Reporter the power came bac p. M. , many businesses here telling us they have had to close hours early in the midst of the pandemic when they are trying survive. For example, soul food was supposed to be open, and you can see the doors is are saying the frustrated on over the lack on communication. Thousands left in the dark all across the bay area tonight. No notification and then a all of a sudden we dont have power and its 105 degrees. Reporter Ashley Stephens is one of many of the customers that were without power for hours. Had what about the people who are like on oxygen tanks and have like, food in the freezer and the fridge. Its just, unreal. Reporter many Small Businesses struggling to stay afloat during this pandemic pushed to close the doors hours early. We tried our best to sell what we had available. Stuff that was already cooked so we can sell it out and not have to spoil it. And we tried to push it with our registers but the moment that the system crashed we could no longer charge the customers. Reporter foster city and san matteo experiencing power out acknowledges. Tonight, Police Reminding Drivers to treat the traffic lights affecteds as four way stops to away void accidents. Pg e saidle thisype of planned. All right, thank you so much. People in vallejo are dealing with a double whamy tonight as Power Outages are impacting water service. This tweet was sent about service interruptions. The Water Department is deploying back up generators to help pump drinking water. In one of the warmest parts of the bay area, rolling black outs are precisely what Small Businesses do not need right now. Restaurant owner, lisa ahmad said that customers have been dining on the patio of the cafe despite the 105 degree heat. Still she is worried, business is down 20 because of covid19. Rolling black outs would be bad for her bottom line. Anything that needs refrigeration, you will lose and its going to cost, you know, 10,000 plus very easily. You know, in just a drop of a hat. Just for a day. Absolutely. 10k . Yeah, just the meat alone. Thats how dire it is. Parts of Alameda County were hit but the power did stay on in the cafe, where they hosted a pakistan Independence Day celebration tonight. Californias independent system operate er is Monitoring Energy use as we continue in the stage three emergency. A look at the website shows the grid is is closing in on the maximum capacity. The last time we saw it this extreme was in 2006 when the state hit a historical peak. After todays alert was issued usage started to trend down slightly and forecasted to peak lower tomorrow. The last time we had rolling black outs was 20 years ago in the california electricity crisis. We remember it well. A combination of hot summer, and higher wholesale energy costs and Serious Problems with the power a terxplosion is to blame for a outage. The transformer blew after it was over heated that caused a at t box to melt. We broke several records around the bay area. We did, and we may break more in the days ahead too. Lets check in with sandy. Oppressive heat brought 12 new records. San francisco, 95, surpassed the record of 86, triple digits from oakland, san jose, redwood city, other locations, santa rosa, 106, old record was 101, many were set in 119 and gilroy, 117. Still is so warm, look at the temperatures. You have like 80s, mid 80s around concord, brentwood, livermore. These are like temperatures that you expect to see in the afternoon. Thats why we are setting the stage for another hot day ahead tomorrow, dangerous heat wave continues. Tomorrow is day three, high risk of heat illness, the heat waive is prompting it to run until 9 00 p. M. On wednesday. La and ino counties. Land areas. That is up until 7 00 p. M. Tomorrow. When will the heat wave break in i will be back with the details coming up. Okay, thanks. In the north bay, the temperature hit 104 and memorial beach, and people from all over the bay area headed for the Russian River to find relief today. Lifeguards expect crowds to be much larger this weekend. Sonoma county is asking out of towners to avoid crowding the river are because of covid19. The county recorded 140 new cases in the last 24 hours. Onhe peninsula, pacifica overroing is not w shers. Wants to see in tiddle o thepandic they areri csing the beaches for the up coming holiday. You can stay on top of the rolling black outs and hot temperatures on the news app. And the heat certainly made this fire particularly frightening. New images show the ar car fire that sparked a grass fire. They say the car went up in flames before 5 00 tonight along highway 17 south of the katz restaurant, the fire spread to the nearby hill side and burned about a half acre. No structures were threatened or burned and the highway is now open. New at 11 00, a High School Teacher is under fire after hosting a Remote Learning class shirtless. A 13 yoorld student at Silver Creek High School took the photos this afternoon. Her mother was told the teacher has been suspended but she is calling on district leaders to better monitor the staff. Abc7 news reporter, spoke with the family. A san jose family, sharing this shocking Remote Learning scene. A teacher at Silver Creek High School, logging on shirtless. The photos were taken aaa 13yearold. At the start of her freshman special education math class. He was not wearing a shirt and it was awkward and made me feel uncomfortable. She called her mother and her mother said take a picture and log off. Leaving the class of 1015 students. They are special needs, they probably dont realize its wrong. She went to the silver creek and the high school district. She showed them the pictures asking whether the Virtual Class was recorded. They said no because its a violation of privacy and theres a big old thing and i said what about the kids . You know, their safety . Now, she is demanding district leaders. He