Any easier, as well, for people who are sheltering or actually working from home. Today in the bay Cierra Johnson joins us live in c calistoga and monitoring some of the outages in the north bay. Yes, good morning. As i was coming into the main drag of calistoga you can see it was really, really dark. Typically they have the generators running and it may be too early forbut many of the bu this main drag are dark, but behind me you can see the main square does have power. Thats because a while ago the city did have a collaboration with pg e to have that microgrid. But for the most part it is dark except for the occasional headlight coming down. We wanted to provide you an update with the Power Outages so far. Right now 9,221 customers are without power in napa and as for sonoma 1,777 folks without power. Folks going on about hour 12 of not having power here in calistoga and keeping track of the brush fires and right now all clear on that front. Folks in calistoga without power because o
Under way right now. Tracie, you know about all the counts. This looks like it is a done deal. It looks like its a done deal because we have some sense of whether 12 republicans and 10 democrats will break when it comes down to voting for her or not. Looking live in the hearing room now. They are getting under way. She is done with her questioning. Shes not expected to be there today. But we will hear from members of the American Bar Association and outside witnesses on her nomination. A vote is not a final vote, but we will get a sense of where this committee is headed. We already know because weve been listening for several days as lawmakers questioned her with democrats questioning whether shes a threat to the Affordable Care act and womens issues. This hearing has done nothing to alleviate the concerns raised about why this nominee was chosen and why this is being rushed when the American People deserve to be heard. This is the first time in American History that weve nominated a w
Be the strongest we have seen so far this fire season. Pg e not taking any chances. Its getting ready to cut power. In the last 15 minutes the Utility Company releetsed where the Public Safety power shut offs could happen. The area in yellow. On this map. You can see every bay area county with the exception of San Francisco could be affected. These areas include the north bay mountains, east bay. Also the Oakland Hills and communities in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It could start sunday morning and go through tuesday morning. We have Team Coverage tonight. Lets start with chief meteorologist of course keeping a close eye on the strong wind. Everything really is materializing for the wind to not only impact the mountains but whats different about this that we havent seen lately is the low elevations getting in on the wind. The large low pressure system. Its expansive. Disrupting the atmosphere. As that starts to drop down. Sunday, monday and tuesday. Its going to bring a cold blast to us.
Yeah, weve got a lot going Something Else you could see, folks with gas cans, preparing on. To head home to get their personal generators going. Thousands in napa and sonoma its only getting hotter when it counties are without power. Comes to those temperatures. For those off the grid, its not even noon and san navigating a day without power francisco is already at 80 means using Electronics Wisely degrees. Its not windy at the lower and finding ways to keep elevations. I want to show you temperatures medications safe. Across the bay area. Weve gone through it so many san jose, 82. Times, its starting to really hayward, 87 degrees. Get old. Especially when we didnt see we are predicting our highs to be anywhere between the 80s and any wind tonight or today. 90s for the bay and coast and and we live on the wrong side of the river, because this part is 90s low triple digits. Red flag warning will be in energized and ours isnt. Effect through 11 00 a. M. You would think they could come up
Good thursday morning. We have live look at the u it is thursday, one step closer to the weekend. Lets a check of the ladder. Good morning. Tracking the heat, and our fire danger, already in the Higher Elevation here athe 50 to 60 miles per hour. This is until 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. This is highlighted in red. We have extreme fire danger with the gusty offshore wind. The wind advisory until 11 00 a. M. We have powerlines because of the strong winds. Also talking about possible record heat. Heat advisory for the entire bay area. Looking at dangerous heat with temperatures soaring about 20 degrees above average. We will talk about that in time it out. I will let you know how hot its going to get. Out of their waking up without power. Here is a look at where they pulled the plug. In calistoga at least 9000 people in the dark. But thats not helping those who are turning those evacuations. Actually came home on friday. I havent even been home a full week yet. We had been living out of suitca