live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news . a heat wave in california has triggered the first rolling blackout in california for over 20 years with more possible in the coming days. the bay area beach town is begging people not to visit but unclear how that could be enforced. who will be vaccinated first when the shots become available, and what california and other states are asked to do ahead of time. it is 6:00 on this saturday, august 15. good morning. i am emily turner. >> i am devin fehely. let's get to our meteorologist. >> yesterday was bad but that's only the start. here is the view over the bridge with no marine layer this morning but i don't think anyone is surprised to see that. although we did cool down in

the upper 60s in the city after being in the mid-90s yesterday. we shattered the record of san francisco from the gold rush. we will do it all over again today. we have intense heat again today and it could get technically cooler tomorrow but don't think sunday will feel good but about 5 to 7 degrees drop from today. that is short-lived. next week we have intense heat much of next week with your 7- day forecast coming up in a bit. today 108 for many inland spots with 89 in the bay. if you are lucky in the city you will stay out of the 90s. i will be back with more coming up in a bit. rolling blackouts are over for the time being in california. yesterday they affected over 200,000 customers. the independent system operator ordered the shut off to preserve the system stability.

katie nielsen was in san rafael when the lights came back on. >> reporter: bill higgins was in the kitchen of the restaurant, whippersnapper, when the power went out. >> we did what we could so long as we could without the electricity. it started to get dark so we had to shut down. >> reporter: a frustrating blow at a time when they are already struggling. this was supposed to be the big friday night rush. >> restaurants are under the gun and it is hurtful, to say the least. >> reporter: this nearby beer garden was still rocking thanks to the blue tube speakers, battery operated lights and more than a few cold adult beverages. the people downtown when the power went out relied on headlights from passing cars to see where they were going. others were using flashlights from the cell phones. some were questioning, why even bother to leave. >> it's difficult to go home

because we obviously we want the ac unit and we don't have that now. >> reporter: for bill at the whippersnapper is stakes are higher. >> this is the first day and is this going to happen every single day? >> that was katie nielsen reporting. they say more blackouts are possible this weekend depending how hot it gets. livermore tie the record hike on friday at 106 degrees. some restaurants had misting fans to try to keep the customers fresh, a possible. despite the heat people can get a fine of $100 for not wearing a mask. >> it's miserable but i am thankful to be working. it's hard in the heat walking back and forth, tiresome for sure. the beaches were packed friday and expected to be crowded all weekend long. maria medina reports one mayor is pleading with people to stay

away. >> the beaches are jampacked. they are jampacked during the week. >> reporter: this specific the mayor said she has seen it with her own eyes. >> i am seeing volleyball games, drinking games, volleyball and football games. is highly suspect that those folks are not all from the same family. >> reporter: here is video we captured today with crowds of people, some not wearing a mask or social distancing, but not only happening in pacific up. we are suffering and it's jampacked and we are feeling like lake tahoe was feeling. >> reporter: brent turner is a resident of half moon bay and reached out to the city, county and state leaders to try to shut down the beaches on the weekend. >> it is the worst egregious public duty when the pandemic happens in your on-duty. i think you put health and safety of citizens first >> reporter: even when beaches

are closed throughout the pandemic, some people said it did not keep him away. >> we parked all the way out there, and we walked all the way here. >> reporter: the mayor is encouraging beachgoers to stay home. >> reporter: at some point do you think you will crackdown on violators if you continue to see the beaches this way? >> i cannot say for sure. >> reporter: and santa cruz the mayor looked at closing the beaches due to the crowd but said that would be difficult to enforce without a regional approach. to the lake of fire at the angeles national forest near lake hughes with evacuation orders lifted as fire crews continued to battle the flames. evacuation orders were issued after 5:00 last night and lifted a few hours later. that wildfire is still posing a threat to other homes and burning over 17,000 acres at 12% containment. governor newsom said the backlog of coronavirus cases in

