spencer christian, what do you remember from 1913? how hot was it, spencer? >> i checked my thermometer that day, but i wasn't near death valley. >> you're so predictable, larry. >> i love it, i love it. [ laughter ] it's like thoughing spitballs at a battleship. let's take a look at what's happening around the bay area rightnow. we have lightning strikes up in the north bay persistent throughout the day. you probably heard some of the crashing thunder overnight, and right now we have a long path of lightning strikes up in parts of northern sonoma county and parts of mendocino. dozens of lightning strikes, including thunderstorms and those strikes bring with them the risk of fires from the dry lightning strikes. temperature change over the last 24 hours shows, and you thought it couldn't get any hotter, it's hotter. 11 degrees warmer than it was this time yesterday. eight degrees warmer in san francisco. and it's breezy, but noter the my gusty. strongest wind here in san francisco, 23 miles per hour. looking out over ng u conditions, as we have the from the s

no, that's spencer christian. just checking to see if you were paying attention. dr. patel joins us now. i know you've had a busy day following the headlines and being a doctor, but governor newsom today announced a new partnership to more than double our testing capacity for covid. so adding about 150,000 tests a day and promising results in under 48 hours. how significant is that? >> it's huge. the availability of testing is important. not only with surveillance testing but a population might be exposed but get back to work and result back in order to protect the families at home but also having this much testing available is a really good sign when it comes to talking about reopening businesses and bringing kids back to school. you cannot do it without adequate testing. >> even more important with the twin dem nick. >> we can have both pandemic and epidemic happening at the same time. the twindemitwindemics. we already have a lot of hospitals out there at major capacity with flu season alone. we're not even talking about covid-19. you can see adult and children hos

latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. 7,000 britishjobs to go at marks and spencers over the next three months, as the pandemic means even more of us shoppped online. universities call for urgent support from the uk government, after the u—turn over a—levels. the education secretary resists calls to resign, but does say he's sorry for the distress caused. this is not something that anyone wanted to, whether it was from our perspective or from the exam board's or quual's perspective, but that's why we had to take action when we did. if you're a an a—level of gcse or btec student, what does the u—turn decision mean for you? btecs haven't been included in the u turn for some reason, no idea why. let me know your reaction. michelle 0bama launches a scathing attack on donald trump at the democratic party's virtual convention. whenever we look to this white house for some leadership or consolation orany for some leadership or consolation or any semblance of steadiness, what we get instead is chaos, division and a total and utter lack of empathy. a un backed court in the ha

let's check out the weather forecast with spencer. hey, spencer. >> okay, kristen and larry. once again, look for widespread low clouds and fog with low temperatures on the wild side, mainly upper 50s to low 60s. tomorrow will be a bright, sunny day. a bit cooler than today. 60s at the coast, 70s around the bay. 80s inland. look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. we have a big warmup coming our way near the end of the week and the weekend. upper ninths to near 100 in the warmest inland spots. so a brief break from this past weekend's heat. that will get us ready for next weekend's heat. larry and kristen? >> all right. >> mr. metallica, thank you. >>> when we come back, david louie helping us take a look with his crystal ball for what a covid christmas might look like. dan is here with a preview of "abc7 news" at 5:00. dan? >> larry, new at 5:00, the fear of eviction and the risk for so many. >> this fear that his wife and mother would be evicted and end up homeless. should any 77-year-old worry about that during a pandemic? >> what is being done to help renters out there

spencer and andrew join us.nprecedented action by the nba players today in response to the police shooting of a black man in kenosha, wisconsin. postponing all three playoff games scheduled for today after players for the milwaukee bucks refused to take the court and members of the rockets and thunder follow suit. lakers blame has been postponed and there's talk the giants might not play the dodgers tonight. those discussions are happening as we speak. all of these actions stem from sunday's shooting of jacob blake, who is now paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot seven times in the back by police. so we've talked about this over the past year or so. this is really the era of player empowerment in sports. spencer, we are seeing a different tactic now. the nba players in particular are saying to their owners that, look, you guys are billioaires. you have tremendous political clout. you want to see playoff games, you want to make your money, you're on the clock right now, get something dob get something

