expanding war. the vp candidates a couple hours away from their debate. >> i don't make anything of either one of them yet. tonight we'll see what i make of them. >> we'll ask an expert what they need to do to win voters. buster posey back in orange and black in a new position for the giants. >> i'll be all in with this. this is cbs news bay area with elizabeth cook. it's the first day of october and it's feeling like the heart of summer. even san francisco is having its hottest october in nearly three decades. that's why today is a first alert weather day. here is a live look outside from our camera on top of the salesforce tower. there's also a spare the air alert for today and tomorrow. let's get right to zoe for a look at our

temperatures. boy, it was warm today. >> it's still warm and the heat continues through tomorrow as well, near record breaking, if not record breaking for some locations. we can look how hot it really got this afternoon. the heat was on. high temperatures today were really, really warm. in fact, san francisco -- this is where i really want to focus on -- 95 degrees this afternoon in downtown san francisco. this is the first time we have even reached 90 degrees since 2022 and it's our warmest day here in san francisco since 2020. the heat really was on. it was actually record breaking in some locations, like i said. san jose was one of those record breaking places, 99 degrees. it wasn't the hottest day of the year for them, but record breaking for this late in the season. their old record was 96. santa rosa also broke a record or tied a record, 105 degrees this afternoon across our north bay communities. the heat, extreme today and likely going to remain pretty extreme into tomorrow as well with

plenty of sunshine, very dry air and likely going to be seeing the offshore flow continuing as well. right now temperatures are a couple degrees warmer than yesterday, nothing too crazy, anywhere from 2 to 3 degrees along our coastal communities, upwards of 5 to 10 further inland, but again, the heat will persist through tomorrow. we're looking at these heat advisories and excessive heat warnings in effect across the bay area. the places in dark purple, those are the excessive heat warnings that the heat is going to be dangerous all the way through tomorrow evening, 11:00 p.m. that's when the warnings finally expire. the excessive heat, one more day, but it's not going to get much cooler late week. i'll have all your details coming up in your full forecast. >> thanks so much. here's a look how some folks are trying to cool off by heading to the coast of our chopper caught some surfers paddling out at ocean beach. our katie nielsen is along the embarcadero in san francisco where she met some other folks trying to beat the heat today.

it wasn't easy >> reporter: definitely not. the city is not used to this kind of weather, so much so when the temperatures could top out in 100 degrees or more in san francisco, i mean just everybody is talking about it. >> day to day, yeah. would you like to buy some water? >> reporter: today's heatwave is a business opportunity. a freshman at city college, he loaded up an ice chest with cold drinks and headed out to the hottest spots in the city like union square. >> it was hot and i wanted to go out. i have nothing better to do, no school today. >> reporter: across town in the mission marilyn was the first customer in the door at mitchell's ice cream waiting for the shop to open at 11:00 a.m. >> it's so hot we're getting gelato. >> reporter: they're expecting it to only get busier as the day goes on. so that means a

larger than normal ice cream delivery. david, the delivery driver, has to be bundled up because he's in and out of freezers all day. >> it's hot in the street, but it's cool inside. >> reporter: somehow seeing him all bundled up on a day like this feels like a fish out of water. many of the public pools across the city are offering free admissions today like mission pool. >> this is one of our busiest times. our lap swim 11:00 to 1:00 is always popular. so i expect it's going to be more popular. >> reporter: for those with questionable sanity who decided to go for a run -- >> cold shower now as i get home and cool drinks in the shade. >> reporter: you're drinking your own profits. >> it's hot. i'm telling you it's that hot. >> reporter: hot enough that he has to drink his own product to stay cool while pulling around

a 50-pound ice chest. >> you want some water? you have to. you got to drink what you got to drink. that's how hot it is. >> reporter: he was hoping to make about $100 today. he was already at 25 when we left him a couple hours ago. no doubt he's probably out of drinks at this point, but he just said with all these old buildings around the city, they don't have air conditioning. people are looking for any kind of relief they can get. >> yeah. it's hard. we're wimps, man. it gets above 75 and we're dying. we have to go to the east bay and toughen up a little bit to get used to these extreme temperatures. thanks. b.a.r.t. is running trains at slower speeds due to the extreme heat. riders can expect to see delays along the dublin-pleasanton line and the antioch line at some east bay stations. let's take you to a developing story in the middle east where the conflict is escalating after iran launched a missile attack against israel. this is a live look at the west bank now where the

