Power outages as fire conditions become more dangerous in the bay area. Hot temperatures, strong winds fueling new concerns about fires. Pg e is going preactive and planning for power outages. In just a few hours you could be one of the thousands of people in six bay area koubties slate to go dark. Highlighted in yellowen that map is where power safety shutoffs could happen. Where frustration is in the air. Reporter an estimated 4,100 pg e customers here in Alameda County could be affected by the latest rounds. Ive talked to a lot of people here tonight. Theyve been through this before, but they say no one is really ready for it. Our babys bassinet runs off wifi, everything in our refrigerator. Reporter so if a power safety shutoff happens again ashley says they just have to roll with it. Pg e holding a public briefing tonight letting customers know where things stand. Weve been a month now from the first event we executed in early september, and the fuels are actually much dryer so th
At live doppler 7. You can see cloud cover around the bay area and not a lot of dense fog. In the east bay, we have 60 over in danville and closer to the bay numbers are in the low 5s, ro air quality moderate in the north bay today and tomorrow but the rest of you enjoying pretty good air quality. It was pretty nice yesterday, wasnt it . Today is the beginning of fall and you equinox. Were feeling like fall. In fact, temperatures climbing through the 70s bys highs and 60s at the coast. Thank you, lisa. Were expecting to get an update on the fall learning plan as experts give Distance Learning disappointing marks. Education is one thing were focused on to build a better bay area. Amy hollyfield is live in the Marina District with more on this. Amy . All right. Looks like were having some issues hearing amy and well get back to that update with San Francisco schools in just a moment. First, we want to tell you about more counties expected to move up to the next level in californias reope
Temperatures as we head through our afternoon. Because of this extreme heat, san jose is opening cooling centers today. Camden Community Center and vietnamese american cultural will be open at 11 00 and the library will be open starting at 1 00 p. M. Today. Thats just to give some relief from the heat for many people who are just trying to stay safe. Looking at a high fire danger with the red flag warning in effect for north bay mountains including glass fire from 1 00 p. M. Today until 6 00 p. M. Friday. Well talk more about high fire danger and smoky skies in just a few minutes. Lets check for the latest on road closures due to the glass fire. Thanks mary. The road closures continue. I will start with an overview to give you an idea of how big the area is where the closures are. Some of the larger roads shut down are parts of 128, 29, highway 12, both directions east and west bound of highway 12 from mount hawk way to trinity road. North and south bound, highway 29 from deer park roa
In terms of acreage. It has burned nearly 366,000 acres and is 25 contained. Five people there including three First Responders have been hurt. And 31 structures destroyed. In santa cruz and san mateo counties, officials this morning confirming a second death connected to the czu fire. Officials say a 63yearold woman was found dead inside the fire zone. Six people remain missing. That fire has burned at least 80,000 acres and is 19 contained. One person has died and 538 structures have been destroyed. Now officials are holding a News Conference right now about the lnu fire. Lets listen in. Fire engines assigned to incidents from arizona,idaho, nevada, new mexico, texas, oregon, utah, washington, and montana. And thats part of the 375 engines that were requested. One thing i want to touch on real briefly this morning is driving. As we start to repopulate areas as well as curiosity is regarding some of the wildfires is we really want to encourage people to stay out of the area. We have a
From all angle, lets begin with our chief meteorologist this fire, jeff ranieri. It is one of the forecasts where the stability could put a Lightning Strike in this location or that location. It is an erratic pattern we are seeing with this humidity so thats why the entire bay area is under the flat line warning until 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Can it help with snoring . Ive never heard snoring. Exactly. No problem. And done more isolated thunderstorms that could produce Lightning Strikes save 50 on the sleep number 360 limited Edition Smart bed. Possible. Everybody has to be on alert. Plus, free delivery when you lets get you look at our radar. We are tracking some rainfall off to the south. I did have a lightning south way out here in the pacific. It is more of how unstable this air is thats moving off to the north. We do think some of this is beginning to see things organize a little bit better here and as you put a loop on it, it is moving from the south to the north. Well be monitoring