And in our more Perfect Union series, a pair of texas Furniture Stores opened for people who need food and shelter. The owner says we have got to give people hope. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The First Responders are so busy. 911 calls are not being answered. The situation in port arthur continues to be dire. Tropical storm harvey makes a second landfall overnight. Unless youre in imminent danger, youre just going t have to figure out a way to deal with it. Torrential rains all through the overnight hours. Were seeing catastrophic flooding again in texas this morning. The recordbreaking rainfall that flooded houston is expected to wind down today. Rescues continue, the need in this region is only growing. Thousands who fled harvey are jammed together at double capacity. There has never been anything so expensive in our countrys history. Theres never been anything so historic in terms of damage. The president spent the day in tex
Temperatures. Baker beach where its normally mid 70s, hit 99 degrees today. Incredible. Across the bay, the thermometer tipped out at 100 degrees. And the real heat hit farther inland. Cant forget about the heat down in the south bay. Let get a look at the Current Conditions with a guy thats been busy this week. San francisco breaks its all time record of 104. Last time it hit 100 degrees in San Francisco was 18 years ago. Wow. But listen to this, 104 in downtown San Francisco. The alltime high, 106. The record it broke . 106 years old. When you break records by 3 degrees, alltime records falling. At least San Francisco now. The records are kept there. As it sinks, the further it sinks, the more it warms. Places that are the most low lying will typically get the highest heat because they have the most room for the air to sink. Air warms at 5 degrees per ,000 feet. It cools for 3 degrees at per thousand feet going up. Lets see what weve got out there. We do have your heat advisory and h
Pest lets show you whats going on. Dont have quite a stout sea breeze yet weve got a 14 mile an hour wind at fairfield and the winds are picking up just a little bit. Heres a look at our roof camera and you can see the flags, theyre not unfurled as much as wed like but the airs a little bit cleaner this morning. 66 to 71. Now lets go through noon, 68 at the coast, around the bay 70 eight. 83 inland. 4 0082 around the bay, 76 at the coast. The bay 76, inland about 78. Notice well see increasing sunshine and not as hazy today. Well take a look at that cooling trend coming up soon. Alexis. Just getting word of a 20minute bart delay downtown oakland in all directions. Sounds like some maintenance they were doing overnight went a little bit tlat morning so ill follow up with that. Right now looking live at the bay bridge toll plaza, quite the backup on this left side in those cash lanes and look how many more vehicles are out there fom a day ago. Yesterday was the holiday, we barely had any