Yet another string of high winds dry conditions over the next couple of days. Thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis for the north bay mountains, this is the second red flag warning to be issued this week so lets go ahead kick it off here with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow he is tracking the dangerous weather conditions out there for us laurent boy it is been a long fire season right now theres no end in sight in fact these winds going to be picking up in fact i think these are red flag warnings are in effect so far feel friday but theyre going to be in effect all the way i think until the weekend weve got a series of wind events that are going to be affecting the bay area and boy it is going to howl around parts of the bay area. Look at the winds expected over the Santa Cruz Mountains this between now and friday, the red flag warnings up even along the coastline, 3040 mile an hour wind gusts probably some 50 mile an hour wind gusts o
At 6 customers could soon be left without power. This as we have yet another preemptive power shut off expected to begin just after midnight tonight. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore, this is happening as a red flag warning has been issued for parts of the bay area starting at 10 oclock tonight and lasting through 8 oclock friday morning take a look at the pga any outage map this hour the areas highlighted in yellow are the areas affected residents in alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma counties are among those bracing for no power we have Team Coverage this evening kron fours gayle ong live for us in napa county where residents are obviously on edge there. But first chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow tracking the dangerous conditions there prompting these fire concerns torrance, you guys it seems like the fire season, the wooden and it just continues and continues and until we get any rain were going to see more fire danger this when we get th
Continue. Throughout the evening and the overnight hours lets take a look now at the outage map from pgd so we can see exactly the affected areas. This is the future outlook of where the power will be going awful zoom in on the north bay napa county will be impacted the most. Heres the big sections that will be losing power again at some point overnight tonight. This includes all around calistoga and also just to the west of saint zooming down now into the east bay well see thats some parts of Contra Costa County will be losing power just to the west of danville and also in this section here just to the west of san ramon going down a little further south. Again this is the part that will be losing power at some point overnight tonight this is in the south bay. Current outages, well just take a quick look an or a purple triangle be showing us the outages that are power shut off related and so far none in the bay area were just waiting now for the power to be turned off. Now according to
Talk about just that its really pretty out there actually get it from coming up, so its a brighter commute but the lines getting longer john so its pretty busy, especially on our bridges were checking out the trip here on the bay bridge 80 wesson to San Francisco you see all the headlights right. The backup is pretty long it goes back to the bottom of the maze and thats normal for this time of mourning, but at least you dont have any problems or crashes in the mix to add to the slow traffic so were up to 14 minutes and thats still a really good drive into San Francisco with no big problems right now were checking on highway 4 because i just got word of a crash in pittsburgh on the westbound direction thats the commute side. So thats bumping up their drive time to 25 minutes thats no longer highway 4. But this is a beautiful shot of the city right now to overview of San Francisco for coming up well check in on some more bridges star ian james and well see how the traffic is moving aroun
News stations. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. A covid19 outbreak at San Quentin State Prison in marine county. We have 4 more inmates who died over the weekend, including convicted killer. Johnny avila junior, thank you for joining us said 9 oclock everybody Catherine Heenan will be here momentarily im grant lotus the cases are climbing at San Quentin State Prison with 94 new cases in just the past 2 weeks and right now 537 people on the prison have the virus. More than 1500 of them have recovered 19 of the inmates have died 10 of them or have been on death row. All of this according to the states online tracker of prison populations. The virus moving fast within the walls of the prison. It is not isolated to just inside kron fours michelle kingston explains there are more than 250 confirmed covid cases among Staff Members. Were told theyre all given an n 95 mask as they enter the prison and theyre being tested every 2 weeks she has said that she and the in his route. Just woken up a