in benicia. j.r. stone. abc7 news. >>> tonight california leads the country with more than half a million covid-19 cases. the count might be much higher than what's being reported because of a glitch. california says the number of cases take a steep plunge with 4500 reporting. that's 3,000 below the seven-day average. but there may be a reason. the state is admitting numbers are being underreported by counties because of a technical problem. >> there is a specific component that feeds information from labs to both the state system and the local public health system that may be the place where data is getting stuck. >> underreporting can affect the positivity rate which is a good indication. san francisco's reopening plan remains on pause and the city's health director says if you want >> anything above 50 cases a day continues to put us in the red zone. on high alert. and we have now been there for about the last six weeks. >> in fact, san francisco is nearing 7,000 cases of covid-19. alameda county has the

in benicia. j.r. stone.. >>> tonight california leads the country with more than half a million covid-19 cases. the count might be much higher than what's being reported because of a glitch. california says the number of cases take a steep plunge with 4500 reporting. that's 3,000 below the seven-day average. but there may be a reason. the state is admitting numbers are being underreported by counties because of a technical problem. >> there is a specific component that feeds information from labs to both the state system and the local public health system that may be the place where data is getting stuck. >> underreporting can affect the positivity rate which is a good indication. san francisco's reopening plan remains on pause and the city's health director says if you want to know why, just look at the numbers. >> anything above 50 cases a day continues to put us in the red zone. on high alert. and we have now been there for about the last six weeks. >> in fact, san francisco is nearing 7,000 cases of covi

we do have a new stall southbound across the benicia bridge. everything should be fine. i'll follow that. laura, you are following the north bay where we also have closures. >>> cause for celebration for some affected by the czu lightning complex fire. more evacuation orders are being lifted meaning more can return home. what music to their ears. jackie ward is live in scotts valley. but there's still, jackie, a lot of people in limbo out there right now. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. good morning, laura. 20,000 people are home but that means about 50,000 remain evacuated. we are learning some incredible stories about the people who live around here. get this, one family from pescadero returned home with a new family member. lauren tippets tells us the night she and her family had to evacuate she went into labor and had her son. in the days leading up to her son's delivery she was already hard at work. she shared this photo with us of she and her husband spraying down their property and all their efforts paid off because fortunately their home remained unscathed. it w

danville 99 in walnut creek 100 in concord you're looking at one oh one in fairfield and hot 100 in beniciaget the idea some hot temperatures there while back toward the coastline, almost 80 at stinson beach, plenty of sunshine, but the winds kicking up in the afternoon yesterday, these temperatures start to come down not to be a cold by any means back toward normal those temperatures going to drop down in the mid 90's by thursday and friday of more fog along the coastline, a little bit cooler up toward the beaches too. all right lawrence, thanks so much on top of all of the other stories we've been following. we're also following the threat of potential power outages. >>as a result of lawrence talking about those high temperatures. the strain on the state's electrical grid. this is a tweet from cal, iso just about 20 minutes ago says they're now projecting a shortage of 500 megawatts in the current hour. from 06:00pm to 07:00pm they're projecting. 1451 megawatts there. saying folks that are urging folks to keep conserving. energy as well so once again they are. we're continuing to monitor

a stalled car, 680 southbound right at the benicia martinez railroad bridge there. it is over to the left shoulder and there's some road work on highway 4 not too far from there. connecting on to 680. and 242. and closures continue along the coast. along highway 1, between the creek and schafer road. this is due to the ongoing wildfires. also highway 84. highway 35 skyline and highway 1 between half-moon bay and gazos creek are open makes the decision on whether to continue the playoffs in the bubble. >>> and the giants do something they haven't done for nearly 80 year, can you guess? we're up next. >>> remember, kpix 5 wants to bring you the good news happening in the bay area. just go to kpix.com/together. you can also send your story ideas to together@cbs.com. we'll be right back. lily everyone in the house is online and i can't get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. try 1 gig internet with at&t fiber. you get more bandwidth and hbo max included. so, everyone stays entertained. so i can just watch the show instead of reading the book? you know, if

