Two sons for a bike ride this morning, hoping to avoid the midday heat and poor air quality. We have to make sure that we get out early in the morning. Checked the air quality index, if it is too high, and if we can smell the smoke outside it is probably better for us to day. Inside. Reporter doctors warned that triple digit temperatures in combination with the dirty air can harm your health. Reporter i dont want to be a joy killed but people should stay home is like any other day. s it is going to get really hot. Reporter cities open cooling and Clear Air Centers like this one, where people can take advantage of the air conditioning, while still maintaining social distance. Normally what i would do is if the outside temperature is cooler than the inside, then i open the door and i can and and i suck in the cooler air. But with the bad toxicity of the air, i cannot do that. Reporter the bad air quality is summarily from smog. There is something to the fact from the smoke and fires and if you need any more bad news there is more smoke traveling in this direction from a Massive Wildfire down in fresno county. Devin fehely, kpix5. The other big question right now, do we have enough power with the surgeon demand during our hot weather . The chart from cal eisele shows we are using more than 41,000 mw as of now, the forecast peaked just above 42,000, well below the available capacity of 52,000 mw, so everybody has their fingers crossed, everybody being asked to please conserve energy before now and nine being asked to please conserve energy before now and 9 pm but there is another reason people may lose their lights tonight. Joe has the potential for power safety shut off again. Reporter it is super hot, here in downtown calistoga, as well. More than 100 degrees, so you have the extreme heat, you have the wind that will be high tonight, as well as low humidity, and these are all a recipe for high fire danger, and that explains why pgd is talking once again about shutting off the electricity tonight. When it is this hot the last thing you want to hear is that you might not have air conditioning. That is exactly what is facing folks in napa and Sonoma County beginning this week and they started getting the cell phone alerts, warnings of a ps ps, a Public Safety power shut off tonight in napa county, north of napa, and Sonoma County, mostly east of santa rosa. I understand, im not complaining but i am disappointed when i see that there is one coming. Reporter the light in complex, a wildfires here in the area, is nearly contained but still lingering, the concern is that high wind can spark more trouble tonight. Reporter the increase of five potential is severe, we would deenergize lines, shut off the power for safety, so we dont provide a spark or a wild fire. Reporter for many having to navigate work and School Online for their children, the possibility of a power shut off is not welcome news. The school, being online with resume and everything for online classes, it could go down, it could be a real big hassle. So everybody wants to know, is the power going to get cut off, what time can that happen, in my in the shortage area, what are they telling you . Reporter everybody wants to know that, especially those who got that little alert on their cell phone, they got a time range, sometime tonight, will it actually happen . No determination on that so as you know, what they do is they keep talking with the counties, to keep looking over the meteorology and they decidedly in the game whether to shut it off and so what we will see, though, is that they are being much more communicative this year than last year, member they had a lot of problems and im going to explore that issue coming up at six the clock. Lets take a live look at santa cruz revokes canal cool off, beaches just reopened a few moments ago. The ofweekend due to covid19 concerns. Activities like swimming and surfing were allowed. But in pacifica beaches and parking lots remained close sunrise tomorrow, though a few people still showed up. Beaches of also been close all weekend in an effort to keep the crowds away. Now to hour fire watch, record triple digit temperatures, maybe helping spread about two dozen major wildfires. As you can see behind me several buildings are burning in the socalled creek fire in fresno county. A trapped more than 200 people in a popular campground. Many of them jumped into the reservoir to escape the flames, until milita rescued them. Campers hoping for a relaxing Labor Day Weekend found themselves settling in, chat by frame flames. The socalled creek fire exploded, jumping the river and cutting off the only road out of the mammoth full reservoir in the Sierra National forest. Dennis drake was with his family. It was the fastestgrowing fire i had ever even heard of little loans scene. It was amazing. Reporter he says he and over 150 people spent er an hour in the reservoir to escape the fire. Was reporter wind was going 40, 50, 60 miles an hour in just keep going under and under and under and it was like in my mind im going okay, are going to die from the fire or are we going to die from drowning . Reporter he captured this video of a military helicopter landing in the middle of the inferno. What went on in your mind when you first of a helicopter . Wow. Im going they are here, they made it. And my level of anxiety, fear and mistrust, just went from 1 million to about 10. It was just a big relief. Just a huge relief. Reporter his stork triple digit temperatures combined with dry conditions helped fuel the fires across the date from and bernadino county to san diego where at least 11 structures were destroyed, and evermore threatened. There is so much fuel at the base of that hill, i dont know if they will weather the storm. How about a new look at the structure from the fire in daylight. You see homes burned so the ground, half the town is reported to be destroyed. And talk about dramatic escapes, cell phone video shows a seer National Forest engulfed