pg&e customers still in the dark this morning as the bay area deals with record heat and high fire danger. mike is tracking the forecast and looking ahead to relief coming this weekend. >> we have done an amazing job. >> what is he doing? nothing. >> 18 days until election day. president trump and joe biden answering questions directly from voters in separate prime time events. and new details in the race for a coronavirus vaccine. top pfizer executives share what we could expect by the end of november. and the san francisco's zoo lemur found more than five miles from home. we'll tell you about the one reward a little boy will get for finding the endangered animal. >> happy friday, everyone. it is october 16th. >> yes. we still have a lot to talk about in terms of weather. we want to get to mike nicco. i like the idea of relief coming soon here. >> coming soon. that's the key.

probably not soon enough, but coming soon, if you consider the weekend soon. i do. i'm already thinking about it. it is friday morning. good morning to you julian and kumasi and jobina. hi, everybody. i do have the news of a fire danger length extending until 6:00 this evening. national weather service brought that up this morning. that's the difference between when you went to bed last night and what's happening now. 90s possible everywhere, even along the coast, just like we had yesterday at half moon bay. all those records going to be warmer than it was yesterday. i'll show you that relief coming up in the accuweather seven-day forecast. >> pg&e is expected to restore power by 10:00 tonight depending on the weather. this morning thousands of people in northern california are still in the dark from the public safety power shutoff that started on wednesday. so the pink triangles that you see on the map, those indicate

the outages. anser hassan is live in sonoma with more on this. >> good morning, kumasi. again, this neighborhood in sonoma is without power. if you look up, you can see the power lines and trees are part of the reason why pg&e is so concerned about neighborhoods like this one. pg&e says power throughout the state has been cut off due to the threat of wildfires. in the north bay, close to 7,000 customers have been without power at some point. though the strongest winds of the week have passed, temperatures are expected to reach the upper 90s in sonoma county. the north bay still faces dangerous fire weather conditions. it's been hot but most residents seem to be coping the best they can. >> if it prevents fires, anything will help. we're still not in a safe zone yet at all. we have not been getting rains, it's still hot. the winds are high. it's still a risk, if they shut off the power to prevent fires,

i guess -- i would wait another day or two if it gets us out of the red zone. >> pg&e says the crews will be out later today to inspect power lines across the bay area. if all goes well, they will begin to turn the power back on to those neighborhoods as soon as possible. now, in the meantime, pg&e is asking those of you who still have power to conserve power throughout the rest of the day. anser hassan, abc7 news. right now on our website, we have an entire section dedicated to the public safety power shutoff including tips on how you can prepare for the next one. this is on abc7news.com. we're just 18 days until election day. today the president has three campaign events in florida and georgia. joe biden will campaign in the battleground state of michigan. last night undecided voters got a chance to grill both candidates in competing prime time events. the coronavirus pandemic was the

key and leading issue on both stages. elizabeth schulze joins us live from washington. >> reporter: we were supposed to have president trump and former vice president joe biden on stage together, instead we got competing town hall events that took on different tones. the presidential candidates offering starkly differing views on the defining issue of the election, the coronavirus pandemic. >> we're in a situation where we have 210,000 people dead. what is he doing? nothing. >> we have done an amazing job. it's rounding the corner. we have the vaccines coming. >> reporter: president trump saying in the nbc news town hall he can't remember if he was tested for coronavirus on the day of the first presidential debate. he tested positive two days later. >> you don't know if you took a test the day of the debate? >> possibly i did. possibly i didn't. >> reporter: the president not denying a "new york times" report that he's 4$400 million n

debt. >> 4$400 million compared to th assets i have, all of these great properties all over the world. >> are you confirming you owe 0 $40 million? >> i'm saying it's a tiny percentage of my net worth. >> reporter: trump also chose not to condemn qanon. >> i know nothing about qanon. >> i just told you. >> what you tell me doesn't necessarily make it fact. i know they're very much against pedophilia. they fight it very hard. >> reporter: even though he retweeted baseless claims made by qanon supporters. as the president defended his personal record to voters in miami, joe biden tried to present a trag mattipragmatic a his policies. >> it depends on how this turn out. >> don't voters have a right to know where you stand? >> they do have a right to know where i stand.

