made, defying the orders. and a cooldown is headed our way, but when s it going to happen? the latest on our triple-digit heat as we continue to be stuck at home. good evening, everyone. thanks for joining us. i m jessica aguirre. and i m raj mathai. as counties reopen cases are climbing. alameda county is now the hardest-hit area. the most impacted cities here, oakland and hayward. here s nbc bay area s cheryl hurd. reporter: the alameda county health officer agrees with people who say continue wearing your mask and stay at home if you can. now that restrictions are lifting she says it s no surprise that the numbers are increasing. we talked to one man who knows about that firsthand. somewhere down the line, i don t know when, i started contemplating suicide. reporter: that s how bad it was for johnny clark sr., an oakland pastor at word assembly, who is recovering from covid-19. he believes he got the virus in new orleans while celebrating his mother s 95th birt
afternoon. drivers want a permanent fix and soon. it s dangerous. they will fix it of a amajor accident. reporter: in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. the big hurdle to the gas tax hike. hours from a critical vote on road repairs, there s fierce opposition to a deal that also gives truckers a break. governor brown making his final plea to secure a tax hike for road repairs. this is a fee, a fee for the privilege of driving on our roads. jerry brown on the states of the step capital trying to win over holdouts to his multibillion dollars transportation proposal. kpix 5 s phil matier reports from a truck stop in vallejo explaining how the government hit a roadblock. reporter: that s right. elizabeth, you know, the idea is to fix up our roads. as we found out the deal he cut to get the support of the trucking industry for the rise in the diesel taxes that s turning around to be quite a speed bump. here s the story. it was a deal. it was a deal to get their support.
this morning when their truck hit a power line in san leandro and burst into flames. we have more on the split second decision that saved their lives there. reporter: this truck is just a shell of itself. it was filled with uniforms and 150-gallons of fuel. it caught on fire after snagging a high voltage power line creating a dangerous situation for the youth who live here and firefighters. flames shooting 20 to 30 feet high engulf a laundry truck at a juvenile detention facility. this video provided by the alameda fire department showed the tractor-trailer that caught on fire around 3:30 this morning. the driver was leaves and gotten tangled in power lines. that is how the fire started. reporter: the driver was head into camp sweeney, something he does twice a week. he told me he never noticed this low hanging fire before and drove right into it, shooting electricity into the ground. as the tires burst the driver and passenger made a careful escape. they jumped out a
wave of drenching rain. bringing the potential for more flooding. that s a fellow who is expecting to sandbag. that s what it looked like on the highways today. bands of showers are still popping up from san jose to san rafael. the next system is tapping a subtropical source, so it won t be as cold, but it will likely be wetter than the system we had today. it will certainly be windier, with gusts approaching 60 miles an hour. details in weather in a few minutes. some north bay communities are watching the streams and lives closely. cbs 5 reporter elisa is at the creek. wait till you see how high floodwaters can reach there. reporter: this town has a history of flooding. this plaque shows how high the water got back in 2005 when the creek overflowed, flooding downtown. here s video back when that happened. the creek runs through the downtown. it overflowed, causing hundreds of thousands worth of damage. tonight was a much different story. this is what it looked like a bit
continue tomor this is kpix 5 news just a half hour ago, we got the word. the bart strike will continue tomorrow. christin ayers tells u about a new proposal the union say could end this strike, but christin, just how new is the proposal? there are some tweaks but not quite enough to get management to agree to get the trains running again. day one of the bart strike, and the union came out with a plan to end it. this plan would allow us to reach an agreement without going back to the bargaining table, and, therefore, it would allow us to end the strike immediately upon signing. the union offer to take the pay, pension, and healthcare issues that both sides agree on and send the sticking point the work rules to independent arbitrator to make a final decision, but in a hayesly-called news conference, bart management slapped the down. simply a repeat of the same unacceptable offer they made at the bargaining table yesterday. it is not the same thing. bart manag