Theres a reasonable chance of executing a psps to reduce Public Safety risk. Well, more on the fire in fresno county. But first, we begin with the oppressive heat thats now come across the bay area during this Labor Day Holiday weekend. Good evening. Im andre senior. Triple digit temperatures expected in some areas and we have Team Coverage of this heat wave. This new heat wave. Ktvus greg lig gens will tell us more but we begin tonight with meteorologist mark demayo. Reporter yeah, thats right. Now typically at this time of year its not abnormal to talk about maybe 98, 100 degrees or unusual. But this weekend, were going way up above the average. Today 104 and 105 degrees. Tomorrow another level. So its a start well show you a couple of records here. Gilroy 106 degrees and napa, 102 degrees. And you can see some more highs from this afternoon. Look at all the triple digits out towards santa rosa and concord and livermore and antioch and san jose. Maxed out 98 and San Francisco, 89 deg
Is director. I hope we do not be that. Forecasting 105. The forecast is 99 degrees. A little hazy out there about lots of sunshine. That is no doubt. We have clear skies. We had a little fog this morning but that has dissipated and has opened up the skies to bring the sunshine in. Along with it he. We are already here at this hour. Look at these numbers. At sfo about 77 degrees. 89 in oakland but 91 in nevada. 95 in concorde, walnut creek and livermore the scene. I am wanting these go up by the time i walked from the desk to over here. 91 in san jose. We are under the heat advisory into 8 00 tonight. All the areas of the orange most of the bay area except for the coast. Excessive heat warnings in sacramento, San Joaquin County and that goes until friday at 10 00 p. M. Also, some heat going on. These are the highs looking out for today. 101 in santa rosa, 85 in San Francisco. 105 and livermore. When is the cooldown coming . I have answers. We will talk about that in just a few moments.
And we have a large response from cal fire and county task force so about 120 firefighters are assigned to the scene. Reporter the fire started at 12 20 along santa teresa boulevard near bailey avenue. It took cress about two hours to stop the forward progress of the fire. More than a dozen homes had to be evacuated. We spoke to a neighbor as she arrived at the scene. I thought what am i up against. When i saw that our blocks were you know, being protected by police and cars are backed up, i am truly frightened one firefighter suffered a heat related issue. Neighbors thankful for the work of First Responders. That was chris nguyen reporting. The cause confident fire remains under investigation. However, there were initial reports of a vehicle colliding with a power pole in that area. Pg e says up to 1700 customers were witho pow tteoon. Ght ch for hotpoontra coa fe of not gone up yet. Most residents are looking for ways to keep cool. Eric thomas is live in walnut creek with the story.
Area neighbors say they heard police go into a home at about five gunshots were fired. They added that they believe as many as six children were inside during the incident. Eight victims and the suspect were taken to the hospital and at this time we do not have information on their conditions, but once we do we will bring you more. Now we are going to turn to meteorologist with our weather. Temperatures for the Morning Hours neural freezing and we could be scraping ice off the windshield first thing tomorrow morning so just keep that in mind as we head into your sunday. Around the bay not as cold, close to 40 degrees. Inland areas low to mid 30s, some areas of frost. No freeze warnings or frost advisories in place. It is still a chilly start as we head toward december 24. Satellite showing you this, you probably noticed the change throughout the day, lots of high cloud cover. A solid deck of high clouds, helping our temperatures not letting them get into the 20s across most of the bay
It is christmas in some parts of the world and we are tracking santa as he makes a trip to all the boys and girls who have been good this year. Tracking santa and where he will go next. Hopefully santa has had good weather. Is smooth sailing in the bay area. We dont even have fog. It is dry and cold and a chilly start for most. A few degrees from where we were yesterday. 30s and 40s to start and we will take a live look outside where we have cloud cover in place. A beautiful sunrise with a nice glow in place. For Christmas Eve, we remain dry. A weak system will move across the bay area later today and bring a slight opportunity for sprinkles. It doesnt look like much, if anything at all. First the numbers. 42 to start the day in livermore. Low 40s in napa and 39 at santa rosa. 48 at San Francisco and the south bay is 46 to start the morning. Some of us are a tad cooler. 43 at san mateo and woodside. Alimony alimony alamo is 39. The wind is light with a little fog and not too bad. If yo