Now 11 00, the threat of pg e blackouts. The counties on alert for safety shutoffs this week as businesses begin to welcome back customers. We broke records bay area white beard tomorrow may be a bit cooler. We are not finished with this heatwave yet. I will show you when this finally breaks. Estate of emergency as an inferno rages out of control, leaving a trail of destruction. Tonight we are hearing incredible stories of survival. I think if we had stayed just 10 minutes more, we may not have been so lucky. We have a beach party wanting. Hundreds gather at the ocean beach. Tonight, the crackdown to keep people away . Good evening, i am brian hackney. Lets look outside. We had record high temperatures within 15 degrees of death values high. The dangers heatwave is not over. To make matters worse, smoke is filling the bay areas guys, impacting air quality and making it difficult to breathe. Meteorologist is tracking it all tonight. i will leave the smoke for later, lets talk about the heat. I will show you a lot of numbers higher than 100 degrees. This one happened in San Francisco. That is special. Weve only done that 12 times since records have been kept going back to the 1870s. The old record for todays date was 1992. We did beat that by six degrees. Nine of these 12 100 days happened in the month of september. Is picking up which, the hottest temperature San Francisco has ever hit happened 3 years ago, this weekend, on labor day. This is a popular time to get extreme heat in San Francisco. You might remember 107. It is the hottest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco. These numbers me too. Livermore hit 111. These are the numbers that we were close to the temperatures we were seeing over the mojave desert. You can see, by how much we beat the records today, the numbers will get better tomorrow, but not enough to break the heatwave. There is an excessive heat warning in place for everywhere conoyo heat advisory. It will be hot. We will not hit 100 and the city again. It will be closer to 90. That is still hot for the city. The excessive heat warning is just as intense. We might get a 10 degree dropping of the coast. If you are in land, you guys will not get much relief. It might be one or two degrees cooler tomorrow. In addition to the excessive heat warning, going until tomorrow night, when that does and, the next issue comes in. With a red flag warning in the mountains. I will talk about that in detail, coming up and the complete forecast. Back to you. Tonight, we have good news. The bay area was spared another night from Power Outages. This lifted the stage ii emergency a few hours ago after customers were able to conserve enough energy to stay on the power grid. There is still a flex alert from 3 00 until 9 00 tomorrow night. Tonight, we have a thread of blackouts. High fire danger could force power safety shutoffs, leading napa and sonoma counties at risk. We report that the news comes as restaurants just started to welcome back customers for indo electricity is still on. Folks here in napa county and neighboring Sonoma County are on edge because the power could be shut off as early as tomorrow, just as life is just starting to move toward normal from the fires in the pandemic. This is the first time we have been out in months. Lauren lives just outside. A few days ago, the new Health Orders kicked in. Restaurants allowed folks in napa county to eat indoors. The smoke from the wildfires is slowly starting to clear. Now the heat is gone. It was well over 100 degrees in the napa valley today. Fire conditions are coming back. We will have the big win. That is scary. We are more afraid of the wind. The lack of power comes from electricity issues. Some areas got a notice for a ps ps, Public Safety power shut off. It could be shut off beginning tomorrow evening, trying to keep the high wind from causing another wildfire. We have worked the last year to enhance this program for our customers. It will be shorter, smaller, and smarter. One thing is shorter. We do expect to restore customers twice as fast. There is also the iso, the nonprofit that runs the power grid. The hot weather means more people use electricity. The major increase in demand on the power grid across the state led them to warn there could be rolling blackouts again. Have been two sudden Power Outages along the transmission line from oregon and a power plant that went down. Either shut off could come as many people are working from home, relying on technology for distancelearning. I work from home. I will lose my air conditioning. Depends on how long the outages, whether i lose food or not. Is the mac despite the warning, no power has been shut off so far. If it does kick into effect starting tomorrow, pg e says they will send alert. Joe vasquez, kpix 5. Out of the fire watch, the governor issues a state of emergency for the wildfire burning out of control in Sierra National forest. The creek fire exploded to over 73,000 acres tonight. Remember, started friday night. There is zero containment. Evacuation orders are in place as firefighters try to protect homes from 100 foot flames. Dozens of structures have been destroyed. 3000 others are in the fires path. The fire erupted so quickly overnight that hundreds of campers got trapped at mammoth pool reservoir. Dozens had to be rescued by military helicopter. Others raised to safety in their cars, only to drive straight into the flames. Is the mac i think if we had stayed just 10 minutes more, we may not have been so lucky. We did run into a ranger. She was able to lead us up to the point of that spot fire. It was per her instruction that we drove through that fire. Two campers refused to evacuate. They decided to stay behind. The fires across the state officially top the worst in californias history as far as the amount of land scorched. It is 2. 