Bay area. Our chief meteorologist, bill martin begins coverage with a look at this unusual weather system. Now . Frank, it was. We do see thunder and lightning sometimes in august and september and october on the subtropical moisture moves north but the system, unusual in its aerial coverage. It covered all bay area counties, and lasted a long time. I backed the radar and imagery all the way back up to 2 am this morning. Watch what happens. Look at these Lightning Strikes. I have seen a wave come through like this in the bear area. We all have once every 2 to 3 years. Is going off at the 56 and look what comes right behind it. Another wave, equally as powerful at 6 am and get another wave, two and three waves slide through. Look at this. Hundreds and thousands of Lightning Strikes. Many fires started. An unusual event by just sheer numbers of Lightning Strikes and again, everybody was included. Nobody missed out on this Lightning Storm so you are seeing somes pictures. As i get up to the current you come you can see the showers up to the north but the National Weather service has left the red flag warning effect until about 9 pm tonight. So the plan here is a red flag warning stays in effect, lightning should be done for now but it is a precautionary measure. The excessive heat warning has been extended until 9 00 wednesday. That is areas in red, excessive heat warning for the next three days. That is significant. The heat advisory will be dropped tonight at 9 00. We could easily see one hoisted up again so really just, julie, a myriad of weather hits coming our way in the net last 24 hours. It was amazing how loud that thunder was overnight. Bill, thank you. We will see you at a little bit for the full forecast. The lightning from the Stormy Weather sparked several fires around the bay area. Ktvus Leigh Martinez joins us with the latest on those fires which, as bill mentioned, all started happening around 3 am this morning. Fire crews are battling fires in Contra Costa County and santa clara county. The marsh fire in santa clara off of two roads consists of three separate fires. We will have more on the fires in Contra Costa County coming up at the biggest fire they have according to an update i just got is still at 0 containment. Cal fire issued a red flag warning that has been extended through monday afternoon. I will up to a beautiful pink sunrise, lightning, rainbows, big heavy rain drops. And then i fire. Reporter Contra Costa County fire crews have their hands full sunday fighting multiple fires off deer valley and marsh creek roads near brentwood. The deers on fire is multiple fires that started between five and six this morning which includes around fire and we have had approximately six different fires which we believe all to be resulting from Lightning Strikes. Reporter by Late Afternoon fire crews had fires not down to four burn area total of 325 acres in the round valley area. This prompted a precautionary Evacuation Order for Morgan Territory road. I havent seen lightning like that since i was a kid. It was like a strike at least every minute. It was actually a lot. I was afraid to go outside. You can see all like the line of flaming all across the sky and its constant. You will see the light will flash. Reporter the fire battles begin at 3 am. Firefighters around the bay fought fire sparked by thunderstorms that send lightning streaking across the sky and touching down in rural areas and even striking this tower. I one point cal fire battled at least 8 to 10 different fires. The National Weather service tweeted the cluster of severe thunderstorms generated extremely strong erratic wind gusts. We have heavy wind gusts early this morning. As you can see those are really or less died out now. It is nice the fires are not pushing too hard and not moving too fast. Contra costa county has one large fire called around fire and we are told that they still have 0 to payment on that fire right now. Because of the weather conditions, a red flag warning was issued that will be extended to monday afternoon. In oakland, Leigh Martinez, ktvu fox 2 news. You can for those firefight out there battling those fires. Lee, thank you. We want to let you know right now crews are fighting another vegetation fire right now burning in sonoma. The flames broke out in the area of calpers road and indian creek road near the calaveras reservoir. Fremont fire and Alameda County fire crews are working to put out the fire. In california, the independent system operator or cal i so says late today that customers can expect more rolling blackouts over the next few days. The blackouts are likely to happen during the Late Afternoon and early evenings through wednesday. This will affect San Francisco, san mateo and contra costa counties. The agency says the heat wave continues to put extraordinary demand on the power grid and that the rolling blackouts will ease the strain. The storm that brought lightning, heavy wind and rain to the bay area overnight caused a number of large power outages. Pg e says right now there are still more than 5100 homes without power in the north bank. Also, 9000 in the east bay and close to 24,000 homes in the south bay. There are also a number of smaller outages around the region. In hayward, many businesses were without power today for several hours. I dont know what happened. I