Exposed to coronavirus. In a tweet last night, she said she found out that she was recently at an event with someone who knew that they were ifected. And so now she is waiting for her test results. The mayor says she is taking all the recommended precautions. Health Officials Say that she was not within 6 feet of the positive person for ten minutes which is considered to be close contact. She can keep working at city hall which has been closed to the public for months. Abc 7 is working to help build a better bay area by focusing on the big picture issues that affect allel of us including education. School districts around the bay area are struggling to devise the best way to resume classes this fall. Xwo Governor Newsom says the decision to reopen will be made based on safety and not pressure from president trump. Yesterday the governor emphasized that he will not be swayed by the president s statements during this week urging schools to bring students back quickly. Newsom says the sta
That fire. People who live from geysers road to highway 128 are being ordered to evacuate. Along with people along pine flat road and red winery road. An evacuation warning has been issued for Northern Hills. And geyserville. The Sheriffs Office said people in those communities should be ready to evacuate. Bill martin has been monitoring the latest wind conditions near the area. Where the fire is burning. What are firefighters facing . This is up in the hill. We have good location on it. It is higher up. We see wind gusts the 37 miles per hour. Sustained winds 18 to 20. That dust in the fire zone it can go stronger than that. That is a big deal. We have the red flag warning. A sticky look at the topography. We dont have direct coordinates on this fire. Here is cloverdale appear. Here is hills berg here. Geyserville in between. The winds are blowing. The winds are coming. The winds are blowing like this. Whatever direction. The funneling and the canyons will. This fire will have a tende
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
Burning buildings and we are working to confirm whether the buildings are outbuildings or sheds or homes. Weve obtained coverage of this fire with meteorologist Steve Paulson talking about the powerful wind driving the fire. First, we bring in Cristina Rendon. Talk to us about the conditions. I can see its windy. Reporter very windy and the winds have not let up whatsoever. Its gotten worse since weve been in geyserville at the corner of Alexander Valley road and pine flat road. This area has been closed off to the public but cal fire crews are deep in the trenches trying to get a handle on this fire burning outofcontrol. You can see the flames along the ridge line and this area is where red winery road is and to the left is an area where 128 is in the casino wed mentioned earlier, red rock casino is in the area in danger, as we speak. In terms of the structures, along the hillside we saw at least one of those structures burning but we cant tell you if it is a house or winery or some t
Northerly winds, hot and dry air, 10 to 25 miles per hour, gusting to 40 and low relative humidity values about 10 to 20 so extreme fire danger as we head through the next couple of days. Here is the fire forecast danger from the u. S. Forest service and it does show a yellow high fire danger, orange, very high and or the red is extreme high fire danger. This is for tomorrow for the northbay hills, east bay hills and the diablo range. Wildfire safety, discard cigarettes properly, keep cars off grass, avoid activities that could create sparks and remove dart dry vegetation around your home. Be prepared. We will talk more about what you can expect. We are tracking the wind picked details coming up. Now the hot, dry weather has pg e ready to shut off power to 124,000 people across northern california. Nine counties including sonoma, napa, lake and butte counties could be affected. Contingency plans are now in place for when and if the power is turned off. Reporter Sonoma County officials