Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, streaming on cbsn bay area, were looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look out east this morning. It is tuesday, august 18th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. And lets get your forecast with meteorologist mary lee and it is going to be another hot one for many of us. It will for sure. Temperatures are on the rise and it looks fabulous in green. I want to talk about what is going on because we have those wildfires burning this morning and i want to get to the current conditions. The hennessey fire is burning to the east of st. Helena and right now, temperatures are in the mid50s. Firefighters are against some warm conditions. The good news is there are calm winds this morning. For the marsh fire, burning east, temperatures are in the mid80s and winds northwest at six miles an hour. There are light conditions for the marsh fire. The deer zone fire, temperatures are in the upper 70s and h
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. A heat wave in california has triggered the first rolling blackout in california for over 20 years with more possible in the coming days. The bay area beach town is begging people not to visit but unclear how that could be enforced. Who will be vaccinated first when the shots become available, and what california and other states are asked to do ahead of time. It is 6 00 on this saturday, august 15. Good morning. I am emily turner. I am devin fehely. Lets get to our meteorologist. Yesterday was bad but thats only the start. Here is the view over the bridge with no marine layer this morning but i dont think anyone is surprised to see that. Although we did cool down in the upper 60s in the city after being in the mid90s yesterday. We shattered the record of San Francisco from the gold rush. We will do it all over again today. We have intense heat again today and it could get technically cooler tomorrow but dont think sunday will fe
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Anywhere from four to about 15 degrees warmer with that 24 hour temperature change compared yesterday afternoon. As we go through the day we are talking about daytime highs about 4 to 11 degrees above average for this time of year, 72 for a highend services go, 79 in oakland, upper 80s to about 90 in san jose and upper 90s for concorde. Tomorrow we are really going to crank up the heat with dangerous heat, talking about an excessive heat watch for the areas highlighted in yellow including the east bay hills, east bay interior valleys and for the south bay and in pink, that is an excessive heat effecttomorrow at at 7 pm. We will talk about how hot it will get in your neighborhood as we go through the next several days with his heatwave in full effect, details on that coming up in a few minutes. Ive been monitoring this hearing where pg e is discussing its plans for more power safety, or rather Public Safety power shutoffs with state regulators. Erkind and state regulators want to make s
City is agreeing to pay out the families of 32 of the victims and one man who survived that fire. 23. 5 million will go specifically to the families of the fire victims who died and 9. 2 Million Dollars for sam maxwell who barely made it out alive, but now has to live with that awful memory and permanent injuries as well as a medical expenses despite the payout oakland city leaders do not agree that the city is liable for the tragic loss that she marry alexander represents the families of some victims and instead said that more could have been done to prevent that deadly fire. Im sorry usually see warm summer months, not the defendant does not liability. But we feel that we proved our case against the city that they knew what they were police know that were in there and saw the People Living there. And one policeman said that when they saw party going on so we dont have a way to put it in one batch. As Police Report nothing was done. The firemen went to a party there. And so the. Turne