Residents. This is the latest outage map on pg and es website. Those pink triangles indicate areas without power because of the Public Safety power shut offs. Thank you for joining us tonight on this monday night im pam moore welcome everybody, im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne. Pg and e began shutting off power over the weekend ahead of a major wind event and take a look at these wind speeds these were recorded overnight saint helene a reported wind gusts of 89 miles an hour. Healdsburg 83 miles an hour blackhawks 68 hawkeye 61 pittsburgh, 57 Miles Per Hour oakland, 51 Miles Per Hour and the danger unfortunately is still not over and chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is tracking of another round of strong winds. Yeah just a classic offshore wind event developing out there right now weve seen this play out weve seen some of the worst fire conditions and some very bad fire start under these exact kind of conditions right now High Pressure sitting there in the pacific as a ridge bui
Danger and the Power Outages have been a daily thing for many days so lets see if were going to get a little relief and when john yeah guys were still under those red flag warnings the good news is though there are as many of them as there were yesterday today its more isolated to or Higher Elevations because its a mixed bag, some of us are pretty windy other as of us are actually really nice and calm right now you look outside at the bay bridge behind me nice and clear and you look outside from suture tower also beautiful and clear there is really little marine layer affecting our bay area forecast today as these offshore winds continue keeping things dry. Breezy and yes high fire danger continues because of both of those factors sonoma calistoga petaluma atlas peak, vacaville and danville are all some of our breezy us to spots right now, especially the hillsides above each of these areas. Calmer conditions in Oakland Hayward San Francisco in livermore look at that hardly even detecti
Balan muchas warns that the county has to get its act together unfortunate reality is that we are seeing case numbers that are higher than they should be for us to remain in red and unfortunately that puts us at risk of going back in the purple. You know the cause of it is obviously people getting together with family and friends and letting their guard down so that disease spreads and we had several weeks ago several large as ants that we believe accounted for that spike that theyre not just says the spike could be temporary at least hes hoping thats the case he points to several recent events as examples of behavior that is detrimental to the countys progression in reopening involving 300 people with no social distanced staying lee and its a wedding at a home with 40 people no social distancing no and then there was some type of the news sent invitation only event was a large number of people again no social distancing and we had dozens of cases from these events doctor much as says
Anticipate a very cool start by the afternoon we are back to some comfortable weather with highs into the 70s and 80s. Robin its good. Thank you lets check in on the morning commute. Its always nice. When we can start off hot spot free right. We dont have any problems on 80 into San Francisco taking a live look this is your approach to the toll plaza and so far so good sell 7 minutes, quick right on time off to fremont street, heres 92 we have the westbound traffic leaving hayward heading over to the peninsula a little crowded yes back no 12 minutes and growing off to one oh one and just scanning for some of our busiest freeways during the morning drive theyre all at the limit so far so we have sure westbound 15 minutes, 24 out of walnut creek wide open no problems for 5. 80 or the nimitz freeway connecting from to 38 to 9. 80 entering downtown oakland is off to a great start so far well check more coming up back to you, thanks a lot robin 5 oh one and our top story more bay area count
Traffic on this wednesday morning. Good morning. We are starting to see the slowest spot forming for that typical traffic pattern as you work into the pass. Things starting to get a little sluggish there. If are you getting ready to head out the door and plan to take 580 you will have a pocket of slowing between the 580, 205 connector. We are seeing speeds dipping down to about 19 miles an hour there with a 32 minute drive time from 205 toward 680. Also chp still working on a trouble spot. You have a big rig blocking the high street onramp to northbound 880. Firefighters in Southern California struggling to contain the silverado fire. One of two explosive wind whipped wildfires in Orange County that forced the evacuation of almost 70,000 homes and badly injured two crew members. This is new video of flames around lake forest. The fire and the blue ridge fires have grown to almost 30,000 acres combined in less than 48 hours. At last word silverado was only 5 contained. Some different nu