Week. But darren is here to tell us about that. One challenge at a time. First lets take the excessive heat. Im going to show you some daytime highs that are a lot more impressive in 100. When you hit 100 in San Francisco, that stands out. We shattered the record for today which was 92 set back in 1904. Weve only hit 100 degrees in the city of San Francisco 12 times since we started keeping records officially back in the 1870s. And of those 12, nine of them have been in september. This is the most likely time were going to do it. The hottest temperature weve hit in San Francisco since the 1870s is 107 and we did that on Labor Day Weekend three years ago. This is our time of year you te impressive numbers now. 111 in livermore. 111 in santa rosa. All the red ones with asterisks next to them. All of them are records. And just to show you how far above records we were, you can see the difference there. Tomorrow gets a little better. But when the numbers are this high, a little better does
Now 11 00, the threat of pg e blackouts. The counties on alert for safety shutoffs this week as businesses begin to welcome back customers. We broke records bay area white beard tomorrow may be a bit cooler. We are not finished with this heatwave yet. I will show you when this finally breaks. Estate of emergency as an inferno rages out of control, leaving a trail of destruction. Tonight we are hearing incredible stories of survival. I think if we had stayed just 10 minutes more, we may not have been so lucky. We have a beach party wanting. Hundreds gather at the ocean beach. Tonight, the crackdown to keep people away . Good evening, i am brian hackney. Lets look outside. We had record high temperatures within 15 degrees of death values high. The dangers heatwave is not over. To make matters worse, smoke is filling the bay areas guys, impacting air quality and making it difficult to breathe. Meteorologist is tracking it all tonight. i will leave the smoke for later, lets talk about the
And livermore and san jose and it will be a hot day around the bay, 90 in San Francisco, 94 in oakland and the low 80s along the coast. There are excessive heat warnings that can be for the rest of the bay area and another spare the air alert, a record 21 days in a row. And a red flag warning that starts from 10 00 tonight until 8 00 wednesday for the Higher Elevations, wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour as we go through tonight and wednesday. We will talk all about this coming up in just a few minutes. As we look at the roadways, if you are getting ready to go outside , or laboring on a labor day, youre good to go. We started with a serious crash along 80 and midway. That has been cleared and the commute is pretty easy towards the bay bridge. You can see our short, once you get to the bay bridge, there are no delays into San Francisco. All our travel times, especially the Allatoona Pass commute, are in the clear. Because of the labor day, there are a lot of changes to Public Transit. A
And figure out what we could do better because we dont want to remain on the this watch list forever. Reporter in san mateo, nbc bay area. Lets take a closer look at that uptick in cases and hospitalizations in spate county that is chart shows the number new cases each day. Look at how the numbers were in april, may and june, pretty low. And then a big jump in july and then when we get to the last three days, numbers close to 90. Those were three days of the cases over 90 of new cases each day, enough to trigger the watch list. Now, lets look at hospitalizations. This graph just shows the past few weeks. You could see on the 17th, a jump from the 30s to the 60s and then steady but again just last few days the number has gone up into the 70s, over the weekend, july 25th, San Mateo County has three days to lower the numbers to avoid further shut downs. They got tested so where the results. Were learning several people in the bay area just learned their s samples were lost. Jodi hernandez
Cases of covid19 today. Modok county confirmed two individuals with the virus both from the same household. The department of health is trying to identify anyone who may have had close contact with the infected individuals. It was the only county in california with no confirmed cases of the virus. Growing concern tonight about an apparent outbreak of coronavirus at a popular south bay costco. As we first reported last night, the Santa Clara County Health Department confirmed its investigating cases involving multiple employees at the costco in sunnyvale. As robert hand a explains more. Reporter wont ard about coronavirus at the costco here has been spreading online, but some people say the public deserves more than just a word of mouth warning. Its another busy day at the costco here, both in the store and behind the scenes. Today, the Company Posted a new note on its employee Bulletin Board saying the number of coronavirus cases among workers is up to nine. Some say they heard the fir