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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 5am July 12, 2024

Mid 80s in San Francisco and 90 in oakland and upper 90s for san jose and 108 in concord. We have excessive heat warnings and heat advisories that will be in effect from 11 00 a. M. Today all the way through wednesday 9 00 p. M. And thats for most of the bay area except for the immediate coastline. So this will be a prolonged heat wave for us. Here in the bay area. Well talk more about what you can expect as we head through the next several days where you live, coming up in a few minutes. And due to the dangerous heat, state officials have issued a statewide flex alert for today. Were all being asked to voluntarily conserve energy between 3 00 and 10 00 p. M. If you need a place to cool off, there are several cooling centers around the bay area. Palo alto will be open from 1 00 this afternoon until 6 00. And cooling centers will also be available in san jose at may Fair Community center. The Camden Center on union avenue. You can also stop by the Roosevelt Center and doors open at 1 00 this afternoon. And we have links to information on cooling centers and how to beat the heat, visit our website. Kpix. Com. Those cooling centers could help ease the strain on the power grid. Concord broke the record high yesterday at 101 degrees and today is expected to be even hotter at 108. Its nicer around here than it is at home. Lets go downtown and get something to eat and enjoy a glass of wine. When theres excessive heat like this theres a lot of air conditioning use and that drives up the demand. Again the states flex alert is for this afternoon from 3 00 to 10 00. And everyone is being asked to raise airconditioning thermostats to 78 degrees if possible during those hours. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are keeping our eye on a couple of very large fires burning right now in southern california. Starting off with the newest one this one is called the ranch fire. Its burning in the azuzus foothills and burned at least 3,000 acres and homes in the Mountain Cove area are under mandatory evacuation orders. It blew up right after it started just before 3 00 yesterday afternoon. So we are waiting for an update from cal fire once the sun comes up and they can get a better idea of the size of that fire. Also keeping an eye on the lake fire. That one has been burning since wednesday in the Angeles National forest. And at this point, it has destroyed three structures and that number is expected to climb. It is only 5 contained and it could flare up again with these hot temperatures that we have been dealing with. That mary has been warning us about. It is consumed more than 16 square miles of timber and brush so far in addition to those three structures. And 100 homes are threatened. The cause of both fires still under investigation. But were going to keep an eye on that. Michelle, back to you. New this morning, two people are in the hospital after shots were fired in San Francisco overnight. Police say two groups of people in two cars were involved in some kind of disagreement at the 100 block of otis street south of market. One person has lifethreatening injuries and no description of the suspect has been released at this time. In san jose, all lanes on northbound 85 near Camden Avenue are back open following a deadly crash involving multiple vehicles. It happened around 3 00 this morning. The cause is under investigation. Turning now to our back to school coverage. This morning, San Francisco supervisors a long with School Officials will hold a hearing for parents. Sfusd is slated to start school on monday. Meanwhile, in marin county, today officials will start accepting waiver applications for Elementary Schools looking to reopen for inperson learning. Some teachers in marin have protested a return to the classroom. While a group of parents launched a website which features links to site petitions and easily contact state officials who have a large say in giving the green light. Its a really hard topic because its so easy for people to get people polarized. Stories in indiana and georgia. Lot os kids in communities are getting it by passed it around in schools and high schools in particular because theyre not wearing masks. Officials say if infections are less than 200 cases per 100,000 in population, local Health Departments can consider waivers. Priority will be given to schools with outdoor space. Tdi think the discouraging thing is that in pretty much every Public School at least, and probably in private schools as well, to do it as safely as possible means spending more money. Marin county Health Officials will be reviewing applications next week. The earliest Elementary Schools could reopen would be september 8th and we know theres a lot of changes with the new school year to stay up todate just head to our website. Kpix. Com backtoschool. Governor newsom responding to parent who is say their kids are being denied a fair education. Its in response to a lawsuit that some california parents filed against the governor over his School Reopening plan. Parents allege it violates their constitutional rights. In a formal opposition brief the state says parents are relying on inaccurate and outdated beliefs that kids cant spread covid19 at school. A hearing is set for monday. Later today. Governor newsom will give an update on coronavirus. You can watch that live at noon on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area at kpix. Com. Happening today, stanfords new title ix policy will take effect. The Campus Community has six days to comment on a draft proposal outlining the ways sexual abuse complaints will be filed and investigated going forward. Meantime, its official. Stanford is joining the rest of the bay areas universities and keeping its campus closed this fall. The school had initially planned to allow a small portion of undergrads to be there in person before concluding its just simply too risky right now. Stanford told us quote it is reviewing those comments and making changes to the draft it issued last week and plans to release more information next week about the feedback it received and why it was accepted, not accepted, or accepted in a quote modified manner. California hit another coronavirus milestone. We added 7,000 more confirmed cases making us the first state to top 600,000. 