Bazaar, surreal, ominous, how would you describe it . This day was different. Good evening, im julie haener. It was crazy, julie. Im frank somerville. Just when you thought 2020 might run out of surprises we are created with one of the most bizarre days in memory. Im 62, grew up in the bay area and never seen anything like it. Headlights on noontime, ash falling from the sky and body clocks wrist disrupted. For some, a sense of being completely out of sync. The dark sky during the daytime had folks grabbing their cameras. Ktvu was flooded with pictures from our viewers. Photographer kevin shane sent this picture from the embarcadero in San Francisco. And john warren sent this this picture from the Golden Gate National conservancy. It was taken on alcatraz island. You can see there is San Francisco completely disappearing in the background. And karen keller sent us this picture from hillsboro with trees creating silhouettes against the backdrop. We have Team Coverage tonight. Our chief
Lets switch to the county were evacuation orders remain in place for residents along Morgan Territory and marsh creek road this is near brentwood and the blaze is believed to have been sparked by lightning on sunday. More than 1100 acres have been burned. And Governor Newsom is demanding an investigation after rolling Power Outages around the state. Californias electric grid operator says more than 3 million homes could lose power tonight. I spoke to the professor of economics on the shutoffs and what can be done in order to prevent this from happening again. The big issue right now is the demand side of the market. What is happening right now with demand in the rolling blackouts as it stands in the bay area and statewide . One of the ways to keep the lights on is to make demand equal supply and in california we have the ability to do that technologically, but we dont have the political will to do that. And what do i mean by that . We record your consumption at your house in Southern C
The best thing our customers can do to help prevent going into that stage iii category is to conserve as much energy as possible. You heard it right there, conserve energy. That is going to be the motto during this heatwave we are all dealing with across the bay area. Tonights power emergency is over for now after a series of rolling outages around Northern California this evening that helped stabilize the grid. This started around 6 30 with an order from kauai so. The independent system operator manages the states power grid and it told utilities, like pg e, to shed powerlines because of unusually high demand. Pg e explained in a tweet saying there was strain on the power grid due to excess heat. Pg e began rotating Power Outages at the direction of the state grid operator. 200 to 250,000 customers were affected for about an hour each. This map is from pg es web shot. It shows a snapshot of the situation at 8 00 tonight. The red dots represent outages of 5000 or more, the orange dots
Reporter with the heat wave moving in, covid19 has added a new layer of complexity to escaping the triple digit heat and sunrise bistro and catering in walnut creek spent 12,000 getting their patio and parking lot ready for Outdoor Dining only to add another cost today. This is a mr. To keep the diners school. We have 12 popup canopies to help with the heat and we did add the water misters and we hope for the best. Reporter at the contra costa employment and Human Services department got a cooling center with water and snacks available for people without airconditioning and today that requires a mask and only has room for 11 people. We covid19 we had 52 seats inside plus our outside area. Reporter sandy is worried about seniors and the homeless. The Senior Cooling Centers in the malls and shops for people go to get away like starbucks and mcdonalds, those are closed for access, so people could come here and sit. Reporter this comes increasing fire danger leading the Public Utility Comm
Angry knowing that his killer is still out here walking the streets freely its very difficult for me to come on the street that i have to have resilience and strength because he would. And the kind of person terrence words. Friday marks 4 years since 4 in 4 kerry lost her son terrence at the location. She now stands at with her husband terence senior and her daughter erica, 4 years of waiting for justice. That never keen i feel that its gotten harder because the desire for a mother to want to see justice served for injustice. Its extremely difficult. Terence was just 22 years old at the time. This was the scene that night on august 14th 2016 when hundreds of people took cover after gunfire erupted a Birthday Party in the 300 block of 15th street in oakland. It marks extreme emotion, he laid in the street here. All night long after being hit by one bullet, a stray bullet. A party where they were celebrating a friends life and yet he lost to the second victim Craig Fletcher cooks also di