Area residents on the verge of losing power. Foreign governors are trying to interfere with the election once again. The Disinformation Campaign and the potential impact. Plus a federal program meant to help Small Businesses full of fraud. We examine how scammers got a hold of hundreds of millions of tax payers dollars. Who was minding the store . I really wonder. Several east bay cities are enacting plans to address a growing Homeless Population but tonight their motives are under question read good evening im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 on cbsn bay area, and just a couple of hours thousands of bay area residents will be losing power. Pg e is scheduled to turn off the power to a little over 500 customers and then over 200 customers scheduled in Santa Clara County two hours later. The bulk of the shutoffs will come at 4 am when almost 3500 customers in napa and sonoma counties will lose their power. Paul heggen is tracking the winds and low humidity making this all necessary. The wind is
Red now until 8 00. M. Friday. Looking at the diablo range, santa cruz mountain, San Mateo County coast under the red flag warning. Checking winds gusting near 50 Miles Per Hour in the Higher Elevations. We will continue to watch the relative humidity values plummet as we head through the day and actually for the rest of the week. Temperature wise we are going to be cooling it down. 72 in san francisco, 77 oakland, 82 san jose, 84 concord. So, about five degrees cooler compared to yesterday but still above average for this time of year. We will continue to cool down as we head through the week. This is really just the start. We have another offshore wind behind this. I will talk about this and show you futurecast winds coming up. Lets check with gianna for the latest on road work on 880. It is causing delays. It was supposed to be wrapped up at 5 00. This is around industrial and the off ramp is blocked as well as two lanes. You are backed up to 238, traffic out of castro getting to th
Above 1,000 feet, especially 2,000 to 3,000 feet, north bay mountains, diablo range, santa cruz mountains, san mateo coast under the red flag warning, all the areas highlighted in the red. Tracking gusts now, 30 to 35 Miles Per Hour. Well continue to see those ramp up with gusts up to 40 to possibly 50 Miles Per Hour and low relative humidity values. A big concern as we head through the rest of the week. In fact, we are looking at the weekend, an Even Stronger burst of offshore winds. Really this prolonged offshore winds through the next several days. Looking at temperatures, a little bit cooler compared to yesterday. 82 in san jose, 84 concord, 77 oakland, 72 San Francisco. Well show you futurecast winds coming up in just a moment. Lets check in with gianna. Good morning. If you are taking 880 weve got brake lights south bound past 92, road work in effect. That should be wrapped up by 6 00. A little slow as you work your way through. It is not affecting your drive on 92. North bound 8
This is not story we want to start with today. You got that fire that started already and weve got a significant wind event coming to the bay area in fact red flag warnings going up across the entire bay area as we look toward the weekend were going to see these winds really begin to pick up so weve had some breeze out there today a little bit of more of an on shore flow out there some westerly winds thats all going to change over the weekend going to see more of a northerly wind so yeah, a lot of the hills have been talking about red flag warnings as of sunday into monday were talking red flag warnings for the entire bay area with some of those gusts. Maybe 6070 Miles Per Hour the peak. So that is a major concern a fire now burning in the north bay wind right now out of the west you can see that sea breeze kind of kicking in and as we head through the day tomorrow, well start out fairly calm then we get toward the afternoon. Those winds start to pick up again and they start to get on
L a new fire in fact those fires you can tell that the brush there was already set ready to go so youre in very active fire region and now weve got another fire burning. And weve got some very strong winds coming on the way. Winds right now weve seen of the 1618 Miles Per Hour in fire certainly enough to move that fire long. But thats not what were most concerned about is the winds that will likely take place this weekend, red flag warnings are going up for the entire bay area over the weekend expecting some 4050 mile an hour gusts, even down in the valley floors were going to see some very gusty winds extremely low humidity maybe even some places less than 10 and over the mountain tops maybe some 6070 mile an hour winds. So here we go put this into motion now as we take in tomorrow morning, not bad just an easy breeze. Now the west generally but then things begin to start to shift gears we start to see things pick up and by the afternoon and evening tomorrow, those winds start to pick