walnut creek 78 meanwhile for san leandro and jumping up here again of the north bay 95 vacaville, 82 benicia 79, and 86 for santa rosa looking for a slight warming trend happening this weekend we really don't get moving here into early next week and that may be somewhat conservative as we look at some numbers popping up near 100 should be just a to date a heat spike relaxing by the time we get the middle of the week take a look at bay area bridges and such robin what's happened. >>cool calm and quiet so far off to a fantastic start we're checking in on the san mateo bridge and we have some busy traffic here leaving hayward heading over to the peninsula. busy but not bad we see more brake lights but no big problems into foster city or san mateo alright let's head over to 5.80 the richmond sandra fell that looks good. no problems no crashes no stalls easy as you make your way into the north bay this morning, you will not encounter any problems if you leave now can't guarantee it's going to be like this throughout the morning right to get on out there early if you can and then we have one more

still into the mid to upper 90's you can see an up to us a county when you get away from water 88 benicia 90 going on for now 94 santa rosa with the coastal numbers 70's in still 60's up in the north bay, so we don't see much in the way of a temperature change but still eyeing that little chance of rain sunday into early monday, robin. >>all right. thank you dave. now, let's check in on the traffic very little traffic around the bay area. this morning. it's friday fridays are lighter plus we're still in the 4 o'clock hour so not too many early birds heading into san francisco or at least not enough to create a crowd or back up at the bay bridge toll plaza so a nice steady flow are off to a fantastic start i don't see any hot spots are major alerts so come on and we're looking good so far on westbound 18. all right, let's check in on the golden gate we're taking a peek at one o one cloudy foggy here across the span but so far traffic. it's nice and in both directions into and out of san francisco, something just popping up on my screen here one o one at vermont. >>in san francisco just get

. >> reporter: in benicia, the bada bing salon has been mostly empty for months. star is lucky enough to have access to a balcony where she set up an outdoor haircutting station. but the heat is causing more problems. >> i let everybody know i'm going to attempt to work for a few hours in the morning. we're going to see how it goes. i have to cancel all of the afternoon people and try to figure out when i can fit them in again. >> reporter: cal/osha issued an advisory for businesses that may be new to having people work outdoors. employees should be provided with plenty of drinking water as well as shaded work areas, and they should be allowed says she appointments for her and her clients' safety. >> i don't want to have to take an ambulance because somebody couldn't tolerate the heat. i can drink lots of water. i've struggled being out there all day. >> sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. >>> more colleges are postponing the fall sports season. this impacts three more bay area universities. today it was the west coast conference announcing it's postponing all fal

. >> all quiet in the solano town of benicia.county health department who now recommend those with covid-19 isolate for just ten days before going back to work. something being backed by doctors from ucsf and stanford. >> for the healthy individual, ten days will be plenty. and we just haven't seen the evidence for spread after that period of

well 94 pittsburgh in antioch 95 at 81 benicia 67 chilly degrees. 81 for napa sonoma 88 89 coming in for santa rosa. weise fall in the lower 80's as heading down south appoint rain maybe about 72 going on today, plenty of afternoon sunshine. now that will be just for this weekend as we stay in the mid to upper 90's territory dropping fairly rapidly in the next week. we see inland highs in the upper 80's. and don't forget the east bay shoreline will be in the upper 70's by that point and along the beaches, a little cooler into the 60's robin. >>as companies work on treatments for coronavirus are already thinking about how to get the millions of americans who might need. drug makers say the distribution will be left up to the federal government sara murray has details. >>and antibody treatment that could protect people from coronavirus could be available as early as this fall. but warning signs loom for getting into the millions of americans who might benefit from it. i think the monoclonal antibody cocktails have a lot going for them health experts a

little more 90 in hayward tomorrow about a raga 85 in berkeley 87 degrees in downtown oakland 98 benicia 95 in the napa valley. there's back toward the coastline cooling the temperature down a bit but still looking at 70's at stinson beach next few days maybe just haven't flow little cooler. i think as we get through sunday, slight chance of thunderstorms then we're cranking up that heat again on monday and tuesday triple digits, maybe 107 degrees by tuesday. >>and still ahead tonight, several private schools in fresno are defined the state going ahead with in person great day on the lake! it is. lunch is cookin'! and i saved a bunch of money on my boat insurance with geico. fellas, can it get any better than this? whoa! my old hairstyle grew back. so did mine. [80's music] what? i was an 80's kid. it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. >>tonight word that several private school in fresno county are defined the state orders and reopening schools for in person learning as matter matter rios bab reports school officials are insisting that distance learning is nowhere near

