District includes contra costa and santa clara california. Thanks for being here. Good to be here. Thank you. I know you were affected by the shutoffs at your home this time around and for quite a while, too, right . About 48 hours. This morning we were throwing away everything in our refrigerator and freezer and im sure everybody had the same experience. Its not a small thing, im not trying to minimize but what other problems can be brought on by the poweroffs. The company thats doing this are doing it because they fear the wind event will create wildfires. It comes from a good point of concern, which we all have, but its because that their electrical grid hasnt been hardened and they think these winds can create the fire event were fearful about. So they created these Public Safety power shutoffs. There are people that rely upon power for life. Life meaning their electric wheelchair, keeping their medicines cool, heart and lung machines, and those folks are in great danger when you s
Blaze. It just moves so quickly over the weekend that attract more than 200 people in Madera County National Guard helicopters were brought in to airlift them to safety and as i said before they are still working on rescuing more people. Good morning, everyone and thank you for waking up with us on the kron 4 morning news, its tuesday september 8th, im robin when said lets start this morning with a check of your forecast well check in with john and see how the day is shaping up another spare the air day fire crews are dealing with the rescues and the weather of course is going to impact the fires burning so lets check in with john to get a robin thats exactly right. We saw the massive growth of the creek fire and now here in the bay area were looking at heightened fire danger ourselves. As we work our way through this tuesday now last night we had a welcome sea breeze pushed back through our coastal areas this really resulted in a nice overnight cool down. For areas like San Francisco
Air pushing on in your windows if you open and i would say you probably should because its going to be another hot afternoon today, and its going to be a hot and windy one this time around so this is where fire danger comes into play a lot of the bay area specially or upper elevations with up in red flag warning says were going to be seeing dry conditions hot weather paired with winds in the east bay gusting as high as 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour an hour. More exposed hillsides where temperatures will be in the triple digits still Solano County entire county lit up in a red flag warning 25 to 40 mile per hour winds. And as for murder in napa and sonoma counties also heightened fire danger specially in those upper elevations, these will remain in effect tonight into wednesday as that when really kicks into gear out of the northwest sonoma calistoga vacaville already on the breezy side and look at winds picking up later today. Sonoma petaluma down through fairfield in danville all going to b
So looking at a few more thunderstorms and with that, the Lightning Strikes which is the reason why red flag warning remains in ef0 orct ffe today. Lightning strikes could lead to fire starts. We had about 50 fires that started because of lightning over the weekend. And the excessive heat warning and heat advisory that remains in effect for the bay area, because of the dangerous heat, that is all the way through wednesday nine a clock p. M. As we are going to see temperatures soar once again. We are looking at 17, triple digit in concord, 103 in santa rosa. Into the 80s around the bay. I will show you the future cast hour by hour coming up in a few minutes. Back to you. This morning a brush fire burning in the south bay has tribute triggered evacuations outside milpitas. Lets get to kiet do who joins us live from Santa Clara County with the latest on this. Reporter good morning. Ife ar a alongcas ro couple of miles south of 680 around the area of reservoir. We can see orange flames and
Cases so tonight there are more than 329,000 cases of covid19 and more than 7,000 fatalities. The state is also reporting that hospitalizations are also on a 14 day upward trend. We have Team Coverage tonight on californias reopening rollbacks kron fours dan thorn live for us in concord where the. Sun Valley Shopping Center has been forced to close its first we want to get to Ella Sogomonian in the newsroom with the latest on the governors bombshell health order today l a ken and pam that health order means that Effective Immediately certain indoor businesses have to close up shop. Across california, including 5 bay area counties take a look those establishments include indoor operations and restaurants wineries tasting rooms Family Entertainment centers. Sues museums, movie theaters and card rooms. Governor newsome also ordered bars to close all operations. Governor newsom announced today that the counties on the covid19 watch list must go even further and shut down more businesses cu