Power cut off to try to prevent wildfires can planned to be in the dark into tomorrow night, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everyone im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis the Power Company announcing no changes for sonoma and napa county and their update tonight blaming critically dry conditions out there. This is an interactive map on pg es website shows exactly where the shut offs are happening at last check pg e reported that they turned off electricity to 167,000 customers across Northern California as part of what they call a Public Safety power shut off. 17,000 in Sonoma County most of which is in santa rosa and 5,000 in napa county and some of that in a in calistoga or sell sogomonian live in our newsroom tonight with when the power may come back on l a. Pg e is Incident Commander expects most of their customers will have their lights back on by the end of the day tomorrow with a widespread all clear in the morning. The weather is driving their decisionmaking taking a look at a post from the National Weather service you could see why the north bay has been most affected relative humidity there in the Single Digits, so its dry and although low lying areas may not feel the wind its higher up in the mountains said wind gusts and then knocked down a power pole and quickly ignite and spread the blaze. Now we did see some biggest near 60 Miles Per Hour in the north bay hills and about 65 Miles Per Hour developed in the un orders here in nevada. As you can see on the slide we do have a red flag warning across most of the state that this time. Its going to continue through at least wednesday. I think the earliest say a start to expire. Its wednesday morning if not wednesday afternoon and thats to kind of continue the red flag warning because we will see another a peak wind speeds. Theyre meteorologist went on to say that areas where they dont expect the wind to pick back up can start the restoration process which they have already done in the southern sierra for example because it was no longer a threat there. But now that theyve run out of daylight 60 helicopters, one fixed wing plane and 3,000 pg e employees on the field will pick back up again tomorrow morning to get the lights back on pg e customers will get a call text or email when their power is ready to be turned on and once its actually restored in the meantime there are 50 Community Resource center is open from 8 in the morning until 10 at night for water and charging stations. But you can find on the pga new website, 3 were temporarily closed in butte and yuba counties today because of wildfires so theyre also setting up seniors with meals on wheels and hotel rooms for those who need lifesaving medical equipment hooked up at all times you can sign up for that at cf ilc dot org live in the newsroom. Ella sogomonian kron 4 news thank you all and wild lots of people in the dark tonight have dealt with these preemptive power shut off before. There are no less frustrated this time kron fours michelle kingston reports from santa rosa. I mean were becoming experts and being flexible up here in santa rosa street lights are out atm is not working thousands of people are without power in santa rosa. I understand the need for of course is frustrating you know, im im okay its another Public Safety power shutoff pacific gas and electric shutting off the power because theyre fearful weather conditions could knock down a line and start a fire some Business Owners say the coronavirus pandemic has been tough enough on them now theyre dealing with this i think this is going to be the new some people in town are frustrated that theyre dealing with these outages once again very frustrating because they turned off the power. Because of safety issues but there is almost no wind here at all we have to have our power off to get generators, do whatever. A throwaway need you now more than 2000 students are also unable to attend online classes, 3 of the 24 schools in santa rosa canceled Remote Learning because students and teachers cant login its been a challenge for our families and i think that we all trying to be understanding and look through it together thats all you can really do some residents even telling kron 4 news theyre looking into moving out of the area trying to establish a place where i can raise a family and if i dont know. If my house is going to catch on fire. Theres going to be a power outage like in my specific home area with that you know i doubt that doesnt make sense. Unfortunately pg and e says this power shut off could last through wednesday night in santa Rosa Michelle kingston kron 4 news right time now for 4 zone forecast as we get to live look outside right now very smoky and hazy day. Across the bay. We this is a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge believe it or not yeah i believe this is the world in which we live right now chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here we know all about the fog unfortunately were getting too familiar with smoke and ash yeah have that ashfall the left on our cars of course all that smoke around. And now this wont go away in a hurry either the fires continue to burn across the