i know spencer said it's going to be a few days. hang in there, thank you and thank you, sandy, for joining us today. enzo, just see if you can pack that food up and send it my way. it looks too good to waste. thank you both, appreciate it. >>> we will take a short break. you can see how hard for businesses given the smokey ayre i air right now. we will talk with a cal fire and get >>> all right. thanks for joining us again. let's find out how it's going for firefighters right now. cal fire spokesperson jeremy rahn is here. thank you for your time. you are coming to me from and ceera, that's kind of the i wantrosarea. we have csu and czu in the east and the wine country. how are each of those battles going? >> i'm currently asoviet unioned to the lau lightning complex. that would be the one i have the information. the other two complexes as well as num us other fires around the state are very dynamic. we are stretched thin on resources. >> tell us about how that's gmpblth i've se going. i seen new evacuation orders come down. talk a

spencer?> this poor air quality is going to be with us for a couple more days before we start to feel improvement. here's a look at live doppler 7, giving you a look at our surface wind speeds. not terribly gusty, but you can feel the breeze at 15 to 22 miles per hour. here is a view looking toward the northwest. you can see different levels of the atmosphere. low clouds and lots of haze and smoke. way up above, the sky is blue. 72 in oakland, 71 in mountain view. san jose, 79. gilroy, 76. 57 at half moon bay. looking northward, you can see the low clouds getting lower. off in the distance, you see some haze, some smoke, and a little bit of brightness in the sky. 78 degrees up north at santa rosa. novato at 87. mid 80s at concord and livermore. the view here at pier 15 here in san francisco, looking back at the skyline, once again a mix of low clouds, fog, smoke, haze, and some bright spots in the sky, as well. these are the forecast. fog expands tonight. patchy morning drizzle near the coastl

spencer christian is here with the latest. spencer?> i'm sorry to have to direct our attention to it once again, but it's pretty miserable. a live look at we still have oppressive heat across the bay area that will be with us. dangerous heat wave with an excessive heat warning for virtually all of the bay area until 9:00 wednesday night. that's when we finally think we may see relief. but not tonight. it's going to be warm out there. overnight lows under hazy conditions, ranging from upper 60s to upper 70s, which is more like daytime highs. that will be -- those will be the overnight lows.ws. topping out around 100 degrees around the bay shoreline. and here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. on saturday, we expect to get some modest measure of relief as highs will reach only into the mid 90s inland. low 80s around the bay. so cooler if all areas of thursday. but friday and by sunday, monday, we'll see temperatures inland above 100 degrees again. back up near 90 around the bay and up to about 70 on the coast. so no sustained break fr

spencer christian, are you going to be drinking 19 crimes any time soon?well, it's a doggone good wine, i may give it a y, li of the snoop. here's a look an with the weather right now. we expect an increase inndow ti again. overnight temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. tomorrow, hazy day, high temperatures from mid 60s at the coast to mid and upper 70s around the shoreline, mid 90s inland. little bit warmer in the inland areas. and we still have lingering unhealthful air across much of the bay area, so through sunday, spare the air alert will remain in effect. poorest air quality in the north bay and santa clara valley. accuweather 7 day forecast, once we get through the weekend, looks like a fairly steady pattern of typically warm summer weather. the warmest day will be tuesday in our inland areas with highs in the upper 90s then. larry and kristen? >> all right, thank you, spencer. >>> if you're into stars and "star wars," this is for you. in a galaxy far, far away, there's a, well, a galaxy that looks a lot like darth vader's t. i.e. awe str astronome

