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He is up because of the heat, but supply is down, partly because of the drought.

Mega drought means less megawatts.

California's power grid operator has issued a flex alert for today, asking people to conserve power.

Newsom says it's understandable that people are cranking up the AC, but he says today's not even the hottest day of this heat wave.

The hottest day should be

Sunday and Monday. We are anticipating based on current projections. This will change on a daily

basis, a little over 48,000, as much as 48,000, 200,000, 500 megawatts of consumption. Demand as of

3 o'clock this afternoon was close to 42,000 megawatts.

Alex Stone will be on with John to talk more about the heat and the flex alert and all of that

good stuff.

People have still hit up hiking trails despite the heat wave in Southern California.

One of them is KFIs Blake Trolley.

It was around 100 degrees when I trekked up the Mount Wilson Trail in Sierra Madre. Not far into my hike,

I met this couple from Long Beach who were also not far into their hike.

We got 0.3 miles in and we're turning around because it is way too hot out here.

As for their next stop, we're going back home and getting in the pool and calling it a day from there.

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