Without power. At the height of the shutoff, 345,000 customers had their power turned off. Most areas are expected to have their lights turned on today. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live in orinda this morning with how residents are dealing with this and also businesses. Good morning, amy. Hi, jobina. You cant help but feel bad for the businesses and i ammic looilo looking at them in orinda and a second day and morning of not being able to light. Its the same situation in lafayette and also in moraga. Their downtown areas do not have power and, of course, some homes also have had their lights turned out. We have seen Grocery Stores bring in lights to stay in business. Some people are frustrated. You can go on nextdoor and read how hard this is for people as they try to distance learn and work without power. The Hardware Store now say they plan for these. After last years one we restocked and held stock on things like generators and cords for generators, oil for y generators and
The race for president is far from over. A live look at ballot counting in philadelphia. Heres faith abubey in d. C. Reporter good morning. This morning millions of ballots are still being counted all across the country and it looks like this race is going to be decided in three key battleground states. Overnight former Vice President joe biden in williams, dewilli l delaware. We believe were on track to win this election. Reporter biden performing as expected, as vote counts roll in across the country. Its not over until every vote is counted, every mroballos counted. Were feeling good about where we are. Reporter the former Vice President boosted by the west coast, taking california, oregon and washington, and biden now leading in arizona. The state of florida has 29 electoral votes and it will go to donald trump. Reporter trump taking all of floridas 29 electoral votes and performing well in rural areas. As votes are still being counted, trump in an Early Morning speech falsely clai
Alameda county and john scher able is in the Weather Center were going go to you first for the details john yeah guys it is a nice morning but setting us up for what will be a return of hot dry and windy weather thats the 3rd factor there thats kicking back into gear today resulting in this concern yet again. A beautiful morning look at this view over see chart our just savor that for one minute right there. We are seeing some clear skies out the distance and a nice little bit marine influence this morning that school bus off overnight now as we make our way through the next few days we have 2 rounds of advisories that are going to take effect in peach. These are areas that will be under fire weather watches starting tomorrow and lasting through friday likely to become red flag warnings areas that are already in red are areas that are under red flag warning starting today and lasting through 08 00am tomorrow. These upper elevations and marin and sonoma counties all of lake in most of n
Of potential outages right now. Amy hollyfield live in danville with more on this. Amy . Hi, yes. We are in a highrisk area. This is stone valley and green valley road. This neighborhood has been alerted that the lights may be getting turned off as early as tomorrow night. So, this is the section of Contra Costa County that is under the warning. Other county sections of these counties have been alerted by pg e. Alameda, napa, santa clara and sonoma. Residents in marin county are dealing with the closure of fairfax. Residents there tell us they will deal with road closures and outages if that is what needs to be done to keep people safe. It can be a busy road with people going through to the beach here but its never terrible. Its not like the road to stenson. Its a back way. But definitely less traffic when the gate is closed. People who live on this road or any open space area, were all thinking about it every day. So, we appreciate the red flag warnings. Definitely disappointed this i
Thank you sir, lets check in on the traffic taking a peek at the morning commute around the bay area looking good moving well with no big trouble spots working. Around the bay area right now we are hot spot free. Were taking a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, the trip into San Francisco remains nice and smooth and thats how we like it right you dont have to worry about any issues so nows your chance to come on in since were on hot spot free its going to be roughly a 6 to 10 minutes to make it off to the fremont street exit all right over to 92 always are bza ce most crowded bridge a lot of stop and go traffic westbound on the right leaving hayward working your way over to the peninsula but i dont see any problems and thats good news. Its just a little sluggish on the flat section but you can handle that no problems into foster city or send the tail we have one more to look at and thats the richmond sandra fell west bound 5. 80 few cars there rolling through the pay gates an easy