Restrictive tier. Its not the news we want heading into the holidays. As weve seen reopening, which is anticipated we started to see more cases. Like much of the country, cases are on the rise california and now 11 1 counti are moving into a restrictive tier. Contra costa moved from orange into red meaning substantial spread. Californias health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley said most of the transmission is coming from high risk situations where masks are not worn the entire time. Imagine multiple people at a small table playing a board game or having and sharing a meal. Across the state, the 14day Positivity Rate is 3. 7 up from 2. 5 . You can see on this graph showing bay area covid cases going back to march, cases arent yet where they were during the summer surge but there is a significant increase since mid october. We anticipate if things stay the way they are, between this week and next week, over half california own counties will mo into a restrictive tier. Reporte
Yet another string of high winds dry conditions over the next couple of days. Thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis for the north bay mountains, this is the second red flag warning to be issued this week so lets go ahead kick it off here with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow he is tracking the dangerous weather conditions out there for us laurent boy it is been a long fire season right now theres no end in sight in fact these winds going to be picking up in fact i think these are red flag warnings are in effect so far feel friday but theyre going to be in effect all the way i think until the weekend weve got a series of wind events that are going to be affecting the bay area and boy it is going to howl around parts of the bay area. Look at the winds expected over the Santa Cruz Mountains this between now and friday, the red flag warnings up even along the coastline, 3040 mile an hour wind gusts probably some 50 mile an hour wind gusts o
About 37,000 customers. Across 15 Northern California counties that they could be losing power. Of the 15 counties 5 hour here in the bay, they are alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma. More than 4,000 customers in the bay area could be affected here. Napa county appears to be hit the hardest the most customers in the bay area affected are in napa some of the outages have already started but most of them are expected as we move through the overnight hours pg and e says the hot and dry weather combined with really high wind gusts pose an increased risk for damage to their electrical system that has the potential to start fires can you want to be on guard. We have Team Coverage for you tonight, Lawrence Karnow is in the Weather Center. Monitoring the red flag warning that goes into effect in about an hour but first we turn to kron fours gayle ong who is live tonight in where people are preparing for another round of shut off scale. Grant and vicki nearly 3300 pg e customers a
At 6 customers could soon be left without power. This as we have yet another preemptive power shut off expected to begin just after midnight tonight. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore, this is happening as a red flag warning has been issued for parts of the bay area starting at 10 oclock tonight and lasting through 8 oclock friday morning take a look at the pga any outage map this hour the areas highlighted in yellow are the areas affected residents in alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma counties are among those bracing for no power we have Team Coverage this evening kron fours gayle ong live for us in napa county where residents are obviously on edge there. But first chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow tracking the dangerous conditions there prompting these fire concerns torrance, you guys it seems like the fire season, the wooden and it just continues and continues and until we get any rain were going to see more fire danger this when we get th
Continue. Throughout the evening and the overnight hours lets take a look now at the outage map from pgd so we can see exactly the affected areas. This is the future outlook of where the power will be going awful zoom in on the north bay napa county will be impacted the most. Heres the big sections that will be losing power again at some point overnight tonight. This includes all around calistoga and also just to the west of saint zooming down now into the east bay well see thats some parts of Contra Costa County will be losing power just to the west of danville and also in this section here just to the west of san ramon going down a little further south. Again this is the part that will be losing power at some point overnight tonight this is in the south bay. Current outages, well just take a quick look an or a purple triangle be showing us the outages that are power shut off related and so far none in the bay area were just waiting now for the power to be turned off. Now according to