Customers across Northern California are a set to lose power this weekend under dangerous wind conditions. Every county except San Francisco is going to be affected. A new wild fire breaks out in napa county. Firefighters raced to contain the flames. There is just 10 days before the elections and Record Numbers have already cast their ballot. How to make sure your vote is counted before the rush. Good morning. I am emily turner. 1st, a red flag warning issued for the entire bay area beginning tomorrow morning. Pg e says it will cut power to more than 1 million customers this weekend. Huge portions of napa, sonoma and ran counties are impacted. Much of the Higher Elevations are also impacted along with thousands of customers in the santa cruz mountains. Some people are already gearing up. I am past and i have my camping gear in my husbands truck. We just get ready i chose to live in Sonoma County so i pack. Lets go straight to meteorologist, darren peck. The 1st thing about today is, no
This road, it will be suicide. I mean, no other word for it. And so we decided that were going to go to my mothers in the south bay for a few days tomorrow. And we have a 84yearold father living with us. Timmy is 3 1 2 and we also have two other People Living in the household so it is a six person preemptive evacuation. The more the people pre evacuate the more easy it will be for people to evacuate and for fire engines and Police Vehicles to get up. 15 coverage on the fire danger, and power shutoffs, we begin with john ramose in Sonoma County tonight. Many of the same communities that are affected by wildfire are also affected by power shutoffs. And in Sonoma County, they have gotten pretty good at preparing for them. Here is of the current north bay power outage map looks like, today. Here is what is expected to look like tomorrow. Into the hills for santa rosa, the people in jon mills are kenwood neighborhood have gotten used to it. Love you neighbors are hooked to generators now. I
Some neighborhoods. Traffic is still shut down on the stretch of i80 in richmond. All eastbound lanes are back open but right now, hazmat crews are still popping pumping up the gasoline that are pouring over the westbound lanes. A fiery tanker truck crash prompting an Evacuation Order and then a shelter in place. It all happened about a little clock this morning according to chp. A motorcycle entering westbound i have been 80 from hilltop driver lost control and spun out, ending up under the fuel tanker. The truck drove onto the shoulder with the motor cycle is still caught underneath, the truck burst into flames, the front cabin was engulfed and it was a very close call but unbelievably, both the rider and the driver are all right. Still, it shut down both as i have an 80, smoke visible for miles. People on both sides of the highway order to evacuate. It was downgraded to a shelter in place and one resident described the rush to pack up. Part of our important step at a certain place,
Neurologist paul heggen, on white is red flag warning is so concerning. We had this red flag warning early in the week i have been saying is a kind of borderline scenarios. The wind is going to be very strong. We check out those forecast numbers are just a second but a live look right now come from the foothills east of san jose, just look at your screen right now, everything is very, very dry. We are talking record levels in terms of how dry the fire fuels are, which is an additional problem in terms of how the weather is going to make things worse. Relative humidity level from future cast in the beginning sunday afternoon, you can see them dropping into the teens and parts of the north bay, the numbers keep getting lower and lower as we had through sunday evening and especially sunday night, into early monday morning. As the dry offshore wind, i mean, monday, to clock in the morning, committee levels should be well over 50 , they will be 5 to 10 for the north bay, and inland in the e
Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. As we hear about surges in coronavirus cases in other parts of the country. Californias numbers have been fairly steady the past several weeks and thats helping us build a better bay area. Nearly 3300 cases were reported with Southern California remaining the hardist hit region. The twoweek average is about 3200. There were another 22 deaths, which pushes californias total close to 17,000. More than 3100 people are hospitalized around the state with coronavirus. But there is very good news locally. San francisco is the first county in the bay area to move to the yellow covid19 safety tier. Thats the least restrictive tier that allows more businesses to expand and increase capacity indoors. Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra has the story. Reporter San Francisco may start to feel alive again. The city officially moving into the yellow tier today granting the least restrictive rules for reopening. Here are the big take aways. Starting next tuesday, nonessen