Checking the winds, tomorrow night will be just wild with the winds hitting 45 to 55 miles per hour. Tomorrow night will be more dice y so remember that. Solano counties. Temperatures today are going to pull back a little bit. Mid60s to 70 from Half Moon Bay to San Francisco. All those winds out there, please be careful if youre driving especially if youre in one of those taller vehicles like an suv or minivan. A live shot of the bay bridge. There was someone on the lower deck who got a flat tire and then got out in the lanes of traffic to try to change the tire. That is very dangerous. Hopefully traffic can slow down and get the car off the roadway. Traffic looking good, though, heading into San Francisco. No major problems, and here is a live look in san jose. Headlights move northbound 101 and thats 880 across your screen. Pg e shutting off power to parts of 30 counties up and down california tomorrow and thursday. Forcing you to get prepared right now. Unless the forecast changes,
Gate. Mid40s to mid50s and milder this afternoon. Frances, a lot going on on the roads. Two Traffic Alerts right now. A couple spots you need to avoid this morning. Coolidge. Oakland westbound 580 overturned crash, multiple vehicles involved. A person may have been hit. Two right lanes will be blocked. And then we have a second sig alert on the peninsula. Southbound 101 as you make your way to redwood city. Apparently it was reported as a person walking in the lanes and was hit by a car. A sig alert issued. 280 is your alternate. Shutting off power in 30 counties up and down california tomorrow and on thursday including the bay area. Unless the forecast changes, customers in three east bay cities and napa county will be shut off. This could spread to include much more of us. It would cover every bay area. Its a good idea to charge your phones and electronics now. If you have an external Battery Charge that, too. Fill up on gas. In the south bay nearly 40,000 could be affected. Pg e is
Opthping. Petaluma right now 30 humidity. Check out napa, just 11 . Livermore, just 14 . That is not a good sign. That is one reason we are under the red flag warning. We have dry air and dry brush. We are expecting gusts 60 Miles Per Hour plus. 45 Miles Per Hour plus in the Santa Cruz Mountains. When you have that dry air and windy conditions, that can spark quickly. It is gusting up to 24 Miles Per Hour. You can see we are already starting to see some of the effects of this as we track through here. Just to show you, this is what we are expecting. You can see upwards of 24 Miles Per Hour. That is at 10 pm. Look what happens during the overnight. This is for a him. Now we have over 40 Miles Per Hour gusts. It is not ramp down until later in the day on thursday. We will talk more about this when i come back. I see a very dangerous night ahead tonight. Paul chambers is in the east bay after talking to frustrated Business Owners who shut down operations today but never lost power. Kristi
Thats about 274,000 customers in the bay area in all 34 counties are parts of those Central California will be affected. The begin at midnight in many of these locations and will be completed in waves. Joining us on the phone now is Contra Costa County Fire Protection district spokesperson, steve hill and steve understand you have some on good news for people in Contra Costa County were talking about the starting at midnight, but that may not be the case there. Thats right and we just learned in the last hour and to our shut off have been delayed and some about noon tomorrow. And may have the effect about of course is that they occur in Daylight Hours as that the middle the night which is good of course this unprecedented as all of the bay area counties are trying to get prepared. How do you prepare for Something Like this when youre talking about not only. Staf in your county but also for the people who will be meeting who may need assistance. And weve been back good fortune of being
Breaking news now at 11 tim. Are you ready for the power to go out . Were now less than an hour away from the largest planned shut off ever in california. Plus 100 acreburning on the Central Coast as we speak tonight. This is exactly what pg e is afraid of. Good evening im ken bastida. And im veronica de la cruz. Kpix 5 is your Survival Guide for this epic outage. In less than an hour pg e will start turning off power to almost a million customers because the fire danger is so high. 278,000 of you in 8 counties across the bay area. It will come in wave, starting in napa and santa rosa county, then santa clara, alameda, and contra costa counties. Tonight this is exactly what pg e is trying to avoid. In the past couple of hour, a wildfire has burned more than 1 hung acres off highway 101 right at the Monterey County line near camp roberts. Strong winds have been fanning the flames. Cal fire says that forward progress has now been stopped. Pg e crews are on the scene because there are rep