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Oakland santa rosa, even san jose on the muggy side of things for the current feel of the air as for our advisories extreme heat warnings in effect in pink areas all across the east bay, heat advisories in orange right alongside the shore of the bay now for these pink areas, youre going to have daytime highs well in excess of triple digits in many cases and then warm night so not a whole lot of overnight cooling occurring here, especially for inland valleys in the east bay and then up into the north bay to some of our hottest of areas actually seeing some activity on satellite and radar this morning a couple of sprinkles around half moon bay, currently that cloud cover that youre seeing offshore that is the remnants of the tropical system thats giving us our humid feel not going to be seeing any sort of widespread shower activity but for those of you out along the coastline, seeing a couple of sprinkles right now. 80s for San Franciscos daytime high today 90s in oakland and san jose at 99 degrees. Couple of other areas like campbell right and blacks to sign has san jose up into the triple digits. Im talking a lot more triple digits in the rest of your forecast. All still to come in the show james all right, thank you very much john 5 oh one is the time lets get to our Team Coverage to help manage this heat wave, we have cooling centers that are going to open across the bay area today and kron fours will tran is live in Pleasant Hill with more on that part of the story well. Deans the cooling center right behind me will open up in a few hours from now and its available for those who dont have airconditioning or simply cannot afford to pay their air conditioning you can come down here but remember this is not your typical cooling center anymore because of covid19 they are encouraging you to bring your own water if you possibly can and of course wear your mask because you will have to practice social distance, let me take you back on what john had to say yes, he has all his fancy computers, but i have the will mobile and right now in Pleasant Hill it reads 75 degrees and theres some pockets. They come up to about 78 there is only 5 oclock in the morning. So we expect the bay area to cook especially in the east bay and thats why i want to draw your attention to the screen. There are cooling Centers Available to you. We dont know of any in San Francisco, highly doubt it because San Francisco has air conditioning but we do know several in the east bay, so if you are in livermore this is available to you Robert Livermore Community Center located at 4, 4, 4, 4, east avenue and then theres thats at the senior Nick Rodriguez Community Center. Located at 2, 1, 3 f street in Pleasant Hill my location and thats off a 400 elling woodway and the bottom line is its basically an area where jfk university as i can see the freeway right in front of me if you need a landmark for that and if you live in richmond go to the District Office at 13 05. Mcdonnell avenue it is going to be out. Just scorcher all over the bay area make sure you have your sunscreen work out as soon as you possibly can and dont do it in the afternoon because you can get heat stroke. Make sure dont leave your pets or children in the car of course with the windows rolled up. That is just obviously my pet peeve dont do that and my favorite cooling center will add to that one will let me and theres the James Fletcher cooling center. You wont let me in thanking always go to costco go inside the dairy section thats what i do to keep cool. Thank you. Not to mention the aloha friday shirt got to take it in stride. Thank you very much well. Theres also a statewide power alert because of the heat pg e says we need to prepare in case there are Power Outages kron fours reyna harvey is live in fremont with that angle high heidari a good morning and i have some good news for anybody whos up right now watching pg and e does not plan on shutting off anybodys power today tomorrow, the next few days, however, we all know things can change, but there are a lot of people at home right now during the pandemic a lot of people working from home. Parents teaching in schooling from home so pg and e taking all of that into consideration, they know how many bay area residents are currently reliant on that power supply, however, there is a flex alert in place today that starts at 3 oclock and goes until 10 00pm this evening. And basically they are urging residents to save electricity during peak hours because of high heat there, asking you adjust your thermostat to about 78 degrees or higher or turn it off or you know while youre away from home also unplug any power strips that youre not using at that moment, turning off those vacuums and waiting to do your laundry and washing dishes until after 10 oclock that might be hard for some people now we hear from pg and e regarding the planned Power Outages take a listen. Pg e is preparing for Power Outages and we want our customers to prepare for possible Power Outages as well the genie is not. Initiating a Public Safety power shutoff pg does not foresee the need to initiate and Public