is spending labor day working the swing state of pennsylvania. biden plans to hold an event at right now at 5:00, a deadly the afl-cio headquarters. shooting in the middle of the street apparently tied to a the largest federation of labor sideshow. we are live with the latest from leaders in the country. police. his running mate kamala harris is heading to another swing state, wisconsin. get ready for a heat warning she will tour an electrical in effect. workers rally. plus hundreds of people literally in the line of fire as president trump supporters a wildfire left them trapped are expected to hold a boat over the holiday weekend. parade in oregon city, oregon. we'll show you the daring a similar event, though, did not rescues to get everybody to safety. "today in the bay" continues right now. go very well near austin on saturday. five vessels sank during a trump well, good morning. boat parade there. a very happy labor day to you. it can be rough waters there. no one was hurt. some of us are still laboring. i'm scott mcgrew. although it appears laura and 57 days until the election. president trump's polling numbers have been pretty tough marcus are not laboring, kris. >> they are not. for him. president trump nationally hopefully they're sleeping in trailing joe biden 52% -- 42% to some place nice and cool.

kari, it was hot, and really tough to cool down the house 52% for biden nationally in a last night. yes, especially if you don't ugov poll. u.s. census bureau must, for have air conditioning. this has been really rough out now, stop following a plan that would have it winding down its hours with temperatures in the operations in order to finish mid-70s. that doesn't help us out much as the 2020 census at the end of we are right now at 76 degrees in san jose and in concord. september. san jose u.s. district court judge issued that temporary restraining order saturday. the order stopped the census bureau from wrapping up here is a look at our high for operations until a court hearing this afternoon. we're reaching into the triple next week. the temporary restraining order digits with a high of 108 was a request by a coalition of degrees in concord as well as cities, counties and civil rights group that sued demanding clear lake and 102 today in san it restore its previous plan for jose. and we'll talk more about this finishing the census at the end coming up in a few minutes. of october. let's head out on the roads this >> budget cuts could be looming morning. if you do have to work and for california and several other you're driving we are going to states as congress continues to see a couple of incidents that may slow you down. deadlock on covid-19 relief. a lot of states and local we're looking at 880 going governments hope for congress to northbound north of hayward, pass another round of relief seeing an accident here i've after receiving $150 billion been watching, and that's also from that stimulus bill back in going to slow down the direction the spring. going northbound, but we also lawmakers have deadlocked for have a fatal accident on i-80 months over the size and the

scope and the necessity of more near dixon. help. with the u.s. senate returning this may affect travel coming to session next week some states back into the bay area after a are renewing their push for aid long holiday ch that. because without it they say cuts are very likely. more op in a few minutes, kris. 5:49. breaking news in san a new warning from a southern francisco right now where police are investigating an apparent california university telling deadly shooting that may have students to stay in their dorms, stay at home or face broken up a large sideshow. this all happened about four consequences. san diego state issued a hours ago near mission terrace. stay-at-home warning this weekend for on-campus students after a large outbreak. the university says since the jackie ward is live with semester started last month it details. this is what everybody did not has nearly 300 probable and want to see, the crowds of people gathering. confirmed cases linked to students on and off campus. the stay-at-home order is in >> reporter: exactly right. effect until tomorrow night. the university says students who we are at mission and ocean in violate the order could face discipline. the excelsior neighborhood. this is where mission was closed things are about to get very for a few hours following all real for the 49ers because this that violence that happened last sunday they kick off their night. we are still waiting from police season at levi's stadium. of course we will be watching on for confirmed details. here is what a witness told us tv. final cuts brought the roster he saw. he said leading up to the event down to 53 over the weekend and he saw a sideshow happening with

as many as 100 or more cars and teams signed 16 players to the practice squad. some of the leaders are gone possibly 500 spectators. from last year's championship then he heard several gunshots, team including deforrest buckner and offensive tackle joe staly possibly as many as 20, and saw who retired. that two people had been shot. head coach kyle shanahan says he believes one person was shot players are going to have to put in the work if they want to get in the stomach and another in the head. back to>> we do have a differen police have confirmed this is a homicide investigation, but we this year. don't know how many people were there are different players, killed. moments before the shooting cars different coaches, and even people who are the same are were doing burnouts and taking always different. turns coming inside the ring of you're either worse or you're the crowd, but the gunshots sent better. we have to work pretty hard to be better than we were. everyone scrambling. if we're not, then it's going to >> this is my first sideshow and show. >> the niners opened their season against division rival to be very close like this is arizona and up-and-coming star very scary. kyler murray. we will get our first taste of >> reporter: police placed evidence markers on mission. the season three days from now on thursday night when the we believe they placed one next to a gun that may have been left chiefs opened against the texans here on nbc bay area. behind. no word if the shooter or those aren't my teams but i'll shooters are still out there be watching. kickoff is a little after 5:00. this morning. there was more violence in san francisco last night with yeah, let's talk about another shooting just a couple tennis. the tennis world still talking hours before around 11:00 near about this, the world's top ocean beach. men's player is out of the u.s. this one happened at fulton

