I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Lets get to meteorologist mary lee with the hot forecast. Here we go, we are looking at our extreme heat continuing for us today and with it, with those daytime highs, likely tying or breaking records. We have some cooling centers open. Santa rosa will have them from 11 00 to 7 00 four people trying to get some relief from the heat at Rincon Valley library and the Salvation Army senior center. If you do go out there, you will need to wear your mask as well as social distance. In santa rosa, highs are in the triple digits. It is 104 in concord and around the bay, low to mid 80s. 80 for San Francisco and 86 for oakland. Because of this extreme heat, excessive heat warnings remain in effect due to this persistent and dangerous heat and it remains in effect not just for today but actually through 9 00 wednesday. So we are still looking at the heat and going to cool down a little bit. Temperatures will be slightly erdeils up in just a bit firefighters are battling the extreme heat once again this afternoon for those burning around the bay area. For the latest on those fires burning in napa county, lets go live to keit do. We were just up near the fire lines and we can see a lot of preparation for the fight later on today and a lot of orange glow in the sky, telling us the fire is still very active. Out here, this is the farthest the republican go. There is a chp roadblock around his age canyon road and silverado trail. It is here. Containment is 0 contained and 205 structures are threatened and mandatory evacuations are in place. The fire is a very active burn night. This was the scene along lower chillys valley road. It started sometime around noon yesterday and by sundown, it blew up to more than 2000 acres and by nightfall, crews were still battling the flames as they came down ridgeline and close on the historic nicolini family winery. They helped the fire fires by opening gates, and also ensuring access to water. The winery says they have done their best to get ready for this moment. We are always prepared for a fire. We prepare every year and we fire safe our structures and prepare our buildings and when things like this happen, we just execute our plan to keep it as safe and free from fires as we can. The fires can be overwhelming and you just have to do the best you can. There are fiveing d offices the wiry property but ey area. Cused on nd coiobeer een deru terhowiy fothe fire th were on a burning elsewhere. Reporter keeping an eye on other fires in the bay area, starting off in contra costa county. There are mandatory evacuations in place. This is near brentwood, a fire about 1500 acres right now and it is 0 contained. This is at deer valley road and marsh creek road southwest of friendswood. It is the deer zone complex fire and there are about 150 homes that have been evacuated. Those fires are believed to have been sparked by lightning. To santa clara county, hundreds of people in sunol are still under evacuation. Flames have burned through almost 1800 acres. The fire is also 0 contained at last word. We are hoping to get some updated information from cal fire but earlier yesterday, the fires briefly forced a mandatory Evacuation Order for residents oflastnight, the win and temperatures came down, so cal fire likely was able to strengthen those containment lines a little bit overnight. They had a large firefight ahead of them today before those residents will be allowed home. In a state wide flex alert, they are in effect. There were not any rolling blackouts last night. This comes as san jose mayor sam liccardo is accusing pg e of lying to its customers about Power Outages. Folks in this neighborhood lost their power saturday for nearly 48 hours because of a broken transformer. It was finally restored yesterday afternoon. Mayor liccardo blasted pg e, claiming utility was dishonest when it blamed its rolling blackouts on the California Independent system to turn off power. Certainly the heat is in the debating factor. The fundamental reason is the inadequate infrastructure that pg e has failed to maintain and replace over many years. . I have zero trust in pg e. There is no rolling blackouts that went into effect last night as expected. Pg e said outages could continue through thursday depending on the evolution of the heat wave. His go outside to the bay bridge and take a look at the traffic. Cars are starting to stack up so lets go right over to gianna with your morning commute. It is getting busy. Those lights have been flipped on. You can see how traffic is getting busy and slow. Past this point, it is pretty much bumpertobumper up the incline. It is extra slow there. Once youre past that portion, it eases up into the city. Looks better off the skyway but it is slow. I want to update you on some closures along 128 due to the hennessey fire between the silverado trail and napa county but those are still in effect. Back to our fire watch, a wildfire burning in Santa Cruz County has now more than doubled in size. The fire broke out north of davenport and flames have scorched 120 acres with containment at 5 . Lightning is being blamed for sparking the fire. It comes as Santa Cruz County has just gotten word it is now off the watch list. Five other counties were just added. Mendocino, and Sierra County is under the microscope. There are a total of 42 counties on the watch list and then eagle county may be removed as soon as today. We are seeing an encouraging trend in californias fight. The governor says the numbers are down and there are 6400 new cases over the past 14 days. The test Positivity Rate is averaging 6. 