Temperatures already heating up at this noon hour. We are looking at clear skies across the coast. And were also getting a little bit of smoke coming through the haze. Thats lingering. So from that camera sutro camera you cant quite see it but this camera you can. This is our transamerica tower and you can see that haze lingering. Unhealthy air quality in the bay area. Concord 89. Temperatures are heating up already. 75 in oakland. Livermore 91. San francisco 70. Temperatures will go up more. Heres the air quality for you. Spare the air alert today east bay and Santa Clara Valley unhealthy conditions. Its going to stay that way for the next couple of days all because of that heat thats in place. Right now, we have a heat advisory in effect tomorrow, an excessive heat warning because of those temperatures you see on your screen from 95 up to 115 degrees inland. A lot of records will be broken. Well talk more about that coming up. The weather is set to grow dangerously hot as the workwee
Pg e is in all Emergency Response mode. All of the transformers lined up in case other transformers blow. This is potentially the largest heat event. Most impactful that we will experience since 2006. Reporter as the bay area heats up, pg e says they are ready to response to what could be the worst heat wave in decades. We have extra crews and equipment and resources. Reporter people are looking for places to keep cool and safe. Cooling centers are expected to be popular places. Not just the heat folks are trying to escape. Smoke from the wildfires have drifted in the bay area. Prompting a smoke advisory. It is smothering. It is smothering. It comes down on you and it is stifling. Reporter animals are also at risk. Animal control officers expect to be swamped with calls to rescues. A lot of 911 calls are for dogs in cars, not enough water. Reporter fortunately this pit bull got help before it was too late. She was overheating, panting excessively and drooling and spread eagle on the gr
Games is left to the schools. If you ask the players, they fully intend to take the field. Definitely really hot. Its a lot harder than people think. You have to make sure youre hydrated, make sure you hydrate a couple of days before. Reporter now, livermore is always one of the hottest spots in the entire bay area. School Officials Say they fully expect to play tomorrow nights game and they say that triple digit temperatures dont really faze them and that players say they believe it will actually give them a competitive advantage. In livermore, devin fehely, kpix 5. Heat isnt the only issue. Video from chopper 5 shows the haze over the east bay this afternoon. Fairfield one spot under smoky skies and some cities are issuing warnings about the bad air quality. As Susie Steimle reports, air quality officials blame wildfires burning to our north. Reporter all day people have been saying the air looks like heavy smog from pollution or a wildfire. And you can see why western suburbs out he
We are looking at a wind shift with temperatures this afternoon by midmorning warming up as rapidly. We have continued our excessive heat warning. It is the advisory for the bay side regions. That is where we will see the biggest drop. Mainly inland and the santa clara valley. Instead of smoke today, still high and mid level clouds. Were looking at temperatures coming down with temperatures stopping in the 70s today. Mid 90s around the bay. How about 106 today inland. More dramatic cooling for the weekend. Thank you. Developing news out of north korea. They appear to have carried out their sixth and most powerful and provocative nook luclear te. They detonated a Hydrogen Bomb that could be put on a sben intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Let me also tell you that President Trump this morning did tweet saying that north koreas actions continue to be hostile and dangerous to the United States. Back to that story in a moment, but our other top story, lisa just talked about it, the heat w
Have already been order for the florida keys. Bill martin is checking ermine irma as she heads. Its a big storm on the heels of harvey. The United States is not need this because we have had one Major National disaster in terms of cost and now we have a storm with the biggest in the atlantic that we have ever seen. It is heading toward florida. We have some Model Solutions, but remember, it is way out. This is not poised to make landfall in the continental United States until the weekend. Lots of can happen between now and then, but heres what we stand right now. Wind speeds are 185. Theyre moving to the west northwest. And see the various Model Solutions for irma. If you look, he will see, case you earlier with us tonight, the models were more of aggressive here. Its honestly your drawing a through line, so you are seeing now more divergence in the models. Theyre starting to get a little bit diffuse. That is a good thing, because this is not a bad solution. What is a bad solution is i