Dangerous heat, likely record breaking high temperatures as we head through the day today. The daytime highs well above average, more than 20 degrees above average for this time of year and also dealing with that extreme fire danger with the red flag warning that has been extended until 6 00 p. M. Today for all the areas highlighted in red north bay, mountains, and Santa Cruz Mountains with offshore winds, low relative humidity values dropping down to the Single Digits and teens. Were talking dangerous fire conditions, critical conditions as we head through the day today. Tracking some changes as we look to the weekend, we have cooler air with the ocean breeze finally kicking in. Details on the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Thousands of people remain without power in parts of the bay area and Northern California after pg e shut it off to prevent strong winds from damaging equipment and sparking wildfires after the heat wave. 30,000 customers are still in the dark down from 45,000 on wednesday. Pg e crews have to inspect every mile of line for damage after psps before the lines can be reenergized. Here is a live look at the pg e map showing where the outages are still going on. Utility expects to have powerfully restored sometime tonight. Kpix 5 will have continuing coverage on an and online as the power shutoffs play out. New at noon, Governor Newsom says the state will appeal the federal government rejection of disaster aid. Disaster aid rejected for six wildfires that began in early august. It does not include bay area fires. The Governors Office does not know why the request was turned down and fema is not commenting. Federal aid can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. New at noon, firefighters rescued two window washers dangling on ropes at walnut creek after their scaffolding collapses. Firefighters rushed to the scene of the California Plaza building at 6 45 this morning. I got the two men down to the ground by 8 00. No word on any injuries. Oakland Police Investigating a second deadly troubleshooting in oakland in a matter of days. Here is citizen video from the scene that happened after 8 30 at night at 89th and international boulevard. One person died, two others hurt. The latest in a string of recent shootings in the city. Oakland libby schaaf is calling on the community to help end the violence. Where doubling down on community healing. You will see many more people, you might not notice them because there are people from the community that will talk neighbor to neighbor, loved one to loved one to spread that message that in oakland, we want everyone to live and be free. Two People Killed and another hurt on wednesday just nine blocks from last nights shooting. Im anne makovec at the live news desk with the result of a massive coronavirus testing event at the Oakland Fruitvale district with the city in conjunction with Latinx Health groups and ucsf tested 1200 people september 26th and 27th. Only 3 tested positive for coronavirus total. The Racial Disparity is stark, only. 5 of nonlatinos tested positive, the rate was 5 among latinos and 8 among mayan immigrants from guatemala. They also tested blood samples for antibodies indicating a person had once been infected, the rate was 6 for non latinos, 12 for latinos, and a whopping 27 for the mayan population. Test organizers say the results confirmed what they already suspected. The city, in conjunction with Latinx Health groups and ucsf did these tests. The infection of entire families including children, the Food Insecurity families are experiencing once they test positive, and the high number of essential workers affected who have no access to paid leave and no access to unemployment benefits. Reporter mir libby schaaf says she will work with Community Groups and the council to get affected communities to help they need. Thank you. We brought the update from mayor schaaf and updates on kpix. Com and streaming us on the new app. U. S. Hit 8 million covid19 cases according to the Johns Hopkins tracker. The country averaging 50,000 daily new infections and experts say it is assigned u. S. Is in for a tough winter. Pfizer says its experimental Covid Vaccine could be available by the end of the year. Preliminary numbers on whether the vaccine works are expected by the end of this month. Pfizer would still need to gather safety data. It expects to apply for public use of its vaccine candidate in the third week of november if everything goes according to plan. Pfizer among four candidates in late stage Clinical Trials in the u. S. Right now. On the economic front, we the u. S. Government posted a record deficit of 3. 1 trillion in the 2020 budget year as the pandemic shrinks revenues and spending. Campaign 2020, a live look at southfield, michigan where joe biden will deliver remarks on his plan to expand access to affordable healthcare. President trump also on the campaign trail in florida talking about protecting americas seniors. The two held dueling town hall events last night instead of the second president ial debate. Debra alfarone reports that pandemic remains one of the key issues. Reporter President Trump told an audience of Senior Citizens in fort myers, florida he is fighting to protect them from coronavirus. The fatality rate is reduced by 85 since april and now it is up to 91 . Well, im here. I tell you. Reporter last night, President Trump defended his coronavirus response. An important issue to seniors during nbc news townhall. 