Californians. Reporter californians applying for unappointed benefits will have to wait pick the States Employment Development Department has halted taking new applications until october 5. A two week reset while they switch their updated online Identification System and moved to id me. This comes after a strike team put forth recommendations to update the service. They have been plagued with issues with so many californians applying for caliph fournette an appointment benefits at once. Theres been a massive backlog in claims because so many people are out of work. The former edd director says some very significant action needed to be taken. And i think there is reason to say this new approach with the Identity Verification that at least is claimed to be able to reduce the manual claims which are holding up the process from a 40 to 10 . Reporter with maidla proces which led to that bottleneck here it will still take months to catch up. Part of the statement reads, i am concerned this i
Your window. Another day of bad air out there. You can smell the smoke. This is the 17th spare the air day in a row, which is breaking records. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking bad air all this week. Kari, any sign of relief in sight . Well, we may have a break tomorrow, but it looks like that may go back into effect on saturday as we not only have smoke but also high levels of ozone in the atmosphere. In San Francisco. Also a lot of fog over the city as well as that smoke so its creating smoeg conditions as we look at san jose. A little clearer here. Weve had in some spots improved air quality but our temperatures will reach into the upper 70s, the south bay, but were also looking at mid80s for inland east bay and 60s at the coast. As we go into the weekend, we do have several concerns so well be watching along with that unhealthy air quality well also have hotter temperatures for the inland areas and those winds coming in from the north at about 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour headi
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Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow begins our Team Coverage with specifics on just how hot it could get and searing heat around the bay area, not just your normal he way we see go to a 100 to maybe 103 degrees were talking maybe a 110 maybe even warmer in some spots breaking down your temperatures along the coastline, even heat advisory stated in orange here in effect even up toward the beaches, Half Moon Bay pacifica daly city youre in that heat advisory, but you do see temperatures mainly in the 70s and the 80s well above the average. But rather reasonably compared to the rest the bay area you can see just over the hill 90s maybe some triple digit heat in redwood city the south bay talking temperatures as high as a 104 degrees and then you get the east bay and were really going to get cooking youll see in place like new work in san lorenzo a cast valley but then as you get into Pleasanton Livermore tomorrow topping out about a 105 maybe a 110 by sunday similar temperatures to be found in
Going to see temperatures like place like pacifica upper 70s, some 80s there. Youll see the same in the on a Half Moon Bay in the San Francisco you get over the hill though were talking 90s maybe some triple digits by the time we get redwood city of menlo park by sunday in the south bay. Remember this continues from saturday through monday and may be extended after that temperatures may be as high as a 104 degrees there and the east bay, it is just going to be scorching hot as high as a 110 inland 90s inside the bay Contra Costa County also looking at temperatures soaring to about a 100 and in the hot spots there then you get a slot county maybe as high as a 112 so certainly unusually hot temperatures for the bay area this just the beginning of the heat way for tomorrow is going to get hotter on sunday and continue at least until the middle of the week. Lawrence with the scorching temperatures expected area residents are trying to be prepared and a lot of times that means getting set t