Bam, everything went off and that was the end of the day. Reporter the city of santa rosa has its Emergency Operations center fully staffed. They estimate 50,000 to 60,000 people will be impacted within the city limits. Traffic lights at 24 intersections are expected to go dark. Our goal is to make sure that during the shutoff, that we do the most we can to protect our community. Reporter the owner of bettys fish andhips cooked up lunch for customers before the shutoff. They lost power for three days during the last outage. With a freezer full of just delivered fish, the potential losses are once again huge. I dont think theyre thinking about the families that are impacted, small businesses, retail, restaurants. There just has to be another way. Reporter now, we are inside village pet store. The good news here, just after the power turned off, they were able to start up a generator. You can see the freezers are now powered. Im going to walk you back here to the animal section. You can
Best way to curb fire danger. Thank you for joining us. Im in for frank. And im julie hane nor. Pg e says they have not made the call whether to turn off the power and the official announcement comes tomorrow. If it is a go 189,000 customers in 16 counties could be affected. Here in the the bay area it affects some of the counties. Here is the timeline. We have live coverage from you tonight with how people in napa are preparing arena second out taj in two weeks. Amber reporter julie, were in north napa off of highway 29. People who live in this Community Expect this clubhouse to be in the dark tomorrow night. They say they dont like it but it appears to be a new way of life. At the Retirement Community in napa, these folks are all about especially joying life. They say theyre ready for the hand that pg e has dealt them. They lost power two weeks ago. No tv, that was terrible. We couldnt watch your news. That was the worst part. Yeah, it was. No channel 2. Reporter terrible indeed, and
Folks may be planning to go to work today and see how the outages go. That may be the case. Well see how the morning progresses. There are no major problems getting toward the bay bridge but again the early backup shows coming off of the maze, a smooth drive through Contra Costa County, and from the north bay, both across the carquinez bridge and the golden gate bridge. No problems through the south bay or peninsula and disabled truck well talk about that counter commute, guys, coming up. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. Back to the red flag warning set for later today in the extremely high fire danger, and noon, pg e will announce exact areas where they will shut off power later today. Pg e says the move just like two weeks ago will prevent downed power lines from starting fires. Impacted areas include parts of san mateo, napa, and sonoma counties but the south bay and east bay will not see shutoffs and that doesnt mean people should not stay on alert. Bob redell joins us live in wa
For our north bay neighbors. These areas will be susceptible to the strongest of winds mountaintops and portions of sonoma napa county could see. Winds gusting as high as 60 Miles Per Hour this afternoon on into the evening tonight and eventually into tomorrow to winds calm for the east bay right now Lake Berryessa youre seeing winds picking up now 22 Miles Per Hour. Pope valley and say whoa mean a nearing that 20 mile per hour mark and as winds pick up humidity drops and temperatures rise, yellow and red on this map are going to become more and more prominent, this is extreme fire danger right here up across the north bay from Sonoma County out towards the delta. Syrias like youngsville napa saint helene and sonoma really popping out on this map and fire danger is going to remain at an extreme level today tonight on into tomorrow as winds are going anywhere during this time, lets take a look at your wind forecast com right now for most areas, winds pick up into the afternoon sonoma in
Reporter with the power is going out the inconvenience bens again. I understand they are trying to keep it safe from the danger of the fire but there is hardships too the come along with it. We are really trying to be prepared as much as possible and we understand this will be the quote normal. The new normal. I spoke to county emergency officials earlier today as they were lurching towards that 3 00 shutdown time. I asked them if they were Getting Better information this time around than last time and the answer was, a little bit. They have an earlier phone call that starts at 7 30 that will give them a head start on the day but what they prepared for today was based on what happened last time. They are not armed with any more information. They are going by what happened last time and there are some surprises to exactly where the power is out so far. There could be more to come. We a live on the western edge of santa rosa. Kpix 5. You can hear it there. The gusting winds beginning to