Thousands of customers. Low humidity, record dry vegetation. Another night of critical fire weather. Good evening, everyone. A red flag warning is now in effect for the entire bay area, and most of Northern California. We have five Team Coverage on the fire danger. Pg e has already cut firepower to thousands of customers. Amber has more on how people are preparing to evacuate if necessary. Bill martin is tracking conditions. He is among those who have lost power. It is really coming on. The wind was expected as it is. There is a red flag warning right now. It has got some duration, but its going to be around. The main event is tonight, in the next five or six hours, so lets do this model. Eight, nine, 10 00. You can see the orange and yellow, you can see the numbers in calistoga. That went goes down to calistoga at 32 Miles Per Hour. This is 2 00, 3 00 in the morning, it peaks right there. You can see that winfield, those purple areas, this is the main event tonight. According to the m
All, lets start off with one big news, piece of news for the bay area. Three ucsf doctors have been named to president elect bidens Advisory Council for covid pandemic policies. There are hundreds of jobs that the president elect will need to fill, but the Trump Administration said today that they are not ready to acknowledge him as the winner. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris go straight to work with the transition team. They met by videoconference with the transition covid19 advisory board. Focusing on a key campaign promise. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we are sworn in on january 20. Reporter the bay area doctors from ucsf are part of the board. Dr. David kessler, an epidemiologist and former fda commissioner is one of the cochairs. Dr. Robert you guess, are also board members. Typically, they were closely with Outgoing Administration according to eric schindler, codirector of uc berkeleys institute of governmental studies
Moving into the red. The News Conference set to start at noon. Were expecting it to start imminently. Meanwhile, we learned that Contra Costa County and Santa Cruz County were bumped back into the red. The governor warned based on current covid infect rates that are the counties are likelying to follow the move and be bumped again in the colorcoded tier system. Were waiting to learn if others are on the list. The News Conference is to start at noon. Californias in a better situation than other parts of the country where infects and hospitalization rates are surging. The governor yesterday indicating that dr. Gale today will announce more restrictions for some counties. Anticipate that we will see some counties moving backwards not forwards and this is exactly why we designed the tore status the way we did. It was about being more and less restrictive not based upon political whim but based upon the data. The epidemiology and facts. Reporter the governors comments came the same day as c
Bay down to the south county. Well talk more about our temperatures in the forecast in a few minute. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . The last half hour was busy as far as finding the slow spots but now as we look at the maps things have calmed down quite a bit, even san jose where we saw the slowing which sometimes sticks around until 6 30. I think 6 40, 6 45 well see more south bay slowing again. Little pockets through berkeley and oakland have cleared up for 24, 580 and i80. The bay bridge toll plaza and i80. We do see the middle lanes starting to stack up that has been the trend so a slow build for the last 15 minutes. No metering lights yet. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Right to that breaking news were following in San Francisco this morning. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live with the cliff rescue wrapping up in the presidio. Reporter yes, good morning. The last fire official pulled out just a couple minutes before you came to me, but a really dramatic resc
Together and unfortunately creating high fire danger we will see golden gate into effect later this evening. Usually during the overnight hours you start to see the humidity levels coming up but that will not be the case over the next couple of days. So we are highlighting all of these areas above 1,000 feet especially where the humidity will be lowest and the winds will be highest as we also are looking at parts of the east bay, the Santa Cruz Mountains where we may have gusts in our upper elevations up to 50 Miles Per Hour during this time frame. We look what is going on now. So far the winds speeds have been fairly light but measured some wind gusts made it up to 28 miles an hour in parts of the east bay. San francisco had a gust of 22 and something we will monitor tonight because a lot of our computer models showing that we will see some high wind speeds and its not going to be as high in some of the valleys but our upper elevations will have to closely monitor those areas. We will