state. Now were looking to more gusty winds and that raises the issue of possibility, more fires and they get started in the spend these kind of winds all kinds of problems some of those gusts 2030 plus Miles Per Hour. Some near 40 miles an hour across some of the higher peaks now down below. Theres not been a whole lot of wind with the exception of slot county you can see some winds out there right now 11 now the west in San Francisco thats carrying some of that fog right through the Golden Gate Bridge. Then youve got 17 in the mill valley, 17 in vail 23 in the snow me knows that northerly component to the wind up in the north bay, so red flag warnings posted above a 1000 feet, so Santa Cruz Mountains, youre looking at some red flag warnings up in your direction for today and tomorrow and then also the east bay youve got the Oakland Hills also the diablo range some those gusts maybe 30 maybe 45 Miles Per Hour and then weve seen a lot of wind all day long in county they continue to see some blustery wind up there again tonight could see some gusts very dry wind to 40 Miles Per Hour. And the north bay hills above a 1000 feet to get them out and you get up above the napa valley here certainly some very strong gusty winds here maybe over mount st. Louis in the you could see some gusts upwards of 50 Miles Per Hour. Of course those winds looking like theyll be an issue throughout the night tonight in fact probably going to ramp up especially after midnight you start to see some of the orange and the red it few should begin to develop here. Those winds are gusting 3040 Miles Per Hour they continue throughout the night tonight into early tomorrow morning. And then they start to dissipate as we head through the middle of the day and then were long gone with that fact more of a westerly component a win by the afternoon. That brings us that nice fresh ocean air. Meantime though its pretty dry up in spots to weve had it down to Single Digits has gotten little bit better still 35 per cent you on film that overnight tonight, those offshore winds blowing youre talking just over there as well so pretty dry across the mountain tops things change though by late tomorrow afternoon more that sea breeze kicking in and you see all that green fall back in that is all that moisture thats going to push on shore that will diminish the fire danger and should improve our weather Going Forward out there right now weve got a mission though weve got some of that fog weve got a lot of smoke out there how long will they stick around will we soon see some changes well talk about that coming up in a few minutes. Thank you lawrence, well, the baird air quality is suffocating some businesses already struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic not one thing its another with Outdoor Dining the only option for many restaurants, some say that the heat the smoke it. 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So, if you or someone you know is without coverage, visit coveredca. Com to learn more or enroll today. [upb i fell asleepne you know tobut when i woke up. I put everything in perspective. boy hi, do you want to share my sandwich . vo good feeds our connections. Good feeds us all. Hormel Natural Choice lunch meats. All right well check back with Jonathan Mccall once we establish that big picture here though talking about more than 14,000 firefighters who are in the state right now battling. Some 25 major fires that have burned more than 2. 2 million acres yeah here in the bay area most of the wildfires or near full containment, but officer officials are stressing that the danger is not over yet the lnu lightning complex in the north bay thats currently at 91 containment with more than 375,000 acres burned. The scu complex fires in the east and south bays thats up to 95 containment with nearly 397,000 acres burned the czu lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties up to 80 containment there with more than 86,000 acres burned in the woodward fire at Point Reyes National seashore in iran. Thats now 95 contained has burned more than 4800 acres course you can find the latest information on these fires on our website at kron 4 dot com. More now from the north bay, the inverness and silver hills communities are still under evacuation warnings due to the woodward fire in marine county, but residents there are hoping that those warnings will soon be lifted. The woodward fire has been burning in west moran for about 3 weeks now its about 95 contained or conversely if you got reports from Inverness Park where people are trying to get back to normal. The Inverness Park. Attempting to get back on track. And to evacuate. Well the woodward fire has burned along the point raze National Seashore people had to be evacuated thats pretty scary for people i think the flames isolated to Rural Regions along the coast, but the smoke has engulfed the area for weeks keeping day. With camping gear. Learned nearly 5,000 acres of land have burned lots of timber. And thompson has paid close attention. He owns the park market thompson believes the worst is behind him, i think hes sort of being transferred to rest of the state, you know that also getting really huge fires