. >> you don't know, and the air quality is still unpredictable, spencer. >> that's true. the wind has been variable but still rather gusty. the other factors are helping, actually, in the area of the woodward fire. it's only 65 degrees, relative humidity 80%. pthat's very, very good for fir containment but the gusts are up to once again, it's not hot in those areas, and the relative humidity is moderate. down in the santa cruz mountains, the area of the csu lightning complex, the wind also gusted 15 miles an hour, but the relative humidity there is up to 71%. nonetheless, as we get further containment of these fires, the weather conditions look more hopeful. the air quality remains quite poor. we have spare the air alerts in effect until friday. a close look at the 7-day forecast in a few minutes. >> thanks, spencer. >>> covid-19 anxiety coming up. fires plus covid, growing stress. one thing you should not do right now. >>> san francisco announcing the closure of one of its jails. we'll te ♪ (vo) my name is cynthia hawkins, the owner of hawkins house of burgers. my grandp

>>> i'm spencer christian. we're in a brief period of cooling right now, but there is some intense heat coming our way later in the week. i'll have the this virus is testing all of us. and it's testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. so abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. and until this fight is over, we...will...never...quit. because they never quit. (woman chattering) - [narrator] ordering dinner for the family? (family gasps) rewarded with a side of quiet. (baby murmuring) grubhub rewards you, (scooter horn honking) get a free delivery perk when you order. (doorbell rings) - [group] grubhub. >>> president trump was abruptly escorted out of the white house briefing room because of what was happening outside. there was a shooting nearby while he was addressing the media. the president was taken to the oval office, but the secret service returned him to the briefing room ten minutes later. he immediately gave an update on what happene

. >> let's get to spencer christian for the latest on that front. spencer. >> the biggest help is relative humidity is higher and helping with containment. the woodward fire in marin county, a temperature of 64 degrees. relative humidity, 87%, which is quite good. wind is gusting to about 11 miles per hour. the wind is still a factor, of course. in the other north bay fires, you can ignore the wind speeds. they've been distorted by the computerized system. the overall view is increasing relative humidity and very strong gusts, 9 to 11 miles per hour. then moving down to the santa cruz mountains, we have wind gusting to about 13 miles per hour. relative humidity there is 74%. again, that's encouraging and the temperatures only 68 degrees. weather is improving for fire containment, but once again, the air quality is very poor across most of the bay area. we have a spare the air alert in effect for the next three days through friday. dan and ama. >> spencer, thanks very much. >>> we'll get to that news conference as soon as it happens. we'll bring it t

goodness, spencer, are you 0k, just go with it. go with what? what the?ow me. 0k, with what? what the? right, follow me. ok, this is weird. are you sure this is the most direct way? pretty sure, yeah. can we at least stop and ask for directions? i've got a map. it will be fine. over here! you had it upside down, didn't you? 0k, had it upside down, didn't you? ok, this is more like it. oh, dundee. we should only be a couple of blocks away now. blocks. nice, isee couple of blocks away now. blocks. nice, i see what you did there. yep, there it is. v&a dundee. here we come! from v&a dundee. here we come! from v&a dundee, this is bbc click, live! please welcome your hosts, lauer louis fenton and spencer kelly! -- lara lewington. yes, if the time of yearagain lewington. yes, if the time of year again where we leave the comfort of the click offices and go live to the world, or at least to a crowd of very eager technology fans. v&a dundee was the spectacular location for a show that took in everything from artificial intelligence to facial recognition. the museum

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a huge challenge for marks & spencer to turn around its fortunes.being a huge growth area for them now. they have signed area for them now. they have signed a deal with avocado. that comes online in september. that could play into this trend. it is pretty stark. 68% of orders were delivered to peoples homes in recent months. compare that to the 29% in previous yea rs. compare that to the 29% in previous years. that gives you a sense of how oui’ years. that gives you a sense of how our habits have changed and how firms like marks & spencer have to respond. cheers, ben. we will talk to the shop union later. a fresh scramble for university places begins in earnest today, for those hit by the chaos over a—level results. the government's u—turn yesterday, that results would be given on teacher assessment, followed an outcry over students being graded down by an algorithm. but it's not all over. that turmoil means that thousands have lost out on uni places they would otherwise have secured. now, universities say they face a major challenge fitting them in

