Were just here last week. Tonight pg e laying out more details on the potential power shutoffs that could affect tens of thousands of bay area residents. Plus how recent fires have impacted the diverse range of wildlife that called Northern California home. Good evening. Im elizabeth cook. Im ken bastida. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area we have breaking news in gilroy where the bomb squad had to be called out after an explosion sent a man to the hospital with serious injuries. That blast happened about 2 p. M. In the 1700 block of mantelli drive. Thats a residential area. Its not clear what caused the explosion. Mantelli between rancho hills drive and leanard way will likely be closed for the morning commute and could be shut down for several days. Tonight after two awful crashes back to back in san jose some are asking is Outdoor Dining safe . Kpix5s betty yu has been digging into the circumstances surrounding both these crashes and has new Surveillance Video that may be h
Thats because heavy winds and hot dry air are creating ideal fire conditions. Just what we do not need. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. Once again our coverage begins with abc 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian for whats happening right now and in the days ahead. Spencer . Okay, dan. Ama was right. We have ideal fire conditions. We have rising temperatures. Very low relative humidity and gusty winds that are only getting stronger. Right now as you look at current temperature readings you can see we have mid 90s, mid to upper 90s in many inland areas, even a couple 90s around the bay shoreline, and its 80 degrees in San Francisco. As we move along you can see that the wind gusts right now in the Higher Elevations are getting stronger and stronger. They will likely get Even Stronger in the nighttime hours. So as a result we have a red flag warning for high fire danger in effect until midday friday. This is not only for the hills but the hills
Arrows dow futures indicated down by about 260. Weve seen down 300 this morning. Nasdaq also down sharply down by 200 points and the s p 500 down by about 37 so significant declines after two other days of losses also playing out in the treasury markets as well. If you want to take a look at what is happening there, yields have gone down, right now the ten year is yield iing below 0. a lot of this has to do with renewed lockdowns in europe. Lets get to karen cho who has more on what is happening there. Thank you very much we are witnessing losses across the markets as we contend with more news flow around more severe restrictions. Weve been hearing the last couple hour 24s that there may moves announced later on today, reports from various Media Outlets suggesting that london will move to a tier two restrictions the london mayor has spoken suggesting that the Health Secretary will reveal the changes in the house of commons. No mingling between households currently there is a rule of si
24 hours. And the 14day Positivity Rate is at 2. 6 . Santa clara and alameda counties are moving in the right direction. They are now in the orange tier of the states covid19 restrict list. This means places of worship and businesses such as movie theaters can reopen for ibdoor service at 25 capacity. Or a maximum of 100 people. Whichever is fewer. Its a really important limitation that weve put in place to help try to reduce the density. To help try to reduce risk for community. And we will be out there with our Enforcement Teams ensuring that theres compliance with that local requirement. And with the local directives. The two counties now join San Francisco as the only three bay area counties in the orange tier. The state has issued guidelines for halloween and once again the coronavirus, meevens a holiday unlike any weve seen before. Californias secretary of health and human serves is discouraging trickortreating and halloween parties. Reporter yeah, frank. Its not entirely unexpec
Great to see you guys. Well check in with mike in just a minute. But, what, lets talk about the heat wave. We are in fall now, right . We are officially in fall, the first full day of fall. We are definitely heading towards hotter weather this weekend. Lets enjoy today while its still nice and mild and our good air quality that continues as well. We are going to see that continuing today for all of our microclimates. Spend some extra time outside. I know i did yesterday afternoon. Were going to see our temperatures reaching into the low 80s in the south bay and up to 83 today in napa. Mike, do you have a Traffic Alert going on . Yeah, kari, this changed in the last ten minutes. We have a crash in fremont. Lets show you on the map were looking at the east bay northbound 880, the nimitz. As you travel past the connection over toward the dumbarton bridge everything seems fine except for dakota. Closures for all lanes suddenly. The map marks it farther north than i would like. All lanes ar