live from the cvs bay area studios. this is kpix 5 news. now at noon, the bay area is starting to feel the heat and fire danger is on the rise. that could mean tens of thousands of pg&e customers left in the dark. i michelle griego . >> i'm kenny choi. we have team king team coverage on the heat and the fire danger impact around the bay area. we are trapping tracking offshore winds that will help to heat is up and bring the high fire danger so a red flag warning will be in effect starting tonight until wednesday morning for the northbay hills, east bay hills and the diablo range picked the

northerly winds, hot and dry air, 10 to 25 miles per hour, gusting to 40 and low relative humidity values about 10 to 20% so extreme fire danger as we head through the next couple of days. here is the fire forecast danger from the u.s. forest service and it does show a yellow high fire danger, orange, very high and or the red is extreme high fire danger. this is for tomorrow for the northbay hills, east bay hills and the diablo range. wildfire safety, discard cigarettes properly, keep cars off grass, avoid activities that could create sparks and

remove dart dry vegetation around your home. be prepared. we will talk more about what you can expect. we are tracking the wind picked details coming up. now the hot, dry weather has pg&e ready to shut off power to 124,000 people across northern california. nine counties including sonoma, napa, lake and butte counties could be affected. contingency plans are now in place for when and if the power is turned off. >> reporter: sonoma county officials from various organizations just finished up a meeting here to figure out what they would do if, in fact, pg&e decides to shut off the power. pg&e is going to the new normal, lessening fire danger by contentious continuously shutting off power to avoid fire. dave has lived here many years and remains unscathed the key is all for pg&e taking these measures but only where it makes sense . >> if that's the case, it would be a little drastic. >> reporter: in case the power is shut off, john kendrick was on the hunt for dry ice for his medical practice where patients a ages range from 1 to 100 .

>> they don't have to be frozen but we have to maintain temperatures running upwards of 100 degrmas.unty opened and will stay that way as long as needed. county officials are ready to help whoever may need it. specific logistics are up in the air as the weather remains closely monitor . >> a lot of it is piecing together the needs. we will figure out what the needs are for the event depending on the scale and the location. >> reporter: simona sonoma county says pg&e may decide to turn off the power at 8:00 tonight and may decide again tomorrow night at 8:00 picked there waiting to find out. it takes 24 to 48 hours to fully restore power. parents and the santa rosa school district were sent out letters warning about potential shut offs. schools will stay in session if

an outage occurs during the school day. if the power stays off multiple days, an alternate location for school will be provided. much more coming up on the kpix 5 news at 5:00 and online at kpix.com. a love triangle murder trial begins today at the center, a hillsboro heiress accused of plotting the murder of the father of her children. we go to kpix 5 sun affect outside the courtroom in redwood city. >> reporter: this morning the prosecution laid out a chain of events that they say started with a text from the defendant saying, green light to her new boyfriend. that was after long, bitter custody battle with the father of her children, her ex- boyfriend. they also said the defendant talked to her boyfriend suggesting they watch the show, "how to get away with murder." here is a video of tiffany lee walking into the courtroom this morning without saying a word. she has been under house arrest

for more than two years after putting up $66 million in cash and property for bail. she is accused of plotting to kill the father of her children, keith green, in 2016 in a custody dispute. prosecutors say lee conspired with her then boyfriend, to shoot green, and the two allegedly turned to a friend, a dola, to get rid of the evidence. the body turned up on a dirt road in sonoma county. the defendants are being tried together. both pleaded not guilty and accused adela. they are blaming everything on adela claiming he had items in custody. they also said he had a burner phone he was texting and when he bought it, he bought it under the name of vladimir putin. it is going to be an

interesting case expected to last about two months. live in redwood city, kpix 5. one step forward, as two steps back for crews in san bruno. too much water pressure broken water main in two places after crews tried to fix the original leak. this happened on mere filled circle off of skyline boulevard. 30 homes are still without running water. the city manager's office estimates the repairs will not be completed until later this afternoon. now to new york where leaders from nearly 200 countries are attending the united nations special climate summit this week. 16-year-old activists, greta thunberg kicked off the summit. >> people are dying and our ecosystems are collapsing. we are in the beginning of a mess, mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of economic growth. how dare you! >> she has become a leader from the youth environmental activists movement.

president trump made a surprise stop at the climate summit. the president pulled the u.s. out of the paris climate agreement in the last summit. he then gave a speech on world leaders to end religious persecution within their leaders. borders. a phone call with one of those leaders is prompting democrats to once again call for president trump's impeachment. nicole killian has details from the white house. >> reporter: arriving at the united nations this morning, president trump insisted he did nothing inappropriate when he spoke to ukraine's leader . >> we had a perfect phone call with the president of ukraine. everybody knows it. it is a democrat which trent. here we go again. >> reporter: the july 20 phone call is in the spotlight after whistleblowers complaint to the intel intelligence communities inspector general. during the call, according to the wall street journal, president trump urged the

