Really doing everything
we can to beat the heat.
We tied records this weekend acs
our local mountains and deserts.
We expect to do so as we start
off this week and an excessive
heat warning remains in effect.
We'll talk about how hot we're g
to get and how long it'll last.A
major music star ends a show
because of heat exhaustion.
How you can recognize the sign?
Very concerned, just because I
think it's really dry out here.
Firefighters are on high alert
amid this ongoing heat wave.
Plus, where you can stay
cool with some free A/C,
we have team coverage on the He.
It's 6:00 AM on Monday,
July 17th and you're watching C8
and we begin
with the extreme heat.
Right now, Cal Fire is urging pe
to be prepared when hitting our hiking
trails after a mountain biker d.
Crews got a call Saturday aftern
about four hikers suffering from
dehydration in a remote and rugd
area in the Hakamba Mountains.
3 mountain bikers helped
crews locate the hikers.
The hikers and two of the mountn
bikers were treated and release,
but the third mountain biker died while
being transported to the hospit.
The heat also ramps up our risk for wildfires
2 are burning right now in Riverside County.
The Gavel and fire started yesterday near
Gavel and Hills and has burned 338 acres.
Right now it's 50% contained ane
Rabbit Fire started Friday and quickly
grew to 7600 acres and forced evacuations.
It's now 25% contained and all the way
east of the Laguna Mountains. Right now,
Cal Fire in San Diego is responding to
a residential fire and Agua Caliente.
It started about an hour ago. N.
Cal Fire says there is no threao
surrounding vegetation right now. Thanks
so much for joining us here at 6:00 AM.
I'm Anna Laurel in for Netta, Iran poor.
And I'm Eric Connor.
And we have team coverage on
the heat and the fire danger.
Chris Crow has more on the
message from firefighters,
but we begin with meteorologist
Evan Ronnie with the latest
on this hot weather. Evan.
Very hot out there so we are watching
as temperatures climb throughoue
rest of our morning into the afternoon.
Right now we have seen some of r
overnight lows close to record territory,
meaning record hot for your
overnight temperature.
We did that yesterday for
Saturday into Sunday.
So Sunday morning we saw Brego
Springs make it to 89 degrees as their
overnight low near 90 overnight.
You can see what our
afternoon highs look like.
Mountains should be making it io
the 90s this afternoon 114 for .
Deserts on average coastline remains the
place to be for a little bit of relief.
76 degrees along the coast,
88 inland.
Plenty sunshine this afternoon d
our latest updates do show thats
Ridge of high pressure is not going anywhere,
which means that this heat is
going to stick around.
We've seen extensions on
excessive heat warning,
so it's going to be something tt
we talked about more in the fut,
but that heat is not going anywhere, so.
Find ways to stay cool.
We have more tips and tricks on
our website and firefighters.
They of course,
are on high alert because this
over the weekend crews were busy
battling a fire in Valley Cente.
CBS8's Chris Grow is live in
Claremont with the message that
firefighters want to get out as
temperatures continue to rise.
Chris,
it is still going to be a very t
week ahead and windy with dry conditions.
And everything that you just
described right there means that
that increased odds there for f.
Because if that is exactly the recipe
that leads to a lot of these brush fires,
these wildfires that can quickly spread.
Especially because think about ,
Evan, all of that with all of that rain
that we had during those winter storms,
all of that lush greenery,
it has turned brown and it is r.
For fire.
So that is what Cal Fire as well
as local fire municipalities are
spreading the word about that you have
to be careful without doing wor.
Now we saw recently of course
the rabbit fire.
We were just telling you about
that Chula Vista firefighters
actually there to help try to pt
out that fire to try to tame th.
You heard Anna and Eric just tag
about only 25% containment Chula Vista
fire telling us though that the.
Do believe that they are still,
you know, fine at home here,
that when they send and share resources,
that does not put anybody back
at home in jeopardy.
But they wanted to make sure
that that word got out.
Now As for what happened locall,
we were telling you about Valley Center.
