Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with another day of disturbing new milestones in the Coronavirus Crisis while the country awaits approval of the vaccine. Yesterday, the u. S. Recorded more than 217,000 infections and more than 2,900 deaths and over 100,000 hospitalizations. President elect biden said on his first day in office, he plans to ask americans to wear a mask for 100 days to help slow the spread of the virus. Debra alfarone is in washington. There is only so much the president can do. Is he can ask and he has some dominion over places where he can make it mandatory. Absolutely. We are talking federal buildings and any transportation that crosses state lines. Planes, buses and trains. The post thanksgiving surge predicted by Public Health experts has arrived with the coronavirus spreading out of control in much of the u. S. More than 217,000 positive tests reported on thursday. Shattering the single total set a day earlier. We dont want to scare
Evening, everybody im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne tonight, so lets get straight to it. Heres where power shutoffs stand right now this is a pg and e map for right now. And we have Team Coverage tonight we will begin with our Lawrence Karnow in the Weather Center with the latest on the wind event which is really the main concern when it comes to the fire danger tonight. Lawrence yeah, i certainly weve seen some tremendous winds. Well, the strongest wind events of the season so far in fact youre seeing latest image here weve got High Pressure out there in the pacific weve got a low pressure just to our east and really the difference between these 2 which is causing all the gusty winds not only here but around the state southern california. Theyve got the santa ana blowing too. Theyve got an active fire there causing some extremely dangerous conditions right now that ridge building in over the upset in northwest, great basin that low kick into these once these begin
Residents. This is the latest outage map on pg and es website. Those pink triangles indicate areas without power because of the Public Safety power shut offs. Thank you for joining us tonight on this monday night im pam moore welcome everybody, im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne. Pg and e began shutting off power over the weekend ahead of a major wind event and take a look at these wind speeds these were recorded overnight saint helene a reported wind gusts of 89 miles an hour. Healdsburg 83 miles an hour blackhawks 68 hawkeye 61 pittsburgh, 57 Miles Per Hour oakland, 51 Miles Per Hour and the danger unfortunately is still not over and chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is tracking of another round of strong winds. Yeah just a classic offshore wind event developing out there right now weve seen this play out weve seen some of the worst fire conditions and some very bad fire start under these exact kind of conditions right now High Pressure sitting there in the pacific as a ridge bui
Danger and the Power Outages have been a daily thing for many days so lets see if were going to get a little relief and when john yeah guys were still under those red flag warnings the good news is though there are as many of them as there were yesterday today its more isolated to or Higher Elevations because its a mixed bag, some of us are pretty windy other as of us are actually really nice and calm right now you look outside at the bay bridge behind me nice and clear and you look outside from suture tower also beautiful and clear there is really little marine layer affecting our bay area forecast today as these offshore winds continue keeping things dry. Breezy and yes high fire danger continues because of both of those factors sonoma calistoga petaluma atlas peak, vacaville and danville are all some of our breezy us to spots right now, especially the hillsides above each of these areas. Calmer conditions in Oakland Hayward San Francisco in livermore look at that hardly even detecti
Is off of 4 communities in the mountain regions of san mateo and santa cruz counties in the south bay, the power is out for People Living along east foot hill of san jose outage then runs up to the hills in alameda and contra costa counties. And finally large portions of the north bay are without power this afternoon as well. So lets check in on the bay area forecast right now the weather thats driving these shut offs with kron 4 meteorologist dave spahr today. Good afternoon sanaas everybody were still with our red flag warning thats been extended a little bit weve got some areas of the north bay this will expire by 5 oclock in some selected areas, but in other pieces of real estate were still going to see it world linger on until tomorrow. Afternoon live shot coming in from walnut creek air plenty of sunshine to dish out of course in the current check and winds while the direction is very clear its offshore whether it from the north of the northeast you can see numbers well double di