To welcome customers back so soon. Good evening and thanks for joining us at everybody im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus not as bad as it was last night, but this Atmospheric River continues to pass through parts of the bay area tonight. Prompting several weather alerts in our region. The rain is falling in Santa Cruz County tonight streets there as you can see. Pretty slick and water is standing in some areas of Boulder Creek. Flood advisory has expired within just the past hour. But a Flash Flood Watch is in effect that curation orders and warnings remain in place near the burn zones in san mateo and santa cruz counties see her on the map the areas shaded in yellow are under evacuation warnings. The areas in red have evacuation orders in place. Is rain and snow knocked out power for more than half a million pg e customers in northern california. Nearly 75 of those customers have their power back on right now, but 16,000 customers in the bay area. Theyre still in the dark tonight a
The bay area, richmond in downtown oakland set records while san jose it happened they match their previous high temperatures. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, a heat advisory remains in effect until 9 oclock tomorrow night. The extreme heat along with the windy and dry conditions forcing power shut offs or thousands of people in the bay area we have Team Coverage tonight on the heat advisory Taylor Bisacky live in the east bay where people are in the dark tonight because of the power shut off but first lets head over to the Weather Center where our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is standing by lauras the fire danger still exists. Yeah weve seen these kind of come in waves pam, we see these impulses one came through this morning and then it picked up in the afternoon over parts of the east bay now going to watch those winds ramp up again tonight youre seen highpressure already in place now weve seen those offshore winds, it felt the heat out there and certainly some ve
Conditions. Laura. Yes, certainly looks like the strongest wind event easily of the year is pretty impressive were going to see all those winds rolling down the bay area almost a textbook like pattern developing now as were going to see these winds beginning to kick in and theyre going to get ferocious starting on sunday night i believe but even thinking up by the afternoon in the north bay, but this together you can see surface area of High Pressure kind of building into the north youve got low pressure diving into the great basin. Its that contrast in the winds that brings us those strong gusty winds around the bay area you can see the iso bars here in white the tighter they get the stronger the winds were expecting a major wind event sunday night into monday morning. Even some damaging winds real possibility, so yeah weve high weather watch going up for the entire bay area same with the red flag warning doesnt matter where youre at were all going to feel these winds. Now over the mo
Out now that also includes all of Crystal Springs road and north fork Crystal Springs road now at last update cal fire said that the fire was at 50 acres and is spreading dangerously fast you can see a bit of video here of just how quickly that fire has then spreading this morning, those large plumes of smoke it gives you an idea also it is a pretty populated area lots of wineries and what not in that area. This is a developing story of course were going to have the latest for you as details come with this is new video that were just getting in folks have been tweeting and sending in pictures and images, this is a video we allowed to be you using from from a twitter video someone posted look at the flames just completely torching of these trees again this is in saint there are mandatory evacuations due to this wildfire which is being called called the glass incident. Again cal fire has been describing this as a fastmoving of fire the Evacuation Orders were given out around 5 oclock thi
Here in the bay area by this power safety public shut off. Thats just coming from pg e because of the high fire danger thats coming our way this week. Cities impacted include ag win calistoga deer park. Pope valley saint helene and also unincorporated parts of napa county. The estimated shut off time is anywhere on the 7th which would be monday between 10 00pm and 02 00am with power not being turned back on. I assume this means the earliest on the 9th which would be 2 days later at 07 00pm this will impact about 2700 customers that just for napa Sonoma County only has about 3 customers are saying impacted in cloverdale were still working on getting all the information about this a p s p s people who are impacted should be getting an alert at some point tonight that this is coming. Meanwhile earlier this evening cal iso the state Energy Monitoring agency declaring a stage 2 emergency. Which meant rotating Power Outages were possible. But once again that flex alert that we were under end