Differently this time. The district will remain open. It canceled classes two weeks ago. Officials say not having school is disruptive and nothing can replace a teacher in front of the class. Pg e is saying the outage website will be ready to handle the load this time around. The site went down during the last shutoff. The company says it has an alternate address ready for the expected increase in traffic. They mistakenly gave out the wrong web address yesterday afternoon but veeventually corrected that mistake. Lets get an update on the weather and traffic with drew. Red flag warning later today. First beginning at noon in the north bay, then at 3 00 p. M. It will expand to include the inland east bay. Later on in the evening, it will include the Santa Cruz Mountains. Winds gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour. The peak times for this will be later tonight into early thursday morning. Well look at the warm temperatures in a few minutes. A debris fire in the transbay tube is apparently to bl
Bit. We expect metering lights to be on in about 20 minutes or so. Moving over to the san mateo bridge, you can see we have some brake lights showing, but were seeing the same story across the bay area. Thats good news, excluding the altamont pass, thats our usual problem spot. The richmondsan rafael bridge, six minutes. San mateo bridge, 13 minutes. Dumbarton bridge, 8 minutes. 34,000 pg e customers are preparing to be in the dark today and tomorrow. Pg e could cut the power to parts of three bay area counties because of the high fire danger. The shutoffs could happen in san mateo, sonoma and napa counties. Were told pg e will make that decision between 11 00 and 1 00 today. Lauren martinez is live in napa county with how people are preparing this morning. Lauren . Reporter businesses and homes could be without power starting at 3 00 this afternoon. 7 stshg 7,500 drenresidents could be affected by this. Thats less than two weeks ago. Heres a list of areas pg e says could experience sh
Thats right, it is not here at the bay bridge but i wanted to show you the backup, were on schedule. Early backup formed but typical pattern through congretra costa county. There is one incident near the caldecott outside the tunnel, no slowing shows up for 24. The Traffic Alert is on the nimitz, just issued by chp, out of oakland through san leandro, and down toward a street where we have that truck that dropped seven carts out of the back, the report calls it mail carts. I dont know if this is related to the Postal Service at all but i know theres debris out of the lanes. Issued the sig alert in the middle lane, they may have to close a couple more. The slow something souing south. The rest of the bay moves smoothly. Pg e still hasnt made a final decision on whether to cut power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the bay area. And were expecting a decision later this morning. If the outages take effect in San Mateo County, fewer than 1,000 homes are expected to lose powe
Good morning. Good morning. A new incident in the south bay. This is in san jose. We have a single car crash on northbound 101 before tully. It spin out. It is on the right hand shouder. And this is now a sigalert at southbound 880 at a street. There was a big rig whose back door opened, mail carts spilling all over the roadway. This will impact people headed towards the san mateo bridge or connecting from 580 to 880. More coming up. Pg e will decide today whether they will turn off power to thousands of people in the bay area because of high fire danger. Pg e is making this decision between 11 00 a. M. And 1 00 p. M. To see if the Power Outages are needed. The shutoffs could happen in san mateo, sonoma and napa counties. Were told pg e will make that decision between 11 00 and 1 00a Lauren Martinez has more on how wine country is preparing. Were in downtown sonoma where power could be turned off by 3 00. Were starting in front of a couple of restaurants and hotels keeping an eye out t
500 today, Texas Instruments, down about 7 . Thats your biggest decliner in the Philadelphia Semiconductor index, dragging most of the chip stocks lower. A lot of folks thought that the decline in those chip stocks, the decline in that memory cycle, that hit bottom. The results we got out of Texas Instruments seems to suggest that bottom not quite there. And youre seeing bids coming into the havens. 10year treasury yield down to 1. 73. Its interesting, the bond bulls not deterred, buying the dip every chance they get. We dont look at bitcoin very often, but worth it today. Down about 8 , down to levels we saw back in june. A lot of this tied to whats about to happen on capitol hill today. A lot of concern here that some of the scrutiny surrounding facebook and leeb i cant, thats weighing on the bitcoin space, weighing on easter, tether, and a lot of other coins out there. Something to keep an eye on here as we move into the rest of the day. Guy well look for that testify. British pound