california have been cleared and we are trending down. of the 7900 cases reported over 24 hours half were backlogged and 3500 were new cases. the test positivity rate is at 2.6%. california is only one of four states drafting plans on distributing the coronavirus vaccine when it becomes available eventually. the cdc is asking states to figure out who would get the vaccine first if the limited doses were available. the inspector general of the u.s. postal service is launching an investigation into the nationwide mail delays. this comes after the postal service said they may not be able to handle the flood of mail-in ballots this november. we have more from reporter weijia jiang. >> reporter: the postal service is warning states there is a significant risk some ballots

may not be able to be returned by mail in time to be counted. there is growing concern over post offices across the country and how they can handle the rush of ballots with more opting to stay home due to the pandemic. democrats want to give the post office more federal funding for the coronavirus relief deal but the president opposes it saying that mail-in ballots lead to election fraud. >> if we don't do the deal that means they can get the money for universal mail-in voting. >> reporter: former president barack obama responded in a podcast interview. >> we have never seen before a president saying i'm going to try to actively kneecap the postal service to encourage voting. >> reporter: president trump seem to walk back the remarks today saying he would sign the agreement with mail-in voting money in exchange for the republican priorities. >> i would do that, sure. >> reporter: democrats claim that the new postmaster general, the major trump donor made big changes to operations in order

to sabotage mail-in voting. cbs news learn the postal service's inspector general has opened an investigation. >> reporter: in new jersey the governor announced on friday that all registered voters would automatically receive a ballot in the mail but still have an option of voting in person if they prefer. weijia jiang, cbs news, somerville, new jersey . california residents reporting an increase in delays due to the postal service which is tougher on businesses already dealing with slowdowns due to the pandemic. >> a customer notified us on thursday they got the package one week after it was shipped and was supposed to be there in two days. another customer has not been delivered to after two weeks. it affects us because we don't get paid, and it affects the orders and sales. santa clara county jail inmates are on a hunger trike protesting conditions at the

jail. they are joining in other movements calling out police brutality. inmates are participating in the strike at the main jail at san jose and the correctional complex at milpitas. we reached out to the santa clara county sheriff for comment but have not heard back. the recently released san quentin inmate who story we covered right here on kpix 5 has died. when we last talked with him he was thankful he was at least starting to get his meals delivered. one week later the family said they knew something was wrong because he did not answer their phone calls. he was two days away from being released from quarantine. his mother in tennessee got a call she hope she would never receive. we have that story from andrea kakano. >> i was 16 when i had him so we grew up together . i just cannot believe he is gone. it will take a long time to get over this one. >> reporter: terry is in

disbelief about the loss of her firstborn son, mike madeux. he was released from san quentin on july 28 and found dead now on august 9 in his hotel room. >> he had his ankle bracelet in his hand. >> reporter: charlotte and her husband were the last to talk with him before his death. mike madeux was a diabetic and just had told them how he blacked out. >> my husband told me to please get yourself to an emergency room and do something. i don't think he made it very long after that. >> reporter: when kpix 5 interviewed mike madeux and late july he had expressed similar concerns. >> i'm diabetic, and i'm shaking because i have not had anything to eat. >> reporter: he is a released san quentin inmate but because he was required to quarantine

by the state he was supposed to have help with this food and transportation needs. he begged the department of corrections for help in managing his diabetes, that is sister said he did not have access to a meter the last time they talk. the family is wondering why cdr took no action to address his medical needs during the required quarantine. the family was only told by the marin county coroner's office that foul play was not involved in his death and that an autopsy would not be done. >> i want something to happen because i don't think they treated him right. i don't think they should get by with what happened to him. >> that was andrea kakano reporting. we reached out to the cdc are but have not received a response. the family is trying to raise money to have an independent autopsy to find out cause of

death. there've only been 15 new cases at san quentin for the last two weeks but over 2000 people have recovered. coming up, call them zombie sharks, washing up on the california beaches with the sign of a brain infection. one teacher brings the cardboard cutouts to the classroom.

