Yet another string of high winds dry conditions over the next couple of days. Thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis for the north bay mountains, this is the second red flag warning to be issued this week so lets go ahead kick it off here with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow he is tracking the dangerous weather conditions out there for us laurent boy it is been a long fire season right now theres no end in sight in fact these winds going to be picking up in fact i think these are red flag warnings are in effect so far feel friday but theyre going to be in effect all the way i think until the weekend weve got a series of wind events that are going to be affecting the bay area and boy it is going to howl around parts of the bay area. Look at the winds expected over the Santa Cruz Mountains this between now and friday, the red flag warnings up even along the coastline, 3040 mile an hour wind gusts probably some 50 mile an hour wind gusts o
About 37,000 customers. Across 15 Northern California counties that they could be losing power. Of the 15 counties 5 hour here in the bay, they are alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma. More than 4,000 customers in the bay area could be affected here. Napa county appears to be hit the hardest the most customers in the bay area affected are in napa some of the outages have already started but most of them are expected as we move through the overnight hours pg and e says the hot and dry weather combined with really high wind gusts pose an increased risk for damage to their electrical system that has the potential to start fires can you want to be on guard. We have Team Coverage for you tonight, Lawrence Karnow is in the Weather Center. Monitoring the red flag warning that goes into effect in about an hour but first we turn to kron fours gayle ong who is live tonight in where people are preparing for another round of shut off scale. Grant and vicki nearly 3300 pg e customers a
Continue. Throughout the evening and the overnight hours lets take a look now at the outage map from pgd so we can see exactly the affected areas. This is the future outlook of where the power will be going awful zoom in on the north bay napa county will be impacted the most. Heres the big sections that will be losing power again at some point overnight tonight. This includes all around calistoga and also just to the west of saint zooming down now into the east bay well see thats some parts of Contra Costa County will be losing power just to the west of danville and also in this section here just to the west of san ramon going down a little further south. Again this is the part that will be losing power at some point overnight tonight this is in the south bay. Current outages, well just take a quick look an or a purple triangle be showing us the outages that are power shut off related and so far none in the bay area were just waiting now for the power to be turned off. Now according to
Mid 80s in San Francisco and 90 in oakland and upper 90s for san jose and 108 in concord. We have excessive heat warnings and heat advisories that will be in effect from 11 00 a. M. Today all the way through wednesday 9 00 p. M. And thats for most of the bay area except for the immediate coastline. So this will be a prolonged heat wave for us. Here in the bay area. Well talk more about what you can expect as we head through the next several days where you live, coming up in a few minutes. And due to the dangerous heat, state officials have issued a statewide flex alert for today. Were all being asked to voluntarily conserve energy between 3 00 and 10 00 p. M. If you need a place to cool off, there are several cooling centers around the bay area. Palo alto will be open from 1 00 this afternoon until 6 00. And cooling centers will also be available in san jose at may Fair Community center. The Camden Center on union avenue. You can also stop by the Roosevelt Center and doors open at 1 00
Yesterday and the day before the northbound side had delays. Use bay shore boulevard and no problem at the oakland side at the bay bridge, laura. Back over to you. Thanks so much, mike. Breaking news in San Francisco, the fbi says a former college researcher who lied about her connections to the Chinese Military is seeking refuge at the chinese consulate. Last fall she received a nonimmigrant visa to do research at uc davis. The last month the fbi says it became aware of her connections to the u. S. Military and charging her with visa fraud. This as the u. S. Announces the closure of the u. S. Cconsulate houston. Video shows workers burning papers in the buildings court yard. Some progress this morning in washington where lawmakers are up against the deadline on the new Coronavirus Relief plan. Next week, emergency Unemployment Benefits are set to run out. Today in the bay tracie potts live for us with what weve learn from overnight. Tracie . Marcus, overnight we learned that republica