Darkness for a day, maybe two. The reason is red flag warning for high fire danger and fear that dry, windy conditions could damage Utility Equipment and start wildfires. We have Team Coverage tonight from our chief meteorologist bill martin. We begin with Debora Villalon in the north bay where the first doctors happened shortly after 6 00 tonight. Reporter thats right, frank. We are talking about 53,000 customers across 24 counties. The south bay and monterey started deenergizing at about 8 00 tonight. Sonoma and napa counties even earlier. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part of two days. And watching the wind and its only like four Miles Per Hour on mount st. Helena and three down here. Reporter residents know the overnight hours may intensified. Anyhow sprung for generators and more. Solar panels and batteries, its kind of a pain in the butt , but it beats getting burned down. To make the fire storm that roared from calistoga to santa rosa
Dc today. President trump says stimulus negotiations are off until after the election leaving Many Americans struggling during the pandemic that has severely hurt the economy. This is the first big announcement from the president as he is back at the white house recovering from the coronavirus our washington dc correspondent Trevor Shirley joins us live now with the very latest on the president s condition driver. Hey good evening, so far the president s team of doctors says he is responding well to their treatment plan. But at this point is not quite out of the woods just yet in the meantime there is a growing number of people who have direct access to the president who are now under quarantine after possible exposure to covid19. 24 hours after leaving Walter Reed Medical Center President Trump remains at the white house today is doctors released an update which said the president feels no symptoms and his vital signs are stable but he remains under treatment. Doctors for Vice Preside
Going to the green here in santa rosa. Also in San Francisco, and moderate through novato, concord, napa and redwood city and oakland. Over the next 12 hours, i think most of us will be in the moderate range with the coast in the good category. Ill show you whats ahead for tomorrow and also what im watching that might bring some smoke eventually back to the bay area. Well have that in about 18 minutes. Its like a big roller coaster ride. All right. Well see you shortly, jeff. Well four weeks of being stuck indoors, is it safe to go outside, at least for the next couple of days. Marianne favro for us this evening. Marianne . Reporter well, yes, the air quality has definitely improved compared to last week. In fact, i saw a tiny patch of blue sky this afternoon in san jose. But pulmonologists say this air is still unhealthy so dont ditch your n95 masks just yet. Last week we had to contend with orange skies, thick smoke and unhealthy air. Today a visible improvement. Less smoke and in se
That had 0. 07 of notice we barely get to 80 inland and 72 around the bay and everybody in the 50s and 60s with those breezy conditions at 7 00. Even cooler tomorrow with more drizzle on the way. Ill have that coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. First i want to get over to jobina who has a traffic alert. Jobina. Thank you, mike. Im tracking a sig alert right now in oakland that is causing a major backup on westbound 24. I want to bring you to the maps because it and this started as a multicar crash involving three vehicles and then a second crash in there and you can see the speeds are low down to 4 and 11 Miles Per Hour in the area. Again westbound 24 before College Avenue. Avoid this if you can and ill give you an update when the chp has opened the roadway. Reggie . All right, thank you, jobina. All this week abc7 news committed to building a better bay area by looking at education and how School Districts are handling going back to school. The San Jose Unified School dis
Dr. Anthony fauci the top disease expert and three other members of the task force testified before a House Committee on capitol hill. They were grilled on the claim made by trump in tulsa over the weekend and again Tuesday Morning that he asked for the testing to be slowed down because more infections were revealed that made the country look bad. Would you just kidding . I do not kid. Let me make it clear. To my knowledge, none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing. Reporter the other factors the search of coronavirus cases including here in california which had a single day record of more than 5000 new infections on monday. Hospitalizations have crept up to 5000. An increase in Community Spread is something i am quite concerned about. Reporter the bright spot is the fast results of operation warp speed. The head of the National Institute says he is cautiously optimistic that one will be available by late this year or early next year. Several are moving along at various pi