People will use common sense. We just cant put patrol officers shoulder to shoulder keeping people off the beach, so thats the reality. Reporter other beaches remaining open include ocean, china, and baker beaches, and stinson in martin. The beaches in Half Moon Bay are open, but are closed in pacifica. If we have on our beaches 250, 300 people, 400 people, and it has happened, it has happened at some of these beaches, that were in, you know, some serious issues. Reporter Half Moon Bay beaches are opened because in the past, closing the marking lots has led to out of towners crowding into neighborhoods. Theyre really not welcome, and should probably not come to san mateo county. Reporter so what can people do . Theres always hiking and biking, outdoor swimming pools are allowed to open machine n some areas, but wearing a mask in hot weather may be difficult for some. Be aware of physical strenuous exercise. If youre running on the beach, doing other physical activity, youre demand for
Weekend where warrant. Centers will take covid19 rules into account. Reporter cal iso the power grid operators say they do not expect demand to outstrip the available electricity economy is therefore anticipate to rolling black outs. However, if enough power plants were to shut down for technical reasons, the remote possibility of rolling blackouts still exists. Here is where it gets complicated and a bit scary. In santa rosa, which is activating a cooling center, an excessive heat watch will go into effect from saturday through monday in the region. Thats going to be a weekend of hot, high temperatures, dry conditions, and then from going into an excessive heat watch on the weekend, were going to roll straight into what is now being looked at potentially critical fire weather with the fire weather watch now already going into effect, starting monday. Reporter though any and all of this can change with realtime conditions, next week could be far more serious. We have historically seen
Health officials are urging to go out there and treated like any other start tomorrow. That is the message from Health Officials and local leaders common sense this weekend. They know people want to get once he gets on the mound its not going to be like any this hot Holiday Weekend. Out and celebrate, but they also dont want to see a surge other start against the giants. Good evening in thanks for in coronavirus cases as a in the meantime the as joining us. Result. Our coverage begins with the coming you never know how my team is going to do after a reporter friday just might long layoff. Heat itself. Lets get right ticket come out tortilla flat. Over to our meteorologist on the be the calm before the swelter. There is a new campaign in at oakland lake merritt this excessive heat warning that San Francisco urging everyone unfortunately for the as and to wear face covering, their fans, the latter was true begins tomorrow morning. Man has his Labor Day Weekend especially over the labor d
Tearing through parts of texas and louisiana, killing at least 4 people damaging property and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 5 im Justine Waldman at this hour were tracking the 3 large wildfires burning in the bay area. The good news right now crews are making progress cal fire says the scu lightning complex fires in parts of the east and south bay, or 35 contained. The czu august lightning complex fires in san mateo and Santa Cruz County are now 21 contained and the l a new lightning complex fires in the north bay are now 33 contained. We will begin our coverage there where the fires have burned more than 368,000 acres across napa Solano Sonoma lake and yolo counties while firefighters continue to make progress in sonoma county. The wall bridge fire continues to burn above healdsburg and guerneville and even when the fire is put out that does not mean that evacuees will be able to return immediate
Danger. Tom vacar has the latest on what might catch us by surprise. Every time we have an extreme power or extreme heat event, power issues are very likely to arise. We understand that. But thats especially true when coming off a recently very high one. Pg e says in the greater bay region there is no immediate likelihood of a psps event over the hot weekend. A key element for a psps would be a National Weather service declared red flag warning, which the Weather Service said is unlikely over the weekend. But if any wildfire threatens to short out or topple power lines, that could force localized power shutoffs, and in extreme heat, Power Equipment can and does fail, especially sunday and monday. With these tripledigit temperatures, there could be some heatrelated outages in the areas where its 100 degrees or more for a long period of time. So we want our customers to be prepared. Reporter pg e have some cooling centers over the weekend where wanted. These centers will take covid19 rul