Power cut off to try to prevent wildfires can planned to be in the dark into tomorrow night, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everyone im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis the Power Company announcing no changes for sonoma and napa county and their update tonight blaming critically dry conditions out there. This is an interactive map on pg es website shows exactly where the shut offs are happening at last check pg e reported that they turned off electricity to 167,000 customers across Northern California as part of what they call a Public Safety power shut off. 17,000 in Sonoma County most of which is in santa rosa and 5,000 in napa county and some of that in a in calistoga or sell sogomonian live in our newsroom tonight with when the power may come back on l a. Pg e is Incident Commander expects most of their customers will have their lights back on by the end of the day tomorrow with a widespread all clear in the morning. The weather is driving their decisionmaking taking a look at
Our wildfire coverage continues tonight with the deadly north complex fire burning in butte yuba and plumas counties that fire has killed at least 10 people including a 16 yearold boy. Kay recede joins us now from oroville in butte county was the latest k. Its smoking out here but search and rescue crews often face tougher conditions conditions. They train for. As the smoke and flames from the north complex continue to make their way through butte lewis and yuba counties, driving more and more families out the search and rescue team of the Butte County Sheriffs Office are heading in and the hopes of finding the many who remain missing and theyre theyre literally putting themselves in extreme has some of the areas that they were evacuating. Were just minutes away from being overrun by fire. Dennis schmidt is a member of the all volunteer organization. He says theyre all volunteer staff have faced some of the most challenging terrain in this wildfire. The biggest challenge is it just hap
Lotus and im Vicki Liviakis some gusty winds mean that any fire that has sparked a can spread rapidly chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here tracking those winds for us tonight want various he has some breaking down guys down below me the urban areas where most of us live not much in the way of wind 5 mile an hour winds in oakland youve got 6 right now in the nevada 6 in the petaluma but certainly up above. Its a completely different story in fact those winds getting very gusty across some of the mountain tops and thats what were concerned about thats red flag warnings have been posted weve seen winds over 30 almost 40 Miles Per Hour across some of the peaks in the north bay expected to pick up here as we head through the next few hours and probably top out about one 32 oclock in the morning. Before we watch the winds begin to subside so red flag warnings are posted of course we just had a record heat wave things very dry out there now weve got the gusty winds above a 1000 feet also
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Beyond. In the past seven days alone, we have dealt with the heatwave, dark skies, continued poor air quality, although while we are still responding to a global pandemic. Rectiv whher ne temporary rest from the poor air quality. Officials are over urging people to stay indoors as air quality is expected to get worse. Uni will be free today to make sure people have access to weather relief. As of now, the selma testing site will be closed due to poor air quality. Just look at all of that smoke across the bay area today. You can really see it. It is everywhere. San francisco, oakland, and san jose. Meteorologist mary lee has a closer look at our unhealthy conditions. Michelle, it is so bad out there. We are looking at air quality conditions unhealthy to hazardous today. It is even worse compared to yesterday. All of that heavy smoke really settling into the bay area down to the surface. You can see those purple dots, red, purple, maroon indicates unhealthy to hazardous air quality. Very