Please duck, cover and hold as best youre able. And if we need to get out, we go out through these door, exit to the left and go out across to beck toll plaza. If thats not safe, we go to Embarcadero Plaza at the end of market street. Should we have an active shooter situation, we want to get out, hide out and take out. So with that, now having covered safety, let me outline what were going to do tonight. We envision going 30, maybe 35 minutes. Our lineup will include to my right who is Vice President of Community Wildfire safety program. Well have an update from scott strefield and our chief Customer Office will give an update about the web. So with that, im going to turn it over to samit to get us started. Thank you, keith. Thank you for joining us again tonight. Overall, i want to iterate a few points before i turn it over to Scott Strenfel to provide an update in regards to the forecast. First, i want to iterate that we understand the impact that turning power has on our customers
Yeah people are sort of adjusting as weve seen you know sausalito some parts of the north bay. Theyve been on this for 2 days. People here in lafayette they just woke up this morning without power our so theyre still trying to acclimate to it all obviously not a fun situation. A lot of people are just very excited that safeway is open. Its the Little Things when youre going through Something Like this. And now people can go inside. Get some food get some things they may have forgotten maybe some candles a flashlight who knows. Maybe water but they have have a lot of stuff in there its pretty dark inside. But there making do with it all. Take a look at this map so you can see all of the areas affected by this power outage. Again, im standing live here in lafayette. Theres about 1400 100 customers that are without power and they all woke up that way some people were awake last night when it went off. Down wnut crabout 2600 customers without power in orinda i mean that whole cities basica
Theres a fire at a twostory building which is under construction with a lot of homes nearby. Its a 2alarm fire. Lets show you the location. You can see the video we have there. This is occidental where market meets it. Were working to get more information for you. You can see darkness there, a big blaze so far. We dont know anything about injuries or anything else, but we do know that its a building nasa under construction. Well continue to follow that fire in oakland. But to our other top story now, not just a hot weekend, but it could be a dangerous weekend. And tomorrow the temperatures will climb. Lets get rightanie with the updated time line. Jeff. And just mentioning off of ownt as well in oaand, o thats good news for any kind of Fire Fighting effort out there in oakland. As you can see currently were at a warm 74 degrees in concord. So still very mild for the inland valleys. But we do have that ocean breeze thats starting to return and gradually dropping our temperatures at this
Low 80s by early afternoon. Our south bay High Temperatures reaching into the upper 80s and lower 90s. Well talk about whats ahead for the weekend coming up and vianey has a look at the Early Morning commute. So far its been pretty good. Overall look at the bay area, we had that crash along the southbound side of 880, looks like its not causing any delays but you could encounter it if youre driving through the east bay this morning. I want to remind you about that road hazard, metal pieces along the westbound side of 80 at appian way. It was blocking the middle lanes but i notice the Speed Sensors have gotten better. Weve gotten from red to yellow and its quickly starting to fade so hopefully it means they managed to clear out the debris. As always, remember to keep it safe out there. Back to you. Thanks, vianey. live look at oakland skyline behind us where the summer is set to sizzle as well. As karis been saying, many bay area cities will surpass the century mark over the weekend. Th
We dont want to keep singing that song. Unhuh, keep them on. Clear skies, a live look in walnut creek as you get ready to step out the door. 62 degrees at 7 00 and going from 62 to 82. Today we warm it up a few more degrees but tomorrow where we really feel the heat. Well talk more about that in just a few minutes. Vianey has been tracking the roads and looks like its friday light. Friday light. Its 6 00 a. M. And the roads are building in terms of traffic, but chp reports are showing no big accidents or minor accidents that were on earlier are now cleared out. Thats always good. South bay drive times lets look at that. Northbound 101 from highway 85 looking at 22 minutes. Northbound 85 from highway 101 only 20 minutes and take a live look at an area that is always pretty busy, these metering lights came on at 5 20, you can see weve got the backups and the delays really starting on the bay bridge toll plaza. Ill have another update coming up shortly. Thank you very much. Well, this wee