Skies as severe storms rolled through the bay area a lot of folks getting an Early Morning wakeup call. This is one of the many videos flooding our newsroom from you or kron 4 viewers, thank you so much for all of it. You can see more pictures and videos on our website thats kron 4 dot com if you have something called the shows hey guess what we want to see it as well all you have to do go to the website click on the the reported tab which is under the about us tab right there on our home screen. And we could be seeing more lightning strikes into tomorrow, the National Weather service is extending the red flag warning until monday morning at 11 00am and but to the bay area of course is under this warning with a red flag warning comes an increased risk of wildfires that could start near where that dry hits. And those lightning strikes the spark a number of fires across the area in Santa Clara County the marsh fire which is a total of 3 fires has burned more than 850 acres. Back away shun orders are in place we have a complete list of those fires on our website at kron 4 dot com. We want to bring a meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez here to talk about these thunderstorms in what may be happening tonight. Yeah we could have another round of this rare popup thunderstorm event pretty rare for bay area summer standards and lets take a look at stormtracker 4 already tracking some green out there was some cells off the coast of monterey inching closer toward the San Francisco peninsula coastline with a sell just east of los gatos and south of woodside out there right now going to keep an eye on that cell because it is starting to stream through off the coast making its way into the bay area and were noticing this plume of moisture from tropical depression. So it is bringing us more of that tropical muggy feel out there thats why temperatures certainly feeling a lot warmer even during this heat wave, so right now fastow is currently west of baja mexico 35 mile per hour sustained winds and it is diminishing as ice be getting weaker and weaker by the hour were by tomorrow, its going to have sustained winds at around 30 Miles Per Hour in future cast for is going to show another round of popup thunderstorms bringing us some light scattered showers and also that threat of dry lightning through your monday afternoon, lets take a look at this red flag warning because like we mentioned it has been extended from now through 11 oclock monday and we also have an air quality advisory in effect just because of those spot fires that sparked today from that dry lightning moderate amounts of poor air quality expected tonight through tomorrow in the bay area and in addition to that also tracking an excessive heat warning because dont forget. Were currently under a heat wave. We have been for the last couple of days were inland areas once again tracking widespread triple digit heat inland and along the coast and along the bay widespread 70s 80s for your monday temperatures as you head out the door right now finally cooling down into the mid 60s for downtown San Francisco. This should be our average daytime high for this time of year in san jose cooling down into the upper 70s low 70s for those of you in oakland right now livermore in the mid 80s and pittsburgh, 86 degrees with the napa 78 degrees nevada 73 in santa rosa 71 degrees for your sunday night and tracking the next 3 days triple digit heat through midweek with some relief arriving 7 days from now more coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes they can jonathan back to you risa course with the increase and he comes the risk of rolling blackouts in tonight. The states grid operator says that no Power Outages are needed on. In San Francisco, san mateo and contra costa counties, but. We have learned this weekend things could change on a dime. However, a flex alert it has been issued for the next 4 days. The California Independent system operator cal, iso is calling for statewide conservation. The alert to its target today each day, the alert will last from 03 00pm to 10 00pm so heres a look at the current outages in the bay area according to the pga ni website you can see there most of them are occurring if you go head down there down the ones in the yellow and the red. Those are affecting of the higher number of people there so the south bay is one that hit particularly hard tonight. This afternoon close to 53,000 customers were without power, including nearly 1400 customers in the silicon valley. This comes after 2 days of rolling blackouts do all this heat so what can you do to conserve energy. Well, you might just adjust your thermostat to 78 degrees or higher turn off any unnecessarily and unnecessary lights keep your fridge full avoid using electrical appliances and if youre lucky enough to have a pool set your pump to run overnights meanwhile, the possibility for more blackouts also concerning for folks who live in marin county. The people who live there along with Business Owners say they want to make sure theyre prepared as they tried to balance a pandemic along with the heat wave. Kron fours dan thorn spent the day talking with folks in mill valley is live tonight with what they had to say then. Well jonathan these businesses and residents say theyre just looking for sufficient warning if these outages are to happen. Some of the businesses that we talked with today say they are conserving energy to make sure that they are straining the grid, but they are looking for any sort of timely warning or