through san ramon walnut creek up to concord oakland and 85 each richmond 84 while 90's in vallejo in benicia hot spot today that's yacht ville at one '07 followed very closely by antioch pittsburgh vacaville in sonoma and santa rosa, not too far away either at one '02 today. temperatures tomorrow on average fall out of the triple digits. inland that's not to say we won't see a future pull digits on wednesday. but most of our inland areas should be settled down into the upper 90's thursday and friday mid 90's and by saturday and sunday we continue that trend a bit 90's bayside areas also just a touch cooler from upper 80's and low 90's today to the low 80's by thursday friday and saturday. daria. >>thanks a lot john i wish i wasn't seeing that one '04 the power is in effect and that's why it's so upsetting to see the hundreds because we've got this going on at least through tomorrow, the california independent system operator is calling for conservation or else are also going to have to shut the power and they say all of its a rolling blackout it could just be a couple hours. and so you do ha

as you get the delta you feel that breeze late in the day still maybe a 100 degrees in benicia 101 inairfield 98 in santa rosa about 87 in sandra fell temperature start cooling down the next few days not really cold but lease headed back toward average as we look toward the weekend. lawrence thank you today. governor gavin newsome declaring a state of emergency across california. >>as wildfires continue to rage. tonight. we're following up with state leaders as the threat of rolling blackouts amid a heat wave continues across the golden state. kron 4 capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala caught up with the governor today in sacramento. >>and a cooling center in california's capital city many are trying to beat the heat tuesday marked the 5th day in a week long stretch of extreme temperatures sizzling the state and overwhelming the electrical grid we're going to start i seen the stress on the system with an investigation under way into the latest round of rolling blackouts the governor says more are inevitable as the state is expected to peak at 50,000 megawatts of power tuesday and 47

antioch you'll be at a high of 86 benicia 87, but look at that vacaville you got the hot spot of the day at 97 degrees. napa you're at 86 and young feel the same and then the north bay zone looks like this if you need a little bit of relief when she had to the coast point raise you'll be at 61 today and stinson beach 67. well, a big change as we get into tomorrow much cooler for tuesday and wednesday, a major drop in temperatures near 20 degrees in some spots. inland is going to be in the 70's 60's around the bay and then the some upper 50's to low 60's at the coast and then by the time we get to closer to the weekend. those a hot temperatures will come back to us and those 90's on the board once again. >>in the buzz covid has turned baseball into a who's on first joke except it's not funny, even more stop now that more st. louis cardinals have tested positive. >>their weekend series against the brewers turned into a self-isolation stay in milwaukee. the cars are supposed to play the tigers in detroit on wednesday, but who knows how the dominoes will fall the first outbreak with the

there's a broken down vehicle on the benicia bridge. however just as you head off the span there. no backup there. it's on the southbound side. but you know, just a heads-up you might come across this possible spectator slowing as you head through there. highway 4 connecting on to 680 and 242, there are overnight closures still in effect kind of that area where you see that purple. speaking of overnight closures, 101 both directions approaching alemany from thursday from last night all the way through saturday night, from 10:00 until 6:00 a.m. overnight closures will be in effect. so if you are traveling throughout the bay area during the overnight hours, along 101 stick with 280 instead. we will certainly see a backup through there. and closures continue for the ongoing wildfires. highway 1 closures there continue along the coast as well as parts of 35 and la honda road as well and highway 9 in the santa cruz mountain area: spare the air alert in effect also. >>> that's right. tracking that air quality as we go through today and through the weekend. that spare the air alert has b

