in the early 1800s the portola was farmland. the region's flowers were grown in this neighborhood. if you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. in the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. one of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of san francisco so they can share that history. >> when i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. we started doing this as a fund-raiser. since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. >> the scholarship programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a win-win-win situation all around. >> the scholarship program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. >> i was not sure how i would stay in san francisco. it is so expensive here. i prayed so i would receive enough so

it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year.r. you can see us on the website

there are more showers right behind that over portola valley that will be moving up. so it will be a very busy afternoon. if you have the nbc bay area app, you can get an alert as rain is approaching your location. it gives you time to get inside or finish any outdoor activities. we'll see more of this activity as we go into noon, 1:00 to 2:00, mainly starting to shrift into the north bay. so we're starting to see the activity timer off for areas in san francisco to the east bay on southward. there is that slight chance because of how humid it is. you add heat to the mix. that gives it more energy. we can see a chance of thunderstorms. we are going to see this possibility through 4:00 to 5:00 and then it looks like later this evening, it starts to clear up. the thunderstorm activity has been enough for the national weather service to put up a red flag warning for lake county. this is going to be the main concern once that heat and that humidity rises over the mountains. we can possibly see more lightning strikes. but as far as much of the heat, the heat advisory has s

she's also up against a democrat, mary portola. lot of republicans were concerned that because this is the special election, ranks choice, that she could actually end up getting ahead of the republicans if they split the vote. in addition to that there is a primary race that all of these candidates are running in as well. that features some 22 names on the ballot again. the top four are going to move on so palin is inspected to advance in that race to the november election as well as the other two most likely. right now there is not a very good polling in alaska so it is difficult to say who could come in first or who will ultimately win in november. >> the process requires voters to pay close attention as they do ranks choice. laura perrone lopez, we thank you. on our website we want to tell you you can follow the live results from tonight's elections as they come in. that is it pbs.org/newshour. >> president biden's signing of the inflation reduction act comes after more than a year of negotiations among democrats in congress and

>> i think it'll be a matchup with palin and portola. if she is elected, it will be a very tight race. as mr. dent pointed out, sarah palin is very controversial in alaska. a recent poll finds 64% of alaskans have a negative sentiment towards sarah palin. so, it might be that she gives democrats their first win in alaska in 14 years. >> charlie, was tuesday a good night for trump? >> yeah. he defeated liz cheney. albeit, in alaska, it's unclear what the outcome is there. this was an expected outcome. donald trump has been successful in advancing candidates who support his election denial unfortunately, he's been very successful in this primary. what he has also done that was helped nominate many candidates, republican candidates, in swing states, who are perceived to be either too extreme, election deniers, or just weak candidates. somebody winning a primary is one thing. winning a general election is quite another in arizona, and sylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. so, i think that really is what's occurring here. donald trump has infuri

maybe just to the west there portola valley. all the way down towards santa carla right along the san mateo santa cruz coastline and then even down towards monterey. you can see some lighting off of santa cruz. pebble beach had a thunderstorm monterey and there's a lot coming up from the carmel valley , and there's a also another couple of bands coming in from the valley, which will keep everyone in line here, but the biggest activity right now is on the peninsula and over san pablo bay, 59 to 100. bigger fog bank cool to warm lows. the warm clothes because of the demand soon clouds coming in, held up a lot of these overnight lows. inland sun clouds mcgee showers, thundershowers, santa rosa conquered stanford and san jose yesterday one on 1104 98 97 today 91 98 89 89 and look at all that. i mean, we this is going to be an active day. there's just no doubt about it combination of low clouds a little bit more of a breeze and all that monsoon moisture is going to make for a not so quiet wednesday. that's for sure. it's already been

