Darkness for a day, maybe two. The reason is red flag warning for high fire danger and fear that dry, windy conditions could damage Utility Equipment and start wildfires. We have Team Coverage tonight from our chief meteorologist bill martin. We begin with Debora Villalon in the north bay where the first doctors happened shortly after 6 00 tonight. Reporter thats right, frank. We are talking about 53,000 customers across 24 counties. The south bay and monterey started deenergizing at about 8 00 tonight. Sonoma and napa counties even earlier. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part of two days. And watching the wind and its only like four Miles Per Hour on mount st. Helena and three down here. Reporter residents know the overnight hours may intensified. Anyhow sprung for generators and more. Solar panels and batteries, its kind of a pain in the butt , but it beats getting burned down. To make the fire storm that roared from calistoga to santa rosa
Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. As we hear about surges in coronavirus cases in other parts of the country. Californias numbers have been fairly steady the past several weeks and thats helping us build a better bay area. Nearly 3300 cases were reported with Southern California remaining the hardist hit region. The twoweek average is about 3200. There were another 22 deaths, which pushes californias total close to 17,000. More than 3100 people are hospitalized around the state with coronavirus. But there is very good news locally. San francisco is the first county in the bay area to move to the yellow covid19 safety tier. Thats the least restrictive tier that allows more businesses to expand and increase capacity indoors. Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra has the story. Reporter San Francisco may start to feel alive again. The city officially moving into the yellow tier today granting the least restrictive rules for reopening. Here are the big take aways. Starting next tuesday, nonessen
60s for current temperatures across the bay area pretty comfortable to start. Later today for san jose, its back to the 90s you go and for oakland back to the mid 80s. Robin. All right, thank you john were following some developing news on bart out of the east bay theyre having some Service Problems in. Track between macarthur and fruitvale in oakland, so no service between those 2 bart stations and this a problem is causing major delays now to 30 minutes. At last check board says that they are single tracking through the area of lake merritt so theyre using one side of the track because theyre having some power issues and theyre working on trouble shooting this area. They have a crew responding to the scene. So once again major delays on bart out of the east bay, no service right now between the Fruitvale Station and macarthur station in oakland, they are single tracking through lake merritt because of this ongoing problem. They have a crew responding to the scene but theyre saying ex
From the stronger gusts. Mount st. Helena, a wind win was out in the north bay hills. Mount diablo 57, and 53, and healdsburg hills 52. Even a wind of 20 Miles Per Hour could cause problems. That was the case in terms of the wind speeds. Oakland hills 38 high fire dang continues, that northerly flow ramping up. This continues, all of the areas in red, north bay towards the delta and east bay valleys and hills. This in plays until 11 00 tomorrow morning. 23 more hours, gusts could be approaching 30 Miles Per Hour and across the higher peaks, maybe approaching 45 Miles Per Hour, once again, the strongest wind event was last night, early this morning. Its incredibly dry out there. Take a look at the sampled sites. Temperatures are in the 70s and 80s. Relative humidity. We look at that to guffaws idea how much moisture is in the air. Look at atlas peak, down from 12 tomount st. Helena, and mount st. The winds have backed up and theyre completely calm especially in the higher terrain. Heres
Its starting to move again. Well look at the maps. The yield is there was a crash in the same area where theres a construction crew. We are already down to one lane, just the right lane that a deadly crash happened about 1 00 in the morning. Sounds like almost all that crash activity is over and is out of lanes. Theres a little distraction for more flashing lights and then that Construction Zone and we hear about a late pickup for north 880. West 580 is a great alternate. If you stick it out, allow yourself another ten minutes. Back to you. Good to know. Thank you, mike. Showdown on the future of the Supreme Court this morning begins on capitol hill. The New York Times calls nominee Amy Coney Barrett a member of conservatisms new guard. A live look this morning at the capitol where a short time from now she plans to deliver her Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary committee. Today in the bays tracie potts joins us live in washington, d. C. , to break down what to expect as this pr