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
News at 6. Im afraid that at that. The whole time is going to burn down that starts thats like a disaster looks like a disaster happening. Now its 6 o on alert and on edge north bay residents. So anxious as the winds pick up again escalating the wildfire threat in sonoma and napa counties, thank you for joining us at 6 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the bay area is under a red flag warning. Tonight through saturday morning that has cal fire closely tracking the weather is the last fire just keeps on burning. The wildfire. So far has scorched more than 56,000 acres in 5 days the to 5 containment a long way to go has destroyed a 143 homes so far over 26,000 structures remain threatened tonight. As we mentioned the bay area is now under a red flag warning set to expire saturday morning at 6 oclock. Of course this could spell big trouble for firefighters over the next couple of days chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now with what were looking at the avera
Strong winds could spread the flames from the glass fire and spark even more destruction. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 oclock im Justine Waldman the bay area is getting smacked with smoke intense heat, a red flag warning and a flex alert. This all happening on the first day of october what a of a day and october is usually are most intense months for fire. So lets get to it now as we start now with a look at our forecast Rebecca Strom us here now with a closer look at the wind speeds and the triple digit temperatures good afternoon. Rebecca. Afternoon justine yeah were actually under a heat advisory across the bay area as well because the temperatures are so hot were seeing anywhere from a 15 to 25 degree difference force what we normally see at this time for the year. And you can see outside right now this or live shot overlooking and the east bay in berkeley right now and very hazy very smoky that were seeing around the entire bay area and yes talking abo
First, todays show is brought to you by the letter b thats because bond yields, bullion, big cap tech. Fed chair Jerome Powell gears up for a high stakes speech from jackson hole summit. With bullion up, big tech up, what is up with the market as we gear up for powell, guy . I like to hear you say bullion. I feel like im going to have soup or go back to doing what i used to do back in the day its wonderful you can do an entire show saying that word. Whats up . Risk assets are continuing to go higher based on we talked about this a couple days ago, the fact they said they will be a historic speech for the fed in the way they view inflation, the way they measure inflation and thats why the market took off and i think thats why you saw it probably move today into that speech the things you didnt mention and forget it but they didnt rhyme with b or start with b the russell was down today and the vix closed north of 23 those are two very interesting things to take into consideration along w
Its a little hazy out there and it is all across the bay area. Air quality suffering now for the north bay, the east bay and the south bay with pour conditions in all these areas again you are immediately going to notice that smell smoke as you wake up this morning. Its going to be the first thing thats changed from yesterday as far as what you do notice skies are dry all across the region and we do have relatively calm winds for most areas this is the positive factor here we have wildfires burning in eastern Contra Costa County amid what is generally some calmer winds overnight winds picking up today though of course these napa blazes as well very dry conditions up here lower humidity than what we had been seeing winds mostly out of the west and then multiple fires burning closer to the south to including in Santa Cruz County up in the Santa Cruz Mountains so a lot of smoke being put up it is going to be another hot one not sure ideal day to be spending much time outside definitely fi