See on the map, those indicate the outages. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan is live in sonoma with more on this. Good morning, kumasi. This neighborhood in sonoma is without power. If you look up, you can see the power lines and trees are part of the reason why pg e is so concerned about neighborhoods like this one. The Utility Company cut power throughout the state due to the threat of wildfires. In the north bay, close to 7,000 customers have been left in the dark. Though the strongest winds of the week have passed, temperatures are expected to reechl treach the upper 90s today. The north bay still faces dangerous fire weather conditions. Many are trying to coast the best way they can. If it prevents fires, anything will help. Were still not in a safe zone yet at all. We have not been getting rains, its still hot. The winds are high. Its still a risk, if they shut off the power to prevent fires, i guess i would wait another day or two if it gets us out of the red zone. Pg e says the
the city of palo alto tells us it will do what it takes to make sure it doesn t happenicide a major el nino event occur this winter. they re preparing for rain in palo alto. the city says it plans to launch a cleanup effort in a couple weeks here, removing debris and trimming back dead branches. it will also launch a new website at the end of october to warn locals using sensors placed along the creek. taking advantage of new technology, new hardware that s in the creek and upstream of the creek, looking at rain. we are giving people and emergency responders more advanced notice of when we believe flooding will occur. this creek flooded back in 2012 and in 1998. the county says it hopes pre-emptive measures will keep businesses and homes as dry as possible. we go through streams throughout the county to cleanup trash, maintain vegetation, maintain the banks, for erosion, and do what we can so that when the winter rains do come, the streams are flowing. here, the creek
monterey. mother nature, yeah, had other plans. low pressure lifted farther to the north. stow should have rained well to the south. but we received the rainfall right here in the bay area. because that low tracked farther north. we are still tracking some rainfall right now impacting the evening commute. it s not terribly widespread. it will mainly be in the south and east bay but it s now leaving san jose, milpitas ford fremont impacting new livermore and the tri-valley right now. on-and-off showers all day from oakland east to lafayette san ramon out toward brentwood and concord and martinez. we have had some scattered showers. if you add everything up it did not amount to much at most .06 . sa arena moan and belmont .03. san jose .01. it doesn t take much to cause a mess on the roads. we may have more rain this evening. we ll talk about 90s coming up in 10 minutes. thank you. we are wrapping up the 2015 water year and it s going down as one of the driest on record. s
us live with how the rain affected the commute today. catherine:but first diane tuazon is here. diane can we expect any more rain tonight? diane: looking at the s f o camera. just mean when i say is cloudy out there. diane: not enough to make a dent the we will welcome any moisture we can get. diane: satellite radar image showing that we are not down quite yet what the musher to read what will cloud in place. continue tomorrow in to the afternoon. and expect another round of showers. mainly in the north they for santa rosa. by noontime, gradual clearing with those clouds and the moisture will move out of the system. making room for warming trends. for the weekend. catherine: kron4 scott rates to join us live with how the mind of that the committee today. but the first what scott? reporter:umbrellas?? reporter:wet roads?? reporter:could it be rain??!! you better believe it! and in september too! (cheers & applause) it took me by surprise had to dig out my jack
jay, you said it was light sprinkles? it was. that s what we have now. zooming in on where we could see that. some areas around san jose and some the bulk of it is east in san jose and the green hills and the light green indicating the rain now. and from parts of bub lin as well. you may be encountering some wet roadways. and the showers are moving east in the morning hours. going to expect the showers to decrease in the afternoon and the clearing skies in the afternoon. for the future cast at five, most of the showers are to the west and east. most of it is moving out of here, going to the delta and fairfield earlier this morning. by lunchtime, we should be done with the shower. maybe a lingering shower this morning and clearing conditions. by four, partly sunny conditions and a drier commute later today. pretty much done with the showers for the next couple of hours. but bring the umbrella with you just in case. and more details on the forecast and tracking hurricane