Pg e cuts the power, so when a Business Owner tries to do the right thing by turning on his generator, coming up, the cautionary tale that ends with a bigger loss. Crews in Solano County monitoring the fire situation after hundreds of acres went up in flames. Ill show you what it looked like. Fire danger remains elevated. The holidays are on the horizon and food bandank banks desperate. 345,000 pg e customers had their power cut as the utility tried to prevent wildfires, but we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to the fire danger, because the red flag warning has now been extended. Well begin our coverage with meteorologist sandhya patel. Critically dry conditions continue. Take a look at the wind gusts right now. The diablo winds still going, not as strong as they were 24 hours ago. 22 at knoxville creek. So were still watching very dry conditions, antioch, fairfield, 15 in napa. That red flag warning for the east bay hills and Solano County. Gust 5060 Miles Per Hour not out
Pg e cuts the power, so when a Business Owner tries to do the right thing by turning on his generator, coming up, the cautionary tale that ends with a bigger loss. Crews in Solano County monitoring the fire situation after hundreds of acres went up in flames. Ill show you what it looked like. Fire danger remains elevated. The holidays are on the horizon and food bandank banks desperate. 345,000 pg e customers had their power cut as the utility tried to prevent wildfires, but we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to the fire danger, because the red flag warning has now been extended. Well begin our coverage with meteorologist sandhya patel. Critically dry conditions continue. Take a look at the wind gusts right now. The diablo winds still going, not as strong as they were 24 hours ago. 22 at knoxville creek. So were still watching very dry conditions, antioch, fairfield, 15 in napa. That red flag warning for the east bay hills and Solano County. Gust 5060 Miles Per Hour not out
The thread of wildfire is not over everywhere. Good evening. Pg e started checking their equipment today but high winds kept them from reaching many areas. Here are the latest numbers, they have cut power to 345,000 customers in Northern California but by 6 pm they restored power to more than 100,000 of those customers. They hope to have everybodys power back on by tomorrow night. The feeling among many is the bay area dodged a bullet here. Reporter it is a big relief, tonight there was a update, a say in some places the wind gusts were 89 Miles Per Hour and the inspectors did find places where trees blew into power lines and they say they could have sparked fires. Moonlight on monday night was the only bright spot in parts of lafayette. We do not have a generator, we were modestly prepared. Reporter some residents will be spending another night in the dark as pg e tries to bring grades back online safely after the shut off. All day traffic lights were not operating and businesses had
The thing to look at his what is going on on mount st. Helena today. The hour before it reported at 42 Miles Per Hour, virtually half the wind speed tonight compared to last night. It seems like good news to me. It is still windy, the red flag warning is still there but the wind is not as bad. We look at the wind model that tells you everything, after midnight things cool off and you see at 2 am they start to fire up, it is not as aggressive on the central and south bay as it was last night. Mostly in the Northeast Quadrant and by 9 am it is gone. Some really positive news, we are not out of the woods on this thing but if we can get through noon tomorrow with what we are seeing outside now with some of the current wind speeds i am feeling good. Hopefully it will stay that way. When i come back we will look at the forecast that includes less wind and cool overnight lows. Thousands of customers are facing another night of outages as part of the pg e Public Safety power shutoffs. Crews ar
So, lets jump right in to weather. Let me take it from here. We have some issues out there as kumasi talked about. You can see it over my shoulder. The red flag warning in effect for the diablo range and east bay hills and also the north bay mountains and this goes through 5 00 this evening as winds could still gust 50 to 60. That is looking less likely but still possible but extremely dry out there. 8 to 18 relative humidity. We could have extreme fire behavior because of that. Winds are still running anywhere from 35 to about 41 in knoxville. So, that is still pretty critical as far as fire starting and fire spreading. Look at this. 8 in the Oakland Hills to about 10 , 11 relativi relative ty ty rest of us. For the rest of us extremely dry air and temperatures in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Away from the coast in the mid 70s. Okay, mike. Thank you. Oakland police are investigating an incident along mcarthur boulevard. One person is dead and we have reached out to investigators for more i