looks like portola valley , woodside, maybe getting a little bit as well.owards rio vista, at least eastern contra costa county. heading into solano county, right there a couple of lightning strikes now heading towards dixon a little bit around bethel island as well. so a little bit of activity here after yesterday's hot, hot, hot for most not for all half moon bay was only 59 pacific was only 62 yesterday. yet livermore was one of six and fairfield was one away. so we have a mixed bag of fog. sun monsoon clouds, maybe a few showers. these were the highest yesterday, santa rosa conquered stanford campus. and san jose was hot one oh 1104 98 97 today 91 98 89 89 50 60 seventies on the temp. san jose livermore, brentwood wanted creek, fairfield lower like seventies fifties and sixties you had more towards the west. the key is you get the monsoon moisture coming around the high, but you also need a little help here. and that's what this load does taps into that the moisture comes around here, and that's what's being funneled up for us. usually these are one day

starting today the campioned a portola we hadwood state park will be closed for the rest of the seasonlow water flows from peter's creek which is the park's primary water. so the park, however, will be open during the day. time now is 6:46. let's talk wet we are darren. >> i want to start off with the smoke plume coming off the structure fire down in south oakland. if you were going to see this, you're like driving on 880 right around hagenberger road. think south of the oakland coliseum and not far of like san leandro bay to show you where we are. my concern with this. we'll get to the details on the fire. i'm concerned where the smoke is going and thankfully there's not a lot coming off of it and with a stronger onshore breeze that's going downwin. it's going inland. we can see it shoipg on the quality senseors. can you see where the fire is up here. west of 880, but breeze coming onshore has taken what little smoke there is and it's pushing into san leandro. the good news it's only moderate, but there's definitely a signal there that you're showing up in the pattern where san leandr

so the potential scenario here is portola as the democrat getting through in first place and then a fight between baggage and palin whoever wins that gets a chance to get to that rank choice round against peltola. whoever loses his eliminated there out. they want to the rank choice tabulations until either the very end of this month of the very beginning of september. again, you have to get every ballot in, every overseas ballot, every mail ballot, everything in before we can do those rank choice calculations. but if you watch this race carefully, palin and baggage in the home stretch have been acting like they're in a fight for that second place spot, where the winners got a real shot when the rank choice going to congress and the loser is just out. >> adding to the confusion is the fact we are talking about a general election happening here and a primary election all at the same time sarah palin's name is on the ballot twice. thank you steve. we will be. patient joining us now from anchorage as lies liz raskin, washington correspondent for alaskan public media. liz, it is confusing and

open primary was also held for young seat, with twenty two candidates including palin, begich and portola, who have all advanced in november's election. the top four vote getters will face off for a chance to take over a young seat when his term is up. stay with fox news channel four more primary updates now back to regular programing already in progress for the country. th yeah,in i can do just fine. and the goshorn got a little control room talkpo there. but look, jus the polls are just closing here. the poll workers just came out and said that this is thise is it for the evening. everything shut out. they'resh closing.te they'rewi closing statewide. and so perhaps we'll know inly a short while who's w actually won this primary.ma thisn is congresswoman liz cheney against harriet hegemons. ns thethe trump backed candidat. cheney h is holding her speech close to its place tonight t close to the jackson area of wyoming in the western part of c the state. a cheney ally saysy that she will speak later tonight and say this primary is only the first battle in a long war.d sheay tweeted earlie

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portola and the low favorability numbers. what do you think happens now in these runoffs?low favorability numbers, she left midterm as governor and not everyone loved and she moved to the lore 48 and set up shop in arizona for a time and herr name recognition is still huge. she's not a guarantee to win, but i think she's the favorite to win and certainly murkowski would be a split ticket for donald trump. he took down his top target and we mentioned before with liz cheney and he's done it for senator murkowski, as well and that seems to have, at least for now, failed. >> mike, you get the big essay question here and everyone else has been doing true/false and multiple choice. sarah palin is a historic figure in this respect and she was a harbinger of what happened to your former party and she prestaged donald trump and the fever swamp carnival culture and the disregard for voters and democracy and all that stuff. just talk a little bit about that. just what does it say? is it inevitable in some ways that in the era that we now live that she prestaged the woman who got in a