At this hour in many locations in the north bay. Overnight pg e started cutting power to more than 500,000 homes and businesses, 200,000 in the north bay, thats due to the high fire danger and the red flag warning, this is a live look at the outages, you can see that large swatch of purple across the north bay, this is phase one according to pg e. Now a second phase is set to start about noon, and last at least through tonight. Outages will impact parts of contra costa, santa clara, alameda and san mateo counties. In the second phase, 234,000 homes and businesses are expected to be impacted. Also this morning, many schools and universities across the bay have canceled classes preemptively today. You can see our ticker there rolling on the bottom of the screen with the schools listed, and the south bay bracing for outages as well. We expect san jose mayor sam liccardo will hold a news conference, at 7 00 a. M. We will stream that live. Kari hall is tracking the red flag warning and conc
Pink icons where a community has had the power shut off either entirely or in parts of that town thats something be exploring throughout our broadcast this morning as we get in closer some of these close to communities, one side of the street will have power the other side wont gets kind of the pending on where you are and these shuttles calm as theres an extreme high fire danger because of high winds and dry conditions. So one of the first to shut downs happen at midnight, the next round of Power Outages that blackout will start at noon today and thats what this next map. Heres illustrates its the areas in red that will be impacted by the end of the day today so the north they already has had power shut off, but look at the east bay hills, right right along the open hills and down in the south bay to the Santa Cruz Mountains in the diablo range all those areas will be impacted by Power Outages. Later today. Theyre part of phase 2 and what were told is that by about noon time today we
Morning. And there are also School Closures this morning. Those will be listed at the bomb of the screen and abc7news. Com. Lets check in with mik nio. The r fg warning is for all of us except for the santa cruz mountains, that begins at 5 00 this evening. Now the wind event just begins. Just now at 6 00, the wind advisory went into affect for those north to northeast winds of 35 to 55 Miles Per Hour. That could down some trees, power lines, that could help spark and spread fires if they do develop. Heres a look at some of the winds in the higher elevations. Still very manageable. The fastest is mount diablo, 3,800 feet at 36 Miles Per Hour. Lets look at the humidity. Still manageable. Just in the initial infant stages of this fire threat. Were doing well there. Let me tell that you things will get worse especially tonight. But during the day today if youre going to be out and eoy temperatures. Mainly in the 60s at noon. 60s at the coast. Mid 70s for the rest of us at 4 00. Not as warm
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Critical area connecting this portion of Contra Costa County with the maze back and north for the morning commute. The generators in place. That is one point that were following as we kick into phase two affecting these areas and north bay was affected this morning. And highway 1 flowing through the devils slide area and same situation with the generators and the freeways are moving smoothly. It is the local streets and roadways that are concern as that kicks in and the evening commute and the afternoon progress because folks returning home may find signals on surface streets out and that is a huge issue, treat that as a fourway stop if there is no lights. Over here there may be no light and tomorrow morning. Through brendwood and 580 out of the Altamont Pass and those are critical routes and access to the area may be dangerous as we have unfamiliar lighting. And we had Power Outages this morning. Highway 12 had a ton of signals that were out and everything has moved out now. Back to c