Shutoff. Thousands of people still in the bark adark all over the bay because of the high fire danger. Well look at the latest outages in a moment. First we want to get over to mike nicco. We have been seeing some high gusts. After peaking at about 72 Miles Per Hour, we are down to 67 degrees. Around 2,000 feet, 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Up in knoxville, up to 40 Miles Per Hour. The fastest winds are hitting us now and they will be fastest from now until about 10 00. Theyll still be fast enough after that to keep the red flag warning in effect until 5 00 for most areas. Noon for the santa cruz mountains. We have those winds that will be around until 3 00 that could reach levels of 45 to 55. Even outside of that 10 00 cutoff for the fastest winds, well still have some impresses sieve gu ive gusts th knock down trees and power li lines. Waking up to low to mid 50s this morning. 70 everywhere at noon. Near 70 at the coast at 4 00, the rest of us in the upper 70s. By 7 00, take a deep breat
Through about 10 00. Well get some 30 to 40mileperhour winds down deeper into the valleys. So it may be calm in your neighborhood now, we still have the potential for those gusts. Everything is so dry. The ground is so dry. The vegetation is ready to ignite. The air is so dry. Humidity at 10 to 20, if youre luckys will hang around around d 3 00. The wind also hang around longer. We will just be so dry. You can see all the flags unfurled on the ferry building. We have wind up to 17 Miles Per Hour blowing across the surface in San Francisco. Its up to about 25 in twin peaks. Temperatures now, low to mid 50s. Near 70 everywhere at noon. Well stay at r tea coast. The rest of us in the upper 70s. Sue . Lets look outside at the bay bridge toll plaza. All sold out. Metering lights on at 5 20. Normal timing for this morning. Back towards the macarthur maze. The carpool lanes are getting by without delay. Best if you can to carpoo a decent drive, about 45 to 50 minutes up and over the Altamont
Is not fun. The subject to high wind because its not that big. Now they are back over this area. Look at that burn area on the zones. You have to tip your hat to the firefighters that jumped up at 1 am and did what they had to do to protect the structures right there. All mentioned i will mention, this has power shut off in phase 2, power went off after 10 pm last night, so electricity not a issue, so it is really easy to start a fire out here you christ. Eight hours later, most evacuations have been lifted, it burned more than 40 acres. Right now, firefighters are trying to find the cause of fire. It mentioned at 1 am this morning, this was after pg e had shut off power so we know it was in the power power lines that spark is. Steve, a lot of people that turn their power off, said its not that would be where i am . You have to understand something. A lot of these transmission corridor lines the Higher Elevations and a lot of these grades are linked up. So, if you 70 mileperhour wind a
Gusty in the Higher Elevations above 1,000 feet. We have gusts now to 32 Miles Per Hour, knoxville creek, 22 Miles Per Hour in the oakland hills, mt. Diablo at 26, to the wind gust animation, again gives encouraging ws winds will diminish into the evening. Late tonight, gust at least at the surface dropping below ten Miles Per Hour into the Single Digits. So good news there. On the relative humidity side, though, mixed bag here up in the north bay and over much of the east bay. Well see right now relative humidity ranging from only 5 into the teens. A little bit higher in the santa cruz mountains. We expect relative humidity to increase a little bit in parts of south bay and east bay, but it will remain dangerously low in the north bay. The red flag warning in effect for high fire danger. Well have more details later in the newscast. Dan . Thank you so much. Breaking news in southern california. A fastmoving wildfire has destroyed several mobile homes. It broke out around 2 00 p. M. In
Carnival. Choose fun. In downtown napa where some businesses will be in the dark afternit. Preparingor the s sunanknowy arent exactly sure how to handle anticipated power shutoffs. Dm i huhte e. Reange on t ris ill show you the areas at greatest risk of extreme fir behavior. The utility finally gave specifics as to when they finally plan to cut power to coti california. Abc 7 new starts right now. Gbbin g water, grabbing ice and doing all this andt. Ha best. And that breaking news is a mad roundsc amb trahe ins a b hler aare pg e will starting off power totthu nearlyle affected. And that includes nine here in the bay area impacting around 300,000 customers locally. Only San Francisco is exempt. We have Team Coverage tonight fanned out across the bay area. Outages all because of the fire danger. Youre looking livet theogtan s. It is a very shaky view. Winds are beginning to ramp up gusting to 35 right now out of the northwest at mount diablo, 28 on mount. The red flagam t warning starts