Many understand its not in the same of safety but just weeks after a major fire, the timing wouldnt be worse. Im stocked up on batteries, flashlights, lanterns. Reporter she has what she needs. Im here to service the community. Reporter shes assistant manager at Outdoor Supply hardware with a possible safety power shutoff hours away, most of the portable generators have sold out. This could easily do a refrigerator, couple lights, tv. Reporter john was buying extra flashlight batteries and hes not happy about it. As a general sense of disappointment to pg e. I think one place seems to be under control and another comes in after that. I dont like it. Reporter the utility says it has to cut power to thousands of bay area customers due to hot, dry windy conditions or risk parking a fire from an active power line. At the end of the day we have to stand by the side of safety and if its necessary, we have to do this to prevent healthcare reforms emergencies from occurring. Reporter nancy jus
Thank you for joining us. This map highlights where people are likely to be affected by the Public Safety power shut off. In total 22,000 local pg e customers could lose power. The shut offs are starting now in the north bay and three counties, napa, sonoma. It a fresh round for residents who lived through fires, smoke and other Power Outages. Lets go to abc 7 news Cornell Bernard live in st. Helena. Reporter dan and ama, if folks havent been through enough, thousands could lose power again. Its in the name of safety but the timing is really tough. Im stocked up on batteries, flashlights, i have more flashlights, lanterns. Reporter she has what napa needs. Im here to service the community. Reporter shes assistant manager at Outdoor Supply hardware with a possible pg e shut off hours away, most of the portable generators have sold out. This could do a refrigerator, couple lights. Reporter john was buying extra flashlight batteries and not happy about it. There is a general sense of disi
Look at the West Richmond side of the richmondsan rafael bridge. The breezes are the big issue until the heaviest of the rain rolls in. The it will stay in the north bay until 7 00. From 7 00 to noon well get intense downpours and flooding on the roadways. Then tomorrows with dangerous lightning and hail during the afternoon hours. That will taper in the evening hours. Well look at that storm coming up. First here is frances. This is southbound highway 1 at manor drive. A Dodge Charger was driving northbound in the southbound lanes and crashed into a mercedes and right now were hearing that southbound 1 will be closed for a while. This will be the hot spot to avoid this morning. Detours are in place at this point. If you are traveling through pacifi pacifica, you will be taken off at skyline boulevard. Traffic is slow there as you approach sharp park road, that will get you back on. This is the spot to avoid. It will be out there for a while. Coroner headed to the scene. Amy hollyfield
With us through friday. There should be subtle changes through the weekend. Cooler. We will see by how much but i would expect the wind in the north and east bay hills to pick up in temperatures above average. Tomorrow looks to be the hottest day. Low 80s tomorrow. We had a couple this week as well. Its clear. Everything is coming down out of the north or northeast. Being followed around monterey bay peninsula. Wind is picking up. Its in there. Come on now. There it is. It has to wake up. 34 at mount diablo. Nothing too bad yet but the red flag warning will take us into the next couple of days. High fire danger. 80s for many and low 90s. 50s and 60s right now. A few 40s. 60 in the city already. 50s two kilo 60s. Cloverdale, 63. Everything goes up and over. Another day of sunny for all. Here is mr. Sunshine himself. Bright and chipper and ready to go and he tells us out of the gate it is nice. Thats the nicest thing i have ever set at 4 02 am. I havent talked to anyone except you. Good
It will pick up this evening. Very warm today. Nationally if its quiet here it must be active everywhere else and thats about the case. You could see how everything goes up in over the ridge of High Pressure and drops down. Montana and north dakota into the plains and look at the low in the great lakes. Most of the country has very active weather and as you can imagine, cool temperatures. Some very cold ones as well. A lot of snow coming in over the next 57 days. Not here. Its record heat. We seen this so many times. Sfo, 87 yesterday breaking the old mark of 85 in 1965. 80s for the forecast highs today. Near 90. They are all away above. 82 and 60 for the city. They hit 60 and are now at 63. Way above average on both. It looks like a pattern were not much will change but as that system digs into the intermountain region, the wind will pick up later tonight into tomorrow. Not too bad now but it is a north, northeast direction from many locations around the bay already. 40s, the fees and