they'll know where i stand before they vote. >> you'll have a clear answer before election day? >> yes. depends on how they handle this. >> there's another debate scheduled for next thursday in nashville. elizabeth schulze, abc news. with that hour and a half long joe biden town hall and the hour long president trump town hall, the fact checkers were hard at work. you can find out which claims hold up. you can find that out on our website, abc7news.com. pfizer is laying out new details on the timeline for its new covid vaccine, it could be out in a little over a month if the trials go well. jobina fortson has more on this. >> pfizer could be ready to apply for emergency use of its vaccine by late november. the drugmaker will petition the food and drug administration once it gets the next round of

data on the vaccine's effectiveness and drug safety. if both sets of data are positive, pfizer can move forward. the fda requires that companies provide two months of safety data on at least half of trial participa participants. pfizer's chief executive wrote based on our current trial enrollment and dosing pace we estimate we will reach this milestone in the third week of november. that officially puts president trump's promise of a vaccine by election day behind. kumasi? >> all right. scientists with the cdc are accusing the trump administration of installing two political operatives within the agency to try to control information. they were assigned to the cdc's atlanta headquarters in june despite having no public health background. both were tasked with watching dr. robert redfield, the agency's director and other scientists there. the associated press, which is investigating this story says congress is now investigating the pair. >> numerous examples of the

administration's attempts to shelve scientific guidance coming out of the cdc or to change or gain editorial control over scientific publications. >> a number of administration officials corroborated the story with the associated press on the condition they remain anonymous. happening today, cooling centers will be opening across santa clara county in response to the expected high temperatures. you can see a list of locations on your screen here. social distancing will be enforced and you have to be free of covid-19 symptoms to be able to enter one of those cooling centers. let's check in with mike to hear exactly how hot we could expect it to be on this friday. >> 90s everywhere. even the coast. yeah. it's going to be a record setting day. triple digits are possible in some areas, especially if you're on pavement for any length of time this afternoon, that's a reminder if you're going to walk the dog, keep them off the pavement during the afternoon hours when the sun is brightest. tonight or last night through

this morning our toughest night for sleeping in san francisco. look at these temperatures. the coolest i could find, 67 at the ferry building. 69 at crissy field, also heading towards bayview, everybody else in the 70s. this is the last one. definitely cooler tonight. 70s everywhere and 60s until you get to pleasanton, 59. mid 50s from petaluma up towards santa rosa and healdsburg. let's look at what's going on for mount tam. northeast wind at 20. temperatures 71 degrees. the activity planner for today, burning sunshine at the coast. temperatures near 90. waters 56. same thing for the bay and too hot to be outside exercising. our winds are still around 30 miles per hour to 40 miles per hour across the north bay, not as fast as yesterday but fast enough with the humidity level to cause critical extreme fire

conditions. we have them just about everywhere, the red flag warning. as we head up into the morning commute, it doesn't change. it does start to taper a bit. we get rid of the extreme by noon and in the evening hours we drop down to low. breathe a sigh of relief as we head into the evening. let's talk about the morning commute and hoping for friday light. jobina, what have you got? >> you know, we are right on track for that, at least for now. good morning. happy friday to you. we're going to start off with a live look in walnut creek, checking out 680 there. seeing how things are moving. pretty smooth. pretty light for the most part. same story goes as we look at the golden gate bridge. much quieter this morning. i didn't show it to you yesterday at this time, i wanted to bring it in. i'd say a decent amount to sometimes when we look at 510 and it's empty. the slowest spot is in oakland as we bring in the map here. southbound 880 between 23rd and

2 29th avenue. if you're familiar with that area by now, roadwork wraps up at 6:00 a.m. speeds down to 15 miles per hour and 17 miles per hour. still ahead on abc7 news, a bunch of bay area schools could be getting new names. and the trump administration rejects california's request for federal money to help with wildfires. the parents were calling and saying there is a lemur out on the playground. >> what a call, right? a big relief for the san francisco zoo this morning. maki, the lemur, is back what? never. are you kidding me? for years, the residential burden has gone up. while the corporate burden has gone down.

