i'm terry mcsweeney. gia is off tonight. that excessive heat warning was just extended to wednesday now. and just as expected, hundreds crowded beaches in the bay area, trying to escape the high temperatures. take a look at the view in pacifica. long delays on highway 1 from all the people trying to get out there. similar scene at china beach. check out the people enyouing the beach and clear skies and most importantly, cooler weather. some parts of the bay area going through triple-digit heat, and it's going get hotter. and with that comes the strain on the power grid. state officials say the grid has been stable the last few days, thanks to conservation. but things are going to intensify monday. they're expecting energy demand to hit near record levels. a quick look at our traffic camera on the bay bridge toll plaza, boy, things have changed. things appear to be moving again. it's been packed at times. much of the day it was stopped an hour■7 or so ago. this all comes as we're under a spare the air alert. for much of the w

i'm terry mcsweeney. >> i'm gia vang, parts of the bay area about to get soaked, tracking the storm all weekend. live look on san bruno mountain, it's foggy, hopefully the water will wash that away. but radar is full of bands of green. crews are getting ready to prepare. rob has much more. >> watching areas we'll see biggest impact, likely north of the golden gate. view in san francisco, cloudy skies. san francisco and coast, areas in orange, wind advisory starting tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. gusts along the coast about 45 miles per hour, rain off and on, wind picking up in the morning and lasting about 22 hours into monday morning. there's storm ranger, san bruno mountain, we like the central location for that. storm ranger mobile doppler radar scanning. sprinkles here. more significant rain offshore. see the spin of the clouds, that's the weather system bringing in more tonight. not much rain until 11:00, but tomorrow morning, north bay getting a soaking, mountaintops of the north bay. 1 to 2 inches in north bay mountains, increasing wind and chance of thunder in the forecast tomorr

i'm terry mcsweeney. >> i'm gia vang, parts of the bay area about to get soaked, tracking the storm all. live look on san bruno mountain, it's foggy, hopefully the water will wash that away. but radar is full of bands of green. crews are getting ready to prepare. rob has much more. >> watching areas we'll see biggest impact, likely north of the golden gate. view in san francisco, cloudy skies. san francisco and

terry mcsweeney is in livermore where some lights are still out this morning. >> reporter: we are inar con cannon and li from in neighborhood obviously in the dark. if you listen carefully, you can hear one way to get around the outage. richard knows when he's likely to lose power at his home now livermore -- >> researchy single year once -- every single year once we hit 110, power's out. >> reporter: he has one of the generators we heard roaring. some neighbors wish they had one, too. >> i have a generator -- i powered my whole house except ac. >> reporter: fridge, lights -- >> all the lights work, internet works, everything works except for my ac. >> reporter: fairly large outages in napa, walnut creek, and pleasant hill. lights out at intersections leaving drivers on the honor system and leaving people like nick coming up with creative ways to cool off. >> my wife and i, we live five, ten minutes away. we've been driving around in the air conditioned car. we figured the price of gas and we haven't ran the ac yet today, believe it or not. we toughed it out until about noon, started

i'm terry mcsweeney. >> and let's get right to roy mayeda. >> it's a roller coaster. >> they've been seeing a bigger impact in southern california. we've enjoyed the fact that the temperatures have cooled off. no sign of 100 degree temperatures or even 90 on the map, finally, big cooldown there for our inland valleys. most places 20 to 30 degrees cooler than the same time yesterday. you probably noticed the haze in the air, the wildfire smoke lingering. we're expecting that again tomorrow due to fires ongoing in oregon and mainly the mosquito fire smoke, which is drifting from east to west around the bay area. so now good news heading into tomorrow and monday we'll begin to see some better air quality as we also watch areas of moisture coming up from the south. thunderstorms off to the east drifting towards the bay area. you'll probably notice sometimes during the day today, we've had a few light showers from southeast to northwest. chances are we could see a little more of this by the time the weekend wraps up. showers in that sunday forecast, better air quality, and finally a much

we start with terry mcsweeney in the dark in livermore where the heat is just too much for the power grid. >> reporter: we are here in a neighborhood in livermore. there are tens of thousands around the bay area without power right now. people in this neighborhood in the dark as well. if you listen you can hear one way to get around that outage. richard knows when he is likely to loose power at his home in livermore, like he did tonight. >> in every single year once we hit about 110 power goes out. transformers blow. >> reporter: he has one of the few generators we heard tonight. some probably wish they had one. >> i have it powering my whole house but for the ac. >> reporter: you have the fridge. >> yeah. all the lights work. internet, everything works but for the ac. >> reporter: fairly large outages in napa, walnut creek and pleasant hill. lights out at intersections leaving people on the honor system and people like nick coming up with creative ways to cool off. >> we live five, ten minutes away and have been driving around in the air conditioned car. we figure the price of gas a

our own terry mcsweeney sending this video into the newsroom. you can see the palm trees blowing in the wind. let's bring in jeff ranieri, who has been tracking those dangerous temperatures for us. and even the wind there in the north bay. jeff? >> the wind, that's all from cooler air at the coastline. so you got the hot air inland, cool air at the coast. that's helping to generate the wind. but the top story today no doubt is that brutal heat. check out the heat map here of california. you can see this white-pink color here. this basically envelopes most of the state, and that's the kind of heat we are under. we compared it to death valley, which is 120 today. not far off here in pleasanton at 116. and pleasanton wasn't the only spot getting up that hot. as many of you know, pittsburg 116. st. held lane in 115. morgan hill 113, and san jose all-time record high at 109. it's never been hotter than that in history in san jose than what we experienced today. so what i want to show you next is common sense stuff. some heat tips with the verge of ro

