Square today empty space that would usually be packed with visitors. San franciscos lack of tourists could mean cuts to programs that residents rely on. A brks krrbc 7 News Reporter me woodro has the story. Reporter suns around San Francisco say welcome, were open and visitors are few and far between. One of the campaigns is our gate is open. While that gate just got closed two days ago. Reporter steve rizzo is general manager at hotel g. The hotel has been closed for eight months. Rizzo estimates theyve lost 8 to 12 million in that time. I imagine that a lot of places are in the same boat as we are. Your cash flow runs out when you have no Revenue Source coming in. Reporter according to the quarterly status report released this month by the controllers office, the hotel tax is expected to drop 43. 4 million below the expected 126. 2 million. One of the things that visitors really do is help to pay the cost of living in San Francisco and without them, its going to be noticeable for all
Fuel to an already historic fire season. We do have Team Coverage. Of the fire danger and also the potential for power shutoffs for so many pg e customers across the bay area, well start now with our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez shes in the Weather Center were tracking. The latest weather conditions for us for sunday. Were really worried about the a presa yeah and we definitely should be just stayed in jonathan, especially when we see sustained winds 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour our valleys could actually see gusts upwards of 55 Miles Per Hour even throughout the coast as well with the strongest gusty as winds. No surprise our highest peaks, north bay mountains east bay hills and diablo range. Could see near category one Hurricane Force winds at around 70 Miles Per Hour on the eve of the oneyear anniversary of the kincade fire. So prime fire season, a peak of high fire season here in the bay area. Thats when the wind advisory going into effect for everyone in the bay area sunday afternoo
Wildfires. Now at 10 oclock the bay area and Northern California just hours away from seeing potential Hurricane Force winds. The threat now causing extreme fire danger. And another round of power shut offs from pg and e thats where we begin this saturday night at 10 oclock here on kron 4 news. Thanks so much for joining us. Im Jonathan Mccall and im justine waldman. It is dry, theres very low humidity and the winds are going to whip that adding even more fuel to an already historic fire season. We have Team Coverage tonight on the fire danger and the power shut offs will start with meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez whos standing by with the latest on the fire danger this weekend. Yeah thats right just cnn jonathan all eyes will be not just on our hills but also our valleys and coast. Everyone in the bay area will be impacted by this upcoming wind storm and we do have a wind advisory going into effect sunday afternoon through monday morning most of us will see sustained winds at 20 to 35
We have Team Coverage on the fire danger and the power shut off tonight. Well start with kron fours dan thorn, hes live for us now in berkeley with more on the warning thats gone up for people to evacuate. Thats right just seen the high fire danger and the potential power shut offs here in berkeley. Our focus primarily on the area east of claremont and also on panorama kill but people all across the greater east bay are also getting themselves prepared in case they to lose power. As extreme fire danger threatens areas across the east bay, including the Berkeley Hills residents are getting prepared. We have go backs. People turned out bags with maybe theyre important couple important and you need extra classes, you met him over there for mary and fred been remembers the 1991 firestorm and hopes sundays wind event doesnt get out of control city officials are asking people to consider evacuating from the hills preemptively warning of potential wild fires and blocked roads we want folks to
Leave thousands of people without power. Good morning, everybody on Marty Gonzales thanks a lot for joining us on the kron 4 morning news this sunday october 25th want to get right todays 4 in the Weather Center with more on what should be a really tumultuous day today. Yeah, good morning marty and good morning, everybody we are going to see some really bone dry air across the bay area for not just today but into a lot of next week. Theres actually some fog going on early this morning, so things will be changing and rapidly kicking things off with a red flag warning youve heard so much about this kicks off at 11 00am basically for the hills first and then goes to the lower elevations by this evening should expire for most locations by 11 00am on monday. So that part of the program relatively brief or that covers the higher wind section of the forecast but were going to be with dry air for several days which will be getting into live shot of the Golden Gate Bridge here a little bit of g