Even feel the ash. Smoke. Thats another region towards this is why this map shows vacaville where were seeing dozens of fires burnsthe govern unhealthy for all groups air quality. Much like the north bay fires that led to the highest pollution in the last 20 years. We could be looking at these areas of very unhealthy air quality of a sudden shift in the wind. Coming up, well talk about when we might get some relief in terms of that air quality and cooler temperatures in our forecast comes up in about 12 minutes from now. Poor air quality sticking around for at least another day. You can see the haze and probably smell the smoke in many parts of the bay area. This is video of the smoky air from our hd sky cameras. And a viewer from Redwood Shores sent us this video of ash falling onto the ground tonight. People in sensitive groups should be cautious. That includes seniors, children, and people with respiratory and health issues. If anybody does smell smoke, we do recommend that resident
Strikes. Look at that picture. Now, lets go back for 24 hours or so to sunday night, and look at this. Now, this is something ive never seen before in the bay area. Okay. Here comes the first wave. This is what woke you up, right . Strike, strike, strike, strike. A little bit of a break, and then a second wave, equally as strong in not stronger, 6 00 a. M. Wait, im not done. And then you keep going. 7 00 a. M. These are lined strikes, many cloudtoground, and then you get into sunday morning . Look at this. Okay. Then we get into the afternoon. It brakes off a little bit. Not bad. Get a little bit of a break. Thunderstorms die down, and then next wave comes through. That started late last night early this morning, and youll see this. Ive never seen backtoback storms like this. Here comes the next wave, next wave, and next wave. Look at this. So no wonder we have spot fires. No wonder cal fire is returning around just crazy out there. That has to do with all of the spot fires. Now, we ar
Dangerous and record setting heat in areas today. Lightning strikes kaugtd on camera by the california highway patrol. Thunderstorms are expected to be strongest in north bay. A wildfire in st. Helena started around the wildfires. Its been so strange. And power knocked out in mill valley. A bolt hit power lines. You can see pg and e responding, and a salon owner says they were working with clients outside when it happened. We got so scared but five seconds later, the big line happening again. Sop we move everybody inside. We heard like an explosion, and it was a small one and a big one like a bomb. Mother nature is mad because something is going on here. Rough weather. That is what is going on. Pg and e reports power has been restored. Thank you for joining us, those issues are not enough, more than 3 million homes statewide could have their power shut off. If that total is reached, it would be the largest shut off in state history. I know that its going to be highly disruptive to peop
Care of us and theres others that are elderly. While that was happening. A short period of time. Pg and e was also using voice mail and Text Messages to get the word out. Rolling blackouts are going to be with us at least for awhile. Because there was not sufficient supply to meet the demand in the state of california. The outages mean she, her husband and their three kids are in limbo. Nothing gets done. My husband doesnt work. My kids dont go to school and you know, its right now it is a necessity in life to have our power. If youll lose power today youre less likely to lose it again in the near future. Really the primary factors are how many mega watts need to be taken off the grid and who has already experienced a rotating outage and we try to do our best to make sure that folks that already experienced one do not have enough one. They know people are nervous. One message this morning from pg and e saying possible Power Outages. Mean while, san jose mayor this afternoon blamed the
Lightningsparked fires. One is he hennessy fire, and by midafternoon, it had already consumed 750 acres, according to a spokesman for cal fire. While cal fire isnt a cant say for certain it, too, was caused by a strike from the key, the flames did start during a storm. An Evacuation Order has been issued. Theres 20 residents, but theres a number of residents below that Hennessy Ridge road. Reporter it affects those who live at Hennessy Ridge road and sage canyon road from childs pope valley rode to lower childs road. Close by neighborhoods are also under evacuation warnings, standing by just in case. As of right now, we do have resources on these fires, and then using those aircraft with weather permits. Reporter the other blaze, the gam fire at no, sirville road is in a much more rural nare at the north end of lake vari esa. An Evacuation Center was set up. We stop bid. No one had take then county up yet on the offer to use it as a structure. Trying to grapple with this fire and make