Yet another string of high winds dry conditions over the next couple of days. Thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis for the north bay mountains, this is the second red flag warning to be issued this week so lets go ahead kick it off here with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow he is tracking the dangerous weather conditions out there for us laurent boy it is been a long fire season right now theres no end in sight in fact these winds going to be picking up in fact i think these are red flag warnings are in effect so far feel friday but theyre going to be in effect all the way i think until the weekend weve got a series of wind events that are going to be affecting the bay area and boy it is going to howl around parts of the bay area. Look at the winds expected over the Santa Cruz Mountains this between now and friday, the red flag warnings up even along the coastline, 3040 mile an hour wind gusts probably some 50 mile an hour wind gusts o
About 37,000 customers. Across 15 Northern California counties that they could be losing power. Of the 15 counties 5 hour here in the bay, they are alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma. More than 4,000 customers in the bay area could be affected here. Napa county appears to be hit the hardest the most customers in the bay area affected are in napa some of the outages have already started but most of them are expected as we move through the overnight hours pg and e says the hot and dry weather combined with really high wind gusts pose an increased risk for damage to their electrical system that has the potential to start fires can you want to be on guard. We have Team Coverage for you tonight, Lawrence Karnow is in the Weather Center. Monitoring the red flag warning that goes into effect in about an hour but first we turn to kron fours gayle ong who is live tonight in where people are preparing for another round of shut off scale. Grant and vicki nearly 3300 pg e customers a
Continue. Throughout the evening and the overnight hours lets take a look now at the outage map from pgd so we can see exactly the affected areas. This is the future outlook of where the power will be going awful zoom in on the north bay napa county will be impacted the most. Heres the big sections that will be losing power again at some point overnight tonight. This includes all around calistoga and also just to the west of saint zooming down now into the east bay well see thats some parts of Contra Costa County will be losing power just to the west of danville and also in this section here just to the west of san ramon going down a little further south. Again this is the part that will be losing power at some point overnight tonight this is in the south bay. Current outages, well just take a quick look an or a purple triangle be showing us the outages that are power shut off related and so far none in the bay area were just waiting now for the power to be turned off. Now according to
Morning so not until tomorrow that theyre having a start that you can track the latest on the power shut off any time when you have the kron 4 app and you also find the forecast an interactive radar there just check that out its free. Our check this out a man seen jumping over a counter at a downtown staff just walgreens store taking off with an air mattress you can see here all caught on camera a crew from inside edition was actually at that store along van ness and eddie for a story on shoplifting when this actually happened this is one of many excessive shoplifting case is happening in the bay area because of that rapid shoplifting at this particular location. The store will close now for good on november. 11th. This is the 3rd store in San Francisco closed because of shoplifting crawford Jonathan Mccall has the story. Caught on camera a wild scene thats being played out at retail Chain Drug Stores across the bay area. Scores of shoplifters swarming stores ransacking racks and pilfe
On kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live outside this morning over the bay bridge as we start this thursday morning together. Good morning. It is october 22. I am len kiese. I am michelle griego. A new red flag warning and thousands of residents have begun losing power. The latest to go dark are folks in napa and sonoma. Almost 3500 customers are impacted. An hour earlier more than 200 in santa clara had their power shut off. The first, a little over 500 customers in alameda and contra costa counties. Here we go again, our second red flag warning of the week. It does look more extensive with bay area hills, mountains, Higher Elevations above 1,000 feet under that red flag warning until 8 00 a. M. Friday. North bay mountains, santa cruz mountains, San Mateo County coast under that warning with gusts to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour and low relative humidity values. Everything is just so dry out there. Our temperatures as we go through the day are cooler compared to yesterday. Abo