Seeking or seeing record breaking temperatures will travel to the Russian Arctic where relentless heat is putting vulnerable communities at risk. Below im terry Martin Thanks for joining us we start in baton rouge where president Alexander Lukashenko says hes ready to hold new elections in an address to factory workers who said he is willing to share power but only after a constitutional referendum it would mark a reversal for the long ruling lucas shaken who has consistently rejected any calls to step down those calls have been growing louder ever since he was returned to office over a week ago in a controversial election. Their bread and white flag of the opposition has one small been raised on this. Rates of minutes. This time by the work is a balance the gathered outside factories and the state television headquarters. Go away they chanted directly to president Alexander Lukashenko who had come to win them over. Appeared unconcerned just 6 thought the new portrait though if someone
Should be prepared. The shut offs are being ordered by the state of california so pg and he wants everyone to know this is not the Public Safety shutoff switch happened during high fire threat conditions. The outages are due to a combination of the extreme heat that were experiencing and high energy usage. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now to tell us the records that were broken today and how long this hot weather is going to stick around for years, you can imagine all the people trying to turn up their abc today. These temperatures easily, the hottest of the summer so far and records all around the bay area, not just in a few spots we smashed into many places in the San Francisco 95 degrees that is very hot. Downtown San Francisco. Look at oakland, a 101 degrees a 103 in san jose that was a record in san jose, Half Moon Bay right out there on the waters edge 82 a record a 106 scorching heat in napa one 05 in santa rosa. We were done there more records falling redwood ci
It will pick up this evening. Very warm today. Nationally if its quiet here it must be active everywhere else and thats about the case. You could see how everything goes up in over the ridge of High Pressure and drops down. Montana and north dakota into the plains and look at the low in the great lakes. Most of the country has very active weather and as you can imagine, cool temperatures. Some very cold ones as well. A lot of snow coming in over the next 57 days. Not here. Its record heat. We seen this so many times. Sfo, 87 yesterday breaking the old mark of 85 in 1965. 80s for the forecast highs today. Near 90. They are all away above. 82 and 60 for the city. They hit 60 and are now at 63. Way above average on both. It looks like a pattern were not much will change but as that system digs into the intermountain region, the wind will pick up later tonight into tomorrow. Not too bad now but it is a north, northeast direction from many locations around the bay already. 40s, the fees and
[no audio] Sonoma County has enlisted a team of law firms with expertise in wildfire litigation. To begin tracking legal suits against pg e. The county is also exploring its own lawsuit against the utility. For taxpayer damages from the fires. Funeral services were held today for a chp officer. Killed by a suspected drunk driver. On christmas eve. Fellow officers delivered emotional eulogies for andrew camilleri. Kpix fives da lin was at todays service in stockton. Pkg script we show snow and snow showers heading into the lower great lakes and off in the new england area. Out in full force this weekend. Making sure drivers are sober while celebrating the new year. Reporter sean bennett shows us what to expect. Cut this line out toward the top. Reporting there. Heres another option to get home you can call lyft or uber so you dont get caught drinking and driving. Its not worth it. Heres another option to get home safely on new years eve. Starting tomorrow night, muni transits and vta ar
Please evacuate your homes. The fire fueled by recordbreaking heat and the desperate fight going on right now to keep it contained. And this morning, the penn state hazing case, a judge dismissing the most serious charges against the frat members indicted in the death of a fellow student. His mother speaking to gma this morning. Nobody should go through this. And the district attorneys next move here. Hey, good morning, and lets get right to the new developments in the wake of harvey. Look at these new aerial images showing parts of texas before and after the storm went on its rampage causing all that flooding. President trump is headed back to the state of texas this morning, as well as louisiana. Now, overnight the white house asked congress for nearly 8 billion in aid for Recovery Efforts there and this is just the first ask. Harvey is predicted to be at least the second costliest Natural Disaster in american history, the number of homes damaged or destroyed, that number now stands