right now at 4:30 no end yet to the bay area's holiday heat wave. on your left look at some of today's forecasted highs. on the right a live look at san jose and san francisco where the morning is starting warm already. we have live team coverage on the impact the heat could have on fire danger and the power at your house. thanks so much for joining us on this labor day monday. i'm kris sanchez. >> and i'm scott mcgrew. laura and marcus both have the day off. kris andry laboring as is kari. kari, normally i turn the air conditioning off when i'm going to be on air, but you'll have to

put up with the whoosh because it's already really hot. i was thinking the same thing, scott. every now and then the air conditioner has been kicking on this morning, so if you hear something that sounds like a washing machine it gets right now at 4:41 we are magnified by our microphones still under that microclimate that are on. weather alert. let's talk about our heat today temperatures already in the as it continues for this mid-70s in parts of the south afternoon and we're going to see bay, and we're seeing some upper still that unhealthy air quality as the spare the air alert 60s in santa rosa as well. now we'll talk about how hot it continues today. we'll also have winds increasing gets again today and the forecast coming up. tonight and that high fire danger as well. now we are also watching out for the potential of some power firefighters in southern outages because of those high california have their hands full winds that will increase later this evening. with two new fires. as we look at our high on the left the bobcat fire temperatures for today we are still looking at a lot of triple started yesterday in the angeles digits here and we're going to national forest. continue to have some hot on the right-hand side the weather in the forecast. valley fire started saturday as we get you out on the roads about 30 miles already this morning as we take a live look outside in dublin we are destroyed ten structures. still looking at light traffic. more are threatened as

hopefully not a lot heading out to work this morning. as we go into today we are going to see possibly some of the businesses and homes. also in southern california roads picking up later this family could face some jail time morning as people return home from the long holiday weekend. as we look at our overall view, for a wildfire burning 75 miles we are fairly good for the east of los angeles where some morning start if you're about to head out to work. back to you, scott. 3,000 homes are evacuated. kari, thank you. we begin with breaking news. a deadly shooting in san 7,000 acres have burned since francisco. witnesses say it happened early saturday. 5% contained. this morning during a sideshow no homes so far have been near mission and persia in the burned. firefighters say it started from mission terrace neighborhood. a smoke machine at a gender right now police are only saying this is, indeed, a homicide. witnesses believe there may be reveal party. another person shot. our crew is headed to the scene the family could be hit with a and trying to get more detail. fine. a deadly car chase in orange we're also learning about a running a separate shooting in san francisco's ocean beach red light and clipping an overnight. we'll have a live report on that at the top of the hour. the truck will spin out of another day of searing heat control. it crashed into a light pole. on tap for the bay area, but by the suspect jumped from the tonight the winds are expected truck. shortly after chp officers to also pick up. tackled and arrested the bad we know that is a very dangerous guy. so far they're not saying what started the chase. combination.

power shutoffs could soon be in place in order to avoid that. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live. bob, pg&e is doing everything to and as we take a look at our air quality for today it's still avoid another wildfire sparked by the power lines. going to be unhealthy at times especially in parts of the east >> reporter: well, there is a bay and santa clara valley. strong offshore wind expected to we'll get a closer look as well blow through the area tonight, as today's high temperatures and the forecast coming up. something we heard from kari moments ago. so pg&e is worried, kris, that could damage equipment or power lines and spark the kind of wildfire, the destructive and deadly ones, we've seen in the north bay the past few years. yesterday the utility issued a 24-hour warning about a possible public safety power shutoff, psps for tomorrow. 1,800 counties, counties in the north bay and the sierra foothills. this does include over 5,600 customers in napa and 210 customers in sonoma. if you live in those areas and you're one of those customers you should have received an alert from pg&e letting you know if this affects you.

pg&e has learned from the preventative outages in the past. this time if they are going to happen they'll be smaller in size and shorter in length. these power shutoffs are not the same as rolling blackouts. i want to point that out to you. not the same as the ones last night and happened to a statewide energy usage. that being said the california independent system operator, the iso, has issued a flex alert for today because of the heat and they're asking us to conserve electricity between 3:00 and 9:00 today. reporting live, bob redell, "today in the bay." we also have new video of a wildfire in the sierra. the creek fire started on friday. this is the same fire that trapped 200 people who were rescued early sunday. evacuation orders are in place for several communities. the fires burned more than 73,000 acres and is still completely out of control. several counties across the state are under states of emergency because of wildfires