5 and hospitalizations are down 21 . Dr. Anthony fauci will speak at a Commonwealth Club on monday at 11 00. You need to buy tickets to join the program virtually. Looking live at San Francisco, where today Health Officials will decide whether to reopen walkup covid19 testing at outdoor sites. They were suspended yesterday over the heightened risk of lightning. Weather conditions will be monitored today. In napa county, a testing site will be relocated today from the calistoga fairgrounds to the napa valley expo. That is due to fire response needs and for a full list of all the testing sites across the bay area, go to our website, kpix. Com. Police in marin are cracking down and planning a sting operation aimed at catching anyone not wearing a mask. Several marin officers are prepared to write citations for people not wearing masks, which come with the fine ranging from 25 500. They will begin patrolling larkspur, and other areas looking for anyone without a face covering. Memorial health last night at American Canyon for a teenager shot and killed outside a safeway in napa county happened. 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Call or go online today. It is a 6 13. Our excessive heat extreme continues for the bay area and because of that, warnings are still in effect. We have learned hundreds of San FranciscoSchool Bus Drivers are about to lose their jobs. Some after decades behind the wheel. The president of smart union local 1741 confirmed all 249 School Bus Drivers for sfusd are now being laid off. Many drivers are wrought with emotion. I am short of crying right now. They do not know what to do. To be told youre going to lose your health care and be unemployed in the middle of a pandemic, i think it is immoral. They say despite budget cuts other districts are still paying their drivers but sfusd which contracts out its bus services to a Company CalledFirst Student, has decided not to go that route. In a statement, the School District said quote the district pays First Student approximately 30 million annually to bus approximately 3500 sfusd students and we continue to face a budget shortfalls and cannot afford to continue paying for nonservice. We want prioritizing students, families, and staff. For students is a layoffs are intact but it will govern Health Insurance for laidoff drivers for the end of september. Some schools in Sacramento County are we opening their doors to students for in person instruction. Jackson elementary is one of five Elementary Schools reopening classrooms in the rescue union School District, just outside of sacramento. They plan to operate under a combination of in class and virtual instruction with students divided into morning and afternoon groups. And to stay uptodate on all the changes with the school year, check out the special section on our website, kpix. Com backtoschool. His get over to mary lee with how to cope with todays weather. Yes, it is going to be another hot day across the bay area with our extreme heat continuing. It is not over yet. I will say we are no longer looking at the threat of thunderstorms or the tropical moisture. It is to our north and away from us. We are not looking at the thunderstorm threat but still dealing with the ket. Santa rosa has cooling centers open from 11 00 to 7 00, and i want to talk about the smoke. We are looking at smoky conditions. This is the Mount Hamilton camera. This is because of the marsh lets show yoburning to the tob. Temperatures. We are in the 60s and 70s and we have a warm start our day. Concord is 71 and oakland is 66 and livermore is 73. It is 71 in san jose and 61 for santa rosa. We have the latest on the marsh fire. Current conditions are what firefighters are up against. Mid 80s right now for the marsh fire. At least in that area, looking at humidity at 33 and winds are light at five miles an hour. Firefighters are at least looking at those light conditions and the winds are not really a factor. The hennessey fire is burning east of st. Helena, with temperatures in the upper 70s and maybe at 53 humidity. Northerly winds around two miles an hour. The deer zone fire is burning southwest of brentwood and temperatures are in the upper 70s. This morning, we have warm temperatures but there are calm e goat gh are goto upnst the today. Excessive heat warnings are in effect for the bay area due to this persistent and dangerous heat and we will stay in effect all the way until 9 00 tomorrow. Lets show you the temperatures. Through the afternoon, record tying or recordbreaking highs are a possibility, especially for santa rosa, livermore, and concord. It is because of the strong ridge of High Pressure. The inland heat continues and as we go through later on into the week, that ridge moves away and the system will usher in some stronger onshore flow. We are not quite as hot later in the week. There is some relief from the heat coming our way. Here are the daytime highs. 