Lightning sparked fires. Cal fire at this point has not yet given any specific information on the size or the containment of the fires. Evacuations are underway due to fires along Hennessy Ridge road. As we get more information, we will bring it to you. All of this is happening as a heat wave continues in the bay area. Governor newsom will give an update on the states response to the heat wave as well as the covid pandemic. He signed a proclamation to free up Energy Capacity and reduce the need for Service Disruptions which we saw through the weekend. We will bring you the governors News Conference as soon as it gets underway. We will bring in rosemary with how high the temperatures are going. Another bad day today. The northbay looks like its bullseye for the time being. Temperatures again are expected to be near record breaking. Lets take a look at stormtracker 2. We will zoom in over areas over the northbay. We watched it move from offshore to on shore. You can see all of those ligh
Strikes. Look at that picture. Now, lets go back for 24 hours or so to sunday night, and look at this. Now, this is something ive never seen before in the bay area. Okay. Here comes the first wave. This is what woke you up, right . Strike, strike, strike, strike. A little bit of a break, and then a second wave, equally as strong in not stronger, 6 00 a. M. Wait, im not done. And then you keep going. 7 00 a. M. These are lined strikes, many cloudtoground, and then you get into sunday morning . Look at this. Okay. Then we get into the afternoon. It brakes off a little bit. Not bad. Get a little bit of a break. Thunderstorms die down, and then next wave comes through. That started late last night early this morning, and youll see this. Ive never seen backtoback storms like this. Here comes the next wave, next wave, and next wave. Look at this. So no wonder we have spot fires. No wonder cal fire is returning around just crazy out there. That has to do with all of the spot fires. Now, we ar
Lets switch to the county were evacuation orders remain in place for residents along Morgan Territory and marsh creek road this is near brentwood and the blaze is believed to have been sparked by lightning on sunday. More than 1100 acres have been burned. And Governor Newsom is demanding an investigation after rolling Power Outages around the state. Californias electric grid operator says more than 3 million homes could lose power tonight. I spoke to the professor of economics on the shutoffs and what can be done in order to prevent this from happening again. The big issue right now is the demand side of the market. What is happening right now with demand in the rolling blackouts as it stands in the bay area and statewide . One of the ways to keep the lights on is to make demand equal supply and in california we have the ability to do that technologically, but we dont have the political will to do that. And what do i mean by that . We record your consumption at your house in Southern C
Care of us and theres others that are elderly. While that was happening. A short period of time. Pg and e was also using voice mail and Text Messages to get the word out. Rolling blackouts are going to be with us at least for awhile. Because there was not sufficient supply to meet the demand in the state of california. The outages mean she, her husband and their three kids are in limbo. Nothing gets done. My husband doesnt work. My kids dont go to school and you know, its right now it is a necessity in life to have our power. If youll lose power today youre less likely to lose it again in the near future. Really the primary factors are how many mega watts need to be taken off the grid and who has already experienced a rotating outage and we try to do our best to make sure that folks that already experienced one do not have enough one. They know people are nervous. One message this morning from pg and e saying possible Power Outages. Mean while, san jose mayor this afternoon blamed the
Before. We want to protect the winery and the house and the things that cant be replaced. Though they were ordered to leave by the sheriff the family plans to stick with the property. Jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. We want to show you how quickly fires can grow in heat with just a little bit of wind. You can see it starts and then it really explodes over the next three hours. There are two other significant fires, one in contra costa county. So far it burned more than 1,100 acres and is 0 contained and evacuation orders are in effect. A brush fire in sonoma burned about 1,700 acres there. Ten homes are under mandatory evacuation orders. I want to show you this that was caught on camera in downtown sonoma. The storms cut the temperatures a bit cooler. Places still in the triple digits and if you notice haze in the area, you are not a lone. A lot of smoke in the sky and the air quality is poor right now. Yeah. Unfortunately it is the perfect storm for unhealthy air around the bay are