This morning the evacuations have been lifted but that part of highway 29 is still closed while crews are battling the flames. Contra costa county supervise say that gate to the Nustar Petroleum Storage Facility was locked with the first firefighters arrived to fight the fire. Workers also left the scene without activating the Fire Suppression system. Investigators are looking into what sparked the explosion and the fire. Whitehouse acting chief of staff of Mick Mulvaney is backing off claim that prompt blocked almost 400 million in aid to ukraine for political reasons. Yesterday he first said President Trumps withheld the aid before releasing a statement saying otherwise later in the afternoon. President trumps has repeatedly denied any such quid pro quo deal. Now to the Syrian Border were fighting started again despite a ceasefire record less than 24 hours ago by Vice President pence and secretary of state mike pompeo. Doug luzader reports from washington, d. C. On another challenge
Video. A very cool perspective. This started 15 minutes ago as they walked out to establish their tethers and got to work. As you can see we see what they are seeing. This mission will take a while and is expected to last six hours. You will keep an eye on that. Love seeing this historic all female spacewalk. This is kind of amazing. We will keep an eye on that for you. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is friday, october 18. Im claudine wong. Im dave clark. Lets talk about your friday weather. It should get warmer. Steve paulson is here. By sunday. We dont have an out of this world forecast. I wish i had said that. Its friday. We need to keep it light we have a lot of cloud cover to the north. Some of that work its way over the weekend but by sunday temperatures are up and early next week it will be warm and dry in the mid80s. Today, 60s and 70s. Not too much change from yesterday. Temperatures are below average but they are ready to go above but it wont be until next week. San franci
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
And Central California counties will lose power sometime today according to pg e. In the bay area Sonoma County will be hit the hardest with more than 28,000 pg e customers losing power starting around 3 pm. And napa county about 7500 will lose power and and San Mateo County more than 900 customers will lose power. Thats about double what pg e projected earlier however that outage is not expected to happen until Early Morning hours tomorrow. Lets talk about the weather conditions. Mark tamayo is monitoring a red flag warning. The red flag warning just kicked in for the north bay at 12 00. Its been in place and will be in place for the rest of today and into thursday. This will not be a strong, not as strong as the wind event we had two weeks ago but in the north and east bay lls we get high wind a 3040. The Santa Cruz Mountains around 35 Miles Per Hour and closer to sea level we could have wind around 2535 Miles Per Hour. The red flag warning come all the areas in red, that is in place
Reporter they say gusty winds expected to peak overnight are to blame for the latest round of outages. Utility wants more shutoffs could be coming this weekend. Good evening. Right now about 178,000 customers in 15 different counties are without power. Pg e said the number of customers will be losing power in san mateo and kern counties starting at 1 am. More than 400,000 people across Northern California. Most of them and the sierra foothills. In napa county about 7700 customers are affected. In Sonoma County the number is higher about 26,000 customers. Are without power. We have Team Coverage tonight. Bill martin is monitoring the wind conditions. Allison rodriguez will tell us about how the outages are affecting schools in Sonoma County. Lets go to amber live tonight in santa rosa with more on the impact of the outages to businesses and homeowners in that area. Reporter tonight we visited a home and business to see how people are coping. We are on Fourth Street at rogers way. Where