Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. These are the equivalent if not stronger than the tubbs fire of 2017 and kinkaid in 2019. Theyre shutting down after of california, thats crazy to me. Seemingly everyone in the bay area is preparing for the effects as critical fire conditions move in this morning. It means Power Outages could be widespread. Take a look, pg es Public Safety power shutoffs could kick in for the areas you see here in orange in just a matter of hours. Good morning, everybody, it is sunday, october 25. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. We have complete coverage of these Power Outages and what you need to know about them. Were tracking fire danger as well. Lets get right over to meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. All is calm right now with the south wind, an onshore flow. Here is live doppler 7 with the cloud cover. By the afternoon this will be abruptly changing. Northeasterly winds, 25 to 30 mi
And practicing covid19 norms. Masks for Everyone Welcome back is a mask from us hand sanitizer, temperature gauges we want everyone to feel like they are in a safe place. Reporter one of roughly 1800 pg e customer set to lose power in sonoma county. Much higher napa 9200 customers. And eastern Solano County some 900 customers will be affected 80 to 90 and lake county said to be impacted the next few days because of a red flag warning. Height winds expected early friday morning expected to get the most friday morning with estimated restorable times friday night. Reporter because pg es equipment was blamed for sparking the wine country of ours in 2017 the utility began cutting power the following year to prevent similar incident as stop. Humidity forecast to drop below 20 in high wind exceeds 25 Miles Per Hour. We reported on customers who complained about using and losing food when teaching with dark. Attribute organizations is to the redwood empire for being customers can have food rep
Strong. Were talking about potentially over 50mile an hour gusts, Strong Enough to knock down tree branches especially any trees weakened by fires in the north bay the past couple of months and if those get knocked down into power lines, thats why were concerned about the power aspect. Red flag warning goes through friday morning at 11 00 in effect for north bay mountains, east bay hills, valleys and santa cruz mountains. Its the combination of the gusty winds, especially in the higher terrain, the heat and very low humidity, talking relative humidity levels in the Single Digits that has us the most concerned. Paul, thank you. The pg e update on the power shutoffs is underway right now. Lets listen in. We want to show you where we stand at this hour regarding this Public Safety power shutoff. A Severe Weather event with hot, dry conditions and high wind gusts is expected to begin this evening. Forecasted gusts are anticipated to reach about 55 Miles Per Hour. We expect these high winds
Time year. Reflect warnings always scary but Different Levels of these things. This is not the highest level. It looks like it will be relatively shortlived and hopefully the wind gust stay down below 35 to 40 miles an hour, so we will see. The northbay in the bullseye with north winds funneling to the canyons, they accelerate. That is what we are expecting tonight. Even down to sea level, places like petaluma, santa rosa. In bay area proper Santa Cruz Mountains above sea level, 1000 feet and east bay hills above 1000 feed as well. That is up around the Berkeley Hills area. With that in mind, the wind advisory will be in effect as well with wind gust the tops of the peaks perhaps 55 miles an hour. That is the heaviest locations for the northbay. The wind advisory will last through thursday morning. The hotspot for this event is between 2 00 a. M. , thursday morning, through 8 00 a. M. Thursday morning. That is the sweet spot. This is an overnight event that should die down pretty rapid
To see the president taken away to the hospital in a helicopter. Perhaps that video providing some reassurance. Not a lot of information is coming out of the white house. Reporter trump walked out of the white house wearing a mask and gave a thumbsup to reporters on his way to boarding marine one, the white house said the move is that an abundance of caution and a recommendation of his physician less than 24 hours after they said they tested positive for the coronavirus and experienced mild symptoms. The president received in experimental antibody cocktail. The white house staff in his campaign scrambling to adjust to the shocking scenario. We are making sure he takes it easy but he is hard at work at the white house. We have to look at the 24th amendment where the president can voluntarily say i need a minute, the Vice President will be the person running the country. This has happened in the past. Tracing and testing of anyone in the president s orbit , intelligence briefings, rallie