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. 5:13 on a friday. let's go down to the south bay where it's more comfortable in san jose at 63 than in san francisco where we saw the low to mid 70s. here's the day planner for today. record warmth this morning and record warmth this afternoon. the sun will set on this record setting day at 6:29. we're still in the 70s and 80s

heading out this evening. we have the red flag warning for the northern half of the state. areas around los angeles and san diego also added. here's a look at the temperatures today, no flex alert like yesterday, highs will be almost exactly the same. >> thank you. the trump administration has rejected california's request for federal money to help with losses as we deal with the worst fire season in state history. jobina is at the live desk with what the governor's office plans to do next. >> the state plans to appeal the decision. governor newsom was seeking help to recover from six recent fires, including the creek fire. governor newsom estimated the financial assistance need at 0 $200 million from that fire alone. in total he asked for 3$346 million to cover all six fires. president trump had previously threatened to withhold wildfire assistance from california saying the state has not done

enough to manage its forests, but it's worth noting here that the federal government controls 57% of the state's forested land. a spokesperson for the governor's office says the priority is finding other programs to apply for aid. nearly a third of san francisco schools are considering a name change. the chronicle is reporting 44 schools are working on new names including george washington, abraham lincoln and dianne feinstein schools. there's concern the names might have links to slavery, oppression and gentrification. some parents are upset that district officials are focusing on school names when students are struggling with pandemic and distance learning. this morning we have an update to one of the most popular stories right now on abc7news.com. the san francisco zoo's missing lemur has been found. maki is back home after getting

a much-needed checkup and some rest. he was found at a school in daly city hanging out by himself. kate larsen spoke with the little boy who was the first to spot him. >> the parents were calling and saying there's a lemur out on the playground. >> reporter: that was not how miss sarah thought she would end her day in daly city. the san francisco zoo's missing lemur maki was out on the yard. >> he was hopping around the play structures, ultimately while he was waiting to be picked up was hiding in one of the plastic play houses. >> it's exciting. >> reporter: according to his parents it was 5-year-old james trin who spotted maki first when his mom picked him up from school. >> what did the lemur look like? >> lemur. white, black and gray. >> reporter: james knew what to do with a wild animal on the loose. >> call the zookeeper.

>> reporter: so it was, animal care and control and daly city police showed up and took maki into custody. maki was discovered missing wednesday morning. san francisco police discovered evidence of forced entry and damage to the enclosure. because of maki's old able, he's 21, and the traumatic experience he's endured, there is some concern about maki's health and condition. >> we certainly absolutely hope the best for maki. >> reporter: ed pool who you just heard from promised me james will get a lifetime membership to the san francisco zoo. and if it's covid safe he will have a chance to get up close and personalleeme erleemer erl s and give them some treats. in the newsroom, that's the latest. i'm kate larsen, back to you. >> james was the perfect person to find maki, okay?

>> he knew what to do. >> he said call the zookeeper! >> hopefully he'll get to enjoy that lifetime membership to the zoo. that's cool. >> that's nice. that's nice. don't you love kids? so what did he look like? >> a lemur. >> so funny. > kudos to james. >> that was awesome. we're glad he found his home. 75 outside in sutro tower right now. look how clear the air is as we look over to the east bay hills. temperatures are in the 70s right now. record warmth, high fire danger. that will be the last time i say that for a while. warm hills tonight, but more comfort near the coast. as the heat eases, it will be most abrupt along the coast. 20 degrees cooler on sunday.

inland neighborhoods cool down about 8 degrees. i call this the fog forecast. we're looking at the winds. you can see they're blowing offshore, east to west. look what happens as we head into the lunch hour. we start to see more of a northerly gradient. then heading into the evening hours, a bit of a northwesterly slight onshore flow. that will bring some cooler temperatures tonight. until then, look for the asterisk, that's a record high. mid to upper 90s in the south bay. 92 to 95 on the peninsula. upper 80s, mid 80s to near 90 along the peninsula. 90 for the second day in a row at half moon bay. 90 will set a record in downtown san francisco. like yesterday's 90 that didn't, mid to upper 90s in the north bay valleys. 92 to 95 along the east bay shore. 95 to 99 in the inland neighborhoods. tonight, a little more comfort. more 50s out there and 60. less 70s and no 80s in the

