This weekend extreme weather is not only causing fires but Power Outages to. Pg e and grid operators say be prepared with the ongoing heat wave. More rolling blackouts could be on the way. Rolling blackouts are not needed tonight. Officials that we could expect them between tomorrow and wednesday. Bill martin joins us now with the latest. It really is. Especially inland where the excessive heat warning in red is going to stay in effect through wednesday. All of this area, including parts of san jose are going to be under an excessive heat warning for the next 48 to 72 hours. The yellow area is an advisory that was to be dropped at about 9 00 tonight. That was extended until 9 00 tomorrow night. These yellow areas, you guys are under heat advisory as we go through tomorrow through the entire day. It should be dropped after that. The fire danger is definitely high. It is hot and we have had lightning strikes. It is fire weather because firestarter easy. It is not firestorm whether. Dont be too worried. Im getting a lot of calls about big wind. They are not really there. There is enough heat and dryness to spark fires easily. Right now, several fires are burning around the bay area. Look at this map. Officials have now issued mandatory evacuations in Contra Costa County where the deer zone fires are burning. Those fires have burned about 400 acres with no containment. Firefighters are also battling another fire, the marsh fire has burned 850 acres. It is zero containment. Greg ligands joins us with the latest on the evacuations. I want to begin by giving an update on the evacuation orders that have been expanded. It now includes residence along Morgan Territory road, south of marsh creek road in brentwood. It also affects residence along marsh creek road between way into deer valley road. Those evacuations are associated with the deer zone fires. As you mentioned, we have the marsh fire. These are two fires and are very significant. Firefighters are still working to contain. Reporter concern over rescuing cattle in the line of fire had these men scrambling. The marsh fire, now burning near the Regional Park is one of several that may have been sparked this morning by mother nature. We had dry lightning hitting the ground which may have started some fires. For make a beekeeper that praises firefighters for saving all of his hives, the fire started at around four clock amsc witnessed what the storms brought in. It was like a machine gun. All over the place. Reporter the coalition of firefighters was seen coordinating efforts to fight the flames from the air and ground. The hot and dry conditions, mixed with at began hitting Northern California before sunrise. Soon after, fire started popping up. Starting this morning and multiple hours after, a considerable amount of lightning. Reporter the deer zone fire also potentially sparked by lightning. Residence near Morgan Territory roeder told to standby for potential evacuation as a cluster of fires grows and the threat of more weatherrelated fires looms. They are predicting there is a chance it could continue. Time will tell what it will bring over the next 24 hours. Hellfire said they have extra personnel on duty in the event additional fires break out. So far the fires have had no reports of any injuries or damage to property. Coverage continues with azenith smith. The power grid operator warns that rolling blackouts could continue through wednesday. Reporter that is because of this weeks heat wave. Impact, pg e was planning to come to our two 210,000 customers tonight. Just before 8 30 pm, they announced they did not have to. There was enough power to meet demand. That may not be the case in the coming days. The power went out at around four clock. We lost all of our business for the whole weekend. Reporter kimberly gamble is salvaging food items at her restaurant in livermore. The business lost power right before dinner on saturday and again sunday night. The restaurant is already struggling because of covid restrictions. Everyone is frustrated and trying to hang in. Reporter she suspects that triple digit heat is to blame. We did see some outages as a result of lightning strikes. Than the outages you see as a result of extreme heat that sometimes causes pieces of equipment to fail. Thousands of customers didnt have power on sunday due to the weather. Not to mention that for the First Time Since 2001, the electricity grid operator has ordered rotating outages when demand outpaces supply. The, tell us how many megawatts we need to take out of our and we identify which power grids we can take out. Reporter the website showed sundays peak usage at 43,000 megawatts at around 6 00 young with mondays forecasted peak higher. We recommend for all customers, particularly in the bay area comic preparations for possible outages. Reporter preparations like freezing water to help perishables keep from going bad. Charge devices while there is power. They are issuing a flex alert, calling on everyone to conserve until wednesday from 3 00 pm to 10 00 pm. If it is necessary, absolutely. Reporter customers are taking it in stride. We are managing. It is a sunday so work isnt happening. Tomorrow and the next day it would be more annoying. Reporter as for the restaurant, the owner is considering closing business for a few days if the outages persist. There is already a big impact. The heat is crazy. Reporter a big concern is people working and learning from home. We will have to see how that could affect the power grid as well as what will happen if Power Outages occur. Now to Monterey County where a wildfire has prompted mandatory evacuations for people nearby. The river fire is burning south of salinas. So far it burned 2000 acres and is only 10 contained. Cal fire said the fire was started by a dry lightning strike. Five structures have been damaged and another 30 are threatened. Firefighters