0 contained five another day of dangerous heat is on tap. Of flex alert is in effect. We are asked to conserve energy today and tomorrow. Mary has another check of the forecast in a couple of minutes. Back to fire watch, or keeping an eye on a wildfire burning in Santa Cruz County that has doubled in size. It broke out north of davenport and flames have gone through 120 acres and it is 20 contained. The river fire continues to burn in the hills of south of salina, at least six structures have been destroyed and 1500 others are being threatened. We are lucky that we have kept all the houses right here. My brother is across the canyon and it came through that brush yesterday. I have never seen anything like that. Cal fire says that area is not safe for people to come back to but they hope to have a timeline for returning in the next few hours. We have learned that hundreds of San Francisco School Bus Drivers are about to lose their jobs. Some after decades behind the wheel. The president
I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Lets get to meteorologist mary lee with the hot forecast. Here we go, we are looking at our extreme heat continuing for us today and with it, with those daytime highs, likely tying or breaking records. We have some cooling centers open. Santa rosa will have them from 11 00 to 7 00 four people trying to get some relief from the heat at Rincon Valley library and the Salvation Army senior center. If you do go out there, you will need to wear your mask as well as social distance. In santa rosa, highs are in the triple digits. It is 104 in concord and around the bay, low to mid 80s. 80 for San Francisco and 86 for oakland. Because of this extreme heat, excessive heat warnings remain in effect due to this persistent and dangerous heat and it remains in effect not just for today but actually through 9 00 wednesday. So we are still looking at the heat and going to cool down a little bit. Temperatures will be slightly erdeils up in just a bit firefighters a
County will join the rest of the bay area on friday as the bay area begins the next step there are still more than 11,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 390 deaths here are the latest numbers broken down by county, sam, a tail San Francisco, marin sonoma and napa counties have all reported new cases today, but no new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours. For a complete list of local covid19 cases head over to our website kron 4 dot com at least for now most bay area jurisdictions will follow the same guidelines in terms of slowly winding down the stay at home orders and reopening the economy the last area holdout on opening the door to face to Santa Clara County. But word on that changed today kron fours justine waltman live in our newsroom right now with more just a. While panels of the countys move forward Santa Clara County Health Officials said that there were no plans to ease restrictions but that changed today. And it will now allow Small Retail Stores to offer Curbsid
This is one of the areas where it could be targeted by pg es few program to shut down power, to help prevent fires. It feels just like it did over the fire, supreme weather, hot, windy. Reporter mary lou and derek ericson recently moved into their home after losing their previous one after a fire two years ago. While trying to settle if, they are dealing with unsettling weather conditions. Were definitely more on all of us, all of our neighbors, everybody that has been through it on high alert and they are showing you the awareness of the winds and what it could cause. Reporter pg e has parking lots of the north bay at an elevated level. Public safety power shutoff, psps, a new utility where they shut down to help during the wildfire. We have not contacted any customers in the forth bay yet. I think its a good thing, having been through the fires. Reporter while mary lou ericson supports the psps, her neighbors do not. I think that is an easy way out for them. Than them maintaining dec
We just finished up with fantastic day for sunday. We need to talk about the fire weather concerns. Businesses in santa rosa are facing possible Power Outages starting tomorrow, depending on fire conditions. I feel like all rules had been abandoned. Here her story of survivor. What she told 60 minutes about the Sexual Assault that she survived it stanford that ange tcourse of her li widanger pg e is warning that they may take extra precautions. Tonight the Utility Company says that they are considering turning off power and nine Northern California counties. This would affect 24,000 customers. So we have Team Coverage tonight. Beginning with joe vazquez in santa rosa. Reporter the lights are on here in santa rosa. It is business as usual. Starting tomorrow morning, depending on fire conditions, pg e says it might be off. He is making some good joe. This is brisk business on a sunday night. Also on top of everybodys minds tonight, the fact that pg e could decide to turn off the power at