Safety power shutoff for the next several days over the next week. Pg and e say theyve learned from their past experiences about how just disruptive it can be to turn off peoples power and they know people needed during this time and theyre also sending out additional crews to be able to check on any of those Power Outages that are unplanned if they do happen for now reporting on here in fremont harvey kron 4 news, thanks a lot rana. Restaurants and shops across the bay area are also try to find ways to compensate for the heat in downtown los altos businesses have been setting up umbrellas as you can see here and canopies to try to keep their customers cool. They dont mind sweating a little bit. If theyre there to support businesses that have been struggling through this crisis. Were trying to encourage encourage people to still come and free to do whatever we can to keep people cool. But overall i think it should a successful weekend normally doesnt this hot here so is pretty hot. The past though its been pretty i guess well see over a 100 degrees again and again some of relies and the me their restaurant and other businesses are helping to keep it going in for people its its wonderful. Yes, some businesses are even offering sunscreen to their customers. Retail stores, however say the heat wave has been less of a worry than actually getting customers to come into their store and shop. Firefighters are on alert because of the heat as well after the tubbs fire in 2017 and the kincade fire in 2019 Sonoma County residents. Dont need a reminder. And how quickly fires can spread in this heat and when its dry while many might take the weekend thinking well its a great time to trim back the brush Fire Fighters say you shouldnt. We see a lot of people trying to do the right thing and trying to maintain their their seasonal grasses that have dried out get that second or 3rd cut in throughout the season. But all those type of activities or looking at its at the expense of temperatures like this or an opportunity did to ignite a fire from a spark. Fire Officials Say that you should have an evacuation plan in place. And that includes now that were living in coronavirus landau wdaf masks and Hand Sanitizer and all that as well in your to go bag. This year fire evacuations will consist of big parking lots where people will be screened. And then sent somewhere else where they can stay apart. Again dont want to spread coronavirus in the midst of a being a wildfire something were going to keep you updated on this and on the heat with our hourly forecast is well much more than hourly here on kron 4, but you can go to our 24 streaming app kron on as well download that. Well lets get to the south bay now where the Kaiser Medical Center in Santa Clara County is taking part in a global race to develop a covid19 vaccine and theyre looking for hundreds of volunteers to participate in the trial that theyre about the conduct. Kaiser plans to enroll approximately 1400 participants at 4 sites across california and oregon. The vaccine tested in this particular trial is done with the one developed by Pharmaceutical Company pfizer and German Biotechnology Company by and tech doctor nicole klein is the director of kaisers Vaccine Study Center and she says that researchers will also be looking at individuals through their Health Care Workers status or by being in a racial or ethnic minority. Were looking to enroll and adults who are between the ages of 1885 who are healthy. But were also looking for individuals who a number of underlying conditions. Who year at risk for getting caught the disease to their underlying conditions have participants will get vaccine and half the participants will get to see them but its a 2 dose and the doses are 21 days apart. And neither the participants nor the clinicians will know whos getting the vaccine or whos getting the placebo. Volunteers will be monitored for the next 2 years and the data will be gathered about the safety of the vaccine, the immune response and the efficacy as required by regulatory review, if youre interested in participating in this Clinical Study you have to be patient with kaiser and we posted more information on our website at kron 4 dot com for you to take a look at. In the east bay, the Oakland Unified School district is now loaning laptops to students though, so they can do Remote Learning roughly 7,000 students. Couldnt get in on monday for the first day of class because they didnt have a laptop or Internet Access in the spring a Citywide Campaign called oakland and divided raised about 12 and a half Million Dollars. So the district could buy all the computers you see there chromebooks and also provide portable hot spots for students. The district spokesperson says that the district on order this gear back in june. But distributors have struggled to get it to the schools on time. I like about him is just ordering computer itself. Were not the only ones doing it we are 25,000 to get border anyway, but the thing about all the other School Districts across the country all the other organizations across the country doing exactly the same time. Students are getting loan or