Boarded up due to worries about postelection civil unrest and are ready for holiday shoppers. Its been a challenging time for our retailers to say the least. Many have adapted, though. The stores are all open, and there certainly is curbside pickup, theres instore shopping. Reporter with the Christmas Tree up, the need for an instaworthy photo op is back. Im all for christmas. Reporter and drawing in shoppers. Got this at macys, 40 off. Want to be out with the people. I want to i dont feel as much anxiety as i did before in the grocery store. Reporter now, of course, things became more complicated yesterday when the mayor announced that Indoor Dining would sho shut down here in restaurants in San Francisco. They say thats a problem with the holiday season, people wanting to take a break from shopping to seat and drink. Nevertheless, the Tree Lighting ceremony for the tree behind me in the middle of union square happens a week from today. They hope it will draw people back into the area
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
Even socially distancing practices, hes been at least 6 feet of space in between you and others at the beach so. Heres images of the beach this morning you can see. The Service Looking there are lot of people out there enjoying the water but heres what you should do if you are going decide to go out to the beach you want to make sure that youre keeping at 6 feet of space you want to avoid large crowds. So if you arrive at a beach and its too many people getting your car turn around go home now remember Health Officials also say because of those really coastal winds. Its one of the more high risk places that you can be since you just cant control the flow of the wind as youre out so you want to keep that in mind before you leave your house. Now last weekend a police on here pacifica issue hundreds of violations for people. Leaving their homes and be more than 5 miles away from their houses to frequent the beach so again if you are going to come out just people out here are doing a good
Government stimulus program. We stay at work. For you. You stay at home for us. Jerome powell believes the of t for the weekend which is good news but still some rain around the santa clara valley. The ever persistent pesky low on Southern California does not just know were all with you. Want to go but it is showing under control the businesses will reopen and people come back to work. Thank you, thank you so much. There is every reason to believe the economic rebound when it comes can be robust. Thank you doctors nurses. Signs of moving. A little warmer the next week and a little overcast with the Senate Democrats blocked afternoon sunshine and bumping a republican bill to add an up the highs a little and on monday we had a lot of 50s but now we are all 50s. San jose is 56 and the line additional hundred 50 billion in relief for Small Businesses stretches across nevada and the and Democratic Leaders say any valley and about san jose south bill providing money for small towards watsonv
Studios this is kpix 5 news. Looking live from our exclusive Sales Force Tower looking east. Im michelle griego. And im anne makovec. Were tracking that for you on high def doppler. A few isolated showers before we start off our day. The locations getting a little bit of that wet weather from moraga as well as from hayward right over 238 into dublin. A few showers this morning. Temps in the 40s and the 50s as we head out the day. In the afternoon daytime highs around 53. In San Francisco 55 in oakland if i felt 7 in san jose and con sword at 56. Tracking our next stronger system coming up. And jumping to the roadways right now were off to a pretty good start. Not seeing a lot of problems. Stacking up in those cash lanes at the bay bridge. Again, this is business as usual for your morning drive. Things are clear. Same story for most of your bay area bridges. Looking live here at the san mateo bridge. The traffics looking light here. Northbound 880 off to a great start as well. This is a