Valleys and the hills, the Santa Cruz Mountains and the north bay valleys and mountains. Kron fours dan kerman spent the day in santa rosa were firefighters and residents are getting ready for high heat and gusty winds. I temps and high winds a bad combination when you couple it with this very dry brush 90 degree temperatures were already bearing down on santa rosa tuesday afternoon. But by wednesday, a red flag warning kicks in with even warmer temps wind gusts to 55 Miles Per Hour. And exceedingly dry grass and brush just ready to ignite. Santa rosa Fire Department will be staffing to additional wildland fire engines of those 2 fire engines will join a number of other Fire Departments from across noma county that will form a ploy for to a strike teams and task forces right now were looking at a least upwards of 12 Additional Fire engines that will be staffed across the county and likely many more to come. Residents are being told they might have to evacuate thats something beth phil
This is an interactive map on pg es website website showing exactly where those shut offs are happening. You can Lake Berryessa there to the right to to the east and all of these areas along highway one o one in the of napa and sonoma counties this is where thousands and thousands of customers have lost their power in Sonoma County more than 17,000 customers have been affected in napa county its more than 5,000 customers without power. The utility says power for some customers may not be restored until tomorrow night. 9 oclock wednesday night most of these bay area customers have seen it all before and while its no less they are no less frustrated. They are a bit more prepared this time kron fours dan kerman live for us tonight in santa rosa with the latest from there. Dan. Well good morning or good evening. I should say ken and pam, especifically many people now have generators that they did not have before theyve done most of their shopping they have their flashlights theyve been thr
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
That will hold us up a little bit. Temperatures are near average to above. We are only at 90 today. All right, over to allie, she has been busy. There are things to talk about. There is something new to talk about, steve. This is a crash in the oakland area. Lets show you on the map. This is near grant avenue. A couple crashed vehicles are involved. According to the chps notes, they are doing a traffic bake break so they can respond to this. We will keep an eye on it. The ll plaza is very busy. You will see it slowing, a 10 to 15 minute delay, this usually clears up in the next hour or so. Here is the drive from the san mateo bridge, no major problems. 6 01, lets go to the days headlines. Happening today, it is the first day of school for students in oakland set to begin in just a few hours. There is still no deal between the Oakland Unified School district and the Teachers Union as a distancelearning plan for the fall is still unfolding. Our reporter is joining us live with that story
Yesterday. But theres a pretty good breeze. So cool is the rule. Morning fog, a little drizzle, and sunny. Breezy to withiny. Yesterday once the fog burns off it could get windy. West northwest 8 at livemore with low clouds there around the area. Fog retreats back i think we know system a lot of thunderstorm activity up in the sierra. Below average temps coast, bay and also inland. All right. Over to sal now. He played george strait. He saw him at the old Mile High Stadium in augustism was never colder in my life than when i saw him. In the rockies it can get cold, sal. You dont say, steve . You dont say. I do say. By the way, to answer your question, its not a lot going on right now. We dont have any real slow down at the by a bridge toll plaza that. Might change in the next half hour as we look at it here so many you still have a window of opportunity if you want to get there before the crowd does. This is a look at interstate 880. Things are doing well. We will have another update w