Studios, this is kpix 5 news. The concer over the Labor Day Weekend and can the power grid keep up with demand. We have a plan to prevent you from losing power. Heating up and places to cool down with temperatures rising, which area beaches are open. Allowing nursing home visits again. Good morning. It is saturday, september 5th. I am emily turner. I am devin fehely and lets check on the temperatures with meteorologist darren peck. I look forward in the forecast for you to tell me which beaches i can go to this weekend. That is because it will be hot with a heat wave today through monday. Heres a live look outside from the roof toward the bay bridge. Right now not impressive with numbers in the low 60s where we all live here in the marine layer. In the hills of the bay area believe it or not it is 80 degrees at some higher peaks right now at 6 00 in the morning. That tells us a lot about that warm air mass coming to stay. We will feel that throughout today and really tomorrow, and also
In Fresno County try to outrun a wildfire only to quickly realize the only road out is completely surrounded by flames. Thanks for joining us, and we begin this evening with the blistering bay area heat. A live look from the dublin cam, temperatures hit 110 and more, extreme heat is not doing us any favors and it sounds like more on the way . Baker more on the way tomorrow, it wont be this hot, but youre absolutely right, its going to be close. Every number on the screen over my shoulder broke records, 111 today in livermore, these are not the official numbers, they could come in higher, we will get them within this hour. 109 in concorde, San Francisco 98. And just to show you how far above records those locations were, in some cases 59 degrees above, and the airport, downtowns number coming up a little bit later as we get the official numbers and from the National Weather service. The daytime highs from across the bay area as a whole. Santa clara, 108 in mountain view, we work our way
Into a desert as we did have those temperatures as you can see in some places that were in the triple digits around the bay area. There you go right now. You can see the numbers out toward livermore. You can see up towards santa rosa similar. But look at San Francisco. 100 degrees. 105 in san jose. Most places almost 30 degrees warmer than average. At this hour, were still in the mid to upper 80s inland. So the temperatures continue to stay quite hot. That is the issue. In addition to that, we continue to see issues with the excessive heat warning. And a red flag warning as we head towards tomorrow. Once this ends at 9 00 tomorrow, fire danger starts to ramp up. Dry north winds making very challenging conditions for firefighters especially across the north bay. Dropping down to Single Digits on tuesday. Well talk about when cooler weather will arrive and when this cooler weather will end. Sounds good, rob. Thanks a lot. A saturday Night Beach Party in the middle of a pandemic complete
Into a desert as we did have those temperatures as you can see in some places that were in the triple digits around the bay numbers out toward livermore. You can see up towards santa rosa similar. But look at San Francisco. 100 degrees. 105 in san jose. Most places almost 30 degrees warmer than average. At this hour, were still in the mid to upper 80s inland. So the temperatures continue to stay quite hot. That is the issue. In addition to that, we continue to see issues with the excessive heat warning. And a red flag warnis ends at 9, fire danger starts to ramp up. Dry north winds making very challenging conditions for firefighters especially across the north bay. Dropping down to Single Digits on tuesday. Well talk about when cooler weather will arrive and when this cooler weather will end. Sounds good, rob. Thanks a lot. A saturday Night Beach Party in the middle of a pandemic complete with djs and bonfires. The mayor warned not to hold a second one tonight. Sergio at ocean beach wi
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