Lot of us have had these shut for its nothing new but while we have seen it. There are no less frustrated as for sure many residents now are a bit more prepared kron fours dan kerman was in santa rosa, he has that part of the story tonight. This is a typical intersection that youre seeing east of santa rosas downtown lights are out stop signs in place, but just one of the many frustrations for those who are living in the power outage areas. I think this is going to be the new norm. Santa rosa residents have seen it all before pacific gast and electric shutting off power so adverse weather conditions dont down power lines and start a wildfire after living through this 2017 2018 2019. We know exactly what to do. But knowing what to do doesnt mean santa rosa residents are happy about it i blame lot of the staff on kg me i really do. Sorry but i do. Theyve had since 2017 to get their act together this man and his family run santa rosas urban pizza company. He says covid19 has already been tough on Small Businesses now hes dealing with the power outage i got to run a small generator try to keep all my 5 for perjury. Going. Those who live in this area are finding streetlights out atm is not functioning and coffee shops closed and for some its just become too much i dont want to stick around too longer. Its been a pretty rough but going in another year of this. Trying to save up get out of here to be honest for its part pg e says the installation. Of sexualizing Technology Allows them to better pinpoint trouble areas. Which not only reduces the amount of homes without power, but speeds up the restoration process for those whose power has been cut. Where before we would have to manually maybe go switch off the line or go turn on the line manually we cant do that now remotely with Digital Technology on the lie, so that all speeds up the process and makes these psa test events much shorter at this point pacific gas and electric expecting most of the power in the bay area to be restored. By wednesday evening. In santa Rosa Dan Kerman Kron 4 news. Again we are awaiting that pg and e up day we will go to that live when it begins meantime that red flag warning still in effect in the bay area our chief meteorologist or scarletts here in morris, if youre down close to sea level you may not notice much wind at all but as you get higher it really starts to pick up doesnt it and of course most of us live right down right around sea level tso lot of folks are wondering well why are they shutting off the power, you know you look at some of the winds around the bay area right now petaluma got a very light wind at 3 Miles Per Hour 9 in the napa 9 in of little, but its really over the mountain tops were seeing some of those gusty winds and thats where the red flag warnings have been posted up over the mountain tops you can see right here the in shannon hills, those winds now over 20 Miles Per Hour without over 30 Miles Per Hour. You see there toward atlas peak some of those winds blowing up over 3034 Miles Per Hour. And thats the concern were seeing some of those winds get very gusty over the mountain tops and of course, some of those power lines from pg roll over the tops of those mountains should those get knocked down of course worried about a fire Getting Started in those kind of conditions so red flag warnings still posted in the Santa Cruz Mountains above a 1000 feet say with the east bay hills the Oakland Hills double range look at some gusty winds overnight tonight, least one more round at least until tomorrow morning then things begin to subside as you look towards Solano County also some gusty winds there as well 25 to 40 Miles Per Hour. And the north bay 35 to 45 with maybe some gusts over 50 Miles Per Hour across some of the mountain peaks. All right lawrence, thank you very much as you mentioned pg need providing an update about the power shutoffs that are happening in the north danielle lets listen in. And thats to kind of continue the red flag warning because we will see another up he can win seasonal break that down for you in a second here. So this event is very dynamic and i kind want to break down a few the elements of the first is that were kind of sitting in a lot between the waves of this weather event we saw the first wave overnight last night early this morning across the Sierra Nevada and north were in right now were kind of in a know a lot between the ways we do expect a second peak in winnings overnight tonight. And lasting through early tomorrow morning across Northern California before diminishing. As second element i want to mention is that the offshore winds that we have of the seattle winds that brought in a very dry air mass across the state of california. Right now if you look across the state relative humidities are running in the teens to a Single Digits in areas and you know as we know that education is it is extremely dry out there and some susceptible to mission and we expect those dry conditions to continue overnight. Were not going to see much in the way of humidity recoveries and so that education is we go into tomorrow is going to still be very susceptible to a new fire additions. And so the other kind of the element here is that in local areas where we do not expect the winds arena to realize earlier today we were able to issue the weather all clear in a some localized locations to begin to restore and restoration process and Additional Information believes going to be provided later in this briefing on those areas. Another element to is that we do expect santa santa ana winds to develop across southern california. This evening so into tomorrow morning as well and so we do expect. South winds to flow over that a hatchet peas and into out of the southern part of the san joaquin valley. And the timing on those winds, its looking like theyll start to ramp up about 08 00pm this evening continue overnight before diminishing tomorrow morning. And just quick note is that other utilities to the south of us are also considering p s p s to those santa ana winds as well. So the Meteorology Team here is going to continue to track conditions and weather overnight as the second wave arrives in the santa ana winds develop across the south and well be the Emergency Operation center pgtv and intel they need to make informed decisions the weather going to all clear. In general the timing we expect to be out of this wind by tomorrow morning in some areas i think winds across the south may last year about 10 00am tomorrow but things are looking much better afternoon. Tomorrow and then right now looking at some of the longrange models we dont see an event on the horizon for at