About its new travel quarantine, which was just rereclarified again by the county in the past hour. Nbc bay areas robert handa was at todays announcement and why its so crucial to get moving on it. Reporter the race is on as the Public Health Department Works to keep its vaccine and quarantine plans on track, even as covid cases surge. Whether its a vaccine or a travel quarantine, its all about trying to stop what Public Health calls a chain of transmission. The latest numbers show parts of the south bay running out of hospital beds. We are especially concerned because none of the hospitals serving south county and East San Jose had more than five icu beds available as of yesterday. Reporter the downy submitted its vaccine plan to the state detailing how it will distribute and administer vaccinations. There are some difficult logistics, including that necessary ultra cold Storage Units are now only being set up to store the vaccines at 70 degrees below zero. Dr. Jennifer tong says they
Should be prepared. The shut offs are being ordered by the state of california so pg and he wants everyone to know this is not the Public Safety shutoff switch happened during high fire threat conditions. The outages are due to a combination of the extreme heat that were experiencing and high energy usage. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now to tell us the records that were broken today and how long this hot weather is going to stick around for years, you can imagine all the people trying to turn up their abc today. These temperatures easily, the hottest of the summer so far and records all around the bay area, not just in a few spots we smashed into many places in the San Francisco 95 degrees that is very hot. Downtown San Francisco. Look at oakland, a 101 degrees a 103 in san jose that was a record in san jose, Half Moon Bay right out there on the waters edge 82 a record a 106 scorching heat in napa one 05 in santa rosa. We were done there more records falling redwood ci
Well actually theres more red icons theres one runner park, theres one up in American Canyon and farther up past so masterful thank you for joining us tonight at 10 im ken wayne and i pale more pg and e says the states grid operator order the rotating Power Outages because of the excessive heat driving up electricity use and putting a strain on the power grid, it was expected to last until 11 oclock tonight, but about 9 oclock. Pg said it has stopped shutting off power and has started restoring power and just about 10 minutes ago the state agency lifted its stage 3 Emergency Declaration which ordered the rotating Power Outages in the first place is the first time the state of california has ordered rolling Power Outages since 2011. We talked to a spokeswoman from the state agency that order the outages about what led them to declare the stage 3 emergency tonight. This one completely driven by the heat. There was so much demand. We also have out cover at the same time that came with tha
With in addition to the pandemic so yeah get right to it john trouble in the Weather Center will start their jobs. Yeah guys definitely was not a fun night for those of us that did lose power, especially for those of you that were trying to cool off a little bit. Temperatures today will likely again be shattering records areas like San Francisco full 10 degrees above the former record reaching into the 90s for a few spots in the city says you look at the Golden Gate Bridge right here Crystal Clear skies we are off to a warm start already with 60s 70s for most of our current temperatures did cool off enough last night to let it cool breeze into your house, but as we make our way through the day today we are going to be seeing temperatures just as hot as yesterday in some areas despite a one to 2 degree cool down and others think areas on the map still under that excessive heat warning and thats all the way through wednesday. So this is an extended round of heat ahead of us not really lo
Campaigning on a national stage. Fundraising. Revving up crowds. Debating. These are all skills that will come in handy. And analysts would tell you that she is going to rev up the progressive base. Something that the president is all ready attacking her on. But she has a long history. She also brings experience in another key issue that we can expect to get a lot of time this campaign season, and that is criminal Justice Reform as not only a former prosecutor, she brings the experience, experience that has been scrutinized by some of her critics in california, as a prosecutor, and state attorney general, but now shes become a vocal proponent of police reform. Cosponsoring a key piece of sweeping legislation, so that is something that we can also expect to see on this ticket. So in bidens email to supporters that i saw today, hes saying the country has to come together and unite, referring to racial injustice, after she went after him at the debate. Some are wondering how did they work