1 million acres that have burned. It is only september. Parking locks at San Franciscos ocean beach are closed tonight. Officials want to avoid seems like this after hundreds of people crowded the beach for an impromptu burning man party. We are looking at weather the closures kept the crowds away. Reporter without access to parking next to the beach, looked like the closures did work for the most part. That did not stop people from coming. The numbers were much smaller than last night. Is the mecca we wanted for the music out and spread some positivity. We were my people to whether masks. Jasmine came to the beach to encourage others to social distance. We cannot be a burning man. I think im having my own celebration here in the parking lot. This is what it looks like tonight. Most people were well distanced and burning logs. We want you to have a good time. We have our masks. Covid19 is real thing. We want to have fun with our friends. We are social distancing. We keep six feet away from everybody else. This is completely different when more than 1000 people flocked to the shoreline and dance into the night. This prompted the San Francisco mayor to send tweets to attendees that it was reckless and selfish, and putting people at risk. It is less busy. I think it worked. It may have worked. In terms of this being nine day. It looked like a miniature fire happened. I was a bit crazy about that. A spare the air alert makes it illegal to use a fire pits on the beach. Authorities were not enforcing that, instead they keep the parking lots close and keep the numbers low. In San Francisco, kenny choi, kpix 5. In oakland, there is a debate over a group of outdoor vendors at lake merritt. Some say they are drawing crowds at a way to grit big. The vendors tell us they are trying to survive during the pandemic. We have learned that a new City Pilot Program is in the works to make vendor row permanent. A all of the problems continue. Load you then create a Pilot Program for people that are creating the problems and give them your blessing to continue doing what they are doing . Is mike i dont know who invented it. This is positive. This area has been operating without a permit for several years. Two bay area counties will ease restrictions this week. We look at the busine willgee g reopen. The wildfire in Santa Cruz County could force the oldest state parks remain closed for at least one year. A bay area thief was caught not once, but twice in one day. The crime spree that landed him back in custody . We have a new app for 24 7 access to our newscasts and you can download it from the app store or google play. Just search for kpix. We will be right back. Another day, another chance to bounce forward. Lets do this. 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About five hours later, police say he was stopped again for possession of another stolen vehicle. Police say that he is seen wearing construction vest, despite not being employed as a construction worker. Two bay area counties could get the green light to reopen more this week. The biggest of santa clara county. The state could allow indoor, personal care services. Churches, movie theaters, restaurants, and even schools as early as tuesday. Even with the states okay, county leaders say they will likelys deck with stricter restrictions. The state is expected to give the okay on tuesday for indoor dining, places of worship, and schools to reopen in this area. This is a marin county. That they dont see a spike in cases or hospitalizations for two weeks, students would be allowed to go back to school on the 22nd. It is confusing. Reop eeping up with the peeran of earthquakes shook the east bay earlier. A 3. 4 struck san leandro at a 11 45. This was eight minutes after a smaller, 2. 6 in the same area. It is not big enough to cause damage. Many people felt them. Another unfortunate consequence of the lighting fires, the chronicle is reporting that californias oldest state park will remain closed for at least one year. Redwood steak park in Santa Cruz County had extensive damage due to the fire complex. The ancient redwoods must first indoor the effects of the winter storms and soil erosion before we will know if it is safe for the public to return. There is one bright spot. Two of the parts of the largest trees were impacted by the fire, but they are still healthy. People are making Good Progress against the complex fire. It is 60 contained. The one east of san jose is 92 contained. The one in salama county is at 91 containment. Smoke from the creek fire zone reveals a scene straight out of the twilight zone. Boaters on bass lake restricted to a five mile per hour speed limit. That is due to the incredible shroud of look and add. Bass lake is 15 miles west of the mammoth pool reservoir, where the dramatic rescues took place. People across the area have been warned, more evacuation orders are possible in the days to come. About 20 miles to the north, inside yosemite, grove of giant sequoias is closed. A fire advisory is in effect for arts of the park. This is not an evacuation warning, its just a warning for people to be ready just in claes. Air quality is a huge thing affecting all of us. Im assuming he will talk about that. It does not help having triple digit temperatures. You have quite a few behind you. What i want t by doing, would to show you what we did today. Is wanted to get perspective before a show you tomorrow. Tomorrow will be cooler for some of us. For most of us, it will not. First of all, heres what we did today. The daytime highs road 110 in concord. Pleasanton was at 110. Remise