The north bay, we still have looking at some air quality issues that well have for the next day or so. Current temperatures are in the 50s from frent to san jose. 69 in san ciscfran little cooler this morning. We are looking at that spare the air alert today for poor air quality throughout the bay area. That is due to the fires from the north having that smoke drift in. So throughout the day today, we will be in the 70s by 1 00. A few 80s in the inland valleys. Temperatures will be warm, not as warm, and well have that haze to the sky. Well talk about the next chance and the next round of offshore winds which we already have advisories for coming up. Thats as soon as tomorrow night. Jobina . Thank you. Across the bay area things are looking good. A live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Smooth this morning. Also looking good in walnut creek this morning. This is 680, smooth around the bay area. Some updates for everyone. If we go up, this is where the sigalert was in the north bay, state round 128 between geyserville avenue and woodleaf, that area is still closed. No sigalert, but can see that purple line. No one will be going anywhere any time soon on that roadway. Also wanted to give you a thumbs up if you are familiar with whats happening last night, a fire broke out near highway 1 on the San Mateo County coast, that reopened 10 30 last night. Everything is smooth there this morning. Beginning now this morning with the fire emergency in Sonoma County. The fire has spread to 16,000 acres. This as whipping winds are expected this weekend. Cl fire says 49 structures have been destroyed, more homes and other buildings are threatened. The fire is 5 contained. We learned that a pg e transmission line failed around the same time that the fire started. Mandatory evacuations are in effect east of highway 128 to geyserville. You can see it in that shaded yellow area. The Healdsburg Community center and santa rosa Veterans Memorial center are being used as evacuation centers. Its a race against time to get this fire under control before the strong winds come this weekend. 1,300 firefighters were on the front lines yesterday and today that number is set to rise by 50 . We begin with leaisa. Currently the fire is 16,000 acres. 5 containment. 49 structures confirmed destroyed. Reporter the kincaid fire is ravaging Sonoma County. It came dangerously close to River Rock Casino near geyserville. 150 customers and employees had to evacuate wednesday night. We have to send the team members home from work. Were at risk of whatever the fire provides. And we dont have any business. Reporter but right now the property is safe. More than 2,000 people have been evacuated, including all of geyservie. Law enforcement is out in force. Patrolling the empty streets. We have 50 deputies on right now. Overnight well have 26 deputies corre directing folks on how to evacuate. Reporter there are no incidents of looting and no reports of anyone missing. Firefighters are bracing themselves for an intense weekend ahead. We are up against the clock. With the continuing drying fuel, but the winds are predicted to be worse than what we had the other night. Authorities dont expect to have more evacuations, were told the next updates will come in the form of a News Conference this afternoon. Abc7news. Com will stream that News Conference live when it happens. As we told you the kincaid fire burned homes in geyserville and forced thousands to flee. Reminder of the north bay fire two years ago. About 2 thosh,000 residents the to be evacuated. The Sheriffs Office wants to acknowledge this is emotional time for many people. Its only two years since the fires that devastated our community. Theres still a lot of trauma in Sonoma County from the fires of two years ago, waking up to a day like today brings b memories. Firefighters have come in to help and the goal now is to get it mostly contained before the next round of high winds is expected this weekend. At the live desk, pg e said it restored 93 of customers impacted by the power shutoffs. But now officials are warning of another safety shutoff that could start as soon as tomorrow evening. I want you to see this orange area that is lit up here. This is the potential psps area. You can see this is probably the largest weve seen so far. Pg e ceo and president bill johnson said it would likely affect the peninsula, east bay, and north bay in the bay area. I will zoom in again so i can call out some of the cities that could be impacted here. Were looking at lafayette, orinda, san leandro, castro valley. No word how many people could be affected. Winds are forecasted to gust between 40 and 60 Miles Per Hour over most elevated t d terrain northern california. He said the utility is at elevated potential