Outage map at this hour the areas highlighted in yellow are impacted, including Calistoga Napa eastern walnut creek in eastern milpitas we are awaiting an update from pg e and were going to take it live when it starts. We also have Team Coverage this evening kron fours dan kerman is in napa county where residents certainly are on edge, but first a chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is tracking the dangerous conditions prompting fire concerns lawrence, yes, certainly gorgeous out there today, warm all the way the coastline High Pressure now taking over you can see really see as this ridge is building in now its going to set itself up over the next 24 hours. And as it does is sliding toward the coastline start to see more of that northerly component the win as air clockwise around that ridge of High Pressure and brings us those offshore winds very typical this time of year, but it is going to be gusty in spots. The fact weve already had a very hot in the summer fires burning already cer
Strong. Were talking about potentially over 50mile an hour gusts, Strong Enough to knock down tree branches especially any trees weakened by fires in the north bay the past couple of months and if those get knocked down into power lines, thats why were concerned about the power aspect. Red flag warning goes through friday morning at 11 00 in effect for north bay mountains, east bay hills, valleys and santa cruz mountains. Its the combination of the gusty winds, especially in the higher terrain, the heat and very low humidity, talking relative humidity levels in the Single Digits that has us the most concerned. Paul, thank you. The pg e update on the power shutoffs is underway right now. Lets listen in. We want to show you where we stand at this hour regarding this Public Safety power shutoff. A Severe Weather event with hot, dry conditions and high wind gusts is expected to begin this evening. Forecasted gusts are anticipated to reach about 55 Miles Per Hour. We expect these high winds
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Reporter that meeting between the president and county and state emergency officials in california wrapped up just minutes ago. Emergency officials spoke and informed the president of the 20 night significant active wildfires that are currently bring across our state. As we know, those fires have claimed lives, destroyed thousands of homes and have left much of Northern California and really a lot of the metro areas across the west coast in a constant cloud of smoke and unhealthy air. It was against this backdrop that the present touchdown in in Northern California on air force one. He was at mcclellan park, a former air brace airbase where they landed. He wrapped up that briefing with state and county emergency official. Gov. Gavin newsom set to the right of the present and the tone between the two leaders was professional and crowded, the reasons be hind the fires are a political flashpoint between the president and some democratic governors and west pick drought like conditions and
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