and that includes fresno, madero and mariposa counties because of the creek fire. meanwhile san bernardino county also under a state of emergency. this is because of a fire believed to have been caused by a smoke machine used in a gender reveal party. san diego county is also under a state of emergency because of the out-of-control valley fire which has burned nearly 10,000 acres. 4:35 on your labor day morning. the pandemic is changing how we do just about everything including how the red cross helps people in need. we've seen red cross volunteers assisting wildfire victims. instead of opening large shelters they're helping open spauler shelters to allow for social distancing and when possible they're helping place it is 4:45 right now, and we people in hotel rooms instead. are looking out our our studios >> we bring food to them in boxes and put it outside the room. we're doing a lot of virtual

case management. 75 degrees is what my we're calling people that are in thermometer said or thermostat, those hotels and asking them whatever you call it. i don't care. what they need, how we can help. 75 degrees is all you need to know at 3:30 in the morning. >> now, of course, hotels increase the cost of responding >> mine says this is the amount so the red cross is urging of time it's going to take to people to donate what they can. cool your temperature, kari. they can always use more holy cow, yes, that gets hot. volunteers. also calling for blood donations. call 800-red-cross or go to yeah, even as we take a look at our trend this morning we're redcross.org. used to starting out our morning continuing our coronavirus coverage, reporting more than in the mid-50s but we're in the mid-70s in a lot of spots 191,000 people have now died in including mountain view where we're going to see that trend the u.s. with more than 6 going up for today and by 11:00 million confirmed cases. california, new york, new jersey we're already at 88 degrees in and texas report the highest number of deaths. mountain view. this will be the case all around researchers from the institute the bay area because our high for health metrics and temperatures are going to be so evaluation say deaths could high as we reach up to 102 today skyrocket to 3,000 per day in in downtown san jose and 108 december if current trends continue. today in morgan hill. there are about 1,000 a day for the east bay we're also right now. they also say the deaths may be looking at some extreme high reduced by 30% if more americans temperatures near records would wear masks. reaching 108 in concord as well

as pleasanton, oakland today health leaders expect the reaching a high of 95 degrees. county to move into a less restricted tier as early as we're in the mid-70s for the tomorrow this is a current map of where we stand. only san francisco and napa coastline. no fog today. counties are in the red tier palo alto will reach 96 degrees. which allows businesses to increase capacity indoors. coun and for san francisco we're as warm as 87 today in the mission new case rate and low positivity district and our north bay high temperatures, look at this once rate qualifies tore that change. again, 112 degrees in ukiah and santa clara county may also qualify. the state typically announces santa rosa reaching 106 degrees. changes each tuesday. we will cover that tomorrow. yes, it's going to be hot today. a follow-up for you, a that extreme warning, excessive defiant south bay church keeps racking up fines. heat warning continues today. parishioners gather again for we'll have a warning in effect sunday service at north valley for these areas shaded in red baptist church in santa clara. including our bay area hills and the county has been finding this mountains above 1,000 feet. tonight our winds will increase church for weeks. and that increases our fire danger. now posted fine notices from the we may have some gusts up to 25 county health department. north valley baptist faces more to 45 miles per hour along with than $50,000 in fines. the pastor claims all humidity. humidity is a critical point precautions are being followed. here because as we look at a relative humidity that allows he has no intention, he says, of

stopping services. for the vegetation that we have california drivers becoming to dry out a lot faster, and speed demons during the when you have some high winds along with that we are going to pandemic. look at this. see these relative humidity chp reports since the start of the pandemic officers issued numbers drop down to the single digits. that is very dry air. more than 15,000 tickets to and once again with some winds drivers clocking more than 100 miles per hour. so that's not even the people who are kind of speeding. picking up that spreads any fire fairly quickly so you need to more than double the same period make sure you're alert and you one year ago. have a way to get alerts in case something happens. iowa and ohio have similar as we look at our temperatures increases over the last year. we are once again dealing with back to our breaking news, the high heat today. it is not just the bay area it comes down just slightly dealing with wildfires and tomorrow and as we go through record heat. next on "today in the bay," the the rest of the week we're still firefight under way in southern looking at some warm weather as we go into friday and even this california and a party firefighters now say caused at weekend. san francisco will see those least one of those massive temperatures mostly in the 70s throughout the week. blazes. plus, an all new poll as we get out on the roads this revealing new numbers in the morning, here is a look at the race for the white house and the morning commute. here is the overall view where campaign stops joe biden and we've seen a couple of minor kamala harris are set to make issues out there this morning, today. you're watching "today in the bay." and so i've seen some slowing going southbound on 280 as you come across mountain view and heading into san jose. so for the most part watching

