You are taking a look at santa cruz beach. Temperatures soar into the triple digits in some cities. Lets find out how long the heat will last. Drew tuma. Our dangerous heat wave rolls on. Lets get a check how hot it is where you live. We are scorching. 109 in fairfield, 93 in hayward. It is 82 in the city right now. 97 in san jose. Its another hot day across the region. We still have our heat advisories and excessive heat warnings in effect for much of the bay area and again, with these hot temperatures is a high risk of heatrelated illness, unfortunately as the sun goes down, by 9 00, we will still be sweat sweating with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. Overnight, a red flag warning will go into effect for the threat of thunderstorms moving into the region. We will detail that new threat coming up in a few minutes. All right. Drew. Well see you then. Thank you. The heat is putting a serious drain on our states power grid. Abc 7 news in the north bay, joining us now live. What are we l
Getting ready to give us an update in just a few minut czu burning south of San Francisco, so we are waiting on that. And while we do were going to check in with meteorologist lisa argen. Whats happening right now, lisa . Good morning, liz. Yesterday we had a nice welldefined marine layer. This morning not the case. Its pretty diffuse and looking at a layer of smoke over the bay area. Decreasing visibility at the shore. That 4 to 5 mile visibility from the smoke over from livermore to san jose where the air quality is unhealthy for sensitive groups there. Elsewhere, moderate around the bay. And looking at that to change today as that smoke layer continues to shift as we get our windsg nrom t oday. Up ingaleis 7 a hennessy f 73 degrees with very light winds. As we to vacaville temperatures in the upper 60s, winds light and down over in la honda around 70 degrees and light wind. High pressure is Building Back in and with that weve got a high fire weather watch with critical fire danger f
Fight. Our marine layer is getting more and more diffuse. Yesterday it was setup right below the golden gate bridge. And this morning as the High Pressure ridge to the south of us builds back into the bay area were seeing less of a marine influence. We still have the haze, the smoke. 2 miles Half Moon Bay, thats with the fog. And as we look at the air quality we can see its not good for sensitive groups in the south bay, also around livermore and into oakland as well as walnut creek. But moderate air quality up in the north bay. So up towards santa rosa. Its better right now but you know how those winds shift and move that smoke around throughout the day. We can expect that oakland, San Francisco 56 on the coast, and by 9 00 weve got 60s. The fog is at the shoreline, but by the afternoon were warming up into the ening dttays offsho building across the region. Thats going to lead to a high disturbance list. These are the three fire zones spread across the bay area. The lnu complex to th
With about 55 in Half Moon Bay. From mt. Tam beautiful view there for a warmer day in store for you, but 40s right in petaluma, 50 in santa rosa, 59 in concord. You can see how low the cloud deck is here in the city where well have a warmer day as well. By 9 00 partly cloudy, looking at a sunny and warmer midday, 60s along the coast. Its breezy there. The warmup comes around the bay and inland as were in the 80s and 90s. Looking at a warm day tomorrow but will it be as warm . Ill let you know coming up. All right, lisa, thank you. California has passed the half million mark in coronavirus case, the first state in the country to do so. More than 8,000 cases were reported here in just the last day, and this morning an east bay doctor is not holding back forcefully saying it is time to take the virus more seriously. Our rights not wear a mask, that [ bleep ] is going to kill us. Nationwide july was the worst month so far of the pandemic. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larson has more on that do
Take responsibility for this failure, which is why i now call on the United States congress to ban Assault Rifles like the one used by the sick perpetrator of this mass killing in my hometown of lewiston, maine. For the good of my community i will work with any colleague to get this done in the time that i have left in congress. Democratic congressman jared golden of maine changing his position on gun reform following wednesdays deadly Mass Shooting in his hometown. Well bring you the latest on the manhunt for the suspect in just a moment. Plus, what the new speaker of the house had to say about potential Gun Legislation in response to that tragedy as well as his comments on preventing a Government Shutdown next month. And also ahead, Breaking News overnight. The United States military carries out air strikes in syria in retaliation for iranian backed attacks on u. S. Service members. Well go through that Major New Development in the middle east. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Ear