Is back. Welcome to our special 3 00 p. M. Edition of bay area news. The chiefs and texans kickoff at 35 30. Spare the air alert extends through tomorrow. Here is a look across the bay area. This is the view from all 20 of our live cameras. The eerie and orange color we saw yesterday, today a lot of smoky gray. The air quality is actually worse today. Most of the haze caused by several near by wildfires and just like yesterday we are seeing ash falling like snow in many parts of the bay area. Jeff is going to join us in a little bit. Lets go to raj. This is today around noon. You see San Francisco of the gray there and parts of the east bay walnut creek there. Lets show you the same camera 24 hours ago. Thats where we experienced the orangelight glow, you can see the difference from all points of the bay area. Lets get back today much brighter but still hazy and not much sun. Our air quality is worse. Scott budman is in San Francisco for us with some answers. Reporter we see the differ
Good evening, everybody thanks for being here tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight more than 167,000 customers have been left in the dark this evening. This result of the planned power shutoffs by pg and e because of wildfire concerns. The impact has been felt by more than 22,000 customers in sonoma and napa counties, 17,000 customers in sonoma county. 5,000 customers in napa this is the current interactive outage map shut offs here indicated by those pink triangles you see the area just west of lake hennessy there is inundated with shut offs. Power for some customers may not be restored until tomorrow night according to pg and e and while most of those customers have dealt with these power shutoffs before they are no less frustrated. Kron fours michelle kingston reports now from santa rosa. I mean were becoming experts and being flexible up here in santa rosa street lights are out atm is not working thousand
Lotus and im Vicki Liviakis some gusty winds mean that any fire that has sparked a can spread rapidly chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here tracking those winds for us tonight want various he has some breaking down guys down below me the urban areas where most of us live not much in the way of wind 5 mile an hour winds in oakland youve got 6 right now in the nevada 6 in the petaluma but certainly up above. Its a completely different story in fact those winds getting very gusty across some of the mountain tops and thats what were concerned about thats red flag warnings have been posted weve seen winds over 30 almost 40 Miles Per Hour across some of the peaks in the north bay expected to pick up here as we head through the next few hours and probably top out about one 32 oclock in the morning. Before we watch the winds begin to subside so red flag warnings are posted of course we just had a record heat wave things very dry out there now weve got the gusty winds above a 1000 feet also
Breathing it in more. I bought for error purifiers from target. So i have air purifiers in my apartment. I close the windows. Thats all i could do. Its the new toilet paper air purifiers. Personal care businesses that have seen customers outdoors, are being forced to shut down again because of the smoky conditions. They just opened up an outdoor area after being closed for six months. They are eager to go back to work but not with the current poor air quality. You can see the fine layer of ash on all the furniture. Many salon operators feel the cities restrictions are not there. Y we are high risk rather than retail that cant Contact Trace and dont have a questionnaire and we are doing all these things to be as safe of as possible. We are left behind and later than these other things that are open. The salon owner got new and good news from the city. They will be able to open indoors with limited capacity beginning on monday. Satellite images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric A
Reporter that meeting between the president and county and state emergency officials in california wrapped up just minutes ago. Emergency officials spoke and informed the president of the 20 night significant active wildfires that are currently bring across our state. As we know, those fires have claimed lives, destroyed thousands of homes and have left much of Northern California and really a lot of the metro areas across the west coast in a constant cloud of smoke and unhealthy air. It was against this backdrop that the present touchdown in in Northern California on air force one. He was at mcclellan park, a former air brace airbase where they landed. He wrapped up that briefing with state and county emergency official. Gov. Gavin newsom set to the right of the present and the tone between the two leaders was professional and crowded, the reasons be hind the fires are a political flashpoint between the president and some democratic governors and west pick drought like conditions and