Sonoma county who live south of mill creek road and west of westside road and east of palmer creek road. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live with with pg e Public Safety shutoffs. Good morning, amy. Hi, good morning, kumasi. Pg e started shutting off the power overnight in parts of napa and sonoma county. The utility said this should impact 172,000 customers. We are on our way up to napa county right now to check out the situation. Pg e says its doing this because the forecast is calling for dry and windy conditions. Calling this critical fire weather with a high ignition risk. They are afraid a power line could fall and start a fire. Pg e says while this weather calls for being on high alert, it does not look like the weather we saw in 2017 when the fire happened. This event doesnt have as much as we call upper level support with it. So, we dont anticipate it being as strong. They are also watching the walbridge fire jumped a containment area. Evacuations have been ordered there
Mountains, highway 101. There may be foggy areas. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. Our breaking news that were covering, this week will be critical more than 14,000 firefighters battle 17 major fire complexes sparked by lightning storms burning mostly in Northern California. The wildfires caused at least seven deaths statewide and destroyed at least 1,200 homes. And in the bay area there is a lot of ground to cover. Our team once again covering every inch of it this morning. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson is live in wine country where workers were nervously hunkered down there. But we begin with kris sanchez in Santa Cruz County. Were actually hearing from an evacuee. Reporter yeah. Weve been hearing a lot of these harrowing stories of how fast people had to pick up and leave. Sheriffs deputies are still looking for four people who are missing, reported missing from the evacuation area. That means no one knows whether they made it out or not. Maybe theyre among the 77,000 evacuees.
Only eight percent. We learn today one man died in those fires. They join us now one that red flag warning. Is stays in effect until tomorrow evening. The hotspot for this morning has been between 5 pm and 5 am. That is the best chance for a thunderstorm would be. Parts of the central valley. This is a very different system. 13,000 lightning strikes. I know a lot of folks. This is going to be that. It does not appear this thing has even close to that kind of strength. This potential for thunderstorms. That is not a surprise at all. Not 13,000. At least as we speak. A couple of lightning pops. The sacramento valley. Just off shore. Pigeon point. You see the widely scattered showers. A lot of orange and yellow. A little bit over here. Those are your thunderstorms. I think we will see a couple of pops tonight. It should be nothing even close to what we saw sunday night. That is really good news. We will Talk Straight about the airquality five day forecast. Wildfires is burning in the east
Concord this afternoon. So temperatures right around where we should be for this time of year. Were going to warm things up looking ahead to tomorrow. Less of that onshore flow and talk about that and also hurricane laura. Have details on that as well. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic for the latest on a crash on 880. Yeah, mary i was kind of looking at 880 a little more closely. We had a Traffic Alert at whipple thats now been canceled and all lanes are clear there. Then this delays south of there into fremont. There may be an accident actually in the area involving a couple of vehicles and we have very red on the sensors here and a lot of slowing as you work your way in this area. This is south 880 heading into fremont. Looks like were getting first reports of a crash in that area. So thats going to add to busy ride thats already been happening on the nimitz freeway this morning. 680 looking okay in both directions if you want to use that instead. And if you are taking
We hahave more stable air a the coast. And winds have been light for the most part. But we are looking at the poor air quality. And 240 in koncokokokokokokoko n and we stilt hal have the haze. And so maybe late in the day getting a bit better, but still try to stay inside. Very unhealthy fair for you. Wachbd t the fog returns later on tonight. And im some what wrrelieved. And you see the czu czu czu czuu com plenks is at 8 containment. And the update is at 6 00. And the caned. D is at 8 containment. And the update is at 6 00. And the of scu com plenks is 10 caned. Cis at 8 containment. And the update is at 6 00. And the of scu com plenks is 10 caned. Com plenks is at 8 conta. And the update is at 6 00. And the of scu com plenks is 10 caned. Amy hollyfield is live foris foris before. Reporter and we got a little bit rain. And there is a small square and there is fine. This area attracts pla s many p. And it is difficult it firefight because it is so steep and rugged. It has destroyed so