highway. when police got there they found open. here is the swing that gave one adult male who had been shot. he was taken to the hospital for novak djokovic the boot. he hit a ball in frustration, life threatening injuries and struck a line judge in the the gunman there is currently throat. she's going to be okay, but outstanding. of course we have asked police for updates on both of these judges had no choice but to shootings. they will continue to bring you default djokovic because that's the latest information as soon something you just can't do. as we hear it. djokovic skipped out of the post live in san francisco, jackie ward, "today in the bay." match news conference adding to the fine. he did later post an apology on 5:04 on your labor day morning. social media. we have team coverage this 5:51 and trending this morning morning of the heat wave that is all across the bay area. taylor swift is trying to tie a "today in the bay's" bob redell is reporting on the possibility special record. ♪ i knew you of power shutoffs to limit fire damage. and thom jensen live near brentwood with a look at how fire danger is sparking so much concern. >> i mean, i really don't want to talk about a cardigan this morning, it's too darned hot, >> reporter: and we're outside but the new album "folklore" is the clayton palms community once putting taylor swift at the top again like we were last week ofweek with chart-topping album because this community faces so many different dangers not just from the health related threat and matches the record held by

associated with heat waves like whitney houston for the most this one but also always the threat of an evacuation here weeks at number one among female during the high fire danger when it gets this hot. artists. cardigans and sweatshirts and and as we travel out across this into a bath of fire. area and across the tri-valley all really bad stuff this morning, kari. area yesterday and last night, absolutely. also scorched by 110-degree-plus we can imagine that we're temperatures sunday. somewhere a lot cooler. lots of people out enjoying the let's talk about what we're holiday weekend. concerned about this morning many waiting for the evening once again. hours to get out and do some still unhealthy air quality as shopping at the outlets in well as this very extreme heat livermore or for some outdoor dining and with temperatures still at about 90 deg continues this morning. and then for tonight our winds will pick up and that will add >> it was very hot. i did not w another concern, quickly spreading fire so a red flag warning will be in effect as we to leave at all. have that increased fire danger i did not want to leave the comfort of my air conditioning. as well as the potential for some power outages. >> like vegas heat. we've been talking about that throughout the morning. let's get a look at our temperatures and take it hour by it was very hot. hour as we head to noon. we're already seeing those >> reporter: this excessive heat temperatures into triple digits for many areas up to 112 today warning lasts through tonight. the power grid operators warning possible in livermore and then

outages are possible through for san mateo, 92 degrees at wednesday if people do not do more to conserve energy. 3:00. san francisco in the mid-80s and always a good reminder the also highs over 100 degrees in national weather service and the north bay for tonight. health officials are reminding it's also going to be slow to people to stay hydrated if cool down. that's when the winds will start you're out in the heat like to pick up and we'll start out this. always drink lots of water. tomorrow morning basically about the same as today. if you have strenuous activity, let's go through the wind speed exercise or work outdoors, do it forecast. in the morning hours before it an offshore wind flow coming in from the north and northwest and gets too hot, something we saw a lot of people doing around the turning northeasterly. livermore area yesterday that will heat up our coastal morning. we're live in contra costa areas as well as bringing in very dry air so we've been county near brentwood. talking about the concerns of wildfires spreading quickly tonight those winds are expected to pick up, and we all under these conditions due to know how dangerous that can be low humidity. temperature wise as we go when combined with the heat and throughout the week a lot of our dry conditions. as a result power shutoffs could valleys will stay in the low 90s soon be in play. and looking at san francisco in the upper 80s today but 70s bob redell is live. pg&e doing everything to avoid throughout much of the rest of the week. another wildfire triggered by and as you get out on the roads faulty equipment. this morning i've been watching the commute as well. >> reporter: correct, kris. we have seen a couple minor there's a strong offshore wind accidents out there for much of expected to blow through tonight the bay area but there was a so pg&e is worried that wind

