That reduces the number of customers affected to a half million. And 22 counties including lake, marin, napa, sonoma and solano county. This morning cal fire crews battling the kincade fire are reporting they did not have to deal with the wind as strong as originally forecast in the high wind advisory has been canceled. Officials say that could lead to better than expected containment numbers this morning once they have a chance to analyze the work ground crews were able to do overnight. The last report shows the fire had burned nearly 119 square miles. It is 50 contained, Holding Steady there. 189 homes and businesses destroyed. Steve paulson is here with the latest on the weather and the wind and what youre watching. Im glad it didnt materialize. I did not think it would but you have to go with it because it was moving further to the east and it wasnt as tightly packed. This is when youre okay to be wrong. This looks like the last in a series so things are improving. We get colder te
Morning. Also as of last night it stands at 15 containment, close to 00 buildin 200 buildings have been destroyed, including 86 homes. Pg es latest round of Power Outages went better than expected for people outside of the north bay because the utility never turned the power off for people in santa clara, alameda, contra costa and san mateo counties. They predicted overnight weather conditions never really materialized. The map scholes the current outages, most are in the north b bay. Lets get to meteorologist kari hall tracking the wind and fire conditions. We are seeing breezy winds picking up this morning. That will start to increase as we look at oakland, San Francisco and Half Moon Bay. Earlier this morning we had a wind gust at st. Helena reaching 57 miles per hour. As we go through today well see improving weather conditions for most of us, but we will have the breezy conditions for the higher elevations, and so as we go into the next several hours, it looks like oakland, San Fr
Now lets check in with meteorologist kari hall, shes been tracking the wind and fire conditions. Yes, with this round of high winds, we were expecting it to mostly be in the Higher Elevations and not come all the way down to the valleys like we had on sunday, and that is what happened. We did have those gusts in the healdsburg hills reaching 57 Miles Per Hour. Were still seeing some breezy winds in those areas, near the kincade fire and then were also dealing with some very cold temperatures this morning, as a lot of people are waking up without power. Its only 35 degrees near santa rosa and napa at 43 degrees, with some lower 50s elsewhere. Looking at the outline of the kincade fire, we are seeing this, such a large area that continues to burn and move closer to highway 101 but we are unfortunately going to see this maybe still spreading, going into the rest of the day, as our red flag warning continues. It does end at 4 00 today, although the winds look to calm down a little bit befo
Break breaking news roaring winds worsen the kincade fire. We are live near the fi bringi lights back on in the bay area this morning. The latest on the restoration efforts. Good morning, its r its wednesday october 30th. Kenny choi. I am michelle griego. We have Team Coverage all morning. Jackie ward is live in so momma county. Gianna is tracking the impacts on roads but lets gibing begin with mary lee and talk about the winds when they will finally ease up. We are starting to watch the wind ease right now. But we have seen some strong wind gusts especially last night. So our strongest peak wind gusts at pine flat road close to the contained fire whlena 58 mount diablo 35 for sunol. North northeastern winds dry offshore wind flow. 27 mile per hour winds sustained. Gusts up to 37 Miles Per Hour and very low relative humidity values down to the a Single Digits at 9 . And currently looking at 49 for temperature out there. Even though the winds will continue to calm down, we are looking a
And no elevator service. Reporter thats right we are in fairfax, this is a threestory Apartment Building that houses low income seniors and the disabled, and tenant tell me they are angry and scared. Mark is among the other tenants at the tenant house in fairfax. The 68yearold is checking on disabled neighbors trapped on the third floor, no power, no elevator, since saturday. Ive been oxygen dependent, so ive had to rely on the tanks being delivered. With the power shut off its very frightening and is scary. Smacked down the hallway another tenant is also struggling. I have two candles left, what do i do after that . There are wearing a headlamp and helps guide us through th thnot all of the people he have flashlights. Phyllis contacted ktvu to shine a light on the impact of the outage on her and the dozens of other tenants in her building. Its been hard, mentally. I just broke down yesterday, i couldnt stop crying. The residents tell me there is no manager or worker that lives on site