Be done without any precedent in the time at least ive been on this committee which is about 25 years. And its being done i guess to show power and push someone through really abrogate the value of hearings that this committee should treasure and respect so i very much hope this does not happen if theres no need for and is going to create a lot of bad will the doesnt need to be created. Today was the final day of confirmation hearings for judge Amy Coney Barrett judge barrett was not involved in todays hearings but it was still heated at times yes our washington correspondent Alexandra Limon joins us now live with details alexandra. And vicki good evening. And despite the opposition that we heard from Democratic Senators like senator feinstein there, the interactions between those senators and judge barrett were still pretty amicable all week long but today lawmakers did lose their patients with each other. Points. In the final day of hearings Democratic Senators continued to push agai
Greater numbers. Thanks for joining us everybody on kron 4 news at 5 im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thousands of people all across the state of california. Or in the dark tonight pg and e has turned off the power in parts of 24 counties, including several right here in the bay area all in the name of preventing wildfires that is the goal, heres a look at pg and es latest outage map showing the areas experiencing these preemptive power shut off the purple indicates places that are without power tonight because of these intentional shut down to see parts of napa sonoma and solano counties and then further south portions of the Oakland Hills are affected as are customers east of 6. 80 there further south theyre talking about the south bay and parts of the peninsula, a vast area here of people dealing with this unwelcome roller coaster. We have Team Coverage tonight kron fours dan kerman is in the napa valley where thousands of people are still without electricity and kron fours rob
For some today and as we mentioned the number of customers without power in Northern California. Is about 30,000 around the bay area. Alameda napa sam, a tail Santa Clara Santa Cruz and sonoma counties all have more than a 1000 customers who are in the dark. Although people in some sections have been given the allclear and that means their power could be restored soon so lets get the very latest now from kron fours Justine Waltman shes in our newsroom just a well pamela allclear signal has been issued for portions of Monterey Santa Cruz and santa clara counties, which means. That pg e crews can now begin patrolling all these d energize lines whether thats by helicopter or by foot or by car. And once theyve confirmed that the lines have not suffered any when driven damaged and that hazards like trees are removed customers spent can have the power restored sort still a ways off but theyve been given the all clear so lets take a look at where the power is out right now thats the purple tr
Is actually familiar across a lot of the bay area tonight as many pg and e customers are bracing now for a 3rd day without power. Thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne pg needed start restoring power to some neighborhoods tonight, well bring you the latest on the shut offs in a moment, but first. Lets check in with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow on the when and the heat or yet were not done with the win check in effect. Today we had some very impressive gusts around the bay area 65 mile an hour gust reported. Mount st. Louis that was early on in the morning, 57 mile an hour gust amount the album in the Santa Cruz Mountains 53 Miles Per Hour 52 healdsburg Oakland Hills almost 40 mile an hour gusts. Thats where were seen over the mountain tops especially not as windy down below, but certainly concerning as youve got very dry conditions youve got the hot temperatures record heat in place today and you got those strong offshore Winds Continuing to blow in f
Yet another string of high winds dry conditions over the next couple of days. Thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis for the north bay mountains, this is the second red flag warning to be issued this week so lets go ahead kick it off here with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow he is tracking the dangerous weather conditions out there for us laurent boy it is been a long fire season right now theres no end in sight in fact these winds going to be picking up in fact i think these are red flag warnings are in effect so far feel friday but theyre going to be in effect all the way i think until the weekend weve got a series of wind events that are going to be affecting the bay area and boy it is going to howl around parts of the bay area. Look at the winds expected over the Santa Cruz Mountains this between now and friday, the red flag warnings up even along the coastline, 3040 mile an hour wind gusts probably some 50 mile an hour wind gusts o