Yet another string of high winds dry conditions over the next couple of days. Thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis for the north bay mountains, this is the second red flag warning to be issued this week so lets go ahead kick it off here with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow he is tracking the dangerous weather conditions out there for us laurent boy it is been a long fire season right now theres no end in sight in fact these winds going to be picking up in fact i think these are red flag warnings are in effect so far feel friday but theyre going to be in effect all the way i think until the weekend weve got a series of wind events that are going to be affecting the bay area and boy it is going to howl around parts of the bay area. Look at the winds expected over the Santa Cruz Mountains this between now and friday, the red flag warnings up even along the coastline, 3040 mile an hour wind gusts probably some 50 mile an hour wind gusts o
About 37,000 customers. Across 15 Northern California counties that they could be losing power. Of the 15 counties 5 hour here in the bay, they are alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma. More than 4,000 customers in the bay area could be affected here. Napa county appears to be hit the hardest the most customers in the bay area affected are in napa some of the outages have already started but most of them are expected as we move through the overnight hours pg and e says the hot and dry weather combined with really high wind gusts pose an increased risk for damage to their electrical system that has the potential to start fires can you want to be on guard. We have Team Coverage for you tonight, Lawrence Karnow is in the Weather Center. Monitoring the red flag warning that goes into effect in about an hour but first we turn to kron fours gayle ong who is live tonight in where people are preparing for another round of shut off scale. Grant and vicki nearly 3300 pg e customers a
Danger that continues to just be here with us. Half moon bay other coastal areas on the peninsula and upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains all of the inland east bay, all of us a in lake countys most of napa and then upper elevations of sonoma and marin counties all these areas affected by red flag warnings now extended through tomorrow night as winds gust as high as 40 Miles Per Hour in some of these areas and its not just the winds, but also the very low humidity to our current temperatures right now actually looking pretty comfortable id say get outside enjoy this morning before another warm afternoon around the corner right now were in the 50s 60s with one exception near santa rosa. At 49 degrees currently so your forecast today again going to be warm and again going to be windy course we need to know what traffic is looking like though still a little bit early i think for most of busy spots but where we sit right now robin the earlier folks can get out there the better job
Talk about just that its really pretty out there actually get it from coming up, so its a brighter commute but the lines getting longer john so its pretty busy, especially on our bridges were checking out the trip here on the bay bridge 80 wesson to San Francisco you see all the headlights right. The backup is pretty long it goes back to the bottom of the maze and thats normal for this time of mourning, but at least you dont have any problems or crashes in the mix to add to the slow traffic so were up to 14 minutes and thats still a really good drive into San Francisco with no big problems right now were checking on highway 4 because i just got word of a crash in pittsburgh on the westbound direction thats the commute side. So thats bumping up their drive time to 25 minutes thats no longer highway 4. But this is a beautiful shot of the city right now to overview of San Francisco for coming up well check in on some more bridges star ian james and well see how the traffic is moving aroun
Restaurants. Schools and childcare facilities and outdoor museums. Governor newsom acknowledged some counties and cities may want to reopen at a faster pace in the state but there are certain criteria. They must meet in order to do so including seeing no more than one case per 10,000 people in the last 2 weeks and other Contact Tracing and testing mandates and a bay area counties are not moving into phase 2 at this point as weve said alameda contra costa moran, San Francisco, san mateo and santa clara counties are not allowing any non essential businesses to open up yet. San franciscos Deputy Health officer explains why local leaders are not moving forward with phase 2 yet. Well were having those conversations now of looking very closely at the governors of new orders and and his amendments today and thinking about how we can best to really maintain all the games that have been made in the bay area because we are where we are now because of the collective work and sacrifice of so many