could damage equipment or power very bad accident coming through lines and spark the kind of dixon. now that has since cleared so destructive and deadly wildfires some good news there. we've seen in the north bay over there was a fatality there earlier this morning for people the past few years. yesterday the utility issued a coming home from the long holiday weekend that may have 24-hour warning about possible been a concern coming into public safety power shutoffs, vacaville. as we look at the south bay psps, as we've come to know them right now we are seeing a smooth this is for today and tomorrow. flow of traffic. no major issues. for 103,000 customers in 18 looking at our drive times for the tri-valley, it's all green counties in the north bay and the sierra foothills. this includes over 5,600 which means a smooth flow of customers in napa. traffic. 210 customers in sonoma. >> thank you, kari. happening right now you should have received an wikileaks founder julian assange alert from pg&e letting you know is back in court today to if this affects you if you live continue his extradition in those areas. pg&e says it has learned from hearing. "usa today" reports it was postponed in london because of coronavirus and he faces more preventative outages in the past than a dozen spying charges. and these will take place today u.s. prosecutors say he and tomorrow, will be smaller in conspired with earl intelligence size and shorter in length. analyst chelsea manning to hack these power shutoffs are not to into a pentagon computer and be confused with rolling release secret war files. assange denies all of the blackouts possible last night charges. and had to do with statewide energy iso has issued a flex al some scary moments onboard a military aircraft.

for today because of the heat coming up we will show you the and they're asking us to terrifying new video inside plus conserve electricity. the things we do for our kids. reporting live, bob redell, how one father transformed "today in the bay." himself for a surprise that had >> thank you, bob. the creek fire in the sierra all the kids buzzing. you're watching "today in the is burning out of control. bay." it's burned some 73,000 acres since friday and triggered an evacuation for several communities and part of yosemite as well. here is a look at where the fire is northeast of fresno near shaver lake, an area where so many people go over long holiday weekends. >> indeed. in the middle of that fire a rather remarkable evacuation effort yesterday. national guard helicopters had to rescue campers trapped by a wildfire at the remote mammoth pool campground. you can see flames seemingly everywhere. the fire cut off access to the only road forcing campers to head down to water and wait for help. here they are arriving safe in

fresno, amazingly everybody saved. a number of people taken to the hospital, though, at least half a dozen are being treated for burns. here in the bay area firefighters continue to make progress on bay area wildfires. the lnu fire in the north bay is now near 91% contained. great news. in addition all evacuation warnings are now lifted. containment for the scu fire is about the same along with the woodward fire in point reyes. firefighters have the czu fire 72% contained. >> but the destruction from the czu fire will force california's oldest state park to stay closed for at least a year. the "san francisco chronicle" says some of the redwoods at the big basin park are unstable and need to be stress tested for upcoming winter. that will make for a long recovery. the czu fires believed to be big basin's worst fire in recorded

history. there was a fire that burned down the park's headquarters back in 1936. now to our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. only some counties reporting new positive cases yesterday. here's a look at the tally on our screen. santa clara county had 190 new we made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. cases. alameda, san mateo, napa an army family who is always at the ready. counties reported no new cases. so when they got a little surprise... a reckless and selfish is two!? ...they didn't panic. what mayor london breed is they got a bigger car calling thousands of people in for their soon-to-be-bigger family. san francisco after they gathered to honor the canceling after shopping around for insurance, they called usaa - of burning man. who helped find the right coverage for them and even some much-needed savings. burning man inspired beach party that was the easy part. led to this tweet from london usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it- breed. she said you are not celebrating. you are putting people's lives easy. at risk. you are putting progress at risk. no one is immune from spreading the virus. that's from the mayor. burning man was supposed to start last month and end today, but it was canceled, of course. a lot of people agree with breed and say people should just stay home. >> everything that's going on today it's just a good idea for it's 5:57. a northern california shake