equipment to tide them over theyre going to able to keep their a permanent equipment when they get their own laptops. Still ahead here on the kron 4 morning news, its been 4 years since the shooting killed this east may man but his family is still searching for his killer. Well have more on their publicly. Plus San Franciscos biggest industry expected to lose billions because of this pandemic well tell you how look financial hit could or how long it could last. And after the break state lawmakers unveiled the first in the nation wealth tax will tell you how much money they hope it will rake in if approved. And again, heres a quick look at temperatures will expect later on today is john been telling us we are on the doorstep now of a heat wave that will be with us all weekend long and even into next week. And heres just a taste of what were going to get a look at that 03 00pm line across the bottom the hottest time of day. And along the coast 80 degrees bay shoreline 95. And the inland valleys will be above a 100 well be right back and 14 right now and the big news is the weather because we are looking at a heat wave john. Yes, theyre ready. Not going to be talking about this one for sure were used to heat at times in the bay area but these next few days are really going to be a scorcher. Even for most inland areas which have been hot already. This is going to be the hottest of the year. So far you look outside at the Golden Gate Bridge, definitely no fog. No marine layer to spare us even out towards the coast today. Any sort of sprinkle activity youre seeing at the coastline is not associated with any sort of cool marine flow, rather a very warm and moist system having pushed its way up this tropical moisture is resulting in the humid feel that we had yesterday some of those sprinkles that you have this morning around half moon bay, lets zoom out and get the Bigger Picture here so this is that low pressure area, the remnants of a tropical system that has worked its way up the coastline and is now sitting right offshore of the bay area. Thats giving us the humid feel High Pressure is going to work its way back in the coming days, were going to raise the humidity were going to keep the hot weather around though hot weather today means excessive heat warnings in pink for inland areas, heat advisories in orange for areas closer to the bay in coast. Hes in when areas that are in the pink can expect expect to experience triple digit heat as well as warm evening, so not a whole lot of relief during the evening hours from our hottest temperatures during the day. Daytime highs today 80s for much of San Francisco, including mission in financial districts. 80s in daly city well pacific elder not in half moon bay, some of your more comfortable areas. But certainly hotter than normal. Half moon bay close to 80 degrees. Burlingame in millbrae in the 90s today also 90s for saying carlos redwood City Mountain view and palo alto some hotter temperatures right there on the peninsula. Triple digit heat for a couple of south bay cities. Campbell Saratoga Los Gatos and morgan hill. Each at or above 100 degrees today same for you in the tri valley Fremont Union city hayward on up through san leandro and oakland all in the 90s right along the bayshore conquered in danville at one 07 and a 110 degrees today in vacaville. Fairfield youll be at one o 9 today with the antioch pittsburgh all the way over towards nevado all in the triple digits as for tomorrow temperatures will remain in the triple digits for inland areas, we cool off somewhat into sunday still going to be hot just not as hot as what we are going to be today. Temperatures kick back into gear back into the triple digits into early next week. So really not a whole lot of relief from the heat in this forecast, ill keep you updated as we work our way through the morning. James. Thank you very much john quick check of the bridges now as we look at traffic around the bay. Its a friday morning so were expecting things to hopefully state light. So far so good here at the bay bridge toll plaza youre still moving through the toll gates without any slowdown and no problems on the span either from here, lets jump in the san mateo bridge where traffic there on 9 to 2 actually has been moving fairly well and as you can see nothing much has changed on that front, its only 00 17am in the morning. So we dont expect things to get too heavy probably for another hour or so on a typical day, but well see how we shape things up on a friday. Today marks 4 years since the death of terence Mccrary Mccrary was shot and killed by a stray bullet. While he was at a party in oakland in 2016 and today. There are still a lot of questions on answered take a look at the scene from that night 2016 of the 300 block of 15th street, hundreds of people were running from gunfire. You see that the police say there was a confrontation between a group of men and that resulted in a second victim dying. Craig Fletcher Cooks as well, a suspect otis wyatt now faces murder charges for Fletcher Cook staff, but its not clear who pulled the trigger on the stray bullet that struck mccrary. I feel that its gotten harder