At the end of the market street. Should we have an active shooter situation, we want to get out and hide out and take out. So with that, we envision going about 30 or 35 minutes. Our lineup will close on my right whos Vice President of the community wildfires safety program. Well have an update from our meteorologist. Live look at the News Conference. Well be starting there, giving a lineup of what they are expected to talk about during the 30 minutes. Once the News Conference starts well bring it to you. Do you want to go back now . Is it starting no . Well move on for the moment. Pg e says theer outages is the weather. We have a team of weather experts monitoring the conditions including our drew tuma and our spencer christian. Dry gusty winds are intensifying at this hour. Lets go back to the map to give you current wind gusts around the bay area. You can see winds are quite strong. Up to about 20 Miles Per Hour, fairfield 29 Miles Per Hour and santa rosa at 20 at halfmoon bay. Wind
Back to our breaking news. We just finished listening to a live News Conference from pga be updating the situation as pertains to the power cut offs already, hundreds of thousands of customers in the bay area are without power now and other areas are coming on line later tonight. It had been scheduled for 8 oclock it may stay at 8 oclock. Theyre reassessing now it could be between 8. 10 the should also course are designed to reduce the risk wildfires. Amid these dry and windy condition of his dna. Just said that is going to shut off power in portions of 34 counties. Throughout the entire state due to the severe drive wind event its expected to create up. High fire danger. The estimate the shot off will affect some 800,000 customers across northern and Central California and in the bay area to estimated to to affect some 274,000 customers, those will be late delayed as we mentioned until 08 00pm possibly later the studies included berkeley oakland, lafayette raga san Leandro Alameda cou
Out to the delta. Konocti at 19 out of the west. And early breeson santa rosa 12. Atlas peaks west, southwest. 46 humidity. Notice how this picks up by this evening. Not so much at noon but by 4 00 at 5 00 thats when things start. Picking up. 31 in napa. Then they really crank up overnight wednesday into thursday. Fairfield, 43 Miles Per Hour. Napa, 44. Santa rosa, 44. Combine that with humidity maybe in the single digits. Thats why theyre shutting off the power. Anticipation of something of this sort if isand the forecast model say it will. Its not bad now. Altimont pass at gusts right now. There will be a tremendous difference in the pressure gradient. High pressure does not like the low and this is a big low. As the low settles in the high will go to the north and that will create the difference. 40s and 50s and 60s on the temperatures. East bay temperatures in for so 60s for others. El cerrito, 51. A big snow producer for some. Intermountain reason and the great basin but not for u
Commute. Giant generators were brought into the caldecott tunnel, a major traffic route in the east bay. Caltrans had to figure out how to keep the tunnel lights and fans on or face a traffic nightmare. The tunnels themselves have a very large fans that circulate to make sure that the exhaust from the cars are actually taken out of the tunnels. Caltrans first thought some of the four tunnels would need to be shut down but bringing in those generators may have fixed the problem. The lantos tunnel on highway one new pacifica is open. Caltrans brought in more generators there at double slide. Thousands of commuters use that tunnel on the san mateo coast every day. That is some good news. Sal, you have your hands full but great news about the caldecott and lantos tunnel. That is good news. The tunnels will stay open. We will keep reminding people of that even though the changeable signs out there say otherwise. That was before they change their mind apparently or got new resources. Westbou
Miles per hour at my house. Why are you shutting down the power . Beep because the humidity may be in the low digits. That means 50 Miles Per Hour may not be far away from me. You know how fast he can travel so thats why. And that very low humidity means the fire can spread quickly. We are bone dry. The soil was bone dry. We have a wind advisory that just started at 6 00 from the north and east bay above 1000 feet and you could get gusts up to 65 Miles Per Hour. Closer to the surface anywhere from 40 45 is likely. That tells you up in Higher Elevations, a few thousand or above, it could be rocking and rolling leader. More likely this afternoon into tonight into early thursday morning. The red flag warning goes for mendocino county, lake county out of the delta and also down to the Santa Cruz Mountains as well. Only San Francisco is not much of a breeze yet. Not too bad. Its variable in some areas. Summer west, summer itself. Its an Higher Elevations is starting to turn. Alice pete just