Unincorporated parts of the county. Pg es website shows where the power is currently out. The purple icons indicate those are the power shutoffs which are under way in the north bay and along the sierra foothills. Pg e said it would start turning off the power at 3 00 p. M. Today although some people told us it started earlier than that. Outages will begin in San Mateo County around 1 00 in the morning. Pg e hopes to restore power by the weekend. A total of about 35,000 pg e customers in the bay area are affected by these Power Outages and that is why we have Live Team Coverage tonight. David louie will join us in a moment and we have Team Coverage in the north bay as well, which will bear the biggest impact. Before we go to Laura Anthony, lets hear from liz kreutz who is life in santa rosa. Liz. Reporter good evening. Roughly 27,000 customers are without power right now in sonoma county. Many of them here in santa rosa. Now, i want to show you where we are. We are inside the citys Eme
Lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri with more on the conditions theyre dealing with. Even some low 90s in the vicinity of the fire. The heat and the humidity are the number one things theyre battling. The good news which is probably helping them get that containment we just heard about is the wind is not extremely gusty. Right now we have winds out of the northwest at 10, occasional gusts to 20. So that likely has been helping those firefighters. Here you can see it on this map. South of Lake Berryessa. Smoke from this primarily blowing towards winters with the way that that wind is blowing. Once again, 128 and wragg canyon road. Tomorrow winds out of the west at 10. Tomorrow gusts also up to 20. Hopefully that lower wind would again help out the firefighters. Now, our fire danger going up all across the bay area. Today the fire burn index is 75. Basically putting our fire danger on a scale which is in the high category. Tomorrow goes up to 100, which is still high but getti
Allegation. We dont know that for a fact we have checked every donation that we have. We do not know of any individual that didnt legitimately give to our campaign and that we did uncover we returned them so that, um, they were clean. Reporter do you recall a meeting on front street with these individuals . I recall fundraisers. I recall a lot of meetings, a lot of people three years ago. I do not recall any specific, um, meetings of folks meeting speak one thing. Doing something that is inappropriate is a completely different and we have always been very thorough that have the feds ever subsequently contacted you or your campaign . No. We have been proactive trying to say is there something here that we should be paying attention to . Its been silent. Reporter the fbi did try. According to their own filings they set up an operation aimed at the ed lee campaign. And what did they find . Nothing. Im not bothered by the fact that people come after me. Being a public figure, um, anybody i
Says crews found a plane window and some other debris on the French Island in the indian ocean just a week after finding a wing from that plane. It disappeared in march 2014. So far french investigators havent yet confirmed the debris is linked to the flight 370. Later this morning governor jerry brown will meet with firefighters battling the rocky fire near clearlake. He will get a briefing from fire officials on their efforts to contain the blaze. The largest wildfire burning in california. Its burned close to 70,000 acres. Its only 30 contained. The fire has destroyed 43 homes and its threatening about 7,000 structures. The Air National Guard is helping fight the rocky fire. They are using c130 cargo planes. The mission for the pilots is straightforward. Refuel, drop a load of retardant, repeat. It gets tiring after a while with the heat and everything. But got a lot of folks out here helping us out. One of the pilots flew five missions tuesday. They have civilian jobs but at one po
Counts of arson with enhanced bail of 1 million. Thats because the fires were set during statewide drought and wildfire emergencies. He is in jail right now in martinez. Investigators havent said a lot about the evidence in the case. But they have said they have been watching him for weeks. Why they didnt arrest him sooner . Well, well hear from investigators about that coming up in the next halfhour. Right now live in lafayette, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Later this morning the governor jerry brown gets a firsthand update on the battle against the rocky fire near clearlake. We get a briefing from the fire officials there on efforts to contain the blaze. Largest wildfire is burning in california right now charred nearly 70,000 acres and is 30 contained. The fire has already destroyed 43 homes and is threatening about 7,000 structures. More plane wreckage found could be from that missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The Prime Minister of malaysia says crews found a plane window and some oth