Skies today in san jose. The skies werent as orange there, but you can still see the thick of smoke around the city. Even at 12 30 this afternoon. Tom vacar is live in beauty county with the latest on the north complex fear that has for thuses of people to evacuate. We begin, though, with Cristina Rendon for a closer look at todays weird weather. Cristina in. Reporter well, julie, weird is right. Its still raining ash here in my backyard. The Patio Furniture is still covered in ash. It was the difference, he, this morning of that or an sky. It felt like night in the middle of the day. My wife said its yellow. Would say its more orange. Reporter wednesday felt like we woke up on a different planet, mars perhaps, or a world filled with falling ash . It looks like nighttime. Its insane. Reporter angela was a bit disoriented when her alarm went off. I woke up this morning and it was a really eerie feeling. I felt like did i mess up . Is it nighttime . Whats going on. Its disorienting. Feel
Smoke so thick the sunlight could barely shine through. Across the bay area people woke up confused as they looked like night. Ktvu was flooded with photos from our viewers who pulled out the cameras to capture the eerie orange glow that lasted for much of the day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama joins us with more on how it all unfolded. Reporter this really was a first for many people here. This darkness during the day and the orange glow, for many businesses this was yet another setback. Almost like a dream, the entire bay area woke up to this. It felt like we were living on mars. Weed couldnt figure out what time it was, even if the afternoon was so dark and orange and red. It was apocalyptic. By 10 00 it was darker than it was at 7 00 a. M. Reporter the darkness and orange tent stretched from the bank and east contra costa county, like a nuclear fallout. Ash flying from the sky covered cards and straits. In San Francisco my friend said she had a hose down her car twice before it got all off.
Now at 11 00, wind and rainmaking their way across the bay area. The areas of biggest concern night and how the city is tackling flooding. And the weather causing a big impact on holiday travel. Cancellations and delays at bay area airports, and the travel concerns on several major california highways tonight. Were on storm watch now at 11 00. Good evening, im juliette goodrich. And im brian hackney. Some areas are seeing rain across the bay area. Theres much more ahead, and we get right to meteorologist darren peck. By far the best rain has been in the north bay so far this evening, but well get everybody in on the act here tomorrow morning. First check out High Definition doppler. A lot of green on here, but the heavier rain, the yellows and oranges has all moved off to the east. Although down in the santa cruz mountains, lets put it back into live radar and come back down to the south. See the heavier rain moving in over santa cruz . And it just disappears before it gets over toward
Pink icons where a community has had the power shut off either entirely or in parts of that town thats something be exploring throughout our broadcast this morning as we get in closer some of these close to communities, one side of the street will have power the other side wont gets kind of the pending on where you are and these shuttles calm as theres an extreme high fire danger because of high winds and dry conditions. So one of the first to shut downs happen at midnight, the next round of Power Outages that blackout will start at noon today and thats what this next map. Heres illustrates its the areas in red that will be impacted by the end of the day today so the north they already has had power shut off, but look at the east bay hills, right right along the open hills and down in the south bay to the Santa Cruz Mountains in the diablo range all those areas will be impacted by Power Outages. Later today. Theyre part of phase 2 and what were told is that by about noon time today we
Niece organized criminal gangs for retail crime, theyre aware of it and they know some of the sentencing has been reduced. They have less exposure if they are arrested and prosecuted. Reporter the mop i otherparg about this. We reary time Something Like this happens. They declined to comment. What is the Company Policy for apple employees when it comes to this type of crime . It seems like theyre pretty passive. They dont want a confrontation. Reporter thats exactly the right word to describe it, larry. You can see it in the video. Company policy dictates employees must do nothing until the robbery is over and then call police. We appreciate that report. There was a wave of grab and go robberies at apple stores last september. Just about every time the suspect would run in and grab what they could before dashing out the front door. A periodf d. At the end of last september, multiple arrests were announced in a string of robberies up and down the state. Efforts have begun to salvage the