from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. cooler temperatures are on their way, but they won't be sticking around for too long. we will let you know when we will see triple digits again. it wasn't just the weather heating of this weekend.

terrorism, as well. aroldis heatwave had in boosting visitors to the bay area. >> we are seeing tourists from all over the world but it is a good sign. a lot of people want to get out of the heat, and came out to san francisco to cool off a bit. as more and more flyers continue fires continue sparking across the state, we tagalong with an elite group of firefighters tasked with jumping right into the heart of the wildfires. good evening, i'm andria nakano. the cooldown is finally on the way, but don't get too comfortable, yet. we are only getting a temporary break before things heat up again. >> i have a real important caveat on that cooldown today and tomorrow are the cooldown we are talking about here , still 10 degrees above average if you are in lens. we are still doing temperatures that are hot. we are still talking about temperatures well into the 90s for many locations. i want to start their. the first

thing we will do is use the virtual map to look at tomorrow's daytime highs, and then we will talk about what really does need to be a headline in the forecast. the heat is going to intensify by wednesday and thursday . not as bad as saturday was. saturday was the hottest day of this heatwave so far. it's not going to be that bad but it will be close. make sure that you are staying on top of this and doing what you can to take care of yourself. here is tomorrow. 93 for concorde, we will see temperatures climb to 98 in livermore. should we really say it is cooling down? that is as low as it is going before we start warming back up again on wednesday and thursday. san jose, your numbers will be in the low 90s. here is one of the most important takeaways, as always. we are still under an excessive heat warning. even with this drop in temperatures , the national weather service is keeping that going, because this is a long-duration event. we are still well above average and another spike is coming. heat impacts can be brought on by long-duration events like

this. heat advisory also stays in effect until we get to wednesday. i mentioned this possibility, not only a possibility, but a fascinating connection, between what is making national news tonight, in terms of hurricane beryl, heading towards the texas coast , re-intensifying out to a category one. when we look at the big picture on the globe you can see, there is beryl, here we are. hurricane beryl will play a role, it will be one of the driving factors, in fact, from the connectedness of the atmosphere over the united states that is going to allow our heatwave to stall. when we get back together again in the complete forecast, yeah, we will look at hurricane beryl. i will show you what this looks like as it makes landfall and then we will sort out the

connection. how is it that will make it noticeably hotter, here, on thursday? i will it's plain that coming up next in just a bit. back to you, andria. >> thank you. in the east bay, parks were backed up again this weekend after the regional park district shut them down because of excessive heat and extreme fire conditions. anthony sabella regional park just opened. bikers and hikers tell us it was perfect weather to be outside. >> it's beautiful. we didn't think it would be open today but we came on up. >> a few people out there, some bikers, nice and cool today. >> we are in a heat wave services cooler . this is a good area to train. >> east bay regional park district says parks are still under red flag warning restrictions, which means no open fires or barbecues, and no driving or parking in the grass. san jose is extending its hours at cooling centers through wednesday. the three centers will be open until 9:00 each night . at least one person in san jose has died due to the heat. warm weather has translated into a record-breaking fourth of july travel weekend, as we take a live look across the bay

area airports, the tsa says they screened more than 3 million people across the country today. the most in agency history. air travel overall is up 7% today, compared with last year, with more than 240,000 of those passengers passing through lax alone. industry experts say an 18% drop in ticket prices from this time last year is a big part for the surge. american airlines and set a new record for the most passengers in a single day at 775,000. they had to add extra flights to their homes in charlotte and phoenix to help deal with the surge in travelers. this is what it looks like at sfo. not as busy as los angeles, but there was still a good amount of travelers. some people we talked to say travels went smoothly since they got to the airport early.

another 61 million americans drove back from their fourth of july vacations, today. aaa expects tomorrow to be just as busy as it was today with the peak expected between 2:00 and 8:00 monday afternoon. the weather and holiday meant a boosting visitors to san francisco. both tourists and locals from the east bay were looking for a cooler place to enjoy the fourth of july weekend. da lin has more on just how much tourism is starting to heat up again. >> reporter: pool weather in the scorching hot east bay typically means the 70s to 80s in san francisco. we found a lot of folks wearing jackets in the evening along the waterfront. >> i appreciate even this weather. >> reporter: many experts say the nice weather brought in business. >> a lot of our customers the last couple days were from the central valley. sacramento, southern california. they were all just trying to get out of the heat. a lot of our locals,

as well. >> reporter: he runs san francisco sightseeing tours. >> definitely helped out, tourists ended up staying for friday, saturday, and sunday. >> reporter: he says that while his business is not back to pre-pandemic levels, this year has been better than the last couple of years. >> we are seeing an uptick in tourism. june was a little bit better, in july we have been off to a really good start. >> reporter: bars and restaurants say they have noticed a stronger start to the summer season, as well. >> if you are in a good place with good product and you have good people working for you, it's going to be fine. >> reporter: san francisco travel experts say domestic tourists and european visitors have come back to the city but they are still missing a big chunk of the asian market. they say only about 50% of the chinese tourists have returned