unhealthy sharks are washing up on the california

beaches. scientists believe this thresher shark that washed up on newport beach could be sick with a brain infection. hundreds of beachgoers watched as they tried to help the struggling shark get back in the water. scientist said over the last four days five sharks have stranded in sales from newport beach up to santa cruz. >> they get affection a bacterium in the brain which actually start eating away the brain. it turns them him like zombies. they become disoriented and swim ashore and get stranded. a lot of time the public will find them thrashing around and tried to push them back out. >> animal control says that the shark at newport beach had to be euthanized. marine biologist will do the cropsey to find out if they had a brain infection. we start out with the day that is just as hot if not

harder than yesterday. let's start out by taking a look at the view of the city at the best part of the day with temperatures in the 60s right now. if i put the current numbers on the screen san francisco numbers right now at a comfortable 60s. there are currently 67 with 71 and concord. oakland is at 69 with 64 in santa rosa. let's look ahead to today and the concern on the numbers. the far right numbers show you the record today which is 90 in san francisco, livermore at 105, concord as well at 105 for the record. there is a pattern on here which is clear if you take a look at who is breaking the records and who is not. livermore and concord are breaking the records and will by as much as 3 degrees today and concord. if you are anyone else or not in contra costa or alameda

county it is still a very hot day but not historically hot. you will miss the record by 5 degrees in the city of san francisco. santa rosa at 101 but they have been 109 before on august 15. it could be worse but don't use that as any kind of allowance. i cannot tu today will not be bad because it will be as far as the heat is concerned. even all the way of the coast they are 3 degrees shy of 80 today in pacifica. napa at 100 was san rafael up at 97 and 96 at vallejo. you can see the map with the color shades so we are all included in this. everywhere were you see the shaded pink or orange. it semantics to go into the difference between the excessive heat warnings or heat advisory. it is apparent if you are in the excessive heat warning, be more cognizant of how you treat

yourself outside. make sure to drink plenty of water, find the shade. ideally be in the air conditioning if you can. if you cannot, find the best alternative available to you. hunker down with whatever you do today to get through this. this is only day two of seven. even though tomorrow will get a little bit better we do have some good news on sunday. 101 inland locations rather than 108 which is an improvement but 101 is still nasty and dangerous. we will not cool down enough overnight. next week we go right back up to near 110 inland. how are you doing since you are the south bay guy from san jose? >> these temperatures looking at the forecast make me sweat just looking at them. the irony is with the ability to cool off the rolling blackouts do not help.

>> that is the convergence of the issue. there has to be a solution at some point down the road to keep this from happening. the sea heat waves are coming more regularly so hopefully we can figure out a better way out . you probably seen the cardboard cutouts in the stands at the baseball game. one teacher adapted the idea to the classroom. here's what it looks like at the classroom of ms. ward in las vegas. she made these cardboard versions of her fifth graders with help from the parents over the summer break. >> i am your new teacher and i asked them for a picture of their kid against the white background of the kids in the school uniform. it would feel like an actual school day. >> that is awesome. class officially starts on monday and some students have seen the cutouts and appeared to approve coming up, covid-19 claims the life of the politician in venezuela, one of several prominent officials testing

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this weekend venezuela is mourning the loss of a politician that died from covid- 19. dario vivas is the first prominent official in the country could die from the virus and the member of the party of the coalition. he had been chief of the capital district of caracas. venezuela coronavirus cases have surpassed 31,000 with several officials testing positive including the vice president . in bolivia they are nearing 100,000 coronavirus cases. the minister of health reported 1500 cases with 55 deaths on friday. that brings the death toll to nearly 4000 since the pandemic

began. they have had nationwide protests to postpone the elections decision due to the virus. and surpassing 15,000 coronavirus cases with the country disease control and prevention in south korea reporting 166 new cases since yesterday. 150 were community transformation. health officials identified clusters from churches in seoul and fast food restaurants along with a market in the neighboring province. in response the seoul city government issued an executive order restricting all group events and the religious facilities other than main services. the towns in the neighboring provinces are shutting down hundreds of facilities like the nightclubs and movie theaters. right now they have 830 active cases but the death toll is at 305.

