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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
Week. But darren is here to tell us about that. One challenge at a time. First lets take the excessive heat. Im going to show you some daytime highs that are a lot more impressive in 100. When you hit 100 in San Francisco, that stands out. We shattered the record for today which was 92 set back in 1904. Weve only hit 100 degrees in the city of San Francisco 12 times since we started keeping records officially back in the 1870s. And of those 12, nine of them have been in september. This is the most likely time were going to do it. The hottest temperature weve hit in San Francisco since the 1870s is 107 and we did that on Labor Day Weekend three years ago. This is our time of year you te impressive numbers now. 111 in livermore. 111 in santa rosa. All the red ones with asterisks next to them. All of them are records. And just to show you how far above records we were, you can see the difference there. Tomorrow gets a little better. But when the numbers are this high, a little better does
News station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. Today across the bay area we reached record breaking temperatures. So if you thought to yourself today, hey its hotter than ive ever felt before. Well youre probably right if you lived in any of these spots. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 9 im justine waltman im Jonathan Mccall it definitely was hot today, the bay area roasting this Labor Day Weekend has a record breaking heat wave. Now shatters records all across the area take a look at this alone, san jose hitting 103 this afternoon. The previous high for san jose. A 100 degrees. This was said all the way back in 1923 gilroy also recording a high today of 107 its previous high one 04 back in 1977 downtown oakland just 3 degrees shy of triple digits, reaching 97 degrees beating its previous record of 95 set back in 1979 and Half Moon Bay breaking their daily record with 81 degrees this afternoon their previous record 80 degrees set back in 2004. San franci