Breaking news tonight. High heat and high anxiety as rolling black outs hit the bay area. The threat of rolling black outs has many Small Businesses bracing for a tough weekend. Blistering record setting heat today and another round for the weekend. I will have the temperatures coming up. A san jose teacher shirtless in a Virtual Class. Now, from abc7, live breaking news. And that breaking news is widespread power out acknowledges and rolling black outs, up to 220,000 pg e customers during this record breaking heat, the rotating black outs should be done for the night. State power grid its the First Time Since 2011. Now, heres a look right now where the biggest problems are. The outage map shows South San Francisco and antioch have the most outages right now, 3,000 customers are in the dark in each of the cities. San matteo county and san rafel have been the trouble spots most of the night. Thats where abc7 is reporter the power came back around the area around 9 30 p. M. , many busine
Reporter the power came bac p. M. , many businesses here telling us they have had to close hours early in the midst of the pandemic when they are trying survive. For example, soul food was supposed to be open, and you can see the doors is are saying the frustrated on over the lack on communication. Thousands left in the dark all across the bay area tonight. No notification and then a all of a sudden we dont have power and its 105 degrees. Reporter Ashley Stephens is one of many of the customers that were without power for hours. Had what about the people who are like on oxygen tanks and have like, food in the freezer and the fridge. Its just, unreal. Reporter many Small Businesses struggling to stay afloat during this pandemic pushed to close the doors hours early. We tried our best to sell what we had available. Stuff that was already cooked so we can sell it out and not have to spoil it. And we tried to push it with our registers but the moment that the system crashed we could no lon
Over towds up nd the orange indicates a heat advisory so maybe not quite as hot but still very hot out there with records possible. And as you look at this area this is going to stay in effect until wednesday of next week, so were not going to see any relief. Well see minor fluctuations in the sea breeze but 9 00 hour, 60s, 70s and 80s and comfortable in the 70s at the coast, but just Getting Started with those triple digits inland with 101 to 106 expected, and then were looking at a very warm night toni chs at e it of cooling and more cloud cover this afternoon to parts of the bay. Power has been restored to the thousands of pg e customers who lost power after that record breaking day of heat. State power grid operators declared a stage three electrical emergency last night due to increased electricity demand. Its the fist time since 2011 this has happened. The utility says because of it emergency it was unable to identify customers in advance of the Power Outages and rolling black ou
73 santa rosa, 82 by the delta and livermore and we talked about the dangerous heat wave throughout next week it is going to get even stronger. Heat advisory closer to the bay and the changes today come in as breezier on shore winds arrive in the afternoon. Few more clouds. Still a oppressively hot inland with 80s to 90s and near 100 around the bay but coming down at the coast and San Francisco. Power has been restored to the 220,000 pegme who lost power last night after a day of record breaking heat. Power grid operators declared a stage 3 electrical emergency last night due to increased electricity demand. It is if first time they have done this since 2011. The utility because of the emergency was unable to notify customers in advance of the wide spread outages and rolling blackouts. San mateo has 30,000 without power at one point and san rafael nearly 50,000 customers. Abc7 News Reporter spoke with businesses who arerad er tac f of communication. Reporter thousands were left in the
After reopening many have been told they need to keep customers out once again. Good evening, im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us on kron 4 news tonight at 8 our top story tonight, new details about what San Francisco Public Schools will look like in the fall. The San Francisco Unified School District recommended beginning the school year with Distance Learning. Kron fours taylor sackey live for us now from the School District headquarters with the very latest taylor. You can while the plan is to start the school year with Distance Learning the School Board Hopes to eventually face students back into the classrooms once its safe to do so the school board says that this is probably the best option after reviewing the latest science and data and also holding many town Hall Meetings with the community. San Francisco Unified School District is moving forward with starting the school year at home and the district zoom meeting on tuesday. Superintendent Vincent Matthews r