Making sure that you are prepared. Gayle ong has in orinda where theyre bracing for the strong wind event dan thorn is insane alina where theyre already dealing with a brush fire there, but we start tonight with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to give us a better idea of what we can expect lawrence guys this looks like a significant wind event may be the strongest of the year maybe several years were going see how all works out. But right now it looks very very impressive. The winds, fairly light right now just a general breeze around the bay area but watch what happens as we take you through the weekend now as those winds by tomorrow morning, not bad just a gentle breeze early on so not a bad start your weekend by tomorrow afternoon, the winds do begin to pick up but you notice the direction that is out of a westerly direction that brings that nice moist air off the ocean so fire danger running fairly low that all begins to as we get in towards sunday afternoon. And there you can
Tonight Berkeley Police are asking for the publics help and have a 50,000 award for information. New at 10 00, ktvus amber lee joins us live at Berkeley Police headquarters. Reporter police are asking for help in solving this crime. The victims mother never imagined having to see her daughter die in front of her. Family and friends have set up a memorial for serenity henderson on the corner of prince street and ellis in berkeley. There morning the sudden death of the pregnant single mother. She was shot in her car when she pulled up to a stop sign. She was the joy of my life. She was the joy of all of our lives. Reporter a joy that was taken away wednesday night. Like a loud sound back to back like pow, pow, pow, pow. Reporter her mother says she was in the front passenger seat when another car pulled up next to serenity and fired multiple shots and her black honda. One bullet struck her 19year old daughter in the head. The bullets were coming. I didnt know where they were coming from.
Come. Thank you for starting your weekend with us. Im kira klapper. Vianey arana joins us with your microclimate forecast and you said today is the day to enjoy and to prepare for tomorrow. Absolutely. Its going to be a lovely afternoon. I mean, mostly sunny. Seasonable temperatures, but by tomorrow thats all going to change. So definitely take advantage today. Mostly Clear Conditions right now. Couple of straggling clouds here and there. 53 degrees in san jose. Current temperatures really in the 50s throughout a chilly 40 degrees in napa which is something that we really havent seen in a while. We have been seeing above seasonable temperatures and this is the reason why were under a microclimate weather alert. We want to make sure youre prepared and in anticipation of whats to come and thats headed into sunday afternoon two red flag warnings kicks in. First at 11 00 in the east bay hills and then a second one that kicks in for the Higher Elevations. Details in a minute. We look forwar
Orinda with more dan. Well this is literally the calm before the storm right now there is absolutely no wind at this point but theyre expecting gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour in this region and other regions throughout the bay area beginning tomorrow night that coupled with possibly triple digit heat has firefighters on alert. As the sun bear down on Contra Costa County friday winds remain calm with temperatures in the 70s. But come this weekend a recipe for disaster high temps low humidity and winds gusting to 50 Miles Per Hour. Looking at very high fire danger and as you point out. We got an awful lot of dry fuel out thats just waiting to burn it was last october when Contra Costa County experienced similar conditions. And had a fire siege, 10 major fires and 15 hours including one that jumped the carquinez bridge. Sleep with one eye open. Those who live in Contra Costa County have been through this before and are ready, we know or pc is and all of our personal documents and should be
Black car spun out and hit 4 other cars on the bay bridge. Preliminary reports are that driver may have been travelig at a high rate of speed at least for the 5 lanes on the bay bridge are being blocks right now well be monitoring this accident throughout the hour and let you know of any changes and you remember you can always keep track of traffic alerts with our kron 4 mobile app thank you for joining us here at 3 im sanaz were following several bay area stories from dangerous accidents involving car crashes into crowds, dining outdoors to homicides and election safety. But we begin with concerns a fire dangers of this week that has pga new warning of another possible power shut off. High temperatures mixed with high winds is causing major concern for wildfire danger. The genie is warning it may start turning off power in the north bay mountains and pockets of the Santa Cruz Mountains wednesday afternoon. The Utility Company is still monitoring the wind events at this time because we