With a exactly provoked this violent attack. Thats the latest. Im melissa colorado, nbc bay area news. Still active investigation. Thanks so much. He tried to steal a van from a nearby car dealership. A shirtless man ran up and tried to grab the keys from a salesman preparing for a test drive. The employee fought back, punching the suspect. He tells us he stopped the man from carjacking another driver. Obviously, if anyone tries to take anything from me, im going to defend myself. I didnt know him. Didnt care. My whole thing was i wanted my car. Fortunately, he wasnt seriously hurt. The suspect was arrested a block away just minutes later. We sent out an alert on our app. Its free to download on apple and android devices. Pg e promised it would do a better job in communicating power outages. A lot of people saying they dropped the ball again. They are getting mixed messages when and if their power will be cut. This is prompted by our high winds and dry weather. Eight of the nine bay co
Meteorologist rob mayeda. Who is seeing the coldest temperatures right now . We have seen temperatures at or slightly below freezing around the north bay. At 32 in santa rosa. 31 in napa. 30s around mountain view. 35 in fairfield. We think it will be the north bay. These areas in purple under this freeze warning through 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow. We could see low 20s, and the areas in blue, santa clara valley, looking at a frost advisory for temperatures in the upper 20s to low 30s. Look whats headed our way this weekend. More wind and a lot more rain than we saw just this last wednesday. We could see up to 2 1 2 to 5 inches of rain in the mountain. We have an Atmospheric River that will set up and may not leave the bay area until monday area. A closer look on your weekend plans coming up. Thanks, rob. It is so cold outside to know its sticking around on bay area mountain peeks. This shows how the storm rolled through yesterday. At the lower elevations, no snow, but people will be hit with t
Now. And this is the concern. The wind and heat a dangerous mix. Well show you this wildfire in just a moment. Its happening in the north bay. Its in geyserville, not star from the lake county line. Here it is. Sonoma county sheriffs just issued evacuations for northern haeldsburg and geyserville. Theyre telling people to leave immediately. You can see that glow on the hillside there. Were also getting new video from the santa rosa fire department. Crews clearing fallen trees. These trees along parker hill road in fountain grove. Pg e has already cut power to thousands of people in sonoma and napa counties. Our sky ranger overhead in santa rosa. Down below thousands of homes it is dark. Power could be out on and off for the next four days. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd leads our coverage tonight in the darkness there in santa rosa. Cheryl. Reporter well, raj, its kind of weird because the wind has been picking up but its calm right now. As you can see, there are a lot of small businesses.
Looking at unhealthy groups. Moderate air quality for san rafael, San Francisco, san jose and for livermore. We are looking at a sparethe air alert that is in effect for your tuesday. The air quality unhealthy for sensitive groups for the bay area due to the smoke from the kincade fire as well as for the grizzly fire so your weather headlines, we have that smoke this morning, chilly temps, down to the 30s, 40s and low 50s, patchy frost, hazy sunshine this afternoon with seasonal daytime highs and we are going to see those strong winds that will return with the wind advisory for the north bay and a red flag warning, details on all of this coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. The new normal, another pg e power shutoff as high winds batter the bay area. Kpix5s jackie ward is live this morning in santa rosa for the fifth round of power shutoffs. Jackie. Reporter good morning. I am in Sonoma County but actually we are in rohnert part this morning, standing in front of the university where
Ill have more on this and the fire danger coming up. Mike, do you have any update on the wrong way driver . No news on that. A wrong way driver reported southbound on the north side of 17. From hamilton they may be heading down across the santa cruz mountains. Usually with those situations no news is good news. That driver usually gets off the freeway without injury or incident. Were looking at the rest of the bay and tracking a smooth flow of traffic. We have a new crash, west 580 and a little slowing at vasco. Back to you. 5 01 now. Searing heat and high winds fueling possible fires in the bay area. The red flag warning remains in effect. There are shut offs expected to help prevent any fires from sparking power lines. We have a reporter live for us is santa rosa. Whats todays plan . Reporter were in a stand by mode for north bay. That means about 55,000 pg e customers waiting to find out if their power will be shut off as part of the Public Safety power shut offs as pg e monitors it