Right now. Still breezy in areas like atlas peak, sonoma and calistoga as wills danville all these areas have consistently seen wind gusts this morning into a 20 mile per hour range. Most of her strongest of winds have been concentrated in mountainous areas more exposed to those peak wind sitting right above the bay. Well you see just the other thing going on right along the bay itself hayward san jose San Francisco, nice and calm through the morning we will see winds picking up briefly into early afternoon right after lunchtime and then after that its all downhill in by 06 00pm tonight. Actually pretty calm evening set up ahead of us red flag warnings will does expire at 05 00pm today for those upper elevations of the east bay, a purse elevations of marin and sonoma counties too and much of napa and all of Solano County. Again this red flag warning Expiration Date ahead of us so we do have that end in sight. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures, its been a nice morning with oakla
And a very tight one to a handful of states cant be called at this point just because the tally is to close the margin. Is too close and yet so going to be tracking for. Well east today for sure and least a few days to come as we take a look at the big wall and you can see that biden has a lead in the Electoral College to 38 to to 13. James even talking about how this count is far from done in their 60s talk a little bit more about also the battle for power in the senate which also is. Up for grabs still at this hour. It is and it seems like a lot of these senate. Voting down ballot sort of follow it follow along party lines to right from the top of the ticket places that democrats thought theyd make inroads turns out voted in line with pretty much how the president ial election has been going so far so lets give you a quick look on the National Scene democrats were able to flip one seat. And that was in the state of arizona, they also got colorado, but them last, alabama so that kind
Thousands of customers. Low humidity, record dry vegetation. Another night of critical fire weather. Good evening, everyone. A red flag warning is now in effect for the entire bay area, and most of Northern California. We have five Team Coverage on the fire danger. Pg e has already cut firepower to thousands of customers. Amber has more on how people are preparing to evacuate if necessary. Bill martin is tracking conditions. He is among those who have lost power. It is really coming on. The wind was expected as it is. There is a red flag warning right now. It has got some duration, but its going to be around. The main event is tonight, in the next five or six hours, so lets do this model. Eight, nine, 10 00. You can see the orange and yellow, you can see the numbers in calistoga. That went goes down to calistoga at 32 Miles Per Hour. This is 2 00, 3 00 in the morning, it peaks right there. You can see that winfield, those purple areas, this is the main event tonight. According to the m
Are a lot of darkened businesses without generators probably going to have to be closed today. Pg e believes that this psps should last for two days. Some people tell us they cant wait that long to get their power back. We met a College Student who is going to head home to southern california, shes now without electricity and wifi at st. Marys in moraga. I cant do School Without wifi, especially because we are all online so its impossible because we cant go to inperson classes. So i told my mom and she was like, yeah, lets book you a flight home right away. Reporter if these winds spark a fire contra costa firefighters are ready to go on the ground and in the air. They have two helicopters with expandable water buckets ready to go, they can drop water on any flames that pop up. They also have ground crews ready to go, but the weather will play a role in whether the helicopters can go up. If the wind is too intense those helicopters have to stay on the ground. It is windy right now, its
Dangerous winds there, even in the lower elevations, 37 in fairfield. Down to 20 in concord. 30 in napa. 22 in novato. 27 in San Francisco. Look at the peninsula, 25 to 31 whether youre in san mateo or sfo. A noisy night out there, there will be a lot of debris on the road, so drive around that and be careful. Our lower elevations, still in the red flag warning until 11 00. Higher elevations until 5 00 tomorrow afternoon. The winds will subside for most of us after 11 00, its so dry and the winds will below wind advisory criteria, but still fast enough to have that high fire danger. Reggie . That breaking news is in the east bay, high winds are now blowing. Youre looking at what happened in concord after a tree toppled bringing down power lines on Birchwood Court late last night. Contra costa county firefighters responded to similar calls reporting either fallen trees or downed power lines. This morning nearly 107,000 customers throughout the bay area are in the dark. Pg e shut off pow