japan marks the 75th anniversary of the surrender and world war ii. this ceremony look different than previously, downsized due to the pandemic. the japanese prime minister saying he would never repeat the tragedy of war and the ember expressed deep remorse over the country involvement in the war. in eastern china they marked the end of the war and it was their 35th anniversary of the creation of the memorial hall for the victims of the massacre by japanese troops. the delegation of young people from china, japan and the u.s. rang the bell of peace, mourning the thousands. still in the defense operation deal with polish officials. after the deal with central and northern your mike pompeo met with the foreign minister to sign and enhance the defense cooperation agreement. it will pave the way for

redevelopment of american troops from germany to poland. that is in addition to the 4500 already there. they will establish a permanent u.s. military presence in poland, and deploy about 1000 new troops. the democratic challengers in the presidential race sign papers to allow them to receive nominations during the national convention next week. facilitating distance learning in school. here's a live look outside over san jose. we

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live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news . welcome back. it is 6:28. thank you for joining us. i am emily turner. >> i am devin fehely. let's get to the hot, hot weather with meteorologist darren peck. >> i have two more "hot" to add on that as we get ready for this pretty intense heat way. the best part of the day is right now with numbers most agreeable obviously. only 67 in san francisco, 75 at san jose and we are looking at 71 in concord. the take away is that we have intense heat today. it is going to be slightly cooler tomorrow by 5 to 7 degrees but that still means it

is hot enough on sunday for the excessive heat warning and advisories to remain in place. after we get by the improvement tomorrow we start increasing numbers again on monday and much of next week. your numbers will be just as hot as today. here are today's numbers. 108 inland, and we will be around 90 for much of the bay with mid to upper 70s at the coast. let's get over to emily. >> my ac gets installed monday, it cannot come soon enough. democratic campaign 2020 with joe biden and kamala harris signing the important paperwork for the white house this fall. we have more from natalie brand in washington. >> i'm signing this because i am in the race to weigh. >> reporter: as joe biden and

kamala harris sign the paperwork for the democratic nomination here is deflecting questions about the false conspiracy theory that is targeting her. thursday president trump was asked about but did not refute the baseless claims saying that kamala harris since morning california not constitutionally eligible to be vice president because her parents were not born in the u.s. >> i heard she does not meet the requirements but i have no idea if that is right. >> reporter: the president was asked on friday if he has issue with the strong woman of color in the race. >> none whatsoever. >> reporter: harris reflected on her history making week. >> joe biden had the audacity to choose a black woman to be his running mate. as much as anything is the statement in the character of the man we will elect as the next president of the united states. >> reporter: the pandemic is expected to cause a flood of mail-in ballots with the postal service sending a warning to

the states saying there is a significant risk that some balance will not get returned in the mail in time to get county. president trump said he opposes the postal service funding sought by congressional democrats, laming mail-in voting leads to election fraud. research shows fraud is very rare. the president indicated on friday there could be room for compromise. he said he would sign an agreement for postal money in exchange for priorities. president trump requested his own absentee ballot from florida . new policies imposed by the postmaster include eliminating overtime and slowing some mail delivery. some lawmakers and postal union leaders say he is undermining operations in an effort to effect mail-in voting n november. but they denied that charge on friday with governor newsom criticizing the trump administration handling of the postal service stuff like in it

to sabotage. >> i don't think me or anyone in my lifetime has seen this happening to our postal system. it impacts not only the election but with ability to get quality care for prescriptions, information, being able to correspond with loved ones and the like. >> the governor mentioned two executive orders he signed months ago regarding mail-in voting. one provides access points for people to drop off the balance. he said that registrars in california have 17 days to collect and certify the ballots after they are postmarked. hitting milestones with the coronavirus, surpassing 600,000 cases closing in on 11,000 deaths. on friday governor newsom laid out how the state is helping schools with distance learning saying they provided 70,000 laptops in districts and established hundreds of thousands of wifi hotspots.

