This afternoon that there is enough energy to power. The state and that your conservation efforts helped. However pg any which supplies power to most of Northern California says that due to weather conditions. Safety power shutoff could happen for 2 bay area counties starting as soon as 09 00pm tonight, those 2 counties are napa and sonoma counties this interactive map on the pga any website shows the areas where customers could be affected. We should add that parts of lake county will also be affected in total more than 158,000 customers across 21 counties could be affected tonight. I want to bring in Lawrence Karnow water talk about this excessive heat warning. And the weather conditions that might prompt a shot off port yeah were going to see some very gusty winds developing overnight tonight. Its tomorrow week air of low pressure kind of dropping over the top of that ridge and moving to colorado eastward as that moves through of some of High Pressure building in behind it. We start
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San Francisco International Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The only place that we saw some changes was right along the coastline. You see the 70s very comfortable in Half Moon Bay and instead of triple digit heat in San Francisco. It was 91 degrees but everywhere else was certainly very very hot
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
Latest out of the walbridge fire burning in Sonoma County right now it flared up overnight and what youre seeing on your screen is time lapse video. What we saw burning before the sun came up new evacuation orders in effect right now for several neighborhoods in Sonoma County. And we actually have a live camera from Mount Jackson check this out, its pointed west right at the fire. You can see all the smoke earlier we saw flames to firefighters are still out there. They say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire but of course its not contain. And more breaking news to have military military helicopters attempting to rescue more than 60 people right now who are trapped in the creek fire in Fresno County. This will be their 3rd attempt to get to these hikers the rescues had to be called off last night because of heavy smoke. Thats pretty scary. We actually have a picture. The hikers are smiling theyre okay right now. They are sheltering at the vermilion valley camping res
Us to prepare for outages tonight. In addition to the heat. The state says a transmission line carrying power from oregon to california went offline unexpectedly and that is also adding to the problem definitely not good news. Meanwhile, the rise in temperatures also increasing the fire danger. A red flag warning has been issued for tomorrow running through wednesday morning. The warning has been issued for the north bay mountains east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains we want to bring in rebecca strong to talk about the record breaking heat and also that red flag warning and once again the big news, San Francisco hitting a 100 degrees something we have not seen in a 100 years rebecca yeah, thats right guys in fact it out beat the previous temperature. It was at 92 degrees back in 19 04 but today in 2020 up and hit that triple digit mark at a 100 degrees in downtown sfo also made record breaking heat set one 02 today and the triple digits continue downtown oakland. Youre at a high of