We wanted to recover him, we could not put another officer at risk. They say the officer was on his way to work when he drowned. Im alyana gomez. 15 is the death toll so far since friday. President trump landed in texas and pledged to do whatever he can to help the suffering. Reporter hi as harvey continues to linger, the deadly flood threat continues. In houston alone, they have had to rescue some 3500 people. This was of epic proportion. Nobodys ever seen anything like this. Reporter President Trump visited tuesday receiving on the ground briefings in Corpus Christi and austin. This is as water rescues continued in houston and surrounding regions. There are currently 3000 texas guardsmen on duty today. It will go to 4000 over the next 24 hours. Reporter with the reservoirs and levies overflowing, more residents are evacuating. Displaced wildlife from snakes to gators are also causing concern. Meanwhile with harvey continuing to dump rain and 30,000 people expected to seek emergency s
It is been a long and hot summer, and it is getting worse. Wish we didnt have to talk about the sparetheair, but the airquality is going down with that heat and smoke. We have an excessive heat warning kicking in friday and saturday, patchy fog at the san mateo and santa cruz coast. We have a little bit of fog onshore but that is decreasing with the offshore picking up. Livermore in the east wind along with hayward, sfo holding onto the westwind but not for long. 50s and 60s on the temperatures, low to mid 50s for some. Gilroy, morgan hill, are also in there. Cupertino 53 along with santa clara. The fog is going down the coast, but the north wind will take care of that. Tropical clouds not making a dent but hopefully by sunday and monday. For us warming up to 90s and 100s inland, 70s and 80s on the bay. We have slow traffic in the usual spots, 205 and 580 for those coming in from tracy, routine. As you drive on 205 and 580 with people getting on the ace train, out of the Central Valley
Quality to be bad for the next few days as the High Pressure hangs out. We will have records tomorrow and temperatures could easily be 10 plus degrees and that is extremely hot. When i come back, i will talk about the weather and there is a lot. A dire situation unfolding in texas a storm battered a Chemical Plant northeast of houston and has become the latest concern. Today there was several explosions at the plant in crosby and that sent more than two dalvin dozen deputies to the hospital with breathing problems. Authorities a reassuring know has addressed chemicals have been detected. They were expecting the explosion. The plant was already under six feet of water from the rains unleashed by harvey prompting officials to have a large evacuation zone. Teams worked to locate and get help to storm victims. Many of the people have been stranded for days and floodwaters are going up in some parts of texas and crews and beaumont were forced to evacuate patients from one of the busiest hos
Afternoon. It is going to be a scorcher. Drink plenty of water and make sure that you take care of the children, pets and elderly. Shore line, San Francisco, north bay as well as down through san mateo and into monterey. This is going on through part of the weekend with temperatures usually hot as well. With the hot, dry conditions, add a little bit of wind and thats what we have in hour hills. We have heat and fire danger. That will go until tomorrow. It is an air quality issue. We have poor earl called around the bay area. Ill have more on what you can expect throughout the weekend. Well talk about the afternoon highs and tell you how long it is expected to last. The heat is forcing School Districts to cut their school day short in order to keep their students safe. Jessie, i see you wiping the sweat off your brow. I hear rose mary say its avenue going to be a scorcher. No, no, its already a scorcher this is the cool part of the day. It is already 99 degrees and its get worse. Kids a
Temperatures. Baker beach where its normally mid 70s, hit 99 degrees today. Incredible. Across the bay, the thermometer tipped out at 100 degrees. And the real heat hit farther inland. Cant forget about the heat down in the south bay. Let get a look at the Current Conditions with a guy thats been busy this week. San francisco breaks its all time record of 104. Last time it hit 100 degrees in San Francisco was 18 years ago. Wow. But listen to this, 104 in downtown San Francisco. The alltime high, 106. The record it broke . 106 years old. When you break records by 3 degrees, alltime records falling. At least San Francisco now. The records are kept there. As it sinks, the further it sinks, the more it warms. Places that are the most low lying will typically get the highest heat because they have the most room for the air to sink. Air warms at 5 degrees per ,000 feet. It cools for 3 degrees at per thousand feet going up. Lets see what weve got out there. We do have your heat advisory and h