Folks here . Reporter i can tell you directly, kris, marcus, good morning to you both. We spoke to someone 10 or 15 minutes ago. It was a dual citizen, dual russianamerican citizen who just came out here to get his passport renewed. He was here with his grandparents and now he told me, he is completely blind sided by this. He has no idea where it leaves him in terms of his travel or any other sorts of services. Thats how a lot of people are feel nothing doubt. Let me set the stage and tell you whats going on behind me. You see the van here, that has consulate plates on it. Not sure if its taking anyone away today. People have been coming in and out of the consulate building. Folks coming down the stairs. Earlier, a couple minutes ago, women with suitcases walking right out of there. They didnt offer any sort of comment. This has just been a remarkable turn of events. It staked out of these cameras here right now, you have to go back to 1986 to see this diplomatic back and forth in the
Now, and we have heat advisories in effect for those coastal areas. So we will continue to track some very high heat as we go through the day, and looking at temperatures that will soar over 100 degrees in the trivalley as well as the delta and in parts of the north bay. Ill have a look at that and the full microclimate forecast coming up a little bit later. Thanks, kari. Right now pg e is concerned about the impact excessive heat is going to have on pourt grthe grid. Sharon joins us at fremont, and theyre warning us to be ready for power outages. Thats right, kris and marcus, and its very interesting. Weve been here all morning, as you know. There hasnt been much activity where the backup trance forsfor are kept, but were trying to confirm with p grg and e if the is a power outage right now. They said it was so hot yesterday that most people probably left their airconditioning on through the evening, so that didnt allow the transformers to cool down overnight. They have extra crew on
Degrees. Remember how hot it was on sunday . Very similar conditions over the next couple of days. In fact, San Francisco 10 degrees above average, 20 degrees off its mark in concord, oakland, checking in at 83 right around 93 degrees in san jose. Peninsula into the 80s and 90s. 78 today for one of the koolest spots in hayward, otherwise triple digits in the tri valley. We are talking 104 degrees pleasanton, livermore, san ramon, dublin, blackhawk, tassajara, danville. 106 at the delta. Antioch 105. Carquinez strait into the 90s. North bay numbers 67 degrees in bodega bay along the coast where you will find the relief. 102 santa rosa. And 107 in ukiah. Cloverdale 106. Michelle, hotter weather still to come. Well talk about that still coming up at 18 minutes after the hour. A flex alert is in effect today because of the heat wave. Officials are trying to prevent more power outages. Kpix 5s Jessica Flores is live in livermore to tell us how people can cool down. Reporter right now, its r
Pack is melting at a rate of 3 5 inches per day. There is a danger for people getting in the river to get off. Water is very cold. Even if it looks calm and nice 50 or 60 degrees can affect you. We have been talking about a lot of people going river rafting this time of year. The rivers are going to be much more intense. The steve will talk about that. Its wednesday, june 21. The first full day of summer. Thank you all for your concern. I know my voice still sounds bad. Im okay. How is the weather . There is some high elevation camping sites that will not open. There was a lot of damage to some. Tioga pass there still plowing. Theres a lot of snow up above 8000 feet. Theres an article on that in the chronicle about the higher elevations. Thats too bad. You put reservations in for those way in advance. The damage has already been done. With all of that snow up there in the heat, that was one of the reasons we had some thunderstorm activity earlier in the week this is a really tough the
Karen is in Bennett Valley and said, steve, it smells like there is fog coming up from pat aloma. Spot on. I know exactly what shes talking about. If you thought you smell fog or something in jail is if we get a northeast wind things could erode rapidly. Thunderstorms yesterday popped up. I will mention is again today. Its hard to pinpoint those. The delta breeze picked up and is starting to decrease again. 50s on the temperatures. More so than we have seen. Everybodys running cooler today. Bigger fog bank. I dont think it will hold. In Southern California we have the low cloud so 60s, 70s, 80s by the bay. 90s to near 100 inland. I really want to drop temperatures a little bit but it so hard in this pattern. Depending on your proximity to the coast, a 40 degrees difference. Thats why people will drive to the coast. On saturday we had a lot of people driving. Sunday and the whole weekend. I get how people feel. This mornings commute has been not affected by the weather. It has just been