More than 1700 acres so far. Evacuations currently are in place for both of those blazes lets check in right now with meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez who is standing by with the very latest conditions that is helping to fuel those flames but not helping fire crews in any way as they tried to battle those fires, yeah, the very hot dry conditions certainly not helping at all jonathan 93 degrees out there right now in concord near that deer zone fire is burning. The one thing that really is helping firefighters. The lack of winds right now sustained winds at 13 Miles Per Hour. Gusts right now less than 20 Miles Per Hour. So that is great news right there. But extremely bone dry with relative humidity just at 36 so not really tracking much moisture there. But the good news is that were not under any imminent fire danger all of our red flag warnings were allowed to expire throughout the bay area at 11 oclock this morning and overall tracking some cloudy but very muggy conditions out there t
Should be prepared. The shut offs are being ordered by the state of california so pg and he wants everyone to know this is not the Public Safety shutoff switch happened during high fire threat conditions. The outages are due to a combination of the extreme heat that were experiencing and high energy usage. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now to tell us the records that were broken today and how long this hot weather is going to stick around for years, you can imagine all the people trying to turn up their abc today. These temperatures easily, the hottest of the summer so far and records all around the bay area, not just in a few spots we smashed into many places in the San Francisco 95 degrees that is very hot. Downtown San Francisco. Look at oakland, a 101 degrees a 103 in san jose that was a record in san jose, Half Moon Bay right out there on the waters edge 82 a record a 106 scorching heat in napa one 05 in santa rosa. We were done there more records falling redwood ci
Today oakland Public Schools opened for Distance Learning but the oakland unified and teachers our are still working out so ofhesnclude how te to prepare. Union leaders want two full weeks and the district is proposing nine days. Both sides also disagree on the length of time teachers will work every day. Oakland unified will continue their twice weekly grab and go distribution, but they will only distribute meals to students. Private and Charter School students are no longer eligible. Parents can go to 22 sites to pick up several days worth of meals. Abc spent the past beweek covering back to school and you can watch all the stories anytime on our new connected tv apps. Apple tv, android tv, fire tv are or recould yo roku, you can app for free. And the state reported more than 8300 new cases of coronavirus over the weekend, that is well above the seven day average of about 6400. And it may be due to the state working to clear that backlog. There were 104 people who died and that bring
With see a watch list on for the state of california and this color coded tiered system thats happening. The city of San Francisco now considered in these substantial risk level tear the governors plan coincides with San Francisco announcing more businesses are allowed to reopen. But mayor london breeds office says the new plan by the state really wont change that much for the city right now beginning september first if you work and personal services in the be allowed to reopen for Outdoor Services the county health order allows for things like hair and nail salons to reopen. But both clients and providers they have to wear masks. Although some Business Owners are feeling a somewhat good about this theyre not sure it will all work in the long term. I dont know how thats going to work in the city because its very theres a lot of hills, its windy. And you know theres outside dining for restaurants and because the city is very calm path so we need have a plan in place and then implement i
Vicki liviakis Jonathan Mccall in tonight for a grant lotus Mother Nature putting on quite a show this morning. As severe storms brought lightning to the bay area along with a few showers as well. This is just one of many videos sent to us my you are loyal kron 4 viewers today. Yeah beautiful sight, a little concerning when it comes to lightning strikes and fires. A major concern fastmoving storms yeah they could lead to a risk of dry lightning which could start those wildfires in just a few hours ago pg e reported that there will be no rolling blackouts this evening thats the good news, those blackouts of course would have impacted San Francisco, san mateo and contra costa counties for more on the red flag warning and the continued heat wave we want to bring in our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez what a weekend. Yeah and were not over just yet with all this active weather in fact tracking some popup thunderstorms tonight during the overnight hours impacting your monday morning commute