North bay. Tonight. 21,000 customers in the foothills are going to get power turned off tonight. That is happening as we speak. We heard in the story the people note firsthand heat and wind is a dangerous mix. The red flag warning in effect tonight at 9 3 00 p. M. Specifically the best chance for gusty winds in the hills at a thousand feet and above. Thats who needs to be concerned. It should be said september and october is historically drier wind building in. Lt areas in red those are location under the fire warning. Notice sporadic areas. Around napa. Berkeley and oakland. Fremont and the East San Jose elevation. And the Higher Elevations outside of gilroy. Winds of 20 to 40 miles per hour. Occasional gusts and sustained winds. Steady wind ten to 20. Humidity ten to 25 . With this red flag fire warning in effect tonight, please remember this report any suspicious activity. No out door burning. Make sure any power tools you have whats called a spark arrester. Which prevents a spark f
Homeless navigation center. The topic has split the community. Nothing is a good option because theyre here. Theyre here. So we need to try something and give it the best chance. Reporter this summer city staff narrowed the list of potential sites down to two. One in north fremont off dakota and the other on capital avenue. You dont divide your people to fight each other. This is totally wrong. Reporter the center would house 45 people up to six months at a time. Those urging the council to vote no say the center should be located closer to Public Transit and essential services. Things need to happen here that will cost more money and then the risk from highway 84 which is a major commute artery. Reporter some believe the center shouldnt be built at all saying the nearly 2. 3 million cost for construction alone should be spent on programs to prevent homelessness. They are becoming homeless too quickly than we could even help to get them back on feet. Reporter according to the city, a r
Heading towards powell street. That is where all lanes are now open following that earlier fatal accident. Bay bridge toll plaza, you will see some delays now. We are see a back upjust coming off of 580 into the maze at this point. Much better coming off the east shore freeway commute. Drive time have improved as well. We are looking at 25 minute to go from highway 4 to the macarthur maze. Lets get us moinformation on how traffic is looking from jackie ward. Reporter it is actually way better than what we first got here. We are if he 50880 onramp at frontable road. Everything is completely clear now. A great image heading westbound. When we got here, this onramp was closed and there were no cars on this stretch of the east shore freeway. That is not the case and from what we can see, everything is flowing freely. So that is really good news on this friday morning. Jackie ward, kpix5. Lets get you out the door weatherwise. I want to hoe you a really god example of what the cloud are doi
Like august again you look outside the Golden Gate Bridge conditions are Crystal Clear out there any sort of cloud cover that were looking at is sitting atop the base. So its not sitting. Right on us not really resulting in the visibility issue so this is some good news as some of you make your way back to work back to school today. Some of you already into the second week of school as we move into the afternoon youre going to notice skies really clear today clearing out for the coast. A lot sooner than they did yesterday you do see how that fog or treats out along the coast that means temperatures are really going to have a chance to warm today, not just for inland areas. But its going to feel pretty warm in summer like elsewhere too. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures across the bay right now it is a cool start to the morning call enough for just a light jacket as we make our way into the noon hour youre going to see temperatures already in the mid 80s for temperatures are inl
Some slowing on westbound 24. As were tracking the drive time for that stretch from walnut creek to highway 13 its eight minutes. The slowest is always out of tracy this early time in the morning. Westbound 580 tracy to dublin. Here is a live shot, just getting crowded now but still looking good down to the bay bridge and if youre heading to the Richmond San Rafael plaza, very light and quiet right now. Thanks, frances. It could be a challenge getting around San Francisco with two major events going around the same time. The giants are playing the pirates at 6 45. At 8 00 theres a Dave Matthews band concert at chase center. Thats where abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield joins us live with how to get around all of this. Good morning, amy. Reporter hi, good morning. Tonight is a big test. Two events on the same night. We just want to give everyone the heads up this is happening. We have a couple options. One option to keep in mind you can take b. A. R. T. To san isatio, en you can catch