San jose 103 degrees. Make has a potential problem. To universal studios. If you head over to i5 there is a crash reported, a hitandrun. There may be a lane blocked. Thats heading up to the windy part. Keep that in mind. No problems. 13 minutes for the drive time. Youre not even tapping the breaks. Back to you. Back to our weather alert coverage were talking about hitting the peak of the heat wave. Live at the agencys Equipment Yard in fremont with whats being done to conserve that energy. Sharon . Reporter this is the main emergency center. You can see rows and rows sent out as needed. He says there were no major outages. They were working so hard yet with everyone using their ac they didnt have a chance to cool off overnight. If that happens in your neighborhood pg e says its ready to respond. They asked customers to be ready today and the next few days for power outages. Avoid using your oven so you keep your home cool, use the microwave or go outside and grill. Set it to a temperat
Now, and we have heat advisories in effect for those coastal areas. So we will continue to track some very high heat as we go through the day, and looking at temperatures that will soar over 100 degrees in the trivalley as well as the delta and in parts of the north bay. Ill have a look at that and the full microclimate forecast coming up a little bit later. Thanks, kari. Right now pg e is concerned about the impact excessive heat is going to have on pourt grthe grid. Sharon joins us at fremont, and theyre warning us to be ready for power outages. Thats right, kris and marcus, and its very interesting. Weve been here all morning, as you know. There hasnt been much activity where the backup trance forsfor are kept, but were trying to confirm with p grg and e if the is a power outage right now. They said it was so hot yesterday that most people probably left their airconditioning on through the evening, so that didnt allow the transformers to cool down overnight. They have extra crew on
Move through other states now. Today in the bay continues right now. Good friday morning. Im chrkris sanchez. And im Marcus Washington. We want to check in with mike who has a lot of breaking news with the traffic. Sky ranger has arrived. All this stuff, the white stuff scattered there and notice there is what appears to be a rectangle. Thats the truck. Whats left of the truck that got sheared off by the overcrossing and that scattered across the right two lanes. Lets show you the map. Folks coming off the bridge through san pablo to San Pablo Dam road. Down to the bay bridge that keeps it clear for everybody else in the east bay. Were jammed for about a mile. Our photographer is out there and he has the progress. We have two lanes moving. Theres a crash, took the live shot. Theyve cleared a number of tires. The fuel is off of the roadways. They can then open the lanes. Were hoping for another 15 minutes. Were still waiting to make sure everyone is safe. Anything you have to do, make s
Beat if 24 end we were to end up with a. M. Couple of a couple of records. So, heres that excessive heat warning as well as the heat advisory. Look where youre located and where you fall. Regardless everybody except the poconos is included in this. Its still hot up that way too just not quite this oppressive. It may feel as hot as 103 those at the core where the core of that heat is located and theres no centralized. Urban corridor, you go into delaware and even parts of southern new jersey that already feels like the triple digit, in philadelphia at the Philadelphia International airport like its flirting with a hundred already and we still have many hours left of the afternoon to go here. So, as the day does progress, obviously the extreme heat and humidity are the primary story. You have to factor in that humid. An isolated thundershower will help cool off a couple communities but dont bank on that everywhere. Most of us stay dry and coming up well let you know exactly how long this
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