This is one of the areas where it could be targeted by pg es few program to shut down power, to help prevent fires. It feels just like it did over the fire, supreme weather, hot, windy. Reporter mary lou and derek ericson recently moved into their home after losing their previous one after a fire two years ago. While trying to settle if, they are dealing with unsettling weather conditions. Were definitely more on all of us, all of our neighbors, everybody that has been through it on high alert and they are showing you the awareness of the winds and what it could cause. Reporter pg e has parking lots of the north bay at an elevated level. Public safety power shutoff, psps, a new utility where they shut down to help during the wildfire. We have not contacted any customers in the forth bay yet. I think its a good thing, having been through the fires. Reporter while mary lou ericson supports the psps, her neighbors do not. I think that is an easy way out for them. Than them maintaining dec
An offshore breeze. There is a low cloud deck. If it feels warmer, it is. Low clouds dont have much to work with today. 70s and 80s. Upper 80s for a few. I believe she is here for another day. That would be allie. She is filling in for sal. It is pretty quiet. He gets to sleep in another day. For those of you heading out on the road, things look pretty good. A little bit of slowing on westbound 205, but not too bad. Here in the east bay, things are looking okay. Northbound 880, there is a report of a crash to. Vehicles involved. Chp put the word out that people were able to move over to the righthand shoulder so it shouldnt be blocking anything there. Here is 880 in oakland. That accident we told you about. Past is coliseum, traffic looks good in both directions. The bay bridge toll plaza is nice and empty. 4 01. Lets go back to the desk. Millions of pg ande are being advised and warning that power may be cut off later today in several Northern California counties to reduce the risk of
If power will be shut of off. This morn ago mris to the north bay mountains, east bay hills in, theiablo range. Includes lake county, napa and sanoma. The National Weather service has issued a red flag weather danger warning from 9 00 tonight until wednesday morning. Strong winds and hot temperatures are expected. Now, some people who lost their homes in the north bay fire two years ago and have finally rebuilt are worried about these weather conditions. Ill still i have a lot of ptsd around the whole fire situation. He keeps calling me and trying to calm me down and say it is not going to happen her other again, but i, you know, i still have that fear. The safety power shutoff happens when pg ande feels it is necessary to turn off electricity to customers in a high fire danger area. If that power does go off, it will stay off for a couple of days. There will be some Community Resource centers in the counties that could be impacted with things like restrooms, water, and air conditionin
Gentleman pg ande might have to cut off power. They have their own Weather Network that you can access. You can do it at home. That is not like the ktvu beth weather. So you can check in on them. The red flag. Yes, exactly. You can track their winds as well as we are. Now, i was just looking around up around 4000 feet. There is a north wind, and it is beginning to turn a little north northeast. North and i. C. E. Bay littles are the main focus, but again, we have learned from that. And you can take that even down to the surface sometimes. That will be later this afternoon tonight into early wednesday. And some gusts maybe to 40 miles per hour. Mostly sunny. Some thick fog out there. Warming begins although still pretty warm yesterday. Santa rosa, San Francisco, oakland, liv oh,rmore all above the average and they will over the next three days. The reason being the system we had yesterday is going to form what is called a cutoff low. Cut arizona and Southern California. The high will bu
55,000 customers were notified here. But that was a possibility. Pg ande hopes to have an announcement actually before noon. That didnt happen, but they are mulling this over because the consequences are both great for the customers and great for pg ande as well in terms of time and energy and effort and cost. So at this point in time, we dont know, but we should know in minutes what is going on. We do know that as you said it has to do with the northern bay area, but also the sierra foothills and some very, very wide area of land that we are talking about. Most of it is not terribly well populated, but still, there are people out there and they would be in a situation where they might lose their power. So the minute we know anything, we will come back. No doubt in this newscast and tell you what is going to happen. We arent sure yet. As soon as we know, well bring it to you live. And meteorologist rosemary still has details on the warm up expected today and tomorrow and the redflag wa