Greater numbers. Thanks for joining us everybody on kron 4 news at 5 im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thousands of people all across the state of california. Or in the dark tonight pg and e has turned off the power in parts of 24 counties, including several right here in the bay area all in the name of preventing wildfires that is the goal, heres a look at pg and es latest outage map showing the areas experiencing these preemptive power shut off the purple indicates places that are without power tonight because of these intentional shut down to see parts of napa sonoma and solano counties and then further south portions of the Oakland Hills are affected as are customers east of 6. 80 there further south theyre talking about the south bay and parts of the peninsula, a vast area here of people dealing with this unwelcome roller coaster. We have Team Coverage tonight kron fours dan kerman is in the napa valley where thousands of people are still without electricity and kron fours rob
Is a big a big hassle now we have to go through all of this. Now its 6 another night of no power for thousands of pg and e customers as the villa tea Company Continues its second night of planned Power Outages because of the high temperatures. Strong winds low humidity leading to high fire danger. Right now we are under red flag warning that last until 11 00am tomorrow morning and heat advisory is in effect until 9 oclock tonight. Thanks for joining us tonight, everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus according to the utility that shut off is forecasted to affect about 53,000 customers. Over at least 24 counties in california take a look this is the latest pg and e outage map the areas highlighted in yellow are impacted actually the areas in pink are impacted. Yellow and green just indicates regular outages for a variety of reasons but were talking about here this preemptive shut off that is the pinkish purple you see right there parts of the peninsula. The south bay. Parts of t
Warm day, no doubt about it. We have three things coming together, which is heat, wind and low relative humidity levels than combines to cause fire danger. Thats where we are today, october. The winds will be picking up as we get through the night tonight. Its the north bay and east bay and santa cruz mountains. Its valleys as well. Were expecting to see the gusts at the peaks at 50 Miles Per Hour. Well see breezy conditions anywhere else. Were on the red flag warning at 11 00 a. M. There are two different pushes of rain coming our way. This is futurecast for wind were showing right now. Ill put this forward, showing you 11 00 tonight p napa is 29 hour. And thins calm down a little bit and we get the second push going into our overnight into thursday and friday. You see some of the wind again before it finally starts to relent and pull back. Looking at our current wind and peaks right now. You see were seeing the north, northeasterly flow. Rows peak at 27 Miles Per Hour. This is a text
For some today and as we mentioned the number of customers without power in Northern California. Is about 30,000 around the bay area. Alameda napa sam, a tail Santa Clara Santa Cruz and sonoma counties all have more than a 1000 customers who are in the dark. Although people in some sections have been given the allclear and that means their power could be restored soon so lets get the very latest now from kron fours Justine Waltman shes in our newsroom just a well pamela allclear signal has been issued for portions of Monterey Santa Cruz and santa clara counties, which means. That pg e crews can now begin patrolling all these d energize lines whether thats by helicopter or by foot or by car. And once theyve confirmed that the lines have not suffered any when driven damaged and that hazards like trees are removed customers spent can have the power restored sort still a ways off but theyve been given the all clear so lets take a look at where the power is out right now thats the purple tr
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