210,000 people, one person is too much, because of china, it happened because of china. Reporter democratic nominee joe biden also talked about healthcare in michigan this afternoon. Biden participated in abc news townhall last night where he criticized the president s leadership on the pandemic. When the president does not wear a mask or make fun of folks like me for wearing a mask for a long time, then people say well, it must not be that important. Reporter last nights televised town halls allowed the host to press joe biden and President Trump on issues the candidates continue to hedge answers. The president refused to denounce Online Movement the fbi called potential domestic terrorist threat. What i do hear about it, they are very strongly against pedophilia and i agree with that. Okay, theyre not satanic pedophile cult. You dont know that . Reporter biden pushed to give an answer whether he will try to add more justices to the Supreme Court in the response to judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination. Guess, depending how to handle this. Reporter biden holds the edge in majority key battleground states. With 2 1 2 weeks to go before election day. Debra alfarone with cbs news the white house. You have until monday to register to vote. For information on how, go to kpix. Com campaign2020. Happening today, Alameda County playgrounds back open. This comes after the county remained in the orange tier for two weeks in the state reopening system. To see what else is up and across the bay area, check out kpix. Com. A happy update, the lemur stolen from the San Francisco zoo is back home safe and sound. Daly city police found mackey 5 miles from the zoo at a playground at Hope Lutheran church. Officers corralled the endangered animal until zoo workers arrive. Investigators believe the lemur was stolen from its enclosure. Theyre not clear where he was from the time he disappeared and when he was found. Coming up, amazon celebrates its prime day success and highlighting Something Different this time around. Ecru battling a california wildfire gets an unexpected guest in the sky. A reminder kpix 5 has a new app that gives you 24 7 access to cbsn bay area and kpix newscast and realtime news updates. You can also sign up for breaking news alerts. They endorse yes on 25 to end money bail. Governor gavin newsom. Congresswoman karen bass. The western center on law and poverty. The Dolores Huerta foundation. Californians for safety and justice. And the California Democratic party. Yes on 25. Accused of rape. Accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail. Got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not. Forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. More americans opened up their wallets in september. Retail sales up 1. 9 , more than double what analysts had predicted. Consumers spent the muslim clothing and accessories followed by sporting goods, music, and books. Amazon had another record prime day and this year, the retail giant celebrating the success of small and medium sized businesses that used the site, amazon said the two day event saw the thirdparty sellers backup more than 3. 5 billion in sales, that is 60 more than last year. Amazon had recent complaints the company stifles competition. Lets look at the big board right now. You can see the dow way up 218 points. Heads up for peloton riders, the company recalling clipin pedals on 25,000 spin bikes. There have been more than 100 reports of the pedals breaking and reports of more than a dozen injuries. The recall applies to first generation pedals pr 70 p sold from july 2013 to may 2016. Check this out, a curious owl joined a fire friday fighting crew on a helicopter. That i will showed up midflight, stayed on board for a few water drops and left as it had arrived, safely and unannounced. It said im out of there. Mary, very photogenic i have to say. That is one cute looking owl. I love it. Im tracking temperatures rising this afternoon, we are still dealing with extreme heat without heat advisory in effect for the bait area. Check out current temperatures, we are in the 80s, not only do we see the temperatures rise more as we head through the afternoon, a beautiful view from the Salesforce Tower cam as we look east with all the sunshine, 89 in concord, oakland, livermore 87, 85 for San Francisco, 84 san jose, 86 for santa rosa. Checking relative humidity values, we look at very dry air with the northerly northeasterly winds and teens and 20s for relative humidity and that is the reason why we have the high fire danger. Even though the winds are easing as we head through the day, we are looking at relative humidity values down to the Single Digits and teens as we go through the rest of the afternoon. With that, an extreme fire danger which is why the red flag warning has been extended until 6 00 p. M. Today. Also looking at extreme heat. That heat advisory in effect, likely recordbreaking high temperatures for today. We are looking at several cooling centers, Santa Clara County opening milpitas senior center, cupertino senior center, san jose, Camden Community center, Vietnamese American Cultural Center and Joyce EllingtonBranch Library all open just to give some relief from the heat with ac for the cooling centers. All because of this high bridge of pressure, the dominant feature for us, we are heating up this afternoon, even hotter than yesterday at this time. As the ridge retreats as we look to the weekend, we talk about gradual cooling. By saturday, a little bit cooler but much cooler on sunday with ocean breeze kicking in. Check out daytime highs, mid to upper 90s to triple digits inland. Around the bay low to mid 90s and low to mid 80s for the coast. As we look to tomorrow, a little bit cooler but hot, hot conditions. It is on sunday we see the dramatic drop in