Its. Wildfires destroy entire communities on the west coast of the u. S. And leave several states scrambling to control the spreading blazes. And in school the. Series to a deciding game the defending n. B. A. Champions beating the Boston Celtics to level the semifinal series at 3 games. Welcome to the news hour firefighters are battling a blaze in the lebanese capital at the site of last months court explosion it started at a destroyed a warehouse which was storing oil and tires the red cross say its threatening your warehouse with food aid this comes just a month after the blast in beirut that killed at least 200. 00 people xenophobes are reports from beirut. Another fire at the port another scare for residents of the lebanese capital port. In fear it was here a little over a month ago that a massive explosion tore through neighborhoods across beirut killing at least 190 people on. Memories of then still fresh now those living close by left their homes as the fire spread. Their westp
Our dangerous heat wave arrived today, and its only going to get hotter tomorrow. Were tracking the recordbreaking temperatures. Excessi creating several concerns. One, health. Two, slow business traffic. Three, potential power shutoffs. Raising money for the Boulder Creek volunteer fire department. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us, im indion lim. Imatcri is on, another scorr tomorrow. Lets get to meteorologist drew tuma. Were tracking even hotter temperatures tomorrow, eric and dion. Right now, a warm night, 79 in the city. 80 san jose. 77 in oakland. The air quality is moderate across the entire region, however, if you have been smelling a pretty strong, new smell of smoke, there is in fre start today, the creek fire. It did send a lot of smoke into the atmosphere. There are no new fires in the bay area tonight, but there is a lot of smoke in our atmosphere from that fire in Fresno County. Future tracker temperatures, get your workout in early by 8
Bay area. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus but the man we really need to know is our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow because if this weather is going to stick around lawrence tells us going to get that yeah i think its going to get better just going to be slow going this is going to be just slowly. Stay. I think we saw some improvement up above we had some mix in the atmosphere bit. Little more sunshine pop up in spots still some very poor air quality no getting around it that sits there tonight you can see up toward sfo you see the light you see all the smoke down below and as we look toward the Golden Gate Bridge weve got some fog rolling on shore thats good. Unfortunately. It just kind of a thin marine layer so there again nice pressure off the ocean but that is just mixing with some of the smoke out there as well and theyre just so small so much smoke around right now back weve got some very poor air quality in quite rapidly in fact last hour it was all across the bay into
Another night of awful air across the bay area here will the weekend be any better . What we are hearing about the 49ers Season Opener this weekend. Less this is not what tonights giants game was supposed to look like, with the coronavirus curveball. They are will bowling the dice, outdoors in san jose tonight. Now at 11 00, streaming, unhealthy air blanketing the region is not going anywhere, as we head into the weekend paul, the air has never been this bad, for this many consecutive days. We are getting close to doubling our record. The current air quality is dreadful across the board. You can pick up malfunctioning sensors on the map. Everybody else is at unhealthy or hazardous conditions. Very unhealthy for the north bay, the central bank, and unhealthy for the rest of the bay area. Some improvement as we go further down the line into sunday and monday. A record of 26 tomorrow. Monday we will double the old record,that is how far the alert has been extended. The 49ers and the giant
The 49ers and the giants are dealing with unprecedented challenges. The giants were told their game against san diego was not going to happen, minutes before the first pitch. Vern glenn has the latest updates. The giants have not been through Something Like this since early july. A player has to see positive. This is layers were in the dugout and johnny cueto was warming up to pitch. Gabe kapler was there as the news was passed on and covid19 procedures were set in game was well. The team left the stadium with many still in uniform uniform. It is unknown when the giants will be able to return to the field. A positive test caused the as to miss four games. They are fighting to keep a playoff spot. Multiple doubleheaders are sure to come. A trip to seattle, by the way, the playoff bubble system was announced tonight. Weve got a long way to go before we get there. The 49ers may be postponing the Season Opener, because of the bad air. Some players skipped out of practice. Andrea has the ga