because the desire for a mother to want to see justice served for ingested. Its extremely difficult you dont get to see him have kids or create a family or you know change the world anymore we have to do it for them and so we want to make sure people remember we love. Terence says family is asking anybody who knows anything about his death to contact the Oakland Police department. From the Police Officer who rescued a man in lodi his wheelchair got stuck on Railroad Tracks and a train was barreling towards him. Ryan hill has the story. Health clinging train horn blowing adrenaline pumping haha veteran lodi Police Officer erica, you re a is trying to save this man who is wheelchair stuck on the real track from certain death has only one thing on her mind to me a good thing. The train was still a ways away. But as i got up tom and on. And grabbed onto my can see that rain just approaching and it was it was going pretty fast so i i just. He couldnt get the chair free so she pulled the man out of his chair as a train barreled towards them, you know think lease and then come back at the video practically put us right in my train flew by officer you re a feared the worst when i fell to the ground and i heard the noise like the train that crashed into something my initial thought was i didnt get home on time the man who suffered a leg injury and is now in the hospital was saved. This heroic officer tells me it was surreal watching her own body. Cam footage never experiencing anything this extreme while wearing the badge thats when you start thinking about ok this could have happened in that could have happened you know just like i said all the different scenarios that go through your head just cant just start pouring and help raise is pouring in through lifesaving though shes a true hero probably 99 of all caps would do the same thing but in that instance, i mean deferred think and react that quickly was awesome many got put him on his way to save his life. But the 14 year veteran doesnt feel heroic one of my family members would start or needed help i would hope that would someone would stop and help them and that was just a situation. The officer says she hasnt been able to speak with the man she saved she says that shes just hoping can recovers from his injuries. What california lawmakers are coming up with ways to boost state revenue amid the pandemic and one of the proposals includes a tax on the states richest of the rich. The bill would put an annual tax rate of 0. 4 on residents with a global net worth a 30 Million Dollars or more. Thats about 30,000 People Living in california to meet that criteria those subject to the wealth tax would need to report all Financial Assets to the Franchise Tax board. Lawmakers say this would be a first in the nation law generating what they expect to be 7 and a half billion dollars a year. Critics say this could push already vulnerable tax payers though to leave the state. We only have the highest income tax rate in america, its 13. 3 this notion of the wealth tax i think is it extremely portion and what frankly i doubt people getting traction even as progressive as this legislatures. Lawmakers say the proposal wont get a hearing or go through the legislative process before the end of the session which is on august 31st. Well take a break at 5. 22 coming up President Trump is questioning the eligibility of senator Kamala Harris in her bid to be the Vice President will tell you more about that and also more about the hot weather take a look temperatures this afternoon will be near or above a 100 degrees for a lot of our inland communities novato napa concord livermore antioch morgan hill it is going to be extremely hot day today and hot weekend ahead john trouble with more on that on that comi welcome back as you are stepping outside this morning. Youre noticing temperatures not really cooling off much during our overnight hours we are off to a warm start to the morning. And setting us up for a hot finish the day just going to look at these daytime highs were going to be experiencing conquered up to one 07 for the high today antioch livermore morgan hill now the and nevado all in the triple digits, Oakland Hayward fremont san jose easily in the 90s there along the east shore of the bay down into the south bay. As far as the timing of when he kicks into gear id say step outside this morning as much as you can get out there enjoy the 60s and 70s well, we got him by noon were already in the 90s inland and by you see it right there, triple digits making their return. Back to you. Thanks a lot. Ok, lets go on to what President Trump is pushing now a lie about senator Kamala Harris that shes not from this country. And so not eligible to be Vice President not through senator harris as we well know was born in oakland and yes is constitutionally eligible to be Vice President but during a News Conference yesterday, the president referred to an article in newsweek. That questions pariss eligibility and didnt denounce it flat out, but instead kind of promoted. So i just hear that i heard it. Today. That she doesnt meet the and by the way the road that peace is a very highly qualified very talented. A lawyer. I have no idea that you and i would have i would have assumed the democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for Vice President. Here is his parents are from jamaica and india and again shes from oakland. American brad bourn if elected shed be the first black and Asian American Vice President. The last time that trump floated a birth or a conspiracy. He falsely claimed that president barack obama was not born in the u. S. Im will tran and Pleasant Hill where its going to be triple digits, not just here but many parts of the bay area. Coming up well tell you cooling centers like this one right behind 5. 