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The only spots on the map that arent lit up in pink or immediate coastline and San Francisco today. As for a chance of thunderstorms that really drops yesterday we had some in the north bay obviously sunday, it woke us up and carried us through the morning. Today we take a step back from that. Just keeping the hot temperatures around todays daytime highs in the 70s 80s at the coast. 90s in triple digits, further inland. Ive got more details on what to expect this afternoon where youre at still to come back to you. All right, lets get back to the big story which are the fires for large wildfires and you can see pictures of all of them here on your screen the burning in the east bay and in the north bay and they were likely sparked by lightning, lets zoom in on the fires and look at them on a map james yes, those begin to the one for this to the south a marsh fire burning near sunil in the regional wilderness area there in Alameda County. Right along santa clara border broke out sunday. And it is coming again continuing to grow this morning, the deer zone fires burning right there on the backside the east side of mount diablo Evacuation Orders in place there it broke out on sunday and then also in the north bay 2 fires that were tracking for you this morning first the hennessy fire. It exploded in size yesterday, well get a live update here in a moment and then up near Lake Berryessa we have to gamble fire. That one also broke out yesterday and so far it is 0 contained. Lets go to our Team Coverage then weve got sarah and well both in the field on these fires will is in napa county and sarah is an Alameda County were going to start in napa with well. Gerri im at a checkpoint you can see an officer right behind me theyre not allowing anybody to go through this area and that the charles pope valley and pope canyon road. Nobody is allowed to go through unless youre a First Responder lets get right to the video. It was 24 hours ago when the hennessy fire started and a remote rugged area that firefighters are having a difficult time reaching to the point where they have to bring water tankers out there refill their firefighters all the water that they need to fight this fire and then come racing back down to refill it again and also of course to use air drops whenever they possibly can. The fire just exploded in size it started just a few dozen acres and then a jump to 600 and now as of right now were sitting at 24 2500 acres and in fact about 5 hours after this fire started. They told people to evacuate and unfortunately people who live here theyre all. He used to it theyve seen fires in napa county over the past several years Mendocino County right next door as well so we did talk to one evacuee he was ready to go. World is prepared for a fire early prepare every year we we fire safer. Our structures we prepare and buildings and when things like this happen we just execute our plan to to keep it as safe end free from fires we can. The fires can be overwhelming and he just got to do the best you can. Okay so james daria we do expect an update from cal fire, the next say 30 minutes or so, but we do know, its 0 containment it will take several days if not weeks for this fire to be completely out as far as the cause of the fire they dont know, but they do know that there were Lightning Strikes in the area that more than likely caused this fire but of course they dont really worry about the cause of the fire until once they get everything under control fortunately because they pounced on it so quickly and lets face it sadly. Theyve got a lot of practice over the past several years and because of that practice were not hearing of any injuries or any fatalities back to you james that some good news for now anyway, thank you will and right nearby. Wills location is the gamble fire burning to the north up near Lake Berryessa right near various a knoxville road here some viewer video showing us the smoke there you see billowing up from the hills, 600 acres so far has burned. 0 containment and we have more than 300 firefighters on the lines right now trying to contain that blaze, well keep you updated on their progress this morning. Lets continue our Team Coverage then of the fires and go to sara stinson in Alameda County where the marsh fire is burning sarah how things look right now. Things looked charred, theres hot spots and i know that theres an active burning in parts of the sun all regional wilderness area but up in the hills very difficult terrain, im standing right on the roadside calaveras road and this is where i was yesterday it was an intense situation because this is one of the owner of this land he was here letting the firefighters on here to make sure they could stop the fire from continuing here jumping the road and then continuing to burn the land over there which has a lot of animals over there and so theyre trying to make sure that that didnt happen in look they were successful take a look at video from yesterday you can see exactly what was happening. There was active the cal fire crews arrived on scene and they went straight to work making sure that this didnt jump not only this street calaveras road but also the Creekside Inn they were fighting fire with fire. Making sure that they created the fire line strong so that they could stop it and contain it both talking about the overall marsh complex fire. And still sitting at 0 contained, its burned 1775 acres thats the exact same number reported yesterday at 8. 