Us to prepare for outages tonight. In addition to the heat. The state says a transmission line carrying power from oregon to california went offline unexpectedly and that is also adding to the problem definitely not good news. Meanwhile, the rise in temperatures also increasing the fire danger. A red flag warning has been issued for tomorrow running through wednesday morning. The warning has been issued for the north bay mountains east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains we want to bring in rebecca strong to talk about the record breaking heat and also that red flag warning and once again the big news, San Francisco hitting a 100 degrees something we have not seen in a 100 years rebecca yeah, thats right guys in fact it out beat the previous temperature. It was at 92 degrees back in 19 04 but today in 2020 up and hit that triple digit mark at a 100 degrees in downtown sfo also made record breaking heat set one 02 today and the triple digits continue downtown oakland. Youre at a high of
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