Temperature throughout the afternoon. Right now in concord, its 82 degrees, and all clear there. The excessive heat warning continues until 9 00 this evening. It mostly includes the inland hills and elevations above 1,000 feet. Thats where we will have the driest conditions and also the highest fire danger. For the interior valleys, we have a heat advisory in effect. Thats all of these areas shaded in red where we could reach up to 103 degrees. And we are going to continue to have unhealthy air quality so the spare the air alert continues for today, especially for the east bay and south bay. Well talk more about this and how hot it gets coming up a little bit later. Thank you, kari. Firefighters are battling the wildfire and the heat in the east bay. Crews spent their time at this fire, the mines fire, just south of livermore. There are no homes nearby but there are high voltage power lines, so it is a critical fight. We just checked and cal tran says the fire is 40 contained but the p
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Natalie on assignment and al is off today. So much going on in the world, and we want to start with the news here in the United States. The house passed a bill on thursday that would suspend a program allowing syrian and iraqi refugees into the United States until key agencies certify that those ref views dont pose a risk. 47 democrats voted for the bill. That creates a majority that could overwide president obamas promised veto. Yesterday the fbi director james comey said while there are no connections right now between the paris atea, and the United States, no Credible Threats against the u. S. , the fbi is intensifying investigations and surveillance of dozens of potential isis suspects. The latest isis propaganda video includes a threat to attack white house. On the campaign trail yesterday, candidates weighed in, including ben carson, talking about the refugee crisis. Were back with breaking news. Police searching for a missing child in south hamilton. Twoyearold Linda Alvarez was