Streaming on cbsn bay area, we look at the tower camera as we look at the city of san francisco. High winds an extreme fire danger across the bay area. It is monday, october 26 and i am Michelle Griego. , now lets get a check of the weather with mary lee. Good morning. This is the start of the wildfire season. We are looking at strong winterfest with some of the strongest win right now. 31 mile per hour sustained wind. 22 mileperhour sustained at sfo right now. There are 37 mileperhour wind gusts in fairfield. 26 in concord and 29 at sfo. The highest amount with winds at 8090 Miles Per Hour in the highest elevations. We are talking extreme fire danger for the bay area. A red flag warning for the entire region now until 11 00 a. M. Today. Strong offshore winds with low humidity values down to the Single Digits and teens. That is why we have dangerous fire conditions. We will see the wind easing in the lower elevations but still strong in the Higher Elevations. That is why there will be
For some today and as we mentioned the number of customers without power in Northern California. Is about 30,000 around the bay area. Alameda napa sam, a tail Santa Clara Santa Cruz and sonoma counties all have more than a 1000 customers who are in the dark. Although people in some sections have been given the allclear and that means their power could be restored soon so lets get the very latest now from kron fours Justine Waltman shes in our newsroom just a well pamela allclear signal has been issued for portions of Monterey Santa Cruz and santa clara counties, which means. That pg e crews can now begin patrolling all these d energize lines whether thats by helicopter or by foot or by car. And once theyve confirmed that the lines have not suffered any when driven damaged and that hazards like trees are removed customers spent can have the power restored sort still a ways off but theyve been given the all clear so lets take a look at where the power is out right now thats the purple tr
Until 11 00 a. M. Today. Because of the strong winds and low humidity values down to the Single Digits and teens. We are talking dangerous fire conditions. We will see the winds ease in the lower elevations later today but the mountains and hills will look at the red flag warning until 5 00 p. M. Tuesday for the east bay hills and diablo range. And until 11 00 for the entire range because of gusty wind along with downed trees and power lines with the strong wind. We are watching that through the rest of the morning. I will show you futurecast through the next couple of days coming up in a few minutes. Now, lets check in with gianna for a windy start to the day. It is impacting your drive today with slower than usual conditions in the altamonte pass. There is a wind advisory for the altamonte and the bay area bridges. This out of tracy toward 580 westbound. On 205 and extending beyond north flint at this point. Be careful if you are traveling in a high profile vehicle. There could be tr
With pacific gas and electric have been crisscrossing napa county repairing and inspecting power lines and poles. Before turning the power back on its getting kind of old yeah as usual residents who live west of the river in calistoga have been without power. This time since sunday afternoon. Some have been through it so many times that they bought a generator to make life a little easier. Ieeping one tv going. A light in my bedroom. Light in the kitchen. Wi fi. And the refrigerator. And its not just homes west of the river that have been without power. But weiner east to like castello di amorosa still after wine tasting continues, we had a generator. That is able to any. A gift card that whole castle not only is this winery had to deal with power shut offs but its warehouse and 10,000 cases of wine were destroyed by the glass fire at the end of last month. Still they keep pushing ahead because were so used having files for the last 4 years including the whole bay area. People are now
Affected by this power shut off for a closer look at the areas that are losing power. Kron fours Justine Waltman in our newsroom tracking the latest information right now justine you can find all of the maps on our website kron 4 dot com. But lets zoom in now so you can see. Whats being put out by pg e right now here are the current outages here is the north bay and ill zoom in a little bit so you can see that. In calistoga right now there is a kurd p s p s happening at this moment, same as we move down a little bit just to the west of saint people are in the dark right now, and that also goes for people in sonoma and just west of napa these are where the Current Power outages or and this is been updated. Throughout the day today power will continue to go off. Till about 8 oclock tonight. But as we zoom down just a little bit you can see there are no current p s p s outages and any other part of the bay area but well go to the future p s p s outages and thats when things really start t