Pg e did an ounce it is cutting power to 386,000 customers across northern california, starting tomorrow. Including nearly 100,000 here in the bay area, they say this is the biggest event of the year. The National Weather service has issued two overlapping red flag warnings for the bay area, the first goes into effect at 11 00 tomorrow morning, the second one starts at 8 00 p. M. , at that point, the entire bay area region will be under that warning, the National Weather Service Today also upgraded its high wind watch to a high wind advisory, starting at 4 00 p. M. Tomorrow. We have Live Team Coverage of the fire danger, greg liggins tells us how fire crews and people around the bay area are getting ready. Mark tamayo is catching those conditions. Over the past several weeks, we have had several red flags fire warnings, this one has been in a league of its own, extreme conditions with not only strong, gusty winds, also very dry conditions, and we are not just targeting a few isolated p
Still ahead robin. A pretty busy commute to San Francisco right now thanks to an early trouble spot. Of Treasure Island so lets go. Dont know whats wrong with the mikes all toss it back to you i will work on that thanks a lot robin. Meantime the big story that were following is possible Power Outages people are bracing for shut offs pg and e is releasing more information too about which areas could be impacted. Yeah weve got kron 4 Sarah Stinson standing by in Sonoma County with a look at what we can all expect sarah good morning. Other finally releasing you know which counties how many customers will be affected by this power shut off if it happens. Tomorrow afternoon and it could be as many as 22,000 customers take a look at your screen we rode out each county for you and spelled out just how many people would be affected you can see there on your screen it would be including alameda contra costa santa clara and san mateo counties and then as we slide over to the next one napa sonoma
It triggered evacuations in the area. Earlier flames were racing across trees and dry brush on the steel hipside. Firefighting planes dropped water on the fires. And fire crews responding to a three alarm fire. You could see the smoke there billowing up into the air from our sfo camera. This fire is on star lite street near north canal street. No word on which building is burning here, but we know this is an Industrial Area about a block or so away from the South San Francisco fire station. This fire was reported just before 3 00 this afternoon. As of 3 30 or so, it did look as the crews on the scene were getting a pretty good handle on this fire. Of course some very challenging conditions out there for fire crews across the bay area. Lets check in with Rosemary Orozco on the weather were seeing. Alex, that wind is Still Holding on, into the second part of the afternoon into the evening hours, with the advisory still in place as well. We can take a look at where were seeing a red flag
Youre watching morning news at the. Good morning and thanks for waking up with us on a tuesday, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher lets get right to the Weather Center john trouble keeping us updated on what will be the big story for the week ahead john yeah, its that fire danger guys temperatures are already climbing ahead of increased fire danger these next few days looking really clear across San Francisco in the rest of the bay area right now calm winds clear conditions. Beautiful cool morning to be getting outside. Winds will pick up starting tonight into tomorrow morning youre going to notice a big difference as far as wind scale. After that wednesday night into thursday morning is when well see our peak wind gusts of this wind event and also some of our warmest of temperatures thats the highest a fire danger this is thursday morning on our future cast of winds at 07 45am. And look at vacaville calistoga now speak. Winds gusting regularly into a 2030 even 40 mile per hour rang
Outage map at this hour the areas highlighted in yellow are impacted, including Calistoga Napa eastern walnut creek in eastern milpitas we are awaiting an update from pg e and were going to take it live when it starts. We also have Team Coverage this evening kron fours dan kerman is in napa county where residents certainly are on edge, but first a chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is tracking the dangerous conditions prompting fire concerns lawrence, yes, certainly gorgeous out there today, warm all the way the coastline High Pressure now taking over you can see really see as this ridge is building in now its going to set itself up over the next 24 hours. And as it does is sliding toward the coastline start to see more of that northerly component the win as air clockwise around that ridge of High Pressure and brings us those offshore winds very typical this time of year, but it is going to be gusty in spots. The fact weve already had a very hot in the summer fires burning already cer