About 37,000 customers. Across 15 Northern California counties that they could be losing power. Of the 15 counties 5 hour here in the bay, they are alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma. More than 4,000 customers in the bay area could be affected here. Napa county appears to be hit the hardest the most customers in the bay area affected are in napa some of the outages have already started but most of them are expected as we move through the overnight hours pg and e says the hot and dry weather combined with really high wind gusts pose an increased risk for damage to their electrical system that has the potential to start fires can you want to be on guard. We have Team Coverage for you tonight, Lawrence Karnow is in the Weather Center. Monitoring the red flag warning that goes into effect in about an hour but first we turn to kron fours gayle ong who is live tonight in where people are preparing for another round of shut off scale. Grant and vicki nearly 3300 pg e customers a
At 6 customers could soon be left without power. This as we have yet another preemptive power shut off expected to begin just after midnight tonight. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore, this is happening as a red flag warning has been issued for parts of the bay area starting at 10 oclock tonight and lasting through 8 oclock friday morning take a look at the pga any outage map this hour the areas highlighted in yellow are the areas affected residents in alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma counties are among those bracing for no power we have Team Coverage this evening kron fours gayle ong live for us in napa county where residents are obviously on edge there. But first chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow tracking the dangerous conditions there prompting these fire concerns torrance, you guys it seems like the fire season, the wooden and it just continues and continues and until we get any rain were going to see more fire danger this when we get th
Continue. Throughout the evening and the overnight hours lets take a look now at the outage map from pgd so we can see exactly the affected areas. This is the future outlook of where the power will be going awful zoom in on the north bay napa county will be impacted the most. Heres the big sections that will be losing power again at some point overnight tonight. This includes all around calistoga and also just to the west of saint zooming down now into the east bay well see thats some parts of Contra Costa County will be losing power just to the west of danville and also in this section here just to the west of san ramon going down a little further south. Again this is the part that will be losing power at some point overnight tonight this is in the south bay. Current outages, well just take a quick look an or a purple triangle be showing us the outages that are power shut off related and so far none in the bay area were just waiting now for the power to be turned off. Now according to
Morning so not until tomorrow that theyre having a start that you can track the latest on the power shut off any time when you have the kron 4 app and you also find the forecast an interactive radar there just check that out its free. Our check this out a man seen jumping over a counter at a downtown staff just walgreens store taking off with an air mattress you can see here all caught on camera a crew from inside edition was actually at that store along van ness and eddie for a story on shoplifting when this actually happened this is one of many excessive shoplifting case is happening in the bay area because of that rapid shoplifting at this particular location. The store will close now for good on november. 11th. This is the 3rd store in San Francisco closed because of shoplifting crawford Jonathan Mccall has the story. Caught on camera a wild scene thats being played out at retail Chain Drug Stores across the bay area. Scores of shoplifters swarming stores ransacking racks and pilfe
Bay at red flag warning in effect as well so weve got Team Coverage once again we have will tran hes standing by in napa county covering the power shut offs Sarah Stinson is in San Mateo County with the latest on those red flag warnings. First lets start in the Weather Center with john trouble. Yeah guys, those red flag warnings definitely concerning still across the bay area weve been seeing them for much of the week so far and we are keeping them going for yet another day extended last night in fact now what were going to be seeing today are dry conditions across the bay which definitely contributes on top of the windy and warm weather that we also have you look outside right now at San Francisco shows you clear skies makes for a beautiful view, but definitely not a lot of marine layer to be talking about out there thats why we have red flag warnings that the coast in areas like Half Moon Bay pacifica up in upper elevations in the Santa Cruz Mountains inland east bay, all of us a in