for a new shutdown in 8 of the 9 zones. Pg e serays peak gusts may be 7 to 80 Miles Per Hour. The possible outage could stretch into monday. Jobina, thanks. Lets continue our Team Coverage of those upcoming Power Outages. Lauren martinez joins us live from the east bay. Good morning, lauren. Good morning. More than 120,000 Contra Costa County residents could be impacted by the shutoffs that last from tomorrow night into monday afternoon. The list includes walnut creek, lafayette, orinda. The likelihood of the outages is because of the extreme fire conditions as jobina was mentioning, those are expected this weekend. Thousands of people in Alameda County could be affected. Luckily b. A. R. T. Stations all have their own power supplies, so theyll still be up and running during an outage. Again, these shutoffs will possibly begin tomorrow night starting at 10 00 p. M. And lasting until monday afternoon at 2 00 p. M. Im lauren martinez, abc7 news. The bay area air Quality Management district says heavy smoke from that fire is expected to drift into the bay area today. Even if you cant see it, it doesnt mean that its not a health hazard. Particulate matter pollution is invisible to the naked eye because the particles are so small, they can bypass your lungs natural defense systems, just because you cant see the smoke doesnt mean you wont be impacted. Children, seniors, people with asthma are most vulnerable. Doctors recommend that people stay inside when its smoky, avoid exercising outdoors and make sure you use air filters. The district declared a spare the air day today. Speaking of lisa argen, she is watching the latest on the pg e Power Outages. This will be more widespread and last longer. The air quality now, the green dots indicate the good air quality. This will be changing throughout the day as smoke drifts down. You can see the south bay looking at moderate air quality as well as parts of the north bay. Temperatures are still on the mild side. Certainly cooler than yesterday with the 70s at half moon bay. 59 in oakland. Our 24hour temperature change looks like this. How about 22 degrees cooler in novato. 26 degrees cooler in santa rosa. Relative humidity is up this morning. 30 to 46 . Much better than we were yesterday at this time. We are looking at that high wind watch from late saturday mighni coinciding with that is the high fire have today, a day to enjo before we anticipate whats in store, which will be these gusty winds here right on through the second half of the weekend. Today highs will be slightly cooler than yesterday. Still lots of 80s out there. Good morning san rafael. Looking very light out there on 101 right now. Thats pretty much what were seeing across the bay area this rn odews on this friday. Bay, san jose, 87. In the south very light as well. I have not seen many cars down there this morning. Just a quick look at our drive times here, tracy to dublin, 24 minutes. Antioch to concord, 13 minutes. San rafael to san francisco, 17 minutes. All green this morning. Just want to keep touching on this for anyone curious about whats going on in the north bay, state route 128 between geyserville avenue and woodleaf is still closed this morning. No word on when that will reopen. Of course we know that emergecy responders are focused on the fire efforts. The road opening will come muc when i have an asthma attack. I feel like a fish with no water. Learn how to prevent your childs next asthma attack. Because even one attack is one too many. The time is 4 15. Here are the areas under mandatory evacuation orders because of the kincaid fire. The entire town of geyserville and areas east stretching past highway 128 into Black Mountain and mercuriville. Cloverdale, geysers, geyser red winery, alexander valley, moody lane and pine flat roads. There are three open evacuation centers. One at the Sonoma County fair grounds in santa rosa, thats available for you and your large animals. A second is across the street at the veterans memoril building. This is where you can take small animals and pets. The smird is healthird is heald community center. Evacuees have taken their livestock with them to the sonoma fair grounds. About 45 animals have been brought to the fair grounds so far. This pig, matilda, was getting picked up by her owners to get moved to another location. The site is base camp for cal fire and sonoma sheriffs to work together. The focus right now is on getting the fire out. The winds have subsided, were anticipating significant winds again this weekend. So were bringing a ton of firefighters into this community to get as much containment on this fire as possible. Horses, we have some mules, a donkey, we have some goats. We think there might be some alpacas coming in. The fair grounds is for livestock