, and traditionally, chinese visitors spend big money in san francisco. >> the chinese tourists, we are not seeing very much of. it has been that way for about four years now. >> reporter: with a bit of help from the weather , he is of the mystic. >> we hope we will see a strong summer and continue to supported trend we are seeing. >> reporter: travel experts predict the number of chinese visitors will return to pre-pandemic levels by 2026, so, not quite back to normal yet, still a couple of more years to go. >> thanks. you can stay up-to-date with the cooldown and warm-up heading our way this week on kpix.com or streaming on cbs news bay area and the cbs news app. turning to our fire watch, some evacuees are home tonight after a fire forced them out of their homes in placer county. the pay fire broke out yesterday in pleasantville, not

too far away from the airport. it got dangerously close to multiple neighborhoods, but firefighters were able to stop the flames from destroying any homes. so far it has burned 77 acres, and is 25% contained. in the meantime in sonoma county, cal fire says an arrest has been made in connection with a grass fire in geyserville. firefighters say yesterday's pocket fire was sparked by a man using a riding lawnmower to cut dead grass. those types of lawnmowers are designed for wet, green lawns, and not for dry brush or grass. the pocket fire has burned 11 acres, and is 90% contained. down in southern california, evacuation warnings are underway as crews continue to battle the fast-growing fire in santa barbara county. lake fire has exploded to more than 60,000 acres, with only 8% containment. it broke out on friday near the los padres national forest.

the thompson fire burning outside orville in butte county has grown to more than 3700 acres. so far, it has destroyed at least 26 buildings, and according to cal fire, half of those were homes. the good news is, containment has grown to more than 94%. air units from cal fire's grass valley base are battling the fire at the tahoe national forest but they say it is spreading quickly and is currently burning more than 54 acres. no word on containment, yet. hikers in the area say they saw the fire start from an unattended camp fire. fires like those, deep in the wilderness, are difficult, if not impossible for normal fire crews to reach, which is when the states elite group of firefighters are called in to literally dive into the heart of the blaze. vitae hod reports. >> reporter: when 33-year-old cole skinner says he will be dropping by his workplace, he means it literally. for the last four years, this has been his commute. a 3000 foot

death-defying dive with views that are hard to beat. cole is a part of an elite group of firefighters has been operating in places where roads don't exist. called smoke jumpers, they parachute directly into the flames. when the siren sounds, they pack on their gear, they load onto a seat 23 sherpa plane. >> we have about two minutes to get our gear on and we are boarded on the planes in less than 10 minutes. >> reporter: becoming a smoke jumper isn't for the faint of heart, you need to be in top physical shape with some firefighting experience. their missions are often miles away from civilization, which is why they bring everything they need with them. their gear can often way up to 120 pounds. >> how hot does it get in one of these things? >> pretty hot.

>> reporter: smoke jumping dates back to 1939, when the u.s. forest service realized it needed to stop remote fires before they became too big to handle. in all, there are about 400 smoke jumpers in the u.s., but as climate change intensifies, their jobs have become more demanding. >> i experienced stuff i had never seen before. >> reporter: mitch hogans and is the base manager, and a smoke jumper of 25 years. he says these days, fire seasons are getting longer and longer. >> normally, fire season wouldn't start until june. now it is starting end of april. >> reporter: the daily grind can be both dangerous and physically demanding , and that is exactly why cole says the moment that he heard about the program, he jumped at the chance to join. >> no one else gets to parachute out of a plane to fight a fire. that is what we do here. it was a dream, and when it came true with was everything it was supposed to be. >> reporter: now that he has

landed the perfect job, the sky is no longer the limit. is still ahead, athletes from the special olympics got a chance to take the field in the south bay against professional players from the mls. it was a celebration decades in the making, how former students came together to help their teacher celebrate a birthday milestone.

let's go to first alert meteorologist darren peck. >> we have to talk about the connection between what will make headlines tonight, hurricane beryl, which is about to come on shore in the next few hours, and our heatwave. you can actually see both of those when we use the virtual set this way. we will take a look at hurricane beryl's progression in a second. when you look at the globe as a whole, there are clouds everywhere. look at california. a big blank spot. so, on the one hand, you can visualize the effect that the center of high pressure has over california and much of the west right now. it is effectively squashed out the clouds. that is our focus. we will return to the heatwave and that is going to be the main discussion in this forecast in terms of why we have to go back up. wednesday and thursday the numbers are

going back to. first, here is hurricane beryl, you can watch that come on shore, and re-intensified category one. it makes landfall somewhere between corpus christie in houston. probably around 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. our time. it will be a big story and a major storm surge issue. strong wind of course. hurricane beryl then falls apart, no longer a hurricane, no longer a tropical storm. it moves across the upper midsection of the country and that is going to throw the entire balance off a little bit, and it is going to slow down the westward progression of our heatwave . speaking of which, you can see the excessive heat warning. let's use the virtual map for a second, because i want to get you ready for tomorrow. we will look at everyone's daytime highs now on the virtual map and when you see the fact that we are getting a break here, have the temperatures have come down just a little bit, that is