also suffered heat related injuries while battling the flames. You can download the weather app to stay uptodate. It has detailed information including the hour by hour forecast. Police in American Canyon are investigating a deadly shooting in the safeway parking lot. That happened shortly after noon at safeway on American Canyon road. The Sheriffs Department identified the victim as nathan garza. He worked at the store. It is not clear what led to the shooting. The suspect left the scene after the shooting and has not been caught. The Sheriffs Office and Police Department are investigating the case. Two people were killed in driveby shootings less than two hours apart last night in east oakland. First at about 10 30 pm at the Lockwood Gardens residential complex on 65th avenue. A 19yearold man from hayward was shot and killed and a woman wounded. Less than two hours later, a man was shot and killed when someone opened fire from a passing car. No arrests have been made and no motive released in either killing. Police also say they do not think shootings are connected. Making sure underserved communities have access to coronavirus testing. How they are working to bring more testing to oakland. Nancy pelosi is taking action. Why she is cutting the house recessed short. We are looking at more heat in the forecast. I will have the five day when i return. Want restaurants to open . And schools . Want the economy to get back on track . Youre not alone. And you can help make it happen. Stay 6 feet apart. Wash your hands. Wear a mask every time you leave your home. Choose to join the fight against covid19. Do your part. San francisco reported more than 200 infections that may be due to actions at the onset of the pandemic. Many big semis cities move people out of shelters into hotels. Their surprise the population wasnt hit harder. It is too early to draw conclusions. Ucsf and several organizations are partnering to bring coronavirus testing to the black community in a and. The university, along with the united and health and oakland frontline healers, will hold a testing evening next saturday and sunday august 22 and 23rd. Ucsf said the event will help boost testing in the black community where a disproportionate number of people tested positive since the pandemic began. The event will take place at the eastmont towncenter. They will provide free testing along with personal protective gear and food to 2000 residents. The lab will process the results in 2 to 3 days and followup with anyone that tests positive. Tomorrow is the first day of school in the San Francisco unified district. All classes will be held remotely. School buildings will all be closed. Officials say they have established a way to communicate with families and will let them know when they are allowed to reopen classrooms. The u. S. Government along with canada and mexico agreed to extend border restrictions on nonessential travel through september 21, in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The original pact would have ended august 21. Essential crossborder workers, including healthcare professionals, Airline Crews and Truck Drivers are still allowed to make international crossings and americans returning to the u. S. Are exempt from the closure at the u. S. canada border. Direct family members of canadians will be allowed back into canada, although they have to quarantine for 14 days. We are learning more about this weeks Democratic National convention. The scheduled speakers include michelle and barack obama and nancy pelosi. Peter ducey tells us how President Trump will be keeping busy while he waits for the Republican National convention the following week. Reporter joe biden and Kamala Harris will deliver remarks here in wilmington. Tonight, we are learning more about where some of the other highprofile democrats that have been invited will be speaking remotely. I am honored to have been asked to speak at the convention. I will be speaking with the statue of liberty looking over my shoulder from the waterfront and speaking about immigration and the importance to new york and america. Reporter there will not be a keynote speaker. The speech will come from 17 people, including stacey abrams, connor lamb and mayor Randall Woodfin as they hope to showcase a diverse next generation of democratic leaders. A big heart is also introducing Kamala Harris to voters who may not be sold on her record as a prosecutor. I understand why people are distrustful of a system that has historically been unjust and unfair. I get that. That is why i chose to become a prosecutor. I decided to go up the rough side of the mountain. Reporter the campaign is planning Counter Program to send him to for swing states. We are really flooding the sounds. Taking our message to the people. We are all over the sunday shows. The campaign folks and the president. They have chosen to ignore the shows on the eve their convention. Reporter they were both down this weekend, no public events. They still have not stood side byside to answer questions about how the ticket came together or questions about anything since the announcement. Peter ducey, fox news. Stay with us for complete coverage of the Democratic National convention this week. Coverage begins every day at four clock pm. The main speakers will be shown on interrupted starting at 7 00. We are planning several are coverage for the Republican Convention the following week. Nancy pelosi said today she is cutting the congressional recessed short and calling the house back into session because of the crisis involving the postal service. She said she wants the house to vote on a bill prohibiting the u. S. Postal service for making changes, ahead of the november election. A vote could come as early as this saturday. This comes amid heavy scrutiny of nearly appointed postmaster general louis who Many Democrats say is implementing