hills. by sunday, 66 at the coast, around the bay. next week we're cooler but still warmer than average. coming up next, the 7 things to know this morning. >> and a big i'm voting 'yes' on prop 19. nineteen limits taxes on seniors. it limits property tax on people like me. nineteen limits taxes on wildfire victims. it says so right here. if 19 passes, seniors can move closer to family or medical care. i looked at moving but i can't afford the taxes. will you help california's most vulnerable? vote 'yes' on prop 19.

it is 5:21, here's the 7 things to know this morning. number one, thousands of people waking up again without power this morning after pg&e declared what it calls a public safety power shutoff to try to prevent wildfires during this red flag warning. it's expected to restore electricity by 10:00 tonight depending on the weather. some of us waking up to record warmth this morning. all of us dealing with moderate to high risk of heat illness as record high temperatures will overtake most of our neighborhoods. it will be hot through 9:00 this evening. number three, the trump administration has rejected california's request for federal wildfire aid during the worst wildfire in state history. number four, president trump and former vice president joe biden are back on the campaign trail this morning after dueling town halls last night.

biden will campaign in michigan while the president has several events in florida and georgia pfizer is laying out new details on the timeline for its covid-19 vaccine. the drugmaker could be ready to apply for emergency use authorization from the fda by late november. it needs positive results on vaccine effectiveness and drug safety. number six, we do not have major crashes on our freeways this morning. that's good news for this friday. a live look outside for anyone headed to the peninsula from the east bay. check it out. san mateo bridge going westbound is busy. number seven, the lemur stolen from the san francisco zoo has been found. a 5-year-old spotted maki outside hope lutheran day school. in today's "gma" first look, hawaii is opening up for the first time in months. >> reporter: in this morning's

"gma" first look, reopening paradise. hawaii's nearly decimated tourism industry is on the road to recovery. the aloha state welcoming visitors for the first time in nearly seven months without a mandatory 14-day quarantine. but with one important qualification. a negative test must be taken within 72 hours of your flight. finding an approved test and getting your results in time can be harder than it sounds. >> you had to pay. you had to find the right test. there were so many hoops to jump through. >> so many. >> reporter: the state will only accept test results from a limited list of trusted testing and travel partners. >> we're excited to be open and excited to say aloha again to the world. >> reporter: we'll be live from hawaii with much more coming up at 7:00 a.m. with your "gma" first look. i'm ka the boeing 737 max could be back in the air before the end of 2020. europe's top aviation regulator

says the plane is safe enough to carry passengers. the comments are the firmest endorsement from a regulator since the 737 was grounded in 2019. prior to that two crashes involving the model killed 346 people. the faa is further along in its review but it has not made definitive comments. you'll soon have fewer options if you're planning to fly out of the north bay. according to the press democrat i, united airlines plans to temporarily suspend flights out of charles m. schulze airport. it is hoping to resume its denver and san francisco routes in the spring. we'll be back with another full 90 minutes of news. including a 102-year-old covid-19 survivor. and the county getting ready to launch a coronavirus compliance unit. and a new study by the

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to election day. president trump and joe biden back on the campaign trail after two separate town halls. the big issues they discussed with voters. and prepare for the heat yet again. mike is tracking a day of record temperatures and a red flag warning but some relief is coming this weekend. and the u.s. approaching a grim milestone and a new study casting doubt on the effectiveness of remdesivir. and how badly do you want to see a concert in person? would you do it in a bubble? we'll tell you about the band that did that, encasing their fans in plastic. >> where is the receventilation? >> we have lots of questions, hopefully this story has some answers. we'll are trying to find ways to enjoy some entertainment. good morning. it's friday, october 16th. happy you are spending your friday morning with us. we want to check in with mike. it's going to be another hot