29 and the big news today is the weather because it is going to get hot and it was already hot last night full yet john were talking with triple digits. Inland again. Yeah, triple digits, inland even hotter today than yesterday was yesterday came along with matches hot conditions but that humid feel to it you still got that this morning you look outside at the Golden Gate Bridge there is no fog but we are seeing a couple sprinkles out there along the shoreline. As we do have some tropical moisture starting the bay area right now were in the 60s and 70s antioch a warm start for you 78 right now livermore at 75 conquered 72. Hayward and oakland also in the 70s this morning so not cooling off a whole lot during overnight hours. You can blame the humidity partially for that half moon bay, nevado santa rosa oakland and san jose, all looking at some pretty humid conditions this morning. Now conditions will dry gradually through the day today and for the rest of the forecast so youre going have a drier heat field still going to be just as hot though for much of the remainder of this forecast. And thats why excessive heat warnings in pink and heat advisories in orange here were going to remain well to the weekend into early next week, pink areas these are inland spots seeing temperatures today. Well in excess of a 100 degrees and also not a whole lot of overnight relief. Theres your sprinkles on the peninsula right there have been talking about we are seeing the remnants of a tropical system pushing right up against the bay area. Giving us the humid feel to the heat that we do have today. Todays daytime highs in the 80s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose. Well up into the 90s back to you. All right, thank you very much john well to help manage this heat wave, we have cooling Centers Opening up today across the bay area kron fours will tran has more on that part of the story for us. Coming to us live from Pleasant Hill or is it waikiki will good morning. This is as close as any of us will get to hawaii because i am not hopping on a plane so i get to use. A mile or shirt, whenever i do warm weather stories which i might as well wear this for the next what 4 or 5 days, according to john sure able. Its going to be a barn burner the heat wave right triple digits in the east bay cooling centers like this one right behind me will open up just a few hours from now for those. Who dont have air conditioning in james ive lived in places where ive rented ney said. You dont need air conditioning is only hot a few days a year thats the biggest alive has ever been told to me in my life if you can feel that pain. Well, a cooling center is right around the corner from you possibly because theres so many in the bay area available to is a take a look at your screen. If you are living in livermore and you dont have air conditioning these are your locations in the east bay, so lets start with livermore it set there Robert Livermore Community Center and its located at 4, 4, for 4 thats for force. At east avenue and if you live in antioch james your old stomping ground, we know a really cooks in antioch 2, 1, 3 f street. Pleasant hill my location its at 400 elling woodway and basically its right next to jfk university if you live in richmond, 13 05 make donald avenue so we highlighted the east bay locations but there are plenty of cooling centers in the south bay and all over the bay area for a complete list of that go to our website kron 4 dot com keep in mind. Its going to be really hot really quickly so get your workout on as early as you possibly can dont way into the afternoon because you could come down with heatstroke make sure to leave your kids or a pet in the car for a short amount of time because your car weve seen studies over it right weve seen experiments by reporters it doesnt take long for your car to hit triple digits, even if its only say 82 or 83 degrees at that particular time when you come down to a cooling center keep in mind this is not the cooling center 2019. Bring your mask and practice social distance james. Somebody set of a shave ice machine outside is cooling centers to thank you very much that the platinum of flipflops later on penny we were talking theyve already got wildfire problems in Southern California look at this the lake fire it scorched 11,000 acres so far in the Angeles National forest between Santa Clarita and palmdale thats north of l a and its only 5 contained that broke out wednesday afternoon and exploded to 10,000 acres. In 2 