have never seen one like that. Before that, only 20 to 30 minutes. But 4 to 5 hours, i have never seen that. Pg e says there is no exact estimate on restoration of power but they say most people should have the power back on by midnight tonight. There is, however, no estimate on a restoration time for the south bay. Pg e is asking people to conserve during this heat wave by adjusting your thermostat to 70 degrees or higher or turn it off if youre going to be away from home. Also, use a fan instead of air conditioning and if possible, pull your drapes and turn off unnecessary lightning and turnoff things like vacuuming, laundry, dishwashing and computer time until after 6 pm and set your pool pump to run overnight instead of during the day. Those Lightning Strikes were seen by people all around the bay area. Tran wants Elissa Harrington spoke to a lot of people today who said they were surprised by the sudden shift in the weather. Reporter is the light show everyone is talking about. Hundreds of Lightning Strikes lit up the bay area skies earlier this morning. This left matt residents mesmerized by the rare sight. A flash of lightning in the dark of night. I want to say was majestic and eyeopening to me and dare i say, spiritual. Reporter these are videos captured by ktvu viewers. This viewer said the sound of the rumbling thunder set of car alarms in her neighborhood. Contra costa county fire tweeted this picture of a Lightning Strike at their training tower in concord. The vallejo far Fire Department treated these pictures,an apart people were surprised by the ling day of triple digit after heat in many parts of the region. Watching it was kind of going in and out all morning. It was so crazy. It is august and its like weather or something. In the Early Morning it was lightning and thunder in close proximity so i know i was in trouble. Reporter the National Weather service wants to remind people to head indoors if you see lightning and you should stay inside for 30 minutes after you hear the last thunder. Im Elissa Harrington, ktvu fox 2 news. Air regulators have issued an air quality advisory because of all the smoky weather. The bay area air Quality Management district says the advisory will be in place through tomorrow. The agency says air als are exp moderate to good but officials also say the number of fires around the bay area could cause the air quality to deteriorate. The advisory means residents should stay inside with their windows and doors closed until the smoke levels subside. Officials also recommend those who are impacted by smoke set their air conditioning units and car vent systems to recirculate to prevent outside air from moving inside. Dont forget you can download the ktvu weather app to stay uptodate during this mid august heat wave. It has an hour by hour forecast for your neighborhoods you can find out the hottest time of the day where you live. Police in American Canyon are investigating a deadly shooting that happened in the safeway parking lot earlier today. It happened shortly after noon at the safeway on American Canyon road. The napa county sheriff has identified the victim as 18 yearold Nathan Gabriel garza who worked at the store. It is not clear what led to the shooting. Police have a suspect who left the scene after the shooting and has not been caught. The napa county surest apartment and American CanyonPolice Department are investigating the case. Coming up, developing news in washington where House Speaker, nancy pelosi is about to take action on changes at the u. S. Postal service. The Democratic NationalConvention Kicks off tomorrow and is going to be unlike any other convention. Details on who is set to speak and when you can see it. Developing news in washington, dc where House Speaker nancy pelosi said late today she was calling the house back into session to vote on a bill that would prohibit the u. S. Postal service from making changes ahead of the election. Fox news Mark Meredith reports on more, on the accusations that the new postmaster general is deliberately trying to slow service ahead of the election. Reporter house and Senate Democrats are demanding the newly installed postmaster general, to capitol hill and testify later on this month. The postmaster general has been heavily criticized recently over some costsaving changes ahead of the november election. Lewis du jour was sworn in for the job back in june. Before that, he was a wellknown businessman and major republican donor contributing heavily to president trumps campaign. Since taking over, he has made numerous changes and has called for overall overhaul in the operations of the post office helping it save money. The post office said it is ready saying the Postal ServicesFinancial Condition will not impact the ability to process and deliver election and political mail. But the changes have sparked controversy. On saturday a group of demonstrators showed up outside of dejoys dc home in protest another post Office Inspector general is reviewing the recent changes. To slow down the mail at any time is disgraceful. To slow it down at covid19 is despicable and hurts peoples life. It also hurts many of our postal workers. Reporter democrats have set a deadline for friday for the postmaster general to turn over documents related to the changes. The following week, democrats want