Should be prepared. The shut offs are being ordered by the state of california so pg and he wants everyone to know this is not the Public Safety shutoff switch happened during high fire threat conditions. The outages are due to a combination of the extreme heat that were experiencing and high energy usage. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now to tell us the records that were broken today and how long this hot weather is going to stick around for years, you can imagine all the people trying to turn up their abc today. These temperatures easily, the hottest of the summer so far and records all around the bay area, not just in a few spots we smashed into many places in the San Francisco 95 degrees that is very hot. Downtown San Francisco. Look at oakland, a 101 degrees a 103 in san jose that was a record in san jose, Half Moon Bay right out there on the waters edge 82 a record a 106 scorching heat in napa one 05 in santa rosa. We were done there more records falling redwood ci
Temperatures suppressed or close to where they were from yesterday. Heres what were talking about with the fog watching things going into motion, nice clear up job for most of the bay but along the coastal areas, southern moran. It doesnt quite lift even as late as approaching 01 00pm that will keep the cost down on those temperatures but those inland valleys expected to continue to build this afternoon well be seeing the big difference in the 4 zone forecast 60s for the east bay for right now up to the north bay weve got 50s 56 for San Francisco 62 meanwhile for san jose comparison sake were kind of close to yesterday if not trailing a degree or so again the fog is at work. It breaks down like this with the overcast you can see behind us the bay bridge toll plaza 8211 oclock by 2 oclock at 94, however, not quite the High Temperature though for some of those inland valleys, yeah could be quite warm, it looks like inland well get into more of that coming up in just a bit marty all right
At temperatures a little bit cooler today. I am tracking that strong ocean breeze to kick in. Below average temperatures today but warming up to above average for our weekend. Here is the san jose area. It is 57 right now in san jose and also for San Francisco, upper 50s for concord and mid 50s for santa rosa. Through our day, temperatures are mostly sunny and land in the mid to upper 70s to low 80s and around the bay partly sunny to mostly cloudy in the 60s and cool, cloudy and breezy along the coast. We will talk about that weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. Good morning, i am in the traffic center. Righ toona are t seeing as many cars as we normally do. If are going onat are to miles an hour in the go youre past that you will have no trouble getting up to 680 and we did see some brake lights on 84 that is getting a little closer. If you are communicating, things should be at the limit. We are following some breaking news out of stockdale, shooting involving two deputies fr
Of the department of health services, and national guard. I want to give you the latest update on where we are in arizona. And i want to begin again by just saying thank you to all our healthcare workers, all our nurses and doctors. Ive talked about this month as our maximum challenge to date. We know how hard they are working to want them to know how grateful we are, how much we appreciate what they do for our citizens, and to the citizens i want to say thank you as well. We are going to be able to share some things in terms of the direction arizona is going. It could only be making improvements with your participation, partnership and commitment to your fellow brothers and sisters and neighbors and friends. I want to begin with a thank you to everyone, but specifically to those folks in theto Healthcare Industry today. And i want remind you, ive ive been saying this now for several weeks, you are safer at home. This virus is widespread in our state and in our country. People have bee
In covid19 cases spike, Health Officials are now requiring new changes for Outdoor Dining and churchings. Some cities in Alameda County are pushing back and proceeding with Outdoor Dining after the county said they were not allowed to. It was a hot afternoon today. But were tracking hotter temperatures for your sunday. Well have the details in the accuweather forecast. Abc 7 news at 11 00, starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im eric thomas. And im dion lim. More concerning numbers tonight with the surge of coronavirus cases in california. More than 8,000 new cases are being reported in the state. The number of deaths, also, is trending upward. Rising by 94. Hospitalizations, also, set a new record today, topping 6,300. Now, the bay area also set a record today with its numbers of hospitalizations, with 567. Also, of concern. The Positivity Rate over the past two weeks continues to rise. The