hours. The fire has destroyed 3 structures so far it is threatening about 5,000 other structures firefighters expect the lake fire to remain a major fire for the next several days. I dont know what caused it yet. And the ranch fire broke out as yesterday, its also in the Angeles National forest in la county it was initially reported to be about 2 acres when it first brokeiout now its 2500 acres bank. With new report from the San Francisco travel Association Revealing that the city can see a loss of nearly 11 billion dollars of the next 2 years because of falling tourism. This year San Franciscos expected to get less that half the visitors than last year total revenue from tourists is expected to be just over 3 billion dollars. Thats 67 less or should say that is 67 less then 2019 not only is this lack of revenue expected to translate into fewer tax dollars that fund city services, but its also jeopardizing a lot of jobs. A 1000 people last year were employed in the street, the streets are neighbors cars to friends and family members who dont have a job this year and also lot of Small Businesses that really depend on that tourist visitor in San Francisco, whether its a restaurant or Retailer Store performing arts group or our calendar you name. The San Francisco travel Association Says the support the cities are they support the cities, cautious response but theyre hoping this ban on hotel rooms for leisure travelers will be lifted soon. On the peninsula palo alto city leaders are considering a plan to add a covid surcharge 2 customers bills. Mayor adrian fine proposed the surcharge to help businesses that are struggling while the new plan was done with the intention of helping businesses. Some city leaders and small Restaurant Owners think itll actually. Scare away customers from tipping. Extra amount on their bills and residents and visitors will be able to pay i think that is a way to cast their pockets i think. Given the tenor and generosity. Her Community Think a lot of coltons will be happy to pay an extra 2, 5. 10 . Our local businesses to keep them afloat. Ive talked to quite few russian owners about this comes up and the longer really worried that if they. They include mister trumps comment. You know 19 surcharge that people are temple lot less so that means i want to thank all the money. No word yet on if the surcharge is going to be revisited at the next meeting. Still ahead on the kron 4 morning news this friday morning. Confusion in the east bay about whether federal funding for covid is being redirected to hire sheriffs deputies will have the details coming up and next. One less high touch surface for you to worry about a new look at the very first a cross walk in the nation that you dont have to touch to activate. And a look outside this morning at temperatures shows you daytime highs will eventually rise into the triple digits for concord livermore morgan hill napa novato and many others. It is going to be a hot afternoon. The welcome back in for a scorcher today yesterday was hot and humid across the bay area setting us up for even hotter weather today. Golden gate bridge you can actually start to see a few of the clouds overhead the remnants of aledo which is a tropical system thats skirting just west of the bay area. Thats whats bringing us the humid feel an addition to the heat 60s and 70s for your current temperatures, oakland at 70 to start this morning, pittsburgh. Fairfield livermore berkeley in the mid 70s, not really getting much overnight cooling. Later today, it is going to be warming up triple digit heat for much of the bay 90s for the east bay and 80s all the way up to the coast in some places like San Francisco, where youll see daytime highs in the mid 80s. James, all right john thank you lets go to the south bay where the nations first touch free. Technology is being installed along busy streets in Santa Clara County to limit surface touching. So the idea is of course to prevent the spread of covid19. So from now on instead of a button to activate the possession crosswalk signal the intersection has that motion sensing technology. So just got a waiver hand. And all the audio the visual touch responses will activate. When you see this sign on a traffic signal and it says way that the button. You dont have to touch the push back. We just wave your hand in front of this sign one to 3 inches away. And that is that the signal will tell you to wait until its safe to cross that this technology can be used any of that its already out there you know if you look at some of the you know paper dollar dispenser things like that. You know theres already contactfree youre able to do that today so, but we just at never talked about doing that on a protest and push button. The touch free activation devices will be installed at 25 expressway intersections with heavy pedestrian use across santa clara. Time now is 5. 