Off. s make a bad combination in place tonight, excessive heat, driver dictation and now diablo wind. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. I am julie haener. To try to prevent fires, theyre taking a protective step to the first time this year and shutting off power. They confirmed the shutdowns are already underway, they are scheduled to happen between 9 00 and midnight. A total of 100 they confirmed the shutdowns are already underway, they are scheduled to happen between 9 00 and midnight. A total of 172,000 customers in 22 Northern California counties are affected, that includes the east side of santa rosa and Sonoma County and the calistoga area in napa county. Power is expected to be restored no later than wednesday evening. We have Live Team Coverage on the weather conditions, greg shows us how people are coping with the recordbreaking heat. Deborah gives us a look at how people in the north they are bracing for the power shut off but first lets go to our chief meteorologi
Plus, americans on the move. Where more people are relocating because of the pandemic. Prince harry and duchess meghan declare their independence. The big bill they just paid and what it means for their royal future. A real life willy wonka. The unique new contest where you can win your very own candy factory. Good Tuesday Morning, everyone. We begin with the fire emergency on the west coast growing more dire by the hour. New evacuations have been ordered in california where more than two dozen wildfires are burning. Flames from the massive creek fire near fresno have trapped at least 50 people at a mountain resort. A rescue mission late monday was not successful. New conditions are threatening to fan the flames today including high winds. The states Largest Utility Company has cut power to 170,000 customers to prevent power lines from sparking even more fires. This morning firefighters are battling dozens of wildfires fueled by recordbreaking heat. One of the largest fires exploded ov
Air pushing on in your windows if you open and i would say you probably should because its going to be another hot afternoon today, and its going to be a hot and windy one this time around so this is where fire danger comes into play a lot of the bay area specially or upper elevations with up in red flag warning says were going to be seeing dry conditions hot weather paired with winds in the east bay gusting as high as 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour an hour. More exposed hillsides where temperatures will be in the triple digits still Solano County entire county lit up in a red flag warning 25 to 40 mile per hour winds. And as for murder in napa and sonoma counties also heightened fire danger specially in those upper elevations, these will remain in effect tonight into wednesday as that when really kicks into gear out of the northwest sonoma calistoga vacaville already on the breezy side and look at winds picking up later today. Sonoma petaluma down through fairfield in danville all going to b
Helena. You can see the winds are already strong. And look at this, the red flag warning through at least 8 00 wednesday. So, even when the winds subside, the humidity very low as we head through tomorrow morning. Lets break down today. Going to be almost as hot as it was over the weekend but not as quiet. The east bay hills still 85 degrees up there with those winds. So, expect 70s at the coast 80s in San Francisco and 9 os and 100s for the rest of us. This could be the last day we say 100s. Ill show you the sevenday forecast coming up. Heres kumasi. Today is the first day of classroom instruction for hundreds of students in the north bay. Marin county approved waivers for more than a dozen schools to reopen during the pandemic. Education, as you know, one of the five issues that we focus on to build a better bay area. Lauren martinez is set at a school that is set to welcome back its students. Were in front of marin not all 15 will reopen, but they are allowed to do so. Now, the coun
From the flames and the smoke the fire thats still burning. Firefighters do say that they have stopped before progress on this fire. So again more breaking news that military helicopters now attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire thats the one burning down in fresno county. This is a 3rd attempt now to get those hikers the rescuers had to be called or the rescues had to be called off last night because of the heavy smoke that was blocking visibility. Very scary. We actually have some pictures of the hikers you see that there they are right there sheltering at the vermilion valley camping resort thats at lake edison volunteers are out there and theyre helping the hikers a stay fed and hydrated hydrated excuse me as they wait to be rescued and then we also have a map here showing where those hikers are in relation to the creek fire. Itself and you can see that red outline is the outline of where the fire line currently is and the marker that you see th