Theres a reasonable chance of executing a psps to reduce Public Safety risk. Well, more on the fire in fresno county. But first, we begin with the oppressive heat thats now come across the bay area during this Labor Day Holiday weekend. Good evening. Im andre senior. Triple digit temperatures expected in some areas and we have Team Coverage of this heat wave. This new heat wave. Ktvus greg lig gens will tell us more but we begin tonight with meteorologist mark demayo. Reporter yeah, thats right. Now typically at this time of year its not abnormal to talk about maybe 98, 100 degrees or unusual. But this weekend, were going way up above the average. Today 104 and 105 degrees. Tomorrow another level. So its a start well show you a couple of records here. Gilroy 106 degrees and napa, 102 degrees. And you can see some more highs from this afternoon. Look at all the triple digits out towards santa rosa and concord and livermore and antioch and san jose. Maxed out 98 and San Francisco, 89 deg
This hearing of the subcommittee conservation and forestry titled the 2020 while very dear response and Recovery Efforts will come to order. Welcome and thank you for joining todays hearing with mr. John phipps did deputy chief for state and private forestry. After a brief opening remarks the hearing will open to questions. Members will be recognized in order of seniority alternating between majority and minority members. When you are recognized to be asked to unmute your microphone and you will have five minutes to ask your question or make a comment. In order to get as many questions as possible the timer will stay consistently visible on your screen. Thank you for joining us here today in washington and on line for this critical hearing on the wildfires ravaging the western United States. We have all seen the footage from california oregon and washington. It is a real and it is terrifying. I want to talk today about what we can do to meet the needs and face the challenges presented
Lets turn now to our meteorologist Rebecca Strom whos in form of risa guest tonight. To get more on the conditions ahead about this heat wave that were currently experiencing hair rebecca. Hey good evening guys, yes, were definitely seeing this heat wave were going to ride it out through the entire Holiday Weekend. And then were going to see that dry wind event thats what were tracking here and a fire weather watch as a matter of fact because of the heat and the winds that were going to be seeing from monday evening into wednesday morning and then tuesday night is when were expecting it to peak the most and were going to when speeds of anywhere from 35 to maybe 45 Miles Per Hour upwards of 50 at some bar higher libations this is all issued for the north bay mountains and our east bay hills and again this is going to go through the middle of the week and the low humidity as well that were going to be seeing over the next couple of days and High Pressure continuing to build thats oversee
And im naush nuanoushah ras. Its a serious situation across the bay area and the state tonight. Dramatic rescues under way near fresno as new fires burn out of control. In the bay area, a scorching sunday on tap, yes, hotter than today. Live look at the bay bridge. Parts of the bay area could see record temperatures. Lets begin our Team Coverage with vianey arana. Vianey. Hey there, terry and anoushah. You know, we saw some pretty hot temperatures today, but youre right. Tomorrow is expected to be the hottest day of this heat wave. So far right now, were not getting much cooling. Even right now nearly at midnight, look at the current temperatures. San jose still at 80 degrees. Livermore, 82. So not much relief overnight. Down to the 70s in San Francisco, but let me show you the 24hour temperature change compared to yesterday. So yesterday around this hour, we were about 14 degrees cooler in san jose. But look at oakland, palo alto. Were running 10plus degrees hotterment what are we exp
When you have the sun and you have the smoke moving through, different wavelengths of light are able to pass through. Red and orange is able to pass through that smoke while shorter wavelengths in the blue color are not. So it leaves us with this red to orange color. Now, check this out. Even though we have all that smoke i showed you, air quality is reading moderate to unhealthy, but the way it looks, youd think it would be reading very unhealthy. Ill explain why it looks very unhealthy but were not breathing in very unhealthy air. Pretty complicated but ill see you back here in about 18 minutes. That does sound complicated. Thank you, jeff. So how are we coping with 22 days of bad air . Live from San Francisco to continue our coverage. Pete, how bad is the air there . Reporter yeah, well, jessica, surprisingly the air quality isnt as bad here in San Francisco as weve seen recently, but as you guys mentioned, were in this long stretch of that 22 days straight of the spare the air aler