42. And coming up next on the kron 00 04am morning news, multiple people in the white house, including the president vote by mail well tell you why trump says how over you should not be able to well have that dear california. We know these are challenging times. Rest assured, you are not alone. Weve all had to adapt. And with summer here, your energy bills might go up with rising temperatures. Together, we can save energy and money. Try closing your shades during the day. Setting your ac to 78 or higher. Or cooling off with a fan when you can. United we are always stronger. Stay well, california, and keep it golden. And we are back time now 5. 45, lets get straight to the Weather Center johns been keeping us updated on a dangerous heat wave for some john yeah, its not going to be fun for any of us, but for some as you mention james, definitely some dangerous heat to come. Weve got not a whole lot of overnight or leave temperatures are still warm this morning. And then youve got the triple digit heat just around the corner going to be really taken the cake as far as he goes. Yesterday was hot today even hotter. You look outside from berkeley, no fog, no marine layer to be sparing us these next few days. We do have some tropical moisture thats pushing up into the bay area making for that muggy feel and for some even a couple of sprinkles this morning. Again that is not your typical cool ocean air just the opposite as this low pressure area steers further north were going to eventually see less humid weather this weekend as High Pressure builds in though it is going to remain hot saw returning to dry heat in the days to come theres one plus its not going to be so sticky as you get outside. Extreme heat means heat advisories and heat warnings in pink here xx excessive heat warnings into the weekend and into the start of next week to these areas that are highlighted here can expect triple digit day time highs as well as warm nights and not a whole lot of relief even after the sun goes down. Todays highs in the 80s for portions of San Francisco like mission in financial districts. Well also in the 80s all the way up to the coast in daly city. Pacific an elder not a each at 76 today, some 90s mixed in right alongside the bayshore from Millbrae Burlingame south down into redwood city palo alto and mountain view, south bay temperatures saratoga Campbell Los Gatos in morgan hill all triple digits today, san jose at 99. 90s from freeman through hayward while triple digits in the tri valley on up through san Ramon Danville woman creek in concord oakland youll be at 91 today with triple digits in the north bay for Benicia Sonoma Vacaville Fairfield antioch in pittsburgh vacaville, not just triple digits, but a 110 for the high today, breaking records across the board for a lot of areas novato 100 degrees well sandra fell at 97 today. Tomorrows temperatures still triple digits for inland areas, although not quite as hot as today will be sunday will be the coolest one of the weekend before temperatures kick back up into the triple digits by tuesday of next week. So not a whole lot of relief in this forecast ahead. James all right, thank you very much john lets get a quick check of traffic this morning, the chp logs relatively quiet. Not a lot going on and here at the bay bridge toll plaza it looks like traffic is move in nice and smooth. No delay here at the toll gates themselves no problem on the span. Well look to see if things start picking up in the next half hour typically around 6. 15 it starts to build and back up but its friday. So maybe well keep it friday light want to wait and see the Golden Gate Bridge has been a smooth ride all morning long and heres the latest look there are live camera shows that is still the case. No problems as you make your way southbound i want to one out of Marion County into San Francisco. So far. So good. One final stop for you the richmond sandra fell bridge toll plaza where traffic here on west bound 5. 80 is moving without issue again no delays you make your way through the toll gates and across the span into Marion County. In the east Bay Community groups are concerned that federal money designated to help stop the spread of covid may be redirected to hire sheriffs deputies in a 4 to one vote. The Contra Costa County board of supervisors approved the hiring of 24 new sheriffs deputies to specifically help with Mental Health professionals to give proper care to inmates who need special attention and their jails a recent report claims that 1. 7 5 Million Dollars needed to cover those salaries would come from federal funding known as the cares act which is meant for coronavirus supervisor john goya who voted against the new hires agrees that Mental Health support is vital for inmates but believes existing resources should be used supervisor Candice Anderson who approved the new hires explains the incoming deputy salaries will actually come from money saved as a result in the general fund. So the savings from the cares act and paid deputies who are going to be reimbursed because we are helping them do different jobs and they were doing in the jail previously covid related jobs that savings we can then transfer and utilize for these new positions that we need to have in the jail to really enhance the Mental Health services voted against expenditure because i believe we could located sheriffs deputies from another facility rather create new positions. Ultimately