spencer, they were breathing a sigh of relief overnight. let's see if that will continue. >> reporter: most of that accuweather last night went to our east for the bay area. we have a few scattered light showers, but nothing in the way of stormy weather. let's look at the conditions near the fire. near the czu lightning complex, we'll take you to the santa cruz mountains. relative humidity higher, 50%. do in part to the passage of that subtropical moisture that moved through yesterday and last night. wind is very light, so that's good news. to the north, let's look at the fires up in the lnu lightning complex, in sonoma county with the fire near guerneville, temperature is 82 degrees, relative humidity 39%. that's low but not dangerously low. the wind is 5 miles per hour, and gusts up to 10 miles per hour. meanwhile, the air quality remains poor. today was a spare the air day. the next two days will also be spare the air days for the bay area, with poor air quality across the board. i'll have the full forecast later. kristen? >> spencer, th

. >>> just a few minutes left but check in with christian spencer tracking the weather. breathed a huge sigh of relief. >> let me give you a look at current air quality conditions out of the area indicating poor air quality, santa cruz and san jose up around the bay shoreline. red dots in livermore, air quality is very poor and up in the north bay at san rafael, over to the east a little bit at fairfield and santa rosa. spare the air alert for tomorrow and wednesday. so we don't expect any significant improvement in our air quality until much later in the week. fire conditions right now up in the lnu fire complex, lightning complex i should say, in the north bay near the wall bridge fire. 84 degrees, not hot. relative humidity increased thanks to that surge of subtropical moisture that came through yesterday. the wind is relatively light but >> you don't expect more red flag warnings this week? >> certainly not in the next 24 hours. red flag warning in parts of mendocino. the conditions are improving. humidity hasn't increased. temperatures down a bit. wind flow, weather

marks & spencer warned the pandemic would change its business. cut costs and respond to the rapid change in our shopping habits. today big job cuts, 7,000 roles to go, most of them in its stores, nearly a tenth of the workforce. we are hopeful that any redundancies will be done on a voluntary basis. i think it is about looking at the business case they are proposing and what it's actually based upon. i think it's important to remember that the high street is at the centre of all community, and it's important that the government really takes a wake—up call with this and looks at trying to support the high street more, because i think we are constantly seeing redundancies' impacts on the high street as more people are having to, obviously, go to shop online. you just need to look at m&s's trading update today to see the challenge. in the two months since stores reopened, clothing and home sales are still down 48% on last year, but online sales have soared, up by 39%. before the pandemic, m&s was already in the midst of a plan to transform its busin

marks and spencer is planning to cut seven thousand staff by the end of the year, after a slump in salese cuts — on top of 950 already announced — amount to about a tenth of the overall work force. the company is the latest to announce major losses, as our business correspondent emma simpson reports. you do not see this often, a new storejust opening after lockdown. it is close to nottingham and pulling in the shoppers. it helps being out of town. is a different in many city centres. it's a different in many city centres. this is oxford street in london and much quieter than it should be. not good if you rely on footfall for sales. this was the first floor at marble arch this lunchtime, one of the key london stores for marks & spencer and today the company said there had been a material shift in trade and it had to act. these new figures show the challenge. the two months since reopening, clothing and home sales at its stores down 40% compared to last year but online sales up 39%. this pandemic has driven a rapid change in shopping habits. with more people buying online fewer workers are

so in that two days, my body rapidly declined. >> it is incredible, spencer. so glad you are okay. do they know what happened? do they know whether that was the coronavirus or related to the coronavirus or obviously you were otherwise a healthy 21-year-old. >> yes. i have had no health issues before. they are telling me my body was trying to fight off the coronavirus and went into hyperactive mode and eventually started attacking my own body and that led to the sepsis and septic shock and all that. >> i understand that -- you look fine but i know you are still recovering in some ways. doctors are monitoring your heart, blood pressure medications. you've got to avoid a high heart rate. when you think about what you did working outside in the heat i know these are things now that are life changing for you. do you have any sense of how long this will continue or is it possibly, or are the doctors telling you they just don't know? >> so they don't know exactly right now. they told me ail be on these medications for the next year or two. i am actually going to a ca

