the next seven, eight, nine, ten days, we'll experience record breaking temperatures. >> into the reds. a heat wave hits california. officials are urging people to please limit your power useful also, a spare the air alert is in effect. the air quality not being helped by the black smoke from flaring at the chevron refinery in richmond. good afternoon. thank you for joining us. >> you're looking live at our mt. tam camera. the temperatures are hitting triple digits across the bay area. you can probably tell, it looks hot. let's head to sandhya for a first look at the forecast. >> yeah. and kristen and larry, it is record setting. take a look at the temperature. downtown, 95 so far. breaking the previous record.

oakland, 95 so far. san jose, triple digits. these are not the official highs. these are highs so far. there will be a lot more added to this list. look at this map. everyone other than half moon bay in the 90s and 100s. extreme heat, absolutely. 109 in fairfield. we have the dangerous heat wave prompting much of the bay area to go under that excessive heat warning until 9:00 p.m. for the inland spots on wednesday. there is a high risk of heat illnesses. i'll let you know how long this heat wave will last and what is changing for your weekend, coming right up. >>right.anyou. with te power grid operator has issued a statewide flex alert. it asks to you conserve energy as much as possible until 10:00 p.m. there was a flaring incident

at the she have ronachevron in spewing black smoke into the afrlt you could see it for miles and miles. live with more on the story, eric? >> reporter: larry, most of us know around here, the hot weather and spare the air days go together like salt and pepper. it is very unfortunate, when bay area air quality folks don't want us pumping smoke into the air that something huge like this at the chevron refinery, happens. >> reporter: this is the last thing anyone wants to see on a spare the air day. just before noon, thick plumes of smoke began pumping into the air from the stacks at the chevron refinery. the industry calls it burning overessurized gas preventping hydro carbons into the atmosphere. chevron said it was due to an upset in a process unit. it went on to say, flares are a safety device used in refineries

to relieve pressure during the refining process. firefighters and county health officials quickly took air quality readings. >> fortunately, it was in the parts per billion. >> there were no injuries at the plan and no reports of health issues in the surrounding areas but chevron warns there could be intermittent flaring throughout the day. they are usually harmless but they go pose a threat to those with exist go respiratory problems. an ominous worry in the age of coronavirus. that's why they'll be watching and investigating. >> we expect the highest standards from all our refineries.ot done for safety purposes, or it was done in a way that does not go by the district violations.

so folks can keep one eye on the refinery stacks and another digits. and most public pools are shut down because of covid-19. these two women tried to get up early today for a morning walk at walnut creek's heather farm park and quickly found it a little too warm for comfort. >> we got stuck in what feels like maybe 88, maybe 90 degrees already. >> reporter: it was 99:00 and 10:00 this morning so it was already hot. you can call around to see where the cooling centers are. call the county health department or your local officials in yourtown. keep in mind with covid-19, they are limiting the number of people who can go in there and making they will maintain social distance. eric thomas, abc7 news.

>> thank you. you were mentioning the cooling centers that are open around the bay area. three in contra costa county, located at 4545 delta 400 ellen hill way and 1305 mcdonald avenue in richmond. the hours are 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. as for the south bay, cooling centers are open there. they are covid-19 ready as the heat wave could affect many of the people who are already struggling. here's chris reyes where you can get relief. >> reporter: running a cooling central in the time of pandemic means more resoce everyones masks must be worn at all times. disaster workers are on staff and inside, plenty of social distancing. >> we need to make sure there is enough hand sanitizer, bottled water. so there is a lot of consideration that goes into our cooling center. >> reporter: in the past, cooling centers in san jose have not been used anywhere near capacity. with the pandemic, it is a different situation with so many

other options closed. this fountain in down san jose shut down. any other summer, it would have been a place families could gather to cool down. same with mlk library. closed. it was a place for top get support from bill wilson central and that's why they've prepared their drop-in space to help with the heat. >> we have tables with umbrellas. we do offer water. we have support groups and we offer popsicles or ice cream during that time, a little cooling period. >> reporter: the central open to youth 18 to 24 offers wi-fi. the same with san jose's three cooling centers, open from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. wednesday. >> we have tables set up. family style tables. we're not sure what to expect. we could have a higher turnout. especially with families doing distance learning. we're here to help and serve our community. >> reporter: downtown san jose, we spotted some with their masks off.