temperatures with the onshore flow kicking in. You really feel the difference sunday and into next week back down to where we should be for this time of year. Michelle. Thank you, mary. Whether you take a stroll outside or getting into the group this week, casey ps radio has tips for fall fun activities. Will go to the 510 to oakland, eliminated lights all around lake mary, autumn lights this weekend, annual tradition and has been so since 2012 illuminating the lake and walkways. Metrical experience for the whole family bringing love and light to the 510. There will be aluminate presentations, that is happening tonight, saturday and sunday. For more information go to gardens at lake merritt for more. See the list of things to do on kpix. Com and see him fridays on our morning show starting at 4 30. A passion for science fueled by his love of family. Meet this weeks students rising above. Kpix works to bring when was the last time your property tax bill went down . What . Never. Are you kidding me . For years, the residential burden has gone up. While the corporate burden has gone down. Prop 15 reverses that. It closes corporate loopholes and invests in schools, small business, and firefighters. And when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. Thats right. A savings of a hundred twentyone dollars a year for the average home. Give homeowners a break. Vote yes on 15. To wear a mask out in public around other people. Sure itll keep you healthy. But more importantly, i wont have to see your happy smiling face. Ugh. And if you dont want to wear a mask, ive just got one thing to tell you. Scram, go away. Ugh. Caring for each other because we are all in this together. So wear a mask and have a rotten day, will ya . Ugh. Like Many College Students come up this week rising above scholar is studying science to serve his community. I sat down with him and learned he also sees his choice as a way to honor his family. Reporter stephen is smart, wicked smart. My major is global disease biology. Reporter okay, and your minor quantitative biology and reporter no surprise he spent the summer interning at genentech, his passion for science is deeply personal. His own Mothers Health his motivation. We have a Family History of abnormal blood vessels found in the brain or the spine. Reporter left untreated, it is lifethreatening. Stephen has it too. His bodys blood vessels forming abnormal configurations that disrupt blood flow from the heart to the brain. He had surgery for the condition and his health is fine now but his mom suffered two strokes and almost died. Fortunately the surgeons at Highland Hospital were able to save her life, she is with our family today. She is wheelchair bound, paralyzed from the right side. Reporter all of this happening around stephens 16th birthday. It was a tough time. We did not know whether my mom would make it or not. Reporter she did survive but her illness had a deep Economic Impact on the family with stephens hardworking immigrant father forced to sell the restaurant he started in order to take care of his wife. Me and my family had to sell the cafe to make up those costs, you know. My dad ended up being a caretaker for my mom. Reporter through it all, the family remained close cheering stephen on as he graduated high school and headed to college at uc davis where he is starting his senior year planning on a research job after graduation where he wants to study mosquitoes. Im interested in malaria and other mosquito borne illnesses. Reporter another were the pursuit for this natural born scientist in a post covid world. It is all part of adapting to this everchanging world. As Technology Advances and such, you can only adapt. Reporter to learn more about students rising above and its scholars, go to our website kpix. Com sra. Up next, a final check of the weekend forecast. The red flag warning still in effect. Today on the drew mary show, explore one of americas most haunted houses with the im voting yes on prop 19. Nineteen limits taxes on seniors. It limits property tax on people like me. Nineteen limits taxes on wildfire victims. It says so right here. If 19 passes, seniors can move closer to family or medical care. I looked at moving but i cant afford the taxes. Will you help californias most vulnerable . Vote yes on prop 19. A major retrofit project to bring freshwater to the bay area. We get a behindthescenes look at the 5,000,000,000. 06 nearly 2 decades in the making. We have that story and much more coming up at 5 00. Thats get one last check of weather with mary. Looking at temperatures on the rise, heat advisory in effect, recordbreaking high temperatures as we head through the rest of the afternoon and high fire danger, red flag warning extended until 6 00 p. M. Today for the north bay and east bay mountains, inland valleys and Santa Cruz Mountains due to northerly and northeasterly winds and low relative humidity values and extreme fire danger. We have the heat high fired danger. Tomorrow slightly cooler with warm to hot conditions, much cooler sunday as we look to next week with the return of the onshore flow and ocean breeze. Michelle. Before we go, the San Francisco zoo holding a News Conference at 2 00 to talk about the recovery of maki steffy so you dont mind me dating, but you dont want me seeing finn . Liam basically, yeah. Listen. You already knew i had concerns about him. Steffy i heard you, liam. I get how you feel about this. Liam i wanna know that you understand why. Youre an incredible woman, steffy. Obviously, its no mystery why finn wants to get close to you. But you justyou just worked your ass off to complete your treatment. Youre finally reunited wi