Control. In whats being described as an unprecedented disaster. 39 million americans are under red flag warnings as we come on the air tonight, and theres growing fear that scorching temperatures and high winds will only make the situation worse in the coming days. Now, much of the west coast is now in the danger zone as powerful gusts of hot, dry air are fueling blazes all the way from the Canadian Border down to san diego. Tonight, the town of malden, washington, has been virtually wiped off the map after flames ripped through the fire station, city hall, and most of the homes there. But nowhere are things more dire than outside of fresno, where whats being called thcrfire eds being described as in a class by itself. Now, tonight, the National Guard is working around the clock frantically air lifting out hundreds of people who had been camping in the mountains and are now stranded by the flames, and power is being shut off for hundreds of thousands of People Living in the area as cre
County we have Team Coverage this evening with everything that you need to know were going to start with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow with the latest on the heat lawrence is like an oven out there it is been on a believable this heat wave really a feeling the grips of it now but starting to see some changes along the coastline and something i think youre gonna like to see but why it is still hot spots out there are a 100 in san mateo but look at half moon bay, a very comfortable 68 degrees blazing hot in livermore right now a 107 degrees 107 and conquer one 04 in dublin, 90. In oakland, a 100 for napa look at saint helene a 110 degrees santa rosa, a 110 it is also a 109 degrees in cloverdale a 104 in the bottle one 04 in napa and look at fairfield a 111 degrees get into San Francisco, 88 degrees of course, San Francisco got up to over a 100 degrees yesterday that was only for Something Like the 14th time in the last 147 years heat, advisories and heat warnings are still in e
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San Francisco International Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The only place that we saw some changes was right along the coastline. You see the 70s very comfortable in Half Moon Bay and instead of triple digit heat in San Francisco. It was 91 degrees but everywhere else was certainly very very hot
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