Weekend where warrant. Centers will take covid19 rules into account. Reporter cal iso the power grid operators say they do not expect demand to outstrip the available electricity economy is therefore anticipate to rolling black outs. However, if enough power plants were to shut down for technical reasons, the remote possibility of rolling blackouts still exists. Here is where it gets complicated and a bit scary. In santa rosa, which is activating a cooling center, an excessive heat watch will go into effect from saturday through monday in the region. Thats going to be a weekend of hot, high temperatures, dry conditions, and then from going into an excessive heat watch on the weekend, were going to roll straight into what is now being looked at potentially critical fire weather with the fire weather watch now already going into effect, starting monday. Reporter though any and all of this can change with realtime conditions, next week could be far more serious. We have historically seen
Here throughout the weekend to make the lake safe again in the meantime napa county deputies want to make sure that people stay away. Napa counties Lake Berryessa might seem like the ideal place to cool off an escape this weekends scorching temperatures but because of the hennessy fire. The lake is off limits through labor day the areas surrounding the lake. The infrastructure and some places the roadway itself. Suffered some pretty some pretty significant damage. A county under sheriff John Crawford says deputies will be patrolling the lake to keep people away. The closure is for safety and will allow hundreds of crews to remove trees clear around roads and put in new utility poles and lines all that work needs to happen without visitors flocking to the lake. Theres just a lot just a lot of things that need to be taking care of cleaned up prepared. Before people can really safely come back and recreate a late various, the head of the fire is the largest of the lnu complex fires, its b
We will get into some areas of smoke and haze. The highs this afternoon are in the 60s to the 90s. Here is our camera looking out. We had some fog in place. We will check out the correct numbers. Livermore is 62, san jose, 64. The forecast highs this afternoon still has a bit of haze. Temperatures will be near 90 degrees for hotspots today. It is warming up, but not extremely hot in the bay area. We will have the forecast coming up in a few minutes. We will have a fiveday forecast. Mark, thank you very much. We do have traffic that is doing very well. If you are driving on the bay bridge, traffic is looking very good with no major issues. It looks very nice. There are no problems on that span. Also, this morning, we have san jose looking very good in both directions. We are off to a good start. Lets go back to the headlines. This is day 10 against the scu lightning complex fires. The biggest of the fires is burning between the diablo range and the east bay and the central valley. Almos
Weekend hot and dry temperatures exceeding 100 a lot of the east bay portions of county as well little part like San Francisco to the and also along the coastline, not to are in a little bit. Were looking at excessive heat advisory, but this is an excessive heat warning and just about all the entire bay area for the weekend temperatures thus far come into the 60s we got some 50s up to the north bay feeling pretty good to start 61, san jose. Most readings inland are actually ahead of the ball game or only trailing a little bit around the coast. And up to the north bay a little bit as well not having a lot the way of winds just a minor little breeze here going on here is the breakdown word, 84 by 11 by 2 oclock 99. Again with numbers topping off well beyond 100. Well take a closer inspection of those temperatures coming up in just a bit marty. All right dave and we want to continue our coverage of this hot Holiday Weekend by taking a look the way to some cities are helping people stay co
Contained and the czu august lightning complex fires burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Now 19 contained calfire seeing cooler weather and extra resources coming from outside the bay area has certainly helped crews gain some ground on these fires and weve got Team Coverage of the czu lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties. And you can take a look here at the map and it shows you the areas burned by that fire or complex of fires which has destroyed more than 440 homes and other structures kron fours will tran is live now at the Cal Fire Base Camp in Scotts Valley with the latest well. No i can tell you the conditions are favorable for firefighters at this particular time it is cold, its still smoky. And yes, the fires are still burning but slowly its not chewing through all of that dry vegetation that we saw over the fast the first couple of days of this fire, lets get right to the video it is tearing through parts of Santa Cruz County including bonny doo