apple is working with them and set aside thousands of devices for the schools but says his knowledge about more than just technology. >> we want to bring the students into the screens truly engaged. to. and not just interacting with the teachers. we want a more dynamic engagement to the extent possible. >> the governor is directing state agencies to bridge the digital divide by working with faster download speeds and expanding connectivity. crime is spiking in oakland especially the violent offenses. between 2018, 2019 and 2020 the replace of a 70% increase in violent crime in the first week of august alone. kpix 5 has details on the

strategy to partner with the community and try to get the crime under control . >> reporter: the oakland police department is facing a battle over funding, rise in violent crime. the short term concern is the weather. >> we have seen a spike in violence and traditionally it will spike with everyone outside with temperatures short. right now it is 95 degrees. >> reporter: international boulevard where the police are rolling in with an outreach effort in this neighborhood that has seen a wave of shootings. >> we want folks that could be perpetrators and the victims of homicides to put down their guns. >> reporter: gun violence up across all three policing areas covering east oakland. homicide now on pace to double the total from last year's back area three homicides rose by 55%. >> reporter: the councilmember blaming the surge of violence on a mix of desperation and

organized crime. he said shootings and renewed gang activity are recalling oakland darkest days. >> considering the challenge economically we are having we are going back to where we were before. >> oakland earned national headlines by cutting gun violence in half over just five years and we are not about to let that go. >> reporter: mayor libby schaaf said the oakland care outreach is a central part of that effort but community leaders in east oakland want to see more officers also. >> people talk about the funding of the police, by defunding. that's outraging you don't hear the residents of oakland say to defund the police. >> reporter: this will all last over the next two weeks with more police presence in oakland. wilson walker, kpix 5. the fbi and san francisco please arrested a suspect in the gang-related murder of a teenager.

he is accused of shooting and killing the 15-year-old in the mission district. the teenager died at the scene. at the time officers tried to follow a card they had seen leaving the scene but lost track of it. >> we will continue to investigate street violence targeting the children of our city, and disproportionately the communities of color. no one should be afraid to walk in their own neighborhood. no one deserves to lose their son or daughter to gang violence. >> authorities say the suspect killed the victim over the turf dispute with a rival gang. reclaiming her identity and 2015 chanel miller was the anonymous victim of the sexual assault from a stanford student and later wrote the best- selling memoir and now making a life herself as an artist in new york city. she sat down with our cbs reporter to talk about how her life has changed. >> it's been nearly a year since you revealed your

identity and what is it like now that the entire world knows your name. >> i am really grateful that before the lockdown happened i was able to have a few book signings and to meet people face-to-face, and to experience the warmth directly. people would line up and write their names on post-it notes in the book so i could sign them and i kept every single one. i am meeting the people that saved me. >> reporter: you write that your art helped you get through some of the darkest periods of your life. now you are creating art, and exhibiting art. what does that feel like? >> i think a lot about how when i was in court, a place completely devoid of art. that was difficult for me. art has immense power to nourish people, and to also address your humanity.

it says just to give someone something nice to look at. that was important to me. now what is incredible is that the asian art museum has given me this 75 foot wall. >> reporter: it is amazing. >> yeah. it is something i would never have asked for or thought to ask for, to say kenite filled that wall. the fat they brought me to the museum and stood me on the street before this massive wall and said this is yours. again, it is restructuring how i see myself. it tells me how much space i deserve to take in the world. that is how i hope people feel when they look at it. >> the mural is i was, i am, i will be. it is meant to represent

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a lot of locals in the tahoe area are warning tourists to stay away. they said a lot of people are visiting making a huge mess. resident gathered around the roundabout in meyers where tourism is passing through to get into town. they said trash is nothing new but with so many visitors is the worst they have ever seen it. >> they are leaving trash and dirty diapers everywhere. they are even having bonfires. they can burn our town down. >> i think it's ridiculous. i was born and raised here too. but i need tourism for my kids a business to thrive and this town needs tourism. >> the group plans on putting up signs across tahoe and hopes to take the message to the governor's office.

