Meteorologist mike nicco. Whats in store . Reporter the coolest day of the next two or three which means its only going to get worse. Summer officially starts at 9 24 this evening and may want to jump you into cold water like from the exploratorium. As renally mentioned, some of us not dealing with quite as much heat along the San Francisco bay line and also the coast and everywhere in original and even in red. Thats where the dangerous heat will be through at least thursday evening. A quick look at todays temperatures. The coast 62 degrees. San francisco a delightful 71. Oakland 78. Then you start to get uncomfortable down in the south bay. 88 in san jose and 92 in santa rosa and our east bay valleys for the third day in a row where well reach triple digits. A quick look and something to think about the next couple of days. Listen to your body, hydrate and find shade often to keep yourself cool because, as i mentioned, the warmest days are ahead of us and record days are possible and ill wrap it all up in the sevenday forecast. With the temperatures, california is under a flex alert this morning, and well all being urged to conserve electricity to ease pressure on power grid. Pg e says this heat wave is the biggest single heat event affecting power since 2006. My colleague from abc 7 morning joins us now and explain what it means. Reporter hi, reggie. Yes, its going to have a big impact an all your activities requiring folks to change the routine. Flex alert issued from 9 00 to up in this extreme heat. It is staging crews in the hottest spots so they can get to them quickly. Abc 7 news was at walnut creek this morning where thousands of people didnt have power. Police said the outage was partly to blame on this tree branch that tracked and took out some power lines along amberwood lane. On nearby bancroft avenue traffic lights are actually out and that added some congestion to this mornings commute. Right now more than 900 customers in the bay area are without electricity. Pg e just sent us these updated numbers. In the east bay more than 300 customers are now without power. About the same amount on the south bay and 171 in the north bay and 136 in San Francisco and just 19 in the peninsula. Well, for those who do have power. Many are cranking up their air conditioning to try to stay cool. Thats leading to a surge in calls to ac repair centers. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller is in campbell with that part of the heat story. Matt . Reporter kristen, i just checked my abc 7 news app and it shows campbell will be 88 degrees today, not so bad, especially compared to the last couple of days, but try doing it without electricity or air conditioning. The power went out to about 50 customers in this barracksia neighborhood in san jose last night and isnt expected to be back on until at least late this afternoon. My alarm, it went off. I said something is wrong with it. Reporter hes leaving his hot house to head to his air conditioned workplace, but his elderly mother is staying behind in the dark, a big concern today. She has a heart problem, so i have ill come back and check her like every hour to see whats going on, because today its pretty hot. Reporter pg e says its equipment cant take the heat. Increased demand for air conditioning overloads their equipment, leading to power outages. Thousands and thousands of customers have been in the dark the past several days in the bay area. Paul bates was prepared. A hot san jose neighborhood with no lights. Oh, yeah. I can run my air conditioning. I can run my stove and my refrigerator on my generator and everything. Reporter are you going to invite all your neighbors over . I dont think so. No, i dont think so. Reporter the hot weather is god for business at supreme air systems in campbell. [ phone ringing ] Supreme Court air systems. Whats to be the problem . Its not cooling at all. Were booked. I can go ahead and get that scheduled you. Reporter they were delivering the bad news over the fun. The schedule for their 11 crew is full. If you call now, you wont be getting cool air during the heat wave. If they are elderly and have newborn kids we want to get them in sooner because its a health hazard, but really its about two weeks. Reporter some advice from supreme air systems. Do an annual maintenance check before summer. That way you can figure out if something is wrong with your system and also they wont be too busy to come out and fix it before it gets really hot. Reporting live in campbell. Matt keller, abc 7 news. Thank you, matt. As matt has been saying air conditioning conditions across the bay area are bus they week. Yeah. When you call one local company they make it really clear they are not able to take on any new jobs. If youre a brand new customer, theres simply no way i can get to you right now. I cant even get to all my past customers. I know thats disappointing. Please, do not leave a message because i will not call you back because ive got about 20 past customers to call back. Im not exaggeratings, and i just have time for anyone else. If you do have a working air conditioner do your part to conserve power by setting the thermostat a little higher on hot days like today. You know its hot when some planes cant take off or land from a major airport. If youre flying from heat to phoenix, check what type of aircraft youre on. That could mean the difference between getting there or not. Abc 7 News ReporterTiffany Wilson has the story from sfo. Reporter lobster pot hot, thats how one passenger described phoenix today. Oh, my god, it was insane. It was like stepping into an oven. Reporter he flew to phoenix for his college orientation. His flight home was grounded because of the heat. My flight got cancelled. My connecting flight, so i had to stay overnight in phoenix in order to to make it back here. Reporter phoenix resident Larry Cochran was on the same flight to sfo. Hes a retired commercial pilot. I was a commercial pilot when it reached 122 in phoenix and sky harbor shut down because the asphalt was so soft that the airplanes were sinking into it. Reporter that was about 20 years ago. He says the runway isnt the problem today. Its the lift. The hotter the air gets, the thinner the air is. Reporter some of the smaller aircraft are only certified to operate up to 118 degrees, and thats why dozens of flights from Regional Airports into Sky Harbor International were cancelled today. Phoenix is expected to hit 120 this afternoon. So far no flights from San Francisco to phoenix has been cancelled. Thats because the largest chits that fly out of San Francisco have a higher operating temperature of 126 or 127 degrees. Cochran says passengers flying on larger boeing and airbus jets should not be concerned about landing in phoenix. If its a safety risk, they wouldnt fly. Reporter and ortiz says the scorching sun wont cast a shadow on his excitement