Conditions. Christina rendone. We start with mark with how hot it is going to get over the next few days. Heat advisory is already in effect. Multiple excessive heat warning, and heat advisory in place for portions of the bay area. What is interesting about this, typically talking about 99, 100 degrees, talking about 1049, 107 degrees. Not just for one day but for several days that could carry into next week, temperatures will move up and done a little bit, in terms of significant dropoff in temperatures, some relief, it is not in the forecast. So, well talk once again about the excessive heat watch, this will become an excess i heat warning, including the santa clara valley, inland valleys, take note of this, 1 is 1 00 a. M. Friday all the way until 9 00 p. M. On wednesday. Thats an extended period with the heat warning in place, heat advisory to the areas in the mound tases, bay shoreline for friday i think that could get reissued heading not weekend a hot stretch inland, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday and its a wednesday. Here is our live camera right now, you can see a few high clouds working their way into this area. Look at fairfield right now, 105 degrees, santa rosa mid 90s. San francisco in the mid70s some we have a lot to talk about in your full forecast and well have that coming up in a little bit. All right. Thank you, mark. Have you been warning us about this heat wave looking forward to hearing some more about it. Counties are preparing for whats to come. Many cities in the east bay and south bay will open cooling centers. Joins us live with what to expect, christina. Reporter heather, its hot here in my backyard in contra costa county, havent officially hit this heat wave. The overnight not provide much relief either. Hello heat to this type of heat on this prolonged stretch. Hot temperatures are setting up shop across the bay area this weekend and into next week. Places like lake varessa, san jose will see triple digits. The National Weather service issuing an excessive heat warning starting friday at noon. People can handle a day or two of this, but then after you get two days, three days, four days of this continual bomb beyond a reasonable doubtment of heat it wears on the body and it breaks it down. Sandra clara and contra costa counties opened places for people to cool off. Open weekdays only. Normally precovid we day filter in and out. Now maximum seating for is 1 people, socially distanced with water, light snacks and hand sanitizer. We want to make sure we have that access available to those folks in the area, the seniors, disabled or others who might need some basically some cooling from their homes because we dont have air conditioning. Remember, seek shade and hydrate. Check on the elderly. And check on the young ones because those are the most vulnerable in these types of scenarios. If you are headed out to the beach this weekend, pack your patience, pacifica is expecting lots of clouds. They are asking people to obey the parking lots and parking meters as well as socially distance on the beach and wear your mask. Christine rendone, ktvu fox it news. Well, christina thank you. With this heat wave upon us already. Pg e is talking about the utilities readiness for potential of power shutouts. Joining us with more on the outlook for these possible planned outages, tom, pg e saying these outages for fire safety obviously will be smaller, shorter, and smarter. Thats what they say and they had be, beyond a major system failure, only two things threaten power supplies, one a Public Safety power shutout. Not enough electricity to go around due to lack of generation because of extreme heat. Even though the many condition that would cause a safety power shutoff are not currently predicted for the coming heat wave, august, september, november do represent californias prime fire months. Example, the National Weather service has issued an excessive heat watch for the weekend and beyond, it has not declared a red flag warning, essential for a psps. It has already been a busy year for us, and the out lock for the rest of the year continues to show heightened fire risk. Above normal fire potential for much of Southern California as well as parts of Northern California, dry conditions, windy vents. The California PublicUtilities Commission however expects psps events sometime and is pg es executive, Senior Vice PresidentMichael Lewis about it. This year going to make events shorter by restoring power to all customers within 12 Daylight Hours after Severe Weather has passed, its a percent improvement over our 24 hour goal from last year. Especially cal fire take tase with a grain of salt. Our focus continues to be the Vegetation Management efforts of the utilities including pg e ensuring that they are in compliance with those requirements because if compliance is met then these type of p sps events is significantly reduced. Post sps restorations will be supplemented by contractors and mutual aid from other neighboring california and other state utilities. Pg e will comply and place special emphasis on protecting hospitals, food banks, medical life line patients and covid testing sites. Our intend to exceed expectations this year. Now as to other shutoff possibilities, that one is not enough power to go around. But state power grid operators which means they are asking not demanding people to refrain from excessive air conditioning and power use, it still has adequate supplies to avoid Service Interruptions so far. Reporting live, ktvu fox 2 news. Okay, tom, thank you. Speaking of the fire danger, in Southern California hundreds of firefighters are battling a fast moving wildfire thats exploded to more than 10,000 erics. The lake fire started yesterday north of forced evacuations in that area. At least three homes have been destroyed. And fire Officials Say more than 5400 homes remain threatened. Now to the latest on the coronavirus. In cases all across the u. S. Have now topped 5. 2 million. Deaths remain high with more than a thousand death has day for two weeks now. The state though is still including those back logged cases from that computer glitch. 160 more people have died as the toll rises to 10808 here in the bay area there were 1200 new cases bringing the total to more than 65,000. 