day. >> yes. we want to find ventilation if we can. something has changed since you went to bed, it's the national weather service extending the red flag warning, the critical fire conditions through at least 6:00 this evening. i don't know if we want to say suffer, that may be strong but we'll have to deal with it for an extra seven hours compared to what we thought when we went to bed last night. here's your heat advisory. 90s reach the coast yesterday. they'll do it again today. 90s across the board, even some areas around 100. definitely the pavement will be around 120 to 130, so if you're walking the dogs be aware of that, especially during the afternoon hours. we'll talk about that heat easing coming up in the accuweather seven-day forecast. power expected to be restored by tonight to pg&e customers affected by the public safety power shutoff. the utility cut the power to

thousands of people here in the bay area and beyond on wednesday because of high fire danger. if you look at the screen here, the pink triangles on the map show where the power is still out. abc7 news reporter anser hassan is live in sonoma with more. good morning. once again this neighborhood in sonoma is without power. if you look up, you can see the power lines and trees are part of the reason why pg&e is so concerned about neighborhoods like this one. pg&e says power throughout the state has been cut off due to the threat of wildfires. in the north bay, close to 7,000 people have been without power over the past two days. though the strongest of the winds this week have passed, the north bay still faces dangerous fire weather conditions. temperatures are expected to reach in the 90s here in sonoma county. residents seem to be coping the best they can, though power is not the only issue people are struggling with. >> we went to three places, they

were out of propane. i guess a lot of people are in similar situations as us. propane is the way we heat up coffee in the morning and a few meals so we can manage. everything else is chilled out on ice because we have not gotten the backup power for the freezer or fridge yet. to help out pg&e opened up 40 community resource centers around the bay area where people can go if they don't have power or electricity. pg&e is warning that the scheduled outage is until 10:00 p.m. tonight. reporting live, anser hassan, abc7 news. we will be keeping a close eye on this today. right now on our website we have an entire section dedicated to the public safety power shutoff including tips on how to prepare for the next one. it's all on abc7news.com. we are just now 18 days away from election day, both the president and former vice president are hitting the

campaign trail today. first a look at how they handled dueling town halls and questions from undecided voters. jobina has more from the live desk with more on that. >> there were plenty of issues discussed yesterday, of course including the virus pandemic. >> we have 210,000 plus people dead. what is he doing? nothing. >> we have done an amazing job. it's rounding the corner. we have the vaccines coming. >> reporter: president trump said during the nbc town hall he couldn't remember if he was tested on the day of the last debate. he did test positive two days later. while the president defended his personal record in miami, joe biden tried a more pragmatic approach in philadelphia. george stephanopoulos asked if he would open to packing the courts.

>> it depends on how this turn out. >> don't voters have a right to know where you stand? >> they do have a right to know where i stand. they'll know where i stand before they vote. >> you'll have a clear answer before election day? >> yes. depends on how they handle this. >> president trump will be in georgia and florida, he has three campaign events there and joe biden will be in michigan. kumasi? >> chronicle insider and abc7 news contributor phil matier said what he thought both candidates need to do. >> his job was to reach into his base and reach into whatever undecideds were out there. he was calm, measured, some would say he was slow. he was. he was also long-winded on answering questions. trump was the polar opposite. he was quick, snappy, confrontational, but he was also being grilled. i'm not sure trump accomplished

the goal sort of deflating that eccentric image we had in the first presidential debate. >> if you want to find out which claims hold up, go to abc7news.com. developing news on the coronavirus, the u.s. is on the verge of another grim milestone. 8 million confirmed cases. it comes as the white house task force announced not a single state is still in the green safe zone. hospitals in ohio, texas and new mexico are on the verge of running out of icu beds. the centers for disease control and prevention predicts the death toll could reach 246,000 by next month. one of president trump's closest allies, former new jersey governor chris christie now urging people to wear masks after we learned he spent a week battling the coronavirus inside of the icu. he admits he was wrong to not wear a mask at debate prep sessions with the president.

