Burned. Ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. Firefighters are bringing in more resources ahead of sundays red flag warning. Start with abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. Strong wind storm. Could be the storongest of te season. Winds are not strong near the pope fire. Gusting to ten miles an hour, if stronger, would be harder to contain. Problem is the vegetation is so dry. Hopefully get it under control quickly. Winds in surrounding area may be gusting to 16 miles per hour, not that windy, but thats going to change. Red flag warning 11 00 a. M. Sunday to 11 00 a. M. Tuesday. Wind gusts over the ridges. 5 to 15 humidity, extreme fire danger. High wind watch sunday 4 00 p. M. Until 10 00 a. M. Monday. Entire bay area. Power outages, possible trees falling. Winds picking up 2 00 in the north bay, begins in hills and translates to the surface. Midnight monday over 40mileanhour winds at lower elevations. Ill be back with closer look at fire danger and winds coming up. Firefi
The key is to attack fire relatively small. Strike teams were also in place. The Immediate Response was helpful for early evacuations. We knew the vent was coming. Abl a lot of notice. Reporter strike teams could be disbanded saturday but not likely with record winds expected to return sunday. Hot, dry wind is probably the biggest problem with wildfires. Clearly the temperatures have come down but the wind combined with the dry fuels that we still have could present a very big problem for us. Reporter the strike teams will have a lot of help from cal fire in covering all this territory. Cal fire has already got extra staffing and equipment ready for this windy weekend. Live in san jose, robert honda, nbc bay area news. Thank you, robert. Were getting our first look at the east bay yous have them to help on the front lines. The chopper became fully certified to battle flames from the sky. Its already helped crews fight several fires over the past few weeks. We have lots of questions for
And another retired plumber had brought up in the place last february, just one month before the pandemic. 46 days in we found that we had a close and we were devastated. They wouldnt give us a pp loan because we werent in business long enough. Starting friday, a return to tighter restrictions. We are seeing cases connected to social gatherings as well as those indoor businesses where large number of people gathered together like restaurants. Reporter the county Health Officer says thats why theyre returning to restrictions. Outdoor bars without food must close. Retailers just returned a 50 capacity. Shopping mall courts, 25 . Gyms and Fitness Centers 10 and bowling alleys, Entertainment Centers and pools must close. Concerned there is some amount of coded fatigue going on where people are getting tired of the restrictions, tired of staying home, tired of wearing masks. That may be contributing to things as well. I think its a very sad thing we are back to red tier. I think people cove
Were talking about you know we get so accustomed to talking about how hot its going to be some going to be necessary so hot. But very dry and windy to breezy with all this as well and you heard party talking earlier about the red flag warning theres the Coverage Area the whole day. Waters edge to the inland valleys higher elevations, lower elevations and valleys am through 11 00am on monday gives us a good 24 hours plus on that warning period live shot coming in from half moon bay, russia deal with some cloud cover in even some localized fog in some areas to take the elevator fog a little bit. Bay area not too off the upper 50s going on the east bay shoreline 40s up to the north bay 54 San Francisco, 53 going on for can also for san jose giving you comparison sake, were a little cooler along the peninsula and up to the north bay. A little warmer in the east bays you can see by a couple degrees here. All right a wakeup forecast keeps some of those clouds and a little bit in the way that
Later this weekend so we are out of red flag warning territory for most of the bay area remaining spots to include Solano County as youre seeing in red right around fairfield in valais help as well as up into lake and portions of mendocino county. Now the gold on this map something entirely different. These are high wind watches that will take effect sunday lasting into monday as well be seeing some very strong winds to close out the weekend that is going to be concerning for us into sunday night but in tel then mostly just some breezy conditions and some noticeably cooler weather right now napa youre at 49 along with livermore also at 49 this morning maybe stepping outside and noticing that brisk feel to it definitely a cooler start for a few areas hayward Oakland Redwood city and fremont down into the 50s right now along with San Francisco at 56 degrees currently stay with us more in your forecast is still to come right now, lets get a look at traffic with rob and i know its still a