president to investigate joe biden and his family. a transcript has been called to be released. >> clearly he is afraid for the public to see either one of those things. >> releasing this transcript could set a bad precedent. >> reporter: in a letter tode n a whole new stage of investigation continues. some republicans say it is joe biden's dealing with the eutectic ukrainians that should be investigated. in 2016, while vice president, joe bryden threatened to joe biden threatened to withhold 1 billion dollars in last ukraine dismissed as top prosecutor. biden was a board member at an oil company the prosecutor was investigated but there is no evidence the former vice president acted inappropriately. nicole killian, cbs news, the

white house. meanwhile, acting director this week on capitol hill. new york stock exchange with her. stock exchange with the kids. taking alive look at the big board, let's see how the stock market is doing. the dow is up about 75 points. still ahead, thousands of british citizens stranded abroad including in the u.s. after the financial collapse of britain's oldest travel company picked the scramble to get everyone home. self driving cars are a reality thanks for vehicles that think for themselves. a look at the marriage of machine and artificial intelligence.

kpix is always on. k cbs. at least 150,000 travelers

are stranded this afternoon as negotiations to save the world's oldest travel firm collapsed picked the final thomas cook flight landed in manchester, england this morning after the travel company abruptly stopped all operations. the uk civil aviation authority has charted more than 40 flights to reach stranded prep passengers. the biggest effort to bring uk citizens home since world war ii. what was once science fiction is starting to become reality, from cars that drive themselves to robots that learn on their own. lisa mateo shows us how improvements and artificial intelligence are sparking new innovations. >> reporter: this robot can rock or roll in every direction. it also has brainpower thanks to artificial intelligence or ai. swiss engineers program certain movements but eventually the robot talk itself to do this rollerblading motion. that ability to learn and react could lead to a host of

possibilities. >> at some point you might want please deliver it to the store and the robot needs to figure out then based on the stairs they might have to climb or the grass they might have to walk over, exactly how to achieve the goal. >> reporter: in brooklyn, new york, the company optus ride is working on how to transport workers at an office park using cameras and sensors to navigate the road . >> all of the technology we are developing uses artificial intelligence. that helps us predict how people behave, pedestrians walk, how people maneuver in a lane. >> reporter: it is not just ca a i could one day lead to autonomous flying machines. ceo ryan jim says advances still need to be made. right now autonomous vehicles work well in a controlled environment but -- met self driving will be very difficult driving in times square verses in a snowstorm.

>> reporter: how much of our reality are these vehicles? >> they are coming. >> reporter: syracuse university assistant professor, ingrid erickson says the technology of self driving car has a way to go before it can make judgment calls people do . >> you need that to be built up and increasingly tested and tested and tested over and over again so there are no error rates. >> reporter: the testing is underway. as these machines become smarter, we get closer to a day when robots take the wheel. lisa mateo, cbs news, new york. the more testing, the better . >> yeah. please. we all need to be safe out there. we are looking at plenty of sunshine after starting off the day with fog and drizzle along the coast and parts of the bay. you can see blue skies and the camera looking south there.

temperatures are warming up as well. conquered almost at 80 degrees, 79, oakland, upper 60s as well as emphasis go. 80 in livermore. 73 in san jose and 82 right now for santa rosa. talking about the heat, also the high fire danger as well as we have a spare the air alert that will be in effect for tomorrow. the air quality unhealthy for sensitive groups in the east east bay. moderate air quality in the north bay and central bay. that is for tomorrow because of high-pressure building in offshore winds kicking in tonight. tuesday and wednesday morning also. those northerly winds, hot and dry air. low relative humidity values and gusting northerly winds means extreme fire are going to heat up even more for tuesday and wednesday. on futurecast, you can see all of the sunshine, above average temperatures today. starting tomorrow with clear skies. temperatures heating up even more tuesday into wednesday. winds for today breezy.

we will see the winds kick up as we head through tuesday and wednesday especially for the north bay hills, east bay hills and diablo ranch which is why the red flag warning in effect there. sunset at 7:05 and sunrise at 6:50 9 am tomorrow morning. temperatures in the afternoon today low 90s concord and fairfield. 87 in livermore, mid 80s, san jose and mid-70s for san francisco. the 7-day forecast, you really heat up with a offshore flow for tuesday and wednesday, upper 90s to 100 degrees inland tuesday and wednesday. we are going to cool down by the end of the work week. especially into the weekend, the stronger on shore flow. heating up but relief is coming . >> up and down. today is the official kickoff of the new primetime tv season right here on cbs . >> part ofneup a new comedy called "bob heart" where a small businessman lands in

the hospital and unexpectedly falls for his nurse, an immigrant from nigeria. he said to cite on winning her over. >> it is a nice look at and a grounded look at two people that are striving to make their lives better whilst trying to succeed in this business and he is lonely. and she is here to make a better life for her son and she needs to be less serious and i think they kind of give each other that and it is very sweet to watch. >> bob hearts abba shula falls the hit comedy, "the neighborhood" and then the new card hot warehouse series featuring "all rise". it all starts at 8:00 tonight right here on kpix 5. still ahead, overcoming challenges in college. how this bay area student found success in a drip brand-new environment. if you have a consumer problem or question, email us,

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