Heat today from chrissy field in San Francisco to beaches of santa cruz its just now starting to cool down tonight. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im cheryl jennings. And im dan ashley. Temperatures into the 90s just about everyone in the bay area today people around lake merit stuck to the shade just to keep cool. And you know this being friday, the heat wave is continuing to affect people at High School Kids played football and fans sweating in stands, watching the game. David louie is live at Palo Alto High School tonight. David . Well, there is no doubt pal yes alto has a big game here tonight. Theyre ahead against santa Clara Willcox High School Team the heat is having impact on players and fans you can see how stands are in the direct sun. Around the bay, all day, officials have been keeping an eye on possible signs of dehydration as well as other heat related problems. Lunchtime is over at painter elementary school. Time for a choice. Go outside to play, or stay behind, wa
Evening. Amma has the night off. We start with this heat in the bay area. Its a warm night in the city. But the area heat advisory actually expired just few moments ago. But not before setting at least one record on a day that combined bad air and dangerous rip tide out in the surf. We start off with 7 news meteorologist drew and it is really warm in the city in. It is very warm night. The record we set was at sfo earlier this afternoon. Beast old record by one degree. About we have mostly clear skies out there want find any moisture on our radar map. Live from the sutro tower cam. Gorgeous view Golden Gate Bridge this evenin evening. Look at the record versus today. Much of the bay area was in the 90s but most of the record that we had on this day were triple digit. Werent close in many location but the one spot where we did beat it. Sfo airport. 95 degrees old record of 94 set back in the 1980s. So any way you slice it it was warm out there this afternoon. Right now temperatures fall
And alexis, a staff writer. I want to begin with you. The big question is about how long it will take for america to get to capacity for testing, for tracing. Where do we stand at this moment . The first issue with testing is unfortunately, its going to be a bit longer than we hoped. I think all of us were hoping at this time we would have enough to do what we think of as surveillance testing. Basically, testing enough people to figure out what the real incidents or positive rates are. We know were really still far away from that. There are glimmers of hope that within the next several weeks as were getting more and more tests on board that will happen but as you pointed out shs par s s of the country are already prematurely opening up. To the point about tracing, we know if you use new york citys estimate of 30 tracers for 100,000 people, most of the country falls short for anywhere near that number. Tracing means we will Contact People that are positive and look back, at least 14 day
Kaylyn macenany defended the president and said this. The purpose of the letter was that dr. Conley agreed that the benefits outweighed the risks. The president should be taken at his word. So why promote it and why not wear a mask . A proven way to prevent catching this virus. By the way, the fda has warned against using it because not only is it unproven to help, there are also signs that it can hurt some patients who take it. Those questions as the president launches a new threat against the world health organization. He says the u. S. May pull funding if the w. H. O. Does not meet certain demands within 30 days, and moments from now, expect a fiery Senate Hearing on the economic toll in this country from the pandemic. Fed chair Jerome Powell, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin will be grilled, really, it looks like by both parties on the stimulus, how its rolled out, who it has helped, who it has not helped. Well cover all the angles. Lets start, though, with john harwood at the whit
Sean spicer gives combative press briefing. Berating reporters and refusing to admit trump was wrong. And Flynn National security adviser who was fired, going to talk about that. First jim acosta, jim sciutto, kirsten powers, niamalika henderson, andre bauer and jack kingston. Jen psaki had to go. She had other obligations. Thank her for the last hour and continue on. Jim bring us up to date. You were at heated White House Press briefing today trying to get answers as to why President Trump refuses to back down from unproven claims he wiretapped by former president. Listen to this. Get you to talk about it. Youre refusing the question, whether or not the president Still Believes what i just said it to jonathan. You have senate and house intelligence committee, both leaders from both parties on both panels saying they dont see any evidence of wiretapping, how can the president go on thats not. Mischaracterizing what chairman nunez said, he said i think its possible, follow up on it. You