Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. A heat wave in california has triggered the first rolling blackout in california for over 20 years with more possible in the coming days. The bay area beach town is begging people not to visit but unclear how that could be enforced. Who will be vaccinated first when the shots become available, and what california and other states are asked to do ahead of time. It is 6 00 on this saturday, august 15. Good morning. I am emily turner. I am devin fehely. Lets get to our meteorologist. Yesterday was bad but thats only the start. Here is the view over the bridge with no marine layer this morning but i dont think anyone is surprised to see that. Although we did cool down in the upper 60s in the city after being in the mid90s yesterday. We shattered the record of San Francisco from the gold rush. We will do it all over again today. We have intense heat again today and it could get technically cooler tomorrow but dont think sunday will fe
Joe biden and Kamala Harris make their first appearance as the democratic ticket bashing the president and reaching out to democrats. And police dog outrage. A Salt Lake City officer is suspended for ordering his canine to attack a black man who says he was trying to obey. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This has been one of the most dangerous and erratic wildfires that ive covered in my entire career here. That fire sounded like a freight train. A huge brush fire erupting in Southern California prompting evacuations. The lake fire seems to be burning out of control. The inferno came dangerously close to Public Safety vehicles. Fire Officials Say they have been witnessing extreme fire behavior. The biden harris democratic ticket stepping into history. Harris criticized the administrations response to the coronavirus pandemic. The reason that an american dies of covid19 every 80 seconds. The president announced new steps, he says, will help schools reopen safel
Change weve had already lower 70s, lining up the east bay shoreline 75 for antioch 60s up to the north bay 69 for san jose were talking about 60s all over the board here with 50s just last hour so were starting to move now, lets compare now 24 hours ago. Yeah, everybody is in the yellow everybody is ahead of where we were this time yesterday and if you just work all even just last hour, the bay area immediately and points to the west were trailing so we really caught up quickly. Drier sometimes does that too and we have lots of solar heating of the suns getting a higher in the sky. Now right now as we hold this conversation at that excessive heat watch it will probably be upgraded to a warning later on today this kicks into effect in any case by tomorrow afternoon with us all this weekend now were talking about coverage in the east bay thats over the east bay hills Santa Clara County you can see getting involved in this in the south bay, sometimes they dont always get. Included in this
Monterey. Some high clouds have made it to san jose already. The heat and tropical clouds in the clouds and showers are possible. It is clear over sfo. 50s and 60s on the temps. 63, and even down in the desert, it is that tropical cloud deck that will work its way in. There are numerous lightning strikes. Highs will be way above average. 70s to 100s. Lets head over to sal. I know we talk about the bridges a lot of the time. The bay bridge in san mateo bridge is crowded. We had a crash the cleared up. That had a crowded affect at the toll plaza. Some people haabout that. They will be trying to use other bridges like the san mateo bridge. San mateo bridge traffic will be slow or crowded. I would not say stop and go, but definitely crowded. We will have another traffic update in just minutes. Today, joe biden and senator Kamala Harris will get briefed on the Coronavirus Crisis by Health Experts. They were talking about the pandemic during an online fundraiser. Elissa harrington has the la
Anywhere from four to about 15 degrees warmer with that 24 hour temperature change compared yesterday afternoon. As we go through the day we are talking about daytime highs about 4 to 11 degrees above average for this time of year, 72 for a highend services go, 79 in oakland, upper 80s to about 90 in san jose and upper 90s for concorde. Tomorrow we are really going to crank up the heat with dangerous heat, talking about an excessive heat watch for the areas highlighted in yellow including the east bay hills, east bay interior valleys and for the south bay and in pink, that is an excessive heat effecttomorrow at at 7 pm. We will talk about how hot it will get in your neighborhood as we go through the next several days with his heatwave in full effect, details on that coming up in a few minutes. Ive been monitoring this hearing where pg e is discussing its plans for more power safety, or rather Public Safety power shutoffs with state regulators. Erkind and state regulators want to make s