111 more deaths bring the bay area total to 941 people. The debate over when to reopen schools for inperson learning is intensifying across the country. As foxs johnathan tells us there is a new report that shows more children are testing positive for covid19. As the coronavirus outbreak grinds on, we are starting to see some encouraging signs, new infections are down slightly, and hospitalizations are declining in hot spots like florida, texas and california. And september approaches officials are scrambling to make sure schools can safely reopen. But at least nine states and washington d. C. Are mandating virtual only learning. Despite a big push from the white house to get kids back into classrooms. The harms of locking out the children from school are enormous. Educating americas children is right at the top of the list for our nations priority. Growing number of School Districts are planning a hybrid system that would still have kids at home at least half the week. And the number of children testing positive is increasing, leading to new concerns about classrooms and other School Active itities including sports. Not going to be Wearing Masks of course, so a lot of breathing and exchanging of respiratory fluids in spaces, its really concerning. Another crisis could be flaring up in americas nursing homes, officials are asking for help from the feds, saying there are severe shortages of protective equipment for mask wearers. The nature of the contact in institutions, so even one case can become a handful of cases and can spread rapidly. Hhs announced 5 billion in funding to help fight coronavirus in fox 2 news. Stimulus talks remain stalled on capitol hill with both sides blaming the other for the lack of progress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is warning of dire economic consequences if negotiations over another coronavirus stimulus package remains stalled. Republicans have offered a 1 trillion deal, but democrats say it doesnt go far enough. The virus has picked up steam, needs wont be met, the people will be out of work. Treasury secretary steve. Joe biden is calling for a pan date requiring all americans to wear masks, in his first full day of campaigning with running mate of Kamala Harris calling on every governor in the u. S. To mandate mandatory mask wearing t could save over 40,000 lives, he made the remarks after he and senator harris a tended a Coronavirus Health briefing with experts. The quick action by a Northern CaliforniaPolice Officer to save a man whose wheelchair got stuck on the train track with a train approaching. Even though almost a million americans applied for unemployment for the first time this week, there is actually good news in those unemployment numbers. And a big time, big time deal to keep a big time player with the 49ers, we are going to breakdown george kit he wills deal and why it made nfl history. birds chirping woman chattering [narrator] ordering dinner for the family . family gasps rewarded with a side of quiet. Oorbell rings [group] grubhub. [upb i fell asleep tobut when i woke up. I put everything in perspective. boy hi, do you want to share my sandwich . vo good feeds our connections. Good feeds us all. Hormel Natural Choice lunch meats. Can you get up . Get up. Get up. Get up. That acetannin credible story out of lodi. A Police Officer was able to save a man from the wheelchair, it happened yesterday, the mans wheelchair became stuck on the train tracks, she pulled the man from the wheelchair and fell backward with seconds to spare before that train came through. The Lodi Police Department is praising officer ureas actions saying she prevent add tragedy from happening. The fbi is now joining the investigation into that deadly explosion at beiruts port earlier this month. The blast back on august 4th killed more than 170 people and injured thousands more. Lebanese authorities in rited the fbi to take part. Its still unclear what igniting nitrate stored for years at beiruts port. But documents have emerged showed the countrys top leadership and Security Officials were aware that stockpile. At the white housed to President Trump announced United Arab Emirates and israel establish full diplomatic ties. Thank israel for courage and for their leadership to forge this tremendous agreement. As part of the agreement to establish diplomatic ties, israel will suspend plans to annex parts of the west bank. Uae is the third nation to have active diplomatic ties to israel along with egypt and jordan. Well a big sur price on jobed to, the federal labor defendant released the weekly jobs report, fewer than 1 million americans filed for new unemployment claims. 963,000 americans filed new claims last week. Now that is the lowest numbers since the start of this pandemic. After keep peaking about of 6. 9 million late march. Weekly job less claim were typically less than 250,000. Well here in california, job less claims fell for the Third Straight week, and the smallest number in nearly 3 months. More than 213,000 workers filed for first time claims last week, which is down by about 8500 unemployment claims. Taking a look at wall street now, an early rally over the dip in unemployment claims faded in the afternoon, the dow ended the day down 800 points. The nasdaq held on to a 30 point game. And s p slipped 6 points after briefly crossing above its all time record setback in february. Large wildfire still burning in the National Forest in Southern California, the lake fire has burned more than 10,000acre so far. Foxs jeff paul with the latest on that fire and the destructive fires that are also burning in two other western states. Light winds and scattered Thunder Showers helping to calm the flames of a massive and fast moving wildfire which exploded overnight. We have a low in the fire because of the cloud cover. But, were concerned that once cloud cover goes away, they are going to see more active fire activity. 65 miles north of los angeles in just hours. And prompting mandatory evacuations for at least 100 homes in the area. Crews hoping to reign the fire in before temperatures spike again. We have over a thousand firefighters now assigned or en route to thing dent. Enormous plume of smoke of over will of la county. By night fall flames consumed more than 15. 