160 more deaths were also reported. This morning, according to usc researchers, fever is usually the first symptom for patients. Cough and muscle pain are next. Followed by nausea and diarrhea. The scientists presented the ordered list of symptoms to help both patients and doctors during the pandemic. A Northern California city has been selected to participate in a covid19 vaccine trial. As many as 200 people from sacramento are expected to be enrolled. Just this week, Uc Davis Health and Kaiser Permanente announced a partnership with pfizer inc. And biontech to participate in a global vaccine study. Both Health Groups will enroll hundreds of people for randomized trials and half the patients will receive the vaccine and the other half will receive a placebo. The goal is to enroll up to 30,000 participants and more than 120 sites around the world. Local doctors say sacramento has been chosen because of the willingness of people there to participate and also the diversity of the patients there. There is a disproportionate number of people being affected who are africanamericans and latinx and its important that any trial have a diverse population. Pfizer and biontech are on track to seek regulatory review as soon as object and the plan is to supply up to 100 million doses by the end of 2020. A live look at san jose. Only two days left now if you want to get tested for covid19 at william c. Overfelt high school on cunningham avenue. Doors open up 1 00 this afternoon until 6 00 tonight and also stop by tomorrow morning starting at 9 00. In gilroy, today is the last day at the pop up site at south county annex on wren avenue. Doors open at 10 00 this morning and palo alto you can stop by the Arts Center Auditorium on newell road if you book an appointment. And for a full list of all of the testing sites across the bay area, just head to our website. Kpix. Com. Still ahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, former inmates getting a Second Chance at life. The first of its kind program in california. Heres a live look with our san jose camera. And it is 74 degrees right now in san jose. Its a warm start to the day across the bay area. Were really going to heat up and well talk about the excessive heat warning and heat advisory all of that in effect coming up. And with that comes the spare the air alert. Encouraging you to use Public Transit. Well take a look at youre travel times there as well as your drive times in the altamonte. Remember we want to see what back to school means to you this year. Send us a picture to backtoschool it is 5 13. On this friday morning. And we are really going to heat up as we head through our afternoon. Excessive heat warnings and heat advisories in effect from 11 00 a. M. Today all the way through wednesday 9 00 p. M. For most of the bay area. Except the immediate coastline. Well talk about how hot it will get where you live coming up. A live look at Alcatraz Island from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera. After being closed for five months, the top tourist attraction is reopening to the public. Starting next week, Ferry Service resumes to and from the rock. But if you want to tour the inside of the big house, you are going to have to wait. For now, your alcatraz experience will be outdoors only. Trails and gardens outside of the historic prison will reopen and you can even listen to a revised audio tour. However, the cell blocks will stay closed to comply with state covid guidelines. Its now 5 14. A live look at Treasure Island now where some former inmates are getting their first taste of freedom in decades. Its all part of a first of its kind program in california. Dozen Domestic Violence survivors who served time for killing their abusers are getting a fresh start. Their moving into one of the two bedroom apartments on the island. The Transitional Housing Program was started by the five keys. Home free project. This is righting a terrible wrong. That was committed against these women. This is a place of safety. Something so new and fresh that we can just breathe. Its a renewed life. The housing is rent free and subsidized in part by the city. The women are expected to move in as early as this fall. Right now, the clock is ticking for many california renters and homeowners. Evictions and foreclosures could resume september 1st in areas without local protections after the state Judicial Council voted to allow temporary statewide protections to expire. Lawmakers are working on a pair of proposals to extend protections for people still out of work. The main Sticking Point in their negotiations, how to help Property Owners deal with lost rent. More changes coming to muni. Starting on august 22nd their Metro Rail Service is expected to return. But its going to look a little different. Lets check in now with gianna with details on what riders can expect. All right, well, in order for me to help with social distancing, its actually making a few changes and its getting rid of the use of one car trains and also adding more transfer stations, so for example, you will now have to forever the k, l and j lines which may take some