditions. We are in the mid80s there and the deer zone fire has easterly winds at six miles an hour. There are warm temperatures and they were really heat up through the afternoon. Firefighters will be up against the extreme heat of this afternoon. Lets check in with our reporter with the latest on the fire burning there. Good morning, we were just up the street checking out the latest conditions on the hennessey fire. We saw a lot of equipment being staged on the side of the road. Firefighters have been working on this all night. If you try to come out here, this is what youre going to see, a chp roadblock on the corner of sage canyon road and silverado trail. This is the access around highway 128. They cannot come here. This has cooled off considerably. The winds are calm and this is giving firefighters a chance to gain some ground and they are going to need all the help they can get. The fire had grown to 2400 acres and containment is at 0 for the hennessey fire. 205 structures are threatened and mandatory evacuations are in place. The fires are very active with intense burning into the night. This is sage canyon road. The fire started sometime yesterday around noon and by sundown, it had exploded to well over 2000 acres and by nightfall, crews are still battling the flames as they came down a ridgeline and close down on the historic nicolini winery. Some stayed on the property to help firefighters. We are working in close conjunction with them. We had our property here, so we have to prepare it so they can come in and out. Right now you can see your opening up a gate, getting ready so they have access through the properties and can get to the Water Systems and stuff. When they get to a certain stage, we will leave but right now, we are just trying to assist all weekend. There are about a halfdozen structures between homes and offices and they are focused on defending and saving them. It has been a long night for this crews that have been dousing thematmit betingtheir w possibly tinkers. We are seeing none of that now and yesterday, they dealt with 60 spot fires across the region as they were chasing down a lot of hotspots that were popping up throughout the day. Theres lots of activity around the napa valley. We have more on the fires burning throughout the region with anne makovec. I am keeping an eye on this that has been burning in the nevada city area. This is in yuba county. The problem is a lot of people live in that area, so about 4000 people are evacuating. A lot of it is along the south forks of the yuba river, what has been giving firefighters trouble, that it has been moving south through these drainage systems in nevada county. It has burned less than 400 acres but those evacuations continue right now and this also started early yesterday morning. It is believed to have been started by the lightning. The main goal of the firefighters today as the sun comes up and they try to do more water and fire retardant drops from the errors to try to keep the fire west of highway 49 and hopefully we will have good news once they get a better look at the fire now that the sun is coming up. Lets check in with gianna. Many closures are in effect along 121. There is an official Traffic Alert that has been issued. Chp is on scene. 128 is completely shut down between 121 and silverado trail. Other closures in and around their conclude sage canyon road and avoid the area and his alternates if you can. We are dealing with delays this morning, up to 25 minutes. This is due to mechanical problems between pleasanton and more. It is between richmond and berkeley. Looking live, where today is day two of the Democratic National convention. It is taking place virtually pick we heard from Michelle Obama on the first night of the Convention Last night along with senator Bernie Sanders. They both took aim at President Donald Trump and how he has handled the pandemic. Nero fiddled while rome burned. Trump golfs. s actions of fans this pandemic. The speeches were broken up by a musical performance and guest interviews aimed at highlighting the democrats policy priorities. One interviewee getting a lot of attention is from in the bay area. This woman shared her fathers a story to urge people to support joe biden. Take a listen in. I am one of the many who has lost a loved one to fit. My dad, mark anthony, should be here today. But he is not. He had faith in donald trump. He voted for him, listen to him, his only preexisting condition was trusting donald trump and for that, he paid with his wife. Tonight at minder is former president bill clinton and bidens wife, doctor jill biden. We will have cover starting at 7 00 followed by cbs monday prime time shows and a special edition of kpix 5 news that 10 00 and our news 11 00. Stay with us all time for the convention and more coverage at trained to. Looking at the white house, President Donald Trump announced he will pardon susan b anthony, arrested for voting in 1872 in a time where only men were allowed to vote. This comes amid the prediction he made during a Campaign Stop in minnesota. We are going to win this estate and take back the white house. President donald trump touted his record of helping the Mining Industry and claimed joe biden would shut down the range if he won. Today, President Donald Trump is going to iowa to toll the damage. He will meet with governor kim reynolds talk about the local state and federal response. Today, House Speaker nancy pelosi will hold a Virtual Event outside a post office in San Franciscos Bayview District if she is leading the event ahead of the early returned into session this week to vote against the trump administrations proposed changes to the Postal Service. Another will be hosting a similar event this morning at 10 00 in palo alto in it will be at the post office on hamilton avenue and she will be joined by constituents who will speak out on changes to the Postal Service and their potential impacts on prescription delivery, Social Security benefits, and absentee erblitin, swicinwill be at the post office on village parkway. Congresswoman barbara lee will hold an emergency town hall this afternoon along with a panelist like a Voting Rights advocate. His go live to the big board. The dow is up a bit in the green at 13 points per the numbers, as we have learned there is a big rebound on u. S. Home construction. It surged 22. 