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
At 6 customers could soon be left without power. This as we have yet another preemptive power shut off expected to begin just after midnight tonight. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore, this is happening as a red flag warning has been issued for parts of the bay area starting at 10 oclock tonight and lasting through 8 oclock friday morning take a look at the pga any outage map this hour the areas highlighted in yellow are the areas affected residents in alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma counties are among those bracing for no power we have Team Coverage this evening kron fours gayle ong live for us in napa county where residents are obviously on edge there. But first chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow tracking the dangerous conditions there prompting these fire concerns torrance, you guys it seems like the fire season, the wooden and it just continues and continues and until we get any rain were going to see more fire danger this when we get th
Continue. Throughout the evening and the overnight hours lets take a look now at the outage map from pgd so we can see exactly the affected areas. This is the future outlook of where the power will be going awful zoom in on the north bay napa county will be impacted the most. Heres the big sections that will be losing power again at some point overnight tonight. This includes all around calistoga and also just to the west of saint zooming down now into the east bay well see thats some parts of Contra Costa County will be losing power just to the west of danville and also in this section here just to the west of san ramon going down a little further south. Again this is the part that will be losing power at some point overnight tonight this is in the south bay. Current outages, well just take a quick look an or a purple triangle be showing us the outages that are power shut off related and so far none in the bay area were just waiting now for the power to be turned off. Now according to
And ventura counties to be clear bars are not open in either of these county Santa Clara County state officials there have not yet said when bars there can reopen in bars and. Contra costa county are set to start reopening this wednesday kron fours dan thorn getting reaction in martinez tonight. He joins us with more whats becoming a rather confusing situation. Dan. Well thats right ken local bar owners tell us that they are simply looking for better directions from state and local Health Leaders, these businesses were just days away from reopening, but now it looks like that may not happen. People looking to get back in the bay area bars may have to wait a little longer governor Gavin Newsome announcing on sunday hes recommending watering holes in contra costa and santa clara counties close up its ban. A bit harsh to isolate want industry over and over again the owners of firehouse bar and grill in martinez reopen to customers on june 9th. Following county Public Health rules customer
Of a sting week thats coming up ahead. Well take a look at that in your 4 zone forecast and a bit. Robert sounds good. Thank you dave. 36 states including california are seeing the numbers of infections increase. The response new measures have been announced in california and all across the country kron fours terisa stasio has more on the latest effort to once again try and slow down the spread of covid19. Citing a rise in coronavirus cases in parts of the state california governor Gavin Newsome announcing sunday the closure of bars in these 7 counties fresno kern kings los angeles to laurie imperial and san joaquin affective immediately. The state Public Health officer adding quote closing bars in these counties is one of the number of targeted actions. Counties are implementing across our state to slow the virus spread and reduce risk. According to data and science the governor added 8 counties riverside sacramento, San Bernardino Santa Barbara stand a sauce and ventura to take simil