Orinda with more dan. Well this is literally the calm before the storm right now there is absolutely no wind at this point but theyre expecting gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour in this region and other regions throughout the bay area beginning tomorrow night that coupled with possibly triple digit heat has firefighters on alert. As the sun bear down on Contra Costa County friday winds remain calm with temperatures in the 70s. But come this weekend a recipe for disaster high temps low humidity and winds gusting to 50 Miles Per Hour. Looking at very high fire danger and as you point out. We got an awful lot of dry fuel out thats just waiting to burn it was last october when Contra Costa County experienced similar conditions. And had a fire siege, 10 major fires and 15 hours including one that jumped the carquinez bridge. Sleep with one eye open. Those who live in Contra Costa County have been through this before and are ready, we know or pc is and all of our personal documents and should be
Youre seeing red flag warnings posted there expecting to win 20 to 35 Miles Per Hour humidity dropping down to about 20 to 30 as we head into sunday morning, maybe even lower than that as we get into monday, strongest winds will occur above a 1000 feet in the north bay expected some 35 maybe some 50 mile an hour gusts, there humidity dropping down between 1025 so very dry conditions around the bay area. Heres the latest forecast on the winds weve have mainly a westerly wind over the past few days to bring us that nice clear now overnight tonight things begin to change. Front goes through and High Pressure begins to build in behind it you start to see that northerly component beginning to kick in nothing really strong just yet it will be breezy especially over the mountain tops and then as we get into late saturday night early on sunday morning that will be probably one of the peak of the gust of wind you can see those pouring in some of the red the yellow beginning to show up there som
Tonight, right this is true and also getting much hotter tomorrow to just kind of like a late summer day today but boy taking the gloves off by tomorrow, good morning morning, good morning, everybody. Live shot comes in from the golden gate not much of a breeze, although we expect an offshore wind to develop even noticeably here as we go into the weekend live shot coming in from the bay bridge toll plaza with the sun just about to join us over the east bay hills Temperature Check right now we have those lower 60s lining up the east bay shoreline up to the north bay, a mixture of 50s and 60s for comparisons sake we little warmer up there in the north and a good chunk of the east bay around midday, were just a touch cooler today not getting on to that red flag warning, heres the Coverage Area right over the east bay hills of those winds being offshore about 20 to 35 Solano County will be hit particularly hard which will be showing you this all kicking in about 9 oclock tonight being with
Off. s make a bad combination in place tonight, excessive heat, driver dictation and now diablo wind. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. I am julie haener. To try to prevent fires, theyre taking a protective step to the first time this year and shutting off power. They confirmed the shutdowns are already underway, they are scheduled to happen between 9 00 and midnight. A total of 100 they confirmed the shutdowns are already underway, they are scheduled to happen between 9 00 and midnight. A total of 172,000 customers in 22 Northern California counties are affected, that includes the east side of santa rosa and Sonoma County and the calistoga area in napa county. Power is expected to be restored no later than wednesday evening. We have Live Team Coverage on the weather conditions, greg shows us how people are coping with the recordbreaking heat. Deborah gives us a look at how people in the north they are bracing for the power shut off but first lets go to our chief meteorologi
Bellwether companies of the new economy. The tech sector makes up 20 of the s p 500 by the way, tonight both companies, which you likely own through your mutual funds and 401 k s, they failed to wow investors. First, apple. The worlds most valuable company, reported earnings of 1. 85 a share. Revenue was slightly better at 49. 6 billion. Whats the problem . Despite selling more than 47 million iphones in the quarter, yeah you heard me right, it was the companys weak outlook that sent shares initially lower. A lot lower after that report. Josh lipton has the key takeaway from apples results. The big number in apples latest Earnings Report 47. 5 million. That is the number of iphones apple said it shipped in the quarter, now, that was up 35 year over year but was also basically in line with what wall street expected. Analysts had forecasted apple would ship some 47. 3 million iphones in a conversation with apples ceo tim cook. He told me that only 27 of the companys install base had move