the late show in benicia in the 90's for you also 90's in mill valley on up through petaluma for you get to santa rose at one '02. tomorrow's temperatures will still be in the triple digits for a few cities but dropping us into the upper 90's for your average inland high which is a nice change of pace will further fall for your averages come thursday and friday to round out the week 70's and 80's for bayside cities as we make our way through the forecast and just a touch cooler out along the coast to as highs fall further into the low 70's. james all right john thank you. the 2020 democratic national convention was the first of its kind a fully virtual convention. but despite the un convention nallet e of the event it was packed with headliners washington correspondent alexandra le mon reports. >>and welcome to the 2020 democratic national convention, the first night of the democratic national convention was unlike any other headliners like former first lady michelle obama made the case for a joe biden presidency virtually. >>he was a terrific vice president. he knows what it takes t

the way up to concord and meanwhile for solano county middle 90's up their delay hose at 80 to 84 benicia 85 for napa with 91 going on for sonoma and 89 for santa rosa more 80's heading down south. some of the forecast for its pretty close to seasonality here with all of this with temperatures in the lower to middle 90's during the day we'll get there or marine layer coming in with the fog in the morning hours at least helping out a little bit with all this progress but not much the way of thunder showers which is good news there. robin has a check and a hot spot going on here robin i do indeed and it's in the north bay, but it may start impacting traffic in the east bay is folks look for alternate we have crews investigating a fatal crash. >>on west found 37 at one 21 it happened at 6.16 this morning between a car and a big rig. it's still under investigation. no other details just yet at last check they had emergency crews responding. traffic was at a standstill, no estimated time of clearing and they're saying a tow truck is on the way, but you see that traffic is backing up there on 3

bay here solano county stands out what the upper 90's for the most part the late, although it 8788 beniciaso for napa and 94 santa rosa, where as we head down south you have upper 80's and some lower 90's still as we get into the weekend there's little bit of a pop that happens on saturday and then into next week we'll be watching to see if we get some more activity on monday be nice to get that rain not so good for the lightning rod. >>tell your rain sounds so nice right now, thank you dave. well, 3 wildfires are burning and monterey county forcing thousands of people to evacuate the river fire is burning south of salinas it has grown to more than 10,000 acres and it's only 7% contained. 4 firefighters have suffered heat related injuries while battling the flames. cal fire says that this place was sparked over the weekend by lightning strikes. and then we have 2 other fires that are burning farther south in monterey county there's a carmel fire that has burned more than 700 acres in carmel valley destroying 3 structures and still threatening 300 more all school districts have canceled cla

90's popping up well, inland still hot there 74 in san leandro 87 in a written about 88 degrees in benicia 86 degrees in the napa valley, 71. it's stinson beach next couple days of temperatures really drop look we go from hot 90's the warmer spots, a monday. maybe some low 70's by wednesday. so that's a huge drop in temperatures well below the average than watch that slowly climb back to normal as we head toward next weekend. thank you lauren secure a tick tock user heads up talks are underway for an american company to buy the u.s. arm of the popular app. >>when that deal might happen. plus there is still no deal on the coronavirus relief that millions of a pat americans rely on and de lily everyone in the house is online and i can't get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. try 1 gig internet with at&t fiber. you get more bandwidth and hbo max included. so, everyone stays entertained. so i can just watch the show instead of reading the book? you know, if you turn on your subtitles... that's almost reading. get 1 gig internet with at&t fiber for $49.99a month for a year. no an

leandro and 71 for berkeley up to the north bay vacaville still reaching 92 today, 87 pittsburgh beniciabout 80 82 coming in for napa and 84 for santa rosa general wind pattern is a on shore drift basically or out of the northwest and it gets kind of tricky down a southerner in me as we still continue to fight through some of that fog may linger into the early afternoon throughout the week though you hear about a warm-up happening by the weekend. we're guessing maybe about mid 90's here it made in spike into the upper 90's but the issue is it will remain dry. and it looks like we might potentially have a heat spike into early next week marty all right dave thanks a lot coming up in the next hour, the kron 4 morning news, the fight against 3 major wildfires in the bay area. >>continues now will have team coverage on the latest up plus the damage that were seen we'll have that for you coming up. >>and more than 177,000 americans have died from the coronavirus we'll have the latest for you on the pandemic and the fight to contain the spread that's next. >>hundreds of homes burned to the gro

