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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 3pm August 16, 2022

Alert weather day because of dry dry lightning. We are tracking the details in the forecast. We are getting word of a hiker rescue in the east bay. How the heat played a role in, that story. President joe biden signs a landmark climate, health and tax tax bill into law. What experts say it will or wont actually do do to help you at home. Good afternoon, everybody. It it is a first alert weather day. Day. Bay are reaching scorching triple digit temperatures this very day. There are a lot of concerned about the air we breathe. Here is a live look at dublin, one of of todays hot spots and the sign of a recent brush fire that that got really close to homes. In fact, we can take you a little closer. This is the burn scar after flames broke out around hillside near i580 near the border of Castro Valley and dublin yesterday. You saw that minor on the air. Firefighters say it started with a vehicle caught fire. Because of that, 58 58 acres went up in small. Chopper 5 caught some of todays todays hazy skies end. Small, there it is, building up thanks to high temperatures and smoke from wildfires burning in humboldt and trinity counties. Chopper 5 is a rescue in oakland. One hiker was treated and taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion. We understand two others were with the hiker. They are expected to be okay. First alert meteorologist paul heggen is tracking the hot conditions this afternoon and joins me with the latest. You can see the temperature s s at the bottom of your screen. We are tracking the air quality at its worst in the orange category, unhealthy for sensitive groups. There is a lot lot of yellow on the map indicating moderate air quality. Quality. You can see the haze on on the horizon. The big story for today is the heat. We have 100 degree temperatures in concord, fairfield in livermore, livermore, getting close in santa rosa at 98, 95 in san jose. Walk around the bay, it is is warm but not excessively hot. Hot. 83 oakland, 71 in downtown San Francisco and along the coast 51 degrees at half moon bay. Those high temperatures are are occurring basically right nw right now through the next 90 minutes or so. It is important to limit how much time you spend spend outside and make sure you stay hydrated. The focus will shift from the heat to the dry lightning thread tomorrow. We will talk about that in a few minutes. People out there are beating the heat by heading to the coast. It is a beautiful sight. We spotted the surfers on the water. Some people are staying out of the water, but close to it, maybe going for a walk with fido along the beach. That is the view from San Francisco this this morning. No confirmation the dogs name is title, by the way. Contra costa county is opening cooling centers. There are sites in brentwood, Martinez Martinez and richmond over at the county employment and Human Services department. If you make make your way to a cooling center, you will have to put on a mask and comply with covid protocols. Certainly, there will be consideration regarding, you know, socially distancing and everyone who comes into our cooling centers is required to wear a mask because they are designated cooling centers and that is the Health Guidance we have is that we want everybody to be able to wear their masks in order to keep safe and healthy as possible. Another option for cooling centers is at brentwood, that is open until 6 00 tonight. After that, maybe the cool breezes will settle in. Other counties are opening ug up cooling centers today. We are are curating them and creating a a list for you on our website at at kpix. Com. Just in, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. Democrats say it will lower your energy and healthcare costs while the republicans against it say it is is a tax and spending spree. Cbs cbs news correspondent natalie brand takes a closer look at what it means for your. Reporter President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law tuesday, calling the massive climate and Health Legislation historic. Let me say from the start, for this law the American People people won a special interests. Interests loss. Reporter directs nearly 400 400 billion in climate and energy programs, including tax credits and incentives to cut emissions by roughly 40 over the next eight years. Fred krupp krupp of the Environmental Defense fund says the money comes at a crucial time. We are at a Tipping Point with electric trucks, electric cars, Solar Wind Power and Battery Storage is almost there. There. These incentives will get get us there. Reporter with less than three months until november up for midterm elections, the president plans to hit the road in the coming weeks to explain what is in the landmark legislation. Democrats say the new law will reduce costs for seniors by expanding medicares power to negotiate the price of drugs although initially starting in 20 26. The motion is adopted. Reporter the bill passed with no gop support. Nonpartisan nonpartisan analysts say it is not likely to do much to put a judge in the high inflation americans have faced. Democrats, more than any other majority in history, are addicted to spending other peoples money, regardless of what we, as a country can affor. Can afford. Reporter democrats said the legislation will pay for itself and cut the federal deficit by raising revenue through increased tax enforcement and a 15 minimum corporate tax. Natalie brand, cbs news, the white house. By 2025 that legislation is set to cap outofpocket costs you pay for prescription drugs to 2000 a year if you are medicare recipient. First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for covid19. A spokesperson says her symptoms are mild. Dr. Biden will stay isolated in South Carolina until until she has two negative tests. In the fight against covid, regulators in bretnall the first first in the world to approve