but first, it s with heavy heart that we report that france 24 has lost one of its own. he has passed away at the age of 59. his sudden death a shock to all of us here in the newsroom. he worked at radio france international from 1984 as a correspondent in ivory coast and later gabon before becoming chief editor of african coverage. he joined france 24 in 2012. calm, composed, and warm, an excellent colleague with profound insight, a loving man with a big heart. he was a journalist, a husband, and a father. his passing leaves a hole not just in our company but in the lives of so many people who knew him. our condolences to his family and his friends. now, these words from the president of the european council. donald tusk said no doubt this will be the most challenging g7 summit in years. the sicily town hosting the summit, which is a first for donald trump, u.s. president, on his maiden trip abroad. a whirlwind tour of five stops in eight days. fresh off riling allies at a
you can see some smoke or smog it looks like in the air, and almost everywhere beyond triple-digits. everybody doing what they can to beat the heat, which includes the beach. these hot temperatures are bringing many concerns with them and for people s health and fire danger. team coverage of the heat advisory and the effect on the bay area. and we go to our meteorologist rob mayeda who is trabing the latest. this is a record that was broken since 1988 and 1981, and the upper 90s. and in sfo, the record was 86 and now recorded 88. oakland d san jose, the hottest temperatures in june since 2008. you have to go bk qte a ways to find the temperatures as hot in june as we saw outside today. and the looking at the cool temperatures if you want to call it that this morning. starting the day in the mid-70s and we hit the ground running with these temperatures and as quickly as noon, we were approaching 100 degrees in concord and santa rosa and check out the temperatures that we
running start from the temperatures in the 7:00 a.m., and many spots from lunchtime to noon. and approaching 7:00, you can check out concord and liver mmo, and still 107 to 104 degree, and with, that we have the heat advisory through thursday at 1:00. we might see a slight cooldown around san francisco, the heat wave is going to likely have a second spike in the temperatures as we go through the work week. we will show you the time line of that second spike inheat, and when we can expect the cooling in the forecast coming up in 13 minutes from now. that is what i am looking for now, rob. and people braved the soaring temperatures in the east bayh today, and christie smith is live in to a alameda fair, and usually, christy, this is a past event, and when it is this hot, it can change the crowd size. yeah, that is right. and i have to tell you they checked in with the division chief for alameda county fire and he is telling me that eight people have been treated so far fo
record of 9> thank you, rob. thousands of people in the bay area were without power because of a series of power outages. nbc bay area live in san mateo tonight where it looks power is restored based on what i m seeing behind you there. reporter: it does. the power was restored here at 8:00 this evening, but at certain points of the day across the bay area, there were about 43,000 customers that did not have electricity, and right now as i smeek, there are tens of thousands of customers who are still in the dark in certain parts of the bay area. on a day when temperatures swelled into the triple digits in some places, san mateo was cooler, but having no power was still fun. went to the lakes, got some sunburns going on so we didn t have the fan. family out on father s day, and according to the power company, 7400 customers were affected. in livermore, more than 4 it200 in the dark. businesses downtown closed because of the outage. across the bay, people went to b
idea that these visa workers are taking jobs from americans? not at all because americans don t want this type of work. reporter: even if the worker visas were approved today, by the time they were processed, the main texas shrimp season would be almost over. strassmann, cbs news, brownsville, texas. for the first time in several years, u.s. marines are on the ground in helmand province in southern afghanistan. they ve returned because so have the taliban. charlie d agata is there. [ gunfire ] reporter: the last time u.s. marines were here, a force of 20,000 all but drove the taliban out of their stronghold of helmand province. back then, brigadier general roger turner was a colonel. did you think he d be back here? no, i didn t. i didn t really. i left here as we discussed. i left here in 2012, and we knew that the mission was going to end in 2014. so i didn t think i d be back here. reporter: this time, his mission is dramatically different. in command of just