Know. J. R. Stone is in calistoga where entire neighborhoods are still in the dark tonight. Reporter complete darkness along these neighborhood streets on the western id of calistoga, a city where 40 of the people are without electricity and that includes tv. Tough for youngsters. Its hard, really hard. Reporter taylor may only be 6 but this is not the first time her family has lost power due to fire dangers. Now, though, they have a small generator that powers only the most essential items. I can only watch stuff on my ipad if its charged. If its charged. Have you been charging it . No. Because our charger doesnt work. Reporter across the state at least half a Million People are in the same situation. Dealing with Public Safety power shutoffs over fears of power lines falling and sparking a fire. You realize how much you depend on electricity when this happens. Reporter in calistoga you can hear the hum of generateors in neighborhoods. Winds are expected to pick up. Calistoga mayor ch
Backing up beyond that 880 overpass and ki theres still a lot of brake lights southbound 880 working freeway due to road work around the oakland area. Use 580 as an alternate route. And that drive along 580 at least the portion through the Altamont Pass, still pretty as well. Westbound 580 a slow ride working your way outhe Altamont Pass, a new crash reported near dougherty. Thats coming up in the next report. Anne . Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are keeping our eye on a couple of large fires burning right now causing evacuations near lake oroville. This is new video from overnight from plumas county. Just tearing up the hillsides there. This flared up yesterday and these new evacuations ca last night an is called the bear fire and its part of the north complex fire and it is now moving in a in plumas and yuba and butte about 1 00 morning from the and fa heard from one. And we are going to have that coming up at 6 30. We know some homes wn. Also want to let you know abo
Showing the homes damaged or destroyed in the czu lightning complex fire. The color coded map focuses on santa cruz county. So if you look here, what red means is that that home has been destroyed. Orange, yellow and blue means damage. Green shows undamaged homes. The black circle means the address is confirmed but if there is a white circle around the home, that means that that address has to be verified. You can find a link to this map on our website on abc7news. Com. The largest fire in the region is the scu lightning complex fire and it spans seven counties including alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties. It is 20 contained. And firefighters are making Good Progress though against it with major help from aerial water drops. This was the scene we saw during our 4 00 newscast as helicopters loaded up on water before taking off to do a drop near neighbors had to evacuate several times. That was all on fire, mission peak was all on fire. So you were basically surrounded by fla
Looked like inside the airplane outside. This afternoon as she was coming it felt like nighttime, if you into san jose airport from woke up when the sun is normally portland for her sons game this weekend. And Something Else weve heard from travelers is that they rising. So weve all seen these orange expected the weather to be pictures of the sky, weve all really hot, and the air to be went outside and experienced it very smoky. Ourselves. I want to explain why the sky but they were surprised that once they stepped outside from was such a sharp color orange. Inside the airport, that its actually a little bit chilly out lets get an ao ahead and get t here. Live from Mineta San Jose International airport, anousha weather graphics. Rasta, nbc bay area news. This is tiburon looking towards it does feel like a fall day. San francisco. This has everything to do with the color spectrum and how far jeff ranieri has been more colors can travel. Take a look, you can see that like professor ranie
And lack look at this shot, thi, can see how low the clouds are. 60s will dominate the coast today. 73 to 80 around the bay. 83 to 92, yep, it will be significantly warmer this afternoon. Spare the air will linger through the weekend. Impact of the coronavirus pandemic on education is a major focus of abc 7s effort to build a better bay area. And now a South Bay School has reopened its campus for inperson learning, that is the first time were seeing that in the bay area. And Julian Glover is live at Sunnyvale Christian School with that. Reporter good morning. Yes, we expect inperson learning classes to start here at 7 00 a. M. For a second straight day at the sunnyvale Christian Academy. We expect about 57 Elementary Students to show back up here. And like you said, this is something that weve not seen so far in the bay area. The private school here started the school year with Online Learning but they quickly transitioned to inperson larning in the classroom when the state 6 californi