terry mcsweeney reports from san francisco. >> reporter: at the san francisco athletic club, tonight, greg waivers is enjoying a night with friends and keeping an eye on the tennis match on tv. he has a bet on it. on one hand, he likes prop 27, which would legalize mobile and online sports betting from anywhere in california. >> that leads to a lot of issues, with losing money, i guess, for me in particular and for everybody. >> reporter: the competitor is prop 26 , supported by most tribes. it would make sports betting legal at their casinos and for private racetracks and would allow renewed and dice and relented >> it's a boon for tribal sovereignty. they will be in charge of their own destiny, so to speak, when it comes to gaming. prop 27 is going to be run by the tribes in conjunction with las vegas interests and other national gambling companies. >> reporter: with billions of dollars in sports gambling revenue on the line, the advertising spending has already set the record for most expensive propositions in state history. >> being able to do it from your mobile device would be t

let's speak with nbc's terry mcsweeney, who joins us in santa rosa..4 technically light on the official scale, but it didn't feel like for a lot of people. >> reporter: a small earthquake, but a lot of people in santa rosa would disagree. people who saw bottle flying off of the shelves, lights going out, and emergency crews dealing with this that and the other thing. folks would say this was a big small quake. >> this is how it looked at jenna smith's house when the quake hit. her dog was startled. things were falling down. people were running for cover. smith says her house is right on top of the fault line make a way. >> it felt lihithe building, but it kept rumbling. >> he ran outside to safety. >> it was over before it started. they gave us a chance to come back in. as soon as we came back in and started shaking again. it scared us. >> chris and carissa, who started dating a week ago were having sushi in downtown santa rosa when things got weird. >> everything started to shake. i thought potentially that a car had driven into the building or somet

"today in the bay's" terry mcsweeney talks with people who were out and about when the quake hit. >> reporter: this is how it looked when the quake hit. the dog startled. things started falling down. people running for cover. smith says her house is right on top of the fault line that gave way. >> it kind of felt like a car hit the building, but it kept rumbling. >> reporter: jesse mendoza was working at this gas station on mendocino avenue and ran outside to safety. >> it was over before it started. it gave us a chance to come back in. as soon as we came back in, it started shaking again and right back out the door. >> reporter: chris and charissa were having sushi in downtown santa rosa when things got weird. >> things started to shake. i thought potentially a car had driven into the building. >> someone behind us shouted, should we get out of the building? i was like, we probably should. it started shaking again. >> reporter: a campus market on mendocino avenue, lots of liquor bottles came flying off shelves making for a fairly expensive mess. >> it was like a bomb for me. a boom,

i'm terry mcsweeney. >> and i'm gia vanc. officials are asking people to drive less and work remotely if you can. it means burning wood and other solid fuels are restricted to protect our air quality. >> reporter: high heat and smog are dragging down air quality. with the high pressure, it creates a dome effect, which traps the pollutants down low. now, we also have, of course, the clear skies. not a lot of cloud cover around the coastline. here are your current temperatures around the door. concord is at 92 degrees. san jose 82. so notice there is quite a range of temperatures when you look at the 70s in san francisco. but we are expected to get hotter heading into sunday and labor day on monday. this prolonged heat wave is impacting us not just in san jose but through l.a. and san diego. in addition to the heat, it's also very dry out there, which elevates the fire concerns and only helps drive the possibility of a fire quickly starting or spreading as we have seen in the past. we will talk more about how long this heat wav

i'm terry mcsweeney. we have the update on the jail escape but first, beaches across the bay area with packed with people hoping for just a little relief from the heat. firefighters continue to wrangle two big blazes. fire danger expected to stay high as the heat continues to rise. >>> the last few days, just a trial run for the state's power grid. officials warning that the real test is coming later this week and it could bring blackouts. we are tackling the heat wave with team coverage. alyssa spent the evening in the east bay where a baby was rescued from a hot car. first let's go to the latest on this heat wave. >>> it's 11:00 and we are not seeing much relief from the heat. especially for the interior. live look at san francisco. it's a sight we have seen for the last couple days. clear skies. no fog in sight. that's helped keep the temperatures warmer and right now we are still seeing 80 degrees in areas like livermore, morgan hill, even in san jose. this is an idea of how hot and dry the conditio c

here is terry mcsweeney. >> reporter: you are looking at the main reason lori shivered came down to the schooling center in corner road today. that 13-year-old love of her life. >> i thought that she needed the cooling center because my thermostat reads 5, and it can't do three digits. that means it's 105. >> we have supplies for pets, leashes, dog bowls, the bags. >> reporter: and i mean everything. >> we have uno and cards and coloring books in case we have kids, narcan, covid tests. >> reporter: crews report more than 100 he related calls in marin city alone, and almost that many in sparsely popular that westmoreland did >> we are seeing it affecting people of all ages, not just older adults. a lot of people are dehydrated, they weren't vigilant about staying hydrated and drinking non-caffeinated drinks. maybe they were in the sun. >> reporter: some schools are going to minimum days. some elements are, nevada high, and hill educational center. sports teams practiced earlier in the day, indoors or not at all. students at russell mac and the elementary are having recess and lunch insid