notice that they can get because not getting it has been stressful. The importance of electric power is not lost on bay area residents experiencing extreme heat, even more so for businesses already struggling to survive because of the covid19 crisis any other thing that contributes to these hits. Makes it obviously doubly worse mill valleys launch an astor restaurant is doing their best to conserve power while doing takeout. Most of the lights have been turned off in the air conditioning is not running. But there are still concerns the power might be cut by pg any we fully understand that you know theyre trying to do what they can and we get back up to the uncertainty of not knowing. Were being told something and then that not being the case is has been challenging gravity tavern on miller avenue also faces that challenge getting notices critical acas we can prepare if we know its going to happen the States Energy grid operator has been directing pga need to shut off the power in rotations to avoid straining the overall system, some parents are worried the outages might affect required homeschooling thats being done electronically. I mean its already been a the current for them to lose that interaction with the with their instructor and classmate to be quite quite difficult to plan for any outages even before the recent rolling blackouts places like the Equator Coffees have invested in generators, we have to be absolutely totally prepared, especially with covid went on revenues are down we have to you know make sure that we are ready to go. Well the next concern for people here is fire season when power can be affected. Once again and the hope is that things will eventually cool off before long. Reporting live in mill valley, dan thorn kron 4 news right dan and as we move further into fire season. Its important that you stay connected make sure to download the kron 4 app and there you can find a list of. Cooling centers all around the bay. We also have updates on the latest weather warnings in any power Power Outages and you can check the forecast in your area for the scorching hot weekend. A big story were following this sunday night. The hunt is on for the gunman who police say shot and killed. An 18 yearold fairfield man in the parking lot of a Safeway Store in American Canyon this afternoon. Kron fours gayle ong has the very latest on the investigation. That 18 yearold was an employee here at safeway it was a much different scene earlier where detectives spent hours talking to witnesses coming this parking lot for evidence behind a broad daylight shooting that has shocked this neighborhood. Its crazy that in this neighborhood where you feel so safe you can just walk around that some could get shot right there at safeway this Woman Working nearby would witnesses say 3 gunshots were fired in the parking lot of this safely on west American Canyon road sending people scattering i couldnt believe it but then. The sirens came and then it started that when they started dropping things off or thought it had to be something you know. Scary stuff napa county sheriffs deputies responding just after noon sunday finding 18 yearold nathan garza fairfield to shine killed in the parking lot we were all shocked and. You know because we dont usually think said it would happen at this time of the day we take walks in all the time it doesnt seem like something that that could happen around here. Deputy say garza worked at the safeway detectives are working to identify the shooter who took off. Authorities say they are working on multiple leads on this case any witnesses are asked to call the napa county sheriffs office. In American Canyon gayle ong kron 4 news. And our news continues with the neighborhood and the south bay thats been without power ever since friday. When they can expect to have their power turned back on. And with the increasing heat also comes an increase in fire danger still to come tonight. Well show you what fire crews are doing to keep spot fires from growing larger. And in an unprecedented call House Speaker nancy pelosi. Its called back the house to washingto calls for both parties to head back to washington and back to the table but as brad conway reports it is an unprecedented move. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, but the unofficial motto of the United StatesPostal Service never mentioned a president ial election. Now its in the middle of a battle between republicans and democrats the post office has been losing money for over 10 years, lets say the post office House Speaker nancy pelosi is calling for the house to return from recess, this week. Its an unprecedented move to be in session at any time during one of the party conventions, both of them are coming up. Pelosi says she wants a vote on the delivering for america act which would keep the Postal Service from making any changes to operations that were in place at the beginning of the year. Senator Chuck Schumer also called for postmaster general louis dejoy and chairman of the Postal Service board of governors Robert Duncan to testify and he had another demand sunday demanding that leader mcconnell. Going to regular session. So we can have these hearings other democrats are on board this is very serious our members are concerned about the implications this has to have a Fair Election with every vote counted. And if white house chief of staff mark meadows is right republicans want the same thing Congress Needs to come back and get their act together and work i can tell you the republican