least the next week after this. And so today we did continue to collaborate with the federal forecast agencies we work closely with the National Weather service, another forecast agencies and like i mentioned those red flag warnings are going to remain in effect through tomorrow. And another forecast agencies also recognize the period that were in and just to name a few like the northern and southern Geographic AreaCoordination Center showing iris and significant fire potential at least lasting through wednesday. And so thats really my weather briefing, ill turn it back over to you lindsay. Okay i want to read a couple of the highlights that i heard were still under arrest side warning here in major parts of california still were seeing on low relative human humidity and dry vegetation on the grounds we do have the allclear in some localities in our service area. And hes i heard was that he can see another. Wind event forecasted over the next 7 days is that about right. Yeah, you got you got that all you know one thing add is that you know this continues to be a very dynamic situation were monitoring very closely but all those planes are right on. Some think traffic. Thanks so lets get an operational briefing now from our Incident Commander mark quinlan mark what can you tell us tonight. Thank you lindsay good evening, everybody im mark women here with an operational curly as of the start of this briefing we have roughly 167,000 customers i resulting from the Public Safety power shutoffs we began the energizing. All of those customers last evening at approximately 09 00pm and we continue that evolution all the way through the morning it was a staggered type of the energy is asians sequence. Report that it was completed safely without any types of the impacts to the larger grid in california or to the interconnection you can see primarily is in the northern portion of our Service Territory covers 21 counties in 7 tries. One thing that reference to his remarks was the ability to adjust jaime on the county which is sort of our south of our Service Territory. When we safely d energize the system. The Emergency OperationCenter Pivots to me name of the weather conditions continuously throughout the and we see changes in the weather we change with the weather so the first thing if youre able to do was noticed at kern county area the scope which is south our Service Territory. They were was scheduled to be a shot off and 02 00pm this afternoon or 1400 hours. But the weather conditions change we expect the winds to come but we expect them later so we were able to delay rest are are delayed the emergence asian until 07 00pm this evening or 19 around and we just great to doing that to be successful in that effort. Along the line of changing weather conditions were also monitoring the system monitoring the wind speeds us got its got throughout the day we noticed 2 specific areas to where we could declare a weather all clear earlier than anticipated. The first areas the Northern AreaService Territory in the humble siskiyou counties theres a section in scope there we no longer believe that there is or whether threat the winds are no longer on state levels so we proceeded with the controlling the process and the restoration process in those 2 counties. And then in the southern sierra part of the scope that you can see on the righthand side of the slide specifically along the in calaveras counties. Theres a block of customers ranging between 30 to 35,000 customers we believe can be able to be restored so were in the process of doing that work. Disadvantage with the time of day is a running out of daylight the sun will be able to fly or helicopters in those specific areas we do have ships in the air now that they will be sunset and we will continue the the patrolling a process and the incremental restoration process to the until we are at first light where we can get the air fleet back in the year. So the next slide mitigations that weve been able to establish avoid customer interruptions to the tuna 70,000 customers, the most significant block of effort is really in the humble county we have a generating station there that has the ability to be placed into an island configuration in cherry all of the customers and serve them necessitating shutdown even though the transmission lines that flow into humble county from the grave been listening to a live News Conference from pg e giving us the latest on their power shut off due to the fire dangers across california. Right now 167,000 customers do not have power in 21 counties and 7 tribal areas in california 70,000 people customers rather and humble county still have the power on because they have a separate generator system that can keep those people howard. Sonoma and napa counties are the they mention of course a second wave of peak winds that are expected to come overnight across Northern California lasting through the morning. Those offshore diablo winds with this relatively a low humidity. So thats a very major concern is why the red flag warnings are in they updates will continue will also have the latest on our website at kron 4 dot com. We a fastmoving fires still burning in Fresno County is now destroyed more than a 143,000 acres and is still growing the fires led to evacuations. Even a number risky air rescues number of different areas there. Yeah, the creek fire as its called expands adair county are also under an evacuation warning and thats where we find john slimmer and tonight shes with our sister station in fresno johnson, thank you for joining us, we know understand when curse area in Madera County where the red cross has an evacuation point but its being moved kind of bring us up to date. Yeah so weve been here for a couple of hours we saw people who are evacuating come here and we were just told a couple of minutes ago that this temporary evacuation point is now being moved to another location is called the Mariposa County fairgrounds is about 30 minutes away but as i said we have been talking to several people theres a lot of uncertainty but a lot of people are also telling us that theyre just grateful to be safe as of right now. Im trying to keep a really positive attitude. And a strong faith. A smoke fills the air in oakhurst residents preparing to evacuate many jones arrived at the red cross temporary Evacuation Center in the Oakhurst Community center on tuesday afternoon to see what help she could get i told my son he wanted to take his guitar. I got him for his last birthday and if we its one thing if we have around but. I can always buy you another that are. You are not replaceable the dogs. Its not replaceable packing up