6 . We will have an update from jason brooks in just a few minutes. Santa clara county is cracking down on businesses that violate the Coronavirus Health order. They handed out notices to three different shops last week and is a warninnotifying them about potential fines and giving them a grace period to make changes. Such laws defy the Health Orders and open for indoor surfaces. From San Francisco to los angeles, some barbers and stylists are protesting the lockdown, saying they cannot close any longer and Outdoor Services just are not cutting it. Looking at san jose, the deadlock for Small Businesses to get in their application for a Grant Program is midnight tonight. They are offering one for five grants of 15,000 each to cover working capitol. Are fears of traveling dying down . We have news of the new upticks from customers. Here is a hazy look with south bay san jose, looking at 71 in san jose. We have excessive heat warnings that remain in effect. Details are coming up. A reminder, we want a new app that gives you easy 24 7 access to cbsn bay its game day live, here at bill and julies house. A fanfavorite venue, ever since they got gigspeed internet. Hey, amy . Wanna grab a seat . Were live. Its game on, with gigspeed internet from xfinity. Start him. Sit him. Trade him. Xfinity delivers fast, reliable internet with speeds up to a gig. Learn more, or get started with xfinity internet for 24. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, switch to Xfinity Mobile and for a limited time get 400 off an eligible Samsung Galaxy 5g phone. Click, call or visit a store today. It is 6 44. Excessive heat warnings uebay area and that will be in effect throughout 9 00 wednesday due to this persistent and dangerous heat. We are not dealing with thunderstorms today. That threat of storms is over. I will have the full forecast coming up. Stocks are in the green. Joining us on the phone, jason brooks is here. Were looking at the s p trading above its previous record close and the nasdaq is moving further into record territory. Homebuilder stocks are moving up. It has been sizzling. The report new Home Construction surged over 22 higher in july from the prior month while they had a bigger gain compared to a year earlier. Homebuyer demand has surged during the pandemic due to regular mortgagerates also working from home. Homebuilders stocks are moving higher and that is a big help for the overall market. The dow is up 29 points and it is over 29,000. The nasdaq gained six into and the s p is up by 10 points. Thank you. The u. S. Is marking 100 years since the 19th amendment first allowed women the right to vote. In just about 15 minutes ago, President Donald Trump announced he will pardon susan b anthony, arrested for voting back 87 in seneca falls, some professional women skydivers celebrated the centennial. They touched down after the National Womens hall of fame. Here is a look at sfo. The airport Just Announced it will reopen International Terminal a in september after five months of being closed. The tsa had a busy weekend, screening more than 860,000 travelers on sunday. This marks the second sunday in a row the number topped 800,000 since the start of the pandemic. Though the numbers are show an uptick, there is still significant downs. It is 65 compared to 2019. Our saleorlooking east and that is a beauty shot but the weather today is a bit ugly with those hot temperatures. Lets check in with meteorologist mary lee for a look at the forecast. That is a beautiful sunrise. We are looking at that heat. It does continue for the bay area, so our extreme heat as we look ahead to the afternoon, it continues through tomorrow as well. We are not dealing with severe thunderstorms, strong storms like yesterday. That threat is over. Tropical moisture is to our north and away from us, so we do not have that to think about or worry about. We are looking at smoky conditions. Here is a look at the Mount Hamilton camera. That is smoke burning from the marsh fire, that is east of milpitas and we are still looking at some hazy and smoky skies as we go through our afternoon with those wildfires still burning around the bay area. Temperatures are in the 60s and 70s as we start off our day. 71 in concord, livermore is 73, 61 in San Francisco, 71 in san jose and santa rosa at 61. We are looking at recordtying or recordbreaking highs once again through our afternoon. It is for places like santa rosa, livermore, and concord. Because of this, excessive heat warnings are continuing for the bay area and will be in place until 9 00 wednesday because of this extreme heat. Now, because of these hot temperatures, the city of santa rosa will be opening up cooling centers from 11 00 until 7 00 at Rincon Valley library and the senior center. If you go out, definitely put on your math. You will need to wear that along with social distancing. You can get some relief from the heat. The strong ridge of High Pressure is the reason why we are going to continue to heat things up. Inland heat is continuing until the end of the week and some relief is coming for us thankfully. This low pressure system over the gulf of alaska moves into the pacific northwest. It will rush in with the ocean breeze. It is not as hot later in the week. This afternoon is 94 in santa clara, 95 for san jose and 97 for campbell. Triple digit heat for the east bay. Concord is 104, the trivalley is 102, and low to mid 80s around the bay. It is 86 in