Areas were anywhere from 106 degrees to 112 degrees at this hour. So weve had quite a cooldown in part because of the lingering smoke and haze and the more vigorous marine layer than was anticipated. Yet we have high fire dangers 8 00 tomorrow morning for all the hills and mountains of the bay area. And with very low humidity and strong gusty winds. Wind gusts right now in the higher elevations. The wind advisory will be in effect until 11 00 for the north bay hills and mountains. There is a possible there of downed trees and power lines and maybe even power outages. Ill have a closer look a little later. All right. Thank you. More than 170,000 pg e customers in 22 counties had their power turned off today. Well show you a maam where the out outages are in the bay area. The upside down magenta triangles, well try to get the map for you but it is impacting napa and sonoma counties. Another round of frustrating shutoffs. Reporter heres the latest. Highway 12 has been on the unincorporate
Bazaar, surreal, ominous, how would you describe it . This day was different. Good evening, im julie haener. It was crazy, julie. Im frank somerville. Just when you thought 2020 might run out of surprises we are created with one of the most bizarre days in memory. Im 62, grew up in the bay area and never seen anything like it. Headlights on noontime, ash falling from the sky and body clocks wrist disrupted. For some, a sense of being completely out of sync. The dark sky during the daytime had folks grabbing their cameras. Ktvu was flooded with pictures from our viewers. Photographer kevin shane sent this picture from the embarcadero in San Francisco. And john warren sent this this picture from the Golden Gate National conservancy. It was taken on alcatraz island. You can see there is San Francisco completely disappearing in the background. And karen keller sent us this picture from hillsboro with trees creating silhouettes against the backdrop. We have Team Coverage tonight. Our chief
For accountability. People have lost their lives because of these decisions. And these people are still in their jobs. This has to end. There was some talk about accountability today, not just from Assembly Member levine, but from the governor himself. Some fingerpointing over who is to blame for the messed that was produced at san quentin. We will talk more about that at 6 00. There is plenty of blame to go around, but isnt entirely up to the state, is it just the es rnsibility . Ly in hocalifornia pris system there is a federal receiver involved here, and that gentleman was called out a couple of times today. We will talk about that coming up at 6. The fingerpointing is not settled. Thanks, great reporting. The San Francisco mayor london breed has tested negative for covid19 after being exposed at a public event. The mayor wont be making any public appearances for about the next 10 days and will get retested. She says she is lucky to have a job that allows her the flexibility to work
Orange right there will slide through the central and southern bay area. We will see some heavy rain on this Late Afternoon commute. In the north bank there is concern that rain or the kinkead fire burned just weeks ago could cause runoff or even worse mudslides. Andre senior is in Sonoma County and it is pouring up there. Reporter we were with you at 5 pm and it hasnt stopped since then. It has been going like this for two hours. This much rain this fast is not a great combination in a county that is three weeks removed from a massive wildfire. Sonoma county needed the rain and on tuesday finally got it. Residents in downtown donned raincoats and umbrellas. The rain is welcome but with it comes the danger of a Flash Flood Watch for the kinkead fire burn area. There still ash in the area we want to make sure that ash doesnt washed downstream and harm any of the environment for their downhill. Reporter the board of supervisors chair said plans were put in place soon after the fire that
And over farther east to vacaville, and as this storm continues, this southward and eastward movement, we can track this for you over the next few minutes, about 6 12 or so this line of intense storminess will be moving through San Francisco. Then about 6 46 over across the bay to oakland and down into hayward about 7 36. 8 15 theyll be reaching fremont and by 9 15 this evening it should be moving through san jose. The storm still ranks two on the storm impact scale, a storm of moderate intensity with occasional heavy downpours, powerful winds gusts ranging from 45 Miles Per Hour to 50 Miles Per Hour, rainfall estimates over an inch of rain from this storm will fall in some locations. Lets go meteorologist drew tuma on the roof with a closer look at this bomb cyclone. I can tell you the strongest wind is happening right now in the city, and its for that we do have a wind advisory that is currently in effect and will last until about tomorrow afternoon because these winds are so strong