folks not to gather in such mass shack is temporarily shut down crowds if they don't need to. after an employee tested it's not a necessity. positive for coronavirus. >> mayor breed warned anybody a store located in sacramento a planning a second party to reconsider, and she ordered beach parking lots to close to sign over the restaurant said stop crowds from gathering the store is undergoing a xroe today. it seems like we're all hen burning men and women and kids comprehensive sanitizing process. they have to self-quarantine. and cats and dogs. the store should reopen next it is hot. weekend. i have the air conditioning on some scary moments onboard a military charter flight above now and it's, what, 5:11. yeah. hawaii. and then you think about at the imagine seeing that out your same time you need to conserve airplane window. energy because we don't want passengers say they saw flames coming from an engine. those rolling blackouts. they also heard loud noises here is what i'm concerned about about three minutes after taking today as we are still dealing off from honolulu. with the unhealthy air quality, the flight an atlas air 767 did that high heat continues today and this will be the last day of land safely. a new video of a huge temperatures this hot. as we go into tonight the winds surprise for a chinese will increase and slightly kindergarten class. one of the dads dressed up as a cooler air comes in. a dry offshore wind that could robot to surprise his son and increase our fire danger as well classmates. as may cause more power outages. the man transforming himself into bumblebee from you may have already gotten those alerts if you're affected. "transformers," of course.

as we take a look at our a special treat for the class temperature trend in spots like which returned to the classroom for the first time in more than dublin it looks unbearable six months. today. the costume took more than a by 1:00 we're already in the month to make and the dad 20 triple digits and that will continue for several hours minutes just to put on. during the afternoon. we'll talk more about our temperatures coming up in a few maybe i'll walk through the minutes. let's get a look at our morning dining room tomorrow as the kids do distance learning. commute. we have a couple of issues i've been watching out on the roads >> it looks great. this morning looking at one breaking right now a deadly shooting in the middle of the slowdown on 880 going northbound street tied to a sideshow. north of hayward. we're live from the scene with watch out for that. we've also had this set latest from police about a violent night in san francisco. affecting some of the roads but not really causing much more of and get ready for another round of extreme heat. a slowdown the multicrash and a heat warning remains in effect. we'll tell you where temperatures will hit triple one fatality there and they're digits. plus, hundreds of people opening the slow lane coming on literally in the line of fire 80 coming into vacaville so surrounded as a wildfire trapped them at a champ ground over the that's something that also may holiday weekend. affect people who are heading out of town during the long the daring rescue to get everybody to safety. holiday weekend. "today in the bay" continues i'll monitor this as well as right now. what else is going on in the bay area coming up in a few minimum, scott.

well, good morning. kari, thank you. still ahead on "today in the a very happy labor day to you. bay," a scare in the air. it's 6:00. an investigation in a what went i'm scott mcgrew. >> and i'm kris sanchez. wrong on a flight from hawaii. we're glad to be laboring with you. tense moments as passengers kari hall is doing double duty. recorded flames from the engine. traffic is light, thank also ahead at 5:25 the goodness, because you have a lot in your weather report. outbreak shutting down one northern california shake shack location. right, we do. we're still dealing with the plus, more theaters reopen with a once touted summer unhealthy air quality, heat and tonight we have a red flag blockbuster. details in the debut of the sci-fi thriller. warning so a lot of concerns here as we look at our air quality today this is the thing bothering us for thousand. three weeks as we look at unhealthy air quality for the east bay and santa clara valley where we'll still have the drifts of smoke coming in and temperatures will be really

right now at 5:15 we take a look at today's high temperatures. another scorcher of a day as we reach well over 100 degrees for many of our microclimates and spots like morgan hill where we've reached 108 degrees today. i'll talk more about that and what's ahead with a slightly cooler but windier forecast coming up. new this morning before you feed your furry friends this morning make sure that you don't have one of these potentially toxic dog foods. the fda says sunshine mills is voluntarily recalling these three products on your screen because of a high level of flatoxin caused by a natural n fungi. no poison cases have been reported but customers should be able to get a full refund.

only 45% of americans plan to host or attend a labor day barbecue. >> about 55% celebrate with help on the grill. the pandemic affecting that. fewer cookouts this year than previous. the weekend's box office results, more americans are going to the movies over the holiday weekend. >> open the right doors. some of the wrong ones, too. >> the sci-fi thriller brought in more than $20 million, the first big ticket release in months. other top movies grossing less than $3 million, about 70% of u.s. movie theaters have

reopened. >> we had an adam sandler bonanza going on at our house. a good way to beat the heat. >> my husband was so excited about "tenet." what movie theater are you going to go to? that's the issue in the bay area. we've dealt with this unhealthy air quality that continues today. we've seen the smoke drifting in. you have high levels of ozone. we take you through 1:00 in the afternoon and we're seeing widespread triple digits with temperatures of 107 degrees in fairfield.