danville woman creek in concord oakland you'll be at 91 today with triple digits in the north bay for beniciasonoma vacaville fairfield antioch in pittsburgh vacaville, not just triple digits, but a 110 for the high today, breaking records across the board for a lot of areas novato 100 degrees well sandra fell at 97 today. tomorrow's temperatures still triple digits for inland areas, although not quite as hot as today will be sunday will be the coolest one of the weekend before temperatures kick back up into the triple digits by tuesday of next week. so not a whole lot of relief in this forecast ahead. james all right, thank you very much john let's get a quick check of traffic this morning, the chp logs relatively quiet. not a lot going on and here at the bay bridge toll plaza it looks like traffic is move in nice and smooth. no delay here at the toll gates themselves no problem on the span. >>we'll look to see if things start picking up in the next half hour typically around 6.15 it starts to build and back up but it's friday. so maybe we'll keep it friday light want to wait and see the gol

but down to the south 88 for benicia 90 out to napa 93 for sonoma and santa rose at 94 with 80's headingdown the south still plenty warm and above our averages but at least we have more moisture a toss about this go around in the seven-day forecast we stay in the 90's to the period again watching up or maybe some rain happening on sunday night as brief as moderate as it will be i'm not going stop of hot robin as a hot spot, robin i do indeed in san francisco, we have crews still dealing with this overturned crash. this is northbound one oh one near vermont. >>it's blocking the 2 right lanes a truck flipped over i'm getting word of a fluid spill as well so they've called in the sweepers this is going to be blocking for a while traffic alert has been issued by chp the 2 right lanes are closed, that's backing you up almost to the 2.80 split, so if you're trying to get into downtown san francisco or the bay bridge. this is definitely causing some heavy delays for you make sure you get out there early or if you only want to get into downtown consider 2.80 north instead of northbound one on on

it's really solano county that stands out here with the upper 90's up the county 88 upper benicia an87 billy a little cooler when you get closer to the bay 88 for petaluma and 88 also sandra fell looks like for today with the coast and around the 60's and maybe even still lower 70's. a lot of 90's lined up here and again it's sunday night into monday watching for that little chance maybe some showers but maybe some dry lightning as well robin. >>thank you dave all right, let's check in on bay area traffic it's friday a lot of folks are taking the day off so we don't have a backup at the bay bridge toll plaza, it's been nice like this. throughout your morning drive so come on in it's under 10 minutes from the bottom of the maze over to the fremont street exit a little busy on the northbound central though once you make your way in but the bay bridge 80 west, looking good. all right, let's head over to the golden gate. we're checking in on the commute from the north bay to san francisco. it is smoking it is cloudy that will light impact your visibility here across the span into and out

that's pretty significant right through fairfield 15 in the benicia 15 also clinton 10 now in san francisco temperature wise still a pretty nice away from the coastline, 65 degrees in san jose, 65 also in livermore 67 right now in pittsburgh, a cool lot of clouds little damp in pacifica right now 58 degrees but the clouds moving in to san francisco you see that cloud deck stretching across now in a brooklyn also into oakland 2 overnight tonight. we'll see the clouds surge all the way the interior valleys, maybe all the way into the sacramento valley. so that's a significant push of the low clouds and the fog we start out with great early on tomorrow morning. then by the afternoon here comes that sun should be a nice day but we're going to really warm things up better part of summer we've been sitting on this trough of low pressure and that has kept our temperatures relatively mild across much of the state now that's going to change this ridge of high pressure is going to back out of the desert southwest you can bring in that dry desert air back in the california as that happened we may see

still we have preaching at 9898 for vacaville, but again back to the bay 69 for vallejo benicia aboutnd 90 going on for santa rose with those 80's heading down south. now projecting things forward over the next several days into next week. we were turning back to the 80's inland east bay shoreline will also return to the 70's it looks like with chilly 60's at the coast remain dry through the period and mostly sunny marty all right dave thanks a lot. a california man died after jumping into a river to rescue 3 children who are struggling in the water. >>it happened in read leave that is near fresno and some tire rose has more. >>men jeet singh had just started truck driving school wednesday after training ended he went down to the kings river with his brother in law to enjoy the afternoon on jet skis when he heard screaming nearby he jumped into action when in to try to help them. >>and unfortunately when underwater fairly quickly and never came back up other witnesses also rushed over and helped get at least one other child out of the fast moving river like closely garber. >>well 2 da