The red flag warning takes place right now, good evening i am julie haener. Pg e are anticipating a shut off. Pg e says that the Public Safety power shut off will affect several customers and 15 Northern California counties, and the bay area it will mostly affect customers in napa county. Santa clara could expect their power to shut off at 3 00 and continue throughout the day tomorrow. We spoke to someone and he said its okay if it reduces the risk of fire in his neighborhood. I would rather lose power for of yours rather than breathing that type of air in for days. Santa clara county customers could have their power back on this time around night other affected bay areas will continue with the outages until friday. Tran62 the conditions that prompted the conditions. Bill martin is tracking the warnings and the wind speed were basically it is a wind speed of at tonight as far as what they are going for. The red flag warning and affect. I will do a move here we we go through the current
Im julie haener. Im Frank Somerville tonight working from home. Lots of new developments to tell you about this evening. Governor newsom has put out an urgent call for doctors to help treat the expected surge of coronavirus patients. The governor says the number of people in the hospital in california has now doubled and the number of icu patients has tripled in just the past four days. Across the u. S. More than 3,000 people have now died from the outbreak. Among them the first u. S. Service member, a new Jersey National guardsman. Today the Navy Hospital ship comfort arrived at new york harbor to ease the burden on hospitals by caring for people not suffering from covid19. At the White House Health and Human Services secretary alex azar said the u. S. Has tested more than 1 million coronavirus samples, more than any other country. He also says the u. S. Is now testing nearlysamples a day. Experts say the u. S. To test between 100,000 and 150,000 patients a day to contain the virus. S