30 this morning, were hoping to get an update within the next hour this fire consist of 3 grass fires that broke out sunday afternoon in the area of calavera theres road in welsh creek road mandatory evacuation remain in place for those who do live on wells creek road and residents living in a remote area along kill care road were told to evacuate monday as the fire threatened their homes, those residents have been able to safely return but as the fire continues to rage in this area. Im sure theyre ready with a go bag in case things change additionally, an evacuation warning has been ordered for those who live in kill care canyon in seminole this was first issued as a mandatory Evacuation Order and has since been downgraded now we caught up with some of the people who live in this area to see how theyre coping with this i mean this isnt their first time going through fire season. Its part of being in the woods, you and they all of us are ready all the time. At least hopefully everybodys ready not over which still got a good ways to go. Im thankful to god and the Fire Department that were were safe and sound now. And they are looking at some video that i shot this mornings you can see what it looks like theres a lot of charred land some hot spots and here live now you can the fire trucks theyre monitoring the situation i just saw another cal fire truck come get some water from this one now a shelter has been opened for evacuees at the residence inn located at 5200 wolf house road in livermore so if you live in the area. There is that area for evacuees. Now this fire is believed to have started from a Lightning Strike in theyre still trying to contain and were talking 3 days of fighting this fire and theyre still saying 0 contained now right now its about 74 degrees in so its only going to get hotter going make the fight even harder so well be live here this morning again really hoping to get an update from cal fire within the next hour so make sure to join us hopefully i can drive in deeper to the regional wilderness area and see if i can a spot any active flames for now on Live National Sarah Stinson kron 4 news all right well check back in with you in a little bit sarah and also in Contra Costa County hundreds of firefighters are battling the. Dear complex fire which has grown to 1400 acres plus there are mandatory evacuations in place kron fours michelle kingston has more. The fortunate that we got the animals moved yesterday morning but combo raises cattle near where the deers on fire is burning in brentwood. Im that we just want to get caught off guard. Want to get ahead and stay out of it. He moved his cattle further away from the fire in the evacuations took effect but not everyone for all of those orders thats where an Organization Called hold your horses steps in and we just getting all from everywhere sean tell team is nonprofit rescues livestock during fires and disasters all over the state but is based here in Contra Costa County on sunday night they rescued about 20 horses from the deers own fire which is now burning more than 1100 acres it was right there really was and then it came back late at night when were at staging it came back over back towards round valley park we were actually standing in the parking lot watching it come back to us. It was miller pretty get more than 30 crews are working this fire. They say the steep hills and rocky terrain are making it a difficult fire fight about a 150 homes are under a mandatory evacuation near where the fire is burning the horses team in rescues are brought to nearby ranches she urges anyone live animals to take these evacuation seriously and to not wait until its too late. Were still getting full of people who think we should go. Yeah accusation ordered its not mandatory shut out. It made its animals out in during a stay home stay home at animals dont dont wait for the last minute. Never told at this time no structures have burned and there are no reported injuries. In Contra Costa County michelle kingston kron 4 news. Well a fire burning in Monterey County is currently threatening about 30 structures so far its the river fire cal fire says its been burning. Well its burned nearly 400 acres so far near salinas only about 10 contained, but at least theyre making some ground. 