in flames as evacuees try to get to the fire. Wildfires have one more than 2 million acres across the date. That is a new record. There is still of course plenty of fire season to get through. Evacuations in Mendocino County avenue wildfires but a few hours ago. Cal fire is currently on the scene near brook trails township near willis. They say the fire appears to be headed north. Take a look at this photo of all the smoke and flames moving up the hillside, some structures are in its path it is on here how many. The fire is spreading quickly and is already burned about 200 acres. Naps the fires in the bay area, crews are making Good Progress against the cz you complex, it is now 76 contained, the as you complex fire is now 92 contained, and the in sonoma, napa and solano counties is 91 contained. A live look at the golden g protesters stage a demonstration for much of the day. Dozens gathered on the pedestrian walkway calling for support for the black lives matter movement. Police was bonded, checking into the back of those in attendance, something todays protesters they did not happen any bridge rally just last weekend. They do not check peoples backs at that rally, they let all the white people go through. If they had a trump sign. This week their checking bags. They are blocking off entryways. We put a call to chp to see if the shooters were indeed treated differently. People did spill out come that force them to close down at least one lane, causing traffic backups in both directions. Across the bay members of this association held a yes on 15 rally, it is calling for higher taxes on what the corporations in order to pay for schools and services. Supporters also held a car and bike caravan. Take you directly to some of those corporations that would be impacted. Now to campaign 2020, less than two months to go until election day. Labor day marks the home stretch in the president ial race, skyler henry reports from the white house. Reporter he held the labor day News Conference to tout the economy. We are witnessing the fastest labor Market Recovery from an economic crisis in history. Reporter joe biden met with labor leaders, any supporters house in the swing state of pennsylvania. The former Vice President also attended a virtual afl cio meeting. Wall street do not build this country, you did. Reporter the latest poll shows the president has the edge over biden on who voters think would handle the economy best, overall, registered voters in the economy as the biggest factor in the upcoming election, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues. If he announced that he had a vaccine would you take it . Only if we knew all what into it because so far nothing has told us has been true. They will say anything. The vaccine will be very safe and very effective and it will be delivered very soon. Reporter registered voters are expressing skepticism about a vaccine, the majority surveyed said they believe one available this year would be rushed. The 2020 Vice President contenders both in battleground state of wisconsin this labor day. The president narrow victory there in 2016 was key to his white house went. Vp mike pence carried the president s economic message to an Energy Company in la crosse. Democratic Vice President ial candidate, kamala harris, travel to milwaukee to meet with Union Leaders and black community leaders. We see the benefit to the entire country to invest in our small businesses. Reporter the calculus under spoke on the phone with jacob blake monday, 29yearold was shot several times by kenosha police, during the conversation and meeting with his family, harris as she expressed her concern and support. You have until october 19 to california to register to vote, for more information on how to do so online, go to kpix. Com campaign 2020. Deadly gunfire on the streets of san francisco. A witness describes the moment bullets started flying in the middle of a sideshow. Reveal party, how the family behind it could have to pay. Counting down to the 49er season opener, preview of the big matchups motorcycle riders love the open road. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. The geico giveback. Everybody felt fine. But now im super sick. Everyone is sick. I just wish we had been more careful. It would have been easier than this. So wear a mask. Do what you can outside. Stay six feet apart. Because some things you just cant take back. Do your part to lower the risk. Please investigating two separate shootings including one that turns deadly. The first happened in the excelsior district last night. Police say they responded to his right shoulder near russia avenue near paris tree. They found the victims near gunshot wounds nearby. One person died and the others are being treated with life threatening injuries. A witness who did not want to speak on camera describe the moment he heard gunshots. Is trying to go home and i see all these cars in the street doing their thing. Sliced about, you know, i was out here for couple of minutes, 20 shots all at once, everybody took off. And everyone, i went to my car, the dude was lying dead beside my car. Reporter Police Responded to another shooting this one at ocean beach that happened fulton and thgreat highway. Police say the victim is now at the hospital with life threatening injuries, no word yet on a motive or suspect. Fire watch, eight National Horse across the state are closed because of the rating wildfires. One of those is in the San BernardinoNational Forest. It was reportedly sparked by a smoke machine being used any gender reveal party. Those soontobe parents could face the consequences, reporter joe benedict has the latest. Reporter on saturday morning the grass here at Eldorado Ranch park was more than 4 feet high. Investigators say it took just a matter of seconds, for a gender reveal device to ignite not only this field but the thousands of acres behind us. It was steady moving flames that kept firefighters busy near you kuiper, as the eldorado