You are taking a look at santa cruz beach. Temperatures soar into the triple digits in some cities. Lets find out how long the heat will last. Drew tuma. Our dangerous heat wave rolls on. Lets get a check how hot it is where you live. We are scorching. 109 in fairfield, 93 in hayward. It is 82 in the city right now. 97 in san jose. Its another hot day across the region. We still have our heat advisories and excessive heat warnings in effect for much of the bay area and again, with these hot temperatures is a high risk of heatrelated illness, unfortunately as the sun goes down, by 9 00, we will still be sweat sweating with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. Overnight, a red flag warning will go into effect for the threat of thunderstorms moving into the region. We will detail that new threat coming up in a few minutes. All right. Drew. Well see you then. Thank you. The heat is putting a serious drain on our states power grid. Abc 7 news in the north bay, joining us now live. What are we l
Click, call or visit a store today. Well, another day of record hot temperatures in the bay area. The effects seen all across the region. Power outages affecting thousands. Packed cooling centers, brush fires and dozens of ocean rescues. And now a red flag warning about to go into effect. Good evening and thanks so much for joining us. Im dion lim. And im eric thomas. Lets get right to meteorologist drew tuma with more on that red flag warning. Drew . Yeah, its been another day of intense record breaking heat across the entire bay area. Look at the numbers that have fallen today. Anywhere shaden that is numerous cities eithe tied or set new records today. 108 in livermore, 100 the high in redwood city earlier today, 103 in santa rosa. And it is still a very warm evening out there as we approach midnight. Look at these numbers. Little in the way of cool air moving in. Were in the 70s if not widespread 80s along the coast. Were in for another uncomfortable for lot of us tonight. With all
Exposed. I hesitate to say malpractice but i dont think it is a good idea especially in a context like Contact Tracing they absolutely need to be tested. The governor is also taking issue i dont agree with the new cdc guidance period full stop. Neither do leaders in the bay area, in the south bay specifically, they are blasting the new moves, calling them bizarre. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. As abc 7 News Reporter chris wynne explains south bay leaders say the abrupt changes could within st. Claira county this afternoon Health Officials didnt hold back after learning of the new covid19 testing guidelines from the cdc. When i first heard about this change in guidelines, i actually didnt believe it. Reporter the Nations Health Protection Agency now says as long as a person doesnt show symptoms testing may not be necessary. Health officers however are questioning the guidance saying it is important to identify infections in the small window preceding the onset of symptoms whil
To 80s across the bay area. And tomorrow morning its a warm start to another very hot day. Well have the latest on how hot we get tomorrow, how long this heat wave will last, and also a red flag warning that will go into effect. All the details in the acuweather forecast in a few minutes. We will see you then, drew, thank you. The heat is putting a serious strain on our states power grid. Cornell barnard joins us from the north bay. What do we know about the possibility of more Power Outages, cornell . Reporter well, eric,ges are possibility tonight through wednesday and customers should be prepared. Well, its super hot outside. There is relief, though, here at this new cooling center at the marin center in san rafael. Take a look. There is water. Theres lots of snacks. Best of all, airconditioning. And after last night with no power a lot of folks around here could really use it. Were going to survive it. Reporter Richard Evans was braving the heat on the vallejo waterfront saturday,
Recording. Relative humidity 33 near the walbridge fire. 7 degrees relative humidity, 49 . Now conditions are a bit more favorable in terms of humidity and temperature at the woodward fire. 55 degrees and relative humidity 100 . The wind gusts up to 23 miles an hour and that is not helpful to fire containment. To the Santa Cruz Mountains in the czu lightning complex, 63 degrees there, humidity up to 72 . The wind gusts, not the wind speed thats a computer mistake, 9 miles per hour. As for air quality, the unhealthy air quality in santa cruz and san jose. Green, good to see that, indicating good air quality in fremont, San Francisco and oakland. Yellow in concord, livermore, san rafael, napa, fairfield. Ft. Bragg, ukiah and point arena. Ill have a further look at the weather later and the fire conditions. Dan . The lnu lightning complex is a top priority for cal fire. Its expanded across napa, sonoma, solano, lake and yolo counties to 357,000 acres. The National Guard brought in 280 gua