5 square miles. This will be a major fire for several days. Officials say so far there is no containment. But they are already looking into how it got started. Our investigators worked through the night last night to start narrowing in on that international poweres of origin. In colorado no containment. Grizzly creek fire with another day of high wind and low relative humidity fanning the flames. In oregon the moser creek fire prompted evacuations, it had consumed 500 acres. As for the lake fire, 0 so far its destroyed several homes and threatens thousands of others. In lake hugehs california, fox news. Biased forecast, i dont like the pattern thats moving not area because we have the hot temperature that will last several days, also watching the chance of thunderstorms for tonight into early tomorrow morning. If you hear that little background behind me that is the neighborhood kids playing. Here is the plan forked to, hot weather pattern setting up for tomorrow. Temperatureswell up above 100 degrees for hottest locations inland. This evening tracking a possibility of a few isolated thunderstorms, with a combination of heat and fire strike, regardless of that thunderstorm chance, fire danger will go up into the weekend. All the areas in red, this run from 11 00 a. M. Friday until 9 00 p. M. For iday wednesday evening, that is amazing not in a good way. Heat advisory in place 11 00 a. M. Friday until 9 00 p. M. On friday. Bay shoreline and santa cruz mountains. Here is a live calk rain showers looking out toward the bay. A few scattered high clouds, well talk about the high clouds in a second. As far as the current numbers, already hot, 98 degrees, fairfield 105. 105 degrees already in fairfield. S in the north bay already. As you move the maps out to the south, a batch of high clouds moving in, this is remnant moisture from what was run a hurricane, green showing up on the radar. Tonight through the evening hours, we have the possibility of isolated shower or thunderstorm especially from san jose south, north bay, not the highest chance, but still something well be watch. Right now you can see a few scattered high clouds. What is happening with this pattern, you can see the circulation drawing in focused and Southern California, but once again it will feel muggy around here. Overnight lows means sleeping weather. Temperatures 60s to the 70s. Here is the setup. Area of High Pressure is strengthening, the source of big time heat for tomorrow, right on into the weekend and into next week. Here is the forecast model showing you temperatures in the upper 50s to the upper 60s into the afternoon hours, we are showing this. Temperatures mid70s all the way to 107 degrees forever noon his for tomorrow he, five day tells the story, the heat will continue into the weekend, slight cooling by sunday. But unfortunately this extended period of hot yes, it is, thanks m sev will be open across the bay area for the next couple of days. The contra corsica county employment and Human Services announced it will open three of its district offices for cooling centers and that started to. They are opened to and tomorrow from 1 00 to 5 00 p. M. Located in antioch, Pleasant Hill and richmond. Also several other locations in both the east bay and south buy. For more information head over to our website at ktvu. Com. Well people in Santa Clara County wont have to worry about spreading germs or the coronavirus by pushing buttons to use certain crosswalks. Touch free pedestrian signals beforing installed at busy intersections all across the country, people will simply have to wave a hand in front of the device instead of touching a crosswalk button. You just wave your hand in front of this sign, one to three inches away, and the signal will tell you to wait until its safe to cross. And then will you get an indication that its safe to cross, and you will see these popping up all over the county. 25 of those devices will be installed at expressway intersections with heavy pedestrian traffic. All right. Coming up here, the 49ers and George Kittle agree to a record breaking contract. Jason is coming up next with all the money, one of the best players the nfl will now be earning. Now more than ever, its important californians have health coverage. 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Now grant cone of Sports Illustrated broke the story of kittles eminent signing yesterday, and he joined us a few hours ago, why it was so important for 49ers to get this deal done. To me were starting to look like the as. They traded forest buckner, theyll keep you if youre good, too good, too expensive, we would rather trade you to the yankees and get that prospect. They take care of everyone but the best of the best and kittle is the best of the best and locked him in for five years, they made him happy a signing bonus. They did right by him and showed the rest of the locker room we will take care of you. If you do everything right like kittle does we are going to take care of you. Weve had a lot of firsts in Major League Baseball this season. Here is another one. Took place in the nationals game with the meted to. Came with nationals mitcher throws a pretty good pitch but he called the ball, pitcher is not happy, neither is manager dave martinez. Stephen strausburg he gets tossed, he was arguing a call at 121 sitting among the cardboard people up there as a fan. Strausburg is ejected from the stands. Also in the game, back in the first inning,. That goes mcneil to the warning track and it made the cut. Oh, wow, what a play jack mcneil, fully extended hitting the wall hard. As a great catch by jeff mcneil, extra bases now mcneil extending his body as he crashes into the wall and left but the catch at a price. Mcneil had to be cordoned off the field as yet undisclosed injury. Mets did win the game. 8 to 2. As for the game you are about to see, its going to be the its going to be the brewers at the cubs and the cubs by the way 12 and 3, best record in all of baseball which is significant cause we are at the quarter mark of the season. And well take you out of here by telling you that on saturday night, round 1 the bay bridge series is at 4 00 and up for a special afterwards. Joe fonzi and i for a sports wrap. Stick around, baseball is coming up next. We are fox sports tonight, nl central rivals square off at the friendly confines of wrigley field. Anthony rizzo and the cubs are off to an impressive start. They look to get the momentum rolling in the sprint towards october. Drills one way, way back while former mvp and Christian Yelich in milwaukee look to slow them down and begin a playoff push of their own. Because my goodness its the cubs in the brewers. Starts now on fox