senators theyre talking about exactly that. That was brad conway reporting under what the current postmaster general calls restructuring the Postal Service has been not slowing down delivery. These cuts include reduced post Office Operating hours across several states. And the elimination of overtime for postal workers. The postmaster general has warned Election Officials that mail in ballots will no longer automatically be moved as priority mail. Just days after president trump. Reporter the false Conspiracy Theory about Kamala Harriss birthplace. Today, the white house doing an aboutface saying that it now accepts that. Senator harris is eligible to serve as Vice President of the United States white house chief of staff mark meadows talking with cnns jake tapper today. The Trump Campaign has floated this discredited lies that shes not eligible because the president s her because her parents at the time were not american citizens. I kind of cant believe i even have to ask you this, but just a simple yes or now you accept the fact and it is a fact that senator Kamala Harris is eligible to be Vice President sure and i think the president spoke to this yesterday this is not something that were going to pursue. We should also add that harris is a bay area native born right here in oakland yesterday trump said that he would not be pursuing the Conspiracy Theory but also did not dismiss it as false. Trump also pushed a similar conspiracies about former president barack obama during the last president ial election. All of that coming right before the Democratic National convention which kicks off virtually tomorrow. Also tonight in the latest cnn poll, joe bidens wide lead over donald trump among registered voters has dropped significantly since june overall 50 of registered americans back the bidenharris ticket while 46 saying they support trump and pence. In world news tonight protests continue in bella roofs over their recent election, the embattled president of bella russo which has been hes been in office for 6 terms held a rally rejecting any possibility of repeating the vote. Protesters say that the boat is rigged and that their president Alexander Lukashenko should resign thousands have been arrested at the postelection protests which police tried to put down with clubs or rubber bullets and flash grenades. Now as the National News police have arrested this man whose 25 yearold Jeremy Johnson for allegedly hitting an officer in the head with a skateboard take a look at this video of the scene that unfolded yesterday in Chicago Police say this protest started peaceful, but then later turned violent after being hijacked by agitators. Johnson is now charged with felony aggravated battery to a peace officer, 24 people were arrested in these protests. Police in portland say 2 officers were hurt when protesters threw nearly 10 pound rock at them. The protests began peacefully on saturday night is hundreds of people gathered at the park just east of downtown but about 11 00pm. Police say protesters began throwing rocks frozen eggs and glass bottles at the officers. Police say one of the rocks weighed 9 and a half pounds it was thrown by a group of people wearing press signs both officers went to the hospital. This morning, Portland Police declared a riot as protesters demonstrated outside Law Enforcement buildings today. Tensions have been high amid the nationwide reckoning over race and policing sparked by the Police Killing of george floyd. Happening right now police in texas are in a standoff with a man who shot 3 officers as they responded to a call this afternoon. Those officers are in stable condition, 2 of them have since left the hospital. Officials say the man is currently barricaded inside of a home holding his mom and sister hostage. A number of Law Enforcement agencies are also on the scene. Police say this all unfolded when the suspect kicked down the door of his mothers home thats when she called police. Well continue to monitor the details over the next few hours and online at kron 4 dot com. After missing news tonight in the wake of the pandemic researchers say coronavirus does not appear to have devastated the Homeless Population across america. As initially feared there are still many unknowns though our kron fours noelle bellow joins us now with a look at some of those numbers curious do well, yeah, vicki, a San Francisco, Public HealthDepartment Official says theyre actually a bit shocked that there appear to be so few outbreaks among the Homeless Population, but doctors. Are stopping short of drawing any concrete conclusions right now. Now when the pandemic began city officials did have to scramble a little bit to try and find out crowded shelters and they eventually were able to acquire about 2700 hotel and rv units to help house. The vulnerable population they were worried of course that the virus would rip through our shelters and tent encampments however aside from one outbreak at a shelter back in april numbers show that the Homeless Population has only a counted for about 3 of the citys covid positive cases thats this craft right here at about 200 of the more than 8,292 cases here in the city now when it comes to deaths just one out of the 69 covid related deaths in San Francisco has been linked to a homeless person now Health Experts say these numbers dont indicate how widespread the diseases or how it may play out long term. Doctor say good data on the Homeless Population is pretty difficult to get since hospitals and death certificates dont track <