the world health organization is casting doubt on the effectiveness of remdesivir. gilead developed this drug and it's the only antiviral drug approved for treatment of covid-19 in the u.s. the w.h.o. study found that the treatment had no substantial effect on a patient's chances of survival. a stanford infectious disease doctor who led the clinical trial is defending the drug. >> remdesivir has been very consistent across all the studies so far that we have data on. we know that it helps people get out of the hospital faster. it helps them come off of oxygen faster and consistently we have seen overall mortality rates go down. >> in a statement, gilead said the world health organization study which has not been published or peer reviewed appears inconsistent with more robust evidence from multiple studies published in peer review journals. it adds the benefits of its drug

have been demonstrated in three clinical trials. a 102-year-old oklahoma woman is celebrating surviving covid-19 after she was given remdesivir. you can see that hospital employees were so happy cheering for della hawthorn as she was released yesterday. she spent 12 days in the hospital. employees admit that it's not clear if remdesivir cured her but they say it definitely helped with the symptoms. her medical team calls her a true fighter. >> wow. incredible for her to make that recovery. >> yeah. coming up, that concert in a bubble, the fans who sat through a show in plastic. also covid-19 compliance unit. the county that is ready to crack down on businesses not following the guidelines. >> zoo wouldn't let me in.

i was ten minutes late. i missed half of the lecture. >> oh. >> the zoom and distance learning struggles. we're hearing them straight from the students. we're checking in with teens who say their work load is at an all-time high. we want to check back in with meteorologist mike nicco. >> i would like to burst the bubble of this heat. we'll do that eventually. but it's going to be a slow go especially inland. i wanted to show you something sticking out. it's 81 degrees right now in half moon bay. that's after a high of 90. other democrats on the peninsula, 60s and 70s. some 50s. 56 over there in redwood city. 59 in menlo park. we have 50s, 60s, 70s, we have microclimates everywhere. look at the quiwinds gusting to. it's a dry blast of wind at half moon bay. can you imagine how uncomfortable that feels, especially when the water is

right next to you. 57 degrees in the water but your relative humidity is the driest around at 15%. that's how upside down our weather is this morning. so let's look at your commute. everything is going to be good. it's just suffering through the heat that's going to be the hardest to deal with. and for some of us especially in the higher elevations and also in the noerth bay valleys and east bay valleys we have high to extreme conditions this morning through the commute. by noon, we start to lose the extreme but we still have very high across the north bay and watch as we head into the 6:00 hour when the new timeframe for the red flag warning ends and then head out this evening and everything ought to be good. there may be a little peak of a high in the north bay mountains but for the most part we'll call off the fire danger after 6:00. i'll have a look at the weekend next. here's jobina with the morning commute. >> hi, mike. thank you. happy friday to you and happy

friday, everyone. we will start with a look at the maps here. we have one major slow spot aside from the usual commute coming out of tracy, that's in oakland because of roadwork in the area on southbound 880 between 23rd and 29th avenue. speeds are around 15 miles per hour through that stretch. also commuter alert from ac transit, i've been talking about this. fare collection and front door boarding will resume on monday. that's because the hand sanitizer stations and protective shields will be completed today. as we head to break, a live look outside, showing you emeryville. 80 looking good for the most part. not too but i can't say i expected this. because it was easy. to fight these fires, we need funding - plain and simple.

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welcome back. along the peninsula one county will soon be introducing a covid-19 compliance unit to target businesses that are not following state guidelines.

san mateo county says businesses have to implement social distancing protocols, require face coverings and give out hand sanitizer or soap and water and they must prepare or give out a health and safety plan to workers. businesses abc7 news spoke with seem to support this move. >> doing what we can to stay open and make our living. for anyone that wants to be selfish, it's just not respectab respectable. >> businesses not following the rules will get a warning the first time and they'll have time to fix the proble before they get a formal citation. ater that the unit can move to civil penalties of up to $3,000 and criminal prosecution if necessary. all week long here on abc7 news we've been focusing on education as part of our efforts to build a better bay area. we told you about difficulties with distance learning. it's not just hard on elementary students. abc7 news reporter j.r. stone has been speaking