a vaccine booster that targets two two variants. Tina krauss has that story. Reporter the vaccine, made by moderna, will target both the original coronavirus circulated circulated in 2020 and the omicron variant, first detected in november. British regulator said in a statement, the adult booster dose met safety, quality quality and effectiveness standards. Side effects were the the same as the original Moderna Moderna booster, typically mild and resolved on their own. No serious safety concerns were identified. Britains Health Secretary caused good news for the uk population. The uk is the first place in the world to license this new me new medicine and that means people can get access to a broader immunity then would otherwise be the case. Reporter the omicron subvariant smacked ba. 4 and ba. 5 are driving the latest covid surge around the world in in the u. S. The World Health Organization said it is more contagious than the original omicron and has genetic differences that earlier shots may not address. Uk regulator said an analysis showed the updated booster also introduced a good rude dude response between the ba. 4 and ba. 5 subvariants. Tina krauss, cbs news, london. Lets turn to the fight against monkeypox. The federal government says there are now 4442 doses available for local health departments. That is ahead of schedule thanks to the feds new vaccine strategy which allows providers to give a a does one fifth of the size of the previous doses. Big news to report for people people who have hearing loss. If if you are among them, listen up. Soon, hearing aids will be available over the counter starting in october. The va to fda says people can buy certain hearing aids from stores or even even online and they will cost you a fraction of what you would would pay for them months ago. The Health Experts say hearing loss is pretty common but insurance does not always cover nds dollars for a pair. Happy people there and for good reason. More gains on wall street as we watch your wallet today. That is fueled in part from good earnings reports from walmart and home depot. The dow was up to 39 today, the s p was up 8. The latest on the fbis search of former president Donald Trumps own. Several outlets, including cbs news, have petitioned the court to unseal the affidavit used as justification in the search. A judge set the hearing for thursday but as cbs news skyler skyler henry is about to tell you, mr. Trump winsett unsealed even sooner. Reporter former President Donald Trump wants to see the affidavit used to authorize the search warrant for his florida home. I call for the Immediate Release for the completely unredacted affidavit pertaining to this horrible and shocking break in. The department of justice is fighting to keep the affidavit sealed. In Court Documents filed late monday, prosecutors argue that making the affidavit public would cause cause significant and irreparable damage. The doj said said it would also serve as a road map to the governments Ongoing Investigation and chill future cooperation from witnesses. Anger over the search has led to a rise in threats from federal law enforcement. The fbi is not taking those thrs those threats likely, increasing increasing security outside the headquarters in washington. Authorities arrested 46yearold 46yearold adam bies, saying he he threatened to kill fbi agents agents and wrote on the far right media site, gab, you have declared war on us and now it is is open season on you. He has been charged with one count of threatening law enforcement. This follows an ohio man who was was killed last week after attempting to breach the fbi office in cincinnati. Fbi and doj issued a joint bulletin noting the call for civil war and armed rebellion in online post. Skyler henry, cbs news, washington. Airline prices are falling. What you need to know if you want to californians have a choice between two initiatives on sports betting. Prop 27 generates hundreds of millions every year to permanently fund getting people off the streets a prop 26 . Not a dime to solve homelessness prop 27 has strong protections to prevent minors from betting. Prop 26 . No protections for minors. Prop 27 helps every tribe, including disadvantaged tribes. Prop 26 . Nothing for disadvantaged tribes vote yes on 27. Welcome back. Computer giant apple is bringing you back to the office in the bay area. The tech giant has been working on its return to office since june 2021, but with covid speights, they kept pushing plans back. Now, apple will require employees to be in the office at at least three days a week. The new policy will take effect in Silicon Valley and spread to heces glal lookinminor at ig. Last week ai were down 27 on average since may. Now, we are glad to tell you they have dropped even furt. Ev anne makovec talked to senior travel advisors advisors about the falling prices. It is wnanotr 10 and it it will go down another 10 next next week. It will drop 47 over over the period of a month during the fourth quarter. This this is across the board on domestic and international tickets. Reporter lets start with domestic airlines. They are still canceling some flights, especially smaller markets. How does that affect things . In a big way. Today alone, American Airlines announced a 31 cut in its november schedule schedule one. Letter small communities are getting less air air service or losing it entirely. What are the airlines doing . Their doubling and tripling down on longhaul international routes. From seattle to cape town or from Los Los Angeles to tahiti. The big double down airline is united. They have become the largest transatlantic carrier in the world, more than british air, delta and american combined. They are going to the Canary Islands and the azores, they are are going to jordan. They have all these new routes they have announced. They have to operate them and it is a lower period of of time for the fourth quarter. What does that meanlower rfroutes throughout the rest of the