san mateo, 92 degrees. cupertino at 100 degrees. it gets even hotter from there as we go into the afternoon. livermore reaching 111 degrees and we're also going to see triple digits like that heading up through fairfield and even all the way up to ukiah today. it will be slow to cool down but then we'll have the winds picking up. that's going to be another concern. it shows as we go into tomorrow morning we are going to have winds coming in. 15 and up to 30 miles an hour. those winds will increase the fire danger and the reason we have the red flag warning for all of the areas shaded in red including our hills around the bay area. any fires that develop will spread rapidly. make sure you have a way to get those alerts.

as we look at our temperatures over the next seven days to our inland areas we're really hot today but we're still pretty hot as we go through the rest of the week. our temperatures will reach into the upper 80s today but then we'll bring it back to the upper 70s tomorrow as those winds pick up. as we look at our morning commute if you're working on this labor day about to head out on the roads a look at our overall traffic maps we've already had a couple of issues. we are looking at i-880 going northbound north of hayward. seeing an accident there. it really hasn't caused too much of a slowdown because of the lower volume of traffic on the roads. we also have a multicrash deady accident in dixon earlier this morning. they've opened one of the slow lanes. it's still really backed up there and then elsewhere across the bay area. for the south bay we're seeing overall a smooth commute. back to you, scott and kris. >> thank you very much, kari. >> kari, thank you of. next on "today in the bay"

nbc bay area responds. >> reporter: he returned his lease and expected to wash his hands of it, but then a costly wrinkle in his credit report. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura, nbc bay area responds next. but first you can always find our team on social media. look at these beauties celebrating the kentucky derby. kari hall and her mama had a great time with the big hats on saturday. be sure to follow kari for lots of fun, facebook, twitter, instagram. you can find her everywhere and you can find her forecast which is so critical during the heat wave. you're watching "today in the bay." hi. we're glad you came in.

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5:24. protesters took part in tense confrontations with police saturday night. the weekend also marks 100 days of protests in portland and included an incident we're not showing you of a protester who accidentally set himself on fire suffering burns. one nonviolent protester. >> i know what the issue is, it's not black lives matters. it's right and wrong. that's the true agenda that's been detached, that we've been separated from and has been hijacked. >> police on saturday night reportedly arrested 59 people, the highest number of arrests when the protests began.

5:24. in rochester, new york, the mayor and chief of police vowing to sit down despite growing calls for protesters for them to do so. both said they did everything by the book in handling the death of daniel prude during an incident prude lost consciousness when police put a spit hood over his head. he was on life support for two weeks and later declared dead. an internal affairs investigation cleared the officers of wrongdoing, but the attorney general recently announced a grand jury investigation. new video shows a scary moment onboard a military charter flight over hawaii on saturday. passengers saw flames coming from an engine, heard loud noises about three minutes after taking off from honolulu. the flight and atlas air landed safely. shake shack shut down after an employee tested positive for covid-19.

the store is located in the sacramento area. a sign said the store is undergoing a comprehensive sanitizing process. all employees who worked with the infected person have to self-quarantine but the store should reopen by next weekend. nbc bay area responsibds to driver who said his car was dragging down his credit score. chris chmura helped him and has some advice for all of us. >> reporter: good morning. brandon said his chevy traverse lease ended right in the middle of the shelter at home order when no dealers were open to take back the suv. brandon said gm financial told him to keep the car until they reopened and to cover the cost of extra insurance they would waive the $421 turn-in fee. in may dealers reopened, brandon returned the traverse and thought he was done. but, no. in july he discovered gm financial had flagged his credit report for a missed payment and

an unpaid balance of $421. he said his credit score slid 80 points because of that there. he tried to correct it but got nowhere. he contacted us. we contacted gm financial. a rep told us they can't release information but we've escalate this had to our customer experience team to follow up. that same day brandon told us gm reached out and waived the $421 fee. back to you. we are bracing for another hot day ahead. next on "today in the bay," live team coverage of what you can expect as you make your labor day plans. hopefully you're off. and also what you need to know about the potential for planned power shutoffs. also, the united states approaching another coronavirus milestone this morning and the acwik.

