Darkness for a day, maybe two. The reason is red flag warning for high fire danger and fear that dry, windy conditions could damage Utility Equipment and start wildfires. We have Team Coverage tonight from our chief meteorologist bill martin. We begin with Debora Villalon in the north bay where the first doctors happened shortly after 6 00 tonight. Reporter thats right, frank. We are talking about 53,000 customers across 24 counties. The south bay and monterey started deenergizing at about 8 00 tonight. Sonoma and napa counties even earlier. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part of two days. And watching the wind and its only like four Miles Per Hour on mount st. Helena and three down here. Reporter residents know the overnight hours may intensified. Anyhow sprung for generators and more. Solar panels and batteries, its kind of a pain in the butt , but it beats getting burned down. To make the fire storm that roared from calistoga to santa rosa
Coming up in a bit. Well marty. Dave our top story this morning, senator Kamala Harris will appear with joe biden today for the very first time as his running mate is going to be a historic moment as senator harris is the first woman of color to appear on a president ial ticket todays event will be held in bidens home state of delaware. The Biden Campaign shared this photo that you see a showing the moment the biden told hair is over zoom that she was chosen as his running mate. And then on twitter biden described harris as a fearless fighter for the little guy and one of the countrys finest Public Servants. Senator harris also took to twitter to praise joe biden saying she is honored to join him as the democratic nominee for Vice President. And that she will do whatever it takes to make him the next commander in chief. Harris is the first black woman in the history of us politics to join a Major Party Ticket and the 3rd woman to serve as Vice President ial candidate for a Major Politi
In the center of lot of 70s rather and the Santa Clara Valley got that and were also check the tropics quite busy including down around texas with a new Tropical Storm. All right dave thanks a lot. We begin in the east bay this morning more accountability for the Oakland Police department thats the change. The City Councils putting. In the hands of the voters. The City Council Unanimously approved a ballot measure to make the Citizens Police commission more independent in its decisionmaking kron fours dan thorn reports. In an effort to strengthen oaklands citizen Police Commission City Council Members vote to eliminate what oversight advocates called a poison pill now that weve excluded wording of exigent circumstances. Well give the Police Commission more authority and more independents exigent circumstance would have allowed the open police chief to change policies without the commissions consent in relation to Public Safety mariano contrasts with the coalition and Police Accountabil
Were Still Holding on to the lower middle 60s in the east bay 50s north bay, 63 for san jose leininger day up today. We got those fog clouds left over at 07 00am then we go mostly sunny by 10 00am at 6986 going on by 01 00pm yesterday to revisit the 90s for some of those inland valleys, but the real jump in temperatures getting here tomorrow and by friday. Its a an excessive heat watch that we have going on more on your forecast coming up in a bit party all right dave, thank you so much to get our top story this morning. Senator Kamala Harris will appear with joe biden later today for the first time as his running mate, its going to be a very historic moment. As harris as the first woman of color to appear on a president ial ticket or that signs has a closer look now at bidens history making choice. With election day 83 days away the democratic ticket is now set with an historic perry. Joe biden selecting california senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, telling her the news during
List the white house puts us on what we need to do is what we know we need to do all along which is individually we need to take responsibility. So Wearing Masks socially distancing. Thats san jose mayor sam liccardo responding to the White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator doctor deborah birx she called out san jose is one of 12 cities in the country that she says are quote lagging behind the need to do a better job of slowing the spread. Take a look at this map from Santa Clara Countys Health Department it shows a higher rate of coronavirus cases in san jose compared to some other cities in the county. Some city leaders say that its tough to argue with the data while others say theres nothing to worry about. And we sure sips here in the city and county and the state and we are all watching the numbers so im im not concerned about. About that i dont speak the doctor birx is speculating i think that if hes making that list. Hes coming off of data theres no arguing with that i ca