time is just past 2:30 in the morning. just hours ago this is what people saw and heard in the sky. sirens wailed and explosions could be seen over tel aviv. israel says it intercepted many of those missiles. u.s. officials say naval destroyers also helped. iran said it fired missiles as retaliation for attacks that killed hezbollah, hamas, and iranian military leaders. elizabeth palmer is in tel aviv and saw those missile attacks. >> reporter: more than 100 of them we were told. they came in two salvos and both instances the sky above me was lit up by those interceptors blowing them up. >> here's a look at the damage from the missiles on the ground there, broken glass and wood all over the dining area of the restaurant in tel aviv. as of now, no reports of any deaths.

u.s. officials say they were monitoring for any threats of attack by iran. >> we've been closely consulting with israel for a while now to be prepared in the eventuality and as today demonstrated, we were prepared and we were able to successfully work alongside israel to defend them from this attack. >> now the u.s. is sending three additional aircraft squadrons to the region, 2 to 3,000 more u.s. service members ordered there yesterday. the biden administration's goal remains to prevent the region from entering into an all-out war. as bombs were flying overhead, a california student was hiding in a bomb shelter in israel. our john ramos spoke to her and people here in the bay area who are worried about what happens next. >> reporter: we woke up today to what may be the beginnings of a new war in the middle east between iran and israel and we talked to bay area people with a connection to it.

when the missiles started falling all over tel aviv, people were instructed to get to a bomb shelter immediately. that included california student yulia kelly who spoke to us as she sheltered underground. >> we go into the bomb shelter and all of a sudden sirens start going off constantly with only a very short break in between. we were hearing a lot of explosions outside as well and it was really scary. so we had been in this bomb shelter for over an hour by now. >> reporter: more than 200 ballistic missiles were launched by iran, most either destroyed by israeli defenses or landing without serious damage, but what was the point of the barrage? dr. abbas malani who heads up the iranian studies program at stanford says the iranian regime is trying to show strength after israel's recent attack on many hezbollah leaders with exploding communications

devices. >> it was a very perilous moment. i call it kind of a dance of deterrence. >> reporter: dr. malani says he's not surprised if local iranians are worried for their relatives back home. he said they have good reason to be. >> if israel attacks, the iranian regime leaders won't get killed. they're deep in the mountains. the civilians will get killed. this regime absolutely cares not, as hamas absolutely cares not, as hezbollah absolutely cares not how many innocent civilians are killed. >> reporter: mohammad works for a south bay nonprofit that helps people from mid eastern countries like iran. >> it's very sad when you see this war happen, when you sleep and wake up and seem like this war's going to start. they have their families over there and they are thinking about that as well. >> reporter: but the jewish community is also concerned a larger war could make them targets in the u.s. as well.

rafael brenner and molly joser advise local jewish members on security measures. they were already bracing for the anniversary of the hamas attacks. >> everybody kind of finds themselves lost in this tapestry right now. what's going on in our connections to israel and the bay area and what it means going into this one-year anniversary. >> this is something we've grown up with. this is something in the back of our mind even if we didn't experience it specially. our parents or grandparents faced this in their lifetime. so in that context the community that we educate and train understands that background, understands that this is a moment when risks and dangers have increased and this is why we need this training. >> reporter: even more than hatred, nothing fans the fires of war like fear and at this moment it feels like there's plenty of that to go around. >> now the stanford professor says the last thing the iranian

regime wants is all-out war with israel. he says they are simply trying to show strength, although israel has already pledged to retaliate for today's missile attack. the bombing in israel is happening the same day as the vice presidential debate. after the break we'll ask a political expert how the candidates should address the attacks tonight and if the debate could even alter th does mark farrell have the right experience to shake up city hall? in nearly ten years as supervisor, mark grew the bureaucracy