marks and spencer is planning to cut seven thousand staff by the end of the year, after a slump in salesthe coronavirus pandemic. the cuts — on top of 950 already announced — amount to about a tenth of the overall work force. the company is the latest to announce major losses, as our business correspondent emma simpson reports. you do not see this often, a new storejust opening after lockdown. it is close to nottingham and pulling in the shoppers. it helps being out of town. it's a different story in many city centres. this is oxford street in london and much quieter than it should be. not good if you rely on footfall for sales. this was the first floor at marble arch this lunchtime, one of the key london stores for marks & spencer and today the company said there had been a material shift in trade and it had to act. these new figures show the challenge. in the two months since reopening, clothing and home sales at its stores down 48% compared to last year but online sales up 39%. this pandemic has driven a rapid change in shopping habits. with more people buying online, fewer workers ar

also this evening. 7,000 jobs to go at marks and spencer, as the pandemic makes customers move from shoppingore to online. the widow of pc andrew harper tells the bbc of her heartbreak over the sentences handed out to her husband's killers. he's never coming back, we're never going to have him back. but at the very least we wanted some kind ofjustice for him. how researchers have uncovered the unseen scale of plastic pollution clogging the atlantic ocean. and the empty cruise ships lining the south coast that have become an unlikely tourist attraction. coming up on bbc news. paris st germain look to book their place in the first champions league final as they take on the rising stars of european football, rb leipzig. good evening. tens of thousands of students, who've now got higher a level grades after the government's u—turn yesterday, are scrambling for university places. with many courses already full, some students remain unsure about their academic futures. the government has said it will help universities to find places for them. the education secretary, gavin williamson, has sidestep

but we're not quite there yet. >> yeah, spencer. i wonder if in santa clara county and also the north bay, if the air remains worse because they are closer in proximity to where the biggest fires are burning. or is that because of the wind conditions we have or the way weather patterns are? >> probably a little of both. they are in san mateor to the fires in the santa cruz mountains. it also has something do do with the windn shore from west to east. it's been pushing along the coastal areas, pushing the smoke away. once the wind hits the topography around here because we have so many different elevations and mountains and valleys and gaps, the wind direction can change. so it's quite possible that some of the wind flowing on shore into the peninsula, for example. it could be diverted by the part of the pushing more of the smoke down into that direction. >> hmm. are we still at the level in most of the bay area where you want to try to stay indoors, if possible? or do you feel like looking at those readings that, you know, folks who

spencer was there for that. a's and rangers, they decided not to play today. marcus simeon grew up in the bay area, went to cal. he knows the city of oakland will support the a's and their push for equality. >> the city that we play in has a long history of fighting for what is right, and that's what we are trying to do here. and i feel like a lot of our fans will have our backs. >> part of me that's like we can no longer stay silent. it's not a time to just push this stuff that's going onto the wayside anymore. these couple days are historic times in sports. >> lot of confusion with the mets and marlins. at one point mets management suggested a one-hour walk out then playing the game. and the players were not going to go for fid,hey stood for a 42-second moment of silence. this was in honor of jackie robinson. tomorrow is jackie robinson day so that made sense. then they placed a black lives matter t-shirt over home plate, and both teams left without playing. mets first baseman dominic smith really emotional with everything that's going on. >> i mean, it was

when she whispers to him about and spencer -- square jaw. when she whispers to him about spencer, grants throat burns with curiosity. he considers this zora. is she the prophecy of stones? the darkesthin sciences he conjures? .k so let's go to this superhero right here. harriet tubman. spy, war nurse, soldier, freedom fighter, ship commander, john brown's general tubman. let's talk about that. and people are silly enough to believe she couldn't read. [laughter] right?that, harriet is holy. ais poem is written in peculiar way because we know that craft and content go to way. this poem can be read in any direction and hope fully it will make sense. you -- i did that purposefully because you can never locate her. i felt a poem that would honor her would have the same continuity. i am going to read it twice in two different ways. licka thumb, hold it to -- a thumb, hold it to the wind. what is it about water, women? take me, tubman. ,aithful as eve, mother of cain her smile collection of springs. between water, between women being no mysteries.

