About 37,000 customers. Across 15 Northern California counties that they could be losing power. Of the 15 counties 5 hour here in the bay, they are alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma. More than 4,000 customers in the bay area could be affected here. Napa county appears to be hit the hardest the most customers in the bay area affected are in napa some of the outages have already started but most of them are expected as we move through the overnight hours pg and e says the hot and dry weather combined with really high wind gusts pose an increased risk for damage to their electrical system that has the potential to start fires can you want to be on guard. We have Team Coverage for you tonight, Lawrence Karnow is in the Weather Center. Monitoring the red flag warning that goes into effect in about an hour but first we turn to kron fours gayle ong who is live tonight in where people are preparing for another round of shut off scale. Grant and vicki nearly 3300 pg e customers a
At 6 customers could soon be left without power. This as we have yet another preemptive power shut off expected to begin just after midnight tonight. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore, this is happening as a red flag warning has been issued for parts of the bay area starting at 10 oclock tonight and lasting through 8 oclock friday morning take a look at the pga any outage map this hour the areas highlighted in yellow are the areas affected residents in alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma counties are among those bracing for no power we have Team Coverage this evening kron fours gayle ong live for us in napa county where residents are obviously on edge there. But first chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow tracking the dangerous conditions there prompting these fire concerns torrance, you guys it seems like the fire season, the wooden and it just continues and continues and until we get any rain were going to see more fire danger this when we get th
Continue. Throughout the evening and the overnight hours lets take a look now at the outage map from pgd so we can see exactly the affected areas. This is the future outlook of where the power will be going awful zoom in on the north bay napa county will be impacted the most. Heres the big sections that will be losing power again at some point overnight tonight. This includes all around calistoga and also just to the west of saint zooming down now into the east bay well see thats some parts of Contra Costa County will be losing power just to the west of danville and also in this section here just to the west of san ramon going down a little further south. Again this is the part that will be losing power at some point overnight tonight this is in the south bay. Current outages, well just take a quick look an or a purple triangle be showing us the outages that are power shut off related and so far none in the bay area were just waiting now for the power to be turned off. Now according to
Danger that continues to just be here with us. Half moon bay other coastal areas on the peninsula and upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains all of the inland east bay, all of us a in lake countys most of napa and then upper elevations of sonoma and marin counties all these areas affected by red flag warnings now extended through tomorrow night as winds gust as high as 40 Miles Per Hour in some of these areas and its not just the winds, but also the very low humidity to our current temperatures right now actually looking pretty comfortable id say get outside enjoy this morning before another warm afternoon around the corner right now were in the 50s 60s with one exception near santa rosa. At 49 degrees currently so your forecast today again going to be warm and again going to be windy course we need to know what traffic is looking like though still a little bit early i think for most of busy spots but where we sit right now robin the earlier folks can get out there the better job
Francisco. So your drive time is still under 10 minutes really at 7 minutes from the bottom of the maze after fremont street daryn james coming up, well check in on some more bridges and drive times back to you thank you for 30 right now and this morning. Were following the latest from capitol hill because senators there will be taking a crucial vote. To move judge Amy Coney Barrett one step closer to becoming a Supreme Court justice washington dc correspondent kelli meyer is live right now with more on the vocal morning kelly. Good moria diane james well its a last minute showdown between democrats and republicans and an attempt by democrats to delay judge barrett from becoming justice barrett. Effort to stop the confirmation of President Trumps Supreme Court pick judiciary members will boycott the markup all 10 democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee Plan to be a no show for thursdays vote on judge Amy Coney Barrett is nomination to the Supreme Court. I think what the democrats a