Im julie haener. 600,000 californians could have their power shut off wednesday due to a risk of wildfires. Warnings have gone out in seven of the nine bay area counties for people to be prepared. Only San Francisco and marin counties are not included in this warning, a potential power shutoff. Right now pg e has not confirmed any outages, but we are told by police and other officials that parts of napa county along with danville, orinda, lafayette, and moraga should expect to lose power just before wednesday morning. We have Live Team Coverage tonight, Azenith Smith is in the south bay with how officials are getting ready for Power Outages or potential Power Outages. And october, the peak of fire season, and it is almost exactly two years. Reporter it is hard to believe, isnt it, frank . This makes it an anxious anniversary even more so. 600,000 customers are at risk. Half in the bay area. Sonoma county have the most. 66,000 Emergency Centers are opening to cope with this unprecedente
It morning and welcome back to mornings on 2, Tuesday Morning october 8 im dave clark. Im pam cook, thank you for waking up with us. The top story is a potential power shut off related to weather. We checked with stephen he was bringing up good points. We were talking about gas pumps. They will be out. So fill up your gas tank. And we are finding out about bart. This is tomorrow not today, wednesday into early thursday. The why what the weather watch is not for heat, it is for wind and very dry conditions. So some people said this doesnt include the Santa Cruz Mountains but it does, the east bay, even along the coast, even parts of the marin coast as well will get into some pretty good gusts, low humidity and very strong wind, this system right here is the one coming and it is what we call a dry cold front. There might be some high clouds with it but the end result is most of the energy is plunging into the great basin and the intermountain region, Eastern Nevada and points east, this
Of success. Firefighters battling the kincaid fire turned a corner. Tonight we are they are as thousands of evacuees start going home. Get ready for a very cold start to your morning. Parts of the bay area under a freeze warning. Our original series project home money for housing on the november ballot. Are the ideas more politics than progress . Good evening. Lets get you to the breaking news. The warriors just losing another one of their stars. Dennis odonnell live on the court at chase center with what the team is saying about steph curry and his broken hand. What else dennis . Reporter exactly. Everybody knew this season would be difficult without klayn w next toimpossible without the heart and soul of this franchise is stephanie curry. He went down in the Third Quarter while driving for a layup. Colliding with. Landing on his left hand. The crowd went silent. Curry visibly in pain. Later diagnosed with a broken left hand. Obviously it has been a tough start for us. On many levels.
Yeah people are sort of adjusting as weve seen you know sausalito some parts of the north bay. Theyve been on this for 2 days. People here in lafayette they just woke up this morning without power our so theyre still trying to acclimate to it all obviously not a fun situation. A lot of people are just very excited that safeway is open. Its the Little Things when youre going through Something Like this. And now people can go inside. Get some food get some things they may have forgotten maybe some candles a flashlight who knows. Maybe water but they have have a lot of stuff in there its pretty dark inside. But there making do with it all. Take a look at this map so you can see all of the areas affected by this power outage. Again, im standing live here in lafayette. Theres about 1400 100 customers that are without power and they all woke up that way some people were awake last night when it went off. Down wnut crabout 2600 customers without power in orinda i mean that whole cities basica
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