Already reporting more than 42,000 customers are affected. Alameda municipal power was expected to shut off power to 3200 customers there in the southwest end of the city, but now says the grid has stabilized and no further shut offs are expected at this time. We will be talking with a spokesperson from so coming up in just a few minutes and heres a look at the pga knee outage map as you can see there are pretty much all over the bay area colorcoded green. Are smaller outages say yellow signifies more customers are affected in red is a larger outage area and you can see all through the north up through the down through marion county. All along the east bay along highway going from oakland all the way out toward the delta San Francisco has outages if we scroll down you can see whats going on in the south bay, the peninsula has a number of outages. And yeah, theyre pretty much all over the bay area. These are expected to last until 11 oclock tonight coming up again in about 15 minutes, well talk with somebody from kauai us so that is the state agency that ordered rolling blackouts this all comes as the bay area saw a record breaking temperatures oakland, a 101 san jose 103 napa a 106. Lawrence yeah guys boy certainly some very hot weather around the bay area and of course were entering in that type of season time season where rooms start to see those offshore winds. That means pg likely to begin to turn off some of those power. All right. Back to you. Les for more details on whats happening with our weather and even though we are still in a Health Pandemic people took advantage of this hot weather to go outside in alameda people laid out and hit the waves that crown Memorial Beach while in the north bay there was traffic trying to get to Stinson Beach at dolores park in San Francisco park rangers were handing out masks and made sure that people were properly socially distancing and hot weather is expected to continue through the weekend and beyond now lets check in with our chief norris says. Lawrence karnow is what to expect boys blazing out there, you know sometimes you just get a few records that are broken during the heat wave, this one weve got numerous all around the bay area really shattered to oakland check out of the 101 degrees that broke the old record of 90. That is a huge change in the record for that date 103 in san jose 82 right along the coastline in Half Moon Bay thats impressive a 106 in sizzling in napa one 05 in santa rosa. Those are the only places redwood city 102,000 record richan yet record of 96 degrees 99 and hot sfo International Airport and during our friends, theyre tied a record of a 107 degrees. Boy it was hot everywhere. He went a 107 in antioch today, one oh one and mountain dew, boy 103 degrees in hayward hit the idea 105 degrees in novato very rarely do you see temperatures get that hot inside the bay, but this was one of those exceptional days and weve got a long way to go in this heat wave, this is just the very beginning temperatures outside right now youre still looking at 92 and live more 73 on the coastline in pacific 87 over the hill in san mateo 81 now in berkeley 92 still and hot in concord 96 insanely in the 79 in petaluma an 84 degrees in santa rosa. About the alright he continue around the bay area theyre going affect again by tomorrow you can see that along the peninsula just inside along the immediate coastline but from San Francisco and our starting 11 oclock tomorrow, those are going to affect once again of course weve got the excessive heat warnings continuing in the south bay, the santa clara valley, temperatures there. 90s to low 100s not only tomorrow possibly through the next few days may be till about wednesday of next week, the hottest temperatures to be found or going to be in Livermore Pleasanton dublin thats where easily back in the triple digits, but some places mace or not only over a 100 degrees that may be closer to a 108. I think specials we get into the early part of this next week that continues lama county expecting extremely hot weather there as well so this heat wave just getting going all these advisories continuing from now until next wednesday, so kind of give you an idea of the hot weather thats lies ahead of us down right now but outside weve got mostly clear skies. There are going to be some changes coming up not only do have a clear skies now but weve got a little subtropical moisture more remnants of that hurricane going to start to blow up into the bay area i think by tomorrow afternoon. Yeah we could be talking about the possibility some thunderstorms tomorrow night and into sunday again another hot day tomorrow, youre back into the triple digits. Inland 80s 90s inside the bay little bit cooler along the coastline, but still warm 70s any its all right lauren thank you with all these hot temperatures in orange just talked about course people all over the bay area doing whatever they can to try to stay cool and that of course is not the best situation when we are all supposed to be social distancing kron fours michelle kingston has more on what San Francisco officials are doing to try and keep people. In the social distancing during the height of this heat wave. City Officials Say they want everyone to remember were in the middle of a pandemic so even though its hot outside they want everyone to continue to wear a mask during to get kawhi sweltering it was just in my best interest of i want to get a little bit of exercise in the come over here San Francisco city officials are urging everyone to stay hydrated and stay home if possible and if it gets too hot inside they ask you find a cool place outdoors to stay safe. And most