Struggling. We expect to see increase in hospitalizations and Emergency Department visits with the temperatures that get to this level. Reporter dr. Clifford says it is a dangerous time of combination of high temperatures and closed cooling facilities. Typically, we are at malls and where theres air conditioning. Thme period. S availa just a cool shaded area would be most important to find. Reporter is finding shade is the best advice going, advocates the city and the county to open up unused hotel rooms. This needs to happen now, we hotel rooms in the city and something needs to be done to move our people into those rooms. Reporter just before coming on air, we got the city of san jose, five Community Centers will be opening as cooling centers just for the next couple days. One of them here, the roosevelt center, the other ones in Mayfair Community center, camden kennedy center, was about unity center, Cyprus Community center in san jose. They will be open from 5 00 p. M. To 9 00 p. M
To another deadly pandemic, the lessons we can learn from the spanish flu. Breaking news in San Francisco. Five people are hurt after part of a tree came crashing down in Washington Square park. This is the park in the citys north beach neighborhood, these are live pictures coming in from the scene. We are being told it was a tree limb that fell onto a group of people, the good news here, people telling us that injuries are minor, no word on what caused the tree to fall in the first place and you can see a lot of emergency crews there. There have been other incidents of people being injured at the park including a woman who was left paralyzed after tree came down in 2018, we will have more information as it comes in. The baking temperatures across the bay area and the east bay, social distancing rules kept the pool closed, instead, people braved the heat on the Tennis Courts and at the skate park. Despite the heat, the beaches were not quite as packed as they were on memorial day, but
San francisco. A heat advisory once again for the bay area except for the coast an immediate shoreline so all inland locations under the heat advisory to check out how hot its going to get. So mid 70s in San Francisco, 80s in oakland, 93 and triple digit heat once again in concord we have more in the full forecast coming up. Governor gavin newsom is using restrictions on hair salons and barbershops, napa and solano counties of the state approval to move forward and open up shops today as the rest of this date slowly moves into phase 3 of the reopening plan. Phase 3 also includes gyms, movie theaters, religious services, weddings and sporting events without live audiences and theme parks. For people wanting to get a haircut, not every county is in a rush to reopen but with more than 200 new covid19 cases in the past two weeks in Sonoma County, the Health Officer is not comfortable moving into the next phase so soon. I think we will wait a little bit to see where were going, we are close
Studios, this is kpix 5 news. Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we look live from our tower camera as we look south this morning. Good morning everybody its wednesday, may 27 and im michelle griego. Good morning to you on this wednesday, first up a check of the forecast and standing by with that good morning, mary. Good morning len and michelle, remember we talked about yesterday being a warm start, check out temperatures this morning, were in the 60s and 70s and we continue to watch temperatures climb another warm to hot day across the bay area and because of that hes a heat advisory is in effect for most of the bay area except the coast an immediate shoreline so, all inland locations from 11 am and tells evan p. M. So we will see the daytime highs well above average, 75 in San Francisco, 84 in oakland, 93 in san jose and triple digit heat once again in concord so 10 to 22 degrees above average. We talk about the cooldown and when we see the next chance of showers co
South bay san jose camera heating up in the south with the sunshine, under a heat advisory once again but most of the bay area except for the coast an immediate shoreline are under a heat advisory and because of the heat san jose has five cooling centers open now. Of mayfair, camden, seven trees, roosevelt and Cyprus Community centers all open to help give some relief from the heat. If you do had out there you will be required to wear a mask as well as keep 6 feet apart capacity is limited. Its been an active afternoon and a Tornado Warning north of r lm beach. Lets go to and mackovic at the live news desk. Youre at the live news desk weve been monitoring whats going on in florida right now in taking a live look at the Kennedy Space center, where in about an hour and a half and nasa astronauts are scheduled to blast off for the first privately owned and operated human trip to space ever. It is now looking about 5050, didnt really like to hear what mary had to say about the weather righ