at 104. I showed you a lot of the main highs at the top of the newscast. Mountain view hit 108 today. Redwood city was at 105. In the north bay, nevada was at 112. Sonoma was 109. So, heres the comparison. Look at the change from tomorrows daytime highs. San francisco will be 10 degrees cooler tomorrow. Concord and livermore will get a single degree drop. The closer you are to the coast, the bay, and the influence of what ever little onshore flow there will be, you get more of the benefit. If youre not, you will not feel a difference at all. Besides showing the drop comedies of the daytime highs. You can see, is not much different than today. For San Francisco and oakland, will be. This is the air quality that we weowre. We have plenty of smoke out there. We have this fine stuff that you can inhale, it gets past your Defense Systems of your t all ofthis intense heat and the sunlight on the organic matter in the smoke. It starts to transform into ozone. We have the intense heat responsible for that. This is a is not just the smoke and ozone, youe. Twcasunt smell ofs cannot see it. Just be aware that is why the air quality has is going. Morning lows, these are warm. We have loan midseventies. Lets get everybodys daytime highs in. I see a daytime high have 100 in sunnyvale. Fremont is a 99. San mateo is at 95 tomorrow. It is 109 and was a hill. It is the same in san ramon and pleasanton. This is where we dont see much change. We will see some improvement right here. We have upper 80s. We have 94 and oakland. Nevada will hit 104. Santa rosa will be at 105. All right, we had to talk about the next issue. We have the fire weather concerns. Heres why we have the he way. You see this clockwise is been . You can see how the atmospheres rotating. This does breakdown. On tuesday, it is replaced by the opposite, counterclockwise been. This is the area of low pressure. Its going inland. We are missing out on that. We will feel the atmosphere trying to balance things out. This is an abrupt change. This will bring snow to the rockies. What it does here, speeds the air over the sierra. We get the northeast wind coming right over the mountains of the northbay hills. This is why we have the fire weather concerns. That starts monday night going into wednesday morning. This will be the big concern that we talk about as we get into the early part of the week. We do have better looking numbers in the sevenday. We have daytime highs back to 90 inland. That is seven degrees above average, in general. We will come back to the mid 70s for the bay. It will feel much better. Still ahead, students are ordered to stay in their dorms. The university is taking a drastics tap after a rising coronavirus cases. A u. S. Open takes an unimaginable turn. The meltdown that disqualified the worlds top tennis player . Straight ahead on game day, the 49ers, do they have another super bowl run in them . The eighth of 23 games left. s guys are very much alive for the postseason run. We will set the table on that and more on game day after vo my name is cynthia hawkins, rg my grandparents came here in 1939 and weve been serving this community for over 80 years. My dad always said, take care of your community and they will always take care of you. And they have done so. Through the ups and through the downs. My name may be on this building, but this place belongs to all of us. The white house is on the defensive as more inflammatory stories from the soon to be released memoir from a trump insider were leaked to the press. This as Democratic Leaders and the administration got together for a rare, bipartisan agreement ahead of congress returning back to session this week. The treasury secretary and nancy pelosi have agreed to a clean, continuing resolution to provide funding for Critical Services and federal programs. They are still at odds over specifics for the stimulus checks and the budget for the next Coronavirus Relief package. With to make sure the public knows how we can solve this, and why the administration is standing in the way of crushing the virus. Whether it is 1 il 1. Trillion, lets not get caught on a number. Lets agree on things. 1 million or 2 million, after fending off reports, he did disparage veterans, the present is facing attacks from one of his former lawyers, the former trump insider plans to release a memoir about his work with the president. On tuesday, he will make several allegations in the book, including that trump made overt and covert attempts to get russia to interfere in the 2016 election. He calls trump a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, predator, and a con man. The white house is calling his book fanfiction. It says that he has lost all credibility. San Diego State University students are under a stay at home order the school reported an overwhelming surge in covid 19 cases. The University Says 120 students tested positive for the virus in the last two days. The cases are linked to students on and off campus. The order is in effect until tuesday morning, aimed at keeping students home for the weekend. School officials are warning disciplinary action for those that violate the order. They have yet to reveal what the consequences would be. Indiana university is seeing a spike in covid19 cases amongst fraternity and sorority houses. Now School Officials are asking them to shut down. University acknowledges that they cannot force a closure. Some students in the greek system say this is unreasonable and puts them under financial burden and undue stress. A a top seed out of the so youre a small business, or a big one. You were thriving, but then. Oh. Ah. Okay. Plan, pivot. How do you bounce back . 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