importantly they say to remember to keep your distance from others in wear a mask we just want everyone street number were still in a very serious response to this covid19 virus. And we encourage people to get out stay safe but remember that her actions in dolores park rangers are handing out masks to people who are wearing them its part of the citys effort to remind people to a bay, the Public Health order think its pretty respectable have few people without masks, but most people wear. The city is increasing the number of park rangers on patrol here throughout the weekend to conduct outreach. We also know that it can be very warm when wearing face masks, so they said folks are able to get outside. And the separate from people that they can remove their masks as long as theyre appropriate distance from the people of this city does not plan on opening any cooling centers in an effort to keep people from gathering together in San Francisco, michelle kingston kron 4 news and the east bay even before the rolling blackouts started tonight the hed knocked out power to about 1400 pg and e customers in walnut creek that was earlier today they experience whats called a momentary brief outage it lasted about a minute. Pg and e says customers should prepare for temporary outages to continue through the weekend. We do expect that there can be moments, harrys and even sustained outages during this what we see from time to time is when very high temperatures during the day and our equipment gets very hot and then it doesnt cool down enough during the course of the sometimes or equipment doesnt have the chance to cool off and can overheat and thats when we sometimes see Power Outages. Pg and e says it has equipment that immediately notifies the utility of any out it is so that customers do not have to call to let pga nino when they experience an outage also in the east bay, droves of people are expected to head to parks and beaches this weekend because of the hot temperatures. Those temperatures are also creating some fire concerns kron fours dan kerman tells us these concerns come while were continuing to try to fight this pandemic. Those arriving at crown beach in alameda are finding signs telling them to social distance a reminder that heat or no heat covid19 is still with us been a lot of compliance, everybody who comes to the parks once enjoy the parks and keep others safe and were really encouraging that. Covid19 is actually lead to an increase in visitors throughout the east bay, Regional Park system. Midafternoon the beach was already packed with varying degrees of distancing and maskwearing are encouraging people to to brand mask somewhere them went around others. As well as maintain 6 power to distance we have our officers that have extra masks, so someone forgets theres we can actually get them out. East bay, Regional Parks, captain allen love says while swimming is allowed here. Most women areas in the park system are closed as our picnic tables and barbecues hot weather is also bringing with it fire concerns in the inland areas. Increase staffing is now in place with firecrews on shift overnight in the Oakland Berkeley hills. And hes only done by the Park District red flags or high heat danger areas where we could potentially see more fires at night in addition to covid and fire conservancys bay, Regional ParkOfficials Say we also have to worry about the heat specifically as it relates to you make sure you bring enough water both for you and your pet and even consider leaving your pet at home if it gets too hot. An Alameda Dan Kerman Kron 4 news and as we continue to move further in the fire season. Its important you stay connected make sure to download the kron 4 app. There you can find a list of cooling centers around the bay area. You can also update you on the latest weather warnings and you can check the forecast for this hot weekend in new york part of the bay area. And the as bay people saw large plumes of smoke at the chevron refinery in richmond today, chevron says it was caused by a disruption at one of its processing units. A Hazardous Material specialists as the heavy smoke did pose a potential health hazard, but the weather helped to push the smoke out. Chevron issued its lowest System Community warning the flaring has stopped in Contra Costa CountyHealth Services says it does not intend to send out a health advisory. The Oakland Police department has unveiled a new initiative to curb rising gun violence in the city its a program called opd care police will be deploying more resources to places where there has been a dramatic uptick in crime as kron fours dan thorn tells us this comes as police say over the last week at least 5 people have been shot and killed in oakland. The Oakland Police department showing force along international boulevard in east oakland officers set to take to the streets to suppress rise in gun violence menacing the area we want to stand with the community. Theres a supportive. Oaklands interim police chief Susan Manheimer unveils a new initiative called opd cares the goal is to be proactive in the community through officers patrolling the streets and also using a mobile command center theres a transformative moment happening in policing. And were bracing that this is met with opd chairs to say we are eventually policing over the last week at least 5 people have been shot and killed in oakland, 3 of those killings happening within hours of each other. The recent rise in violence coming after the city Council Voted to slice the departments budget people talk about to find the police well out here in the piece of the people are asking for Additional Resources to help