at bill wilson central, they're giving extra reminders. it may be hot but keep your masks on. >> because of times like this when it is hot, people don't want to walk around with a mask on at 100 and something degrees. >> reporter: abc7 news. san francisco restaurants offering outdoor dining may see a boost from this warm weather. we were at way fair tavern in the financial district. they do have 16 tables set up out front. most were filled this afternoon. >> there is a sweet spot between 11:30 and 1:30 where the whole alley way gets lit up in sunshine. people are starting to find out about that. and we'll be bathe in the sunshine all day long. >> the restaurant says they have a great loyal following that has helped sustain them during the pandemic. surfers and beachgors were out early today at the beach in pacifica. the city's mayor is sending a message to out of town here's rthing about heading west this

weekend. that message is, why dome you weekend.home, please? bri touofy they may do it labor day weekend as well. for now they are open. some other bay area beaches drew crowds today. in san rafael, offering beachgoers relief from the heat but temps still above 90 degrees. large crowds gathered at crown beach this afternoon where the temperatures will top 90 degrees. there are few better places to escape the heat than the coastal it is scorching there as well right now. here's a picture. a live shot from the boardwalk. the main beach in santa cruz. from the looks of the crowd, everybody appears to be social distancing. so that is good news. >> it is. global coronavirus cases today though, past the 2lion that number includes many people who have already recovered. nearly 5.3 million of those cases are here in the u.s. the bay area is approaching 71,000 cases and nearly 1,000

deaths. governor newsom provided an update today on the data glitch which led to thousands of under reported covid cases. melanie woodrow has the very latest. >> reporter: ahead of the weekend, governor newsom said the state had finished organizing thousands of back logged covid-19 cases which resulted if a reason data glitch. >> this will be the last day. we'll have to report back logged cases. >> reporter: the governor reported 7934 covid-19 cases as of thursday. but said 4429 of those cases had been back logged. putting the new number at 3,505 covid cases. >> on monday we'll break down by county a detailed so people will have with clarity and precision every single number. again on the county by county basis. >> reporter: the county watch list has been frozen since the data glitch was first noticed

and reported. in order for a county to be removed from the watch list, that county must meet its threshold for all metrics for three days. a critical score card as individual counties make decisions about students returning to the classroom. the governor estimated more than 90% of california students are likely to start the school year with distance learning. >> please wear a mask, continue to physically distance. these are rules and guidelines that we put out within our education system, when, not if we reopen for in-person learning. you ask when they will open? sooner than later if we continue to wear a mask, continue to take seriously the need to physically nnedn executive order has alreay and initiatives to minimize the divide and internet access for all students. abc7 news. parents of san francisco school kids received a breakdown

today on what distance learning will look like for the fall semester which starts on monday. the virtual meeting hosted by supervisors and the district officials among others, outlined a long list of goals and expectations. most notably, each student will receive a minimum of two hours of teacher instruction and interaction each day. >> we want every one of our students should have daily live interaction. every day. there is a phone call, a zoom call, some way that the educator is connectioning with that student. just about wellness and checking in but also about teaching and learning and instruction. >> classes in most schools will begin at 9:00 in the morning. unlike last spring, students will receive devices and materials at their school sites, not a hub. and there they'll get to meet their educators face to face. >> staffing shortages. the state digging into nursing homes' staffing shortages. a race for a vaccine.