basil, meet spencer, spencer made azul. look at us. we are talking to plants. this is what it has come to. this is a small example of my amazing gardening talent. a few weeks ago i planted a verticalfarm. is it still alive? it is doing really well. and devices like this or that stop you from going wrong because once you have them plugged in and you make sure they do not run out of water, the device does the rest of thejob. of water, the device does the rest of the job. later i will show you all the food that i have been growing. we will come back to laura in a few minutes. first of all, we are going to hong kong. now you will probably know that there have been protests in hong kong against the chinese authorities for over a year. and now beijing has introduced new laws to crack down on civil unrest. there are fears that these will give the authorities unfettered control over the internet, and many worry that the great chinese firewall is about to be extended. danny vincent has been talking to hong kong tech activists on the front line. every day at midnight, ho

he handled an incident where richard spencer was invited to speak on campus. as a public university in the university of florida they could not elect to bar spencer from speaking but they gave it as a shining example. of how leadership should respond in the situation. it was a set of controversies a couple years ago where you had richard spencer he was just a garden propriety provocateur. insisting on speaking and sometimes where possible they have to list an invitation from a student group. sometimes they would just booked an auditorium where they could. their purpose was to be shut down. what they wanted more than anything else and this happened to milo was for the university to call it off and insist that they couldn't speak so that they could then become a great champion of free speech and sue the university. grandstand and rally their followers. this is part of what gave free speech a bad name on many campuses over a. of time but what we advocated in pen america and i think where they did while was to avoid falling into that trap. and not give the spencer

please welcome your hosts, lara lewington and spencer kelly.me of yearagain, where we leave the comfort of the click offices and go live to the world, or at least to a crowd of very eager tech fans. v&a dundee was the spectacular location for a show that took in everything from artificial intelligence to facial recognition. the museum not only celebrates the past, but also looks to the future. most people's idea of robots are shaped by the robots they see in science fiction, so like in a film or tv or video games or music. but robots are a bit more real than what we think. so most children will now grow up with siri or alexa or some kind of smart helper in their life, and i think in the future that's just going to increase. we're going to have more robotic helpers helping our children and helping us, just increasing more and more on an everyday basis. currently on display is the exhibition design between human and machine. so rather than robots coming in and replacing us and replacing our jobs, i think the future is a bit more of an optimistic

according to sources, mark spencer was not aware of the "magnitude" of the allegations.he times headlines two new tests that will be rolled out across britain this autumn, which can detect coronavirus and flu within 90 minutes. and there's more on covid—19 in the guardian, which says one of britain's leading scientists has criticised the government's handling of the crisis and urged ministers in future to be more open about the reasons behind their policies. let's begin with the times. this is, apart from the very striking photograph of an exhibit of the fitzwilliam museum in cambridge being reopened for visiting, we are talking about closing down in some places again. this offers potentially some hope, a test and a result from a test much faster than we have experienced until now. yes, it does. at the moment, the gold standard is 2a hours or so, getting a test, getting a result back. this is reducing that time considerably going to 90 minutes, and i think against the backdrop of a possible second wave of this virus, with winter coming in more pressures on the nhs, i thi

socialist say he had not known the magnitude of the claims and a spokesman for mr spencer has said hetions seriously and strongly encourage anyone who was approached person to contact the authorities. it's also understood the leader of the house, jacob rees—mogg, was told by an mp in recent weeks about the claims. sources had said he had said the woman should contact the police. thank you very much indeed, jessica parker. the government has insisted further coronavirus restrictions will be targeted at local levels, with no plans for a national blanket approach. reports say ministers are considering what measures might be necessary to contain a large surge in infections. the housing secretary, robertjenrick, also said they will press ahead with plans to reopen schools in england to all pupils in september — despite concerns it could drive up cases of the virus. jenny kumah reports. in parts of northern england, it's the third day of new restrictions that were brought in to curb the recent rise in coronavirus infections. friends and families from different households are being told once