getting used to. This will allow more riders to have more space on the trains and safety is also something they prioritized in fact we spoke with the transportation director jeffrey tunnel lynn on how taking muni may be safer than you think. We still have not seen a single case of covid transmission on muni vehicles themselves. Doesnt not to say that it hasnt happened. But there have certainly been zero instances of superspreading and despite the Contact Tracing that were doing, no no Contact Tracing has come back to muni service. Now speaking of Public Transit, today might be a good day to opt for Public Transit as spare the air alert has been issued due to heat advisory. Sheathier recommending that you use b. A. R. T. And use muni as the alternate route. Or you can always ride your bike but again with the hot temperatures be careful if you do that. Limit your Outdoor Activities also an idea as well. Just be mindful of social distancing. Everything on time and b. A. R. T. Caltrain and muni. No delays and also coming up on august 16th. Samtrans will continue to make service changes. Theyll increase bus service resume fare collection and front door boarding. Again that begins this sunday august 16th. As far as the roadways go, you have got brake lights already forming in the Altamont Pass. We were hoping for friday light conditions. But it is a little slow already getting busy from the 205 and 580 connector going westbound heading near grant line. One you are past all that it looks better connecting on to the 680 interchange there. Your drive times though still in the green. 28 minutes westbound 580. 205 over to 680. Eastshore freeway westbound 830. Highway 4 to the maze. Only 13 minutes. Highway 4 clear as well as 101 out of the south bay. No troubles right now if you are making that drive along the peninsula. Bridges are pretty quiet right now. Bay bridge clear as you head out of the east bay into San Francisco. With no delays. San mateo bridge right now checking in with a 13 minute drive time westbound as you head from hayward into foster city. Taillights to 101 and the Golden Gate Bridge pretty light right now. Definitely friday light out of marin heading into the city. Thats a look at your morning drive. Lets get more on this extreme today. Heres mary. Okay. Gianna, first, i want to show you a live look and this is in san jose this morning. And we are looking at temperatures in san jose in the mid 70s with mostly cloudy skies. It is a warm start and were really going to see these temperatures skyrocket later on this afternoon. Now lets show you our temperatures across the region this morning. So we are looking at 60s and 70s at this hour. So heres a live look with our Salesforce Tower camera. With mostly cloudy skies looking east. And with that, looking at 72 in concord and oakland at 67 and 7 a livermore and San Francisco 65 and looking at 63 for santa rosa. So 24 hour temperature change, of course much warmer compared to yesterday at this time. If you stepped outside, you will definitely feel that difference. Looking at anywhere from 9 to 14 to 16 degrees warmer compared to yesterday morning. And as we head through our afternoon, record highs likely record tying and record breaking high temperatures for many locations as we go through the afternoon. Now lets show you what you can expect with that excessive heat warning and heat advisory all kick into effect at 11 00 a. M. Today until wednesday 9 00 p. M. This is going to be a prolonged heat event for the bay area. So looking at that excessive heat warning, highlighted in pink. And a heat advisory in orange. So most of the bay area under a heat warning or heat advisory except for the immediate coastline. But even along the coast, you are going to warm up as well. So heres the satellite and radar view. And this low pressure system that brought the onshore flow is moving away from us and the strong ridge of High Pressure over the Desert Southwest will be building in and this ridge will be the dominant weather factor for us. Its heat dome helping those temperatures to skyrocket. So as we head through the afternoon, after the high clouds this morning, were going to see that sunshine and today the hottest day of the week. And some of the hottest temperatures that weve seen so far this summer. For tomorrow, still looking at those hot conditions. Lets break it all down for you for the south bay, looking at 98 close to triple digits for san jose. 100 in campbell and 104 morgan hill and 101 los gatos. 99 for cupertino. The east bay, 108 in concord. 109 in brentwood. For the trivalley, 106 for livermore. Around the bay, looking at 85 in San Francisco and 90 in oakland and for alameda. And mid to upper 90s to triple digit heat for the north bay. Here we go with that extended forecast. Still looking hot for our weekend. And then still were going to continue with those hot temperatures into next week. Back to you. All right, mary, thank you. Happening today, fremont is hosting its first drivein movie e ends. It will be at the central park softball field parking lot on stevenson boulevard and tickets are 35 a car and gates open up at 7 00 this evening and tonight the movie is jaw man gee the next level. Apparently drivein popups are something were seeing all over these days. Including down on the boardwalk in santa cruz. While the rides sit empty the boardwalk is planning to host drivein movies on fridays and saturdays. The first skrining is planned for next friday. And the river parking lot at the corner of beech and 3rd streets. Once again, cements to be a popular movie. It will be playing. Not trolls. Unfortunately for you. The time is now 5 22. Still ahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area i

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