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with more than ten bullets strikes at the core of the second amendment, the right to arm self-defense. there is no word yet on whether california will ask the full appellate court to reconsider this ruling or appeal it directly to the supreme court. new at 4:00, nursing home staffing shortages tied with infection control problems. the i-team is digging into both issues as facilities face a looming dead line to report staffing data to the state. stephanie sierra has the story. >> people are dying in nursing homes. >> i find out yesterday that she tested positive. >> the phone would ring and ring for 25 minutes. >> these three families all ngshare in n homes. lisa's mother, a resident of milbury skilled care, said she could never get her medicine. >> i couldn't get ahold of her for days and then i find out she's sick. >> she was scared about

infectioncontro >> p without masks. >> and scott didn't get to say goodbye to his father before he died at the gateway care and rehabilitation central in hayward. he said staff couldn't answer the phone. >> it was hard. i'm sorry. >> reporter: according to an abc7 analysis, nursing homes across the bay area failed to meet staffing requirements last year more than 1,600 times. the hot spot is in alameda county. the abc7 i-team flagged 23 facilities in the county that failed staffing requirements. state regulators have issued 481 deficiencies. new data shows more than half the facilities were also cited with infection-related deficiencies. why isn't the california department of public health flagging publicties? the state declined our interview request but sent the following statement saying, we conduct surveys to check on compliance. the agency add, we have strike

teams deployed to assist health care facilities with preventing and improve infection control. attorney mike dar said both those efforts are inadequate. >> the california department of public health kind of per pleflingly, during this pandemic, has shifted away from enforcement, away from citing bad facilities, into a kind of supportive role which is a weird thing for a regulator. >> i am inspectors who, youly write citations are now acting like consultants. >> that creates a terrible conflict of interest. >> reporter: for the i-team. learso hand out a commendation to a good smarlt an who helped a lady to cross the street. she got out of her car. this happened on wednesday. and she help another woman across the street. the video was taken by a local lions chuck member and one city councilmember wants to connect with that good samaritan.

>> i recognized the area right away as san bruno and i was relieved that it was good news. my heart just melted. i thought this woman jumped out of her car. nobody was honking. everybody saw what was going on. >> fantastic, right? san bruno calls it self-city with a heart. it even as a neighborhood in the shame of shape of a heart. that commendation would be handed out at the next city council meeting. good samaritans? we can use as many as are out there. we need some good stuff out there. what did sandhya call this? scorcher tour >>yeah even san bruno is probably hot. and its usually pretty cool there, sandhya. >> yeah. everyone is dealing with this hot weather. it is torture.

especially for those people who faurlly to go book stores and movie athleters to get air conditioning. this is extreme heat and it is dangerous. so take it easy. you can see very hazyki as we look back toward sutro tower. 91 in san francisco, 98 in oakland. triple dig fritz redwood city to san jose. look at gilroy. 109 degrees. i would call that oppressive. temperature in the triple dimming fritz santa rosa to concord. 105 degrees. we have an excessive heat warning until 9:00 p.m. wednesday. this is know even over yet. two days down. five more to go. this covers all the inland area. we have the excessive h warning. the temperatures up to 110 degrees and until 9:00 p.m.

tonight. adding to our misery, we've had all this. there are thunderstorm in the sierra. this system did produce a few sprinkles earlier today and it is pretty much moving out of here. the up is is shining in san francisco. the heat wave continues through next wednesday. record temperatures again over the weekend. we're looking at heat risk and danger being elevated. you look at poor air quality for parts of the bay area due to smog. temperature in the morning, upper 50s to low 70s. another mild to warm one of we had records this morning. expect more tomorrow morning. tomorrow in the south bay, 103 in gilroy. the temperatures down down just a touch. 96 in san jose nooxt in sunnyvale. we'll lose the humidity on the peninsula. 79 in half moon bay. down san francisco, 80 degrees. still warm. not as hot as today.

