Tonight generators across the state are on full blast as at least half a Million People are without electricity due to the fire danger. Smoky skies and high fire danger. Ill let you know when you can expect a change coming up. A possible setback in the race for a vaccine. The astrazeneca trials are on hold after a volunteer became ill. What this means for the bay area trials which were about to begin. South bay Business Owners find ways to reopen indoors, but they know that opportunity could slam shut again. Abc 7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Tonight across the tales of harrowing escapes from ravaging wildfires. Skies darken. Thousands face another night without electricity. Power shut off to prevent park sparking any new fires. More than 167,000 pg e customers in fact in 21 counties are still without power. This map shows the current Public Safety power shutoffs. Theyre indicated by upside down purple triangles. An
Know. J. R. Stone is in calistoga where entire neighborhoods are still in the dark tonight. Reporter complete darkness along these neighborhood streets on the western id of calistoga, a city where 40 of the people are without electricity and that includes tv. Tough for youngsters. Its hard, really hard. Reporter taylor may only be 6 but this is not the first time her family has lost power due to fire dangers. Now, though, they have a small generator that powers only the most essential items. I can only watch stuff on my ipad if its charged. If its charged. Have you been charging it . No. Because our charger doesnt work. Reporter across the state at least half a Million People are in the same situation. Dealing with Public Safety power shutoffs over fears of power lines falling and sparking a fire. You realize how much you depend on electricity when this happens. Reporter in calistoga you can hear the hum of generateors in neighborhoods. Winds are expected to pick up. Calistoga mayor ch
Week. But darren is here to tell us about that. One challenge at a time. First lets take the excessive heat. Im going to show you some daytime highs that are a lot more impressive in 100. When you hit 100 in San Francisco, that stands out. We shattered the record for today which was 92 set back in 1904. Weve only hit 100 degrees in the city of San Francisco 12 times since we started keeping records officially back in the 1870s. And of those 12, nine of them have been in september. This is the most likely time were going to do it. The hottest temperature weve hit in San Francisco since the 1870s is 107 and we did that on Labor Day Weekend three years ago. This is our time of year you te impressive numbers now. 111 in livermore. 111 in santa rosa. All the red ones with asterisks next to them. All of them are records. And just to show you how far above records we were, you can see the difference there. Tomorrow gets a little better. But when the numbers are this high, a little better does
Blackouts due to the strain on the states power grid. Investigators. The el dorado fire started there is a flex alert, again, for tomorrow between 3 00 p. M. Yesterday in El Dorado Ranch and 9 00 p. M. First, we begin our coverage, tonight, with abc 7 news park. It quickly spread out of meteorologist, drew tuma, and, control, and has now led to drew, i think we all want to mandatory evacuation orders of know when are we going to get a break here . Several communities. Yeah. Cal fire says the suspects can dion and eric. Be criminally and financially records, today, were falling left and right. Responsible. The agency did not say whether the parents were expecting a boy we exceeded 100 degrees in much or a girl. Of the bay area. 13 records, set earlier today. Now, the heat was certainly unrelenting in southern 100 degrees, officially, in San Francisco. That is the warmest day weve california. Had in three years. The tripledigit temperatures sent crowds seeking relief at you can see 111 i
Now the worlds 2nd worst affected country. After months at sea in a wooden boats nearly 300. 00 rohingya make it to indonesias problems. Tropical storm hi sam moves towards north korea lashing south korea with strong winds heavy rain. And im only a harding with your sports news world number one Novak Djokovic is disqualified from the u. S. Open after hitting a ball into the throat of a line judge. Let me begin with a developing story out of bella russa prominence protest leader is missing after an incident in the center of the capital minsk in the last few hours. The cobra who spoken at many major rallies was taken away in a. By unidentified people shes been accounting manager for opposition politicians and of vocal supporter. Taken of scalia who is now in exile in lithuania or bonn in smiths monitoring developments from neighboring lithuania boehner just talk us through what we know about this latest incident. Or were hearing from activists connected with maria colonists that she was