back on for 70% of customers by midnight. the deliberate outages hit 17,000 customers in napa, sonoma, and lake counties. kpix 5 joe vazquez went to calistoga tonight where people are asking is this the new normal? the lights are back on. pg&e says they had to shut down the electricity to prevent the fire, but some business owners wonder if the company went too far. this is the height of the busy season. michael dunford lost about aroulast night. &e shut off money from hotel guests who demanded refunds as well as a loss of restaurant customers. as you can see right now, we have a completely empty patio except for five patrons sitting at the bar. reporter: dunford who is also the vice mayor of calistoga says october winds are often higher. all downtown calistoga. still they went through with the new policy of shutting off the power. not because of the fire, but based on the fire conditions. if that is the bar they set for when they will cut the power, that is a very se
midnight. the deliberate outages hit 17,000 customers in napa, another royal baby is on the sonoma, and lake counties. way! kpix 5 joe vazquez went to calistoga tonight where people are asking is this the new prince harry and wife meghan well, a big announcement. normal? you are so excited about the lights are back on. pg&e says they had to shut down the electricity to prevent the this. another royal baby on the way. fire, but some business owners prince harry and meghan markle wonder if the company went too are expecting their first far. this is the height of the child. they are in australia for their first overseas tour together. busy season. thousands of people lined up michael dunford lost about outside the opera house to $15,000 since pg&e shut off greet the couple. and that is fabulous. power around 8:00 last night. money from hotel guests who we are very pleased. demanded refunds as well as a we knew it was coming soon. the baby is due this spring loss of res
midday starts now. news4 midday starts now. good morning everybody and welcome to news4 midday i m erika gonzalez. the state department is warning americans to stay out of jerusalem today. protests there began avenues broke that president trump plans to recognize jerusalem as the israel capital. news4 tracie potts explains major change in decades old foreign policy. move the american embassy. reporter: fulfilling a campaign promise this afternoon president trump is expected to announce u.s. will recognize jerusalem as capital and eventually move our capital frl tel aviv. no comment from netanyahu in jerusalem this morning. this from turkey minister. it will be a grave mistake. reporter: also jerusalem their capital. already watching security but not talking about rex tillerson advice. comes as donald trump junior speaks behind doors to the house intelligence committee, likely about his meeting with the russian lawyer, and the deutsch bank. the president not answ
scenes from a movie this mo morning, but this is reality in southern california. good morning and thank you for joining us for our midday newscast. we were on the air when this latest fire broke out about 5:00 this morning during today in the bay. it s causing huge problems los angeles for drivers and extreme concern for homeowners in that very exclusive neighborhood of bel-air. we start with a live look at the newest foyer that crews are finding right now. this is called the skirball fire. can you even make it out amidst all the smoke? that s what firefighters are up against. the fire causing a massive traffic nightmare because the 405 freeway shut down with hundreds of cars right in that foyer zone as people were trying to get away. it s close to the getty center, the beautiful museum site, see acres have burned. thor than 200 firefighters are fighting this one. during today in the bay we brought you live pictures of some pretty terrifying moments as people were force
dublin from 580 and 680 meet. slow-going traffic all morning long the traffic map that s updated, you can see red tic tacs and that means no one is going far. bob redell has the reason for that backup. it s going to linger into the afternoon commute? reporter: dan and kris the tri-valley has been a terrible mess with the traffic nap shows is sp very accurate. normally by this time this time of backup is nonexistened but you pan to our left, looking east towards livermore and tracy, this backup goes as far as the eye can see. this is the view from the chopper, showing the problem. an afat paver that broke down around 4:00 this morning. this is on southbound 680 just south of the 580 interchange where we are at right now. this put the cal tran road crew behind schedule forcing them to keep at least one lane shut down and it s still shut down. we re looking at the far left lane just south of 580. we just got word from chp that the new equipment has yet to arrive. so once tha