4 firefighters did have to be treated for heat related injuries. The fire they believe was caused by that lightning that we saw sunday morning to help with the cost of fighting this fire Governor Newsom has secured a grant from fema to cover up to 75 of the firefighting effort. And as we move further into fire season want to continue to remind you havent already please download the kron 4 app its our best way to keep you informed about things like cooling centers and their hours of operation. Warnings from the National Weather service and details on the latest Power Outages as well so again download that now from your app choice of happ the store of choice is what im trying to say. Donald trump is the wrong president for our country. He is clearly in over his head. Still ahead on the kron 4 morning news former First Lady Michelle Obama with criticism of President Trump as the democrats try to send a message of unity on the first night of the Democratic National convention. And another day of extreme heat across the bay area after what will be another comfortable morning. Highs back some 14 right now and were still in the middle of a heat wave. I dont even remember where it began as one no one is yeah, its been pretty but i guess temperatures do change a bit Going Forward yet we are looking at at least good news temperatures are going up anymore in your forecast they are starting to go down ever so slightly day by day. So we dont need to focus how long weve been in the heat but just how much longer we have to get through it you look outside of the Golden Gate Bridge extra golden this morning as were getting some sunlight shining through it all the way out to the coastline. We have been seeing some unsettled weather bowl sunday and monday yesterday brought us thunderstorms for parts of the bay today were really backing off of that as the moisture plume that is bringing us those thunderstorms you can actually see it sitting right out there in the pacific is being pushed a bit further northward so that moves further north with it up into humboldt and mendocino counties leaving the bay area for the most part with just a few clouds pushing overhead today, youll notice cloud cover at times into tomorrow as well for the most part a lot more sunshine to be expected as we make our way through tuesday wednesday on into thursday temperatures during this time gradually starting to ease off the gas pedal just a little bit today is still going to be full force hot though with excessive heat warnings in effect almost all across the bay area. Right and tell you head to the immediate coastline and in San Francisco lit up in pink. These are experiencing daytime highs again today potentially above 100 degrees again. If not that some 80s and 90s solidly, 70s and 80s for San Francisco, some of our cooler spots, right up and down the coastline. Only one 60 on the map today in mont era. Millbrae and burlingame mid to upper 80s for you with 90s and saying carlos in redwood city at 93 Mountain View at 94 for the high today. A south bay temperatures also another toasty one with san jose at 97. Morgan hill one 04 triple digit heat also continues in the tri valley with Union City Hayward on up through Oakland Berkeley and richmond. All in the 80s today walnut creek here at one 04 today conquered at one 06, one degree warmer than that in youngsville are hot spot. One 07. The late show in benicia in the 90s for you also 90s in mill valley on up through petaluma for you get to santa rose at one 02. Tomorrows temperatures will still be in the triple digits for a few cities but dropping us into the upper 90s for your average inland high which is a nice change of pace will further fall for your averages come thursday and friday to round out the week 70s and 80s for bayside cities as we make our way through the forecast and just a touch cooler out along the coast to as highs fall further into the low 70s. James all right john thank you. The 2020 Democratic National convention was the first of its kind a fully virtual convention. But despite the Un Convention nallet e of the event it was packed with headliners washington correspondent alexandra le mon reports. And welcome to the 2020 Democratic National convention, the first night of the Democratic National convention was unlike any other headliners like former First Lady Michelle Obama made the case for a joe biden presidency virtually. He was a terrific vice president. He knows what it takes to rescue an economy beat back a pandemic and lead our country a school nurse from El Paso Texas shared her concerns over how the pandemic is currently being handled and now theyre wanting us to take him back to school and its a little scary democrat said biden will listen to science and lead america out of the pandemic as well as move the country forward on other issues like racial inequality, the family of george floyd among the speakers on night, one of the dnc our actions would be to let the says we must always find i will say of the woods on lewis co. Good trouble senator Catherine Cortez masto focused on President Trumps attacks on expanded voting by mail in states like nevada and how the Trump Administrations changes to the u. S. Postal service in danger seniors. Heres what that means. Seniors wont be able to get their prescriptions because he wants to win an election a common theme through the night speeches supporter said biden will bring hope and unity rather than fear and division. In washington. Alexandra le mon. And we will be streaming all the Main Convention speeches on kron on