only though. People with regular pets can go across the street. If you have driven on highway 12 in kenwood you know theres a lot of wineries and restaurants there. Many of them were without power because of the forced pg e shutdown. It was a slow day because of it. Pg e is warning of another wind event tomorrow night into sunday morning which may require even more power shutoffs. That, of course s bad news for wineries. Chateau st. Jeans manager said they have a generator which was purchased after the 2017 fires. The winery is known for hosting a lot of weddings and other events. Actually bring in additional generators just for the various spaces around the property in case there cant support all of that. St. Annes crossingss owner put up a sign to let people know his winery is open for business. The time is 4 15. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Lisa, i know youve been tracking the winds. Hopefully the lull will last as long as possible . Yeah. We are certainly in this time of year where the events are building on one another. This one, yes, it is going to be a bigger one. We made it through the last one. Were still thinking of those folks up in the north bay. But unfortunately the weather pattern is setting up similar. In fact, right now live doppler 7 showing you the clear sky. We widen the perspective. A big dom of High Pressure overhead is beginning to move slightly to the east of us. As that does, were looking at slightly cooler temperatures today. So that will help out somewhat. Looking at numbers now up in the north bay near geyserville, 62. Relative humidity 21 . Thats certainly better than we were yesterday in the single digits. The northeast wind at 2. Really no gusts up there. Otherwise we are looking at numbers around the bay much cooler this morning. 51 in san ramon. 59 in oakland. 50 in novato. The hottest day has moved beyond us until we get to the breezy winds. It will be cool as we get into the weekend. The winds will take us into the direction of the strong offshore flow. San jose today, upper 80s. Upper 80s in the south bay. 75 on sunday. The temperatures continue that downward trend. So well be looking at sunshine the next several days. Saturday, sunday and monday, very little change from daytoday with numbers in and around the 70s in the city. The inland east bay will be in the 80s for the most part. Good morning. Always amazing for me to see so many people out there on the roads. 4 17 right now. Things are clear in emeryville. We want to show you a live look here of traffic moving very smoothly across the bay area. Now down to the san mateo bridge, we can see the same thing. Nice and early starters for this friday morning. Headed off hopefully to get an early start on their weekend. A look at the drive times. Tracy to dublin, 26 minutes. Dublin to mission boulevard, 14 minutes. Highway 101 to cupertino, 15 minutes. All green all good this morning. Theres been a lot of strong images of the kincaid fire in Sonoma County. All of these are from ken porter with the Santa Rosa Press democrat. Here people are standing outside their home. Theyre waiting and watching the fire creep up above alexander valley. We can see the fire pushing over fire breaks bof that same valley. People in their cars trying to get out as it burns around them. Then theres this. This picture of what looks like a fire whirl. This happens when hot, dry air near the ground rises quickly and a column forms a vortex. And this picture of strong winds creating what is called an ember wash from an oak tree. Were not out of the woods yet. As weve been telling you, pg e is warning about new Power Outages over the when i have an asthma attack. I feel scared. Sometimes my parents have to take me to the hospital. I feel like a fish with no water. You know how to react to their asthma attacks. Heres how to prevent them. Call. Visit. Or call your doctor. Because. Waking up to clear skies here. It is cooler across the state today. Well be looking at a lot of sunshine. A little haze in there as well. Numbers in the low 80s in monterey. So still pretty warm there. Upper 80s in sacramento. Heading to the mountains, plenty of sunshine with 70s there. Temperatures coming down through the 60s. By sunday, even the mountains getting much cooler with highs in the upper 30s. Overnight lows teens and 20s. Look at this vantage point. What youre seeing, this is video from a window on the Sonoma County Sheriffs Department helicopter. You can see that thin line of flames from the fire lining the ridgetop from Late Wednesday night. With the elevated fire danger researchers at San Jose State University are keeping an eye on the forecast and how some of the changing weather conditions this weekend could impact the general public. Researchers at