not much of a victory. let me get rid of our globe there. let's get specific into microclimates, just to get you ready for monday, so that you can see what your part of the bay is going to do. we still have a lot of locations on here , numbers are still climbing into the upper 90s. upper 90 in san jose. that is why we have that excessive heat warning in place, that will stay with us until we get to wednesday night. of course, there is also the heat advisory in place for the interior of the bay, and that stays in effect until wednesday night as well. to get a better handle on hurricane beryl's connection to this, if we look at what is going on over us, here is your arcing ridge of high pressure clearing away the storm, can't get to us because it is getting blocked by that ridge. in the

meantime, look at hurricane beryl over here. the remains will be a big mass of cool, heavy, damp air. it is an area of low pressure that will march its way across the midsection of the country, and as a result, it will act like a block. as that storm is off to the north, it puts a little bit of a block on the atmosphere, so, our big dome of heat will keep marching, what happens on thursday as we stop it right there. look at the big mass of green out there. colder dense air stopped the full progression of our heatwave. it would have kept going up we would have gotten numbers a bit lower, but since it stalled out right there, now we are stuck. the numbers are going back up, let's use the seven-day forecast and we can get a better handle on what that looks like. we will start out with our inland microclimate and you can see temperatures jumping. really, tuesday into wednesday is the big step up. thursday is the peak. this is not as bad as saturday was, but it is close. it is also going

to be day 11 of this heatwave . that is really the challenge, here. it is the long-duration nature of this, it is the cumulative heat impacts and human health concerns. that is why the national weather service expanded the excessive heat warning, that is why we are still in first alert status for the time being. there does appear to be better news by sunday, and need to take good care of ourselves for the next five days. after the break, a bay area political scientist weighs in on president biden's future on the campaign, and when we will know about a possible replacement. coming up on game day , we break down klay thompson's departure from golden state, and what could be next for the dubs. the mlb all-star rosters

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once again today, president biden's age and ability were top of the agenda in washington as house democrats met to discuss the future of his candidacy more than a week after the first presidential debate , despite the president vowing not to dropout. cbs news has learned during the meeting, several more senior house democrats came forward, saying they think the president should exit the race, adding to the small but growing list of detractors within biden's own party. we spoke with a political science professor from san jose state university about what to expect from democrats in the next few days. >> reporter: the election is now 120 days away. even though president biden maintains that he will stay in the race, a political science professor at san jose state university believes it is more likely than not, that the democrats will have another candidate at the top of the ticket come november.

>> reporter: president biden was back on the campaign trail on sunday, greeted by lawmakers in the swing state of pennsylvania. he then went on to speak at a church in philadelphia. >> the world is looking to america, not to carry the burden, but to leave their hopes. >> reporter: as the president continues to campaign, calls from fellow democrats for him to step aside continue to grow, to the point that melinda jackson, a political science professor at san jose state believes it may result in biden agreeing to step aside. >> given what we have seen in that debate with trump and since then, it is looking more and more likely to me , that we may have a change at the top of the ticket. >> reporter: plenty of democrats still publicly stand by the president, such as california governor gavin newsom. and vice president kamala harris, both campaigning for biden this weekend. >> they are supporting the president , and that will be the case right up until the day

he steps down, if indeed that happens. >> reporter: if biden decides to bow out and the party were to replace him -- >> if i were giving advice to the democrats at this point, i would say they really need to be a bit ruthless and think about who is going to have the best chance to win against trump, not who deserves the nomination the most, or who has been most loyal to the party, whose turn it is. >> reporter: in the meantime, former president trump has largely remained out of the spotlight since the debate. >> i think republicans are being smart to just , you know, let the chaos play out on the democratic side but they are probably having a lot of hypotheticals behind the scenes. >> reporter: i asked professor jackson what she thinks a timeline could look like. she told me she believes a decision is imminent, and could come in the next few days. coming up next, they were in her classroom in the 1970s and 80s. now they are

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learning fun. >> reporter: it was an experience. >> i just always felt that we were all engaged in some process together that was very exciting, and a lot of fun. >> they need you, and you are there for them, they never forget . >> and they didn't. she started to pursue teaching in the 1940s . some of her former students also ended up becoming teachers as well. coming up next, the san jose earthquakes teamed up with athletes from the northern california special olympics

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hello and welcome to game day. and mlb all stars have been announced as the teams gear up before the midsummer classic. the giants looking to win their fourth series in a row. is this kid going to eat all of that popcorn by himself? i hope not for his parent's sake. michael conforto blasts one 440 feet into the right field seats. two run homer and his tenth of the year. he had three rbis in the game.