The news station. Youre watching kron 4 news and open the park and i said you know i dont its fair. Now at 10 oclock San Francisco reaches triple digits on the thermometer shattering the 100 yearold record. Other cities also seeing record highs as a heat wave grips, the bay area. Folks trying to keep cool as leaders try to limit the spread of covid19 good evening. Everyone, im Jonathan Mccall and im Justine Waldman thanks for joining us tonight, a majority of the bay area beaches. Well theyre close this Holiday Weekend to try and discourage large crowds amid the coronavirus pandemic San Franciscos ocean beach did remain open, however thats a decision that many say may have backfired take a look at what happened over a 1000 people crowded ocean beach last night in a burning man celebration, San Francisco mayor london breed called the celebration reckless and selfish adding that behavior like this only risks reversing the progress the city has made in curbing the spread of coronavirus an
Will be 80s in sf but really close to the 90s were already off to a warm start this morning cloverdale timber on in berkeley of all hovered right around 80 degrees during morning hours. So even as you open the windows. Hoping that a cool breeze makes its way in some of us havent yet seen that relief because evening lows have been so warm and daytime highs will be more than warm its going to be another really hot one livermore in cut up to a 110 conquered at one o 9 today, santa rosa nap of the lay ho through morgan hill, san jose in Mountain View Fremont Livermore all these areas well into the triple digits again so it is not the ideal labor day to be doing too much outside i know that he is going to keep a lot of us indoors. Find a good spot to stay cool and take it as easy as possible. Excessive heat warnings remaining until 09 00pm tonight in pink really all across the bay areas that are affected by excessive heat warnings will be under heat advisories and that really is just San Fr
Open overnight, some of us didnt get much relief from the heat really if anything just put some bad air into our homes. 80s at the coast 90s by the bay and yep youre seeing it there triple digits, one 10 today again in livermore in antioch concord at one o 9 Napa Santa Rosa san jose just to name a few other spots that will be solidly in the triple digits today now with temperatures this hot you can see why so much of the bays yet again under excessive heat warnings through 09 00pm tonight that includes these pink areas on the peninsula down into the south bay where we will be solidly in the triple digits. Same for those of us on the east bay triple digits inland 90s for bayside cities like oakland and richmond while antioch brentwood Discovery Bay above 110 degrees in these areas. Fairfield and vacaville also at a 110 above and with such dangerous heat check on your neighbors, check on some of your older relatives who may be even more vulnerable to the heat make sure that theyve got a
Care of us and theres others that are elderly. While that was happening. A short period of time. Pg and e was also using voice mail and Text Messages to get the word out. Rolling blackouts are going to be with us at least for awhile. Because there was not sufficient supply to meet the demand in the state of california. The outages mean she, her husband and their three kids are in limbo. Nothing gets done. My husband doesnt work. My kids dont go to school and you know, its right now it is a necessity in life to have our power. If youll lose power today youre less likely to lose it again in the near future. Really the primary factors are how many mega watts need to be taken off the grid and who has already experienced a rotating outage and we try to do our best to make sure that folks that already experienced one do not have enough one. They know people are nervous. One message this morning from pg and e saying possible Power Outages. Mean while, san jose mayor this afternoon blamed the
Near st. Helena. Terry mcsweeney, you were with crews a authority tishort its believed that lightning started this fire. Reporter a lot of evidence that lightning started it. I was talking to firefighters here. They say the focus tonight is on structure protection, saving the homes which are up state route 128, closed off as you can see. Everywhere you look, theres fire on the mountain. Huge flames leaping into the night sky along hennessey ridge. Cal fire says this fire has burned 2,400 acres and is 0 contained. With the hot, dry conditions that weve been having and then coupled with this weather that weve had, its not common for the area with all the lightning strikes that weve been having. Its just its very can be very hazardous for the fire conditions. Reporter the cause believed to be lightning. This video from the local chp office showing a strike a short while before the first reports of fire. This structure fell victim to the flames today. More than 200 other buildings are thre