Live camera to from Mount Jackson points to the west here you can see the smoke coming off the fires, theyre filling the valleys and also overhead firefighters do say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire so at least theyve been able to accomplish that. Speaking of the fires more breaking news to our south military helicopters are attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire burning in Fresno County. Now today will be their 3rd attempt to try and get these hikers out the rescue operation had to be called off last night because as you can see in this video the smoke just got too heavy and too dense for the helicopter crews. We have a picture of the hikers they seem to be doing in fact this photograph shows you theyre all hunker down right now at the vermilion. Campers and lake edison volunteers are helping them stay fed and hydrated as they wait to be rescued again theyre in good spirits for now because they are still a little bit of ways
Slow through oakland. We are looking at unhealthy air for portions of the north bay this morning. Hour air quality forecast, we are looking at unhealthy air. Is variably air alert is in effect and that is a record breaking 17 days in a row with that spare the air alert for the bay area. Looking at daytime highs with that haziness and smoke, we are little below average for this time of year. Upper 60s in oakland, 77 in san jose and 83 for concord. We will talk about our hot Holiday Weekend and the stretch of smoky skies for us. Details on that are coming up. s track police in vallejo are investigating a possible homicide after a body was found after 8 00. Officers were on main street near the marin vista apartments, searching for clues. We reached out to police that we are still waiting to hear more about the victim and a possible suspect. We expect to hear from the family of a man shot and killed by police at a san leandro walmart. We are live from san leandro. It happened in april . A
The morning thats the way were kicking off this hot day. You can see the humidity, especially in areas like oakland, San Francisco, san jose up to santa rosa. Now hot weather today means advisories in orange heat advisories closer to the coast or inland areas where temperatures will exceed 100 degrees in the evening lows want to be all that cool are under excessive heat warnings through the weekend and into next week as far as skies go you can make out that cloud cover sitting there at the coast couple of offshore sprinkles from that system that has brought us such a humid feel. Todays daytime highs, not the easiest things to look at concord livermore antioch morgan hill napa novato just a few of our areas that will be triple digits this afternoon. Hayward at 97 oakland at 91 degrees today, even parts of San Francisco, tapping into the upper 80s got more on your forecast still to come. James all right, thank you very much john. Lets get out there to help manage the heat wave cooling ce
Hotter temperatures all in all that means excessive heat warnings in effect for areas in pink here thats our inland areas across the day temperatures in excess of a 100 degrees for these areas and also looking at warm overnight lows. Orange areas on the map those areas in the 90s for daytime highs today. Still seeing some cloud cover still feeling that humidity as youre stepping outside less and less of that to the afternoon as our daytime highs eventually pushed upwards on up into the triple digits for antioch livermore concord morgan hill nap and nevado 90s for most of the rest of the bay. Ive got more on your forecast still ahead daria. Lets keep this going and to our Team Coverage now lets head out to will tran talking about where you can cool off. And the bay area in pleasanton right now. Well. There are many locations all over the bay area for those who dont have airconditioning and many apartments they dont come with a ciso if thats you help is on the way there is a cooling cent
Reaches the alaska peninsula. It actually the shaking went week to very weak. So thats the good news. Were looking for minor damage if any. According to the usgs since 1900 theyve actually been 6 other earthquakes of a magnitude 7 point oh or higher within about a 155 miles of last nights earthquake. The largest was an 8. 2 back in 1938. But luckily, we havent heard any reports yet of any damage or injury were not expecting to hear too much. But again well keep you updated as more information comes in we will let you know. Take a look at the latest with the coronavirus the cdc is sounding the alarm that the number of cases in the u. S. Might be much more than we know about lets take a look at the rise in cases over the past week versus the previous week and you can see california has improved slightly were seeing only a steady rise in cases versus a spike across the country there are now more than a 142,000 people have died of the raw virus and 3. 9 million. Positive tess meantime Pres