Electricity use at those critical times that were asking for it, it can prevent more dire emergency measures including those possible power outages. The heat is going to complicate life during the pandemic for the coming week as struggling businesses take yet another hit. Abc7 News Reporter leslie brimpgley is live. So far, sits over one hundred degrees there, leslie. Reporter yeah. It was really hot out here. The breeze has picked up so it is not quite so bad but you have to remember, people are being told to wear a mask outside. To do Curbside Pickup if possible, to dine outdoors. But its really hard with this intense heat. High noon in walnut creek. The lunch rush is not materializing. Normally i come here to get the mail and these tables are full every time around this time. Now we add not only the covid but heat on top of the problems we already had. Yeah. Just another hit these businesses are taking. This sushi restaurant opened in june. Today was supposed to be the first day to offer outdoor dining. The canopy is ready to be set up as they hold out hope this gamble will pay off. Sushi is kind of cold. The rice is cold at lowest. So i hope at least people will eat sushi. Reporter the best bet is to take refuge indoors in air conditioning, especially since people are still required to mask number public, even in the sweltering temperatures. There are cooling centers in richmond, Alameda County has one in livermore. Minimize going out as much during the day really, staying hydrated, run your errands early in the morning or late in the evening after things cool down. Some business like the veterinarian hospital in walnut creek are taking the heat seriously. During the pandemic, theyve done curbside vet service with dogs and owners waiting in cars. Theyve decided to close for the afternoon hours on friday. With the temperatures predicted to be 105 to 110, we felt it was under safe for our clients and predominantly our patients to be doing curbside business. Reporter you see some of the canopies. The problem is this heat isnt supposed to dissipate today, tomorrow, over the weekend. It is supposed to extend well into next week, and that is the problem. A challenging, an extraordinary challenge in some challenging times. Im leslie brinkley. Thank you. Lets bring in Spencer Christian to see where the hottest temperatures will actually be. Spencer . Okay. We had triple digits in walnut creek and many other locations. Right now, you see upper 80s. Places like brentwood and cochran and fairfield. All those were over 100 today. Were just now seeing temperatures drop below 100 degrees and around the bay shoreline, theyre beginning to drop below 90. This excessive heat will be with us as leslie pointed out into next week. An excessive heat warning in effect from 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow to 9 00 p. M. Wednesday. That includes a wide portion of the north bay, generally, the temperatures, the High Temperatures will range from upper 90s on about 105, 106 degrees. And of course, under these conditions, the increased risk of heatrelated illness. It will be even hotter in this part of north bay, portions of napa and sonoma counties. So excessive heat warnings to 7 00 p. M. Saturday. High temperatures will range from 100 to 110 degrees. And tomorrow is a spare the air day. A closer look at that and the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. The hot weather is not helping down south. There is to containment on the lake fire in southern california. It exploded yesterday. 10,500 acres have burned near lake hughes. Firefighters are worried it could flare up again because of the heat wave. No injuries have been reported but at least three structures have been destroyed. Mandatory evacuations are still in place. Uber and lyft have been ordered to classify their drivers as full time workers by august 20th. This morning that same judge denied both companies request to extend deadline. This was another delay tactic by uber and lyft. The court saw right through it. The hearing lasted less than five minutes. The judge rejegging the request for a deadline extension to give their workers full time status. In a statement to abc7 news, lyft said, if our efforts to extend the stay are not successful, we will be forced to suspend operations in california. In an interview earlier this week, the uber kroxt said the same thing. I dont understand why they need to drag drivers and everybody else through the mud before they lose this. We expect the court ultimately and hopefully quickly will rule in favor of the drivers who have been waiting for years for these basic protections. On the other side of the bay, representing drive share drivers, a zoom meeting. That they dont want to be full time employees. That their lively hoods would be devastated in uber and lyft pulled out of california. I think it is extremely under fair that someone wants to take this away from us. People are trying to work and people need resources. They need to get on doctors appointments and were telling them, this is potentially going to be shut down. Both uber and lyft say they will file another extension with the rt could of appeals immediately. On to our effort to build a better bay area which means extensive reporting on the Enormous Economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Today for the first time cynic march, the number of new under employment claims dropped below 1 million. Melanie woodrow adds some perspective. Reporter since mid july, the number of new under employment claims per week in california has gone down from 289,594 claims as of july 18 down to 213,482 claims as of august 8. While new claims are decreasing, the overall number of californian whos have applied for under employment since the beginning of the covid19 pandemic is staggering. 7. 