this week you can watch each night starting at 06 00pm just download the kron on app and visit our website kron 4 dot com for the very latest from your local election headquarters. Well new this morning President Trump has announced that he will pardon Susan B Anthony. She was arrested for voting back in 1872 in violation of the law at the time that only allowed men to vote. Shes best known for her role in the movement to secure Voting Rights for women, but also a strong anti slavery and Voting Rights pioneer trumps pardon comes 100 years after the ratification of the 19th amendment which insured women the right to vote. Its also known as the Susan B Anthony amendment. The push for womens suffrage had been under way for years starting in the mid 19th century for decades, several generations of womens suffrage advocates marched lobbied and practice civil disobedience to get women. The right to vote there long and brave fight for change culminated in the drafting the passage and ratification of the 19th amendment. For your money this morning, the Wine Industry is hurting because of european tariffs and most San Francisco gap stores are going to close for good, including the big Market Street Flagship Store jane king is live in new york with those stories and more jane. Hi daryn good morning. Yes, the gap will permanently close the union square Flagship Store the coronavirus pandemic the prolonged retail woes that really were happening before the pandemic for is a striking a heart in the companys San Francisco hometown out the San Francisco chronicle reports, the company is also closed to other gap stores in the city and Embarcadero Center near the waterfront Corporate Headquarters and so is john callery of those will be closed for good as walmart best buy and other retailers and restaurants giving their employees time off to vote on election day more than 600 companies have joined the time to Vote Movement which aims to increase voter turnout by giving workers flexibilities they can cast their ballot. According to Pew Research Center 56 of those who are eligible to vote cast ballots in the 2016 president ial election and half of working parents say they will not go back to work if theres no in person schooling this Year Investment Bank Jefferies found 54 of working parents say they wont go back this could have big implications for the economy now the pandemic is also shattered the day care industry, 40 of child care providers expect to close permanently unless they get a public bailout and the Wine Industry is suffering its sustained tariffs on eu goods on august 12 the u. S. Trade representative did let stand a 25 tariff on most wines imported from france, germany, spain, and the uk now that is in retaliation for a longrunning city dispute between the u. S. And europe that involves boeing us wine businesses are particularly vulnerable to tariffs live from new york, im jane king county jury all right thanks a lot j well see later. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news he terrorized california for more than a decade and confessed to more than a 160 crimes. Now survivors of well happening today the sentencing hearing for the man known as the Golden State Killer is expected to get underway really the sciatic spoke to the daughter of one victim and has her story. This has been. 39 years of my life waiting for this week 39 years since joseph de angelo the infamous Golden State Killer took the life of her mother Cheri Domingo and her mothers boyfriend, Gregory Sanchez in 1981 in Santa Barbara county when Debbie Domingo was just 15 years old. I spent so much time in prayer getting ready for this this week debbie will join dozens of victims and victims families who will get the chance to say their piece directly to dangelo over the next 3 days before a judge sentences him to life in prison without parole, its murder in the firstdegree how do you plead to that sir. No team in june dangelo pleaded guilty to 13 murders and admitted to dozens of rapes in a series of attacks that occurred over 2 decades spanning across the state for some victims a life sentence isnt enough not. Let these like victor hayes was just 21 when dangelo held him at gunpoint while de angelo raped his girlfriend in 1977 in Sacramento County for him too. It will be the individual that years and then grow and create a mother i could work 26 years someplace that kids and grandkids and live in the neighborhood. I you know ive been very much cycle path and they dont care about anybody, but themselves for years retired special agent has chased down countless leads in pursuit of finding the notorious suspect through medical happen sooner, you know we lost a lot of people. There was a lot of people were victims should this question of what to stop their own. You know the despite the heartache and pain dangelo caused to his victims and their families. Debbie can somehow keep him in prayer i trade esterly that that the law could find a way to reach him and for him to come to an understanding and repentance yeah and i. I desire to. Police done their believes that there are many more crimes that dangelo committed that will never be tied to de angelo because hes already pleaded guilty guilty for the crimes and everything that you do it this is not by any means all the crimes that this guy committed in sacramento. Rowena shattuck. Time now 7. 