the most valuable all too familiar for some residents northfork president Peter Matthew says this is the 5th time hes had to evacuate. But this one feels different this fire is. Larger faster and much smoke here than any that weve seen up here in recent years the Madera CountySheriffs Office reminding residents in evacuation warning means be prepared and be ready to go for turns into a in order. Youre not going have hours and you have minutes to to get out so i would strongly recommend that people are ready right now many worried about their friends and neighbors im in a position of safety now is just worrying about all my neighbors and friends and making sure that they got other animals out and themselves out. And the last update that we got this fire the creek fire is that a 144 close to 144,000 acres with 0 containment now the Sheriffs Office here is this really urging people in areas with evacuation warnings dont wait be prepared be prepared and ready to live here in Madera County da summer and back to you dan johnson, how have those 7 movements been going on with the evacuations. I know thats just twolane mountain roads up there. Are people able to get around and get where they have to to get to safety. Now weve really been here in Madera County yesterday today we were in north fort yesterday and its its really a fast moving situation yesterday in north fort weaver, there 20 minutes later that morning had turned into an order now Madera County curse where the temporary evacuation point was located there telling us if theyre able to move people to the county fairgrounds there assisting people people also have pets here chickens and theyre really assisting them to make sure that they can get to the other temporary evacuation point safely. So joslin as you have moved through the area kind of describe the scene for with you being there firsthand. Its just really really smoky here the area of oakhurst the town is extremely smoky. North port yesterday when we were there it was really hard to breathe. We have our masks on. Today i will say driving up here the smoke was little bit better not too many ashes, but again its still very smoking this area really under an evacuation warning ashes you can see ashes on cars as well. But just really the smoke is a problem in this area of oakerson lot of mandera county. Reporting for us live in the bexar county stay safe. Thank you for that report appreciate it. Im back here at home repairs underway to fully restore an important pipeline damaged in the czu lightning complex fires that supplies water for thousands of people in Boulder Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains as kron fours rob fladeboe tells us the only way to get the pipe to the remote work site was by helicopter. This was downtown Boulder CreekTuesday Morning as a helicopter airlifted heavy duty replacement pipe to remote job site in the fire zone, a nearby been lowman mountain at the controls was veteran pilot glenn smith whos been fighting wildfires in oregon. You know i guess the filter out of water pipes burn up in the fire. So we were happy to come down. And help them out with but new pipes and we work out here where were from southern cal we were up in oregon fires up there and so then we got the call to come down here now about the heavy duty polyethylene pipe will replace 7. 2 miles of pipe destroyed by the czu lightning complex fire. Cutting off the water supply to thousands of customers of the cellar and valley water district. More worrisome though was the potential for contamination from the burned pipe leading to a do not drink order says the districts rick rogers, vast majority of our do are in a good good area. We only have a small area of about 500 connections in the higher reaches where fire impacted the water system. The most. All right i do not drink bottled water is available until the all clear is given the water is back on now for most customers but some residents fearing more fire were a little unnerved when they first heard the helicopter flying so low over town, i thought maybe it was of another spot fire or fire all the neighbors are up there going what the hecks going on. I saw the cable on the copter another state game. Must be a bucket on the other and theyre gathering water. The vietnam era huey helicopter made 11 round trips in 52 minutes, pilots smith who has been doing this for 40 years says he was a little more tricky than dumping water on a wildfire giving credit to his ground crew. Well these guys made it look easy they had everything done ahead of time even as well prepped the citizens helped us out they evacuated their houses they those close streets off and they have acted all area made a go pretty fast for us otherwise it would a lot more difficult than it was in Boulder Creek rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Coming up 5 bay area counties can now allow more reopenings details on the new tier and what will be allowed another big story we are following 5 california counties are now listed in the second of red reopening tier under the states new Monitoring System here in the bay area 3 bay area counties are now in the substantial risk level indicated here in red san francisco, an apple were already in tier 2 Santa Clara County was just added to the reds here along with Santa Cruz County under the red to your more business sectors can reopen Santa Clara County for example will now allow personal Care Services to reopen indoors that includes nail salons gyms can open indoors at 10 capacity shopping malls to but at 50 capacity and if the county stays in the red to year for 14 days k through 12 schools can reopen. Meanwhile in the north bay, a setback for county. Had announced his plan to move from tier one to tier 2 but last night the state delay that move keep the marin county in the most restrictive status today, california officials explained why. We did the official romney yesterday with the marine county data as we did with all 58 counties. The anticipated move to read is really being held back in and they met threshold for her both the last thing we want to do is see a county move. One week. And only to see the potential for backward movement again very soon. State officials said they made the decision after re analyzing but they are also considering data as it comes in and well adjust marin county status if necessary. Under arrest on the 10 year right now because the coming up at 6. 45 a jogger who was detained by deputies because he fit a description of a suspect. Why the sheriff is now offering the man a job. And next at 6. 30 the fire season hit new records with more than 2 million acres burned what