5 million californians have filed for unemployment claims in the last 21 weeks. Thats approximately 38 of the states work force. The handyman nate hawkins is one of those californians. It is really stressful to me. With everything locked down, not working. The people that i worked for in napa and in sonoma county, both dont want me in their homes. Reporter the u. S. Department of laebls monthly report shows white people and hispanics are returning to work while black males have faced the slowest recovery since the worst of the pandemic layoffs. Californian whos have been benefitting from an additional 600 per week unemployment saw that money expire. It was extremely helpful. It kept a roof over our head. It kept my 7monthold daughter fed. Reporter an executive order is expected to provide an additional they him a being. This week, Governor Newsom said he does not believe it is enough. He said new eligibility rules could delay the processing of those payments, meaning unemployed californian theres receive less money and it could take longer to get that money. We were depending on that money. Our lifestyle will change drastically if we dont have that income. Governor newsom has said california will not be able to contribute the states required 25 to fund the additional unemployment money, he said, without major cuts. In the newsroom. Since march, more than 2,000 bay area shut down permanently. That includes 369 restaurants that have closed between march 1st and july 10th. And 303 Stores Closed between march 1st and july 10th. Stephanie sierra talked on some Business Owners who said theyre losing hope. Reporter it feels lonely. Walking down clement street in San Francisco. Six months of businesses locked shut. Closed or boarded up for good. It is not the lively neighbor. A Small Business is someones dream. To see so many shuttered, you know each perm is going through. So. Reporter he owns green apple books. A San Francisco staple for more than 50 years. He said he wont make it like this for six more months. Were living off inventory that we bought years ago. Were just selling to it help pay for things. Were generating very little income. Reporter thats what donna oleary told us three months ago. She owns am beeance, a Womens Clothing chain. The warehouse is 50,000 per month. Weve lost between 2 and 2. 5 million in sales. Reporter if rent isnt lower, she will have to close all locations in a mere four months. Joining at least three other area retailers that have closed permanently. I had to cut my work force in half. Yeah. Not good. Reporter meanwhile, paul robson is barely holding on week by week. Just pull back, wait. We did this in 2008. We pull back and then you wait. Reporter but many cant wait any longer. According the analysis of yelp data, more than 5,000 businesses in the San Francisco, oakland, metro area have closed from march 1st to july 10th. More than 2,000 of them are gone for good. A raw recaller of that loneliness. He reopens it wont be him. I think well make it. We could be another statistic. Reporter abc7 news. A lot more to come. Were in the middle of back to School Season in an unprecedented way. Next, see whats being asked of students and teachers to pull off Distance Learning successfully. Looking back at that time with hindsight, i realize how important it really was. Tonight meet the person who are the first to volunteer their own bodies for we live in the mountains so i like to walk. Im really busy in my life; im always doing something. Im not a person thats going to sit too long. In the morning, i wake up and the first thing i do is go to my art studio. A couple came up and handed me a brochure on prevagen. Ive been taking prevagen for about four years. I feel a little bit brighter and my mind just feels sharper. I would recommend it to anyone. It absolutely works. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Stanford is walking back its plans for some on Campus Housing and classes this fall. The president published a letter to the Campus Community today. In june the university release ad plan that would have allowed for freshmen, sophomore and new transfer undergrads to be in Campus Housing and to go some classes in person. The school says that they were hoping the pandemic would have improved by the start of the school year but that has not been the case. Now almost all undergraduate classes will be held online. Education is a very important part of building a better bay area and it is an important focus. Becoming more urgent every day as more and more students return to class but dont return to campus because of the concerns over the coronavirus. In the cabreras Biggest School district, San Francisco, classes start on monday. All online. It is a challenging time for both students and teachers. Liane melendez shows what is required of all new educators. Reporter there will be no walking to school on monday. Instead, kindled garters in ryan and dean came to pick up the essential materials they will need. A become of books, crayons and even a touch screen chrome book. Having them online over zoom is more of a connection that we can bull community with the students. Reporter cody teaches at Malcolm X Academy in San Francisco. It is his first year and one of 74 new teachers who received extensive Training Online to get certified. So the online courses were seven weeks long through the summer. We went at it from 9 00 a. M. Until 3 00 p. M. And it helped me sift changes from what it is like to go into a physical classroom to a Distance Learning classroom. Reporter they now have to go thank you program to help them teach from a distance. It assured us that all new teachers have been trained for online learning. We had Digital District today. We had 2,000 people in attendance taking hundreds of classes on hundreds of platforms and ways of teaching remotely. Reporter San FranciscoPublic School teachers have agreed to teach a minimum of two hours of live instruction a day. They have option of extending that time. He says he will be live with his students from 9 00 in the morning until noon. Hes been practicing his welcome speech. Hey, im mr. C. Let me see smiles. We dont have to wear masks because were on Distance Learning. And you know, lets get ready