We are monitoring a live update from the cal fire at the base camp for the kincaid fire and santa rosa. We are also waiting on a press conference with pg e officials in the next half hour with an update on the Current Power shut off and another one that is on the way. We will bring you that live as it happens. Good evening. Back east the school kids have the snow days. Today around the bay area students had something you might call a power shut off day. That part of our story. Reporter the entire Pacifica School district is closed for the day. The superintendent made the tough call largely because of traffic. Yes traffic. With power knocked off to the stoplights getting up and down the main road in town highway one was a pain. Even with crews directing traffic it was still backed up for much of the morning. It has been nonstop like this all day. It will continue for the rest of the day. Reporter besides not having power at the schools it would be hard for a Police Officer firefighter o
To minimize that impact. Day one has been a challenge. That was the pg e Vice President essentially acknowledging the inconvenience. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Pg es big concern has been the red flag fire conditions and potential for high winds later tonight. The first phase of the Power Outages started in parts of sonoma, napa, and marin counties for this morning. That is the red on the map that included some 2000 pg e customers. Phase two involves the east bay and south bay, and another 169,000 homes and businesses. It was supposed to start at noon, then it was pushed back to 8 00 tonight, then it was pushed back again until right now at 10 00. Jana katsuyama live from downtown orinda where the power can go out at any moment. Jana, is there any sign of wind out there tonight . Reporter not very matchup here, frank and julie, and weve been throughout the county. You can see there are still some businesses open that have lights on, but it has been
Of that mountain that looked like it was acting as a fire break which helped slow the progress of this fire compared to 45 minutes ago. This is good news because they are homes closer to the daly city side of the mountain. Despite that, voluntary evacuations have been ordered. Acreage, 15 or 20 acres. No official word yet. Wind has been a huge story in the bay area this week. The red flag warning is up and running for tomorrow. Meteorologist mark tamayo joins us now. Some people were seeing wind. There is a dry winton place and its it defined wind direction coming out of the east and northeast. Im sure the fire crews are seeing that on the map. As a result this a good strategy to contain this in the short term. There is the mapping system. You can see wind coming in out of the easiest off of the bay. Typically a normal summer day we will talk about a wind coming in from this direction but as you know this has been a fire weather pattern with offshore wind setting up. Here is an idea of
School closures, due to weather are not common in the bay area. And one of the first School Districts to decide toh3p in he hasuh decision there. Reporter for theseby8t t ks leaving lou sutton elementary class[ now that the School District has canceled class at all of its schools on thursday and friday due to the upcoming storm. Its all about safety, of the kids and the familys and our . [ employees. Reporter thecu School Superintendent unified School Superintendent word out to parents before noon. The brunt of the storm is expected to be between 4 00 a. M. And 9 00 a. M. School starts on some of our campuses at 7 00. So i just i dont want families and kids and Staff Members on the road during the worst part of the storm. Reporter reaction is as expected. Im excited because i think i get to stay home all day and stay up late. And im sad because i dont get to see all my friends at school. Reporter as for parents, they seem to support the decision. Decision. Should come first. U reporter
Drains. Good evening, im pam moore. Tonight we have Team Coverage on the storm watch kron4s jeff bush is live in the north bay where its already raining this evening. And kron4s Philippe Djegal is at sfo where delays and cancellations are expected to get worse during the storm. Lets first begin with chief meteorologist jacqueline bennett. Jacqueline how will the impact tomorrow mornings commute . Jacqueline bennett and not good tomorrow theres going to be a denuded of rain. We can see about a 10th of an inch of rain to a quarter of an inch of rain and our. People are scrambling to stock up on batteries and water ahead of the powerful storm as it hits the north bay. Continuing our Team Coverage kron 4s jeff bush is live in rohnert park. Jeff . Jeff bush it was rainy year up until about 15 minutes ago and then it just stopped. It was raining cats and dogs completely dumping water, if this is any preview to the bigger flood thats coming through then everybody better watch out. Looking int