policies aimed at slowing service, ahead of the election and a surgeon mailin voting. More on the unusual storm that blew through Northern California overnight. Hundreds of lightning strikes lit up the bay area this morning. Many people told us they were surprised by the shift in weather and others say they were mesmerized by the site. It was majestic and eye opening. It is so crazy. It is earthquake weather. The National Weather service said you should go inside if you see lightning and stay inside for 30 minutes after you hear the last under. Bill martin joins us with more on this weather. I think this is one of the loudest lightning storms i have ever heard. It literally woke me up out of a dead sleep. A lot of residents as well as Central California residence, not working on a lot of sleep. It woke everybody up. It covered all nine counties. The thunder was very loud for many folks. Many lightning strikes and the duration lasted for up to 7 hours. As the day went on, the clouds cleared and we had record high temperatures. 106 in livermore and 103 in santa rosa. 107 in santa cruz. The weather continues. There are a few thunderstorms showing up around cameron park. That is up by sacramento. There is a chance for a stray thundershower like we see out by livermore. One of these areas could easily develop into something more as we go into the evening. It should not be as widespread. It would be much less intense but it is still a possibility. The life camera outside condo fog at the coast. Without the father, we are not seeing the coastal cooling. It is cooler at the coast. Temperatures are quite warm. There is the current imagery. Temperature is 60 degrees. 64 in San Francisco and there is your 89 degree temperature in brentwood. Cooler in concord. 6 degrees cooler tonight in livermore. It is humid and that is because of the clouds. Moisture sticks around tomorrow. With that, we will look at more high humidity and couple that with big keats. Tomorrow, especially inland and south of us will be hotter, places like brentwood than it was today. Places like livermore and pleasanton, warmer or hotter than today. The heat advisory covers this whole section and it lasts through wednesday. The advisory goes for the bay area through tomorrow. It should be dropped after that. There is the fiveday forecast. What you do with that . That is significant heat. The fire danger is high. Fire start easy. These are not hardcore red flag warning conditions. Uber and lyft say they could suspend operations in california as early as this week. Both Companies Say they will have to shut down in california after a judge last week ruled that they must comply with the new Assembly Bill state law and reclassify their drivers as employees. If they do suspend business, it could resume in november, that is when voters would decide on prop 22 which would exempt drivers for ridesharing and Food Delivery Service from the law. Coming up next, the as go for the sweep against the giants. Joe fonzi is here with the highlights. Superfast internet. Its a beautiful thing. Superfast internet with an xfinity flex 4k streaming device included . Even beautifuler. And now flex also comes with peacock. Ooh la la. This rare bird lets you stream tons of movies, shows, news, sports and more. And with flex, its all at your beck and call. Show me parks and rec see . The best really did get better magnificent. Switch to xfinity internet and get a flex 4k streaming device with peacock premium included for no additional cost. The as have had high drama for two straight games. Pulling out wins over the giants. No such drama necessary today. No fans in the stadium. Very well occupied and almost at capacity. When you look at the final score, you would never know it is a close game until the fifth. That is when they started teeing off. That is a two run shot. It would no longer be a close game. Rodriguez on the mound, facing stephen. This looks like a replay only deeper. That is a three run homer. They werent finished, notice the turn to put one in the ballpark. Before it was over they scored 3 to sweep the series. They won 13 of 15. They have the best record in the american league. It wasnt just the as hitting home runs today. Making his debut. This is how he was greeted by the white sox. That is a three run homer. Making it back to back homers. Starting to be about baseball history. He hits one down the left field line. What it state fair k it does. That is three straight homers. Benitez gimenez, he hits one down the line. The white sox tied the record with four straight homers. He becomes the firstrate pitcher in history to allow for straight home runs in his debut. The white sox were 72 winners. He had an up and down career and his seven years as the 49ers quarterback. Smith has been cleared for activity after almost losing his life. He broke the tibia and fibula in his right leg. A severe infection and underwent multiple surgeries. He has been rehabbing ever since. He is expected to be on the field for the teams first workout. The final round today, jim herman ranked 124th and was not one of the names people were expecting to win. They werent expecting the eagle pot to go in either. He shot a 63. He was the leader then had to wait. Billy was the last guy with a chance. Herman has a onestroke win. s we should let you know, Marco Andretti is on the pole for the indy 500, next sunday. How about that . s thank you. We will see later. Have a good night. s today on voices for change, economic disparities laid bare by the pandemic. With all those occupations, we see large disparities in pay between black women and white women. We want to create workplaces that are equal. When you create a workplace that works for women, it works for everybody. Addressing housing equities. Housing plan that is centered on racial and social equity. We
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