fire crested you kuiper ridge. And headed toward force falls. It looks bad today, a lot of smoke. Reporter he shelton in place as the asphalt like rain on his home with four cars packed he and his family are ready to run when needed. It is stuck on the hill, theyre waiting for it to come down. If you leave here you cannot come back for days. Reporter firefighters are poised and in oakland where the flames are moving east and early this morning claimed the bar at this resort for the rest of the buildings are still standing. Its here. Reporter we learned more about how this fire started. They came out to take a picture to reveal the gender of their child. Reporter captive animal noises the family came out to Eldorado Ranch to take a photo, and placed two smoke canisters on the ground. They used to part of the devices, they burn on the inside and they emit the colored smoke in that device also emits hot gas which can ignite the seasonal grass that used to be behind us. Reporter he says the family tended to put out the fire on their own, but only had water bottles. It is a tragedy, it is not what they intended, august the it is probably going to be a dramatic is variance for them, this is not what they want to remember about their child but that does not make the accident less severe. Reporter and all the fire has burned more than 8000 acres in three days, and continues to threaten homes like maloneys and he says he is not concerned about how it started. He just wanted out. I think it has been unfortunate. Reporter it is not clear yet what if any civil or possibly criminal penalties the family may face for igniting the eldorado fire. A lot of people trying to beat the heat, in fact in san jose a look at the reservoir this afternoon, some folks are out there waterskiing and they took the dog along to. When it is 110 degrees the asphalt is up to 140, 150 degrees, though. One barefoot on the deck and it was, back inside quickly, and now hato wooufire danger as well. We start with our fiwe index,we combine different factors th at terig beand one number, so we are looking at the dryness of the fire feels in Better Believe those of dry. How much moisture will be in the atmosphere, harsh on the wind will be, how gusty they will be, and with the temperature will be like, so ts take a look at that index right now, and again a scale from 0 to 10 several of the halfway point, that is okay, but as the wind started to pick up tonight and they will, gusty conditions for the northbay as we head into late tonight and early tomorrow we are already about that middle point for nap around fairfield, before the s uptocomorrow but it is going hot and the fire danger indices top up close to the top of the scale, especially for the northbay into Solano County late tomorrow morning. As the wind dies down a bit tomorrow the numbers might drop fractionally but it is still something will have to keep a very close eye on drop the day tomorrow. The red flag when he goes up with talk on wednesday morning. The wood advisory in effect for the northbay hills goes into effect early tomorrow morning, goes through a lock, keep in mind that it is not just the fire danger it is also the possibility of some downed limbs off of trees getting knocked the power lines which is why we are monitoring the pgd status there. Went out of the northeast, but gusts up to 50 miles an hour. Why is all this happening . Atmosphere is getting squeezed. Our heater has been shifted a little ways off the coast, so it will lose its influence. That is the good part of all this but the storm system is doing it, bringing snow to the front range of the Rocky Mountains and early september, and the atmosphere getting just pinched in between, funnels all that air through pretty tight states. The good news in a line is that the whole big picture pattern will rearrange it into a much more normal kind of arrangement as we head to the end of the work week and into the weekend, so our temperatures will be much more reasonable for this time of year, maybe we can get the air to get stirred around a bit, get rid of some of the smoke and other particles in the and is causing breathing difficulties but tomorrow yet anothers are the air day, in the orange category across the board on tuesday and wednesday that will be another one. Look at these temperatures, only 77 downtown, venice dropped significantly. Low 90s once again in the city but still low 90s in oakland, e to 10and livermore. A lot of records, we rented is coming up at 5 30. Art barron temperatures only dropping down to this xts across the board. It is not going to be as hot, we do not have advisories, excessive heat warnings for tomorrow, it will still be pretty hot. Temperatures in the 80s around the bay already by lunchtime. There are going to be some hundreds on the map by tomorrow afternoon, but it is baby steps downward and that is a trend that will continue as we head to through the word rest of the work week. Ong the coast parts of the bay get batothback fo aysatukelook at tomorrows hour by hour wind gust and how the community will be. Four months into the nfl season starting on thursday, for the 49ers, we get six days to talk about their opener. The reigning nfc chance are looking for a repeat performance of that and Unfinished Business in the super bowl. We hear from them, next. Fighting for the right to worship, th we are counting down the kickoff to the bowl season, it is finally here. The 49ers will take the field reporter eight, eight teams in nfl history have returned to the super bowl the year after they lost one. The 2020 49ers will be like the, you like to be the ninth. Easier said than done, though, says the head coach. We have to work pretty dang hard to be better than we were and if we are not then it will show, so that is what our guys are focused on, how much better can we be . And we have to find that in order to get to that spot. Had to find that just to get to the playoffs. They will see where they stand ascending when the hos