High winds are causing dangerous fire conditions across the bay area. A look at the areas of highest concern. The fire dangers leaving thousands without power. We will find out how soon pg e can turn the lights back on. We are getting a look at where the powerful winds can do. The damage being cleaned up across the bay area. We start with thousands of customers across the bay area without power right now. We take a live look toward the Oakland Hills. Here is a look at the power outage map. The areas marked in purple have power safety shutoffs right now. We have you covered with complete Team Coverage. We begin with the weather team. The red flag warning is in effect across the entire bay area through tomorrow morning at 11 00. Parts of the bay area, Higher Elevations will be under the red flag warning until tuesday evening. Low humidity and gusty wind through the rest of the night. For the Higher Elevations wind gusts potentially over 70 Miles Per Hour. Even the lower elevations and th
And practicing covid19 norms. Masks for Everyone Welcome back is a mask from us hand sanitizer, temperature gauges we want everyone to feel like they are in a safe place. Reporter one of roughly 1800 pg e customer set to lose power in sonoma county. Much higher napa 9200 customers. And eastern Solano County some 900 customers will be affected 80 to 90 and lake county said to be impacted the next few days because of a red flag warning. Height winds expected early friday morning expected to get the most friday morning with estimated restorable times friday night. Reporter because pg es equipment was blamed for sparking the wine country of ours in 2017 the utility began cutting power the following year to prevent similar incident as stop. Humidity forecast to drop below 20 in high wind exceeds 25 Miles Per Hour. We reported on customers who complained about using and losing food when teaching with dark. Attribute organizations is to the redwood empire for being customers can have food rep
Not necessary. You deal with it. What else can i do . And just released body camera footage, bay area deputies opening fire during a tense traffic stop. Were live with the sheriffs response. And the state Republican Party firing back once again tonight about those unofficial ballot boxes, but are voters buying their lawyers explanation . You cant just trust anybody right now. These are like precious right now. So we got to vote. Breaking news on the kpix5 news at 7 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, high fire danger just ramping up right now, pg e giving updates moments ago about the power shutoffs in the north bay, east bay hills and parts of santa clara county. Good evening. Im elizabeth cook. Im ken bastida. In the past hour the lights started going off and it could be days before they are back on. Its really looking to us like two risk periods of winds, one right on top of the other back to back. Well have more from pg e in a moment, but first the conditions outside right now, ther
Power lines lurking overhead, a recipe for disaster. Were on top of the hill here. I feel fortunate i live next door to a firehouse. So i dont think theyll let that burn down. Reporter pg e says the Fire Prevention shutoffs will be phased into 13 different blackouts across Northern California affecting tens of thousands of customers in 24 counties. We expect for these to be smaller by a third and thats thanks to equipment that we have been installing that helps make these more focused and targeted. Its ridiculous. Its almost like saying oh, theres bricks down here. Somebody could trip on it. Lets outlaw bricks, you know. Reporter thats the concern, that power lines could spark some of the fires. Well, we have been alerted to the situation by phone calls and texts. Reporter so that is the plan for pg e to affect the fewest amount of people possible during this latest round. Pg e saying anything else about the latest shutoffs, how its going to affect other customers . Reporter yeah, they
Darkness for a day, maybe two. The reason is red flag warning for high fire danger and fear that dry, windy conditions could damage Utility Equipment and start wildfires. We have Team Coverage tonight from our chief meteorologist bill martin. We begin with Debora Villalon in the north bay where the first doctors happened shortly after 6 00 tonight. Reporter thats right, frank. We are talking about 53,000 customers across 24 counties. The south bay and monterey started deenergizing at about 8 00 tonight. Sonoma and napa counties even earlier. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part of two days. And watching the wind and its only like four Miles Per Hour on mount st. Helena and three down here. Reporter residents know the overnight hours may intensified. Anyhow sprung for generators and more. Solar panels and batteries, its kind of a pain in the butt , but it beats getting burned down. To make the fire storm that roared from calistoga to santa rosa