9 00 p. M. For most of the bay area. So pretty much everyone except the immediate coastline under a heat warning or heat advisory as we head through the next several days. Due to the dangerous heat. Well talk about what you can expect specifically for your neighborhood coming up in a few minutes. Michelle . Mary, thank you. And due to the dangerous heat, state officials have issued a statewide flex alert for today and were all being asked to voluntarily conserve energy between 3 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Concord broke the record high yesterday at 101 degrees. We spotted some people taking advantage of the slightly cooler temperatures last night to get out and enjoy the plaza in downtown concord. Iethe day, an ice cream shop near the square had a line out the door. Its good. Its nicer out here than it is at home. Lets go downtown and get something to eat. When theres excessive pete like this theres a lot of air conditioning use and of course that drives up the electricity demand. Everyon
Oakland santa rosa, even san jose on the muggy side of things for the current feel of the air as for our advisories extreme heat warnings in effect in pink areas all across the east bay, heat advisories in orange right alongside the shore of the bay now for these pink areas, youre going to have daytime highs well in excess of triple digits in many cases and then warm night so not a whole lot of overnight cooling occurring here, especially for inland valleys in the east bay and then up into the north bay to some of our hottest of areas actually seeing some activity on satellite and radar this morning a couple of sprinkles around half moon bay, currently that cloud cover that youre seeing offshore that is the remnants of the tropical system thats giving us our humid feel not going to be seeing any sort of widespread shower activity but for those of you out along the coastline, seeing a couple of sprinkles right now. 80s for San Franciscos daytime high today 90s in oakland and san jose at
Mid 80s in San Francisco and 90 in oakland and upper 90s for san jose and 108 in concord. We have excessive heat warnings and heat advisories that will be in effect from 11 00 a. M. Today all the way through wednesday 9 00 p. M. And thats for most of the bay area except for the immediate coastline. So this will be a prolonged heat wave for us. Here in the bay area. Well talk more about what you can expect as we head through the next several days where you live, coming up in a few minutes. And due to the dangerous heat, state officials have issued a statewide flex alert for today. Were all being asked to voluntarily conserve energy between 3 00 and 10 00 p. M. If you need a place to cool off, there are several cooling centers around the bay area. Palo alto will be open from 1 00 this afternoon until 6 00. And cooling centers will also be available in san jose at may Fair Community center. The Camden Center on union avenue. You can also stop by the Roosevelt Center and doors open at 1 00
china is the world s largest car market, and whilst tesla generates most of its money from its electric car business, boss elon musk has committed to grow its solar energy and battery business to roughly the same size. here s mariko with the details from singapore. it is quite a big deal because of course, tesla already has that huge plant in shanghai to make electric cars, so it is basically increasing its investment in china. the fact that this announcement came when tensions between washington and beijing are quite high, that is quite interesting. as you said, this is a mega factory, to produce mega packs. they are basically very large batteries that can store energy, so that they can help stabilise the power grid and also prevent outages. now, of course, many of our viewers associate tesla with those electric cars and that is where the company generates most of its money from. but the company s boss, elon musk, is very keen to also grow its solar energy and battery busine
hello and welcome. let s begin with the tensions around taiwan where chinese military forces are conducting drills for a third day. taiwan s defence ministry says it has detected 11 chinese warships and 59 aircraft around the island, 39 entered taiwan s air defence zones on monday morning. these are some of the latest images of the drills released by china s military and shown on the country s state television. the chinese display of force has added to tension between china and the united states. and the us navy says it has sailed a guided missile destroyer through contested waters claimed by china near the spratly islands to assert navigational passage rights. with the latest on the drills, here s our correspondent shaimaa khalil in tokyo. this is the third day of military drills. drills which china calls operationjoint sword. it is surrounding taiwan, a self governing island. china s military exercises happened hours within the return of the taiwanese president from her