for the school year. Were going to be okay. Reporter in San Francisco, abc7 news. We spent a week focused on education issues as students go back to school. All of. Reporting is available on abc7news. Com and on our connected tv apps as well. Lets turn to our health and the latest on coronavirus in california. The state system is just about done working through a backlog of data. A total of 7,085 new cases were reported since yesterday. That below average. Deaths are above average. Coronavirus just claimed another 160 lives. The number hospitalized continues to drop from the peak three weeks ago. About 5,200 people are in the hospital. Today in our 3 00 p. M. Newscast, we talked live with dr. Patel. We asked him about whether california is trending in the right direction when it comes to new covid19 infections. As with most things, the answer is complicated. Hospitalizations are actually down in all nine counties in the bay area. Thats ranging from 16, 17 . Thats good nows. Statewide, there are still deaths hitting over 100 a day. We need to wait to hear how the region is doing. Meantime, a south bay city is about to launch a new way to offer rental help to people affected. David louie shows how interestfree loans will be done over a mobile app. Reporter an average apartment in cooper teen over rents, but it has caused some to fall behind. The city council has forged a unique way to provide 25 residents with interestfree loans to cover rental. The program will pay out 2,000 over a fourmonth period with repayment expected when the rentaler is back working. Cupertino fronts the money. The app handles the payments. They rolled it out two years ago to front money for florida people. People were thankful for the stance. It comes to them when they are in a time of need and this are usually thankful. Reporter cooper teenos council decided this was a Good Alternative to an outright grant that it and other cities also used to prevent evictions. What can we do to encourage people to be fiscally responsibility . But also to give them a sense of that. That agency, that selfdetermination where they can say, okay, ill part of this community here. This is what i can pay back. He was designed as an act to help moderate workers to get advances on their paychecks. Borrowers are encouraged to pitch in with a tip to help others. The cupertino group doesnt have a tip option. 50,000 is available for 25 renters. Applications will be second a week from now. David lou yirgs abc7 news. Remember, if you need help during this pandemic, wiere hee for you. To go abc7. Com. Temperatures are rampg up in the most unusual heat wave weve seen in quite some time. It makes this beach i got it all from you im always pushing through i know well make it to the finish line i know youre waiting on the other side im like you ondemand glucose monitoring. Because theyre always on. Another lifechanging technology from abbott. So you dont wait for life. You live it. For spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub . Rewarded get a free delivery perk when you order. [group] grubhub. The woman who lived in this sausalito home finally retrieved her belongings today 18 months after a land slide left them unreachable. The slide left the outside of the home damaged. Inside, her possessions were left virtually untouch. Her landlord built a scaffold which allowed movers to get in and begin the move. Its been a long time since ive been inside. Im grateful my furniture is in good shape. Im here to get my stuff out and i can close this chapter after a year and a half. Such a long time. No one has taken responsibility for causing the land slide. So far the landlord is paying for the repairs out of his own pockets. Incredible. At least he was able to get the belongings. Absolutely. Thats the good news. Lets turn our attention to spencer. Its dangerous heat. Thats true. It going to be with us. This dangerous heat wave into next week. This is not a shortlived event. Lets look at the 24hour temperature change. Yesterday evening. 11 degrees warmer. 14 degrees warmer in oakland. So lets get a look at the readings. 92 in san jose and gilroy and 63 at half moon bay. Some other readings for you some of the other ones. Petaluma, 94. Fairfield, 97. Look out over the city. These are our forecast features. This dangerous heat wave will be with us next week. It will be humid with a chance of isolated thunderstorms and a high risk of these conditions of heatrelated illness. So bear that in mind as you little your exposure to the sun and heat. The warnings from 11 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. Next wednesday. For a huge portion of the bay area, including the south bay, the inland east bay, and a big portion of the north bay. During this time, the High Temperatures from upper 90s, to 106 degrees. From noon tomorrow to 7 00 p. M. Saturday, this excessive heat warning is in effect from mendocino and portions of napa and sonoma when High Temperatures will range from 100 to 110 degrees. An increased risk of heatrelated illness. Spare the air day tomorrow. The air quality is declining. It will be poor in the santa clara county. Moisture still spilling into the area from the remnants of tropical storm. As you see the high clouds and moisture move through. There is a chance of showers even into the commuting hours tomorrow. Low temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. It will be warm overnight. Highs tomorrow, upper 90s to mid 100s. 105 in the south bay. Mid to upper 90s in parts of a peninsula. On the coast, upper 70s to around 84 degrees. Numerous upper 90s and triple digits in the north bay. Mid 90s on the east bay. It will be our hottest region with highs ranging from 104 to 108 degrees. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Notice, it will be very little change in the seven days ahead. Sunday, there will be some moderation of temperatures. The inland highs. They bounce back, 106, 10 for you, 104. And then it eases on thursday. On the entire sevenday period, were looking at h