Cold air but theres a lot of moisture hanging around for thursday morning and sun and clouds 50s and 60s on the temps today. An Early Morning house fire started after 3 00 and the crews controlled the fire in ten minutes and no one living at the home was hurt. The Fire Fighters say two baby chicks in the garage died in that fire. Couple of brand new little kids with a heating lamp over a card board box created the fire. The fire was put out. The governor granted the request for a Emergency Declaration for the state. A major declaration sounds alarming but itll be a help in spiking the coronavirus. Governor gavin newsom approved the declaration and only took a few hours for the president to declare a major disaster in california. Governor newsom said the coronavirus psoriasis is having wide range impacts in every part of California Public and private life. This major disaster decurialation will help ease the burden by making federal Funds Available to state and federal governments for d
Spots and 50 right now in San Francisco. San jose 44 degrees. As you head out of the door for the morning drive in antioch, low 50s there and a clear sky. A lot of sunshine again today as our temperatures warm up even more so than we were yesterday. So were going to talk about 70s in the forecast. Even a few spots reaching near 80 degrees this week. More on that coming up if a few minutes. Mike, you have a different view out of dublin today. Or i have a view of dublin and livermore. 580 much clearer. Clear he drive right now out of the Altamont Pass and that slowing at grant line road. Fog after that. Toward the trivalley, construction overnight and it is there. Posey tube. And construction blocking all but one lane at i80 toward Caesar Chavez but fog unexpected. But up in Merritt Island that causeway bridge is closed until 6 00 a. M. Highway 37 is open but about 5 30 things get congested. So well keep track of things. New overnight. A chase spanning the bay ends with damage and a driv
Because of the virus. California governor gavin newsom has told President Trump he expects more than half of californians will be infected with this virus by june. Think about that for a moment. But here are the uptotheminute bay area totals. Santa clara county continues to report new cases. 14 in the last day, bringing their total to 189. Six people have died in that county. San francisco updated its total this morning with 19 new cases. The total in San Francisco is 70. Most counties are reporting a handful of new cases. There are at least 474 cases in the region right now. In the south bay, a san jose reserve Police Officer has tested positive for covid19, and now several other officers are selfquarantining out of an abundance of caution. Abc7 News Reporter amanda del castillo joins us live from Police Headquarters with the latest. Amanda . Ama, San Jose Police chief eddie garcia says the reserve officer wasnt feeling well so, the officer went to the doctor who confirmed he had covi
Watch. They released a statement reading their weather forecasters are monitoring a possibly strong and dry offshore wind event wednesday and thursday. Pg e ao said its considering proactively shutting off power to prevent its equipment from sparking a fire. At this point they have not called for a power safety power shutoff yet, but the company says if one is issued, it will likely affect the north bay and sierra foothills. Pg e also said if they implement a power safety power shutoff, it could be smaller in scope from the one that took place between october 9th through the 12th. For more on the dry, windy weather expected later this week chief meteorologist bill martin joins us now. Its also expected to heat up. Its going to heat up, but i said earlier in the newscast if you watched the 5 00 newscast after the football game, i was talking about this pattern not unusual. This is what happens every fall. The pattern coming up, the wind event coming up as we go into the middle of the we
Unincorporated parts of the county. Pg es website shows where the power is currently out. The purple icons indicate those are the power shutoffs which are under way in the north bay and along the sierra foothills. Pg e said it would start turning off the power at 3 00 p. M. Today although some people told us it started earlier than that. Outages will begin in San Mateo County around 1 00 in the morning. Pg e hopes to restore power by the weekend. A total of about 35,000 pg e customers in the bay area are affected by these Power Outages and that is why we have Live Team Coverage tonight. David louie will join us in a moment and we have Team Coverage in the north bay as well, which will bear the biggest impact. Before we go to Laura Anthony, lets hear from liz kreutz who is life in santa rosa. Liz. Reporter good evening. Roughly 27,000 customers are without power right now in sonoma county. Many of them here in santa rosa. Now, i want to show you where we are. We are inside the citys Eme