Is actually familiar across a lot of the bay area tonight as many pg and e customers are bracing now for a 3rd day without power. Thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne pg needed start restoring power to some neighborhoods tonight, well bring you the latest on the shut offs in a moment, but first. Lets check in with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow on the when and the heat or yet were not done with the win check in effect. Today we had some very impressive gusts around the bay area 65 mile an hour gust reported. Mount st. Louis that was early on in the morning, 57 mile an hour gust amount the album in the Santa Cruz Mountains 53 Miles Per Hour 52 healdsburg Oakland Hills almost 40 mile an hour gusts. Thats where were seen over the mountain tops especially not as windy down below, but certainly concerning as youve got very dry conditions youve got the hot temperatures record heat in place today and you got those strong offshore Winds Continuing to blow in f
Could lose it. Nbc bay area kris sanchez is joining us live why people should calm down and not stress out too much right now. Kris . Reporter yet is that operative word. While Supreme Court is hearing those arguments, we should know they are not expected to issue any sort of ruling until the spring so your 2021 coverage would not be affected because we would already be locked in at that point. The word is dont worry yet. There was a lively, but peaceful, demonstration outside of the u. S. Supreme court as the justices began to hear those arguments. This is the third time that the aca has been before the Supreme Court. But with newly sworn Justice Amy Coney barrett, this is the first time the court has a conservative majority. If the court were to strike down bill clinton, as many as 21 million americans could lose their Health Care Coverage and that would include people with preexisting conditions potentially, low income adults who got medicaid through the Affordable Care act, and you
Of us. Thank you, mike. Firefighters put out a small grass fire along interstate 580 alonging along regatta boulevard in richmond. Fires were reported in Castro Valley and healdsburg. Firefighters worked to stop these fires quickly before they could reach homes and other buildings. Because of the dangerous fire conditions pg e cut off power to more than 106,000 people across the bay area. People in the north bay were some of the first to go dark. Lauren martinez is live in mill valley. Here in mill valley you can see some degree in the strebris. Restaurant owners at tips roadside in kenwood were angry after they lost power an hour before they were told it was scheduled to be shut off. They hope they dont lose whats on ice in their freezer. A couple weeks ago, we lost all the food in there. It was probably 15,000, 20,000. Everything is so much harder now because of covid, fires, Power Outages. Its just you know, everybody is saying i cant wait for 2020 to be over. Hopefully, you know, 2
Start to actually really calm to close out this friday. And thats the way were going to stay through saturday and sunday too much calmer conditions. So that is actually helping a lot with the heightened fire potential that we had been seeing 60s 70s, even a couple of 80s on the map this morning and those areas where winds are president helping to keep those areas like berkeley and saint helene on the warm side in the low 80s fairfield conquered in oakland also quite warm at 77 degrees. Well alameda 82 right now so were already to a warm start and its going to be a hot finish to the day a whole lot like yesterday. Couple of triple digits on the maps close to triple digits for a lot of the bay area once you head inland up into the mid 90s upper 90s on average inland. 90s right along the bay and even some upper 80s towards the coast, ive got more details on what exactly to expect all through this weekend still to come robin all right sounds good. Thank you for the update john now lets upd
Yeah, probably frustrating for a lot of people, power shutoffs persist this morning but in some cases power has been restored. This map gives you the latest look. Where the outages are and its mostly in the north bay and along the peninsula. Pg e plans to restore all power at some point they say today. Businesses in oaklands montclair district has power again this morning. They lost it about 20 hours ago. One Business Owner says hes becoming all too familiar with the same drill. Today is only one day. Also, its not a friday so its okay. We can survive. The north bay still feeling the impact. That wont help anyone get their wifi back which has been tough for anyone trying to work or learn from home. Decision 2020 for you this morning and President Trump and joe biden hit the south and midwest today after dueling town halls last night. Each candidate touched on the same issues but not on the same stage. Today in the bays tracie potts with reaction. I was flipping back and forth. Certainl