Many understand its not in the same of safety but just weeks after a major fire, the timing wouldnt be worse. Im stocked up on batteries, flashlights, lanterns. Reporter she has what she needs. Im here to service the community. Reporter shes assistant manager at Outdoor Supply hardware with a possible safety power shutoff hours away, most of the portable generators have sold out. This could easily do a refrigerator, couple lights, tv. Reporter john was buying extra flashlight batteries and hes not happy about it. As a general sense of disappointment to pg e. I think one place seems to be under control and another comes in after that. I dont like it. Reporter the utility says it has to cut power to thousands of bay area customers due to hot, dry windy conditions or risk parking a fire from an active power line. At the end of the day we have to stand by the side of safety and if its necessary, we have to do this to prevent healthcare reforms emergencies from occurring. Reporter nancy jus
Is actually familiar across a lot of the bay area tonight as many pg and e customers are bracing now for a 3rd day without power. Thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne pg needed start restoring power to some neighborhoods tonight, well bring you the latest on the shut offs in a moment, but first. Lets check in with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow on the when and the heat or yet were not done with the win check in effect. Today we had some very impressive gusts around the bay area 65 mile an hour gust reported. Mount st. Louis that was early on in the morning, 57 mile an hour gust amount the album in the Santa Cruz Mountains 53 Miles Per Hour 52 healdsburg Oakland Hills almost 40 mile an hour gusts. Thats where were seen over the mountain tops especially not as windy down below, but certainly concerning as youve got very dry conditions youve got the hot temperatures record heat in place today and you got those strong offshore Winds Continuing to blow in f
Now a mother struggling with her young son living in a car after mishandled her case. An out pouring of support from news viewers. Happening now. More than 30,000 pg e customers in Northern California without power because of Public Safety power shut offs. Welcome to the special edition of the news. Well begin with breaking news. The lemur stolen from the zoo has been found safe. Were live with exactly where and how he was recovered. He was found safe. He was found by children at a Day Care Center in daily city. About the best news any of us could hope for. Take a look. Hes a 21 yearold ring tailed lemur born at the San Francisco zoo. A San Francisco native. This boy right there 5 yearold james trin. He was the first one to spot him at the area outside his day care. You can see this is the commotion that ensued. Well have the full story coming up. I spoke to jaems and his father. I spoke to zoo officials who are elated to have him back. Heres what happened. He went missing over night s
Caught on camera, a dramatic end to a Police Pursuit in Southern California overnight. Health alert. The new warning about some popular painkillers. What women need to know. And christmas comes early. The misfit toys from a christmas classic now going up for sale. Good friday morning, everyone. Im mona kosar abdi. Im will reeve. We begin with the race for the white house and those dueling town halls. President trump and former Vice President joe biden taking questions from voters on everything from the coronavirus to the economy. It comes as the pandemic enters a new phase. Doctors reporting a third peak in infections. Meanwhile, the number of americans applying for Unemployment Benefits has jumped to the highest level in nearly two months. We begin our coverage with abcs elizabeth schulze. Good morning, elizabeth. Reporter hey, good morning, mona and will. Trump and biden squared off in separate televised events just as bidens running mate, Kamala Harris, came off the campaign trail.
Probably not soon enough, but coming soon, if you consider the weekend soon. I do. Im already thinking about it. It is friday morning. Good morning to you julian and kumasi and jobina. Hi, everybody. I do have the news of a fire danger length extending until 6 00 this evening. National Weather Service brought that up this morning. Thats the difference between when you went to bed last night and whats happening now. 90s possible everywhere, even along the coast, just like we had yesterday at Half Moon Bay. All those records going to be warmer than it was yesterday. Ill show you that relief coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Pg e is expected to restore power by 10 00 tonight depending on the weather. This morning thousands of people in Northern California are still in the dark from the Public Safety power shutoff that started on wednesday. So the pink triangles that you see on the map, those indicate the outages. Anser hassan is live in sonoma with more on this. Good morning