is grown, he knows the rules. He should not be exposing himself like that to all the minors. You know, at the end of the day, they are kids and its wrong. They identify the children as richard cabral, he is listed as a special education teacher. A twitter account under his name and matching profile picture, leads to questionable material. We have reached out to cabral and not heard back. The photo appears to be an employee of the district in a statement saying the behavior is unacceptable. Unprofessional and violates several district policies. Adding in situations like this, an employee is immediately placed on administrative leave pepding t in pending the outcome of the investigation. A lot more to come here, not local, not welcome. Fed up lake tahoe residents send a strong message to tourists today. Collection box confusion in the south bay, what we are learning about a threat to remove dozens of the iconic blue boxes. And a race for a vaccine, we talk with experts about who could be first in line to get a covid19 immunization. Im sarah cooper. Watch this tonight before your coworkers send it to you tomorrow. We will do it all in your face, your eyes are important. Its like a silent film, you are breaking news from ocean beach in san francisco, police are moving in after dozens of beach goers set bonfires, it was seen along the highway. Developing news from southern california, a new round of evacuations has been ordered this evening because of the out of control lake fire burning north of los angeles. Officials say todays extreme triple digit heat has caused an increase in fire activity. The fire has burned 17,000 acres and is only 12 contained. Bay area Fire Agencies have sent strike teams to the fire. Lets turn to the coronavirus crisis, Governor News newsom said that they are finally caught up with the backlogged cases and a county by county report will be ready tomorrow, and that should give us an idea of infection around the state. This will be the last day that we will have to report backlogged cases. Reporter he is blaming a glitch for a week of unreliable covid19 numbers. The cases has gone up to over 600,000 for the state. Another 188 deaths reported well above the seven day average. A new worry, the warm weathe le their guard down. You dont want to be in a room full of people with a old air conditioner. That is not a good idea. With Students Learning from home, the state will spend more than 5 billion to make sure that that everyone has a speedy internet connection. Fast enough for students to video chat live, one on one with teachers. We are focused on the shortterm need and longterm need, we know we have communities and residential communities that do not have access to broad band. They dont have the infrastrture. And to say from task forces to bring broad band to every community a concerning sight in the east bay, as the chevron refinery shot smoke in the air, not only a heat day, but a spare the air alert. They say its a safety measure to release pressure which prevent pumping toxins in the area. The air Quality Management district are investigating. A south bay resident is worried about the changes with the Postal Service as we count osdnoto election day. Sti on several usps collection boxes. They warn that the boxes could be removed from it was in a pillow because of low volume. This comes as President Trump threatens to withhold funding. Would you be willing to accept the money for the sure, if they give us what we want. Its not what i want, its what the American People want. They warned 47 states that mail in ballots may not be delivered on time. Former judge and resident calls this in your face political pressure. I was very concerned about the timing of all this. Given that we are only about 80 days on out from the election and because the Trump Administration has been talking very explicitly about stopping voting by mail. The Postal Service tells abc7 news, it does plan to move forward with stopping collection at the boxs flagged in cor the in coredelles neighbor. The federal government is projecting an effective vaccine by january, the big question, who will get it first . We have tonights story. Reporter over 5 Million People in america have tested positive for covid19. Medical experts see the main solution. Highest priority groups, Health Workers and people who have direct covid exposure. They suggest a good starting point for answers would be a distribution pattern from covid19. He is a liaison from the covid prevention network. Providing recommendations to the cdc. Theres a longay to go before the distribution and access issues and that plan is under development. They suggest that a five tier plan that was used for other vaccines. In tier 1, we have Critical Health care, Law Enforcement and Public Health professionals. Tier two, groups in the homeland and national koot category. Tier 3, essential workers. Tier 4, high risk adults and those 65 years and older and older. And tier 5, the rest of the population. There was a global allocation framework giving priority to number one, 50 Million Health care workers. And two, 650 million adults 65 years older and older. 