In california. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. Im julie haener. For some, it is a second night in the dark as pg e tries to avoid setting any catastrophic fires from its equipment. We have the timetable to get the lights back on. Remake the utility is sticking to its forecast. Winds die by tomorrow morning, then day long inspections and repairs. And if no surprises, powerback sometime tomorrow evening. This is what we are going to be dealing with for the next over 24 hours. Reporter santa rosas Oakmont Retirement Community is in the heart of the power ou smiling while plopping. Figuri this Fire Prevention blackout wont be the last. We are supposed to have these 50 to 60 mile an hour winds this morning, they havent developed as of now. Reporter pg e says the wind did materialize at higher elevations. A 66 mileperhour gust recorded on mount st. Helena. What the heck is pg e doing . What have they done to help with the situation . Reporter the owner of oakmonts market sold 300
Thanks for joining us on kron 4 news at 3 im noelle bellow just over 6 months since shelterinplace orders began california is seeing widespread improvement. An infection levels at the same time the nation and california are about to mark some grim milestones in the pandemic the United States is on the brink of reaching 200,000 deaths in the coronavirus pandemic right now there are little more than 199,743 deaths and more than 6 million cases have been reported across the country here at home that grim nationwide milestone comes as california and statewide covid19 numbers continue to improve governor Gavin Newsome provided an update this afternoon. He says the state has averaged about 3400 cases over a sevenday period. The latest numbers showing the low that with just under 3300 cases reported yesterday. Now the governor says on average theyre conducting more than 100,000 tests a day and with the number of testing going up the Positivity Rate is going down over the last 7 days weve have
Area. Both towers of the Golden Gate Bridge are visible today as we move it to moderate air quality. Thank you for joining us at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the smoke from the wildfires have choked our skies and theyve now reached the other side of the country in this picture. You can see how the smoke has been distributed across the United States. The National Weather service says the smoke was caught in a jet stream and was carried across the u. S. And into the east coast want to check in on condition this hour with our meteorologist dave spahr dave is this a better air that were seeing or is it going to be changing again as weve seen in the last few days, whats got a little better you pointed out and it will continue that trend it looks like as we get later on during the week with the promise front. How about this live shot to this but looking good all of this afternoon out of Half Moon Bay doesnt look very inviting shadows been a little darker more stark going on for today. Now we do have
Fresh air get out there and enjoy it for today starting off with some patchy fog along the coast and right around the bay and even a gray start for the inland locations with the sea breeze kicking in for us. The daytime highs 86 in concord and looking at 82 in san jose and 74 in oakland and 68 for San Francisco. A fire weather watch with critical fire weather conditions for saturday and 11 00 a. M. Until 8 00 a. M. On monday. From north bay mountains and east bay hills and interior valleys and talk more about the high fire danger for the weekend coming up in a few minutes. Now lets check in with gianna for the latest on the dry through the Altamont Pass. Its been a tough one this morning mary. A broken down big rig at greenville. The drive times are improving. However, i am now getting word of a brand new trouble spot. Westbound 580 at the 205 connector. Already busy anyway coming out of tracy as you work just past north flynn with your drive times now at 41 minutes. So thats actually
23rd straight spare the air last 12 hours. Why the lights are on in hopefully that improves our air downtown calistoga, they had a alert. Quality as well. The advice as the poor air the fire is burning towards the grid installed a while back that well be monitoring that. Quality lingers. Mike, how is it looking right would provide power for as many now for the commute . Today in the bay continues right now. As 600 customers. Southwest and as far and as fast a very business wednesday kari, weve had a change morning. The downtown area does have im lragarcia. Over in the trivalley. And im marcus washington. As that fire is moving embers we have to start with power. Its over my shoulder but i want meteorologist kari hall with a are flying out ahead of it a couple blocks out and it is to show you the live camera. Look at this forecast after 23 setting fire before the flames very dark. Cierra johnson for today in the its starting to show a backup even reach. Bay. Resources are stretched extr