Even though the winds are backing off shortly after 11 00 a. M. Its dry out there and its hot. So the combination of those elements can still bring elevated fire danger and we just got to play it safe because the humidity could fall at less than 10 throughout the afternoon. I want to show you the current temperature right now in San Francisco. 84 degrees. Mostly sunny conditions. But it certainly doesnt feel like october around here. San jose 81 degrees. Overall, our day time highs in the upper 80s even around the coastline and mid and upper 90s for the interior valleys. It could be a possibility that we will be seeing some new daily record highs set throughout some portions of the interior valley. So i am going to go into more detail on that and what you can expect this weekend and ive had a couple of viewers ask me is there rain in sight . Full forecast is coming up. Thank you. Power shutoffs per sift a. D the utility says all power is back on in oakland. Businesses in oaklands mt. C
In the state of california. Were just 15 days away from the november, 3rd election turnout this year could be historic. Well surpassing what we saw both in 20 16 and in the 2008 president ial election. But before you vote you must be registered and today is the deadline. Kron fours dan kerman is live in San Francisco with more on this item. Either were outside city hall and you see theres also a drivethru ballot. Dropoff if youve got your ballot in the mail. You can drop it off right here outside city hall in San Francisco is also a Voting Center across the street graham Civic Auditorium but getting to what you were talking about which is registration that is correct. You have to register by tonight now if you dont get that registration in by tonight. Youre not going to get a mail in ballot. But all is not lost. You still have an opportunity to register you can go to your county elections office. You go to your vote center you can also go to your polling place and register on election
Red flag warning has been issued as high winds and warm temperatures cause increased fire danger putting the bay area on high alert. Thank you for joining us at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the genie is also ready to shut off power to try to prevent a major wildfire. The utility says the potential power shut off could happen as early as tomorrow afternoon affecting more than 22,000 customers take a look at what bay area counties could be affected by the power shut off. Those counties are alameda contra costa santa clara and san mateo napa sonoma and solano counties, the highest probability areas or the north bay mountains near mount saint helene small pockets in the east bay near mount diablo the Oakland Hills east of piedmont and portions of the santa cruz area. And the power shutoffs do need to happen in your area you will be notified in advance via text call or email. Again thanks for joining us here at kron 4 news weve got Maureen Kelly shes joining us live from napa high morning. Thats why
Making sure that you are prepared. Gayle ong has in orinda where theyre bracing for the strong wind event dan thorn is insane alina where theyre already dealing with a brush fire there, but we start tonight with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to give us a better idea of what we can expect lawrence guys this looks like a significant wind event may be the strongest of the year maybe several years were going see how all works out. But right now it looks very very impressive. The winds, fairly light right now just a general breeze around the bay area but watch what happens as we take you through the weekend now as those winds by tomorrow morning, not bad just a gentle breeze early on so not a bad start your weekend by tomorrow afternoon, the winds do begin to pick up but you notice the direction that is out of a westerly direction that brings that nice moist air off the ocean so fire danger running fairly low that all begins to as we get in towards sunday afternoon. And there you can
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