Now at 11 00, breaking news, it is crazy hot. The power grid cannot handle it. The bay area has been hit with the first rolling blackouts in 20 years. Will this happen every day . We have warm weather on the way for the bay area. E leup in sight. We have complete details coming up. One mayor beggs people not come. What will they do to enforce it . Who should get vaccinated first . What california is being asked to do tonight. Streaming on cbsn bay area live, breaking news, pg e said tonights rolling blackouts are over. Power has been restored to essentially all customers. There are thousands without power tonight as the heat puts an enormous strain on the grid. We have Team Coverage on the heat wave, and what to ask next through the weekend. First, Katie Nielsen is insan rafael where the lights suddenly went out in the middle of dinner. Reporter thats right, the lights on Fourth Street just came back on about 90 minutes ago. For the restaurants downtown, the damage was done. Bill higgi
Struggling. This was supposed to be his big friday night rush. Restaurants are already under the gun. This is hurtful. Reporter the beer garden was still rocking, thanks to a bluetooth speaker, battery operated lights, and more than a few cold adult beverages. It was weird. Reporter those downtown when the power went out were relying on headlights from passing cars to see where they were going, while others used flashlights on their cell phones. Some question, why bother to leave . It is difficult to go home. We want to be by the air conditioning unit, we dont have that now. Reporter for the people owning restaurants, the stakes are higher. We have five more days to come. Will this happen every day or what . Reporter that is the big question everyone is asking. What will happen tomorrow . We spoke with a representative from the power grid. She said the biggest factor for the rolling blackouts tomorrow will be the weather. Katie nielsen, kpix 5. The crazy hot weather sounds like it will
Mexico has the highest per capita caseload of covid19. One Bay Area Medical Center is sending a team of volunteer doctors and nurses to lend a helping hand. Have you driven through new mexico and arizona . It is incredibly sacred land. Reporter the Navajo Nation, it occupies parts of arizona, utah, and new mexico, but now, every corner of the nation has been hit by this unrelenting virus. If Navajo Nation was a state, this week it would be the most impacted state in the country in terms of cases per capita. Reporter this doctor is part of two waves of roughly 30 doctors and nurses from ucsf who jumped on a plane and headed to Navajo Nation. We believe that all people deserve highquality healthcare, especially the most vulnerable. Reporter the virus has sickened more than 4000 tribal members and killed nearly 150. The infection rate here has now surpassed new york and new jersey. We are getting quite a few patients that with covid there could be a really quick turn and they could become
Studios, this is kpix 5 news. A massive fire in San Francisco, the emergency evacuation says the building began to collapse. The chp will have every available officer on patrol this threeday weekend. They say they are seeing a dangerous trend even with fewer cars on the road. Good morning. We began this morning with breaking news out of San Francisco. But first lets go to whether in the Weather Center with darren. I want to show you the sunrise and it happened six minutes ago, we have a view that sets off to the east of the Sales Force Tower camera, the current numbers out there, this is going to be a day that you notice a warmup. We will be about 10 degrees above average. 52 in coord, 52, oakland, those numbers are not really all that off the mark or noteworthy but if i show you the daytime highs for today, they require a little bit of reference. These temperatures on your screen, in the mid80s for inland locations, they are 10 degrees above average, itll be 86 in santa rosa, 86 in co
Low for might as well, but the pboc not adding actual liquidity saying things are reasonably apple when it comes to liquidity conditions at the moment. I suppose the big question is will any of this be transmitted given that we know so many still out of the economy, essentially either stuck at home or factories still still, supply chain massively dislocated. Sarah we have seen markets across the asiapacific region turning higher. We continue to see resiliency, at least on the mainland and in hong kong. The hong kong hang seng up about. 5 , and in japan, we have seen markets turn higher as well, holding onto those gains, up about. 6 . The one that is moving to the downside bucking the trend is the south korean cosby after the country did report about 10 new coronavirus cases. You see it falling to a twoweek low, down about. 25 at the moment. Lets take a look at some other risks in the currency and commodities space. We did see copper moving higher for an eighth day and 11. Gold, though,