Judge barretts for right, out of the mainstream views the generations. Her confirmation means the court will be firmly in conservative hands with a 63 majority, the vote could be crucial in deciding the fate of the Affordable Care act, which will go before the court a week after the election. Any objective standard, judge barrett deserves to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. The American People agree in just a few minutes, she will be on the Supreme Court. , President Trump is set to host the swearing in at the white house tonight, with Justice Clarence thomas giving the first of the two odes, this is a live picture of the scene there on the south lawn, you cant tell, but there is a Group Gathering for the swearing in and we have seen, for the most part, most of them wearing masks, and the chairs on the lawn, it is hard to see because it is so dark, but the chairs on the lawn are spread farther apart than they were when barretts nomination was first announced. Lawmakers say there is s
Much out. For many in the bay area, this is what they woke up to this money, if there wasnt a downed tree, many found leaves and branches scattered all over the ground, on the left, a tree fell on Market Street in san jose, damaged some Electrical Equipment and knocked out power, in the middle, those strong winds knocked a tree on 103rd avenue in oakland, it also took out power lines. On the right, city crews were busy cleaning up a downed tree in san leandro this morning. In orinda, we saw downtown banks and businesses in the dark this afternoon, the neighboring cities of moraga and lafayette were also affected, pg e turned off power in a large part of the east bay holes and contra costa and alameda counties today, including parts of berkeley, oakland, and san leandro. You can see the widespread outages indicated by the purple triangles, power was cut all across the bay area, including in sonoma, napa, solano, and marin counties, customers in san mateo and santa clara counties are als
Purple creates where the power is shut off intentionally. Pg e expects to restore power in some areas by 10 00 p. M. 90,000 currently impacted by this power shut off. High wind over night and today will lots of damage. Branchs came crashing down. Winds threatening to spread small fires that started popping up across the bay area. One of the most recent fires sparked a few hours ago. Off highway 12. We have Team Coverage tonight. Well begin with tom in lafayette. About 17,000 customers have been without power since 8 last night. There were some fires but fortunately the winds were not as wickedly strong as some predicted. However pg e just put out a notice to a lot of customers here in lafayette who have lost power, thousands of people. That their power will not be restored until tomorrow at least. Because of high wind. They said they were not able to get helicopters in to fly equipment. To make sure there was no serious damage that could cause more fires. Also because there were not su
Seeing there in that fire zone . Yeah, the winds are still blowing in that area. 25 to 35 Miles Per Hour or so, with gusts perhaps reaching even a little stronger than that, and that northeast wind is creating very dry conditions. Were talking about single digit relative humidity. Giving you a look at Storm Tracker two, where we have, over the course of the last 24 hours or so, watch that northeast wind ramp up, come through the bay area, and its still out there. The wind advisory allowed to expire earlier today, but if we get into years of the north bay, you know see relative humidity is down to 5 in many areas, including sassoon and the vacaville area. Taking a look at the big rock area, we have 7 relative humidity here, and into the Oakland Hills, relative humidity here between 5 and 10 as well. So while the winds have eased up, still very breezy in some areas, and we continue with the red flag warning because of those very dry conditions. I want to point you over towards santa cruz
Tonight. Calistoga continues to get beat up the last couple of months. Reporter they certainly do, jessica. Once again folks in calistoga or many folks here in calistoga are without power. You can see the traffic light at this intersection is not working tonight. But people here are understanding. Last nights wind caused a lot of worry. Pg e crews are busy repairing the damage caused by last nights windy weather. Sustained winds of up to 76 miles an hour in the north bay did, indeed, topple trees and take down power lines. This giant pine tree in angwin fell right onto pg e lines, pulling down three power poles. We would have had a major issue by all means. Reporter luckily the neighborhood was part of pg es Public Safety power shutoff. Folks here fear if the electricity had been on, theyd have been in a world of trouble. Pg e was right this time. They prevented a big fire. Our house is safe, and were thankful for that. Reporter pg e started turning off the power late yesterday afterno