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we are just an hour and a half away from the vice presidential debate airing right here on kpix. it's the first and only scheduled face-off between j.d. vance and tim walz. caroline cummings reports from the cbs broadcast center in new york. >> reporter: good afternoon, liz. tonight the two candidates who could be first in line to the presidency will meet face to face the first time on stage

and they both will dive into their policy proposals and contrast their campaigns' visions for america. the stage is set for the only vice presidential match-up in likely the last debate before the election. minnesota governor democrat tim walz and ohio republican senator j.d. vance will each tour the physical space before squaring off this evening which will be a chance for voters to learn more about these relatively lesser known vp picks. >> i'd like to know more about what their policies are since i don't really know much about them. >> i don't make anything of either one of them yet. tonight we'll see what i make of them. >> reporter: cbs evening news anchor norah o'donnell and "face the nation" host margaret brennan will moderate but won't interrupt to fact check. viewers can use this qr code that will appear on screen. >> the code will take them to our website and there's a live blog and live fact check done by our cbs news confirm team,

expert journalists who have fact checked throughout the election cycle. >> reporter: both candidates agreed to leave the candidates' microphone open. there is a mute button if things get unruly. post debate the attention turns to the spin room and on walz's side we expect to learn from senators amy klobuchar, mark kelly and the governors of colorado and illinois. the presidential debate last month didn't shift polls that much, but analysts say in a really close race -- >> now have maybe 5% or 6% of the electorate still undecided and little things could push them in one direction or another. >> reporter: both camps are right back on the road tomorrow stumping in battleground states where this race to the finish will ultimately play out. the choice for the running mate isn't what motivates voters to get out to the polls. with just 35 days until election day, this debate serves as a key moment for both campaigns to send a message to americans on a national scale. >> thank you so much. joining

me now is dr. nolan higdon, history and politics professor at cal state east bay. thanks so much for being with us, sir. >> always a pleasure. >> let's start with the big story of the day obviously, iran's missile attack on israel. both campaigns voiced ardent support of israel, but this conflict has the potential to become a major war. how should both vp candidates handle it if it comes up in the debate? >> i expect both candidates to assert their unwavering support for israel and then try to blame the head of the ticket for what's going on in the middle east, the dysfunction and potential expansion of that conflict. i imagine tim walz is probably going to hit j.d. vance over donald trump's refusal to engage with iran in the so-called nuclear deal and i imagine j.d. will also hit tim walz arguing if donald trump was president, something like this wouldn't have happened. so i think those are kind of the talking points to expect, but both will agree on the u.s.' need to support

israel. >> after the last debate the majority of pundits and voters believed kamala harris won that debate handedly, but she didn't get that huge bump in the polls that was expected. it's still neck and neck and trump leads when it comes to issues involving the economy. we've seen with president biden you can pay a price for losing a debate, but do you think anyone really wins? >> usually not. i'm old enough to remember back in the old days when you could expect a five to ten-point swing sometimes during a campaign, but, you know, our political process is so divided at this point it's usually just on the margins, meaning it's usually just tens of thousands of voters who decide presidential elections. so i'm not surprised harris didn't get too big of bump. harris, though, was just coming off a major bump, a new candidate, had done some massive fundraising, had built a lot of enthusiasm that had been lost during the biden era. so she may have been at a ceiling by

the time she was going into that debate in terms of hitting the enthusiasm. >> the biggest criticism is many voters don't know where she stands on the issues. do you think tim walz will want to drive home where she stands on the issues? >> absolutely. i think this has been a constant attack on harris and i think it's up to tim walz in this seemingly last debate of the campaign, it is the last, to put some policies forward to juxtapose against j.d. vance and donald trump. j.d. vance kind of has given some hints about this, his talks and speeches the last couple days. he's tried to say the trump-vance campaign has substance in policies. i imagine walz will have some policies of his own he wants to talk about during this debate to try and mitigate the effect of that narrative coming from vance. >> what about j.d. vance? he doesn't exactly score high on the likability score even among

some of the die hard trump supporters and he's even said he was "willing to create stories so the american media pays attention," like the false claims the haitian migrants were eating pets in springfield, ohio. do you think the trump campaign wants him to come down a little or is his strategy actually working? >> it's tough to tell how stories like that resonate with voters. i think there's a lot of voters certainly turned off by the haitian immigrants eating pets narrative there's no evidence for, but there are some voters who do read into that as a critique of immigration, which is a number one issue for him. i imagine there are some voters who that narrative resonates with, but having said that, vice presidential candidates typically can't do much to help a ticket but can do a lot to hurt a ticket. i think we saw part of that in the debate between former president donald trump and vice president kamala

