That are on 24 7. The more people conserve and are energy efficient, the less likely that you will experience an outage. Reporter cal iso says 78 degrees for your air conditioners is the magic number, the flex alert, hope my photographer is okay, is 2 009 00 today and tomorrow. Maria medina, kpix 5. Two significant Power Outages to tell you about in the east bay earlier, walnut creek, downed tree limb knocked down power lines before 7 00, the result, traffic lights out, stores in the dark, signs alerting customers to no power. In fremont more than 5,000 customers lost power for a couple hours, p goshgs e blames pge blames an under ground switch. Kiet do continues our coverage from pleasanton. Hot demand today . Reporter the temperature has dipped down to 91 degrees in the shade according to siri, up to a hundred degrees here in ptown. Take it from somebody who neglected their ac unit for years, future repairs can get very expensive and so, here are some tips because if you take care of
70s at the beaches. 80s, 90s around the peninsula. 88 in mountain view. 95 in santa clara. 100 in gilroy. East bay you will be experiencing the hottest temperatures today. 104 in trivalley. The Carquinez Strait in the high 90s. Otherwise in the triple digits everywhere east of the bay. Now, meanwhile, the bodega bay at 67. The 6 in novato. Not seeing a spare the air day kicking in 10 to 20 late day 97 in windsor and 107 in ukiah, 106 in cloverdale and lakeport and guess what. Tomorrow will be even hotter this is why we do have a heat warning in effect now for much of the bay area away from the water due to temperatures up to 110 degrees east of the bay by tomorrow. Well talk about the full forecast and when well see relief coming up at 18 minutes after the hour but lets send to you. Some of the hottest areas in the east bay. Jessica flores is live in livermore to tell us how people can cool down. Jessica. Reporter its 68 in livermore and im cold. I need a jacket right now its expected
Clark. A lot is going on, what is happening . We have had a couple serious accidents. We have an accident involving a pedestrian. This is at 40th and adaline. Its about a block away from emeryville. You can see that there is investigation on the scene. Theres a wheelchair, a paratransit bus is also there. We do know that one person did not survive as a result of being hit by a vehicle. We are still waiting on more details to be confirmed but we are looking at the scene and a closure on 40 near adaline about a block. Another accident is under investigation it happened a short time ago near 23rd avenue. It happened a short time ago near 23rd avenue. Alex savage is in oakland with all of those details. Oh reporter yes, the information that we just got is that they are considering this a hit and run. They say that the driver who was behind the wheel of this white car was gone by the time that police got here to the scene. So they are searching for the driver of this vehicle. What they did
Bumpertobumper traffic as they try to leave. Im scared because i have never been in anything like this before. Reporter last week a nearly 230footlong hole was created after chunks came out of the major spillway. A plan is in place which will hopefully plug that hole. That would include using helicopters to drop bags of rock into the crevice and prevent any further erosion. Reporter for the first time, officials are forced to use the emergency spillway. Then finding a second hole causing evacuations. Officials now say the water levels are dropping but the threat is still there. And a little bit of good news is that the water levels have dropped. We are told they are dropping at 4 inches per hour. As you can see behind me, that water rushing through that spillway with a force so strong that it actually looks like theres a mist in the air. Reporting live from oroville, california, danya bakas, abc news. Any idea when the evacuation orders will be lifted . Reporter officials are saying ri
Cars, wherever they can. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is live with more. Laura . Reporter well, hi, christine. This is the older part of downtown oroville. The lowlying area. At this point, its a ghost town. But as we are speaking, there are folks going by on their bikes. For the most part, though, theres nobody in this area. Now, fears have been eased somewhat, but in a worst case scenario, this part of town could be under 30 feet of water. So how long did it take you to get out last night . Five hours. Reporter its a trip that normally takes about 40 minutes, thats the drive from the southern county town to colusa where this family and their puppies are waiting out the ongoing emergency at the oroville dam. I didnt think it was real at first. And then i saw people evacuated actually. And i got scared because i didnt want to leave my dogs. That was the only thing i was worried about. We actually left fairly early. Reporter this couple evacuated early. They started to get ready da