dejoy to testify. In a statement they write, the postmaster general and top leadership must answer to congress and the American People as to why theyre pushing these dangerous new policies that are written to silence the voices of millions months before the rex election. Today south bay congressman nsus sent a letter urging him to open a criminal investigation of postmaster general dejoy. The letter claims the postmaster is undermining the u. S. Postal service to deliver mailin ballots, threatening the integrity of the upcoming election. A new poll out today shows the Presumptive Democratic nominee for president , joe biden is maintaining a wide lead over president trump. About 2 1 2 months left to go until the election and the wall street journal nbc poll found 50 of registered voters nationally say they would vote for biden if the election were held today. 41 support president trump. The poll also found more enthusiasm from trump supporters. The Democratic NationalConvention Gets Underway tomorrow and will be unlike any other Political Convention in modern history. The dnc is planning four nights of programming with a number of speakers, all of them delivering speeches remotely. Some of the speakers include michele and barack obama, hillary and bill clinton and House Speaker, nancy pelosi. , harris will give her speech wednesday and joe biden will deliver his acceptance speech thursday. Stay with ktvu for coverage of the Democratic National convention all this week. Our coverage against every day at 4 pm. The main speakers will be shown on interrupted starting at 7 00. We are also planning similar coverage for the republican National Convention the following week. Ktvu political reporter, greg lee will have a special preview of what to expect at those conventions all coming up tonight on the 10 00 news. Two people were killed in driveby shootings less than two hours apart last night in east oakland. The first shooting happened about 10 30 last night at the Lockwood Gardens residential complex on 65th avenue. A 19yearold man from hayward were shot and killed and a woman was shot and wounded. Less than two hours later on sunnyside street, another man was shot and killed when someone opened fire from a passing car. No arrests have been made and no motive has been released and other could in either killing. The police say they do not believe they are connected. The u. S. And canada and mexico have agreed to continue the restrictions on travel. The original restrictions wouldve ended august 21. Essential crossborder workers like healthcare professionals, Airline Crews and Truck Drivers are still allowed to make international crossings. Americans who are returning to the u. S. Are exempt from the closure at the u. S. Canada border and direct family members of canadians are also allowed back into canada but must quarantine for 14 days. Tomorrow is the first day of school in the San Francisco unified school district. All classes will be held remotely and all School Buildings will be closed. District Officials Say they found a way to communicate with families and let them know when classrooms are allowed to reopen. Tomorrow is also the first day of school for students in the west Contra Costa Unified School district. Classes there also held online. The district says small groups of students will begin returning when it is safe to do so. Rarity will be given to students who have the greatest needs including special education students, Homeless Youth and students who have a history of missing classes. We want to remind you that ktvu. Com has a list of resources for distance learning. Everything from your Bay Area SchoolDistrict School year plan to assistance with Digital Tools and free educational videos. Just look for the School Survival guide at ktvu. Com. You will find it under the schools tab. The lake fire burning in l. A. County has now turned burning 18,000 acres. It started five miles north of magic marker amusement parks. The fire has destroyed 21 buildings but officials cannot say how many of those were homes. The loyalton fire continues to burn north of reno in sierra county, burned about 20,000 acres and forced the holder of highway 395 and sierra county. The National Weather service has issued a rare warning for a fire tornado and says the wind conditions could cause more of what are called fire nados. It was hot today, wet. This morning we had rainfall communications upwards of one quarter inch and 15 100 inch. As we look at the satellite loop you will see clouds and rain moving through this morning. Significant stuff and im telling you we have gotten numerous Lightning Strikes, thousands of Lightning Strikes. Let me load this up for you really quick and you will see it show up here. There it is and here it goes into motion. And you will see it cooking there. Well you didnt really see it, sorry about that. Looking at temperatures, the forecast set up for tomorrow is setting up with a heat advisory yet again tomorrow. Excessive heat warning in land and a heat advisory in effect in the bay area stays in effect in the bay area through basically 9 00 tonight. Air quality is not that great out there and we saw how the air quality district issued an air quality alert, smoke from fires, pollutants caught in the layer because of the High Pressure. There is all the activity off the west