Friday morning, his 4th looking at a cool weekend to come so thats good and thanks for joining yeah lots to talk about. Weve got as daryn mentioned that nice weather on tap which ive been looking forward to because weve been dealing with the red flag warning fire weather for handful of days now john yeah, its nice that we back off the heats were still in the midst of what well be some windy conditions at times into the weekend. But to start the weekend things are actually looking pretty good so we do get a nice breather here and it certainly actually starts to feel like fall for those of you that are stepping outside. Little bit of a brisk feel this morning got the golden gate or bay bridge behind me there with the sun coming up and a little bit of cloud cover sitting over the San Francisco itself some brightness making its way down but the cloud cover pretty evident sitting right over the bay. Now red flag warnings only remain force a lake and mendocino counties this morning elsewhere
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
The finish of the weekend, so red flag warnings expiring for most of the bay area now hang on and read in Solano County then up into lake mendocino counties out into the central valley. What youre seeing in that goal this you on the map what these are are high wind watches that actually dont take effect until sunday into monday that is expected to be the windiest time of this weekend so keep your eye out for sunday night into monday morning well be talking a lot about that early next week as for right now temperatures are in the 40s and 50s with livermore in napa each in the low upper 40s right now 51 while Oakland Hayward and San Francisco. Each in the 50s so your forecast definitely not bad to be starting this morning and im thinking that traffic actually is holding up pretty good to at least the bay bridge not looking bad robin yes, it is indeed still friday light, so thats great a lot of folks are taking the day off must be checking in on the commute into San Francisco and there it
And friday really in the midst of it as winds begin to pick up. I mean theres one telltale sign of the winds right there is why are your Center Towers shot waving a bit back and forth and what is otherwise a really beautiful view. Fire weather with red flag warnings in effect now all the way through friday at 11 00am for upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains nearly all of the east bay once you head into the east bay mountains in the inland valleys and then across the north bay to winds, especially in the north bay going to be gusting into a 50 mile per hour range at times. Winds already picked up compared to earlier this morning atlas peak vacaville, petaluma among some breezy spots winds will gradually increase on into the afternoon today you see that areas like vacaville in petaluma as well as down into the south bay at the tonight into tomorrow morning will be the breezy us tough conditions. This is thursday morning at 04 45am right here likely before youre getting up youll h
To just the ongoing violence that weve seen in our Community Even last night. 3 blocks away from this location. 60 rounds fired in a residential neighborhood. Ive heard from those Community Members about how frightening work. About the traumatic experience they had last night of listening to bullets flying through their homes and into their cars. The violence in this Community Must stop. Now this marks the 77th and 78th homicides of 2020 in oakland, this is a breaking news story. Were still gathering more information as soon as it comes into our newsroom. We will bring it to you and the other big story were watching now is that red flag warning thats now in effect for parts of the bay area, wildfire conditions are right there are hot temperatures and high wind gusts and they have fire officials on alert today. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman the dangerous weather conditions. Also has pg and e ready to show off the power in order to prevent a