All safe. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 10th. Thank you for starting your week with us. And we do begin with schools ng a as coravirus cas millionaon be Holding Classes online today and tomorrow, while the building is disinfected following an outbreak among students and staff. In bigtime College Football, the power five conferences may be considering moving their season to the spring. Meantime, the pandemic has prompted some top ncaa players to call for the creation of a union. Abcs Andrew Dymburt has more. Reporter the u. S. Now surpassing 5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus. Kansas city among nine cities warned by the White House Task force they are in danger of becoming new hot spots. Were seeing a lot of activity that has been against Public Health advice. House parties of up to hundreds of people, a lot of backyard parties. Reporter chicagos mayor threatening to shut down the lakefront, posting these images on social media after witnessing what she
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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
Well actually theres more red icons theres one runner park, theres one up in American Canyon and farther up past so masterful thank you for joining us tonight at 10 im ken wayne and i pale more pg and e says the states grid operator order the rotating Power Outages because of the excessive heat driving up electricity use and putting a strain on the power grid, it was expected to last until 11 oclock tonight, but about 9 oclock. Pg said it has stopped shutting off power and has started restoring power and just about 10 minutes ago the state agency lifted its stage 3 Emergency Declaration which ordered the rotating Power Outages in the first place is the first time the state of california has ordered rolling Power Outages since 2011. We talked to a spokeswoman from the state agency that order the outages about what led them to declare the stage 3 emergency tonight. This one completely driven by the heat. There was so much demand. We also have out cover at the same time that came with tha
With in addition to the pandemic so yeah get right to it john trouble in the Weather Center will start their jobs. Yeah guys definitely was not a fun night for those of us that did lose power, especially for those of you that were trying to cool off a little bit. Temperatures today will likely again be shattering records areas like San Francisco full 10 degrees above the former record reaching into the 90s for a few spots in the city says you look at the Golden Gate Bridge right here Crystal Clear skies we are off to a warm start already with 60s 70s for most of our current temperatures did cool off enough last night to let it cool breeze into your house, but as we make our way through the day today we are going to be seeing temperatures just as hot as yesterday in some areas despite a one to 2 degree cool down and others think areas on the map still under that excessive heat warning and thats all the way through wednesday. So this is an extended round of heat ahead of us not really lo