Until tomorrow morning. Yeah, our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow standing by with the very latest details. Yeah, yeah, i see the winds look like theyre just hanging around a little bit not as ferocious as was last night so this red flag warning has changed a little bit this is mainly over the mountain tops above a 1000 feet in the east bay and the north bay hills you see right here as we take you for a closer look. The Oakland Hills above a 1000 feet certainly could see those winds blowing again 2030 Miles Per Hour weve seen some 18 almost 20 mile an hour winds already that will likely pick up a little bit tonight, whats dangerous now as the air mass is just so dry up above from those northerly winds were talking 1015 relative humidity so fires Getting Started will move rapidly in those kind of conditions as well things get moving along with should a fire gets started also in the north or him the gun napa Sonoma County looking at those gusty winds there again 2030 mile an hour gus
News station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. At 9 it is mid october and the bay area has seen another day of record high temperatures good evening. Everybody, im pam moore and im grant lotus in for ken wayne tonight, lets get straight to it. Several cities across the bay broke or tied daily record high temperatures today. A red flag warning was slated to expire this morning but has been extended for some locations until tomorrow morning of course were also tracking power shut offs and outages across the bay area pg and e says it aims to have the power back on for all customers affected by the Public Safety power shutoff by 10 oclock tonight. Kron fours Ella Sogomonian is live in our newsroom right now with the latest efforts on that l a. Thats right nearly 50,000 customers earlier this week were warned that they could have their electricity cut off by the Utility Company and today we learned that was true for about 41,000 customers thats because some neighborhoods were spared due to
News station. Youre watching kron 4 news every tear. Like the whole neighborhood with gun and claims. Now at 10 the threat of wildfires is still here a grass fire near the landmark South San Francisco sign filling the sky with smoke. The danger hitting too close to home for families which were forced to evacuate we want to have more on this in just a moment, but first tonight, the bay area as a whole is still not out of the woods when it comes to fire danger, thank you for joining us tonight at 10 im pam moore and im grant lotus in tonight for ken way we saw another day of record breaking heat here in the bay and a red flag warning that was set to expire this morning was extended for some regions until tomorrow our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow standing by with the latest on the fire danger tonight, lawrence yeah guys, this red flag warning now extended until 8 oclock. In the morning tomorrow morning thats because this ridge just really stubborn not breaking down very rapidly and
Traumatized. I cant tell you what will happen tonight or tomorrow or the next day. Reporter the crowd is reassured what happened sunday was unique, simultaneous fires and wind. The chief paused, emotional describing the scene. A lot of people lost a lot of houses. It is difficult for the community. I polk guise. Apologize. Victims want to know how to start rebuilding. They wish there was a master list of destroyed homes. People are trying to go in because we want to know is it gone . Gone is gone. My house is ashes. It took two seconds to realize that. I want to none my moms home is gone. People up here have your back. I came off the line this morning after 40 hours straight. [ applause ] time after time interrupting this briefing showing support for first responders. Fire victims got to their feet for an ovation. It has only been two days. Support services are coming together and evacuated areas will be reopened. There is a 30person Team Dedicated to finding missing persons. Today the
More than 2,000 homes and other structures have burned. At least 115,000 acres, an air bigger than the entire city of san jose have burned. Fires still burning across sonoma and napa counties. Flames pressing along lake, mendocino and yuba county. 200 people are listed as missing. Some are trying to reconnect in the middle of the confusion out there. Since monday, 60 people have been located. This man is missing of santa rose a his friend told us last night by phone that mikes home was destroyed in the fire. No one has heard from him since. And there is sad news about one of the people reported missing in santa rosa. A Family Member contacted us and said a fire inspector went to the home of 27yearold Christina Hanson and confirmed she died in the fire at their home. Christina used a wheelchair. She was last heard from early monday morning. Family members say she was on the phone with her stepmother, describing a red glow coming close to her home. So many people i talked to in santa ros