Is off of 4 communities in the mountain regions of san mateo and santa cruz counties in the south bay, the power is out for People Living along east foot hill of san jose outage then runs up to the hills in alameda and contra costa counties. And finally large portions of the north bay are without power this afternoon as well. So lets check in on the bay area forecast right now the weather thats driving these shut offs with kron 4 meteorologist dave spahr today. Good afternoon sanaas everybody were still with our red flag warning thats been extended a little bit weve got some areas of the north bay this will expire by 5 oclock in some selected areas, but in other pieces of real estate were still going to see it world linger on until tomorrow. Afternoon live shot coming in from walnut creek air plenty of sunshine to dish out of course in the current check and winds while the direction is very clear its offshore whether it from the north of the northeast you can see numbers well double di
Been devastating to see those homes lost in this fire right behind me they are carrying out their morning to briefing to you have agencies from across the bay area here to help put out this fire. But i enjoy life right now with captain saw lopez is with the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office you know, lets talk about how its been for your department in the most important thing you want people to now so were currently working with cal fire in communicating with our residents in the south coast area thats been affected and many of those areas or rural and steep. So when we do issue a i suggest that everybody listens to those warnings you pack up your things and be ready to evacuate if those mandatory evacuation notices come out what have you seen anyone or people trying to stay back and not wanting to leave their houses and if that is happening. What do they need to do so those are some of the challenges we have experience at in the last 48 several deputies have interacting with residents
Fine. Im sure their lawns are full of smoke and look at the left side of your screen you can see the smoke and the flames still there they easily could have been killed. Look at the hillside right behind them completely charred and then to the left of them as well thats also charred so those flames easily could have jumped into their field, but it never did. Apparently according to sources that people who live here they water this area very well for the llamas to have their food and because of that you can see the grass is much greener here then on the other side. Yes, its burned, but there are patches of a lot of yellow indicating dry vegetation. So because of that it looks like the llamas are saved and i just noticed over there on the right side of your screen a couple of cows. Theyre doing just fine as well among Pleasant Valley road driving into this location. There are many homes great news to pass along there are many homes that are still intact, theyre not allowing people to go
Complex fire thats burning in san mateo and Santa Cruz County check out this video. This is video from yesterday this was up from a tweet from cal fire and it shows the flames there in the senate accused santa cruz mountains. And lets take a look at the video of the aftermath this is before and after now the Boulder Creek area. You can see just the destruction here is homes reduced to rubble as the flames continue to burn right across the roads along the roads going through the mountains in the area wow and that this map here shows exactly where that fire is burning this morning check it out you can see that little out line of the fire thats burning right along highway one and highway 9 in Boulder Creek. Kron fours reyna harvey live at the Cal Fire Command Center thats in Scotts Valley, she has the latest for us this morning, marty robbing the morning and like you just show the viewers at home devastating images coming out here that Scotts Valley like you mentioned the command post the
Bay area take a look at your screen there are more than 6,000 cases and a 196 steps you can see those numbers broken down for your county by county check out Santa Clara County staffs at 73 and more than 1800 cases you can also see that these numbers are on our website kron 4 dot com. So if you want to look at your specific county just check it out on our website. Now lets get to our top stories this saturday morning as people are now required to wear a mask of some form or a facial covering in most bay area counties. 6 counties are now requiring everyone wear a covering of some sort when theyre outside they are San Francisco, san Mateo Alameda contra costa marin and sonoma counties. Santa clara county also urging residents to wear a mask, but at this point thats not an order. Now heres why its so important to wear a face mask in public take a look at this laser light experiment shows how droplets from coughing sneezing and talking can spread the virus on the left you see the droplets