when spencer tried to characterize it that way, fuchs shut him down and then he did his own campaigners. to reject the message to uphold spencer's right to speak but crystal clear that the administration and the institution condemned his message. there are two things the university leadership in these situations has to be able to do at one time it's like walking and chewing gum. they have to both uphold first amendment rights and reinforce the values of the institution. i think he did that well. >> suzanne, this has been great, the book is absolutely fascinating, it's compelling, it comes at a very timely moment in our nations history and there is behind you. "dare to speak". >> please buy from magic city books. >> in the chat there are several links you can go to if you want to order the book from magic city, which is an independent nonprofit bookstore and you can also get the discounted membership in pen america thank you. congratulations on your book and thank you so much for joining us and please stay safe with you and your family during the pandemic and i know you have an extens

spencer is tracking it very closely. >> and the wind is a big concern. surface wind speeds across the entire bay area, you can see it is quite gusty especially near the coast. we have gusts at 44 miles an hour in san francisco twoofl miles per hour in novato. 20 in ukiah. notice in the north bay, it is a little lighter but it is quite vigorous to the south bay. let'se at fire conditions. a couple of the north bay fires. 90 degrees in the community. really, really loud. only to 5-miles-per-hour. it may get stronger later. we have stronger gusts near the hennessey fire. relative humidity, 32%. gusts to 12-miles-per-hour. one more location here down near la honda. 12-mile-per-hour gusts near that fire. as you can see in vacaville, the gusts are at 11-miles-per-hour. it is wnldy across the bay area and the air quality is not improving exempt in the coastal locations. you can see we have poor to very poor air quality. most locations in the south bay and along the bay shoreline. and looking eastward, mainly moderate conditions. the air quality is very poor in

marks & spencer warned the pandemic would change its business.ng to take drastic action to cut costs and respond to the rapid change in our shopping habits. today big job cuts, 7,000 roles to go, most of them in its stores, nearly a tenth of the workforce. we are hopeful that any redundancies will be done on a voluntary basis. i think it is about looking at the business case they are proposing and what it's actually based upon. i think it's important to remember that the high street is at the centre of all community, and it's important that the government really takes a wake—up call with this and looks at trying to support the high street more, because i think we are constantly seeing redundancies' impacts on the high street as more people are having to, obviously, go to shop online. you just need to look at m&s‘s trading update today to see the challenge. in the two months since stores reopened, clothing and home sales are still down 48% on last year, but online sales have soared, up by 39%. before the pandemic, m&s was already in the midst of a

spencer? >> okay. >> we had triple digits in walnut creek and many other locations. right now, you see upper 80s. places like brentwood and cochran and fairfield. all those were over 100 today. we're just now seeing temperatures drop below 100 degrees and around the bay shoreline, they're beginning to drop below 90. this excessive heat will be with us as leslie pointed out into next week. an excessive heat warning in effect from 11:00 a.m. tomorrow to 9:00 p.m. wednesday. that includes a wide portion of the north bay, generally, the temperatures, the high temperatures will range from upper 90s on about 105, 106 degrees. and of course, under these conditions, the increased risk of heat-related illness. it will be even hotter in this part of north bay, portions of napa and sonoma counties. so excessive heat warnings to 7:00 p.m. saturday. high temperatures will range from 100 to 110 degrees. and tomorrow is a spare the air day. a closer look at that and the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. >> the hot weather is not helping down south. there is to containment on t

so let's bring in weather anchor spencer christian, because spencer, the weather has been helping firefighterst has, ama, because the humidity has increased because of that subtropical moisture that moved into the bay area