we have heat that may make the mounds of lake tahoe more appealing at this point. hang in there. if you had a hard time in the heat yesterday let's get to the bad news out of the starting gate. it will stay this way for six or seven days. today is hotter inland. looking at the top of the tower, numbers in the 60s in the city of oakland. only mid- 70s and places like san jose at 71 in concord. if you have stuff to do outside doing early morning. that is the most agreeable time to get outside. is this excessive heat morning. everywhere on the map and that pink area has an excessive heat warnings including inland contra costa and alameda county. at the immediate bay they are shaded in orange which means they have a heat advisory. the differences are only telling you the degree of the severity of the heat. in the areas of the pink in the excessive heat warnings start thinking about ways to stay hydrated during the day.

find shade or air conditioning, do what you can to avoid the worst of the heat during the afternoon. even in the immediate bay just because you're only under the heat advisory, still take that very seriously. daytime highs today are 106. inland at concord, 105 at livermore with 89 in oakland. mountain view at 95, san francisco at 85. this is an interesting set up. we get a little bit of help tomorrow from that system off of the coast. that is significant counterclockwise spinning with that low pressure that usually helps. as we look at this in relation to the other area, that big center of high pressure to the east, that is driving this heat wave. all of that is working together. we have that streamline coming in from the south with a lot of tropical moisture. in addition to the heat we have weird things in the skies for this time of the year.

we have mid to high level clouds. that marine layer is completely off. you will notice this unusual looking sky compared to the last several weeks to what we typically see in the summer. high clouds are bringing in humidity which will add a different kind of element to this. we have to factor in a little bit of humidity, but not like alabama humidity. for us this is the kind of humidity making temperatures will hotter than the numbers i show you. you will have to factor in a little bit of the heat index. also the clouds overnight did not do us any favors. it acts like a blanket. we will not be able to cool down so much late tonight into sunday. that is again sunday night into monday. does that feel warmer right now than sunday morning and monday morning? but really the highs is the headlines stretching from 107 to 108.

we get better next week was still in the triple digits. we are not really out of this, fingers crossed, until next weekend. >> it was obviously hot in the south bay but you did say something else, it was muggy too. it did deal humid and sticky. >> that is a bad combination. we are not used to that. that kind of humidity adds to the numbers. when you feel the mugginess just know you are not able to cool off like you normally would . cooling off at the neighborhood pool is no longer an easy option. on a normal day in the summer the public pools in antioch would see about 1600 people escaping the heat. coronavirus has changed everything and limited to 17 groups of up to six people with their own private section each. reservations are required but only for one hour. >> we wipe down all these areas in between sessions. families have one door in and

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even as the cannabis was being legalized, sonoma county had a bat on growing hemp, but that ban has india. >> reporter: for decades talking about the amazing advocates of hemp which is

essentially marijuana minus the thc, the chemical that gets people high. we have seen it touted from clothing, cbd oil, bioplastic car parts but it all starts on this form and this two and half acres in sebastopol are the the first legal hemp in sebastian county since the early 20s . >> this was a huge watershed moment for us >> reporter: nick stromberg is the ceo of beacon hemp. they produce the seeds that growers need to begin operation. and made the county issued the first nine permits to commercially grow hemp. it was banned in the 20s with the reefer madness scare. it was legalize nationally in 2018 but sonoma imposed a moratorium about the fear of the small but strong smells from hemp. >> it is that mentality in certain places.