with older students who say that workloads, they're at an all time high right now and mentally e! it's getting tough. >> i mean, we're all trying to do the best we can with what we have at the moment. >> reporter: right now, carolyn a junior at american high school in fremont says what she has is a lot of work. more so than ever before. something echoed by her classmates. >> it loads of work. i'm in high school so i have seven classes. it's a lot. >> reporter: we introduced you to these high schoolers before the school started, we wanted to check back in to see how the distanced year on zoom is coming along. >> it hard because you don't get all the help you need. >> reporter: if you think that opinion is limited to eric, then you're way off. three out of four students we talked with for this story alone tells the getting questions answered in a private and timely manner has become a major problem. >> it's difficult to contact the teacher when i need help. >> i think the toughest day is when i have tests or quizzes because normally when we're in person we can go and ask the

teacher a question but now on zoom, you're all together in one room. >> reporter: personally i prefer distance learning more, but i miss interacting with my family, friends and people i know. >> reporter: it that interaction that everyone we spoke with talked about in some form or another. the hope that the day will eventually come when they get to see classmates and make new friends. >> i hope we go back at least by next year because i can't see anybody and it's kind of boring when you can't have any interactions. >> j.r. stone, abc 7 news. here at abc7 we're always focused on building a better bay area. to find more stories like this, download the abc7 news app on you can download that for free tv and apple tv. how bad do you lyou miss li music? would you see your favorite band if everybody was in a plastic

bubble? it went down in oklahoma city. the flaming lips held a socially distanced bubble concert. everybody including the performers and each individual audience member was encased in giant inflatable bubbles. let me look at this. we don't know if this will catch on. but it could. i still don't know about ventilation. >> right. i'm claustrophobic just looking at the video here. i do love concerts. i love comedy shows, live events. >> yeah. >> musicals. broadway. i don't know about this, kumasi. >> it looks like it's just like an experience. i would be trying to bump you. i would be like whee! >> right. people are trying to hit each other with bubbles and knock each other over. i don't know. >> a bobble more pimosh pit.

nice. >> the ventilation bothers me especially as hot as it is now. the acoustics, you want to hear a band live, but that bubble will mess up the acoustics. i could see doing it just to get out and do it. some drawbacks to it. i hope we learn more about that. let's talk about what's going on weather-wise. let's open the door on san jose, which is as we talked about cooler than san francisco this morning. how often does that happen? it's 64 down here as we look at 87. today is our last day for record heat and high fire danger. i was looking at the medium range models, this may be the last one for the season. they do not show another offshore wind event through halloween. that's hard to believe, but that's what the medium range models say now. that would be a blessing. easing from coast to inland. the coast is going to cool the most. inland will cool the least as we

head through the weekend. and it will still be warmer than average next week. we know the red flag warning continues for the northern half of the state. look who else is also in it. the higher elevations and so cal. so we have critical fire conditions up and down the state. you can see a high developing. the high settling into the great basin, the low developing near mexico. and that is helping to enhance the offshore breeze and draw even hotter temperatures in today. now, here's the wind this morning. the reason why we're having record warm temperatures, it's clearlyo offshore, it turns fro the east to the north and northwest. that's why there will be a break this afternoon near the coast. until then, mid to upper 90s in the south bay. 92 to 95 on the peninsula. 84 to 90 along the peninsula coast with low to mid 90s in downtown and south san francisco. mid to upper 80s, north bay

coast to sausalito. 96 to 100 through the valleys. 92 to 95 along the east bay shore. 95 to 99 in our east bay valleys. tonight, you can see some of that comfort, more 50s near the coast. spilling into the bay. more 60s for lows. but still up in the hills, we'll have some 70s lingering, notice you don't see much in the way of orange which were the 80s we had yesterday morning and this morning. here's my accuweather seven-day forecast. a ten degree drop tomorrow at the coast. the rest of us are in the 80s and 90s. we'll try to get rid of the 90s for sunday. for sure monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday. 60s at the coast, 70s around the bay, 80s inland. thank you. happening today, preorderers begin for the new iphone 12. apple's latest version is thinner, lighter than previous models. it's equipped with 5g and the

latest and greatest in high speed networks. this phone costs about 800 dollars. it's expected to hit stores a week from today. san francisco based twitter is back online this morning. it's not clear at this point what caused a widespread outage. so thousands of users could not access the social media platform yesterday afternoon. and it took twitter about two hours or so to get things going again. the company says there is no evidence at this point of a security breach or a hack. . new at 6:00, an old game show makes a comeback this weekend. the local contestant appearing on the new and improved "supermarket sweep" with leslie jones. first a city that never needed any marketing has a new ad campaign. the big push to welcome tourists back to san francisco. with everything that's going on with not getting stimulus packages, it could be any one of us. >> an outpouring of support from

abc7 news viewers like you. the pandemic left a mother and her young son homeless after the edd kept denying her benefits. we're now