its the boards decision and they will revisit the issue in september in the meantime both agree the county should continue to invest more into Community Support services that help people with Mental Health issues avoid landing in jail in the first place. To National News now the u. S. Postal service has long said that rain snow heat. Gloom of night, you know the song the mail must go through but what about mail in ballots. The question about that John Lawrence takes a look. The 2020 president ial election takes place in just over 80 days. Some will take part in the political process by putting their ballot in the mail. President trump wants to block an expansion of voting by mail by refusing to support funds for the postal service, one of the reasons the post office is that much money is that all of these millions of ballots coming in from. Nowhere and nobody knows from where and when theyre going to spokesmen for Presumptive Democratic nominee, joe biden calls the president s stance. An assault on democracy here too. Hey guys lets go lets go the president says a coronavirus funding package is on hold. Due to democrats demanding money for the usps they won 3 and a half billion dollars just for the ballots himself why its so much i dont know if there is no evidence mail in voting is prone to fraud and democrats say mister trumps claim is all smoke and mirrors has been afraid for while he knows. That on the legit it be hard for him to win. So he wants to put obstacles in news across the country for decades. It is safe. Its proven to be effective. Despite the frequent blasting of mail in ballots. Multiple people in the trump administration, including the president himself vote by mail. Im John Lawrence reporting. Well the n double or the nc double a officially cancel fall championships, potentially pushing fall sports to the spring. But experts say the focus should be on controlling the virus and not necessarily playing sports. The organizations medical officials are worried about the spread of covid19 of course saying it remains an enormous obstacle for College Sports to resume. Concerns about an inflammatory heart condition called my occurred itis is and its unknown longterm effects were cited as for reasons for shutting down the fall sports. The nc double a says that they are aware of 12 virus related cases of i heard i College Athletes and that could be a career ender so they want to avoid that. Happening today, the bay bridge series gets under way in San Francisco, the giants oracle park its the first of 6 games that they will play against each other this season of the giants won both exhibition games when the 2 teams met just before the season started. The team that wins this Season Series will also win the bay bridge trophy first pitch for tonights game. Is 6. 45. Heres a quick live look outside we have our cameras, San Francisco International Airport giving us a look at really clear conditions. No fog. No low clouds because we have High Pressure keeping skies clear but that also means a lot of sunshine today is going to bake the bay area were talking about excessive heat warnings and advisories a potentially dangerous weather for the weekend ahead as we have this fear for heat wave that run have to deal with john triple well have full details for us coming up. Welcome back talking about temperatures today in just how hot it is about to be across the bay area. Now is not about opportunity to get out there and enjoy at least what is a cooler morning than what were about to see this afternoon. A few high clouds overhead the remnants of some tropical moisture that have pushed into the bay making for the warming. Muggy feel we had yesterday 60s and 70s for current temperatures, definitely didnt cool off much during overnight hours livermore pittsburgh. Hayward in berkeley. All remaining in the mid 70s overnight. Later today, even hotter temperatures and what we had yesterday triple digits and no short order anywhere across the bay. James all right. Thank you john time now 5. 56 coming up in the next hour temperatures as john just mentioned going to be on the dangerous side extremely hot. So were going to have live details on where you can find cooling centers. And i cant keep yourself safe during this weekend and beyond plus preparing for possible Power Outages during this extreme heat. 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Happy hot friday to you im darya folsom, yeah, no kidding, im James Fletcher it was a scorcher yesterday and yes its going to be even worse today were talking about triple digit heat. Absolutely suffocating the bay area, heres a live look outside weve got our market. Aaron camera showing us clouds for now which you would think would keep us on the cool side, but i think theyre going to stick around long now look at the orangey layer you see that kind and we summers coming i know that Something Like winter we have Team Coverage this morning will tran. Keeping it cool in his uh festive sure their line if youre like hes on the beach but hes working under a know harvey is tracking pg e because we hope we dont lose power for those who have that have a c anyway first though