27 and still ahead on the kron 4 morning news Governor Newsom is demanding an investigation and to the latest round of 7. 30 right now and john i want to thank you and the viewer that told you that tell me. To buy the little plug and say no because i had last night was my first night of power in 3 straight nights i had no power and i dont think it was the power shut off thing that the governor is trying to get to the bottom to mind was an accident, you know there was a problem with our neighborhood some equipment thing yeah, i hope they fix that soon still hot again today and yeah, you know fix that so hot today and hopefully that gets fixed at least you have power last night daria. And at least we are in for a subtle cool down ahead of us still going to be hot just not as hot. Looking outside at the Golden Gate Bridge beautiful start to the day go ahead enjoy this morning because temperatures are already starting to rise and the ahca 81 degrees right now livermore concord as well as san jose in the 70s to start this morning, 60s for most other spots making their way into the afternoon they expect triple digits to return conquered in antioch munger warmest 106 degrees. Each hayward and oakland well into the 80s more on your forecast still ahead back to you darya all right, lets get back to the breaking news that weve been covering all morning long which is the fires for big fires burning. All around the east bay and also in the north bay this morning. They were likely sparked by lightning, lets take a look at the map james, you know start in the area here where weve got the marsh fire thats in Alameda County burning right there in seoul. In regional wilderness area there bordering santa clara been burning since yesterday and so has the deer zone fires which are burning to the north there. Right on the back side of mount diablo they broke out right now still burning out of control as are the 2 wildfires up in the north bay. The got the hennessy fire burning near Lake Hennessey and then to the north the gamble fire which is burning up near Lake Berryessa 600 acres burned there so far, but its the head of the fire thats the big concern up there thats the biggest one at the moment, yes, lets get right to our Team Coverage and head out to the field will tran and napa county at the hennessy fire Sarah Stinson. Is live in Alameda County at the marsh fire, lets start with sarah good morning. Daryn good morning thats right im live here at the march complex fire. And you can see behind me and now that the sun has come up a lot of charred land here goes on as you drive all along calaveras road be can see they were able to stop it from jumping the road and then burning more land to take a look at video of active flames from yesterday. They used air drops they have been on the ground putting out hot spots all night long i actually just saw a couple firefighters walking in the rugged land in between 2 hills trying to just put out some hot spots and i talked with a cal fire firefighter, he told me that last night primarily the fire was raging towards Santa Clara County more to the south is where this fire started is here near son all and that is east of fremont east of san jose and near seminole specifically at last check this fire has burned 1775 acres thats the same number reported yesterday almost 24 hours ago, so no real update on that and theyre also saying still 0 contained the fire consists of 3 grass fires that broke out on sunday afternoon so now were on day 3 of them trying to get some type of containment on broke out in the area of. Calaveras road and welsh creek road actually just drove up welsh create. Laura welch creek road. I didnt see any active flames very narrow road mandatory evacuations remain in place for those who do live on wolf creek road. As for the residents living in a remote area along kill care road. They were told to evacuate monday as the fire threatened their homes, those residents have been able to safely return but as we know this is far from over so they have their go bags ready and theyre prepared to leave that and in addition an evacuation warning was put in place for those people who live in kill care canyon in seminole this was first issued as mandatory, but then it was downgraded now for those of you who live in the area shelter has been opened for evacuees at the residence inn located at 5200 wolf house road in livermore and as you can see in the video shot this morning a lot of charred land a lot of hot spots and its not theyre not clear. When theyre going to able to put some type of containment on this been checking the cal fire twitter page nonstop hoping we can get some kind of in more information or an update because im hoping they gained some progress on the containment temperatures are a little bit lower, but as we know temperatures are going to increase throughout the day making this fight