All right, let's set the table excessive heat. Top story of the day. Welcome to ABC 10 morning news. I'm Wolf Gray. It is the projected start of the heat wave that Rob has been talking about for days throughout northern California. Well, I'm Kin Chetta Callahan. We're just a few hours away from seeing temperatures hit those triple digits at ABC 10. We stand for you and we want to get you ready. Let's give you team coverage and do it right now. Our Candice covers the dangers the heat wave can bring first though. Let's go to meteorologist, Rob Kar. So Rob, it's kind of a nice morning, but later on that's going to change about what time I would say when we hit 90 by noon, that's when everyone and the wind will be blowing out of the north. That's when everyone says, ok, this is happening and this is, this is not unlike when a storm comes through our area where just hours before it's sunny, there might be a little bit of wind and it just doesn't feel like it. Then all of a sudden you get clouds, you get wind and then it's raining and this happens quickly. This is the same situation, but this is going from reasonably nice weather to some hot weather as it rolls on in. Now, of course, in the morning, you're going to have some cooler weather and we're waking up to temperatures in the sixties. By this time tomorrow morning, we're gonna be waking up to the seventies. So this is not only just about daytime heat, this is about really warm mornings. This takes forever to cool off. And even when you cool off, it's still not all that cool. So this is gonna be a story of rapid warming going from the eighties yesterday to triple digits today. Not only triple digits, we're going a few degrees even past that later on today, the time of the heat that's noticeable and when you really have to prepare for it, you know that your mornings are still ok. But 90 by noon and we're gonna be 90 or above between noon and 9 p.m. tonight. Yes, all the way until sunset. And we've got two more days of triple digit heat. We're gonna have the nineties for the weekend, which will be nice. But again, this is a major heat wave and a major change to the weather that we've had high pressure is in that spot, intense north winds is not only going to warm us up, it is a fire risk. This is not a red flag morning, but this certainly will be an elevated fire risk as the wind blows strongly out of the north all day long. The triple digit heat begins today, pick a spot where you're going to spend some time. I would say the only places of relative relief are gonna be trucky south Lake Tahoe, but eighties at elevation is definitely hot. And then we're looking at 76 in San Francisco. So there's really only a few spots that will be somewhat out of the realm of the heat. But even relatively speaking, this will be warm for them as well. Triple digit heat for the next three days. Then we finally see some relief for the weekend and folks for what's coming, it will be nothing like we've seen so far this season and we have not seen this since August of last year back to you. Oh, yeah, that's really heating up there with the triple digits. Fire officials are reminding parents about safety and just how dangerous things can get if you leave your child in the car. ABC Ten's Candace Red in Sacramento with more details on what we shouldn't do. Candice. Yeah, that's exactly right. Good morning Wald. Good morning Concetta. As you can see, I have my jacket on. That's because it's a little chilly right now, but we know things are going to change and soon as you can see we're coming to, you live right outside in a parking lot. That's because we want to focus on hot car. Deaths preventing that is now when it's 70 degrees outside, a car can reach over 115 that's dangerous, especially if a child is in the car. Now, according to, to the US Department of Transportation, about 40 Children die from heat stroke every year because they were in a hot car and most of them are Children under two years old. With this sort of tragedy usually happens at the end of the work week. We're talking about Thursdays and Fridays when parents and caregivers are the busiest. That's why fire officials say you should get into the habit. Now of checking the back seat before locking the car doors, maybe you have a personal item that you put in the back seat with the child that you need to get before you get out. So it forces you to go to the back seat to open that up. And there are newer vehicles do have safety mechanisms in place that will alert you to check the back seat so you can put those in place as well. Now, if you see a child alone in a car check, if the child is ok and responsive, if not call 911, you can also break the window if needed to help the child get out of the car. That's because California has a good Samaritan law. It protects people from lawsuits when they try to help during an emergency. By the way, rolling down the windows are parking the car in a shaded area like under a tree that does very little to help. The bottom line is never leave a child alone in a car. Especially with these hot temps in Sacramento, Candice. Red ABC 10, a lot of these newer vehicles have sensors in the back seat, so it'll alert you if you walk away and there's a child still there. All right, Candice, thank you. Well, because of the extreme heat, the city of Elk Grove is opening a cooling center. It will run through Thursday from noon to eight. It's at the whack for community complex on Bruce Road. Meanwhile, across Sacramento County, more cooling centers are opening this morning. You can see centers located at the north a emergency shelter, the outreach and engagement center and the Sam and Bonnie Pannell Center. Sacramento RT is offering free rides. If you show them the flyer, you see here on your screen. Meantime, let's go to YOLO County opening cooling centers at the Woodland Public Library at the Arroyo Pool and at the West Sacramento Community Center in Roseville, downtown Library and utility Exploration Center, both serving as cooling centers. The library opens at nine. The center opens an hour later so you can better plan your day around these extreme temps. Download the free ABC 10 app which includes alerts for your area.