92, san rafael. 92 in fremont, castro. 105 had antioch, 104 in livermore, 101 in walnut creek. the accuweather seven day forecast. intense heat continues tomorrow. it eases a little bit on sunday and then extreme heat setting up again on monday. up to 108 degrees inland. mid 70s. the heat wave continues through mid-week and then cooling begins at the coast on thursday. mid 60s there. relief for everyone on friday. i'm just looking to idit's goin days. >> especially with kids sitting in front of their computers trying to focus with that heat. thank you. >> it's torture. dig in. a frig full of food and it is all up for grabs. we'll tell you w it is for,

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a new chapter of the bay bridge series begins tonight. instead of a packed house, it will be cardboard cutouts watching two teams heading in opposite directions. live with more to bay bridge series like no other, surrounded to be on theside.ew friends who

chris? >> reporter: yeah, larry, i tried to stay socially distanced from these cutouts. i heard the giants say they've gone from 5,000 to 10,000. and here we are in a pandemic. we're paying the bay bridge series like we've never seen it before. remember, the giants and a's played in the bay bridge series before the season began. i was going to say march but it was july. the giant won both games. the a's are first, they are rolling right along. the giants are struggling in last place. there is stale chance, even if you grew up in this area, rooting for both teams. >> i never really knew about it when i was a kid. i thought could you like both teams. experienced now as a player, and it is definitely more intense than i thought it was. and especially with fans at the

park. you see it a little bit more. >> whatever reason, the a's are always the underdogs. and probably the underdogs again to the chronicle guys. we're coming in there and we'll prove that we deserve to be where we are now, on top of the a.l. west and hopefully we can put a stamp on that and do what we need to do. >> bragging rights, always on the line between these two tales. a late scratch for the a's. it is jesus luzardo. a pretty good pitching match-up to start the game. we'll have much more tonight in a live report at 6:00. me and my cardboard cutouts send it back to you. >> and ramon laureano will be sitting out this series with the giants. no offense, live baseball, live sports, we're grateful for that. chris, thanks very much. >> all right. a successful collaboration

between kaiser permanente, east bay restaurants. it has been extended to provide east bay families with nourishing meals. >> we expand and expand and expand. the needs are increasing. >> there are families and people that we've beensupport. >> the curry familiar's eat, learn, play organization is getting a big boost from kaiser. a $1.5 million grand eat, learn, play has provided meals to oakland unified school kids and their families. it will be extended well into the school year. >> curry is so active in the community. fantastic. just ahead, contact tracing and covid-19. we'll talk to a doctor behind the state's program. plus, the first week of the new

school wrapping up for some

the race for a covid vaccine on. we've been looking at the efforts to create a vaccine right here in the bay area. today we'll wrap up the week with dr. george rutherford at usual csf. thank you so much for your time. you're the principal investigator in the state of california's tracing program. mabel explain how that works. how it's going and what you're finding. >> sure. time principal investigator for training the contact tracers for california and then getting

them, we do this in cooperation with the state of california department of public health. and the ucla public health school. it is going great guns. we've trained 8,000 people about how to be contact tracers. a lot of these people are repurposed state employees and local employees and based on a very successful model we've had here in san francisco. we're probably, there are other people training contact tracers as well. l.a. and orange counties both have large programs. we're trying to fill the need. and the need isvast. we probably need, i would guess maybe twice as many as we have now. the question is what do you do when they go back to their day jo? san frais we've

libraryians doing it. it is real structural issues. if you're telling a guy who is feeling totally fine and he lives day to day, basically the cash he can put in his pocket from day labor, that he has to go into isolation for ten days, by the way, you won't get paid. by the way, you're doing this for society. but you're going to have to give up a week and a half's words of wages, that's a problem. in san francisco, we've gotten around that by wage enhancements and being able to do income support for people in those categories. plus, finding they will places to stay, plus provide food for their families. so the whole idea between contact tracing is to find people who are infected and infectious and get them into

isolation. finding them, relatively straightforward. into isolation. relatively straightforward. but there is a bit of a drof off. >> and it is difficult if people have to decide between risking their health and putting food on the table for their families. how concerned are you about the heat wave and what that might mean for covid-19 cases? >> it's up with hundr100 in tee. people go to the beaches and start to congregate. that's a problem. it's the same advice. wear masks and try to maintain social distance. everybody is going outside, hopefully, which will be good. you don't want to be in some room with a million of your best friends and some rickety old air conditioner. that's not a good idea. stay outside, get outside, and