harder than ever so hopefully day 3 they can get some type of containment on this they believe this fire was started by a Lightning Strike. Im live in tunnel Sarah Stinson kron 4 news how are you fairing. Sarah it with the heat and the smoke and i know i had to close my windows and it was a 100 and i had of our you know what i mean because you dont smell the of youve been doing these last few days. Well fortunately for me i live in San Francisco. So i havent really had that he or any Power Outages, so i guess i can say im very pretty well and being out here live in the field i get to leave before the temperatures release the smoke daria it is intense out here visibility is poor, i mean look at this you would think almost that thats all fog. It is smoke from tents out here and those cloth masks, we wear dont really help youd probably need an n 95. I was real from this type of see yeah you us have a mask on you know when you report near not wear one there, but uh you needed a 95 all right, thanks a lot sarah. Motorist an east bay too because theres another fire theyre battling the deer zone complex fire in Contra Costa County its more than 1400 acres right now this is burning near mount diablo there are still mandatory Evacuation Orders in place for some people what about for the animals, one livestock emergency Evacuation Organization says that you should get him out if youre told to. Were still getting full of people would you think we should go. Yeah accusation ordered its not mandatory should get out. It makes it animals out in during a stay home stay home at least the animals dont dont wait for last minute. The good news is that nobodys been hurt so far and there have been no structures damaged yet. Well 1400 acres there at the deers owns fire, lets jump to the north bay where we have an even bigger fire bigger by a 1000 acres. Well try and live in napa county at the hennessy fire this morning will. Its so big james that theyre not allowing anybody to get past this point and were still several miles from the fire. Lets get right to the video let me show you the hennessy fire that started at around 6. 30 yesterday morning possibly started by Lightning Strikes. Im not sure but they know that their work was lightning in the area yesterday and exploded not just a little bit at a time exponentially to the point where 4 and a half hours after the fire started. It was thousands of acres at thats im to the point where they told people to start to evacuate and people did reportedly one structure did go up in flames is threatening many others. A lot of people took off from this area theyre either at a Community Center or at family and friends as far as whats going to happen with this fire. Theyre sending more fire crews out there because it is the top priority for cal fire being the largest fire in an area that is no stranger to fires napa county Mendocino County right next door theyve had their fair share of massive fires throughout the years and we do expect calfire to give us an update and the next several minutes as far as the acreage we do know heading into last night james 0 containment. Back to you a long way to go in that one thank you very much, well and to wills north. The gamble fire. Lets get you the latest on that as well thats up near Lake Berryessa and this is video that a viewer posted online. This fire right now 600 acres in size certainly. Set to grow were looking for a cal fire update some 0 contained as of late last night into this morning, more than 300 firefighters currently working to fight those flames and well see what kind of progress they made. Its 7. 39 and and still ahead on this Tuesday Morning several states are considering a lawsuit against the Postal Service will tell you why some are worried the recent changes are actually designed to slow down. Election day mail. And temperatures today just as hard as they have been the past few days after a mild start to this morning, daytime highs still climbing into sale of the year on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. What if i sleep hot . Or cold . No problem, with temperature balancing, you can sleep better together. Can it help keep me asleep . Absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. Will it help me keep up with mom . You got this. So you can really promise better sleep . Not promise. Prove. Save 500 on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. Only for a limited time. To learn more, go to sleepnumber. Com. Governor newsome wants answers and id like some power as i did get some last night but after 3 days with no power a lot of people are wondering what is going on. With pg and e and with the california regulators the governor sent the letter to the California Energy commission, the Public Utilities commission and the California Independent system operator. Hes concerned about the shortages in the shut offs that happened over the weekend. Without prior warning and without giving people enough time to prepare. Leaders of cal iso say they constantly warned the Public Utilities commission that this could happen saying the situation could have been avoided. We