the Fire Weather Research lab just returned from Sonoma County after getting rare access to the front lines of the kincaid fire. Using state of the art technology, the professor says the Data Collected will be useful in the long run. This helps us better understand future fires and changing climate with the more extreme conditions we need to understand the extreme fire behavior. Theres no way do it except probing inside the fire. Clements says that modeling tools and observations with wind profilers could limit power shutoffs in the future. All right. Waking up to clear conditions. Heres a look at live doppler 7. Looking at not only a cooler day today, but we do have some haze out there. Spare the air alert. Poor air quality throughout the entire bay area. Some of that smoke will drift down from the kincaid fire here. Relative humidity going up. We are back to 43 up in santa ro rosa. Yesterday we were at 7 , 8 . East bay doing better. A bit of an onshore push today. Then conditions should stay good through saturday morning. Saturday might things get a little dry. Our winds will pick up. Thats a look at a portion of your saturday. The camera shaking a bit here. Its 68 in san francisco. Back to the 50s from redwood city. Good visibility here, but a little hazy today and a cooler start out there. A cooler finish also. Jobina . Good morning. Overall our bridges are looking very good this morning. I want to take you now live look here to the richmondsan rafael bridge, theres basically no one on it right now. If you are thinking about hopping on, now would be a good time. Its super clear there. And same thing going at the golden gate bridge. Just now starting to see a few cars trickle over the bridge. Earlier this morning it was completely empty. Amazing the sights you can see overnight and into the early morning. Antioch to hercules, 25 minutes. Highway 4 to the maze, 13 minutes. Highway 85 to the san jose airport, 7 minutes. I just want to keep reminding people this morning because we were covering the sigalert all day yesterday throughout our breaking news coverage, state route 128 between geyserville avenue and woodleaf is closed. It will not be reopening soon because of the Emergency Responders working on their efforts to get that fire out. Thanks. At least 50,000 people have been ordered to evacuate from neighborhoods north of los angeles. The tick fire, as you can see here, has burned several homes in the Santa Clarita area. In just three hours the fire grew to just under 4,000 acres with 5 containment. Crews are battling a winddriven fire that erupted along highway 18 in San Bernardino. It prompted mandatory and voluntary evacuations of nearly 100 homes. So far no structures have been destroyed. The old water fire has burned 75 acres and is 30 contained. An emergency power shutoff is in effect in six Southern California counties but nothing like in the north part of the state. Southern california edison shut off power to more than 19,000 customers in kern, riverside, los angeles, San Bernardino and ventura due to strong winds. Ou 260,000 others for consider for shutoff. Once homes now gutted, the growing impact of the wildfire thats raging out of control in Sonoma County. And were learning new details about how the kincaid fire may have begun. Pg e is right in the middle of it. The abc 7 iteam investigates. Hmm. [cell phone bps] hey [police whistle blows] [horns honking] woman hey [bicycle bell rings] turn here. There. Excuse me. Uh. Uh. [indistinct announcement on p. A. System] so, same time next week . Well, of course. Announcer put away a few bucks. Feel like a million bucks. For free tips to help you save, go to feed the pig an allout battle is on as hundreds of firefighters try to get the upper hand on the kincaid fire raging in Sonoma County. The factors facing them right now is the weather and the terrain. This fire burning amid a pg e power shutoff. This is aimed at preventing its equipment sparking more fires. Jobina, i know youll have the latest on the outages, when people will get power fully restored. Pg e is saying they have 93 of customers with power back on, but were still waiting for people in the north bay right now. Of course the weather conditions really not conducive so keeping fire at bay. No. We have about a 36hour break where the winds and the weather are working in our favor before things change again. Already the watches, warnings, advisories up for the saturday night event which promises to be stronger. We have that ridge of High Pressure, thats moving off to the east. Right now air quality is moderate in the south bay and north bay. You can see those greens. Looking good now, that should be changing throughout the day as we see some of that
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