Good evening, everybody thanks for being here tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight more than 167,000 customers have been left in the dark this evening. This result of the planned power shutoffs by pg and e because of wildfire concerns. The impact has been felt by more than 22,000 customers in sonoma and napa counties, 17,000 customers in sonoma county. 5,000 customers in napa this is the current interactive outage map shut offs here indicated by those pink triangles you see the area just west of lake hennessy there is inundated with shut offs. Power for some customers may not be restored until tomorrow night according to pg and e and while most of those customers have dealt with these power shutoffs before they are no less frustrated. Kron fours michelle kingston reports now from santa rosa. I mean were becoming experts and being flexible up here in santa rosa street lights are out atm is not working thousand
Ahead of the november president selection. Past the u. S. Steps up its tech war with china banning the download of tick tock and we chat all this as time on Scrambles Fighter Jets as chinese will planes approach its territory a visit by a top u. S. Official is taking regional tensions woful new level. And im satisfied its with the latest sports a game creating garrett bell gets a heros welcome for the top new foundry news a move by revenues off to even for rail mature it. In corona virus cases has forced several governments to announce more restrictions there are fears of a 2nd wave as infections wildlife now top 30000000 spain is now limiting weve been in and around the capital madrid hospitals they are reaching capacity and Health Officials are pleading for more support and more equipment. We are saturated with people who need health care and patients that need here are doing the best we can but we need more Health Workers we need more resources and now the british Prime Minister has
The way they want to this specific case under touches off the National Security office later on they found another light opened is more appropriate charges but anyway critics say is this a pretty much 0 what they see as speech crimes like the i thought you wanted us to talk at the opposition fighters t. V. We have about 15 or 20 seconds besides the rest that. We have seen at this point is that been any of the reaction from hong kong authorities. What im asking i am the act that they sent to the wealthy to lay off the folks knowing that they stop its not going this is not politically motivated it is this but i think a Public Health and court like we have seen day rally today out in the latest and you know a little bit chaos so we will expect that all sorts of welcome damage but thats not the rally held today as they stand on its own authorized becoming much appreciated. Lets highlight some other stories making news around the world at this hour people have been gathering in the belushi
To speak to a man tortured by authorities in baton rouge since the un condemns attacks on up to 7000 people. And times up for ticktock the Us Government will ban downloads of the chinese owned up from sunday. Im sorry higher than of all the sports by munich it does a good title defense with a massive win the champions thrashing stroker 8 snail. Follow france is seen a Record Number of new coronavirus cases with more than 13000 infections registered in the past 24 hours the Health Ministry says 154 people died in hospital on thursday thats the highest number in 4 months the u. K. Government is considering whether to impose a 2nd National Lockdown of the daily cases in england nearly double still around 6000 in the past week israel is back in nationwide lock down for a 2nd time following a spike in numbers there its come at the height of the jewish Holiday Season and many European Countries are introducing new measures movement is being limited in spains capital denmark is applying a cur
Lotus and im Vicki Liviakis some gusty winds mean that any fire that has sparked a can spread rapidly chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here tracking those winds for us tonight want various he has some breaking down guys down below me the urban areas where most of us live not much in the way of wind 5 mile an hour winds in oakland youve got 6 right now in the nevada 6 in the petaluma but certainly up above. Its a completely different story in fact those winds getting very gusty across some of the mountain tops and thats what were concerned about thats red flag warnings have been posted weve seen winds over 30 almost 40 Miles Per Hour across some of the peaks in the north bay expected to pick up here as we head through the next few hours and probably top out about one 32 oclock in the morning. Before we watch the winds begin to subside so red flag warnings are posted of course we just had a record heat wave things very dry out there now weve got the gusty winds above a 1000 feet also