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what? i was an 80's kid. it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. right now at 5:30, no end to the holiday heat wave. on the left look at some of our forecasted high temperatures. on the right a live lock ok at francisco and san jose. 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. we're happy to be laboring for you. i'm kris sanchez. and i'm scott mcgrew.

obviously laura and marcus have the day off but, kari, we need to you work today because you have to tell us how it's going to -- how hot it's going to get and when it will cool down. yes, it's going to be very hot again today. we still have this excessive heat warning that was basically issued over the weekend. it continues intoholiday, and we're even going to see some coastal areas heating up again today. we had numerous reports set for yesterday afternoon and today we're looking at high temperatures still unbearably hot reaching 103 degrees in napa. 102 in san jose. as hot as 112 today in ukiah. and look at san francisco reaching into the upper 80s. heading out on the roads this morning if you are driving we're taking a look at 580 coming through dublin, a steady flow of traffic this morning. mike takes the day off as well. we're looking at our overall drive across the bay area. just a couple of minor issues.

i've seen some crashes popping up on 880 north of hayward that may still be slowing people down. i'm also watching a deadly accident as well. we'll talk more about this as well as that slowdown coming into the bay area into dixon. more on that coming up in a few minutes. back to you. >> thank you, kari. we want to go to san francisco where we have breaking news. police are on scene investigating a deadly shooting that happened during a large sideshow. it all went down about four hours ago near mission terrace in the excelsior neighborhood. "today in the bay's" jackie ward with details on that violent night in the city on what was supposed to be a quiet night, jackie. >> reporter: yeah, no kidding, kris. at mission and ocean in san francisco right now where it was closed, this portion of mission, for a couple hours. it has since reopened. we're still waiting for details to be confirmed by police. a witness tells us he saw a sideshow going on with as many as 100 or more cars, possibly

500 spectators. he heard several gunshots, maybe as many as 20, he says, and saw two people had been shot. he believes one person was shot in the stomach and another was shot in the head. police have confirmed this is a homicide investigation, but we don't know how many were killed. moments before cars were doing burnouts, taking turns coming inside the crowd. the gunshots sent everyone scrambling. >> everyone was just enjoying the cars, doing the burnout. ten minutes in, it was like ten consecutive shots all at once. >> reporter: police placed evidence markers on mission. we believe they placed one next to a gun that may have been left behind. no word on if the shooter or shooters are still out there this morning, and there was more violence in san francisco last night with another shooting that happened just a couple hours before this one around 11:00

near ocean beach. this one happened at fulton and great highway. when police got there they found one adult male shot. he was taken to the hospital for life threatening injuries. the begunman there for that shooting is currently outstanding so, of course, we have asked san francisco police about both investigations and will bring you any details as soon as we learn them. live in san francisco, jackie ward, "today in the bay." >> jackie, thank you. the heat wave all around the bay area. bob redell is tracking the possibility of power shutoffs to fire danger -- because of fire dangers. first, thom jensen in brentwood with a look at the fire danger sparking so much concern. good morning, thom. >> reporter: good morning. you can probably see the breeze hyped us with the palm trees blowing. that increases that fire danger, of course, cooling down the

temperatures a little bit. we're down into the 70s right now at 5:00 a.m. we were already at 82 degrees but that fire danger and then the health concerns with the heat and the smoke. despite those health concerns from the national weather service and from health officials about the excessive heat we found lots of people out yesterday during the evening and during the daytime out shopping and enjoying dining. some of the hottest parts of the bay and the tri-valley area. shoppers finding labor day deals, not scared away by the heat even if they have to stand in line to get the bargains. >> some stores have lines, just keeping social distancing. that's one of the things we have to think about. that's keeping us safe. other than that the sales are worth it so far. we got a couple good things. >> reporter: and i know bob will get into the power grid. power officials are asking people if they are staying home to stay home in the cool

temperatures, get their exercise and their work, their strenuous activity done outside during the cooler parts of the day and to keep their thermostats to 78 to help conserve energy. there are plenty of cooling stations open around the bay area. we have a full list of locations and operating hours at nbcbayarea.com. we're live in brentwood in contra costa county, thom jensen, "today in the bay." >> thank you, thom. we in how critical the cooling stations are when people lose power. winds are expected to pick up so that's a very real possibility. it's a our future. bay by's bob redell is live this morning. pg&e doing everything they can to avoid sparking another wildfire. >> reporter: and that's why they've issued a warning for public safety power shutoff possible in the north bay because there's going to be a

