One business has two generators ready to go. Ill tell you why in my story. Tracking fire danger and winds. Hour by hour look at how strong and how long coming up. Reports of High School Students having sleepovers shuts down campus for in Person Learning amid concerns. Bars and restaurants in san jose can be open longer, but the issue is employment. Abc 7 news starts right now. Now from abc 7 live breaking news. And that breaking news is a new red flag warning just went into effect for large parts of the bay area until friday morning. Pg e has started shutting off power to parts of Sonoma County because of the extreme fire danger. Tonight the eutility reduced the number of planned outages. The bulk of customers in napa county. We have Team Coverage on the dangerous fire weather. Lets start with j. R. Stone in calistoga where residents and businesses. Fill up your gas container, another Public Safety shut off is underway. Im filling the gas can for the generator. Reporter in calistoga, t
Two weeks until election day. Two foreign actors, iran and russia, have taken specific actions to influence Public Opinion relating to our elections. Accessorizes of meddling as President Trump and joe biden are on the eve of their final debit. In a rare nighttime News Conference, the fbi says russia and iran are trying to influence the election. This is something weve been warned about for years. The feds say Iranian Intelligence was responsible for recent emails sent to intimidate voters. Here is nbc bay areas ian cull with the details. Reporter tonight, the fbi and National Intelligence director say russia and iran have obtained voter reg registration information. Nbc news is reporting tonight that iran sent intimidating emails like this one to democratic voters posing as members of the far right proud boys who support the president , saying vote for trump or well come after you. When we see indications of foreign interference or federal election crimes, were going to aggressively i
Into the weekend. Well talk more about this, as well as what were expecting with the red flag warning coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking heading out the door for work . We had red sensor warning and very slow and over in the east bay were looking at your map and focusing on the right side. Well zoom into the nimitz southbound and from 92 down to about industrial, the Construction Zone usually there, but this morning we see a lot more slowing. Chp is there for Traffic Control and two lanes are blocked. Well see how that plays out and more slowing and an alternate you might need coming up. Thanks, mike. Lets get back to what kari was just talking about. The fire danger is back along with more power shutoff. Hundreds of people waking up this morning in the dark. Today in the bay bob redell live in dublin. Talk to us about the weather conditions where you are. Fine from our Vantage Point in the hills over dublin but san mateo and especially in the north bay are expected to
I think its going to be another warm one. It was pretty warm yesterday, mike. It will be warmer than average again today. Welcome back, reggie, kumasi, jobina. The cooling trend is on schedule. However our critical fire conditions thankfully are a bit slower to develop. So theres some good news to start the day with. We still have historically low fuels. That means the vegetation is drier than average at historic levels. So the fire danger is still high. Thats why we have the red flag warning until 8 00 tomorrow. Lets look at the winds. They are fairly light, up to 40 in diablo, 22 as you head over to the north bay mountains. Humidity level is lower than yesterday. Still around 25 . Lets talk about whats going to happen this afternoon. 68 at the coast, look at that southerly surge of cloud cover. That will make a dent in our warm weather. Thats tomorrow. 70s around the bay. 80s inland today. Reggie . Happening today, forced blackouts for thousands of pg e customers in california. The u
San francisco will reach 72 and 85 in napa and 80 in martinez and well see mid 80s, as well, for parts of the south bay. Well talk more about this coming up. Mike, how is it looking right now for the morning commute . We have a few slow spots, kari. Ill talk about both sides of the bay. But, first, i want to show you crossing the bay at the bay bridge toll plaza. No metering lights yet. Were holding pretty steady with the middle lanes as the slowest one and we see more traffic coming off that 880 overcrossing. Well look at the map and see metering lights turned on soon and the arrows on either side of the san mateo bridge and earlier crews are just clearing. Back to you. Thanks so much. Well, lets start out with ka today in the bay bob redell and the power shutoff. Hundreds are still without power right now. As a precaution to prevent wildfires we are in a red flag warning. You can see behind me the weather is pretty nice here as you look over from the hills over dublin but other parts