Good evening, everybody thanks for being here tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight more than 167,000 customers have been left in the dark this evening. This result of the planned power shutoffs by pg and e because of wildfire concerns. The impact has been felt by more than 22,000 customers in sonoma and napa counties, 17,000 customers in sonoma county. 5,000 customers in napa this is the current interactive outage map shut offs here indicated by those pink triangles you see the area just west of lake hennessy there is inundated with shut offs. Power for some customers may not be restored until tomorrow night according to pg and e and while most of those customers have dealt with these power shutoffs before they are no less frustrated. Kron fours michelle kingston reports now from santa rosa. I mean were becoming experts and being flexible up here in santa rosa street lights are out atm is not working thousand
Heartbroken it is so if you would say that the neighbors lives matter more then briana taylors life. And now outrage over what happened today sparking protests tonight all the way from louisville where a curfew is now in effect. The right here in the bay area. Good evening, everybody thanks for being with us on kron 4 news at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis prosecutors say the officers who fired their weapons at Brianna Taylor were justified in using force to protect themselves when they were shot at while serving a no knock warrant. A curfew is currently in effect in louisville, kentucky until 6. 30 in the morning. It will remain in place for the next 3 days this is video from a a short time ago people not obeying the curfew and for now police not enforcing the curfew demonstrators have been swarming the streets all day after the announcement angered and outraged that no charges were filed connected to briana taylors death. This video shows protesters this afternoon face
A somber ceremony marking the 19th anniversary. Of the september 11th terror attacks but this years rememberance has a different look because of the pandemic good evening. Everyone, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us tonight at 8 our top story this evening. Still smoke from those wildfires raging across california and oregon leaving the bay area with some of the worst air quality in the world tonight. And that smoke is expected to linger through the weekend. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here with the details on what we should expect lawrence we need that out of here. Yeah we certainly do and to get that out of here we need really a push for some good gusty winds right now were not getting that we just got a light breeze so there you go youve got sites like this all around the bay area that smoke. Just sitting right down on the ground and its unhealthy all around the bay area in fact right now youre looking at some very unhealthy smoke sitting acros
And the improved air quality had customers for one business lining up around the corner. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news tonight, a day we begin with that Health Update in the east because of the pandemic. If we want. People of the safety part of the solution not part of the problem. Contra costa county Health Officials are discouraging the traditional halloween celebrations, we all know and love but they told kron fours michelle kingston that doesnt mean you cant celebrate at all. Tracy nelsons family loves halloween. These are just some of their costumes from the past few years but with restrictions in place this year because of coronavirus she decided to get creative will be a little bit more work but it will still give them the opportunity to trick or treat instead of trick or treating in her neighborhood looking like this shes encouraging her neighbors to do a driveby celebration and put a table in the front yard with candy tha
Francisco at 73. Robin. Thank you john were checking in on the traffic around the bay area which has some thinned out nicely we started off with several minor problem, so everythings out of the way so well check in on the bridge is an update those drive times for you like 92, theres a crowd leaving hayward heading over to the peninsula but youre only averaging 13 minutes off to highway one oh one here at the bay bridge. Almost delay free i was just about to say no delays by season. Cars slowing down just a little bit at the pay gates, but thats nothing 10 minutes into San Francisco here at the Richmond Sandra fell bridge. The fog has rolled in a folks about their wipers on ive seen some drizzle. But no big problems across the span and a dense fog advisory remains in place for the golden gate. Its really think youre cant even see the towers anymore be careful out there 20 minutes rolling south nevado to San Francisco area. Thanks a lot robin, i know one and our top story this morning. T