that as we are seeing some slowing, not seeing anything on the reports just yet. and then as we look at the commute directions overall across the bay area we are seeing it all green here, so it's nice and quiet. hopefully it stays that way on this labor day. back to you, scott and kris. thank you, kari. decision 2020 now and democratic presidential nominee joe biden is spending labor day working the swing state of pennsylvania. biden plans to hold an event at the headquarters in harrisburg, the largest federation of labor unions in the country as you probably likely know. his running mate senator kamala harris is heading to wisconsin. she will tour a training facility before she participates in a roundtable with black business leaders. president trump supporters are expected to hold a boat parade. a similar event did not go swimmingly well in austin on

saturday. five boats sank during that boat parade. thankfully no one was hurt. president trump's polling continues to suffer in some polls. a bay area judge has shut down the census bureau over the weekend issuing a temporary restraining order against the census bureau and the commerce department. now the bureau has to halt its operations to finish the 2020 census by the end of the month. the bureau shutdown is until the court hearing on september 17th. >> budget cuts could be looming for california and several other states as congress continues to deadlock on covid-19 relief. many states and local governments hoped congress would pass another round of relief after getting $150 billion from

the stimulus bill in the spring. lawmakers have deadlocked for months over the size, the scope and the necessity of more help. some states are renewing their push for aid because without it additional cuts are very likely. 4:51. a new warning this morning from southern california university telling students to stay home or face the for students who live on campus after a large outbreak. the university says since the semester has started last month it had 300 probable and confirmed cases linked to students both on and off campus. the stay-at-home order is in effect until tomorrow night. the university says students who violate the order could face discipline. well, gearing up for kickoff next on "today in the bay." the final preps that are under way as the niners get ready for the 2020 season and the cuts

that were just made to the team. plus -- ♪ i knew everything when i was young ♪ ♪ i know i cursed you for the longest time ♪ and a new record for taylor swift and her all-new album release. we'll show you how the music icon just matched top honors. first, happening now, wikileaks founder julian assange is back in court to continue his extradition hearing. "usa today" reports it was postponed in london because of coronavirus. he is facing more than a dozen spying charges. u.s. prosecutors say he conspired with army intelligence manning but denies those charges.

4:55 now. things are about to get real really quick for the 49ers. sunday they kick off the season at levi's stadium. final cuts brought down the roster to 53. the seem signed 16 players to the practice squad. some of the leaders are gone from last year's nfc championship team including deforrest buckner on defense and tackle joe staly who retired. head coach kyle shanahan says the players will have to put in the work if they want to get back in the game. >> there are different players, different coaches and even people who are the same, you're always different the next year and you're either worse or you're better. we have to work pretty hard to be better than we were. if we're not it's going to show. >> the niners opened the season against division rival arizona and up-and-coming star kyler murray. we'll get our first taste of the

season three days from now on thursday night with the chiefs open against the texans on nbc bay area. kickoff is a little after 5:00. serena williams continues to push for the all-time grand slam record. if she can capture the u.s. open, she'll tie margaret court smith with 24 major championships. today she plays in a round of 16 against 15 seeded tennis player who lost in presets leading up to the open. everyone talking about this, the top men's player now out of the u.s. open. here is the swing that gave novak djokovic the in frustration, struck a line judge in the throat. she's going to be okay. judges had no choice but to default djokovic. that's something you absolutely can't do. the rule is called ball abuse.

djokovic then skipped out on the post match news conference only adding to his fines. later he did post an apology on social media. trending this morning taylor swift tying a special record. ♪ i knew you >> her new album "folklore" at the top of the billboard 200 for the sixth week in a row and it marks her 46th week overall with the chart topping album matches a record held by the late whitney houston for the most weeks at number one among female artists. speaking of records, we are bracing for another hot day ahead. next on "today in the bay," we'll have live team coverage of what you can expect as you make your labor day plans. what you need to know about potential power shutoffs. plus, deejays and bonfires.

a wild scene. this is san francisco and the mayor is outraged. what steps the city is now taking to stop this from happening again. it is 4:58. we will be right back.

right now at 5:00, a deadly shooting in the middle of the street apparently tied to a sideshow. we are live with the latest from police.

get ready for a heat warning in effect. plus hundreds of people literally in the line of fire as a wildfire left them trapped over the holiday weekend. we'll show you the daring rescues to get everybody to safety. "today in the bay" continues right now. well, good morning. a very happy labor day to you. some of us are still laboring. i'm scott mcgrew. although it appears laura and marcus are not laboring, kris. >> they are not. hopefully they're sleeping in some place nic