will lay out in detail, the terms. What were going to do to make sure this simply doesnt happen again see how the grid operators. And we tell me the regulatory authorities how the grid operates. People to do a lot of Different Things i guess what i have to do a better job of making our voices heard through all that. The governor signed a proclamation allowing utilities and other energy users to use backup sources amid the record heat wave that weve been having in the state. We head to break, heres a look at what the weathers going to be like throughout the day with future cast for predicting triple digit heat once again as we head deeper into our inland valleys with upper 80s to low 90s along the bay shoreline. He was the some 46 is the time were finally going to get a little relief i dont know how feeling but its going to be viewed as helps on the Weather Center to explain a job being a little bit after what weve had guys weve seen triple digit heat now through the rear last week the weekend and into the start of this week so it has been extended round of hot weather. So 90s doesnt sound so bad now you see a little bit of cloud cover overhead those high clouds blocking out a bit of sunshine keeping us cooler for just a touch longer this morning enjoy the cool morning while weve got it. The heat obviously just around the corner now focusing for a second on all that cloud cover you see to our west thats thats a moisture plume that had been resulting in unsettled weather and thunderstorms both sunday and monday that shifting a bit further to the north now so now its humboldt and del norte a county in Northern California that sees the potential of any thunderstorms. Bay area backs off that potential and what weve got for the day today is increased sunshine temperatures just as warm as they have been tomorrow not as hot as today will be but still going to be on the warm side still excessive heat warnings in effect through your day tomorrow you see those extended a little bit closer to the coastline. Now just the immediate coast in San Francisco spared from those excessive heat warnings indicating temperatures in the 90s and triple digits for yet another day 70s and 80s are your highs in San Francisco today, another toasty one but comparatively cooler than the rest of the bay area. Temperatures right alongside the shore of the bay, mostly 80s to 90s with palo alto at 91 redwood city and san carlos each at 93, south bay daytime highs in the 90s to even triple digits. Morgan hill youre above the century mark yet again all san jose close at 97. Union city and hayward in the upper 80s well triple digits in the tri valley on up through san Ramon Danville walnut creek in concord oakland and berkeley check 85 for your highs hot spot in the bay today, yeah bill at one 07 followed closely by vacaville antioch pittsburgh in sonoma all at one 06. Santa rosa at one 02 for the high today. Now tomorrow we ease off the kass gas pedal just a touch temperatures fall on average inland back into the upper 90s thats not to say you still have triple digits. Inland just more so than not will be falling back to the 90s little cooler thursday and friday just a touch cooler yet with highs back into the mid 90s inland to start the weekend. Highs along the bay in coast also easing off the temperature gas pedal a little bit. Back into the low 80s and upper 70s by the bay and low 70s near the coast. James all right john thank you, lets check the roads real quick here as we take a look at traffic tracker traffic tracker an hour network cameras, boy, the bay bridge looks great 7. 49 and is basically all clear easy right now from oakland into San Francisco. No delay really. At the toll plaza for you so its looking great. If youre just heading out right now planning on taking that bridge the Golden Gate Bridge has been smooth all morning and here you can see in the live shot that still the case with traffic flowing southbound on 1, one just fine across the span from erie county. In the San Francisco. The richmond sandra fell bridge. It is backing up a little bit like the bay bridge youre still getting through this without too much delay just your normal. Gum up at the toll plaza once youre past it youre moving across the span just fine. The dmv is closing offices early all across california for the next several days to try to conserve energy. And to protect customers and employees from staying out in the heat wave, you know if you have to wait in line thats not good officers are. Are going to be closed. For the next todays theyre going to close at 03 00pm. So they say theyre going to accept you going out there and write until 2. 