Power cut off to try to prevent wildfires can planned to be in the dark into tomorrow night, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everyone im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis the Power Company announcing no changes for sonoma and napa county and their update tonight blaming critically dry conditions out there. This is an interactive map on pg es website shows exactly where the shut offs are happening at last check pg e reported that they turned off electricity to 167,000 customers across Northern California as part of what they call a Public Safety power shut off. 17,000 in Sonoma County most of which is in santa rosa and 5,000 in napa county and some of that in a in calistoga or sell sogomonian live in our newsroom tonight with when the power may come back on l a. Pg e is Incident Commander expects most of their customers will have their lights back on by the end of the day tomorrow with a widespread all clear in the morning. The weather is driving their decisionmaking taking a look at
Lotus and im Vicki Liviakis some gusty winds mean that any fire that has sparked a can spread rapidly chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here tracking those winds for us tonight want various he has some breaking down guys down below me the urban areas where most of us live not much in the way of wind 5 mile an hour winds in oakland youve got 6 right now in the nevada 6 in the petaluma but certainly up above. Its a completely different story in fact those winds getting very gusty across some of the mountain tops and thats what were concerned about thats red flag warnings have been posted weve seen winds over 30 almost 40 Miles Per Hour across some of the peaks in the north bay expected to pick up here as we head through the next few hours and probably top out about one 32 oclock in the morning. Before we watch the winds begin to subside so red flag warnings are posted of course we just had a record heat wave things very dry out there now weve got the gusty winds above a 1000 feet also
I was happy to welcome you back. It is always good to see you. I have to point out that you are golfing on vacation. Pam cook had a hole in one. Her first holeinone. I had to shut that out to everybody. I am always proud of you. You did it. Congratulations. It was fun. Along the coast of oregon. It was a nice way to get away. Plenty of space. Golf is one of the things on the market, i know that youre a surfer. You can do that in social distance. Right . Absolutely, when youre stressed and stuck inside, it is great to get outside and enjoy the outdoors without the crowd. Congratulations to you, pam. Hopefully more great accomplishments in the future for you. Weatherwise, we are tracking patchy fog out there. Right around the bay, heres the plan this morning. Mid50s to 60s into the afternoon hours. Hazy sunshine, temperatures are in the 60s to the 80s around 90 degrees. They are quality, actually okay this morning. Were showing you the current numbers out there. 50s and 60s. Heres a came
Naturalization ceremony on night two of the Republican National convention. The first lady delivered the keynotes each. And my husband you have a president it will not stop fighting for you and your families. I see how hard he works each day and night and despite the unprecedented attacks from the media and opposition, he will not give up. In fact, if you tell him it cannot be done he just works harder. We will have more from the convention, coming up. First, we want to bring you the latest on the wildfires. It has been another productive day for fire crews and now some evacuees in napa and sonoma counties are being allowed to return home. Heres where we stand on the three major fires. The scu lightning complex fire is the largest in the state. It is burning in seven counties from the diablo ranch in the east bay to the Central Valley and it has now burned 363,000 acres. Cal fire says that as of tonight it is only 15 contained. Me czu lightning complex fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains
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