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
To see the president taken away to the hospital in a helicopter. Perhaps that video providing some reassurance. Not a lot of information is coming out of the white house. Reporter trump walked out of the white house wearing a mask and gave a thumbsup to reporters on his way to boarding marine one, the white house said the move is that an abundance of caution and a recommendation of his physician less than 24 hours after they said they tested positive for the coronavirus and experienced mild symptoms. The president received in experimental antibody cocktail. The white house staff in his campaign scrambling to adjust to the shocking scenario. We are making sure he takes it easy but he is hard at work at the white house. We have to look at the 24th amendment where the president can voluntarily say i need a minute, the Vice President will be the person running the country. This has happened in the past. Tracing and testing of anyone in the president s orbit , intelligence briefings, rallie
Experiencing of the week conditions that were bracing for on sunday and so that is obviously in our favor right now. I know that if this fire started on sunday night things would be vastly different we talk all the time daniel give us some perspective i know all red flag warnings are not created equal how bad it is this one thats coming sunday night monday. Well we definitely dont want to sound like a broken record as we have been in and out of red flag for the last several last several weeks and really the last several months this wind event that we are expecting to see on sunday will bring a extremely strong winds winds that we have not really experience this fire season in fact the last time we saw winds this magnitude and this widespread really in the 2017 and north bay fires so when the tubbs fire yeah was fires burning in sonoma and napa counties and we know how destructive those result so yeah, definitely its been a destructive year definitely bracing for what could be the stron
Making sure that you are prepared. Gayle ong has in orinda where theyre bracing for the strong wind event dan thorn is insane alina where theyre already dealing with a brush fire there, but we start tonight with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to give us a better idea of what we can expect lawrence guys this looks like a significant wind event may be the strongest of the year maybe several years were going see how all works out. But right now it looks very very impressive. The winds, fairly light right now just a general breeze around the bay area but watch what happens as we take you through the weekend now as those winds by tomorrow morning, not bad just a gentle breeze early on so not a bad start your weekend by tomorrow afternoon, the winds do begin to pick up but you notice the direction that is out of a westerly direction that brings that nice moist air off the ocean so fire danger running fairly low that all begins to as we get in towards sunday afternoon. And there you can
Then we maximized the use of those aircraft to fly them and help our ground resources. But the challenge has been with the lack of the clear air to be able to apply those aircraft to help our ground crews suppress the fire. Speaking next, one of our unified incident command its burning completely out of agencies from the city of santa control with thousands of homes in its path. Rosa, police chief ray navarro. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. We want to get to the latest for you. We just got an update about 7 00 thank you, jonathan. This morning from cal fire. The glass fire has burned more so, yesterday we had some good than 48,000 acres. News and we were able to it is only 2 contained right repopulate a few of the now. More than 113 buildings across evacuation areas within santa napa and Sonoma County are gone. And there are new evacuation rosa. Orders for People Living in st. We do still have several areas that are under evacuation orders and warnings. For the latest i