Probably not soon enough, but coming soon, if you consider the weekend soon. I do. Im already thinking about it. It is friday morning. Good morning to you julian and kumasi and jobina. Hi, everybody. I do have the news of a fire danger length extending until 6 00 this evening. National Weather Service brought that up this morning. Thats the difference between when you went to bed last night and whats happening now. 90s possible everywhere, even along the coast, just like we had yesterday at Half Moon Bay. All those records going to be warmer than it was yesterday. Ill show you that relief coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Pg e is expected to restore power by 10 00 tonight depending on the weather. This morning thousands of people in Northern California are still in the dark from the Public Safety power shutoff that started on wednesday. So the pink triangles that you see on the map, those indicate the outages. Anser hassan is live in sonoma with more on this. Good morning
Reporter matt boon in oakland, matt . Reporter liz, its been warm and windy out here all day. Those gusts causing issues overnight behind me they toppled over part of a tree into power lines causing additional Power Outages for people here in mt. Claire. As crews clear the fallen branch, pg e says its working to restore power to the 800 or so customers that have been affected. But just down the road in mt. Claire village, the stoplights are off and signs like this dot many of the businesses. We did find julia, owner of this store in the dark. Her world upside down. The power is out but youre here working. What are you doing . Im working on my taxes. Reporter the old faxed way. The Old Fashioned way. Reporter while the shut offs may impact her business, she understands the importance thinking back to the oakland fire of 19 91. It best not having business for one or two days than not having business for almost a year. Reporter up in the hills, resident richard fills up the gas generator
Power cut off to try to prevent wildfires can planned to be in the dark into tomorrow night, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everyone im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis the Power Company announcing no changes for sonoma and napa county and their update tonight blaming critically dry conditions out there. This is an interactive map on pg es website shows exactly where the shut offs are happening at last check pg e reported that they turned off electricity to 167,000 customers across Northern California as part of what they call a Public Safety power shut off. 17,000 in Sonoma County most of which is in santa rosa and 5,000 in napa county and some of that in a in calistoga or sell sogomonian live in our newsroom tonight with when the power may come back on l a. Pg e is Incident Commander expects most of their customers will have their lights back on by the end of the day tomorrow with a widespread all clear in the morning. The weather is driving their decisionmaking taking a look at
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
Floyd. Across the country we saw protest against Racial Injustice and police brutality, become in some cases more paste peaceful and in some cases confrontational between police and protesters we have the latest. Reporter protests continue for the 10th night as people demand justice for george floyd and call for a and for just for on equality. The demonstrators are taking on a quieter tone after george floyd was being honored. But people are still pushing for report reform. Ive had people tell me, be careful around the police ive heard them say that to their block son, and i understand it but it still breaks my heart. Reporter los angeles lifted its curfew after days of demonstrations, but tensions are high between protesters and Law Enforcement across the country. Three nevada men face arson charges for setting fire to a Police Patrol patrol vehicle earlier in the week. And buffalo two officers have been suspended. After they were knocked down a 75yearold man and claim that he tripped