Address. The rollout of the new covid19 booster shots is underway. Starting today at 8 0, at 8 00, Contra Costa Health the the will offer shots. They incle they include the highly contagious on the current strai. Current strain. Moderna is available to adults only. Its another spare the air day. Thats largely due lake tahoe, under a flexible or to protect Power Supplies and prest and present outages but this could be the last time we face those alerts. Cooler temperatures are on the way and thats a good news as we move into the weekend. This heat waves moved summoning plans. Something is ig is interesting in the atmospher. The atmosphere. This huge heat dome we have been talking about is starting to be sandwiched by two systems. Lowpressure pushing from the north will coalesce down but theres more as we extend into the weekend. This hurricane that is now a Tropical Storm has been downgrad been downgraded, it still pushing north and that will give give us moisture heading into the weeke
And live more. But look at the coastline. Temperatures 40 degrees cooler than some spots. Well inland right now it rather chilly in some spots. Coast side as youve got the breeze blowing there. But away from the coast. Thats where it heats up in a hurry. And so we do have a cold front that was moving by today. In alameda. You can see the temperature right now here were at 67 degrees. But the cold front kind of bring down the temperatures a little bit for today. Were going to see that begin to move on out of the way as it moves on out. These temperatures are going to begin to soar as early as tomorrow. Were going to be back in the triple digits in spots inland inside the bay. Not too bad. Youre talking upper 80s in the south bay, but then we get to the east bay that were talking triple digit heat again for tomorrow. Be prepared for that. Slow county again, going to be very, very hot outside. Those temperatures soaring into triple digits out there as 103 degrees in vacaville about 103. I
As we get it. For the third day in a row, we are under a flex alert. Will end in several hours. Refrain fm using power. You can see according to cal iso, we are about the forecasted peak of today. The positive news, we are are expected to be okay today be this is not surpassing the current capacity of the grid. Demand will only ramp up to the. Up to the weekend. We are in the the north bay were people are cg off. People are rushing to more wild temperatures. We have Team Coverage on the impacts of the y heat. Max darrow is live at half Half Moon Bay. Da lin is napa valley. We begin with meteorologist paul heggen. One bit of good news is thate timing of the onset of the dangerous teat has been pushed back by one bay. Tomorrow is still going to be a hot date in. A hot date inland. The excessive heat warning is in effect through tuesday for him parts of of the bay area. High temperatus will range from the mid to uppes in the Santa Clara Valley to around 100 degrees in the northy to 100 to
All that is left of jackson, saturn. His family tells me he was on his way home from delivering a meal to a relative. His death was followed by two others as a result of traffic collisions. Last thursday, a driver struck and killed at 35 year old man who was in the crosswalk at busy Piedmont Avenue and macarthur. The suspect fled the scene, but police made an arrest later. The next evening, a bicyclist was struck and killed by a vehicle driven by a gunshot victim trying to leave a crime scene in west auckland. It was the third traffic collision death in just two weeks. Just hope sick. Just its awful helped start traffic violence response, a Citizen Group advocating for safer streets. The Group Organizes street vigils to raise awareness and demand safety improvements. Were just going to yell on the street corner. Were not going to get the work done, so we have to do both. We have to draw attention to the problem, and then we have to work on the problem with the city to get it done. Jack
Up a plume of smoke that is vise from the bay area. It may impact impact air quality. That is what we will track tonight. We will show you how we we get out of the worst of the heat, we will shift focus to smoke. How locals are honoring the late queenan through british style. Straka wildfire burning 30 miles from the west shore of lake tahoe, prompting evacuatio. Sending and also almost volcanic almost volcanic plume into the air. Mosquito fires burning betn i80 and highway 50. Lol e answering the call for help. Reporter firefighters from n francisco, Alameda County and here in san jose are all working all working on strike teams assigned to the mosquito fire wh exploded in size today. Mostly e to record high temperatures. Extreme behavior, that is how fs are dried describing conditionsa massive ash plume rising high ae the fire visible from tahoe to san francisco. With afternoon ts over 100, the mosquito fire more fire more than doubled in size on thursday. Now mapped more thn 13,000