Of murder. Than usual method used by Defense Attorneys to raise a reasonable doubt. Theres no smoking gun in this case. Kpix 5 news 7pm starts now with 35,000 customers in the bay area in the dark because of those fire safety blackouts. Plus another 140,000 in the sierra foothills. More shot offs are on the way. Die in ken bastida. I am veronica de la cruz. Streets are like out. Chopper 5 was over to intersections where traffic was backing up. We saw crashes during the last emergency outage and we will see what happens this time. Heres a look at the outage map for the bay area. Pg e shut off power in napa and sonoma counties by 5 pm at 1 am a few hundred more customers in a small section of San Mateo County to lose power. We understand the hardship caused by the shutoffs in the safety issues it brings with it. We also understand the heartbreak and devastation of catastrophic wildfire. It would be another round of safety shutoffs this week and into early next week. The timing is not cle
And Central California counties will lose power sometime today according to pg e. In the bay area Sonoma County will be hit the hardest with more than 28,000 pg e customers losing power starting around 3 pm. And napa county about 7500 will lose power and and San Mateo County more than 900 customers will lose power. Thats about double what pg e projected earlier however that outage is not expected to happen until Early Morning hours tomorrow. Lets talk about the weather conditions. Mark tamayo is monitoring a red flag warning. The red flag warning just kicked in for the north bay at 12 00. Its been in place and will be in place for the rest of today and into thursday. This will not be a strong, not as strong as the wind event we had two weeks ago but in the north and east bay lls we get high wind a 3040. The Santa Cruz Mountains around 35 Miles Per Hour and closer to sea level we could have wind around 2535 Miles Per Hour. The red flag warning come all the areas in red, that is in place
To get to a point where its ratcheted down significantly. I think it will be better every year. I think everybody gets better every year and every event. We learn a lot from each other but the risk is significant. Reporter a tenyear plan so more blackouts to come. The ceo and other officials apologized but defended them saying there were no catastrophic wildfires started. They work swiftly to cover wires in high fire threat areas, to underground wires, to trim back trees and strengthen the website to handle the immense traffic these blackouts brought. The website went down several times. They also addressed that lavish party last week, pg e holding a party for its gas customers. Two days of wine tasting. It was on the anniversary of the north bay fires in 2017 that killed so many people and destroyed so many homes. Pg e said that wont happen again and ratepayers will not pay the bill for that party. Coming up at 11 00, i took a closer look at how we got to the blackouts and whats being
Warning. So theres a high fire danger for all of the state. So were seeing quite a few fires burning as a new red flag warning goes up for the north bay starting at 8 00 this morning for the east bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains well see that red flag warning and the high fire danger beginning at 1 00 today. Well have gusty wins that could pick up over 50 Miles Per Hour, especially in the higher elevations, so ill have a look at our timeline of the wind forecast coming up in a couple of minutes. Mike, lots of folks are heading out of oakland. Right. Whether or not they live there, their traveling out of oakland across the bay bridge. The backup is forming for the cash lanes and fastrak. For tuesday this may be lighter than we typically see. Weve seen that, we typically see that, now its a pattern over here when we have the outages and the fire safety going on and the power safety shutoffs. Were watching for the traffic flow. Right now a minor crash. Highway 4 at willow pass road. Anywh
Most extreme red flag warning. This is pretty typical for this time of year when the highs build in, the winds go offshore and that is whats happening now but the winds so far have been light compared to what you expect. Perhaps this red flag warning is going to be a little bit, you know, we are not going to see 60 miles per hour. A heat advisory tomorrow. Temperatures are warm now. It will be real warm tomorrow with temperatures in the triple digits. When we back we will look at that and the 5day forecast. People in the sierra foothills are without power tonight to prevent power lines from starting fires. Pg e shut off power to 21,0 customers today. Pg e says the Power Outages could last from 24 to 48 hours. Residents and Business Owners in Nevada County have been without power since 5 00 p. M. I have thousands of dollars of inventory that are go some on gas operated generators. People are coming in for batteries and generators during the power outage. There are no planned Power Outag