for freshman year at the university of arizona. No, not at all. I love it. Reporter at sfo, Tiffany Wilson, abc 7 news. Thanks, tiffany. From San Francisco and all across the bay area, you can track the temperatures where you live with our abc 7 news accuweather app. You can find it free in your phones app store and download it right now. Youll be instantly notified about heat alerts and advisories. And breaking news in downtown berkeley. Sky 7 just flew over the scene. Well try to get that back up for you. Were not talking about the brush fire from yesterday. Were talking about a car that drove into a building in berkeley along shattuck avenue Near University just west of the uc berkeley campus. This happened about almost an hour ago now. Were told the building is the 85degree bakery cafe. One person inside the cafe suffered a cut to their hand. Nobody else was hurt. Berkeley police are trying to find out what went wrong there. All right. Also happening today, investigators will be back trying to discover what caused a 16acre grass fryar here a high school. Sky 7 was over the fire yesterday afternoon. At one point it threatened 20 to 30 homes. Residents were asked to shelter in place. Some chose to evacuate instead. Crews were able to contain the flames within a few hours. Firefighters say the fire started somewhere on private property. More than six months after the deadly ghost ship warehouse fire in oakland a 50page report has the cause of the fire as undetermined. These two photos show the before and after of one of the areas inside. Investors found the Electrical Systems were modified, but they cant say if thats what caused the fire. They havent ruled anything out because of that extensive damage youre seeing. The 36 people who died, all dialed of smoke inhalation. The ghost ship founder and a second in charge face manslaughter charges in connection with the fire. So this is that 50page report i was just talking about, and we do have it posted online if you would like to read the rest of it. Can you find it at abc6news. Com. This morning were hearing for the first time from the mother of two children who police say were killed by their own father. Santa rosa police say Alvaro Camara hanged himself on fathers day. They found his body along with his 6yearold daughter and 18monthold infant son in the fathers apartment. The childrens mother called the Sheriffs Department sunday night to report her estranged husband failed to meet her to hand over the kids. In a Statement Issued this morning to abc 7 news, the childrens mother says she sought help on numerous occasions and said many, many, many times my children were in danger in their fathers care, and i didnt receive the urgent help that i needed to save them. Did you read her full statement on our news app and abc7news. Com. Today San Jose City council will consider googles plans for a mega campus and may even end up selling cityowned land. Google wants to transform parts of downtown san jose near diradon station. The plans call for developing between 6 million and 8 million square feet for its workforce. Community activists feel googles ambition could make san jose less affordable for working class families. If they are going to, you know, set a camp in san jose, i think its only fair that they offer jobs to the people who live here. 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Lets start with one of the areas that will be coolest today because of the breeze. Look at this west wind at the golden gate bridge. Its about 12 miles per hour. Its been gusting up to 20. Can you see it trying to pull in some of the marine Layer Moisture out there, but its a marine layer thats not nearly as moist as it normally is, but its out there, and thats why were seeing cooling at the coast and around the bay today. As far as whats going to happen with our highlights, lets move on and talk about today and tomorrow. Were going to have the greatest amount of sunshine because the summer solstice is starting tonight. The heat will build wednesday, and that means were going to see some near record high temperatures by thursday. The heat will break for all of us thankfully by sun. A look at the dry air. You see it moving north to south along the coast and taking along some of the cloud cover we had this morning. Lets see what its doing to our temperatures. 59 in Half Moon Bay and 67 and delightful in San Francisco and a comfortable 72 in oakland. A little uncomfortable at san jose at 82. Same thing at santa rosa and 88 at san ramo and brentwood on its way to 100. Half dome, 8,800 feet, is that still a little bit of snow right there . Thats possible because down in the valleys its going to be in the mid90s. If youll be out today exercising, probably missed the best time of the day. It was probably a couple hours ago. You have to be careful if youre going to be out there later on today because of the heat and strong sunshine. The beaches, yeah, go jog there, right a bike if you can. They will be comfortable. 84 at sunnyvale and 84 in milipitas. A little bit of a breeze off the bay and the closer you are to the water, the cooler youll be. Well start at 75 in millbrae. Everybody will be 81 to 85 on the peninsula today. Look at those temperatures along coast. Low 60s to mid60s and a delightful 21 in downtown San Francisco. Well have 87 in san rafael to 92 in santa rosa and 100s up to ukiah. Berkeley, richmond and low 80s for the rest of the east bay. Headed to the game tonight, a little bit cooler than last night. 7 05 last pitch and 72 and dropping down to 65. Upper 80s and 90s to low 100s. Everybody using their air conditioner. Where well be in the 60s today, 70s and 80s by 6 00 for most of is. Were on our way to mid60s in most neighborhoods so it will be a little bit cooler last night. If you slept well last night, youll sleep well. Building heat tomorrow and record highs on thursday and it could be a repeat of just how oppressive it was on sunday. Hundreds hang on one more day on friday, and by the time we get to sunday it will be pretty delightful everywhere. Temperatures in the 60s, even in the 60s for the pride parade which starts at 6 30. Good for marching. Oakland airport will get more than 37 million from the fave to repave its main runway. Runway 30 is where commercial flights in and out of Oakland Airport typically land. The port of oakland have been working with airlines, faa and Construction Companies to come up with a plan to being a date this cloesh our. An exact date for when the runway work will happen still hasnt been set. Santa cruz is considering a new drone law to protect the safety of the community. According to the Santa Cruz Sentinal the new law stems from complaints about invasion of privacy. The first draft was introduced today. One proposed idea includes needing consent from owners to fly over their property and another is to stay away from police and