8 acres burned, threatened home.
Thankfully firefighters were abe
to get that out quickly, but ag,
just speaks to how quickly everything
is moving right now,
especially because of our conditions,
those winds blow.
Extremely fast.
The relative humidities drop
extremely fast and they're very,
so that also helps speed up wildfire.
Now of course, often times when
we're talking about fire safetyd
what you can do, prepare etcete,
we talk a lot about making defensible space.
But one of the messages that Cal Fire
was delivering just a couple of weeks
ago was that now is not really e
time to account for a defensible space.
That's work that needs to be
done before peak fire season.
Now of course, if it's cool out,
if you're able to do without heavy machinery,
now would be a really good time
to make sure that gets done.
But don't do this,
this type of work when it
is hot outside when it is.
Windy and don't use heavy machiy
because that one little spark.
Ironically again,
you could create a fire and
those conditions just by trying
to make that defensible space.
Eric and Anna.
All right, Chris.
Thank you for that this morning.
Some trails in San Diego County
remain closed because of the exe
heat heat and here's a list of .
San Diego River Gorge.
Cedar Creek Falls.
Three sister Falls.
And Eagle Peaks Trail will
be closed through today.
Remember, the county does have several
cool zones where you can enjoy free A/C.
We have a list of those under
the help.button@cbs8.com.
We will check on the hot forecat
once again here in just a few minutes.
Meantime,
the opposite problem in other
parts of the country dealing
with heavy rain and flooding.
Oh yes.
Water washed away a road in New
Hampshire and flash flooding in
Pennsylvania killed 5 people.
The weather is causing hundreds of flight
delays and cancellations across the US.
This morning, Alaska Airlines ft
attendants say they're planning
on picketing at six airports,
including right here at San Die.
International negotiations broke down
between the union representing e
flight attendants and the compa.
Employees say under previous
contract they had to work for
free during parts of their day,
including boarding.
They also say they don't start getting paid
until the door on the aircraft closes.
Daily Amtrak service between Oceanside
and Irvine resumes this morning.
The Pacific Surfliner and Metrok
trains shut down June 5th becaue
of a landslide in San Clemente.
Emergency crews just finished a temporary
barrier wall to protect the tra.
The city of San Clemente is
continuing to work to stabilize
that hillside for the long term.
And more than 800,000 student ln
borrowers will soon see their debt erase.
This
comes after the Supreme Court
rejected A broader plan by the
Biden administration to offer dt
forgiveness to 10s of millions.
CBS8's Dana Marie Mcnichol is
live in studio now to explain
who qualifies for this is a lot
of ears have perked up here.
That's right. Good morning, Eric and Anna.
When you hear loan forgiveness,
I think so many of us want
to know who qualifies.
So it is a very specific group
that I do want to tell you, we .
Let's say 2 weeks ago that the
Supreme Court invalidated the Bn
administration's plan for broad
based student loan forgiveness.
You probably saw that headline.
Well, this is a completely sepae
plan that's going to help exacty
804,000 people become a debt fre
from those federal student loan.
So this debt forgiveness is for a very
specific group that is already enrolled
in the income driven Repayment .
This is known as IDR.
So if this is you, I have good .
This program is designed to red.
Use monthly loan payments baseda
person's payment amount to their income.
So people who have accumulated e
equivalent of either 20 or 25 ys
of qualifying monthly payments,
they're now eligible for forgiveness.
So if you haven't been paying
this for the last decade or so,
this probably doesn't qualify.
Now,
the Higher Education Act and Education
Department said some borrowers weren't
processing towards loan forgive,
so this forgiveness is responseo
that borrowers worth direct loa.
Federal family education loans
held by the Education Departmen,
as well as parent PLUS loans.
Those are all covered now.
We spoke to an attorney for greater context.
Take a listen.
This loan forgiveness appears
to be a matter of right
rather than a matter of grace
or government discretion.
