Now at 11 00, breaking news, it is crazy hot. The power grid cannot handle it. The bay area has been hit with the first rolling blackouts in 20 years. Will this happen every day . We have warm weather on the way for the bay area. E leup in sight. We have complete details coming up. One mayor beggs people not come. What will they do to enforce it . Who should get vaccinated first . What california is being asked to do tonight. Streaming on cbsn bay area live, breaking news, pg e said tonights rolling blackouts are over. Power has been restored to essentially all customers. There are thousands without power tonight as the heat puts an enormous strain on the grid. We have Team Coverage on the heat wave, and what to ask next through the weekend. First, Katie Nielsen is insan rafael where the lights suddenly went out in the middle of dinner. Reporter thats right, the lights on Fourth Street just came back on about 90 minutes ago. For the restaurants downtown, the damage was done. Bill higgi
Santa cruz county. Lets zoom in now on the czu lightning complex fire. You take a look at this map on your screen. The red line shows the outline of the fire and it has grown so much you can see that spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fires turned deadly a 70 yearold man was found the body of 7 yearold man was found in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live this morning at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a Scotts Valley. He has the latest will. Marty so far right now as of the update yesterday at around 11 oclock last night 74,000 acres have burned for this fire. We do know that at least 131 structures have gone up in flames with many others damaged. We expect a News Conference in one hour from now they have thousands of firefighters spread throughout california. The moving forward the biggest challenge will be the resources heading to this location. Yes, very dry very smoky. But the good news is i did not see any Lightning Strikes thats the fe
Santa cruz county. And any minute now were expecting an update from cal fire on the czu complex fires that are burning in santa cruz and san mateo counties and well have it for you live when it happens. Well meanwhile, lets start with the l in new complex fire. Thats burning in the north bay right now check out this map that shows you where the complex fires are burning which is in sonoma napa and solano counties so far at least 4 people have died and 4 others have been injured, lets check in with kron 4 Sarah Stinson who is in Sonoma County where the fire is threatening homes, sarah. They robin the on live here on West Dry Creek road just west of healdsburg where its still very dark outside a lot of times with these fires cal fire as the way till sunrise is to really see what theyre working with after a long day of battling the flames take a look at what they were doing yesterday and probably into the night to try and combat the flames and stop them from spreading to nearby communitie
Struggling. This was supposed to be his big friday night rush. Restaurants are already under the gun. This is hurtful. Reporter the beer garden was still rocking, thanks to a bluetooth speaker, battery operated lights, and more than a few cold adult beverages. It was weird. Reporter those downtown when the power went out were relying on headlights from passing cars to see where they were going, while others used flashlights on their cell phones. Some question, why bother to leave . It is difficult to go home. We want to be by the air conditioning unit, we dont have that now. Reporter for the people owning restaurants, the stakes are higher. We have five more days to come. Will this happen every day or what . Reporter that is the big question everyone is asking. What will happen tomorrow . We spoke with a representative from the power grid. She said the biggest factor for the rolling blackouts tomorrow will be the weather. Katie nielsen, kpix 5. The crazy hot weather sounds like it will
Now lets focus in on the czu lightning complex fire. You can see the outline on your map its in red. It shows the outline of the fire and you can tell that its spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fire has turned deadly as firefighters discovered the body of a 70 yearold man in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a scotts valley. He has the latest for us well. Marty they just wrapped up the News Conference a little bit more information on that man who died his name not being released. But we do know that he was found near his vehicle in the attempt of leaving the fire so he was trying to rescue himself but overcome, but either the smoke or the flames so he was not inside his home at the time and thats when they believe that he was desperately trying to flee unfortunately he ran out of time and the fires just simply overcame him as far as the condition of the fire still very much burning out of control at this