Couple of hours. Well go ahead and get a look at the air quality. You can see as weve headed through today, as you look off toward the distance, you can see that smoke. It is cloudy. The sky has that orange haze in it, but its not necessarily in the very unhealthy air range right here in the bay area. So as you look at these live air quality monitoring sites, the only spot now thats tipped into the unhealthy category is napa. Otherwise its good in San Francisco, moderate for most of the bay area, and a few spots that are unhealthy for sensitive groups right now. So i want to talk more about the smoke and why were seeing it off towards the distance but were not necessarily smelling it as bad as it looks. And it all has to do with three different fires surrounding the bay area. We have one off to the north, the august complex, the one near fresno, the creek fire, and then the dolan fire off to the south. So with all of these fires, they are so large theyre creating whats called pyorcumul
Setting wildfire season, and there is concern it could get any worse. The red flag warning started just an hour ago and lasts until 9 00 p. M. Monday night for much of the bay area. Winds could reach up to 50 Miles Per Hour in some areas. We have Live Team Coverage of the red flag warning. Greg will tell us how fire officials are prepping right now, but first we go to mark for a look at the current conditions. Mark . Andre, when you think about this past summer, all of the recordsitting heat that we had here in the bay area, the excessive heat warnings, its history, but it has a lasting impact, right . All of the hillsides are dry and ready to burn and were heading into a critical fire situation. We not only have the winds, we have the heat, as well. Heat advisory. Take a look at these forecast hes as we head into your sunday, but especially into monday. That will be the hottest day of the week, and that red flag fire warning. Were seeing those winds switch out of the north. Current ob
Power cut off to try to prevent wildfires can planned to be in the dark into tomorrow night, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everyone im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis the Power Company announcing no changes for sonoma and napa county and their update tonight blaming critically dry conditions out there. This is an interactive map on pg es website shows exactly where the shut offs are happening at last check pg e reported that they turned off electricity to 167,000 customers across Northern California as part of what they call a Public Safety power shut off. 17,000 in Sonoma County most of which is in santa rosa and 5,000 in napa county and some of that in a in calistoga or sell sogomonian live in our newsroom tonight with when the power may come back on l a. Pg e is Incident Commander expects most of their customers will have their lights back on by the end of the day tomorrow with a widespread all clear in the morning. The weather is driving their decisionmaking taking a look at
This morning. Because of that, a spare the air alert that remains in effect. Going a record 23 days in a row with a spare the air alert for the thats never been done before. Also tracking dry and gusty offshore winds. Looking at winds gusting up to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour this morning up in the Higher Elevations is why red flag warning is in effect until 8 00 a. M. Today for the north bay mountains and east bay hills but because of those dry northerly to winds, and low relative humidity values. Temperatures upper 60s in San Francisco and mid 70s in oakland. Upper 80s in san jose. And low to mid90s for concord down as we heads through the next few days. Now lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and its a foggy start this morning. Yeah, it sure is mary. In fact, at the Golden Gate Bridge, that is where chp has issued a fog advisory. So limited visibility asu for the most part right now your drive times south 101, 14 minutes from the richmondsan rafael bridge into San Francisco.
Its my biggest we can expect protest through the night, through the weekend and to continue for some time. Reporter thousands of people took to the street you discussed sadness, frustration, and anger. The grand jury discussing the death of Breonna Taylor and said the Police Officers responsible for her death will not face murder or homicide charges. Demonstrations started peacefully but there were clashes between police and protesters. Lease arrested 127 people overnight, some jumping on vehicles used as blockades. Others for looting. We know people are taking eventually protest. Its unusual, however, to see a large number of people to go into business every move property. It signifies looting. Reporter two Police Officers were shot, one in the leg and one in the abdomen. Both are expected to recover. One was arrested for the shooting but police will not say if it is connected to the protest. The two officers shot in the protest are doing well. Less like the situation could have been