Still ahead robin. A pretty busy commute to San Francisco right now thanks to an early trouble spot. Of Treasure Island so lets go. Dont know whats wrong with the mikes all toss it back to you i will work on that thanks a lot robin. Meantime the big story that were following is possible Power Outages people are bracing for shut offs pg and e is releasing more information too about which areas could be impacted. Yeah weve got kron 4 Sarah Stinson standing by in Sonoma County with a look at what we can all expect sarah good morning. Other finally releasing you know which counties how many customers will be affected by this power shut off if it happens. Tomorrow afternoon and it could be as many as 22,000 customers take a look at your screen we rode out each county for you and spelled out just how many people would be affected you can see there on your screen it would be including alameda contra costa santa clara and san mateo counties and then as we slide over to the next one napa sonoma
Catholic church which is serving as a Community Resource center. Here they have a water snacks, wi fi and much more of course charging stations as well but just a mile down the road were starting to see those power shutoffs in full swing. Pg and e customers in napa county prepared for a Public Safety power shutoff wednesday evening for some folks in saint the shutdowns already begin people like pat mcgrail foot up several gas cans to get through the next couple of days, im gasoline for generators. I have my house and my neighbors house. She lights going. Weve had to clean out the refrigerator which is a horrible job. And then be able to run them again and the generators. Were on wells so we have no water. And to go good. Water she could flush something the girls all too familiar with. He had to evacuate for the lnu lightning complex fire and was evacuated again for 17 days with the more recent glassfire he lives off Glass Mountain road or power was already down from the fire no cable.
Tens of thousands of pg e customers are expected to remain in the dark for a day, maybe two people in the montclair neighborhood in the Oakland Hills enjoyed the evening as best they could before the lights went out. Restaurants were busy serving customers all they still had power. Many restaurant and storeowners said they anticipate losing thousands of dollars in business during this latest shutoffs. A pg e map shows where the outages are happening. Inverted purple triangles indicated its power the power has been turned off. In those areas pg e has set up Community Resource centers where customers can plug in their devices. We have Team Coverage tonight. Our chief meteorologist is monitoring the red flag conditions. First, on the tens of thousands of people who lost their power. Reporter for many it will be friday evening, 10 00 p. M. Before they get their power back. Two full days and nights of getting by. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part
Bay at red flag warning in effect as well so weve got Team Coverage once again we have will tran hes standing by in napa county covering the power shut offs Sarah Stinson is in San Mateo County with the latest on those red flag warnings. First lets start in the Weather Center with john trouble. Yeah guys, those red flag warnings definitely concerning still across the bay area weve been seeing them for much of the week so far and we are keeping them going for yet another day extended last night in fact now what were going to be seeing today are dry conditions across the bay which definitely contributes on top of the windy and warm weather that we also have you look outside right now at San Francisco shows you clear skies makes for a beautiful view, but definitely not a lot of marine layer to be talking about out there thats why we have red flag warnings that the coast in areas like Half Moon Bay pacifica up in upper elevations in the Santa Cruz Mountains inland east bay, all of us a in
Under red flag warnings throughout the course of this past evening, well be throughout the day today and into the middle of the day tomorrow as winds continue to be quite gusty up in the north bay. Its been 20 to 30 mile per hour gusts, pretty consistently across many of our north bay cities in our inland east bay areas. The deeper red contours on here showing you where winds are the most problematic right now. In addition to the already very dry conditions. We remain windy through the morning. Hold back the winds a little bit this afternoon coming down for some areas and then it picks right back into gear come the evening tonight, staying windy through early tomorrow before we do eventually see some common conditions. Midday tomorrow through the weekend just around the corner which will offer us really from the heightened fire danger were in the midst of as we speak, 60s and 70s for current temperatures already pretty warm in oakland in livermore at 75 degrees each well some 50s up in