Pg e cuts the power, so when a Business Owner tries to do the right thing by turning on his generator, coming up, the cautionary tale that ends with a bigger loss. Crews in Solano County monitoring the fire situation after hundreds of acres went up in flames. Ill show you what it looked like. Fire danger remains elevated. The holidays are on the horizon and food bandank banks desperate. 345,000 pg e customers had their power cut as the utility tried to prevent wildfires, but we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to the fire danger, because the red flag warning has now been extended. Well begin our coverage with meteorologist sandhya patel. Critically dry conditions continue. Take a look at the wind gusts right now. The diablo winds still going, not as strong as they were 24 hours ago. 22 at knoxville creek. So were still watching very dry conditions, antioch, fairfield, 15 in napa. That red flag warning for the east bay hills and Solano County. Gust 5060 Miles Per Hour not out
Pg e cuts the power, so when a Business Owner tries to do the right thing by turning on his generator, coming up, the cautionary tale that ends with a bigger loss. Crews in Solano County monitoring the fire situation after hundreds of acres went up in flames. Ill show you what it looked like. Fire danger remains elevated. The holidays are on the horizon and food bandank banks desperate. 345,000 pg e customers had their power cut as the utility tried to prevent wildfires, but we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to the fire danger, because the red flag warning has now been extended. Well begin our coverage with meteorologist sandhya patel. Critically dry conditions continue. Take a look at the wind gusts right now. The diablo winds still going, not as strong as they were 24 hours ago. 22 at knoxville creek. So were still watching very dry conditions, antioch, fairfield, 15 in napa. That red flag warning for the east bay hills and Solano County. Gust 5060 Miles Per Hour not out
Checking some rain possibly moving into the northbay. The brunt of the system moves in friday afternoon, friday night. And rain for expectation you can see, not just a few hundred, the bay area in general, two inches of rain. That will be in the northbay. Hills will be to fort it just. A flush and the wind advisory not in place just yet. That will be the issue. You can have winds going up 15 miles per hour. Specially by friday night. This will be a snow. This will soon be a winter storm warning. Heres that watch, until 4 pm saturday, with rainfall potentially on the pick up the system in the fire burned zone. About a half inch to three quarters of an inch per hour and possible debris. Its picking up friday afternoon and into friday night. Satellite as you know, we have foggy start in a bit of a break, and this will be the intense rainfall today. Bite right now, we have a lot of clouds and some patchy fog. Looking out towards sfo, clouds and fog. Heres what happens, a quick run through
Bay area passengers terrified on their flight to europe. What happened inside the cabin. I flown many times and never experienced anything like that. The unprecedented potential for widespread Power Outages because the huge risk for catastrophic wildfire. Good evening. If you live in napa county there is a good chance your power will be cut. The counties at the shaded areas will go dark early wednesday morning. The power could stay out for five days or more. Napa is one of seven bay area counties put on notice. Statewide 29 counties are on alert. We have Team Coverage tonight beginning with andrea live in Contra Costa County. Reporter if it happens this would be the first Public Safety power shut off here in Contra Costa County. I talk with highway 24 near the caldecott tunnel. Where the mountains are. Where all the of the dry vegetation is. Inside the Pg E Emergency Operation Center inow San Francisco calls texts and emails are going out his red flag warnings a potential fire weather
Checking the winds, tomorrow night will be just wild with the winds hitting 45 to 55 miles per hour. Tomorrow night will be more dice y so remember that. Solano counties. Temperatures today are going to pull back a little bit. Mid60s to 70 from Half Moon Bay to San Francisco. All those winds out there, please be careful if youre driving especially if youre in one of those taller vehicles like an suv or minivan. A live shot of the bay bridge. There was someone on the lower deck who got a flat tire and then got out in the lanes of traffic to try to change the tire. That is very dangerous. Hopefully traffic can slow down and get the car off the roadway. Traffic looking good, though, heading into San Francisco. No major problems, and here is a live look in san jose. Headlights move northbound 101 and thats 880 across your screen. Pg e shutting off power to parts of 30 counties up and down california tomorrow and thursday. Forcing you to get prepared right now. Unless the forecast changes,