trained to help deal with the scene saleable violent deputy chief in commander of the east oakland lower on armstrong says through opd cares they hope to engage the community and show a more human side of policing we want to do everything we can to lessen the stress of children that were here so that we allow people to get out to their communities and they can feel safe just a few miles away from fridays event opd responded to another shooting this area along beverly and a 109th avenue was was cordoned off the chief says this shows why opd cares and curbing gun violence has become so crucial in oakland, this neighborhood is a wonderful neighborhood. The community has not seen this kind of violence and yet you see it creeping all over police say gang conflict has been the root cause behind much of the recent violence here in the city of oakland. But the proliferation of guns has become increasingly concerning since the beginning of this year Oakland Police have taken more than 500 guns off of the streets. The chief says most recently a 13 yearold boy was fouud with an automatic weapon, reporting in oakland, dan thorn. Kron 4 news. We want to continue with our breaking News Coverage tonight pg and e has been shutting off power due to the excessive heat, theres been driving up electricity use and putting a strain on the states electrical grid. This statewide order comes from the California Independent system operator which ordered that stage 3 electrical emergency late this afternoon and it will continue until 11 oclock tonight and in just the past 10 minutes. Pg e put out this tweet saying that no more Power Outages are expected tonight and that pg e is working to restore power to customers currently experiencing outages and that power should be restored by 00 11pm tonight so to help us understand whats going on. We are joined by and gonzalez who was the senior Public Information officer for the California Independent system operator and thank you so much for joining us tonight. The state ordered these rolling blackouts can you first just give us a status report on how things look around the bay area right now in terms of outages. Its hard to happen. Program so we wouldnt know any specifics about different reach. It is extreme heat event that was short sentence and. The air conditioning use does go up and not drive electricity demand up realign. Or did have concerns and we would have an Energy Shortfall not enough energy to cover demand. So we. Operational moves we also called the flex. We come to learn for it. And youre cutting in and out so were going to have to take a break and try to reestablish a connection hopefully get a better communication with you and see if we can do better going to take a break will be coming back in just a minute but pam all right were going to pick up some other news while we try and reestablish that connection and gonzalez with the iowa cant count so to get an update on these rolling blackouts a moving on to other news at this moment though californias ban on high cgpacity ammunition magazines was overturned today, a threejudge federal panel of the 9th circuit rule that the law violates the second amendment. The law had banned magazines holding more than 10 bullets California Attorney general javier becerra. His office said that it is reviewing this decision the sarah did not say yet whether the state will seek a further delay in todays ruling or if he would appeal to the u. S. Supreme court. The ruling has National Implications because other states have similar restrictions though it immediately applies only to western states under the Appeals Court jurisdiction. Tonight we know that the tentative distancelearning agreement between oakland unified and its teachers we know it looks like youre some the biggest take away from the deal mesa daily School Schedule 09 00am until 03 15pm office hours with teachers available every week and ensures that students will receive one on one support as needed. And it gives teachers time each week for professional development and preparation, Teachers Association is expected to vote on this agreement next week. Governor Gavin Newsome says that when it comes to going back to school the state is taking a safetyfirst approach Governor Newsom says nearly 95 of california students will start the school year with Distance Learning and some schools have already started the governor added the state has secured 5. 3 billion dollars to maximize resources for students and teachers that money will be used for personal protective equipment and for access to technology and connectivity the governor says we must ensure teachers and students are prepared for Distance Learning. We made this point that schools may be closed that made this point the past the class is still in session. That we are committed we our accountable to continuing to ensure theyre not only were preparing our teachers to be Great Teachers in a very and strange and difficult environment preparing our students to be at their best. But that we are preparing. A broad strategy recognize that we still have a lot of gaps and a lot of in equities that need to be addressed. Companies such as apple T Mobile Office depot staples and edison have all set aside hundreds of thousands of devices for california schools, which the School Districts can get through the state. California has surpassed others somber milestone more than 610,000 covid cases. Heres a look at the numbers that have just been put out globally there are more than 21 million cases here in the u. S. Are more than 5 million cases california recorded almost 8,000 cases in just the last 2 days and in the bay area there are more tha