Activity you might see. No outdoor burning allowed at all. Make sure smar fires. No two evacuation routes in and out of your neighborhood and set up meetings with your department. If you have a local Neighborhood Group thats a great way to stay in touch with them and know everything you should be doing as well. What about the temperatures . Look how warm 9 00 t in the morning tomorrow. Well go over more temperatures and the heat and the fire danger coming up throughout this hour. Good information. Thank you, jeff. Thousands of people in the north bay are bracing for a black out. Pg e says it could shut down power tomorrow in sonoma and lake counties. This was part of the proactive approach to reduce the likelihood of a wild fire. Jody we can see construction behind you. Reporter thats right, raj. People here in santa rosa know how devastating wild fires can be. Were in the coffee park neighborhood of santa rosa where the tubs fire wiped out nearly the entire neighborhood nearly two yea
We do have a few brake lights towards the high rise. Otherwise youre looking at a 14minute drive across from san mateo yo over towards foster city. Well look at the Golden Gate Bridge. Southbound you have four lanes of the commute direction, and just two lanes of the northbound direction. No fog. Perfectly clear out there with the almost full moon and traffic is light over the waldo grade into San Francisco. Well check on a motorcycle accident on the Altamont Pass in our next report. Uber says the bill likely to become law that would make its drivers employees doesnt apply to them. And this and other Gig Economy Companies are vowing to fight the sweeping changes. Jobina fortson is live at lyft headquarters. Good morning. Good morning. Lyft, uber, door dash and other Gig Economy Companies are vowing to fight a Ballot Initiative that would everturn this bill that would force them to reclassify drivers as employees. Ab5 was passed by the state assembly and moved over to governor newsoms o
Abc7 News Reporter luz pena spoke to fire investigators and she joins us in the south bay. Luz. Reporter dion and erik, they will continue on scene investigating the fires on the perimeter around them. At least 40 is contained. Two columns of smoke where only Spring Valley fire chief needed to see to call cal fire. As he made his way in and as they were dispatching out for engines to respond, he saw a third, eventually we ended up with six separate fires. Reporter the call came in at 11 37 a. M. It shows the fire in the east hills of milpitas. Ground resources began to contain the six fires. Firefighters are now ruling out the possibility of arson. Arson is always a possibility in Something Like this, but you also have the possibility of you can have cars driving along the road and you can have catalytic converters kick stuff out of the exhaust, and he and we get road starts like that as well. Reporter according to cal fire, the six fires combined have burned a total of 128 acres in th
At San Francisco, some high clouds moving in from the pacific, and another camera looking at the golden gate bridge. Today is the last hot day of the series, then we cool down significantly heading toward thursday, friday and into the weekend. The heat advisory is in place for most of the bay area, lots of 90s, up to 102 degrees. The north bay and east bay hills had their heat advisories expire. Several others are in place until 7 00 this evening. Could be approaching several records as well, especially san josi, tying a record set back inare the 12 00 observations, 90 showing up in Half Moon Bay. San josi 88, low 90s no concord and livermore right now. Well talk about the big cooling trend that moves in tomorrow, all coming up in a little bit. The power is out for more than a thousand pg e customers today, joining tens of thousands of others after pg e cut service to reduce the risk of wildfires. The utility says the power will remain off until 2 00 this afternoon and after that resto
North bay. Tonight. 21,000 customers in the foothills are going to get power turned off tonight. That is happening as we speak. We heard in the story the people note firsthand heat and wind is a dangerous mix. The red flag warning in effect tonight at 9 3 00 p. M. Specifically the best chance for gusty winds in the hills at a thousand feet and above. Thats who needs to be concerned. It should be said september and october is historically drier wind building in. Lt areas in red those are location under the fire warning. Notice sporadic areas. Around napa. Berkeley and oakland. Fremont and the East San Jose elevation. And the Higher Elevations outside of gilroy. Winds of 20 to 40 miles per hour. Occasional gusts and sustained winds. Steady wind ten to 20. Humidity ten to 25 . With this red flag fire warning in effect tonight, please remember this report any suspicious activity. No out door burning. Make sure any power tools you have whats called a spark arrester. Which prevents a spark f