I think its going to be another warm one. It was pretty warm yesterday, mike. It will be warmer than average again today. Welcome back, reggie, kumasi, jobina. The cooling trend is on schedule. However our critical fire conditions thankfully are a bit slower to develop. So theres some good news to start the day with. We still have historically low fuels. That means the vegetation is drier than average at historic levels. So the fire danger is still high. Thats why we have the red flag warning until 8 00 tomorrow. Lets look at the winds. They are fairly light, up to 40 in diablo, 22 as you head over to the north bay mountains. Humidity level is lower than yesterday. Still around 25 . Lets talk about whats going to happen this afternoon. 68 at the coast, look at that southerly surge of cloud cover. That will make a dent in our warm weather. Thats tomorrow. 70s around the bay. 80s inland today. Reggie . Happening today, forced blackouts for thousands of pg e customers in california. The u
Talk about just that its really pretty out there actually get it from coming up, so its a brighter commute but the lines getting longer john so its pretty busy, especially on our bridges were checking out the trip here on the bay bridge 80 wesson to San Francisco you see all the headlights right. The backup is pretty long it goes back to the bottom of the maze and thats normal for this time of mourning, but at least you dont have any problems or crashes in the mix to add to the slow traffic so were up to 14 minutes and thats still a really good drive into San Francisco with no big problems right now were checking on highway 4 because i just got word of a crash in pittsburgh on the westbound direction thats the commute side. So thats bumping up their drive time to 25 minutes thats no longer highway 4. But this is a beautiful shot of the city right now to overview of San Francisco for coming up well check in on some more bridges star ian james and well see how the traffic is moving aroun
Be the strongest we have seen so far this fire season. Pg e not taking any chances. Its getting ready to cut power. In the last 15 minutes the Utility Company releetsed where the Public Safety power shut offs could happen. The area in yellow. On this map. You can see every bay area county with the exception of San Francisco could be affected. These areas include the north bay mountains, east bay. Also the Oakland Hills and communities in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It could start sunday morning and go through tuesday morning. We have Team Coverage tonight. Lets start with chief meteorologist of course keeping a close eye on the strong wind. Everything really is materializing for the wind to not only impact the mountains but whats different about this that we havent seen lately is the low elevations getting in on the wind. The large low pressure system. Its expansive. Disrupting the atmosphere. As that starts to drop down. Sunday, monday and tuesday. Its going to bring a cold blast to us.
Only 2 contained. 813 structures113 structures have been destroyed, including 80 homes, and 22,000 structures remain under threat. As you can see frost from this video, that fire racing up this mountain there and sending that huge plume of smoke into the air. With the fire still growing, there is continued concern over the fate of anguin , a Small Community in napa county. Tom, this town, too, has been evacuated . Reporter indeed its been evacuated. Its a charming place. But unfortunately its just a place thats too close to something very big. Now, as i say, its a town with a college and everything. But if you look over there, its also got a great big forest sitting right next to a beyond that row of trees is a very, very large fire. So what we know for sure is this, this is a fight to the finish, but no one knows where the finish line really is. The fight against the glass fires eastern flank took place uncomfortably close to anguin, population 3,400, already under mandatory evacuatio
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