Dangerous heat, likely record breaking high temperatures as we head through the day today. The daytime highs well above average, more than 20 degrees above average for this time of year and also dealing with that extreme fire danger with the red flag warning that has been extended until 6 00 p. M. Today for all the areas highlighted in red north bay, mountains, and Santa Cruz Mountains with offshore winds, low relative humidity values dropping down to the Single Digits and teens. Were talking dangerous fire conditions, critical conditions as we head through the day today. Tracking some changes as we look to the weekend, we have cooler air with the ocean breeze finally kicking in. Details on the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Thousands of people remain without power in parts of the bay area and Northern California after pg e shut it off to prevent strong winds from damaging equipment and sparking wildfires after the heat wave. 30,000 customers are still in the d
Francisco. We want to get more now, though, on that accident that happened today during a Training Exercise. Lets bring in henry lee with more on what we know. As you said, this is an outpouring of respect honoring a firefighter who gave his life protecting the city that he loved. Reporter a somer gathering at San Francisco General Hospital. Firefighter jason cortez died during a training incident a few blocks away. We can confirm this was at training incident. Reporter it happened at 10 00 in the morning in the initialen district. He was treated there and taken to the hospital. Unfortunately shortly before 11 00 this morning, jason succumbed to his injuries. Reporter the Fire Department would not discuss what led to his death. The circumstances under investigation. Immediately after the incident, firefighters converged on the hospital. There they stood at attention and saluted during a somber procession. Cortez was 42 and leaves behind his wife and two young children. She the son of a
Details straight ahead on the third hour of today in the bay as it continues right now. Good morning. Third hour because we get up pressing pause. The situation is bad in the bright and early or dark and health care crisis. Early, starting at 4 30 in the nearly three dozen states reporting new spikes in the past morning. 6 00 right now. Look at that, Smiling Faces all week. Around. Everybody happy its friday . The cdc warninthe true scope oh, yeah. Of the crisis may be drastically underestimated suggesting nearly friday, friday, bring it on. Im Marcus Washington for you this morning. 25 mmericans have covid. Mike is keeping an eye on that and a former Health Official says it may be too late. The time for prevention friday commute but we want to measures was a month ago. Talk about the friday forecast for you. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that and, kari, going to be warm moving into cooler now the wheels are coming off. The latest from across the temperatures this weekend.
Officers approached him and he could be heard telling police saying his crew would move back to wherever it was safe but officers told him he was under arrest when he asked why, they didnt answer. Cnn called the arrest a clear violation of First Amendment rights and called on the governor to release the crew immediately. This morning, President Trump is receiving some criticism for a latenight tweet about the unrest in minneapolis that caused twitter to flag it for violating rules about glorifying violence. Another tweet drew a response from the citys mayor. Jobina is at the live desk with the details on this. Jobina . Its not unusual for President Trump to send tweets late at night but this latest one will certainly cause some debate between his supporters and these thugs are dishonoring the memory of jornl floyd and i wont let that happen. Any difficulty and we will assume control. Twitter flagged the tweet which is only visible if you click on twitters flag. In another tweet, the pr
From there. Oakland and San Francisco dry, partly cloudy and comfortably cool rob. All right. Thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge 80 wesson to San Francisco still stacked up at the toll plaza and a lot of these folks that you see here they were late getting to pay kates because they were stuck on the shore freeway we had a hot spot up enrichment and so that held back a lot of folks so they made it now its a jam from the bottom of the maze, but still under 15 minutes to make it an highway for me still have a motorcycle crash working in pittsburgh westbound at bailey we have 2 lanes closed 2 left lanes blocked so its crawling out of pittsburgh right now but keeping traffic light on the bay 0. 5 45 minutes because of that crash antioch over to concord will check more slow downs coming up. That was the announcement to passengers over the weekend and this morning we just found out moments ago that they will be docking at noon. At the port of oakland that infected ship with 21