to minimize that impact. day one has been a challenge. that was the pg&e vice president essentially acknowledging the inconvenience. good evening, everyone. i m frank somerville. and i m julie haener. pg&e s big concern has been the red flag fire conditions and potential for high winds later tonight. the first phase of the power outages started in parts of sonoma, napa, and marin counties for this morning. that is the red on the map that included some 2000 pg&e customers. phase two involves the east bay and south bay, and another 169,000 homes and businesses. it was supposed to start at noon, then it was pushed back to 8:00 tonight, then it was pushed back again until right now at 10:00. jana katsuyama live from downtown orinda where the power can go out at any moment. jana, is there any sign of wind out there tonight? reporter: not very matchup here, frank and julie, and we ve been throughout the county. you can see there are still some businesses open that have ligh
is not fun. the subject to high wind because it s not that big. now they are back over this area. look at that burn area on the zones. you have to tip your hat to the firefighters that jumped up at 1 am and did what they had to do to protect the structures right there. all mentioned i will mention, this has power shut off in phase 2, power went off after 10 pm last night, so electricity not a issue, so it is really easy to start a fire out here you christ. eight hours later, most evacuations have been lifted, it burned more than 40 acres. right now, firefighters are trying to find the cause of fire. it mentioned at 1 am this morning, this was after pg&e had shut off power so we know it was in the power power lines that spark is. steve, a lot of people that turn their power off, said it s not that would be where i am? you have to understand something. a lot of these transmission corridor lines the higher elevations and a lot of these grades are linked up. so, if you
of that mountain that looked like it was acting as a fire break which helped slow the progress of this fire compared to 45 minutes ago. this is good news because they are homes closer to the daly city side of the mountain. despite that, voluntary evacuations have been ordered. acreage, 15 or 20 acres. no official word yet. wind has been a huge story in the bay area this week. the red flag warning is up and running for tomorrow. meteorologist mark tamayo joins us now. some people were seeing wind. there is a dry winton place and it s it defined wind direction coming out of the east and northeast. i m sure the fire crews are seeing that on the map. as a result this a good strategy to contain this in the short term. there is the mapping system. you can see wind coming in out of the easiest off of the bay. typically a normal summer day we will talk about a wind coming in from this direction but as you know this has been a fire weather pattern with offshore wind setting up.
rail will return to normal some time in october. it s been a long couple of months for them or at least month any way for rail commuters when a third of its septa fleet was side lined because of manufacturing defects. for the thousands of passengers each day, what that meant jam packed trains, delays, a modified train schedule, frustration. septa today says after some final fatigue testing is done on these trains, repair cars should be showing up on the rails by the end of the month they ll roll out 10 per week through september and then october the rail system should be back to normal schedule. officials say they want to make sure the fix is the right one. we re going to work, you know, as hard as we can to get the cars back, um, but in the end, um, you know, safety is has to be the top value and so to not have had any kind of, you know, derailment or issue that could have resulted in a loss of life or even injuries is, you know, that s a great thing. reporter: septa m
plated and the locals helping the us get the wins already. it is casino of weird. soccer has already started at the olympics, even though opening ceremonies aren t until tomorrow. it makes no sense. but off to good start, so who cares, right? but they were booing our goalie. booed her, right in her face. not nice. hi, alex. hi, i m lauren, how are you? hello? high, my name is, my name is, my name is lauren in for alex today, who took the day off. did you like the ten yesterday? i loved yesterday. shall we have another? let s do it. we want to double. okay. a 20, and by tomorrow, it will be 30, because we ve got a great weather pat american place. so unusual for the month of august, but we will take it for as long as it lasts. bus stop buddy poolside today with his sunscreen. you will want to spends at lunch as much time as possible out of doors. in fact, sunrise kind of happening right now. the official time is 6:03. and look at that beauti