coast and it is something to see. This last nights event was as big as i can remember and we have had plenty of lightning hits, Lightning Storms, thunder and lightning but not that much coverage. Extensive coverage and extensive Lightning Strikes. Temperatures running a little behind where they were last night this time and that has to do with the cloud cover and in fact, you notice how megan is out there. Humidity is way high. All of that moisture is streaming are around this High Pressure center and that really brought in unstable air and it is now exiting the area. A red flag warning will be dropped. It is up for a few more hours for concern we could see another Lightning Strike. I dont see anything on the radar that would indicate that. That gets dropped end of the heat advisory gets dropped after midnight. The excessive heat warning, areas inland are going to stay hot, sweltering right through the bay area weekend and middle of the week, pardon me. Look at some of these highs come in land, 105, 106, slightly cooler around the bay. Tomorrow, we will be warmer than today was. Tomorrow should end up being es it is going to be really toasty. Especially inland, multiple days of excessive heat in those inland they valleys. Fire danger is always high when you get hot and dry like this but i will have to let you know that there is no real big northeast winds that will drive a fire want to get started so the hope is and most likely the reality is that they will be able, cal fire, to get a handle on any fires that pop up because they are not wind driven. As you look at the 5 day forecast, we have 108 is the number tomorrow, temperatures in some of the inland valleys that will exceed 104 degrees easily and around the bay, these temperatures and up in the 90s so this forecast, look at the top tier numbers, it is hot, hot, hot all the way through in the bay area and even through next weekend still them in the mid90s. Next few days, inland, sweltering heat, around the bay, slightly cooler with patchy fog but still hot tomorrow. Tomorrow will be the hottest day of the week. That is humid and dangerously hot. We will get another update later tonight. Thanks. Coming up, the oakland as go for a serious sweep as the giants pitching continues to struggle and the as feature redhot hitting strike. Joe fonzi is up next. Gone and he might have outdone pender. Lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. 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They may not have seats in the stands for people but it has certainly been capacity in mccovey cove in these times when you look at the final score. You would never know this was a close game until the fifth. That is when the oakland as started teeing off of the giants bullpen. Chad pinder off peralta, a two run and gave the oakland the lead. No longer a close game, still in the fifth, two more runs in and Derek Rodriguez on the mount is facing Stephen Piscotty and it looks like a replay of the pender shot only deeper. A three way home but they were not finish. Now it is marcus turn to put one in the same part of the ballpark before the inning was over, the oakland as had scored nine times for the 112 lead going on to win 153 to sweep the series, the oakland as one with the best record in the american league. It wasnt just the oakland as hitting home runs today. The cardinals ramirez was making his majorleague debut and here is how he was greeted by the white sox in the fifth. That is a three run homer, grendel was up next making it back to back homers and no longer about the score. It started to be about baseball history. Jose hombre you up next, hits one down the left field line on the question, fair or foul, its stays fair and thats three straight homers and then it is gimenez who hits one down the line and its gone. The white sox high tie the majorleague record with four straight homers and ramirez becomes the first pitcher in history to allow four homeruns in a row in his debut. Oh in the White House White sox were 72. Seven years as the 49er quarterback alex smith had an upanddown career but new at no one could argue with was his courage and his toughness. Today that courage and toughness were taken up a notch. Smith has been cleared for full football activity with washington after almost losing his life due to an injury in november 2018. Smith brought the tibia and fibula in his right leg and had a severe infection and underwent multiple surgeries to say the lake. He has been rehabbing ever since and is expected to be on the field tuesday for the teams first workout with pat. That is a guy that as a said, his ups and downs as a 49er but had nothing but respect all the way around, players, media, everyone who ever saw him and the things he went through and now an incredible chapter in his life at this point. It really is, joe, incredible what he has been through and how hard he trained to come back. And he still wants to play football. Exactly. Joe, thank you. And thank you for joining us, everyone. Wow, we leave you with a beautiful shot of the estuary. See you later. Sera 10 00. We will be back with updates on those fires burning. Tonight, everyone. To the Container Store . Trip its like i died and went to the postmortem, neuroninduced hallucination commonly mistaken as heaven. 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