Cool off so yeah. We are lucky. Reporter and all, about 41,000 customers were impacted in parts of 24 counties with peak wind gust one state reaching 65 miles an hour but now that weather clear has been given an pg e is systematically bring that power back on. Places like alameda and santa cruz counties are 100 restored, Sonoma County bite midafternoon was more than halfway there. Basically you have it in sectors, and alignment, cruise basically going and my ends along those lines to make sure there is not any damage and that we have helicopters, eyes in the sky, also doing this on the line. Still on the winds have abated, the heat has not yet been it is hot, it makes it hard to be outside, especially with the kids. Has left residents and Business Owners looking for shade at their whiskey bar and grill, they have got a spot ready for those looking to leave their homes and have a cool drink. Still it is hard on staff. Reporter people keeping on during it, make sure the are taking care o
Hours after voting down an agreement that would have opened the door to classroom learning during the pandemic. Teachers were asked to be both online teachers and in prison teachers. And in many cases, at the same time. Reporter this mom of second graders has her own doubts about hybrid learning. Three different schedules because they will be remote one day and be expected to learn completely independently with no teacher supervision two days a week. Reporter various schools are planning and some moving ahead with a mixed model. Staggering arrivals and rotating sessions creating cohorts that swap campus and home to limit risk. But nevadas 400 teachers they cant get find the hybrid model. They just dont believe its the best path forward. Reporter the teachers unions is any return to classroom should bes slow and small with hundreds, not thousands of students to start. And preferably after the first of the year. We would have to be zooming with a mask on to the students at home. We canno
Try to prevent fires. We start with weather. Tracking those off shore winds, returning for us. Right now here is a live look at the Sales Force Tower camera as we look north and light conditions for the most part looking at 12mile an hour winds in santa rosa. Its up in the Higher Elevations where we are watching the stronger wind gusts. 44mile an hour wind gusts, mount diablo44, mount tam is 33. Nevado is 26 and 22 in the oakland hills. We will continue to watch the winds as we head through tonight into tomorrow morning. Red flag warning in effect until 11 00 a. M. Friday for the areas highlighted in red. That is the north bay and east bay mountains and the inland valleys and Santa Cruz Mountains all under that red flag warning due to gusty off shore winds. We are looking at gusts as high as 35 to 55 miles an hour, especially up in the Higher Elevations, above a thousand feet and low relative humidity values and extreme fire danger. Critical fire weather conditions as we head through t
News. Today is the first day in a month we are not under a spare the air alert. A welcome sight, blue skies. Just like our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri has been saying. All the wildfires smoke is out of the bay area. Here is a live look at the air quality map today. Almost the entire bay area is in green which means the air quality is good. A couple of patches of yellow which is the moderate yellow. Jeff will join us a little bit to talk about how long this clean air will stick around. Our air is good and other part s of the states are downright terrible. Yosemite National Park shuts down because of whhazardous air. Park raengers closed the park a 5 00 p. M. And it will remain closed through the weekend. Thats off the chart at 2 00 p. M. Minutes ago it is higher now. This is moestly because of the creek fire in fresno county. Yosemite certainly looks terrible. Bad air is blanketing a lot of the rest of the west. Here ises the map now. San francisco right here you can see it. It is
Your window. Another day of bad air out there. You can smell the smoke. This is the 17th spare the air day in a row, which is breaking records. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking bad air all this week. Kari, any sign of relief in sight . Well, we may have a break tomorrow, but it looks like that may go back into effect on saturday as we not only have smoke but also high levels of ozone in the atmosphere. In San Francisco. Also a lot of fog over the city as well as that smoke so its creating smoeg conditions as we look at san jose. A little clearer here. Weve had in some spots improved air quality but our temperatures will reach into the upper 70s, the south bay, but were also looking at mid80s for inland east bay and 60s at the coast. As we go into the weekend, we do have several concerns so well be watching along with that unhealthy air quality well also have hotter temperatures for the inland areas and those winds coming in from the north at about 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour headi