i think certain great growers and winemakers had concerns about the drifting from the hemp or canvas impacting the waiver or value of the wine. >> reporter: at this santa rosa junior college the doctor has been studying that and says that these fears seem to be unfounded instead this hemp variety produces cbd oil but says that hemp has a larger role to play. >> it has many more uses when you talk about exploring it on packaging, building materials and textiles. we have not even started looking at those things yet. >> reporter: without a market and supply chain the price of hemp is fluctuating wildly but the doctor says as he becomes a renewable source of everyday products they will embrace the crop. even in sonoma county where the

wine grapes are the king. >> we will create jobs, increase revenue for farmers and be more sustainable. we are getting back to the basics and revisit things with that we would generally do with hemp. the doctor said laws were tainted 2018 after southern tobacco farmers learned how much more profitable it could be as a crop. he said hundreds of thousands of acres are being converted into hemp cultivation in those tobacco states. putting heads together to find a way to serve senior citizens that might be lonely. sharon chin shows is the jefferson award winners that did a lot more than that. >> every photostory we would get back from the visits would propel us even further. >> reporter: they bring comfort and companionship to the older adults. >> the thing we heard over and over again was a need for social engagement, to have the

presence of someone young, energetic and active. that keeps the mind active too. >> reporter: the stanford school graduates combining their school background, health care and hospice with digital and educational marketing. they created the digital platform in 2018 that matches senior citizens with the volunteer. when they started joy played scrabble and madeleine help the retired professor with parkinson's write a memoir. other volunteers to our projects to prescription pickup. it is the french name for "my friend". >> it gets me out of bed every day not get to do with these amazing people. >> reporter: delivering weekly groceries to michelle who is recovering from back surgery. she used the app to go to the background check and peru's service opportunities nearby and to connect with michelle. >> are bringing or whatever she

wants and she will text me on what she needs for the week. >> reporter: expanding the reach during the pandemic to over 3500 volunteers across 50 states. the for-profit venture licensing the technology in san francisco and los angeles so that city governments can link the volunteers with food pantries and other service providers like this one, bananas. they used this group to connect with more than 100 families and childcare providers that needed delivery of diapers, wipes and ppe in north alameda county. >> is an amazing partnership and we are so grateful. >> reporter: so creating this group to match with volunteers to those in need goes to this group. sharon chin, kpix 5. >> joy and madeleine continue to expand into more cities with more volunteers needed during the pandemic. nominate hi. we're glad you came in.

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it is 6:56. is time for look at the morning top stories. the rolling blackouts are over for the time being. at the height late yesterday affecting over 200,000 customers. they left some bay area restaurant without power. they say more blackouts a possible this weekend depending on how hot it gets. people have been flocking to the bay area beaches the beat the heat and big crowds

expected all weekend long. the mayor of pacifica is encouraging beachgoers to stay safe by staying home during the pandemic. some evacuation orders were lifted with fire crews continuing to battle the flames at the lake fire in the angeles national forest near lake hughes. it is burned over 17,000 acres, only 12% containment. santa clara jail inmates are on a hunger strike and processing conditions at the jail. there joining other movements in calling out police brutality. the recently released san quentin inmate mike madeux died while under the state-mandated quarantine at the novato hotel for two weeks. he was left there for days without food. a pretty view over the golden gate bridge. not a trace of marine layer with a little going on between the cables at midspan.

let's get into the really important issue. it will be just as hot today as yesterday. it means we get back up to 108 inland. 90 for much of the bay. mid to upper 70s even at the coast. you will get a bit of a breeze at the coast this afternoon making the 70s feel a little bit cooler. you may not be the only person with that idea. in fact, you certainly won't be heading that way. we have excessive heat warnings everywhere on the mac and pink meaning con across the and alameda county. go easy on yourself outside, and drink plenty of water and find the shape.

narrator: today on "lucky dog," a bonded pair are left at the shelter. brandon: if somebody wants to adopt these two separately, a shelter can't stop them, and i don't want to see that happen. narrator: but with the right training... brandon: watch your little tootsies. there you go. there you go. narrator: ...and the perfect wardrobe... brandon: oh, yeah. yeah, you guys are going to turn some serious heads there. narrator: ...not only will be the life of the party, but they might also find a home together. brandon: these dogs got more love in about 15 minutes than i've ever seen in my life.