They were ready. We had under a 4 minute response time. What were learning about this fast moving fire. Also winds are dying down. Why firefighters say the danger isnt over yet and where the biggest threat will be overnight. But first tens of thousands of people across the bay area are still in the dark tonight. It is becoming all too familiar for this time of the year. Public safety power shutoffs because of high fire danger. Now, pg e says that this is a expected to be the largest shutoff of the year. Lets show you the outage map in realtimes. Those purple triangles show where the shutoffs began last night. In some areas the lights not expect today be back on until some time tomorrow. We have Live Team Coverage for you tonight. We begin with cheryl hurd and so much frustration there has to be. Weve done this so many times. Reporter it is. And right now were in the heart of the theater district, and this iconic sign you can usually see from the freeway is out. In fact power wept out h
Great to see you guys. Well check in with mike in just a minute. But, what, lets talk about the heat wave. We are in fall now, right . We are officially in fall, the first full day of fall. We are definitely heading towards hotter weather this weekend. Lets enjoy today while its still nice and mild and our good air quality that continues as well. We are going to see that continuing today for all of our microclimates. Spend some extra time outside. I know i did yesterday afternoon. Were going to see our temperatures reaching into the low 80s in the south bay and up to 83 today in napa. Mike, do you have a Traffic Alert going on . Yeah, kari, this changed in the last ten minutes. We have a crash in fremont. Lets show you on the map were looking at the east bay northbound 880, the nimitz. As you travel past the connection over toward the dumbarton bridge everything seems fine except for dakota. Closures for all lanes suddenly. The map marks it farther north than i would like. All lanes ar
Now. And a good monday morning to you. Thank you for joining us. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Were all anxious to say good morning this morning. Yay monday. Hey, team, i hope you had a great weekend. Well check in with mike in just a little bit and lets check the forecast with kari. Hopefully some clearing from the smoke. Well, today is still looking pretty smoky. Unhealthy air quality continues as we take a look outside in walnut creek even during the night hours we can see how smoky it is. Were starting out this morning temperatures in the upper 50s and also staying cool because of the thick layer of smoke we have. As we go into today, though, we are going to see temperatures reaching into the upper 70s for the south bay, some low to mid80s for much of the inland east bay, and our north bay high temperatures will reach into the upper 80s for ukiah and clear lake with some low 80s for santa rosa. Ill be tracking the air quality. Well talk more about that coming up. Mike,
Ration their electricity, too. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Im dan arbery. Im ama daetz. Lets get right to meteorologist sandhya patel. Yeah, dan and ama, this dangerous heat wave will last for days and lets check out the temperatures already in the triple digits and 103 in fairfield, and 101 brentwood and liver more. 94 in santa rosa and 94 in san jose. We have a number of warnings and its covering most of the bay area and this is an excessive heat warning and 11 00 p. M. Tomorrow until 9 00 p. M. Wednesday and the east bay and the Santa Clara Valley and parts of the north bay will be under an increased risk of heat illnesses and upper 50s upper 90s to the mid100s, excuse me. We also have the lake and mendocino counties up to 103 degrees and it is going for the bay shoreline and the north bay 11 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. Tomorrow. This is something that could be very taxing on your body. Add to the mix, we have leftovers from once hurricane a elida. Thank you, sandhya and when
Fire in Southern California continues to burn out of control. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 5. And thanks for waking up with us on a monday were all in this together at very fulsome and im James Fletcher lots to talk about from the pandemic to politics to fires burning across California Well get to all that here in just a bit just getting out of bed though is the first he is right well its going to be a lot easier getting out about this morning daria. Were not seeing the fog completely socked in like we have over the last a couple of weeks in fact look at this nice shot seizure tower camera showing a you can see a little bit of it just real patchy though this is actually the Golden Gate Bridge towers there you can in the middle of your screen. So at least we can see them right and thats a good morning, a good way to start off as the visibility a little bit to spotty in some areas but not too bad like what weve seen over the last couple of weeks temperature wise look at this ver