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California churches get the goahead to resume inperson services. Tonight the guidelines from the governor and the bay area pastors who are pushing back. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a scorching hot memorial day in parts of the bay area and tomorrow could get even hotter. Good evening. Im elizabeth cook. Im allen martin. Kens off tonight. The unusually warm weather had been crowds packing San Franciscos ocean beach. Chief meteorologist paul joining us with details on a hotter day tomorrow. Todays temperatures broke records in a number of spots. Concord got up to 99 degrees. San jose tied todays record High Temperature of 95. Oakland broke a record High Temperature. 91 degrees. Santa rosa two degrees off todays record. Made it all the way up to 94. Even San Francisco climbed above 80 but along the coast, Half Moon Bay only made it to 66 degrees. Youre likely to make it into the 70s tomorrow. The heat advisory includes all of our inland locations around the bay area. Its e
Im larry beil. Several big storie in the headlines to want. State officials releasing new guidelines for reopening and holding inperson worship. But some Church Leaders today said it might be too much too soon. State Officials Say instore shopping can resume across the state as long as county leaders agree. Right now the bay area is saying not so fast. Memorial day in the heart of Sonoma County brought out a lot of people, but whats good for the local economy may not be good for keeping people health. Also tonight, the hot weather has a lot of f eerltin tempebegiing. And memorial day all around the bay, events honoring the nations veterans. But the men and women who never had the chance to become veterans because they sacrificed their lives during their service. We honor them all today. Churches, synagogues, and mosques, the take the is now saying they can reopen, but with restrictions. Big news today. Abc 7 News Reporter will you lus the story. After mounting pressure and three days a
San jose tied its record for this date. And even right now we have temperature readings in at redwood city and its really, really hot out there. Its going to be hotter tomorrow. The next three days well have more of this heat and it will be even hotter than today. As a result of that, a heat advisory is in effect now and remains in effect for virtually all of the bay area until 7 a. M. Thursday and a heat warning is in effect for solano county. Ill show you how hot later on. All right. Thank you. The heat sent many people off to beaches and parks across the bay area despite recommendations to stay at home. Leann melendez spoke to people who said they just needed to get out. She joins us live from the roof at abc 7 studios. I love how you said it earlier, were all human. Thats right. Well, you know, let me just tell you to start out weve been all stir crazy. People have been working from home, theyve been attending classes from home, staying safe at home, but then you added today the he