harris where trump disagreed with what j.d. vance had said. j.d. vance had talked about this national abortion bill coming across trump's desk and trump looked terrified to say what he would do if that bill did indeed arrive. he kept saying oh, won't even arrive as a way to avoid it. it seems like him and vance were not on the same page there. that's a way in which i think a vice presidential candidate can hurt a ticket by creating this dissidence where the ticket is at versus what they're telling people. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> again, cbs news is hosting tonight's debate at 6:00, special coverage at 5:00 with america decides. let's get back to our first alert weather. our chopper was above dolores park this afternoon in san francisco. it's normally packed on a hot day, but today we saw just a few people lying out in the sun. here's zoe back with another look at your forecast. this is so unusual for san francisco to be this

warm and earlier i said yeah, we're wimps, but it was hot today. for some people it's dangerous. >> i wouldn't say this is wimpy because 95 degrees with no air conditioning, if you're in one of those places that have direct sunlight streaming in all day, you probably found no relief from the heat unless you found someplace with air conditioning. it's one of those days you have to kind of find places to beat the heat because it's on even across our coastal communities. if we look at the entirety of the united states, it's very interesting we can see literally the area of high pressure dominating the west coast of the united states. the lack of cloud coverage shows you where that high pressure system is. there's not just very, very hot conditions, but also not great air quality. air quality will be more of an issue the next 24 hours. it's the reason we have the spare the air alerts that will remain in effect. if we put this on,

hopefully it works, doesn't look like it works now. that's okay. spare the air alerts are in effect the next 24 hours. still not working with these mats underneath me. i had a lot of really cool things i wanted to show you. hopefully they work below me. the next couple days the heat sticks around. there's not much relief even into our overnight hours. the relief is not great. this was our air quality i wanted to show you earlier. either way whoa, everything's loading now. it looked like it was bogged down in the system. this is going to be our temperatures overnight tonight and very early tomorrow morning, not much relief from that heat unfortunately. we'll still see our coastal communities in the 50s and 60s, but it's our inland areas, upper 60s to low 70s. that's not too chilly overnight. by tomorrow afternoon the heat will be on once again, our highs tomorrow just as hot as we felt today. we are going to be widespread triple digits heat all across

our inland locations, san francisco upper 80s. we're all going to really feel that heat over the next 24 hours. unfortunately, our seven-day forecast is not looking all too much greater. the heat is sticking around through wednesday, maybe backing down a little bit thursday and friday, but it's still going to remain well above average all the way through the rest of the weekend and into early next week and for even areas around the bay we'll see high temperatures staying in the 90s and 80s at least throughout the rest of

giants legend buster posey spoke to the media today for the first time as the president of baseball operations. >> all of those guys were great players. they were part of great teams, but what those guys ultimately meant to the san francisco giants fan base and the community was memories. >> posey's promotion comes a day after the team fired the former president of operations, farhan zaidi. zaidi held the position for six seasons. the 9ers are going into october on a high note and hope to keep the momentum going with three of their next four games at levi's. vern glenn has more. >> this is the audi "red and gold report." >> linebacker fred warner was held out of the second half of

sunday's win do to an ankle injury. it's hopeful he'll play next sunday. george kittle showed everybody that hamstring is just fine when he went over the three patriot defenders to pull down his second touchdown of the season. all's well that ends well because kittle admitted he wasn't confident about the play call. >> what did you think of the george kittle touchdown? >> that was outrageous, man. i was like ain't no way. >> he made a great play, way better than a throw that was. he made the play. >> i was speechless honestly. i was just i know that ball's coming out. when he got up to celebrate, i was like wow. that is one of the greatest catches i've seen in person. >> that's saying a lot coming from trent williams. he's played a lot of football. yeah, it means a lot. he says that's really good, makes me really happy. >> with the "red and gold report i'm

♪ ♪ >> center stage for the meadow want to be second in command. >> the vice presidential debate happens right here on cbs. >> i am looking forward to the debate. i'm sure governor walz was looking forward to the debate. maybe not. >> we are going to have a little talk, he and i come on the same stage. >> the first formal debate ever held beten