Strong enough to combine with the low humidity levels, to rapidly spread any fire that could get going. Do not see it last into early this morning, we hope that is the case again tonight into tomorrow morning. That is an x window for the greatest fire danger which is why the red flag warning continues through tomorrow at 11 oh clock in the morning. For most inland portions of the bay area the wind gusting up to 35 to 50 miles an hour once again. Maybe not the strongest gust compared to what we saw last night but still Strong Enough when you consider the very low humidity levels. Things are going to improve, whichever that fire danger index to the day tomorrow, take a look at the weekend forecast in just a few minutes. The wind blowing to the east bay hills is enough to trigger anxiety for some, over fire danger, and with more Power Outages on the horizon, one salon owner in oakland bought a generator to keep her business up and running. Has to be able to carry two or three hairstylist,
Continue. Throughout the evening and the overnight hours lets take a look now at the outage map from pgd so we can see exactly the affected areas. This is the future outlook of where the power will be going awful zoom in on the north bay napa county will be impacted the most. Heres the big sections that will be losing power again at some point overnight tonight. This includes all around calistoga and also just to the west of saint zooming down now into the east bay well see thats some parts of Contra Costa County will be losing power just to the west of danville and also in this section here just to the west of san ramon going down a little further south. Again this is the part that will be losing power at some point overnight tonight this is in the south bay. Current outages, well just take a quick look an or a purple triangle be showing us the outages that are power shut off related and so far none in the bay area were just waiting now for the power to be turned off. Now according to
Facing tough conditions on the front line. In the east bay tonight nurses honored their peers killed by the virus. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us. The comes as nurses are demanding better protection from the virus. Abc 7 News Reporter Lauren Martinez has the story. Natalie johnson, 70. Registered nurse. Burling ton, new jersey. Passed away may 25th. Reporter names of registered nurses across the country who lost their lives due to covid19 were lead aloud. Each one of them had somebody that loved and cared for them. Reporter mother. I dont think they should be making choices about whether to live and work safely. Reporter before the vigil, registered nurses from alsp con strike. Their lack of trust with the nurses, locking up ppe, we filed numerous cal osha complaints and it just didnt bring them to the table, didnt make them understand how serious we are. Reporter they said, quite, while we are disappointed that the unions called this strike at a time when there are
The bay and 50s 60s near the coastline talking those chances of rainfall still to come robin. All right, thank you lets check in on traffic because we havent a hot spot that is active in the south bay. This is northbound one oh one at helier avenue as you leave south san jose chp has issued a Traffic Alert for an injury accident involving a big rig. Now at last check this was blocking the 3 left lanes and crews are on scene trying to get this activity off to the shoulder, but we do have injuries we do have a large big rig that has to be removed and you know we have a crash involving a large big rigs, sometimes those accidents are harder to clear because they need special heavy duty tow truck so they are working on it. Meanwhile theyre asking folks to either avoid the area or leave extra early you can get through you can squeeze by in the far right lane or you can cut over to 85 in 87, maybe use those 2 freeways as your alternate from once again, northbound one oh one right at the helly
Right now on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live from our camera, looking at the bay bridge all lit up for us on a friday eve. Friday eve. I like that. I wish it was friday. But well take thursday. Almost there. Almost there. Its thursday, october 8. Lets go to a look at our weather. Good morning. I wish it was friday too. Happy thursday to you. We are looking at cooler temperatures. We started our cool down yesterday, and we are going to continue with that with below average temperatures through our day. Its going to be a cloudy one through most of today, 62 in San Francisco, 64 oak land, 70 san jose, 73 concord. So anywhere from six to eight degrees cooler than average. We still have the spare the air alert in effect, looking at moderate air quality for most of the bay area. We can see hazy skies for the south bay as well as for the east bay due to the creek fire and for the north bay, unhealthy air due to the glass fire. Well take you hour by hour as we go through our