Strong. Were talking about potentially over 50mile an hour gusts, Strong Enough to knock down tree branches especially any trees weakened by fires in the north bay the past couple of months and if those get knocked down into power lines, thats why were concerned about the power aspect. Red flag warning goes through friday morning at 11 00 in effect for north bay mountains, east bay hills, valleys and santa cruz mountains. Its the combination of the gusty winds, especially in the higher terrain, the heat and very low humidity, talking relative humidity levels in the Single Digits that has us the most concerned. Paul, thank you. The pg e update on the power shutoffs is underway right now. Lets listen in. We want to show you where we stand at this hour regarding this Public Safety power shutoff. A Severe Weather event with hot, dry conditions and high wind gusts is expected to begin this evening. Forecasted gusts are anticipated to reach about 55 Miles Per Hour. We expect these high winds
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
Catholic church which is serving as a Community Resource center. Here they have a water snacks, wi fi and much more of course charging stations as well but just a mile down the road were starting to see those power shutoffs in full swing. Pg and e customers in napa county prepared for a Public Safety power shutoff wednesday evening for some folks in saint the shutdowns already begin people like pat mcgrail foot up several gas cans to get through the next couple of days, im gasoline for generators. I have my house and my neighbors house. She lights going. Weve had to clean out the refrigerator which is a horrible job. And then be able to run them again and the generators. Were on wells so we have no water. And to go good. Water she could flush something the girls all too familiar with. He had to evacuate for the lnu lightning complex fire and was evacuated again for 17 days with the more recent glassfire he lives off Glass Mountain road or power was already down from the fire no cable.
Tens of thousands of pg e customers are expected to remain in the dark for a day, maybe two people in the montclair neighborhood in the Oakland Hills enjoyed the evening as best they could before the lights went out. Restaurants were busy serving customers all they still had power. Many restaurant and storeowners said they anticipate losing thousands of dollars in business during this latest shutoffs. A pg e map shows where the outages are happening. Inverted purple triangles indicated its power the power has been turned off. In those areas pg e has set up Community Resource centers where customers can plug in their devices. We have Team Coverage tonight. Our chief meteorologist is monitoring the red flag conditions. First, on the tens of thousands of people who lost their power. Reporter for many it will be friday evening, 10 00 p. M. Before they get their power back. Two full days and nights of getting by. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part
Underway. You can see the lights are on directly behind me. Then you walk across the street and you can see total darkness. Destructive fires, evacuations and now power outages. Those living in the Santa Cruz Mountains they say cant catch a break. Damages you offshore winds have forecast tonight, which prompted a red flag warning. The hunt for a missing lemur at the San Francisco zoo, why police think the animal was taken from its enclosure and what we can all do to help. Abc 7 news starts right now. Now from abc 7 live breaking news. I know it has to be done because of the fires and everything, but we dont have any wind or anything right now. I dont see what the big deal is. Our breaking news is the extreme fire conditions that have forced pg e to cut power to thousands of people across the bay area tonight. This map f pg es website shows you exactly whos affected by the Public Safety shutoffs right now. Expected to lose power in 7 bay area counties. The utility hopes to restore power