hydrate. try to stay in the shade. the best advice i can give. wear your masked. >> what do you think about what president putin announced this week, they've done limited testing, bypassed a lot of steps, recognized it's necessary in the medical community in the west. if mr. putin gave you a syringe right now and said, hey, do you want this? what would you do? >> i would see if he would get it first, frankly. no, no. it's not tested enough. i think the only thing, the chinese have a vaccine they're giving to the people's liberation army now as well. so there are some vaccine that's are being used. but they haven't had phase three trials and we don't know what the safety profiles are. >> what do you think about the trials going on in the united states? are we on the right track in general? there are so many questions

working this. >> we're absolutely on the right track. and we're absolutely doing it the right way and trying to do the right thing. you can trust every single word that comes out of dr. fauci's mouth. if he says we'll have something by the end of the year, first of next year, i would probably call that somewhat optimistic. if write pessimistic, i would say we'll have it by next summer. we're trying to bracket the edges. next year we'll be dealing with vaccine. 2021 will be a transitional year and hopefully in 2022, things will be back to normal. >> 2022 seems like a long way off. we really appreciate your time. best luck braig triple digits in piedmont. thank you. all right, who gets top priority withheht abc7 news andr

app and abc7news.com. >> all right. thank you. a san francisco restaurant that reinvented itself as a general store to try to stay in business during the pandemic is permanently closing today. customers showed up to pick up a final round of groceries on prairie near mission street today. during the onset of the pandemic, he this shifted from dishing out rustic >> survival for us meant being able to keep some people on the pay roll and the lights on. we started to have to look at it. >> he is calling the final pick-up orders the last supper. a familiar jingle gets a

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time for the four at 4:00. lake tahoe residents planning a weekend of protests saying tourists are to blame for trashing their town but not everyone agrees. >> i've been to places that only locals go and i've seen graffiti. you can't put that on out of up

toers. >> he's a tahoe ice cream shop owner who doesn't like the idea of tourists. people say visitors are to braille in the recent surge of covid-19 cases. the first protest is underway now along highway 50 and another one is planned for sunday. this is the quintessential dilemma we have. on the one hand, you have business owners trying to survive. on the other hand you have a bunch of people who want to stay healthy. what do you do? >> yeah. exactly right. remarkable. it's one of the most, they're protesting in one of the most chill relaxed places on the planet. that's how upset they are. people here have been koomd up and desperate. the thought may be, it's wide open space. we can social distance and be safe. if you're a resident, it is a concern. if you're a business owner there, it is good to see them. everybody who goes should be

respectful and safe. >> yeah. you would hopeful you would hope. sandhya, is it a little cool they are? if you say yes, i can see people driving up immediately. >> yes, it's in the 70s up there. so cooler than our area, right now at least. i agree with dan. people get up there and want to relax. i think the problem is when you think of tahoe, when do i, you think relax, kickback, relax. so perhaps if they are outdoors biking and hiking, they may not always respect social distancing and wearing a mask. >> i was up there a couple weeks ago. yes. there were a lot of people congrecongo regaiting without masks. reopen social distancindistanci respect the mask rules. many businesses may be suffering. some are experiencing a boom

during the self-isolation has inspired many to taksewing, searching for ways to fill up the time as well as to fill the need for face masks. they have become holidayest new commodity. so what hobbies have you turned to during the pandemic? mabel you're sewing masks. dan, are you doing that in. >> i am. sewing masks, although i've bought a couple interesting ones. i'm doing a lot of gardening. we stay at home a lot on the weekend and we do quite a bit of gardening. >> sandhya, you? >> i'm cooking a lot more than i used to i wouldn't call it a hobby so much. i don't have a lot of time with three kids, as you can imagine. >> your kids don't consider it a hobby. it is a must-do every day, mom. >> exactly. >> buying the 500 piece puzzles.

