Trees fell left and right. It sounded like a category 4 or 5 hurricane. It was that loud. The winds shook the trees loose littering the streets and roads and prompting a big cleanup. I was shocked at the mess this morning. Branches was everywhere. So were power lines. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im ama dates. And im dan lashly. The peak gusts reached over 80 miles an hour in st. Helena and 50 at the oakland airport. Sandhya, you told us this was coming, and boy, did it. Yeah, they were ferocious no doubt about it. Let me show you the wind advisory still in effect for salono county. Gusts up to 40 not out of the question until 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Still the possibility of downed tree and a few power lines going down. Look at the gusts right now to 25 in fairfield. Were going to get a second round of winds coming in later tonight going into tomorrow morning. Right now over the Higher Elevations gusts to 30 at mt. St. Helena. We did so these wind gusts close to 90 miles an hour ov
Air. They have been putting in line the last 24 hours. They will set backfires back onto areas that are already earned. In essence snuffing the fire out. Not sure if that is what is going on right now. They do want to get line in all the way around the perimeter of the fire. They will let the middle burn out in sections like this. You can see it is being pushed by the wind. These are very difficult fires to fight. Because of the low humidity. The high winds and high temperatures. It appears to be may be a backfire that is progressing right now. You can see to the right of the flames which is the direction they are burning. That has already been burned out. A lot of work going in this afternoon. 49 structures that we know of have in detroit. Within 20 have been homes. Sonoma county sheriff has said 21 homes have burned to the ground. 28 other buildings lost in this fire. So far. Good news no lootings have been reported. No casualties or injuries that we know of. There are about 1300 fir
Are expected to lose power later tonight, thank you for joining us, im pam moore the kiss right now were Just Moments Away from an update from pg we will bring that to you live when it starts but first, heres what we know at this hour shops have been delayed in 4 counties contra costa. Alameda santa clara and san mateo those county say that the power is expected to be cut tonight by 8 oclock pg e delayed the shots because wind gusts really havent yet reached problematic speeds in parts of the bay area but 10s of thousands are without power right now in Sonoma Napa Solano amarin county and take a look at the citys expecting to lose power later tonight in contra costa county, a large swath of densely populated areas, including. Portions of richmond walnut creek mo rocca ample know in Alameda County sections of berkeley oakland, san leandro and hayward are also expected to have power cut at 8 oclock tonight. In san mateo Half Moon Bay and pacifica there among the citys poised to be in the
The mountains. We want to go to pg e headquarters where they are having an up date on their news conference. We envision going about 35 minutes. Online it will include, we will have an update from our principal meteorologist. And we also have our Senior Vice President and we will get an update about the web. With that i will turn it over to get started. Thank you, keith. Thank you for joining us tonight. Overall i want to reiterate a few points before i turn it over to provide an update in regards to the Weather Forecast. First, id like to reiterate that we understand the impact it has on our customers and our communities. This is not a decision we take lightly. And we think our customers and our communities for your patience. Seconds, i would like to remind our customers and our Community Members as to why we are making this decision. This decision is all about Public Safety which is our most important responsibility. Given the forecast for the severe a widespread wind conditions that
That corresponds to the winds. But the power would be turned off several hours before the winds. Everyone needs to get prepared today and before tomorrow afternoon. Pg and e customers are being told this outage could last at least several days. It could be shorter, and hopeful loi hopefully it will be. This is to prevent another catastrophic wildfire, as you get a look at the conditions here from sky 7. Its just impossible to contend with, and youre dealing with this both in Northern California as well as Southern California, where they have raging fires down there as well. Right. This is the kincaid fire, which has burned, certainly, a lot. It exploded overnight again, its now at 21,000 acres. And we have 49 structures that have been destroyed. We know that 21 are homes and 28 are outbuildings or i should say were, because they are no more. And you can see the spot fires. They keep spreading as the
embers pick them up. Although today is not terribly windy. So firefighters were trying