Now at 5 00, Movie Theaters reopening in one bay area county. But the strict guidelines were expecting. And fertility fraud, and athome dna test leads an east bay woman to sue her former doctor. The unexpected results uncovered 40 years later. And heavy smoke impacted yosemite. Mike is looking at our air quality. Good morning, everybody. It is friday, september 18. Good to see you guys. It was really weird to hear that yosemite, i was supposed to go there last weekend and we had to postpone the trip. But now seeing the park being closed all together, it is weird yeah, it has just got worse as the wind shifted. You cant escape it. And it is going to be there for the better part of the weekend. Plus they have the high fire danger right near the red flag warning. And back here at home, still green. How about that for the third consecutive morning. We do have a few clouds out there as a dold frocold front w through today andbring us a touch of autumn. And katrina is to our south and that i
Helena. You can see the winds are already strong. And look at this, the red flag warning through at least 8 00 wednesday. So, even when the winds subside, the humidity very low as we head through tomorrow morning. Lets break down today. Going to be almost as hot as it was over the weekend but not as quiet. The east bay hills still 85 degrees up there with those winds. So, expect 70s at the coast 80s in San Francisco and 9 os and 100s for the rest of us. This could be the last day we say 100s. Ill show you the sevenday forecast coming up. Heres kumasi. Today is the first day of classroom instruction for hundreds of students in the north bay. Marin county approved waivers for more than a dozen schools to reopen during the pandemic. Education, as you know, one of the five issues that we focus on to build a better bay area. Lauren martinez is set at a school that is set to welcome back its students. Were in front of marin not all 15 will reopen, but they are allowed to do so. Now, the coun
Fire in sycamore park. They were grateful able to stop it at 50 acres. And in marin county, there was a fire dangerously close to an apartment complex. We saw the light thilightning started right after that and then the wind. Cal fire says that it has responded to at least 11 fires, most presumed to have started from lightning strikes. And these spectacular images of these lightning strikes still one of the most searched things on our website this morning. Incredible to see. The National Weather Service Estimates that there were more than 2500 lightning strikes that morning. Pg e says customers need to be prepared for rolling blackouts through wednesday evening. People in San Francisco, san mateo and contra costa counties were told to expect those outages last night, but it ended up not being necessary. The black joutd ckouts are due heat wave there is a flex alert people to conserve electricity through wednesday. This is a statewide it is like 200,000 to 250,000 customers at a time, b
Stay cool are closed because of the pandemic. Yeah, scary situation. We need to make sure we check on those without air conditioning. Because lows like this do not help when we dont cool down during the overnight hours. Were in the 60s and 70s, some record warm low temperatures. It doesnt allow those areas that dont have air conditioning to clear out like we normally would have with the marine layer which is nonexistent. Free air conditioning is off and temperatures this morning up to 14 degrees warmer than they were this time yesterday. Lets see where we end up this afternoon. The asterisk is a record tying or record setting high temperature. And it starts in San Francisco and goes all the way into our inland neighborhoods from 86 there to 108 in fairfield. And this heat will complicate life during the taantsadoivobusinesses are Outdoor Dining and now they are making more changes to try to keep people cool. At least one restaurant in walnut creek installed a sun shade. Sushi is kind o
More important, new york has had three times the deaths california has had. Back in april almost ten times as many people in the bay area may have had the virus than reported. It is explained it could mean a lot more testing. The mayor says testing will increase significantly. Locations like this will add more appointments. One expert said testing is critical and so are studies that give a clearer picture of where we are with this virus. I am excited to announce a significant expansion of testing in San Francisco. San francisco is recently adding more than 3,000 covid tests each day and that will be going up. In total we will have an additional 1400 testing spots per day. The embarcadero location will have 14 spots and a third city site and two popup sites will be coming for higher infection rates. Turn around time can be 72 hours to several days, an issue that extends beyond the state. They say testing and Contact Tracing is a way to contain the virus. We need to do more, now especial