it is really fun. >> i get bored with those qu i get frustrated. >> i'll get you a 24-piece puzzle, how is that? >> something more my speed. a simple puzzle for a simple mind. >> the jingle by ice cream drivers, that's going awayful being written by a hip hop legend. >> we wanted to make a melody that includes all communities. that is good for every divriver every kid. >> it replaces the long used tune, turkey in the straw. that folk song dates back to the 19 century but its legacy, we've learned is tied to black faced minstrel shows. it just blows me away. all these things that we listened to and watched for

years have dark overtones. what was going on? well, we know what was going on. >> i didn't know the history of that song. i knew it was turkey and the straw. one of my colleagues here was sharing, some of the lyrics associated with that song are quite ugly and racist. so for that reason, the fact that they're changing it. it makes great sense. maybe we don't know what the connection is. knew that we've identiied it, it is time to move on. >> this new tune is catchy. it is hot, hot, hot, and what better way to cool down than ice cream? we have some of the few options they include places like

fountains, meadow park or meadow lark, it is off the hook. >> what about you? >> i ask baskin robin's. just very simple. >> world class chocolate? is that your flavor? >> i love world class chocolate, i love chocolate chip mint, so many! >> mint chocolate chip, cookies and cream. i grew up, i paid for college and went through high school and college working at a swenson's. you don't see many of them around anymore but i was a fan. i worked there for six years or so. >> you must know how to make a mean milkshake. >> i do! i used to make the ice cream. >> wow! >> larry, what's your favorite flavor? coconut pineapple? >> you know, i don't eat a lot

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follows people as they navigate through first week of classes in west oakland. >> today is the first day of school. normally there's a lot of hustle and bustle and this is extremely unusual. to me it doesn't feel like school has started. you don't have students coming up to you asking how to find their classes or they don't know how to get into their locker or they need a class change. so this is unusual. >> 11th grade, right? break is over. >> i actually did a zoom class with my phone. that's the main thing, i need a computer so i can be on zoom and do my class work. >> good morning. welcome to the 2021 school year. my name is miss vaughn and this is your first period geometry class. i kind of just want to get to know you all. get a chance for you to know me and just establish some zoom

rm possible, irouo tn i want to hear about you. so i want to know what your name is and then tell me feeling that you might have. do you feel sunny? cloudy? >> sunny. >> why are you sunny? >> i'm glad to be back this school. >> school is fun and school is social and school is where your friends are. >> i don't miss it like that. >> that's what my son said. he said i miss my friends but i don't miss school. i get that?that? do stuff online. >> this is the time that you get to know each other, right? this is what we will be doing on the first day of school. if you look around my classroom, you can see, i have the posters, right? we'll be working in groups and doing that stuff.

i'm trying to create that kind of atmosphere. i don't want you to, oh, i have to watch this screen. it's so boring. we are not going to do that every day anyway. i will see you all tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. i think that if we try not to stick to so much rigidity of what school was, that we can make something beautiful. i have two students, 11th grade and fifth e table, doing a zoom. i'm literally going from one end of the table to the other. making sure i can assist them when they have questions, when they're not live with their instructors. so it is hard right now. very hard.

>> we're across from each other at the table and it's loud. my teacher is talking and his teacher is talking so we can't hear each other. or we can't hear the teachers talking. so it's like too. noise going on. it's too much. we are really not doing anything. we're not learning anything. >> it's been very difficult for deandre a with school. she has not been able to catch a break but she is motivated in wanting to succeed. >> before she was in volleyball. now without sports, she's getting quite bored. she wants to be in those extra activities. right now i'm working half day to be here with them in the morning. next week i'll be looking at ha only ther w tkids. this is our currentation.'r jus. >> it is not the same. but they seem so resilient.

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is a big help to feed her family and she likes theonvenicefeacc foods, some of it organic and recommends it to her family and friendt they need. she stocks the fridge and a nonprofit group maintains it and provides access around the clock, similar to the network of little free libraries you can see where people take a donated book or leave one. but public food donations are far there is one fridge in san jose and one in oakland. she is looking for additional organizations to host fridges. >> this is another solution we can bring to the community to the people they can serve by themselves. >> self serve affords privacy for those that may be shy or embarrassed about taking food. >> this is a bit more of a controlled environment and make sure nobody is around, get what they want from the fridge and get on with their day.

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