For some today and as we mentioned the number of customers without power in Northern California. Is about 30,000 around the bay area. Alameda napa sam, a tail Santa Clara Santa Cruz and sonoma counties all have more than a 1000 customers who are in the dark. Although people in some sections have been given the allclear and that means their power could be restored soon so lets get the very latest now from kron fours Justine Waltman shes in our newsroom just a well pamela allclear signal has been issued for portions of Monterey Santa Cruz and santa clara counties, which means. That pg e crews can now begin patrolling all these d energize lines whether thats by helicopter or by foot or by car. And once theyve confirmed that the lines have not suffered any when driven damaged and that hazards like trees are removed customers spent can have the power restored sort still a ways off but theyve been given the all clear so lets take a look at where the power is out right now thats the purple tr
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
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
Danger is something that should be concerning to us all day long today, sonoma calistoga fairfield danville in Half Moon Bay, some of your more remarkable and consistently windy spots throughout the evening into this morning and some of our warmer areas to now working their way through the morning youre gradually going to see these wind speeds calming down and by the time we work towards 03 30pm as youre seeing on the map right here a noticeably less windy day but were still under red flag warnings with temperatures hot enough humidity low enough. And winds still present enough for fire danger to remain high 60s 70s, and yes, a couple of 80 still on the map alameda at 80 degrees right now say only know youre right there as well. Some of our wind your spots are also some of those warmer areas and thus well we are looking at still high fire danger this morning as it will remain into the afternoon by the afternoon ahead of us some record breakers likely upper 90s inland, mid 90s by the ba
San jose each at 94 today. Robin. All right, thank you john we still have a big problem in San Francisco and thats a multi vehicle accident that resulted in a car fire. So several lanes are blocked in the traffic is creeping along in both directions here so this is one oh one south. After cesar chavez before to 80. Cruz may still have the 3 left lanes blocked there working to get this out of the way but the back of just continues to grow so the southbound james lick is backed up on to almost the whole stretch of the southbound central and its also backing up onto the westbound skyway so as you leave downtown San Francisco on 80 west and start to merge onto one oh one youre going to be stuck in that nasty little backups there the opposite side nothings blocked for now but north one o one its a mess north one is backed up beyond to 80 and now to 3rd street, so if youre only traveling into downtown San Francisco stay away from one oh one use to 80 instead its going to be wide open and it