Our dangerous heat wave arrived today, and its only going to get hotter tomorrow. Were tracking the recordbreaking temperatures. Excessi creating several concerns. One, health. Two, slow business traffic. Three, potential power shutoffs. Raising money for the Boulder Creek volunteer fire department. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us, im indion lim. Imatcri is on, another scorr tomorrow. Lets get to meteorologist drew tuma. Were tracking even hotter temperatures tomorrow, eric and dion. Right now, a warm night, 79 in the city. 80 san jose. 77 in oakland. The air quality is moderate across the entire region, however, if you have been smelling a pretty strong, new smell of smoke, there is in fre start today, the creek fire. It did send a lot of smoke into the atmosphere. There are no new fires in the bay area tonight, but there is a lot of smoke in our atmosphere from that fire in Fresno County. Future tracker temperatures, get your workout in early by 8
Thats like churches across the bay area united in San Francisco on sunday as much as the closure of churches and places of hundreds join the procession making stops at several churches in city hall were here because we need to we need to worship this is a part the summer tina says a member at Saint Anthonys in San Franciscos Mission District plan here to show my support to the church that many of these churches are holding mass a resume like the internet demonstrators say its important for them to be packed inside the church its morning hard for me than we can do the rules and theres so we will need when he over the single with having mass outside we need the 3 the mass walk into that saint marys cathedral where multiple masses took place outdoors in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. Now to our coronavirus coverage as the United States is inching closer to nearly 200,000 covid19 deaths, heres a look now at the latest numbers worldwide there are nearly 31 million cases, the Unit
To start off this workweek 50s and 60s for current temperatures, a nice cool start to what will be a pretty pleasant finish to the day. Ill tell you more about that. Still ahead michelle. Robin time to pack up roll out to head to work and hit the roads and freeways were checking in on the bridges which are getting a little kids busy depending on where youre heading this morning. Like if you take 92 and you need to make that trip from the east bay over to the peninsula we already have some crowding here on the san mateo bridge. No problems its just off to a sluggish start as usual that actually started an hour ago, and its still busy to the peninsula. Were checking in on the bay bridge were hot spot free into San Francisco, no delays or issues across the upper deck right through downtown San Francisco. So under 10 minutes for your drive and they were just speaking at some drive times around the bay area they all look good rain the green for highway for west through contra costa county,
Lotus and im Vicki Liviakis some gusty winds mean that any fire that has sparked a can spread rapidly chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here tracking those winds for us tonight want various he has some breaking down guys down below me the urban areas where most of us live not much in the way of wind 5 mile an hour winds in oakland youve got 6 right now in the nevada 6 in the petaluma but certainly up above. Its a completely different story in fact those winds getting very gusty across some of the mountain tops and thats what were concerned about thats red flag warnings have been posted weve seen winds over 30 almost 40 Miles Per Hour across some of the peaks in the north bay expected to pick up here as we head through the next few hours and probably top out about one 32 oclock in the morning. Before we watch the winds begin to subside so red flag warnings are posted of course we just had a record heat wave things very dry out there now weve got the gusty winds above a 1000 feet also
Uncertainty about where fiscal stimulus is going to go in the future. The major stock averages are all coming off their 3rd consecutive losing week the u k apparently reported considering another National Lockdown to try to stop an increase in coronavirus cases there so that could rattle the Global Markets annalee here weve got negotiations for a second stimulus bill kind of complicated now with the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. So thats also sending shock waves through wall street tech shares which had been riding high are all getting hit hard today, Apple Microsoft amazon all off by at least one percent and then if youve been following the latest with shares of an electric car and Truck Company is thought to be a major competitor to tesla well we have news this morning that trevor milton, its founder is voluntarily stepping down now as executive chairman and its board member as we have the department of justice and the sec. Apparently questioning some of the c