oakland for the north bay, mid to upper 90s to triple digit heat. 102 in santa rosa and 100 for petaluma and 101 in ukiah and 101 for windsor and st. Helena. Here is what you cant expect. We will cool down a little bit. It is not as hot on thursday and that will be the case until the end of the work week into the weekend. The 90s never felt so good. Hard to think we are looking to the upper 90s after dealing with that extreme heat. Lets check in with gianna for look at traffic. The upper 90s sounds pretty good. Taking look at the roadways, we will start with public transit. Here are some delays. They are dealing with some delays with the train number 1. That is good news. Train number 3 has no troubles. We have some delays around 521, delayed at 25 minutes between richmond and berkeley due to earlier speed restrictions west of martinez. And then there are Metro Rail Service changes coming august 22nd with some changes there. Check that schedule. The bay bridge toll plaza is backed up. It is a slow ride into the city. There are some brake lights up the incline getting busy off the skyway into San Francisco. We have had a slow ride along 680 northbound out of fremont and there are a lot of brake lights not far from washington. It looks like things are taking a little longer than expected, so expect some brake lights. Southbound 680 has a crash that has been reported, our second one in that same area. 580 is business as usual. 34 minute drive time now to from 205 over towards the 680. Once you get on succeeding northbound, there are no delays. That is a look at your morning drive. Lots of active flames burning overnight in napa valley. We have a live report on the hennessey fire straightahead. Coming up, Michelle Obama headlines day one of the democratic convention, saying President Donald Trump is in over his head. Gretchen whitmer also went after the president , accusing him of being divisive during the pandemic. The governor will join us live today. We continue our School Matters a series with a look at learning paths as an alternative to the classroom. Are they creating educational inequality . We will talk about 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. 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It started around noon yesterday and by sun down, it will up to over 2000 acres and by nightfall, crews were battling the flames as it cames down and then it closed on the nickel he winery. There are about a halfdozen structures including homes and offices and that is what they are focused on defending right now. It has been a long night for crews that had stayed up to douse any embers their way. We will give you an update later on in the broadcast but here is more on the fires burning in the region. We are monitoring the big fire in santa clara county. Hundreds of people in sunol are evacuated. It has burned 1800 acres and it is 0 contained. This is a combination of four vegetation fires which started over the weekend just north of milpitas. The cause appears to be the lightning we saw. The goal for fire crews today is to take advantage of some of the progress they were able to make overnight, where the weather was cooperative and they were dealing with some cooler temperatures and lighter winds to try to get those containment lines really dug in. We will monitor it throughout the day. It is 6 57. Time for look at the other top stories. Day two of the Democratic NationalConvention Kicks off today. It is taking place virtually this year in wisconsin. We heard from Michelle Obama and senator Bernie Sanders last night. On tap tonight, bill clinton and joe biden. We have learned hundreds of San FranciscoSchool Bus Drivers are about to lose their jobs. Sfusd says as they face a budget shortfalls, they cannot afford to continue paying for a nonservice. More Power Outages are still a possibility today and another statewide flex alert is in effect. We are asked to conserve electricity, especially from 3 00 to 10 00 to prevent straining the power grid. Today, nearly 3 dozen survivors plan to confront the Golden State Killer before he is formally sentenced to life in prison. Joseph James Deangelo took a plea deal that spared him the Death Penalty for 13 murders and several rapes. Police in marin are planning a sting operation. They are prepared to give citations to people not wearing masks. It comes with a find ranging from 25 500. Officers will patrol larkspur, and other areas. As we look at the roadways, he raised the traffic out of the east bay. We have some slow inclines and eastbound 80 around Treasure Island has reports of a broken down vehicle in the ernufi wembbound 58ve0 he. There are no delays on two 680 and highway 4 is in the clear. Another day of extreme heat, excessive heat warnings in effect for today and all the way until 9 00 on wednesday. Concord is in the triple digits and also for santa rosa. Napa and fairfield are looking at triple digits for the livermore area midnineties in san jose and low to mid 90s the bay. On thursday, it gets a little bit cooler. We have that to look forward to. It is not as hot as what we have seen. That continues all the way through the weekend. Back to you. Foo foo good morning to you, our viewers in the west, and welcome to cbs this morning. Its tuesday, august 18th, 2020. Im gayle king with Anthony Mason and tony dokoupil. Coming out swinging. Former first lady Michelle Obama launches a blistering attack on President Trump in her speech to the Democratic National convention. How democrats lined up to slam the president and throw support behind joe biden. Counterattack. President trump accuses democrats of being socialists. And says he can only lose if the election is rigged. Plus, what he says is behind his sharp criticism of the u. S. Postal service. Outbreak on campus. Multiple universities report a coronavirus surge among students who just returned to school. How parties are fueli