Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from Solano County right now as you can see unfortunately, a house on fire. New evacuation orders just issued as numerous wildfires burn in several bay area counties this morning. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, august 19th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. This morning, wildfires rning in several locations across the area. Are forcing more evacuations. And blackening the bay area with unhealthy air. All the details on the fires in just a moment. But first straight to mary lee for all the latest on the heat and the air quality. Yeah, len and michelle, firefighters will be up against the heat once again. So extreme heat continues. We are not done yet with our heat wave. Looking at excessive heat warnings that remain in effect today due to the dangerous heat. Now lets show you our temperatures. So looking at mid 70s in San Francisco. 83 in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and 102 for concord. So 8 to 15 deg
Board that just approved the release of o. J. Simpson. Im talking about todays stock market where we saw a host of stocks just get hammered as sellers decided what the heck. Im not sticking around for any con vick slon. Im outta here as so often with the market, you cant rem i see the losses on the surface, because the money rotates from one place to another. It doesnt leave the house just dipping 29 points nasdaq actually climbing. 08 . Lets start with the shocking declines in the stocks of home depot and lowes, which shed 4 and 5. 56 respectively in this one session. These are two incredibly wellrun chains. The last quarter is particularly strong for home depot, where it delivered the requisite monster uprise surprise. Along with the 3. 75 billion boyback. The stock just kind of sat there initially. And then it has since meandered downward over time despite the excellent numbers. The best of the major retailers. It would sure look like a buying opportunity given that home depot does
Were looking at now are pretty heavy thunderstorms and dover seeing the lighter rain down towards the camden and a little farther south and we have heavy rain even south of bethenny beach. Were looking at parts of salem and cumberland counties, cumberland mostly seeing the heavy thunderstorms and very slow movers and we could be look at localized flooding especially in the Lehigh Valleys and poconos and off to the west we have more storms around. Wondering where storm ranger 10 is, drove it in Gloucester County near glassboro and more details on this as well as a look at when the rain will come to an end. Thats all coming up. Still ahead at 5, we take you inside our newest forecasting tools for storm radar 10. Radar and wheels, it will help our weather team and bring you more accurate and reliable information. Well show you how coming up at 5 45, but right now at 5 00, protecting children from guns. Today the city of philadelphia has a new law in place. It follows a series of accidenta
Guest to the state of the union . Every single one can. Ted nugent will be the guest tonight of republican congressman steve stockton, on outspoken proponent of gun rights and former congresswoman gabrielle giffords, she will be in attendance, her husband mark kelly and as the with parents of hadiya pendleton. And tony bennett will be there at the invitation of nancy pelosi. Bennett is an outspoken proponent of gun control. Im brook baldwin, thank you so much for being with me here, lets go to wolf blitzer in washington. Hey, wolf. Happening now, a stricken ship plagued by raw sewage, some 4,000 passengers and crew describe conditions on the carnival try turn to be disgusting. And north koreas young leader defies the world with an underground nuclear test and now the world is responding. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. A picture of nightmare at sea. These passengers on the carnival triumph arent on deck to soak up the sun, theyre trying to escape the unbearable stench of