1,150 million other high risk adults. Its a long process, at least we are studying the vaccine. I understand the age groupers are doing well, but they are not doing as well as they would like with the racial and ethnic minorities. The doctor is leading the covid19 clinical efforts at stanford medicine. She believes that distribution could be impacted by the number of covid19 vaccines developed. I would say depending on which ones come out if theres more than one at the same time, there might be more numbers of doses available. Now, whenever a covid19 vaccine does roll out, all experts agree on one thing. There had wont be enough to go around atfirst. In may, President Donald Trump operation warp speed. A federal program aiming to deliver 300 million doses of a safe, effective vaccine for covid19 by january 2021. Deputy director dr. Julie ledgerwood, gave insight in who they are targeting in the vaccine trials. A population that according, with a Latino Task Force is apprehensive about a vaccine. Theres a concern that im hearing from you, those essential workers and minorities feeling like guinne at whene firstame in to do a tn wwi be the ones will be the guinnie pigs for the potential vaccines to test them out. We assured them its not the case. Its up to the individuals to make the choice of what is right for them. Latina, blacks and native americans have disproportionately affected by the virus. Everyone has been clear that they want the distribution to be equal. It is keeping the top experts working around the clock. Hope to find a vaccine. And hope for an equitable the distribution. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization announced it will have a finalized allocation plan by the end of this month. With or without avaccine. In san francisco, abc7 news. Now, we spent the past week focused on the race for a vaccine, all of the stories are available on our abc7. Com. Now, your accuweather forecast with sandia. Two more and five more to go. Im talking about the heat wave. Fairfield was excessive, 110 degrees the official high for today. Many records broken or tied 106 in santa rosa. 103 in san jose. It was hot in concord and livermore. And wondering where it came from, its the desert heat we are getting a taste of. Its 105 right now in phoenix. The desert southwest, under excessive heat warnings. Of course, we are included here. 80s in the tin land valleys at this hour. The tips to keep you safe. Drink plenty of fluids before you get thirsty. Try to find ac or a fan. And dont leave your kids or pets inside vehicles. You know it can get dangerously hot inside the car. Hotter than outside. Live doppler 7 showing you a few passing clouds as we take a look. Just issued a fire weather watch for lake county and thats because sunday morning, through sunday night, potentially for dry thunderstorms, the lightning could spark fires. Be careful out there. East bay camera. Looking back toward san francisco. Heat wave continues through next wednesday. Record temperatures likely again. And heat risk and fire danger remains elevated. Hour by hour forecast showing you the sub tropical moisture moving in tomorrow night. That will increases the humidity again, going in to sunday, now, one model is showing the potential for an isolated shower bay ar. Understorm here in the certainly in the sierra, so, that is going to beorth watching, especially on sunday in ce that stuff develops in to something more. Temperaturesmoing, well lets say, we are not losing much of the heat. It already warm, anywhere from the mid 60s to the upper 70s and thats going to set the stage for a hot one again. Not as hot as today though. In the south bay, 96se s santa anclara, 103 degrees i gilroy. 92 in red wood city. 78 in pacifica, 80, downtown san francisco, and 77 in the sun district. And 97 in santa rosa, and aeeas bay, 88, and a scorcher inland. Triple digits, intense heat wave continues this weekend. Extreme heat on monday. We are talking about 108 by the end of the work week next week. Mid 90s, stay cool, everyone. Dozens of tahoe area residents rolled out the welcome mat, holding a roadside protest about out of towners. They are urging tourists to stay away. Residents in the lake tahoe area, partly blame visitors for a surgery of covid cases in the region. Tahoe has been hit with visitors in the past few months and many from the bay area. The locals here have a sense of respect, its our home and we feel passionate about wting to keep like the lake pristeen. Other tahoe residents disagree saying they need the business. Particularly with so many shops and restaurants struggling to stay afloat. Other places are closed down and we are open. In a few short months, it will be freezing here, and those places that have only Outdoor Dining will have to survive off of take out. More protests are planned for sunday. All right, on to sports director larry. Larpy, there was the stokt market crash in 1929 and then this today. Right . It felt like it for the giants. The giants have not blown a lead like this since 1929. Good evening, giants and the as open the bridge series tonight at oracle, the as were a First Place Team that finds ways to win. And the giants are a last place team that finds ways to lose. Giants todays kayakers, this is classic. Cardboard cu seagulls. That is fantastic. High, deep and aloha. Aloha. Aloh. Meanwhile, johnny be good, join cueto was of dealing. Cueto goes 7, fans 5, allows two on 1 on 04 had pitches. Last time they blew a lead in the 9th, 1929. Bases loaded. Grand slam off of trevor. He got got. The as, they loved it. He could not believe it. As would take the ld o the 10t. Hendrickss, strikes out the side with smoke. To end it. Yeah, the as come back to win 87 in ten. Its just grinding. Just never saying die. I mean, we have seen so many times us come back and win, we have all the walkoffs at home. But to do it on the road when it did not feel too good going in to that inning, its mental fortitude and grind out the at bats. Rewatching the game in your mind, and we talk about it and find out ways to do better tomorrow and talk about the things that we can do differently and how can we raise the bar for ourselves perspective. Back at it tomorrow. George kittel loves panda express, his had new deal will pay for a lot of honey, walnut shhismp. Message after signing the extension. Hey, where you going, man . Going celebrate this thing, niner nation, we are had hear, the faith. Going to be a nine er for a long time. Super excited about it. Ready to play some football, baby. Whoa whoa battle of heavy weights tomorw. Gilr gilroys own cormier, it is his