That means critical fire weather conditions will be happening in parts of the north bay and east bay and south bay. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Right to Spencer Christian who is tracking the forecast for us tonight. Spencer . Dan and ama, we have a pattern of strong offshore winds developing. As the winds flow downslope they compress, the air compresses. It dries out, it warms up. That increases the risk for fire. Were looking at gusts under 20 Miles Per Hour in the Higher Elevations at the moment but they will get stronger overnight. As a result we have a red flag warning in the north and east bay hills and valleys and the Santa Cruz Mountains from 5 00 a. M. To 11 00 a. M. Friday, our strongest gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour. High temperatures will be in the upper 90s the next few days and ill have more details and the complete accuweather sevenday forecast. Spencer, thank you. With the Red Flag Alert comes the threat of preemptive shutoffs that could affect 23,000
48hour notices. Many people will want to check for themselves. Check out pge. Com psp pge. Com pspfupdates. And thru can enter your exact address, check and see if you are listed. Reporter but says pg e, the weather is always subject to change. Our meteorologists, our analysts at the operations center, are looking at the data. Are analyzing the weather data minute by minute. And it could change. Even up to the very last minute. Reporter for now, however, legendary weather forecaster, jan combol, is not surprised. This is not a bigtime event for us. Reporter but he says the sooner we get rain, the better off californias firestorm tsunami will go away. Our diablo winds here, santa anna winds from Southern California. They often any into early december. The thomas fire in Southern California was on december 4th. Reporter weve posted the link to pg es outage tool. For those directly affected, pg e promises it expects to restore power to them within 12 Daylight Hours after the wind events d
The system spinning off the coast will take you hour by hour on futurecast to show you the locations that could see showers over the next few days. Now lets check in with traffic whether expert gianna. Give yourself extra time on 80. You may consider some thabo and 80 passed solano toward the cutting boulevard exit into richmond with four cars involved in the accident and three left lanes involved. This backup extending to hercules. This is a live look at the caltrans camera near mcbride were traffic is stacking up. You will get a break and then brake lights again at the bay bridge. A live look from the port of oakland where in the next few hours a cruise ship carrying coronavirus patients is expected to dock. Right now it is several miles off the coast of San Francisco and you can see it on the cruise ship tracker and its the blue icon. There are passengers from 54 countries. In oakland with how the port is preparing for arrival. For the 35 people on board, this is the first time the
To come robin. All right, heres a peek at 92, well just cycle through some of the bridges so you can see how good it looks out there. This is west 92 and normally the traffic here on the san mateo bridge is so heavy that it spills back on to the nimitz freeway. Were just not getting that earlier this morning it was crawling, it was much much heavier. Now its just some minor crowding in only 14 minutes to the peninsula, even the bay bridge traffic is thinning out it was stacked up from the bottom of the maze earlier now its more like west grand so thats picking up 11 minutes off to fremont street and we never had any problems across the golden gates, most 25 minutes a quick trip nevado to San Francisco darya james. Thanks a lot rob and a tow won and our top story, the coronavirus a 3rd person has died in california of the virus and this came in elk grove in Sacramento County what we know about the person who died is that she was a woman in her 90s with Underlying Health conditions. She
Develops in san jose. The San Jose Sharks and the San Jose Earthquakes will comply with the guidelines. The Tipping Point for the order nearly half of the coronavirus cases are Community Spread and a woman has reporter the most covid19 cases. The county is taking the lead in slowing down the spread by issuing a new order. Died. I have issued a new local order banning people with more than a thousand people in attendance. This order takes effect 12 00 a. M. Wednesday march 11. The order in place until the end of march. Reporter it does includes large venues, including the sap center where the San Jose Sharks play. Authorities say, the county Health Officer has Legal Authority to issue such a ban to supervise the spread. Under state law, and under the county ordinance code, this is legally enforceable by the sheriff and by all the Police Departments in the county. And it is a crime to disobey an order of the county Health Officer. The county announces its first death from coronavirus. Th