Bay area almost have fires. In the last hour, two fires also sparked in Sonoma County, forcing evacuations there. Lightning suspected as the cause of most of these fires. Now, fire danger not the only concern tonight. Power outages are also possible as the states grid is once again pushed to the max. Pg e is asking people to conserve electricity through 10 00 this evening. We have a lot going on right now and a team of reporters in place on the Power Outages and the wildfires. Lets start with nbc bay areas ian cull live in San Mateo County. Ian. Reporter yeah. Hey, guys. Very active scene up behind us here. You can see the plumes of smoke hundreds of feet in the air. This is what you can see from Silicon Valley throughout the bay area as more than 350 firefighters are onscene up there along that ridge. On officer who th a cal fire tells me that this is very steep, difficult terrain to be fighting a fire. Its also very dry up there because of this heat, and thats also a worry and a diff
How hot are we talking about on day one of the heat wave . 110 antioch, 103, 98 in santa rosa, 95, san rafael, 77 in San Francisco, 70 degrees in half moon bay. This is just the start of the dangerous heat wave. It is only going to get hotter as we head to the second half of the Holiday Weekend. Ill be back with the details coming up. Now in morgan hill, this Ace Hardware Store is already out of large fans but they do have generators. Theyve been struggling to keep the shelves stocked since the last heat wave just weeks ago. Generators, misting, hosing, all of that. Were pretty solid on it. The store manager says pools have been hard to come by with people looking for any way to stay cool. A lot of beaches in the bay area are closed this Holiday Weekend. In marin county, visitors are not allowed at point reyes, pacifica has closed all of its beaches. The fitzgerald Marine Reserve and Tunitas Creek beach is closed. Lake berryessa because of the wildfires is closed. Santa clara has close
Oakland is going to reach up to 87 degrees. We will talk more about this coming up. Mike, how is that looking for the commute . Well, pretty good, kari, but i have to call out the east bay, because looking at the map, there is a green view of the sen source, but over here in freemont, northbound and 680 at the bend of washington and irving, showing the northbound slowing there with a crash perhaps caused by debris, and a larger boulder is reported in the roadways heading past washington and you can see the Speed Sensors changing. Meanwhile in the same area as usual, we have the westbound commute from 580 and highway 84. In the same area, marcus, i hand it back to you. All right. Staying on the breaking news for you, and this is the fires ripping through parts of the bay area, and in some cases coming dangerously close to homes, and prompting evacuation, and all of this is happening in the extreme degree temperatures, and talking about 100 degrees or higher in some place, and taking you
Havent seen those high winds. Is that going to remain the case . It looks like it will for at least a little while longer. Right now as we track the Current Conditions in napa county, look at how hot it is though even though we dont have much of a wind, this really makes it hard for those crews out there when temperatures are already at 91 degrees. And at least once again, as we said, the winds are calm, but the humidity also continues to drop from this morning. The air is getting drier, which also helps those flames spread faster. As we look at what caused those fires, the lightning and all of that moisture that was streaming through the bay area. That has moved farther to the north. We do some unhealthy air in the east bay. Those temperatures are heating up fast once again. Well take a look at all of our micro climates in the High Temperatures for the next few days. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Thanks, kari. Crews are still battling two fires in napa county. The Napa Hennessy fi
High temperatures in the low 80s for the family this year but her visa was missing. There today with that high with the familys visa set to humidity and then some 70s over expire, they made the difficult decision to leave her with the next few days. Neighbors in egypt. So well talk more about this, but a lovely reunion at sfo. The excessive heat warnings, the spare the air alert and also glad to see that. Where it is raining this well it is time to get aur morning. There is a lot going on. Lost look at the hot vianey, do you have a lot going temperatures for you this on this morning for the commute . Morning. Kari . And were going to see our you know, i dont. Inland areas reaching over 100 but that is always good when it degrees today. Comes to traffic. And also with high humidity, weve seen some traffic well see that weather accidents clear, overnight continuing as we look at our crashes clear and that is exactly what were noticing right now on the speed sensors. Sevenday forecast, un