There may be lawsuits,
but there is some suggestion,
at least in reports that I have read,
that this is well within
the Secretary of Education's
authority to administer.
The loan program
Now many are asking the question why now?
While the administration says
it does want to fix historical
failures and how IDR's were man,
calling it a broken system,
the Department of Education
said you don't actually have to
apply for this debt forgiveness.
It's already started notifying
those borrowers if they qualify.
Eric and Anna.
Good to know. Thank you.
Dana Marie, coming off of realla
hot weekend and guess what thins
aren't going to change much.
No change. No. Isn't that wild?
Nice and hot. 10 day models show no change
and it looks like even
that it might get hotter,
might get hotter.
So Ridge of high pressure kind f
weakening today and tomorrow, Monday,
Tuesday and then Wednesday through Friday
we're warming up a little bit m.
So it's not territory we
haven't been in say last week.
Last week we really saw that warm up,
but it dwindled a little bit
over the weekend and I might.
Tuesday and then picks back up by that week.
OK, just taking a breath. Exact.
Just a healthy deep breath in.
Drink some water.
This is your reminder at 6:10.
Exactly. Even if you're not thi,
it's probably still a good idea
to just go get a glass of water.
Take a look outside.
We've got a little bit
of haze along the coast.
We even saw on our Mount Soledad camera
that was previously not all that
socked in that we have clouds building.
So what that denotes is the
typical this is what we've seen
all week and for the last.
Seven days or so coastline remas
a lot more mild because of the y
morning cloud cover that we're seeing
and because of that sea breeze.
So the combination of the two ks
the coast in the 70s versus wheu
make your way inland you see 80,
nineties and then triple digits
for the desert.
Sunrise was at 553,
so we are just about 20 minutes
out from it sunset 757.
Losing a little bit of day leng,
but that's OK because we are
still seeing relatively long da.
For now,
forecast highs in Santee and El
Cajon are expected to reach thes
yet again, 78 for National City,
83 for San Ysidro,
77 in Coronado and Downtown and
73 in Pacific Beach.
We'll take you up to North Coun.
You can see how in Escondido wee
going for 90 RB, 88 degrees,
Poway going for 89 this afternon
and Ramona 96.
So the heat wave is most felt
the farther E you go and that's
why an excessive heat.
Warning has now been extended
through our San Diego County
mountains and deserts through Friday,
so this was previously issued lt
Tuesday and set to expire this Tuesday.
Now we have an extension through
Friday and there's a good chance
that even beyond that we can
still see a lot of heat in stor.
So here's the last 14 days along the coast.
Notice the difference?
70s, all relatively mild.
Wednesday,
Thursday of last week we did hit 80 degrees.
We made it about 5 degrees warmr
than average.
Saturday,
Sunday to wrap up this past wee,
Beautiful weekend in San Diego,
Pride weekend.
Here we were, a degree cooler than normal,
but Hillcrest was still very,
very hot because you started to
make your way away from the coat
and we were climbing so that
stretch from the coast.
Toward your inland valley so
you can see how temperatures are
a little bit warmer.
71 for Alpine right now,
67 in Ramona and 67 in Encinita.
Still a pretty warm start now to
our Monday morning and it's just
going to get hotter as the day goes on.
Let's take a look at your traffc
and see how things are border
wait times specifically.
We're checking in with CVP website right now.
The wait at the Sandy siege
report of entry 45 minutes.
So it'll take you just under an hour.
Oh,
time may support of entry
just under 1/2 hour
should be waiting about 25 minu.
To get into the US And then wheu
make your way through San Diego County,
cbs8.com/traffic has more on what your
highway conditions look like. Back to you.
All right, Evan, thank you.
Still ahead this morning,
a lot more questions on this sty
that gained national attention.
What authorities are saying aboa
missing woman after she returned home?
Nobody wants to see their childh
oxygen and all type of
stuff picked up to them.
An update on a local teenager wo
got very sick while studying abd
and country music star Jason Aln
suffers heat exhaustion on stag.
How you can spot the warning si.