Meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez meibrys e u and tracking of this heat wave, whats the latest hey there catherine and this is just a sneak peek of whats to come because the heat wave wont officially begin until friday morning. All the way through wednesday night so it has been upgraded from an excessive heat watch 20 excessive heat warning away from the coast and away from the bay area coastline going to track a heat advisory and already seeing extremely warm to hot temperatures not just along the coast but far inland valleys as well, triple digit heat right now in antioch in livermore a 101 degrees about 15 degrees above average today nearly 40 degrees warmer than the coats happen beginning that cool sea breeze influence. Youre in the mid 60s, but downtown San Francisco, right now in the upper 70s still tracking double digit warming out there right now very warm air mass and its only going to get harder from here because we could see widespread triple digit heat as you make your way in
Joining us. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im Catherine Heenan for grant lotus tonight pg and e is urging customers to conserve electricity during peak hours because of the high heat because of the predicted demand. They say they will not initiate a Public Safety power shutoff kron fours michelle kingston is live for us tonight with more on plans for the rest of the fire season. During these hot summer day michelle. Catherine it is hot out here and it is only going to get hotter pg and e is staging crews and equipment throughout the bay area over the next few days. So pg e is preparing for Power Outages and we want our customers to prepare for possible Power Outages as well if power goes out over the next few days pacific gas and electric says its because of the increase in electricity usage over the bay area and not because of a Public Safety power shutoff the Electric Company is sending out more crews and equipment to handle any possible outages during the extreme heat. Theyre also
Because tomorrow. Thats when the heat is really going to crank up lets take a look at temperatures out there right now tracking widespread low to mid 70s for most of the north bay in the low to mid 80s for the tribe valleys even san jose cooling down to 78 degrees mid 70s right now for oakland and hayward 81 degrees as you step outside right now low 80s for those of you in redwood city. But you cant beat the beach in fact lets take a look at temperatures right now that the San Francisco peninsula coastline. Downtown San Francisco in the mid 60s, most of us dont even need a sweater if youre heading out for your thursday night Half Moon Bay, though rebel 59 degrees out there currently because of that cool sea breeze, but fortunately this is going to be our saving grace with the heat wave wind speeds going to be about 20 per hour or less but just keep in mind even with a light sea breeze or any light breeze for that matter in the coming days with this hot and dry weather heading our way i
Hotter temperatures all in all that means excessive heat warnings in effect for areas in pink here thats our inland areas across the day temperatures in excess of a 100 degrees for these areas and also looking at warm overnight lows. Orange areas on the map those areas in the 90s for daytime highs today. Still seeing some cloud cover still feeling that humidity as youre stepping outside less and less of that to the afternoon as our daytime highs eventually pushed upwards on up into the triple digits for antioch livermore concord morgan hill nap and nevado 90s for most of the rest of the bay. Ive got more on your forecast still ahead daria. Lets keep this going and to our Team Coverage now lets head out to will tran talking about where you can cool off. And the bay area in pleasanton right now. Well. There are many locations all over the bay area for those who dont have airconditioning and many apartments they dont come with a ciso if thats you help is on the way there is a cooling cent
The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is