Highest dew points right now. Still a touch of mugginess in the air. Temperatures today 70s along the coast to 80 in San Francisco and low 80s to low 90s around the bay and look at all those 100s inland. Some record highs are possible today. Ill talk more about the hennessey fire coming up. Lets get to reggie for more on that right now. Mike, thank you. Happening now, hundreds of firefighters battling this wildfire in wine country. So this is video of the hennessey fire from overnight. It broke out yesterday morning. It exploded in size in the afternoon. Its burning to the east of san helena and rutherford. Grown to 2,400 acres with zero containment. Evacuation orders are in effect in the area. Some people are choosing to stay. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live this morning. Amy . Goodern morning were in st helena and authorities behind me have sage canyon road blocked off. This is the area that is being impacted. They have evacuated about 205 homes in this area. We do have new
Reopening, the university of North Carolina is back pedaling. Switching to Remote Learning after 130 students contracted the virus. Elementary schools in the state are also seeing an uptick in cases. This school temporarily shutting down after a cluster was linked to a faculty member. Also new trouble at one of the nations largest fire department. Chicago fire academy had to close down after an outbreak. Officials saying theyve had nearly 300 cases and two chicago firefighters have died from the virus. Megan tevrizian. Coming up next, the seven things to know this morning. Also a special Education Teacher in the south bay logged into class without wearing a shirt and its not just that action that has parents really upset this morning. Also ahead, michelles message. What the former first lady was wearing during her its game day live, here at bia fanfavorite venue, ever since they got gigspeed internet. Hey, amy . Wanna grab a seat . Were live. Its game on, with gigspeed internet from xf
Folks who live on the streets. They need some kind of refuge to get out of that heat. Reporter in Pleasant Hill at the contra costa employment and Human Services department, a cooling center is available for folks without air conditioning and today that cool down required a mass and only has room for 11 people and on a typical hot weather day and not in a pandemic the cooling center would have room for 52 people. Are there any special admission requirements to get into these cooling centers or can anyone go . Reporter anybody can go. The thing is to get through those front doors or through the double doors or get inside of that airconditioning you have to pass a Health Screening and if you have any conditions of covid19 or any of those symptoms that we know about, respiratory or gastrointestinal, you cant go in. It becomes yet another barrier to cooling off in the middle of the heat wave. It will smoke your the next few days. Thank you, andrea. We have a list of those cooling centers a
Pandemic, a lot of you wondering, including me, what the chances are of getting sick on a plane from covid19 . As weve gone through this, we havent seen a lot of studies on this until now. I saw this very interesting study done recently by professor at m. I. T. And look, chances of catching covid19 from an airplane, what does your Research Show . First of all, no one knows exact exactly, the issue is whether or not important from the safety perspective to keep the middle seat empty, some airlines like delta, jetblue, southwest are keeping the middle seat empty on their planes, the narrowbody planes. Whereas america, united and spiritre fildle seat. Alaska is also keeping the middle seat empty. I know its an important airline in san francisco, and i remember thinking its very rare, extraordinarily rare that u. S. Airlines differ overtly on a matter related to safety. Anyway, so i tried various approximations, which im glad to describe the interminable lens and if youre on a plane, like
Are miles apart. We are focused on that potential record close on the s p 500. The number youre watching for is 3386. 15, a couple points off of it as we stand, sara. Hard to believe that we are here coming up on todays show. S p 500 could close at a record high for the First Time Since mid february were going to talk to wharton professor Jeremy Siegel about whether the rally can last from here. Plus counting down to a pair of key Earnings Results after the bell, lyft and cisco gearing up to report well bring numbers and analysis as soon as they hit. Lets focus on the stories were watching with one hour left of trade. Mark santoli with the action, colin rush from oppenheimer. Lets start off with the broader market, familiar things taking us higher, tech, lower treasury yields and the like. Thats right. A bit of a reform to norm. Yesterday 3381 of about the late selloff. Of course were a couple points above that right now its kind of tantalizing also seems a little bit silly this hesita