. all right. here we go from the east bay hills where it's 71 degrees. look at those winds gusting up to 39 miles per hour. still the probability of high fire danger rolling through that area. here's a look at your planner for today, and if you're in the sunshine, it will feel 10 to 15 degrees warmer. find some shade. record warmth this morning. record warmth this afternoon. 90s tomorrow and 80s start to move inland, 60s develop at the coast that continues into monday. julian? >> all right.

thank you. san francisco is hoping a new ad campaign will help jump start their newly reopened hospitality and tourism industry. >> we welcome you back to san francisco. >> to enjoy the majestic city. >> our gate is open. >> our gate is open. >> the ad created by the san francisco travel association features celebrities and mayor london breed. they hope to bring people back into the city to book hotels and check out the site. but the hotel council of san francisco said they don't predict getting back to 2019 levels for another five years. >> feel the comfort to travel ad have the confidence to travel. that was important for us, not just for guests but for employees, they feel comfortable to come back to work. >> there's a focus on attracting smaller meetings and conventions back to the moscone center with safety protocols in place. abc7 viewers responded in a big way for a mom and her young

son who were living in their car. >> i lost it. i was crying all night. so thankful. it's given me hope, you know? it's given me so much more than i've ever had in my entire -- my entire life. >> the messages flooded our newsroom after 7 on your side's michael finney featured the story of shelby hughes and her son callen. one viewer set up a gofundme account. >> i have a 4-year-old son, with everything that's going on with not getting stimulus packages, it could be any one of us. it could be my sister, it could be my best friend. it could be my mom. i put myself in her situation. it was one of those things that you just have to do what you have to do to help another mom. >> that account has now raised over $45,000. people have also offered hughes everything from a room in their house to a hotel room, even a job. if you want more unemployment and edd stories, download the

abc7 news app on your connected tv device. in the california unemployment crisis section we have a lot of answers from expert interviews and exclusive success stories all on demand. that is so good to see how people have stepped up to support. >> how could you not after you saw that story? just heartbreaking. new at 6:00, a record breaking turnout ahead of election day. california voters wasting no time sending in their mail-in ballots. help is on the way for thousands of pg&e customers still in the bardark. when they can expect service to be restored. scientists at the cdc at odds with the trump administration. what they're accusing the federal government of doing and the investigation under way. and a live look outside from our exploratorium camera. it will be a hot day on this friday. 71 degrees already in san francisco. mike is telling us it's hotter at sf

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now at 6:00, here we go again. thousands of people still in the dark this morning and many of them are in the north bay. the update from pg&e on when the power should be back on. two competing town halls with president trump and former vice president joe biden. i'm elizabeth schulze, the highlights coming up. and maki the lemur is back home. police believe he was stolen from the san francisco zoo but ended upturning up in the most unexpected place. >> wait until you see found him. >> happy friday, everybody. it's october 16th. before we get to maki, we want to talk to mike about this weather that we're having today because it's hot and we have red flag warnings. >> we have to go through some troublesome weather conditions before we get to the good story.

let's get them out of the way right now. the fire danger we thought would end before lunch. national weather service extended the red flag warning through 6:00 this evening. the heat will be just as brutal today as it was yesterday with 90s at the coast to a few 100s inland. a moderate to high risk of heat illness. there's a couple more asterisks on the map this morning as the high temperatures will be just as warm if not warmer, and the record highs are cooler today than they were yesterday. so we have 90 at half moon bay and san francisco. nearly 100 in antioch, fairfield and ukiah. >> thanks, mike. >> pg&e is expected to restore power by 10:00 tonight depending on the weather. this morning thousands of people in northern california are still in the dark from the public safety power shutoff that started on wednesday. so the pink triangles that you