Senator elizabeth warren, just one of many at the center of an already white hot debate over exactly when ginsburgs seat will be filled and by who. Good morning, everyone. Its sunday, september 20th. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Were going to get right to that Senate Battle thats shaping up. First as always a quick check of the weather. People are wondering about the potentially smoky conditions today. Lisa, good morning. I smelled it yesterday but there was a little bit of haze out there, air quality went from good to moderate for some, and well be going in the other direction today, moderate and will be Getting Better for those of you who perhaps have the less than ideal air quality right now. Live doppler 7, little fog out there. Looking at temperatures in the 50s and 60s in the east bay, 56 in dublin, 59 in concord. Lots of fog in pacifica, cant see a thing there, 54 in novato and santa rosa. Its cool where the fog is dense, two to seven degrees cooler this morning arou
This afternoon that there is enough energy to power. The state and that your conservation efforts helped. However pg any which supplies power to most of Northern California says that due to weather conditions. Safety power shutoff could happen for 2 bay area counties starting as soon as 09 00pm tonight, those 2 counties are napa and sonoma counties this interactive map on the pga any website shows the areas where customers could be affected. We should add that parts of lake county will also be affected in total more than 158,000 customers across 21 counties could be affected tonight. I want to bring in Lawrence Karnow water talk about this excessive heat warning. And the weather conditions that might prompt a shot off port yeah were going to see some very gusty winds developing overnight tonight. Its tomorrow week air of low pressure kind of dropping over the top of that ridge and moving to colorado eastward as that moves through of some of High Pressure building in behind it. We start
Especially the closer you are to the coast and up 101 where visibilities are less than a quarter of a mile. And there is no wind to turn over the atmosphere and make the smog go away. Dont expect to see the sunshine today. Take a look at these two videos shot. On the left, you see august 21. On the right, you see what happened yesterday. As the cameras pan on a clear day, you can see all the way to twin peaks. Now you can barely see in front of you. Julian glover is live in san jose. Reporter good morning. Yeah, an issue out here in the south bay as well. And on that 25th consecutive spare the air day, nighmight mi as well call it spare the air month right now. We really want to show you the difference a day makes. Look at the video, on wednesday the day the sunrise looked more like the sunset, the eerie orange and yellow skies. It trapped the wildfire smoke over the bay area protecting some of the air quality. And then thursday, you can see the skyline disappearing and the thick gray
All the smoke looks like big bank of clouds. The smoke coming down in our direction from the oregon fires and the fires of california and it is just collecting in the upper levels of the atmosphere. And then the low clouds and fog, the marine layer, down at the surface level. A layer cake effect with the smoke layer above and the marin layer below. And we had a rather vigorous onshore flow with weaker winds aloft. Right now, theyre getting a little stronger but not enough to change the setup that ive just explained to you. Fog. Air quality right now, be nearly as red as you might think by looking at the ugly air. We have yellow dots indicating moderate air quality. We have poor air quality in ukiah and vacaville. Looking southward, oakland, San Francisco, fremont, livermore, san jose, we even have good air quality indicated by the green dots over parts of, well, parts of the santa cruz mountains. The marine layer will push locally inland. We might see some drizzle in the overnight hour
Grant lotus. And im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 the highly unusual sight all across the bay area skies. Its just better. All people are talking about today indeed taking a live look outside right now across the bay from the bay bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge. The san mateo bridge to the richmond sandra fell bridge. It looks normal right now, but all day. It was just about as dark run for chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow begins our Team Coverage explaining. What weve been witnessing in how long the skies could stay like this lawrence whats going on yet let my entire life here in california have never seen a day like today wake up to the orange skies and certainly. Was concern looking at the maps though you can see where it came from not the more fires locally but number we have the paradise fire a few years back that but all the smoke in the bay area will now weve got another fire near theyre called the bear fire. Weve also got the august complex and t