Are a lot of darkened businesses without generators probably going to have to be closed today. Pg e believes that this psps should last for two days. Some people tell us they cant wait that long to get their power back. We met a College Student who is going to head home to southern california, shes now without electricity and wifi at st. Marys in moraga. I cant do School Without wifi, especially because we are all online so its impossible because we cant go to inperson classes. So i told my mom and she was like, yeah, lets book you a flight home right away. Reporter if these winds spark a fire contra costa firefighters are ready to go on the ground and in the air. They have two helicopters with expandable water buckets ready to go, they can drop water on any flames that pop up. They also have ground crews ready to go, but the weather will play a role in whether the helicopters can go up. If the wind is too intense those helicopters have to stay on the ground. It is windy right now, its
Heavily affected by all of this as well as parts of the south bay. Lets take a look from our San Bruno Mountain camera. You can see it is shaking. Wind speeds have picked up throughout the night. Theyre expected to get even gus gustier. Rob maeda a covering the story for us. These are the conditions we were worried about. Strong winds on the increase and humidity levels starting to drop down. Walnut creek 16 humidity sustained winds at 20 Miles Per Hour. Livermore humidity 10 winds down to 15. Were starting to see some of the wind spilling into oakland. 31 Miles Per Hour, sustained winds there. You can see the winds picking up in San Francisco. But at the top of the list, 84 mile per hour gusts up at Mount Saint Helena. It is the north bay seeing the worst of it now. The transition over the last six hours, some of the dryer air sweeping offshore at the golden gate bridge. You can see it there. The reason we have the wind advisory up through 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow, gusts of 45 to 60 Miles
Dangerous winds there, even in the lower elevations, 37 in fairfield. Down to 20 in concord. 30 in napa. 22 in novato. 27 in San Francisco. Look at the peninsula, 25 to 31 whether youre in san mateo or sfo. A noisy night out there, there will be a lot of debris on the road, so drive around that and be careful. Our lower elevations, still in the red flag warning until 11 00. Higher elevations until 5 00 tomorrow afternoon. The winds will subside for most of us after 11 00, its so dry and the winds will below wind advisory criteria, but still fast enough to have that high fire danger. Reggie . That breaking news is in the east bay, high winds are now blowing. Youre looking at what happened in concord after a tree toppled bringing down power lines on Birchwood Court late last night. Contra costa county firefighters responded to similar calls reporting either fallen trees or downed power lines. This morning nearly 107,000 customers throughout the bay area are in the dark. Pg e shut off pow
Urging people to avoid standing underneath trees when winds are blowing like they did overnight and late today. Check out this trampoline that toppled over a fence in fremont. Police tweeting the picture to remind everybody, make sure that your items are secured, tied down during heavy winds. Its all part of the Public Safety power shutoffs. Hundreds of thousands of californians are affected, authorities trying to prevent their equipment sparking wildfires in extreme winds. Take a look from pg e. You can see exactly where power is out right now across the bay area. All the dots there in purple. You can see thousands of people are still affected in the bay area. Although the situation is getting better. We have Team Coverage today on the Power Outages and the winds. Abc 7 News Reporters Laura Anthony and Wayne Friedman are checking in on customers affected in the east bay and north bay. Lets begin with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma and the forecast. The red flag warning still on. Yeah,
That fire dangers of concern as temperatures begin to climb back up into the 90s and in some cases, even a couple of triple digits. Temperatures right now look at these Half Moon Bay at 81 degrees saint helena there too. These are not anomalies but these are some of our windy areas that that air is getting mixed in and youre also seeing really dry conditions in these areas and its that pairing of a windy dry and hot that does have fire concern so high even during these Morning Hours more starting things off warm enough already by the afternoon. Its just downright hot with upper 90s inland, mid 90s by the bay and solid 80s near the coast by robin. All right john lets check in on the traffic, the only issue we have on 92 is the Maintenance Work thats underway to its not in the commute direction, its actually eastbound. So theyve taken away one lane which leads to its a tight squeeze, but no major delays it will just be a little congested approaching this closure right before the toll pla