Changed as is the case often thanks for joining us. On this monday night everybody im grant lotus yeah, its a sad fact, im Vicki Liviakis this a death toll in the u. S. Has doubled since just the end of may and the number is projected to climb even higher before the years and the top covid19 projection model is predicting nearly 380,000 coronavirus deaths here in the u. S. By january. If that happens were going to hit half the death toll of the 1918 pandemic. And the united is on the. Grant i believe youre next all right there is some growing confusion tonight over the cdcs latest guidelines on covid last week. The cdc updated its website to say it is possible that covid may be spread through droplets. An airborne particles that are formed to a person infected with the virus. Coughs sneezes sings talks or briefs teaser things that were widely known at least if you talk to medical experts the cdc said it last week but now the city says the cdc says that was a mistake to issue that guida
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
Weekend. Sunday will be the hottest day. We have a mostly clear sky as we see the sun starting to rise in walnut creek and our temperatures go from the upper 50s quickly to the mid80s by noon, and its going to continue to heat up. Were talking about Current Conditions on the Altamont Pass. For more on the traffic impact over to you, mike. Kari, youre talking about the Altamont Pass. As we look at the entire bay, the Speed Sensors are great except for the altamont where its worse than normal especially on a friday. You have two lanes of the westbound commute direction. Only two lanes open. Westbound your right lanes are open. The lanes off to the left, the three lanes are still blocked by the fire activity. A smaller fire on the eastbound side. Were still concerned. Lets take you to the breaking news, a brush fire fueled by wind. Today in the bays Sharon Katsuda is getting a Vantage Point. What can you see from the area where you are . Reporter we can definitely feel everything that mik
Out of San Francisco, breaking news. Take a look. Brand new video this morning of this fouralarm fire still burning at a warehouse at pier 45 at Fishermans Wharf. Firefighters say additional structures and the s. S. Jeremiah obrien ship are threatened right now. We have viewer video showing you just how far the flames were visible. People around the bay area saying they can see the flames and the smoke now rising up over the bay area. It is unclear what ignited the flames. Crews say no one has been hurt. We are closely monitoring this and working to bring you any new updates as soon as they come in. Lets get right to lisa argen for the weather. There is absolutely no wind at all out there. So the winds are calm and that allows that smoke to drift right up into the atmosphere, straight upwards. And not looking at it dispersing at all because of the lack of wind. So were looking at a clear start. Heres live doppler 7. Just patchy fog along the coast. A beautiful sun rise here. Check it o
Aftermath of a deadly car versus pedestrian in San Francisco. There were more sirens than normal and that is usually a red flag for me and i wanted to know what was going on and low and behold, it was another fatality. Reporter a taxi driver was questioned by police at the scene. This happened around 8 50 p. M. On fifth and Market Street. A woman was hit by the taxi while crossing the street. I was disgusted, angered. How is this continuing to happen again and again . Reporter supervisor, matt haney represents the district. He says he is devastated and angry. This year, already, we have twice as many traffic fatalities for people biking and walking than we had last year at the same time so orr a group walk, San Francisco, it is the 15th fatality this year. Less than a month ago, someone was killed in the exact same area. The signs were put up at the intersection to mark the spot where a 64yearold was killed on july 18. There is a simple message. 1 death is too many. Amy wants to see im