Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix news. Streaming, lets take a live look at the beautiful bay bridge is Tuesday Morning from the camera on top of the roof of the kpix studios thank you for starting your october 13 with us today. I am michelle griego. Lets get a check of our weather with mary lee. Good morning, mary. Good morning to you michelle. And we are looking across the bay area. A little bit warmer and we will continue to watch the temperatures climb. Here is a live look with clear skies. Our temperatures are in the 50s to the low 60s at this hour. 59 for you in concorde. Livermore, 53. Low 50s for santa rosa. As we are heading throughout the day, temperatures in the upper 70s to the low 80s. Upper 80s in san jose and low 90s. We will talk about our high fire danger as we are heading into the 2nd half of the week. Lets take a look at the traffic on this Tuesday Morning. Good morning off to a fairly good start. This is on the your project of the lower bay bridge. Th
Strong. Were talking about potentially over 50mile an hour gusts, Strong Enough to knock down tree branches especially any trees weakened by fires in the north bay the past couple of months and if those get knocked down into power lines, thats why were concerned about the power aspect. Red flag warning goes through friday morning at 11 00 in effect for north bay mountains, east bay hills, valleys and santa cruz mountains. Its the combination of the gusty winds, especially in the higher terrain, the heat and very low humidity, talking relative humidity levels in the Single Digits that has us the most concerned. Paul, thank you. The pg e update on the power shutoffs is underway right now. Lets listen in. We want to show you where we stand at this hour regarding this Public Safety power shutoff. A Severe Weather event with hot, dry conditions and high wind gusts is expected to begin this evening. Forecasted gusts are anticipated to reach about 55 Miles Per Hour. We expect these high winds
Darkness for a day, maybe two. The reason is red flag warning for high fire danger and fear that dry, windy conditions could damage Utility Equipment and start wildfires. We have Team Coverage tonight from our chief meteorologist bill martin. We begin with Debora Villalon in the north bay where the first doctors happened shortly after 6 00 tonight. Reporter thats right, frank. We are talking about 53,000 customers across 24 counties. The south bay and monterey started deenergizing at about 8 00 tonight. Sonoma and napa counties even earlier. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part of two days. And watching the wind and its only like four Miles Per Hour on mount st. Helena and three down here. Reporter residents know the overnight hours may intensified. Anyhow sprung for generators and more. Solar panels and batteries, its kind of a pain in the butt , but it beats getting burned down. To make the fire storm that roared from calistoga to santa rosa
60s for current temperatures across the bay area pretty comfortable to start. Later today for san jose, its back to the 90s you go and for oakland back to the mid 80s. Robin. All right, thank you john were following some developing news on bart out of the east bay theyre having some Service Problems in. Track between macarthur and fruitvale in oakland, so no service between those 2 bart stations and this a problem is causing major delays now to 30 minutes. At last check board says that they are single tracking through the area of lake merritt so theyre using one side of the track because theyre having some power issues and theyre working on trouble shooting this area. They have a crew responding to the scene. So once again major delays on bart out of the east bay, no service right now between the Fruitvale Station and macarthur station in oakland, they are single tracking through lake merritt because of this ongoing problem. They have a crew responding to the scene but theyre saying ex
Experiencing of the week conditions that were bracing for on sunday and so that is obviously in our favor right now. I know that if this fire started on sunday night things would be vastly different we talk all the time daniel give us some perspective i know all red flag warnings are not created equal how bad it is this one thats coming sunday night monday. Well we definitely dont want to sound like a broken record as we have been in and out of red flag for the last several last several weeks and really the last several months this wind event that we are expecting to see on sunday will bring a extremely strong winds winds that we have not really experience this fire season in fact the last time we saw winds this magnitude and this widespread really in the 2017 and north bay fires so when the tubbs fire yeah was fires burning in sonoma and napa counties and we know how destructive those result so yeah, definitely its been a destructive year definitely bracing for what could be the stron