strong offshore wind that's forecast to blow through tonight and pg&e is worried about the equipment and power lines and spark the kind of deadly wildfires we've seen over the past few years. so they've issued a 24-hour psps for today and tomorrow for 103,000 customers. 18 counties in the north bay and sierra foothills. this includes over 5,600 customers in napa. 210 customers in sonoma. you should have received an alert from pg&e to let you know if this affects you if you live in the area. pg&e says it's learned from the preventative outages in the past so if there are going to be outages they'll be smaller in size and shorter in length. the power shutoffs are not to be confused with rolling blackouts that were possible last night. thoseenergy usage. as thom was alluding to the california independent system operator, the iso, has issued a flex alert for today because of the heat, turn down your

thermostat, watch your electricity usage especially when the temps get higher later today and asking to conserve that electricity between 3:00 and 9:00 today. report be live, bob redell, "today in the bay." bob, as we watch those fires, we have new video of a fast growing wildfire in the sierra. this is the creek fire that started on friday. the same fire that trapped 200 people who were rescued earlier yesterday. evacuation orders are still in place for several communities in the area. it's burned 73,000 acres and is still out of control. the pandemic is changing the way we do all kinds of things including how the red cross will help some of those fire victims. we've seen red cross volunteers assisting each of the bay area wildfires. they're hoping to allow for social distancing and when possible helping place people in hotel rooms instead.

>> we bring food to them in boxes and put it outside the rooms. we're doing a lot of virtual case management. we're calling people that are in those hotels and asking them what they need, how we can help. >> obviously that can increase the cost of responding so the red cross is urging people to donate, and they can always use more volunteers. the red cross also calling for blood donations. call 800-red-cross or go to r redcross.org. nbc now reports more than 191,000 people have died in the u.s. more than 6 million cases confirmed. california, new york, new jersey, texas reporting the highest number of deaths. researchers from the institute for health metrics and evaluation say deaths could skyrocket to 3,000 a day in december if current trends continue. but they say deaths may be

reduced by 30% if americans would wear masks. marin county health leaders expect to move into a less restricted tier as early as tomorrow. the current map of where we stand now only san francisco and napa are in the red tier which allows businesses to increase capacity indoors. marin county says its low daily rate case and low positivity rate helped them qualify for that change. santa clara county hoping to hear if they qualify. the state typically announces the changes each tuesday. for now we want to check in with meteorologist kari hall. kari, it is already hot out there this morning. we know it's going to be dangerous today. yeah, another dangerous day with unhealthy air quality. let's head to concord and look at how o up. it's not at all going to feel like morning. where we're starting our temperatures in the mid-70s will already be warm and we'll see temperatures in the triple digits by noon. as we get a look at our south

bay high temperatures it's back to where we were yesterday reaching 102 in san jose and 108 in morgan hill. we'll also see the highs over 100 degrees for most of the east bay while the coastline will be in the mid-70s to start out in half moon bay and then some temperatures reaching 96 in palo alto. a closer look in a few minimum. let's get a look at the morning commute where we've already seen quite a few issues, a couple of accidents. we have a deadly accident in dixon where they are now opening the slow lanes, so the commute is starting to roll slowly fata multicrash accident as well as the south bay that looks pretty good for the commute this morning. another lock at weather and traffic in a few minutes. >> thank you very much, kari. back to our breaking news. it's not just us here in the bay area dealing with wildfires and record heat. next on "today in the bay" the firefight under way in southern

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it's really, really helped me tremendously. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. right now at 5:44, extreme heat today and a red flag warning that begins tonight. that means a high fire danger for our hills, all of these areas shaded in red. on the roads this morning we're checking the drive times for your commute and everything looks pretty good. we've seen overall a fairly smooth flow of traffic. getting a look at those numbers takes you 17 minutes to go westbound across the bay bridge. we'll talk more about this and weather in a few minutes. thank you, kari. firefighters in southern california have their hands full with several new fires including the two on your screen right now. on the left the bobcat fire which started north in the angeles national forest. no homes are threatened. on the right the bad news is the

valley fire started saturday about 30 miles east of san diego and that fire has already destroyed ten structures and more are threatened. both fires are currently out of control. 5:46. also in southern california a family could face jail time for several wildfires burning about 75 miles east of los angeles where some 3,000 homes have been evacuated from the el dorado fire. it is 5% contained. no homes themselves have actually been burned. firefighters say the whole thing sarted when somebody had a smoke machine at one of those gender reveal parties. along with jail family members could be facing pretty big fines. video of a dangerous ending to a car chase in orange county. you can see the driver running a red light and clipping an rv. the truck will spin out of

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