Public safety power shutoffs right now. More than 50,000 Northern California customers are impacted here in the bay area about 22,000 pg e customers are expected to lose power in seven counties. The utility hopes to restore service by 10 00 p. M. Friday. Pg e is stressing this power shutoff is shorter than last years when some customers were in the dark for about a week. That was a tough time for people. Yes. Thank you. The outages are having a big impact on people all across the bay area. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan is live in walnut creek with more. Good morning. Walnut creek had power shutoff last night. No street lights, no homes with lights on. The light you see is from our news van. Pg e has been informing residents since monday that power may be shut off due to the threat of wildfires. Here in the east bay, the psps event will affect over 6,000 customers, mostly in walnut creek, danville, oakland. Pg e opened 40 Community Resource centers. These are places people can go to i
Russia is the first country to register our coronavirus vaccine. Many are skeptical before phase 3 trials. They normally last for months and involve thousands of people. Moderna just started phase 3 trials last week. It will involve 30,000 adults at 89 clinical locations around the country. President trump was escorted from a meeting. Theres a Financial Relief bill. A busy 24 hours in washington dc. Briefing after a man threatened to shoot agents outside the white house gates. He rented them and pulled something from his clothing in the shooter stands. He was shot and taken to the hospital. He was found to be unarmed. It is scary that people shovel he tore the president. Reporter the president resumed briefing the press about relief bill talks. The president is willing to meet with Democratic Leaders at the white house or on capitol hill. Congress waits to pass something, this growing uncertainty for americans struggling to pay bills, and businesses trying to dig out from months of shu
And show you that traffic is already busy on 205 and 580. You will see slow traffic for sure. And you will see traffic here that is going to be just very slow. Nothing unusual about that. Once you goat livermore it looks good and a little bit of slowing in dublin. Just a little bit at the dublin interchange. The rest of it looks good including the san mateo bridge and interstate 880 and at the bay bridge we have a backup. At 5 01 lets go back to the desk. Thank you. New this mong, firefighters investigating an overnight garage fire in pleasanton that happened at 3 15 this morning on matteson court. Neighbors told our crew on the scene a tesla and chevy bolt both burned in the fire but it does not appear that theres significant damage to the house and no word on the cause of the fire. There are no reports of any injuries. Our time is 5 01. Police in fresno investigating a deadly shooting rampage where gunmen shot and killed four people and six others were hurt the it happened in southea
Plenty of sun. Emily. We are looking at fog advisories in effect. First lets start with your main travel times this morning. Everything is in the green with the exception of the altamonte pass thats from the yellow to the red. Take a look at that. Your drive time creeping into the red at 39 minutes. Elsewhere, thats great news. East shore freeway highway 4, 101 no problem. Smooth sailing. Looking live to the Richmond San Rafael bridge, there are delays as you approach the toll plaza in the westbound direction. There are no lane closures in effect right now. Though we are finally in the last stages of the emergency construck. Hopefully thats clearing up here in the next month or so as far as construction is concerned. The san mateo bridge looks busier. Brake lights in the westbound dreck add volume slowing down. In the eastbound direction, not a problem at all. You are smooth sailing towards the east bay. Now, bay bridge, metering lights are on backed up towards the foot of the maze. Li
Fighter facing a fight of her own. This is today in the bay. Good morning on this thursday. Thanks for allowing us to be a part of your morning. Laura has the morning off. But well take a look at traffic in a second, but guess who is back . I missed you and the viewers. But im back to being happy doing the weather. And im loving the weather. But i havent been forecasting much at home. But lets look right now at how the temperatures are doing. We are going to be seeing a little warmup into the afternoon. And lets look at the temperature trend for San Francisco. Because it has been windy at times in some spots, but right now were seeing some light wind speeds, 56 in San Francisco. And you will notice we have the clear skies. If you look at the temperature trend, your lunch hour is starting to bump up in toot 60s. And it will be warm in San Francisco. Well bunch up into the low 70s this afternoon. Pleasant thursday ahead before changes move in. And another cooldown is on the way. And now