Around San Francisco. Lets bring in you live on the ground and start with the latest, tom. Reporter i will show you right out here a helicopter. That helicopter has been doing multiple passes and theres another one coming in towards us and another one even behind that. What they are trying to do, along the ridge, they are trying to wet that down so much so that the fire to the left side of the screen, much farther to the left will not spread down into this huge thicket of forest that would cause really major problems. So what they are trying do is stop it in its tracks or at least get it to where firefighters can create some fire lines or other things that would stop that. Once again here is this helicopter because they tamped that down. Theres a lot of hot spots and that is the dangerous thing as it gets hotter and drier and the will come up a little bit later in the day. They dont want that starting. Now as the winds do pick up later, you will see a lot more aggressive fire. You see
It there are a couple days every year you say you might want it. I took my children down t the local Community Pool and we spent a good hour or so there from yesterday along with dozens of other people. And some sort of splash park, water play will be in a lot of fees plans today peoples plans today. Were getting a look at a pretty hot day today. The hottest day of the week . Today or tomorrow. A good day to run through the sprinkler as well. There may be recording set today. Santa rosa wowed be one. It would be one. I dont see how theyre not going to set one. The record is 94. And in 2013, and they were forecast to be at least 99 today. San francisco would fall four short. 86 is the record. The same for oakland. The forecast high is 86. So it will be close. There will be many in the 100s from 100 to 105. Fairfield, ukiah. So there is enough here for hot conditions, and that includes pleasanton and palo alto, the 90s. There is san jose, 80 and even santa cruz at 86. The heat advisory i
plea for reform in wake of the mass shooting in his hometown. we ll have an exclusive interview with mcconaughy in just a bit. we start with mark meredith. good evening, mark. the white house is optimistic that congress can reach a compromise when it comes to new gun control laws. the actor matthew mcconaughy is urging both washington and the country to act. these regulations are not a step back. today from a white house podium texas native american and hollywood activist matthew mcconaughy delivered an impassioned plea urging the country to support efforts to curb gun violence. we have a chance to reach for a higher ground above our political affiliations. the actor s white house visit comes after the tragic shooting at rob elementary school in his hometown of uvalde, texas. today the president ignored reporters questions about gun control, while on capitol lawmakers pressed the administration for answers on another urgent matter, the u.s. economy. we re seein
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Are in a great group but if you look, its not nearly as crowded as it was this morning. It looks like there is only a handful of people checking in, if you swing over this way and look at the security lines, people are breezing through, no long lines, definitely looks like the afternoon flights are much better than the people that were here for the morning flights. Inside terminal to the lines have improved since 5 am. At its worst we saw lines wraparound the escalator to get to security. Usually it is a breeze at this airport, but we are in the normal line. I think a priority line as well, they combined. Those flying into sfo had mixed experiences. I have precheck. So it wasnt really bad at all. We went up to the front of the line. They changed planes, and that was 4 hours later. My flight back to china, i couldnt catch that flight so here i am. 160,000 passengers have got there sfo today. And they created a new express drop off to avoid the heavy traffic of the terminal. We are makin