The best thing our customers can do to help prevent going into that stage iii category is to conserve as much energy as possible. You heard it right there, conserve energy. That is going to be the motto during this heatwave we are all dealing with across the bay area. Tonights power emergency is over for now after a series of rolling outages around Northern California this evening that helped stabilize the grid. This started around 6 30 with an order from kauai so. The independent system operator manages the states power grid and it told utilities, like pg e, to shed powerlines because of unusually high demand. Pg e explained in a tweet saying there was strain on the power grid due to excess heat. Pg e began rotating Power Outages at the direction of the state grid operator. 200 to 250,000 customers were affected for about an hour each. This map is from pg es web shot. It shows a snapshot of the situation at 8 00 tonight. The red dots represent outages of 5000 or more, the orange dots
I agree, it is too hot. Lets talk about this. I know people had some Power Outages yesterday, which made the hot date even hotter and a hot night. I dont think we are out of this yet . We will not get rid of this heat for the next couple of days temperatures will drop slightly for the weekend and then back up again peaking on tuesday. Outside right now, most areas never really cooled off. A lot of 60s and 70s out there to start the day. A live look over east bay where you can see some hayes and some fog along the northbay coastline. It is 64 in santa rosa. 67 semper cisco. Upper 60s in oakland and low 70s and livermore and san jose. A little bit of clear sky at there compared to the cloud cover we have been starting with over the last couple of days. In any case, temperatures are supposed to be there warm once again. Heres what we can expect with bart advisories getting as well. For nurse by those, especially, San Francisco peninsula and santa cruz, we have the heat advisory that will
Skies as severe storms rolled through the bay area a lot of folks getting an Early Morning wakeup call. This is one of the many videos flooding our newsroom from you or kron 4 viewers, thank you so much for all of it. You can see more pictures and videos on our website thats kron 4 dot com if you have something called the shows hey guess what we want to see it as well all you have to do go to the website click on the the reported tab which is under the about us tab right there on our home screen. And we could be seeing more lightning strikes into tomorrow, the National Weather service is extending the red flag warning until monday morning at 11 00am and but to the bay area of course is under this warning with a red flag warning comes an increased risk of wildfires that could start near where that dry hits. And those lightning strikes the spark a number of fires across the area in Santa Clara County the marsh fire which is a total of 3 fires has burned more than 850 acres. Back away shu
A historic choice the democratic president ial hopeful joe biden named senator Conrad Harris as his running mate. Our top story 3 people have died in violence in the indian city of bungalow sparked by an allegedly offensive social media post about the prophet mohammed dozens were injured when protesters clashed with police who fired on the crowd the Facebook Post was made by a relative of a local politician our correspondent elizabeth around them joins us live from new delhi hi there liz lets just explain to us what happened here. Police are saying that there was what theyre calling a mall but of people went to this Congress Politician a politician belonging to the Congress Party to his home late on tuesday evening and started trying to attack his home that they say it to vehicles on fire now this is because those who want to be angry about a Facebook Post a village Facebook Post made by the politicians nephew which insulted as Prophet Muhammad police say that this group of very large
Here is ines de la cuetara. Reporter good morning. After months of speculation, joe biden announcing his decision in a statement calling harris tough, smart and ready to lead. From rivals to running mates, joe biden and Kamala Harris set to hold their first event together in delaware today just hours after biden called the california senator over video chat and asked her to be his Vice President. The former Vice President previously saying trust would be key. One of the things that i learned is that no president in the 21st accepts dh 1 century c job all by 24e789themselves. Reporter the first black and asian woman on anybodys ti it wasnt sobiden fierce opponent blasting him at the first primary debate if opposing busing policies in the 1970s. Did you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in america . I did not oppose busing in america. And harris is now set to i cant those debate skills when she comes facetoface with Vice President pence at the Vice President ial debate in