Gate doesnt show much the way of fog certain the marine layer has taken the day off again today is going to be quite hot across the bay area for today. Bay bridge toll plaza shot again when the sun come up over the east bay hills Temperature Check for you a pretty mild to start things off on the east bay shoreline the lower 60s got 50s off to the east bay, 48 for santa rosa 61, meanwhile for san jose for comparisons sake actually were much cooler going from fairfield all the way down to Half Moon Bay. Elsewhere across the bay still trailing all those stills still feels a little bit on the warm side. Back to that red flag warning you can see its still covering some of those Higher Elevations here going on and up to the north bay as well so its not total coverage. Its basically focusing on the Higher Elevations Going Forward until 08 00am this morning. The breakdown for you is 8111 by 2 were talking 92 to the will be a bigger change with temperatures tomorrow. And a little bit into next
Haze. Lets bring in Frank Mallicoat who will talk about the air quality. Here we are, today feels different, not quite normal yet. Not quite normal but were certainly getting there. No bright orange glow, gasia. What a site it was yesterday. Today were back to our old faithful fogfilled sky. Theres plenty of smoke in the sky. That means two thirds of the air quality is poor quality, especially if you live in the east bay or north bay. This bears repeating. What a difference a day looks. Heres a look at oakland, wednesday draped in that bright orange hue and then back to the well take it. This is looking down on highway 24, foggy and gray there and as we go into the Rockbridge Area much of the same area. After fires, extreme heat, blackouts, anything that resembles normalcy in 2020 well take it. Its nice in the moment but scary and sad to think about the environment and think about the fact this will be yet again another new normal. But there was nothing normal about this. Actually had
Our dangerous heat wave arrived today, and its only going to get hotter tomorrow. Were tracking the recordbreaking temperatures. Excessi creating several concerns. One, health. Two, slow business traffic. Three, potential power shutoffs. Raising money for the Boulder Creek volunteer fire department. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us, im indion lim. Imatcri is on, another scorr tomorrow. Lets get to meteorologist drew tuma. Were tracking even hotter temperatures tomorrow, eric and dion. Right now, a warm night, 79 in the city. 80 san jose. 77 in oakland. The air quality is moderate across the entire region, however, if you have been smelling a pretty strong, new smell of smoke, there is in fre start today, the creek fire. It did send a lot of smoke into the atmosphere. There are no new fires in the bay area tonight, but there is a lot of smoke in our atmosphere from that fire in Fresno County. Future tracker temperatures, get your workout in early by 8
Gavin new issuing the acting security of home secretary of homeland security, all the people, state and local leaders join us today. Were having a separate News Conference a little later on other subjects. I just want to thank everybody. Its been pretty amazing. In august i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I approved, i think, gavin, about 40 stafford act declarations. Very quickly because we want to get this thing taken care of including fire management, assisting fwrans to help multiple states stop the fires. More than 28,000 firefighters and First Responders are combating fires in california, oregon, and washington. Over 230 soldiers are fighting the august complex fire. An thats the largest fire in california. Thats the big one. Thats the biggest. And we want to thank all of the brave fighters, we want to thank these incredible people, the First Responders, Service Members who are racing to the extreme peril, really, putting their lives in extreme danger. Soon
Our hands in the air and enjoy the ride. There is nothing else we can do. They also permitted the opening of museums, zoos and will be theaters. Now at 11, the extreme heat is over but now there is even santa cruz also moved into more smoke. Tonight, how long is this going the red tier today. And the Tiburon Police chief to last . Its horrible, we Just Announced he is leaving. Are just waiting. Thousands in the bay area still in the dark. Chief Michael Cronin is retiring after 12 years, the news comes after this confrontation between a police but Small Businesses are officer and black business feeling especially powerless and what pg e said a few hours owner. The officer questioned the man inside his own store and ago. Santa clara county gets the news its been waiting for but some parents are saying enough demanded to see that he did already. Its just not cutting it, its not indeed on the store. The town manager said the chief working. Taking a live look outside, now at 11 and had beti