marks and spencer reports a near 40% plunge in clothing and home revenue as the brettish retailer said 7,000 jobs will go. sending shares higher. >>> oracle takes on microsoft taking on tiktok working with groups to go up against microsoft's offer. democrats and some republicans take aim at president trump in the democratic convention with a headline speech from former first lady michelle obama. >> donald trump is the wrong president for our country. he has had more than enough time to prove he can do the job but he is clearly in over his head >> we have about an hour of trade under our belt here. let's give you a sense of how the european markets are moving. i have to say there has been some improvement in the tone here we are about seven tens of one percent. we break that down, that gives you a sense of where we've seen some improvement the ibex 35, the spanish market in positive territory with the german dax a little under two 10s of one percent and the ftse and the cac trailing in their wake >> thank you, geoff. travel and leisure underperformed up about half a percentage point ove

let's get to spencer christian. we've got the excessive heat warning, the terms ofs around triple digits and fires raging. it is a combination of events that's not good for any of us. >> it is all the bad weather news. we start with live doppler 7. we move to the 24-hour temperature change. it is warmer today just with everywhere. 7 warmer in novato. 10 degrees warmer in san francisco. 6 degrees warmer and breezy all around the bay area. but it is not cooling things down. look at this view looking northward from sutro tower, lifting into the air and contributing to poorer air quality. 95, redwood city, 104, gilroy, 68 at half moon bay. from the goligoski, loop at the smoke. they're clouds of smoke. and look at how hot it is in the northeast north and the east. only 92 in napa. that's the cool spot. 103 in fairfield. 106 in concord. 104 in livermore. the view from mt. tam. now we can see the smoke there the san mateo county fires. we've got hazardous conditions. brief relief on thursday and a little cooldown. it won'

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. >> i'm spencer christian. weather conditions remain favorable for fire containment. news at 6:00 starts now. >>> as a if of in the business for 27 years, this is the most complex in my career. >> the voice of experience tonight. a veteran firefighter with the perspective to know what he's talking about has a sobering assess am. >> we're in for will long haul. >> good evening. i'm ama daetz. >> i am dan ashley. thanks for joining us. firefighters are stretched thin. they're setting records with their size. these are called complexes because there are multiple fires in one area. in the north bay is the lmu lightning complex. the scu lightning complex is fwrurng santa clara into alameda county and beyond. along the coast in san mateo and santa cruz area is the czu lightning complex. any moment now we'll get n update. it's ready to go from scotts valley. we'll bring you that live as it begins. we want to focus on the weather conditions which seemed to help a little bit today, ama. >> let's get to spencer christian for the latest on that front. spencer. >> the biggest hel

craig spencer, thank you so much. >>> i've got to get to breaking news.icia james about to make what's called a major announcement. she's talking about the national rifle association, nra. let's listen in. >> -- individual defendants. one, the first individual, longtime executive vice president wayne lapierre who has been the face of the nra for decades. two, former treasure and chief financial officer wilson woody phillips. three, former chief of staff and the executive director of operations, joshua powell. and four, corporate secretary and general counsel john frazier. these individuals in the nra are charged with failing to manage the nra's funds and failing to follow numerous state and federal laws which contributed to the loss of more than $64 million in just three years. since its founding in 1871, the nra has been a registered not-for-profit charitable corporation in the state of new york. these organizations are required by law to register and file annual financial reports with the office of the new york state attorney general and the assets of s

oh, we're working spencer -- >> you can't hear me?you hear me now in assuming that the top three candidates, all three brought amazing credentials to the table. any one of those would have made a really good pick. i think the edge kamala harris may have on the other two is more campaign experience. well, susan rice has no campaign experience in front of the camera. she worked behind the scenes. she's been through some tough statewide campaigns and she is campaign ready, i guess. >> she is a ferocious debater. that will be fascinating to watch. in illinois, it is now a felony to assault a retail workerforci. the governor expanded the definition of aggravated battery to include going against a retail worker trying to enforce fax masks. here's the key. an aggravated battery chargea f prison and fines up to $25,000., my takeaway from this, it is sad that we need legislation to protect those who are trying to encourage us to do a safe thing. >> it is a sad situation. these front line workers are at risk. they're trying to protect all of us