95 in san jose, 94 for santa clara, 104 in concord and pleasant hill, 102 for livermore and low to mid 80s around the bay. Mid to upper 90s to triple digits around here. Heres the extended forecast. Temperatures are heating up once again tomorrow and then a little cooler as we look into thursday and the rest of the week. That is your look at weather. Lets look at traffic now. We have cooler temperatures at some point. Was bound bay bridge, the commute out of east bay into the city is a busy one. There are brake lights at the toll plaza. You are back to the overpass, almost to the foot of the maze. It is slower. We will see traffic off the east shore freeway and westbound 580. There are a lot of brake lights and it eases up as you work your way across the rest of the upper deck. It is still busy as well here. There is roadwork near washington. It should be wrapping up shortly. In earlier crash in the area kind of slowed things down pretty earlier for that ride along 680. Of there and southbound 680 into the sunol grade. You might want to stick with 880. That is an easier commute. The connector from 80 to 680 is okay. There is a crash westbound 205 right around International Parkway with more on the 580 towards north flynn. Other than that, it is the usual stuff, and i took a look at highway 4. There is east shore freeway. It is okay. It is bogging you down near the island. That is a look at traffic. The time is 6 20. Coming up, streaming on cbsn bay area, new selor is helping out pet owners who need it most. The special virtual memorials. Itsame davere at banlier they gigin. Were live. Its game on, with gigspeed internet from xfinity. Start him. Sit him. Trade him. Xfinity delivers fast, reliable internet with speeds up to a gig. Learn more, or get started with xfinity internet for 24. 99 a month for 12 months. 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A bay area woman getting a lot of attention this morning. How she is using her coronavirus connection to throw support behind biden. We are tracking more triple digit temperatures today and when we will start to cool off. It is tuesday, august 18th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Lets go to meteorologist mary lee. We are counting down the cool off. We are for sure. Relief is on the way. It is coming eventually for us by the end of the week and in the meantime it is about the extreme heat that continues in effect for us in the bay area. At least we are not dealing with a strong thunderstorms like we did yesterday and over the weekend. An excessive heat warning remains in effect and all th way until 9 00 wednesday due to this persistent and dangerous heat. We are looking at 80 degrees in San Francisco, 86 in oakland, 95 in san jose and 104 in concord. Highs are 12 to 17 degrees above average for this time of year. Temperatures will skyrocket this afternoon. Here is the latest on the hennessey fire. Current conditions are 79 degrees and humidity is 53 and northerly winds are at two miles an hour. Firefighters are battling back fire and stealing with the calm conditions. We are in the mid80s there and the deer zone fire has easterly winds at six miles an hour. There are warm temperatures and they were really heat up through the afternoon. Firefighters will be up against the extreme heat of this afternoon. Lets check in with our reporter with the latest on the fire burning there. Good morning, we were just up the street checking out the latest conditions on the hennessey fire. We saw a lot of equipment being staged on the side of the road. Firefighters have been working on this all night. If you try to come out here, this is what youre going to see, a chp roadblock on the corner of sage canyon road and silverado trail. This is the access around highway 128. They cannot come here. This has cooled off considerably. The winds are calm and this is giving firefighters a chance to gain some ground and they are going to need all the help they can get. The fire had grown to 2400 acres and containment is at 0 for the hennessey fire. 205 structures are threatened and mandatory evacuations are in place. The fires are very active with intense burning into the night. This is sage canyon road. The fire started sometime yesterday around noon and by sundown, it had exploded to well over 2000 acres and by nightfall, crews are still battling the flames as they came down a ridgeline and close down on the historic nicolini winery. Some stayed on the property to help firefig