30 but if there is a really long line theres a chance that even then you wont be seen if you have a pre scheduled appointment during the time now when theyre going to be closed. They will contact you to reschedule San Francisco police are offering a 100,000 reward to find whrever is responsible for shooting and killing a 6 yearold boy. Jason young was killed and the bayview on the 4th of july. And this is from a vigil that was held days after the shooting. Another man was also injured in that shooting after more than a month police still dont have a description of a suspect they are hoping that this reward will encourage somebody to come forward with information. Well a legal battle may be brewing for the Trump Administration and the u. S. Postal service, we have a number of state attorneys general now considering a lawsuit against the Postal Service, some attorneys general say that theyre concerned the changes are being made to the Postal Service are actually designed to slow down the mail delivery leading up to the election. President trump though says that structural changes to the Postal Service are necessary to address budget shortfalls that go back years before his presidency. Just mentally mailsorting machines theyre telling post appears they cannot work overtime they cannot take an extra trip they have to leave mail behind i also want to have a post office. Without losing billions and billions of dollars year were going to run it well and were going to not lose so much money. But House Speaker nancy pelosi now calling all us house members back to washington, interrupting their august recess to vote on a bill that would provide an extra 25 billion dollars to the Postal Service and outlaw any Service Changes until after the pandemic is over. Meanwhile, postmaster general luis or louis dejoy has agreed to testify in front of a House Committee on monday. The oversight committees chairwoman says that the joy will be facing her committee as it looks into these changes that hes been pushing at the Postal Service. Theyve already led to slower mail deliveries. And democrats are accusing him of doing President Trumps bidding in an effort to suppress the vote this coming november. Theyre also pushing him to reverse some of those changes and again all of this states are gearing up to expand their vote by mail effort ahead of the president ial election in november, and the worry is that these efforts to change the Postal Service might hinder in some way getting ballots out and getting them back in time. Coming up in the 8 oclock hour a california man has come up with a unique way to make sure that people wear masks in public. With this really work. Its funny looking. And lets take a look right now at. San Francisco International airport. And it looks like some high clouds there another hot day well be right back. The virus is still spreading. Californias economic challenges are deepening. Frontline workers stretched too thin. Our nurses and medical professionals in a battle to save lives. Our schools, in a struggle to safely reopen, needing money for masks and ppe, and to ensure social distancing. And the costs to our economy, to our state budget . Mounting every day. We need to provide revenues now, to solve the problems we know are coming. Welcome back as we take a look outside this morning you can see skies are pretty clear overall few high clouds out there but nice and bright over berkeley 60s and 70s for your current temperatures if anything those clouds are going help to keep us cool for just a touch longer. Pittsburgh at 77 well conquered in dublin, 74 berkeley and Oakland Beach at 71 of 60s up in the north bay enjoy this cool and calm morning while weve got it because afternoon highs obviously still going to be on the warm side pretty similar to where they were yesterday. 80s for San Francisco and oakland, well upper 90s and triple digits elsewhere in the bay, including san jose. James. All right john thank you very much coming up the next hour we have new numbers on several wildfires burning across the bay area were going to live Team Coverage coming up in just a moment. And the Democratic National Convention Officially underway a breakdown of what happened last night and what we can expect. To stay tuned. And also new acreage numbers for those fires well update you on that as well as we take a live look out here at the san mateo bridge will be right back. Breaking news this morning for fires raging out of control this morning in the bay area were live as firefighters rush to get a handle. On these fires as temperatures continue to soar. Youre watching kron 00 04am morning good morning and thanks for waking up with us get ready for another hot day, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher yeah hot to say the least john trouble in the Weather Center. We want to start there with a check of the forecast john hey guys at least there is some good news in the forecast this time around yeah last is talking about it. Didnt seem like theres an end in sight at least we are talking slightly cooler temperatures in the days ahead of us this week. Still hot today though sfo sitting under some sunshine, nice bright skies and pretty inviting looking start to the morning inviting feeling too with 60s and 70s for most areas, warm spot, definitely annie out right now 81 degrees livermore at 76, so the cool weather we have right now not going to last for too much longer. So dont waste time get out there enjoy the morning. This is what we have this afternoon, its back to the triple digits for antioch conquered livermore Morgan Hill Napa and