because this this was not really threatening. Property at this time theyve got to contain its in a remote area. We have to deal with smoke deal with her several weeks maybe even a. Really fortunate at this point firefighters are focusing on mopping up and suppressing spot fires. In inverness phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. And with still months left in what is considered to be a traditional fire season, the firefight of course is far from over for perspective here this time last year, 118,000 acres had burned in california. More than 2 million fewer acres that have burned so far this year, there are currently 900 active wildfires, 25 of them considered to be major including the second 3rd and 4th the largest wildfires in States History at least modern history and with wildfires. Record heat and a pandemic governor newsome says the state is prioritizing the needs of those who have been impacted by wildfires. Despite the growing containment on some of the fires, especially around the bay area flare ups can still happen. Look at this time lapse video of this is from last night showing the walbridge fire thats part of the lnu complex in the north bay. This is just south and west of healdsburg this flareup did prompted Evacuation Order last night as of this morning that order has been lifted for most of the area except property south of mill creek road north of sweet water springs road. West of west side road in east of palmer creek road our coverage of the heat the wildfires in subsequent outages continues right now at kron 4 dot com. There youll find the latest Power Outages that the weather warnings and updates on potential Power Outages. Its all there on kron 4 dot com. The other big story. Were following tonight more changes to the timber on Police Department the police chief Michael Cronin is retiring as the department deals with a racially charged incident involving a local Business Owner who is black cronin has been the chief and temper on 4 12 years hes been in Law Enforcement for more than 50. As for the controversy recent body camera video showed officers outside a store in timber on asking the Business Owner what he was doing inside. Late at night when everything around was closed the store owner says he was racially profiled the confrontation continued until a white neighbor vouched for the owners said yeah that that guy owns the place. Earlier this month, the sergeant at the center of this confrontation, resigned chief cronins retirement will take place on sunday. The other big story were following for you tonight, 5 california counties are now listed in the second reopening tear death 3 bay area counties are now considered to be substantial. Risk level which is better than widespread. You see substantial theres in the reddish pink San Francisco and napa counties. Already in tier 2 Santa Clara County was just added to the red tier 2 along with santa cruz county. Under the red tier more business sectors can reopen Santa Clara County will now allow personal Care Services to reopen indoors, including nail salons gyms can open indoors set 10 capacity, shopping most to but a 50 capacity and if the county stays in that red tier for 14 straight days. K through 12 schools can reopen. Meanwhile in the north bay setback for marine county. The county had announce its plans to move from tier one to tier 2 basically from purple to read the last night the state delayed that move keeping marin county. In the most restrictive purple status today, california officials tried to explain why. When we did the official romney yesterday with the marine county data as we did with all 58 counties. The anticipated move to read is really being held back in and they met threshold for her both the last thing we want to do is see a county move. One week. And only to see the potential for backward movement again very soon. State said that they made this decision after re analyzing the data but a local our state Health Officials rather say there considering data as it comes in and well adjust marin countys status. If necessary. Yeah, i mean just imagine youre poised to move forward and get the message a not so fast to create a lot of confusion a murray as we said was set to move into that better tier but late last night the state has stepped in and delayed the next phase force Theresa Stasi reports there are so many Unanswered Questions right now behind me is a Movie Theater here in larkspur it was supposed to reopen today with 25 capacity or a maximum, a 100 people this place has been shuttered since march because. Of the coronavirus and now so many people are wondering why. And there doesnt seem to be any fast answers. 2 says that they have spent about 10,000 putting in protective measures to keep clients safe inside while they get their nails done. And had hoped to welcome customers back tuesday, but not now we sell we waiting for them we open for outdoor, but we still waiting for them to come were frustrated frustrated that is the word coming from marine county officials about the last minute hold to allow Movie Theaters retail shops nail salons gyms. Operate indoors in a limited capacity. Youre supposed to be moving into to 2 status that read