year. Year. Essentially, it becomes a buyers market. I am really getting the buy from you peter i need to plan a trip to europe. Reporter in the meantime, what you think the airlines have have learned from the pandemic . We have seen so many changes since then. What i hope they have learned, and even more importantly i hope they have applied, you cannot publish a schedule if you know you cant support it. The d. O. T. , the u. S. U. S. Department of transportation, is considering rulemaking changes to hold airlines accountable. They will have to justify improve they can can physically support and operate those flights. Hopefully, that lesson will be applied, not just learned. From this point on, not through 2022 but beyond then. Your kids are going somewhere, backtoschool. That continues across the bay area this week. Today students in petal and had their turn. We hope they had a good day. A festive atmosphere greeted students at mcdowell elementary school. Students there are being being taught in a bilateral approach. By about fourth or fifth grade they start to level off at at about 5050, 50 english, 50 50 spanish. It is bilingualism, bilingualism, biculturalism as the goal. Backtoschool shopping comes comes with shopping scams. Be on on the lookout. We have information you need to know. Many of these scams are happening online. What Security Solutions expert told us ohool supplies are ensive. Expensive. You know, if somebody somebody sees something they can save 85 on a set of textbooks or Something Like that, their odds of engaging with that linkr link or with that individual are are pretty high. All right, some of the red flags to look out for is you are are buying your number two yellow pencils, being contacted by a number or email address you you never had contact with before. They dont just show up automatically if they are legit. Legit. Also, typos in the email or addresses will warn you not to click on them. Look for those those typos. Check it out first by opening up a new browser and looking for the deal on the actual companys website. Another reminder, protect yourself with the security up on on your mobile device when using using your phone to browse and. And shop. Alrighfialert for meteolt hegg. I am lieve it. We are swirling by a lot of temperatures in the 90s, if not above 100 degrees. The worst of the heat is happening now, shers wibe possle, hes pa includthe potential for uple in with such dry fire conditions. When we get past that, we are in in for a normal fall pattern as as we go into the weekend. We could look forward to that but lets talk about the dry lightning thread. Futurecast shows some of the showers trying trying to make a run into the Santa Clara Valley by wednesday morning. That activity would not not be likely to produce cloud to ground lightning. It is not the favorable time of day for it. It is something we will have have to monitor at any point in the day. This one from south to north as we head further into wednesday. We will have to watch watch the rater all day. If we are going to get any numerous underground lightning strike, more than one or two of any storm, they are likely to develop over the north bay from late morning into the afternoon hours. Futurecast shows some of the more activity trying to develop through the afternoon. By the time we hit 5 00, things will quiet down, but the time frame from 5 00 am until 5 00 pm pm is when we really have to watch for the potential of any dry lightning strikes it to such such dry fire fuels. Overall, it it is just a 20 storm chance. This is one of those low probability but high consequence consequence events if the lightning and gusty winds produce any new fires or fan flames of fires, that is a concern. The levels of the atmosphere will be dry enough that any rain from the storms will evaporate before it hits the ground. The system causing this will help to improve the air quality. It is a doubleedgd a doubleedged sword. It is unhealthy for sensitive groups in the north bay and east bay today. That should improve to the moderate category across the the board tomorrow with better and better air quality heading into the weekend. For now, the haze is still on the horizon of mount diablo. Temperatures are all overit is one, 71 at San Francisco, 73 oakland. Oakland. Far from the heat inland, 95 in san jose, 98 Santa Santa Rosa in 100 degrees in the east bay. If you are heading heading out to the giants game, should be nice with mostly clear clear skies. The temperature game time at 6 45 around 70 degrees. A pleasant august evening near the bay. Inland it will be hot until the sun goes down. Temperatures will stay warm overnight, only dropping to to the low to mid 60s inland wih inland with a 50s along the bay and coast. High temperatures tomorrow are still well above normal. We will be right back away for the most extreme heat. We are talking mostly 70s around around the bay, mostly 60s around the coast with a mix of 80s and 90s inland. The hot spots will reach the upper 90s in fairfield, antioch in livermore, as opposed to the 105 105 degree readings we had today. Looking ahead to the weekend, if we want to focus on good news, saturday and sunday we have nearnormal temperatures temperatures in the forecast. 60s and 70s around the bay with 80s inland. Tomorrow is another first alert weather deck because the threat of popup showers and thunderstorms, again, low chance overall, sousgh nsnc an those dry lightning strikes to occur. Still ahead, we are highlighting one of the 49ersiv him a fan favorite on and off the field. Dont forget to join us for our new californians have a choice between two initiatives on sports betting. Prop 27 generates hundreds of millions every year to permanently fund getting people off the streets a prop 26 . Not a dime to solve homelessness prop 27 has strong protections to prevent minors from betting. Prop 26 . No protections for minors. Prop 27 helps every tribe, includ

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