So if you are running to go to this particular area, be advised, there is a traffic delay in effect and highway 101. President ial hopefuls are hitting the campaign trail in california today. Democratic antedates Michael Bloomberg are here in the play area. K tvs has more from walnut creek. Reporter were down the street from the event center were Democratic Candidates will address a room full of voters. We are told he will get a short speech. 200 to 500 people are expected to crowd the venue to hear from the bay area a billionaire. Era groups organized the event. They invited all candidates for town hall events and hosted over the summer. The president of the crystal to address Climate Change in healthcare reform along with other topics. We are looking forward to december debate. And so we think that we will get a preview of that. We have very engaged political activists in this club. In throughout. This is an executive and first. Reporter it is for Michael Bloomberg. Prospectus mornin
Of san jose. A lot of you felt this apparently. Twitter shows a lot of people were jolted out of bed this morning. Well go to mike nicco with this red flag warning that just went into effect seconds ago. 5 00, that was the time we were looking towards. Now were 5 01. Were a minute into this high fire danger for everywhere but the Santa Cruz Mountains. Yours starts at 5 00 this evening. Expect an increase in the winds, humidity to drop and fire conditions to deteriorate as we head throughout the day. We have the winds that will also be an issue, especially in the north bay and east bay hills. Thats what is precipitating this high fire danger. Theyre going to gust up around 45 to 55 Miles Per Hour that will down some trees which could also down power lines. When that happens on this dry vegetation we could have wildfires start easily and spread rapidly. Lets look at the current conditions. Right now we have 30 at spring valley. Thats as fast as it gets in the Higher Elevations above 1,00
Morning. And there are also School Closures this morning. Those will be listed at the bomb of the screen and abc7news. Com. Lets check in with mik nio. The r fg warning is for all of us except for the santa cruz mountains, that begins at 5 00 this evening. Now the wind event just begins. Just now at 6 00, the wind advisory went into affect for those north to northeast winds of 35 to 55 Miles Per Hour. That could down some trees, power lines, that could help spark and spread fires if they do develop. Heres a look at some of the winds in the higher elevations. Still very manageable. The fastest is mount diablo, 3,800 feet at 36 Miles Per Hour. Lets look at the humidity. Still manageable. Just in the initial infant stages of this fire threat. Were doing well there. Let me tell that you things will get worse especially tonight. But during the day today if youre going to be out and eoy temperatures. Mainly in the 60s at noon. 60s at the coast. Mid 70s for the rest of us at 4 00. Not as warm
You will have to remember your drivers ed course training and come up to a big intersection and give it a fourway stop. The lights may not be flashing. It is one of those days that reminds me of being in the News Business when there is big news going on and people will be tuning in for updates on a lot of things. There is also a lot of debate going on right now on whether what pg e is doing on these power shutoffs is really the right thing to do. Some people say yes based on what we have experienced over the last couple of years in the bay area. And some people say no its not worth it. 95 of most wildfires start because of a human, throwing out a cigarette or whatever it is. That debate will continue. Right now we do know that 186,000 pg e customers have no power in the bay area. Just after midnight the utility started shutting off power to customers as part of its Public Safety power shut off program during red flag warnings. The first took place near the oregon border as well as in m
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