Holidays are certainly upon us. Oh, yeah. Ready for christmas . I am. Exactly 35 days until the holiday. The Tree Lighting ceremonies are starting up. A big one tonight at santana row. But thanksgiving first. One thing at a time. The weather more in a christmas mood . Feel more like the holidays today. Red flag warning and high fire danger for all of these areas shaded in red that includes our Higher Elevations above 1,000 feet. We will be tracking that as the winds pick up throughout the day. More on that in a few minutes. Mike, youre tracking a crash in oakland . Right. The one west 24 at telegraph. Its on the right side. This is westbound heading towards the bay bridge. No slowing shows up but a crash will have one lane blocked as crews arrive. Two people sadly death after this crash in napa county. Closed the highway in both directions. New video from the scene and happened a little after 2 00 a. M. Both victims were pronounced dead at the scene and no other injuries record. Highwa
Gayle. I cant imagine the emotions that friends and family are going through right now. Absolutely jr and justine this community was hit hard by this earlier today neighbors city and School Officials gathered at zeros Elementary School to show their support for the families of the 2 boys. In City Residents gather together sunday circle and prayer honoring the 2 boys shot and killed the day before book. The victims 1114 yearold boys this woman is the aunt of the 14 yearold are. Police say the boys were shot in the parking lot of cereals Elementary School just before one 30 saturday morning heartbroken family and friends left candles and flowers at the School Parking lot, the school where they once attended our 11 yearold just left for school and graduated and went on to middle school the 40 yearold i just saw him thursday in. I said hello and he actually did remember him and i asked him did he remember me so these are my kids away from home. Investigators say the boys were sitting in a
Reporter down this steep hill just north of ross. Where thequirrels look for food, sits this old wooden power pole. Its a potential disaster. We have been dodged it. In the 15 years hes lived here that poll and wildlife have teamed up to spark five grass fires. The squirrels climate up on the wires. Jumps from one wire to the next and are getting lek electrocuted. Hitting the ground and creating fires. He lives directly above the pole. He keeps a heavy duty garden hose handy fo fight the flames while waiting for firefighters. It would take one unlucky tyke to burn this building down. Pg e gave this statement to us. It reads in part. We plan on replacing the pole. Additionally all vertical conductors and connections will be covered when we replace the pole. This will help prevent faults from animal contact. Officials and residence have been told the new pole should be in place later this month. We have done as much as we can. What we need is pg e to follow through on the promise. More t
And Central California counties will lose power sometime today according to pg e. In the bay area Sonoma County will be hit the hardest with more than 28,000 pg e customers losing power starting around 3 pm. And napa county about 7500 will lose power and and San Mateo County more than 900 customers will lose power. Thats about double what pg e projected earlier however that outage is not expected to happen until Early Morning hours tomorrow. Lets talk about the weather conditions. Mark tamayo is monitoring a red flag warning. The red flag warning just kicked in for the north bay at 12 00. Its been in place and will be in place for the rest of today and into thursday. This will not be a strong, not as strong as the wind event we had two weeks ago but in the north and east bay lls we get high wind a 3040. The Santa Cruz Mountains around 35 Miles Per Hour and closer to sea level we could have wind around 2535 Miles Per Hour. The red flag warning come all the areas in red, that is in place
And solano counties. A second wave affected other areas this afternoon, but that was delayed until at least 8 00 when forecasted high winds did not materialize. The situation has left many residents and Business Owners frustrated and angry, but pg e is standing by its position. The safety of the residents is our high evident priority. Weve seen a higher risk due to Climate Change and we feel the Shutoff Program is an important way to help mitigate the risk of fires in our city. Morgan hill will have a 7 00 p. M. Curfew. Meantime oakland plans to keep nine schools closed again tomorrow. Of course, all of this is happening because of the wind, and we want to turn to abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. A lot of people are wondering where the winds are. They have every reason to ask that, dan and kristen. Take a look. Theyre picking up, gusting to 25 miles an hour. Red flag warning for the north bay, east bay, and Santa Cruz Mountains in effect right now until tomorrow. Were excelling w