Without power. At the height of the shutoff, 345,000 customers had their power turned off. Most areas are expected to have their lights turned on today. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live in orinda this morning with how residents are dealing with this and also businesses. Good morning, amy. Hi, jobina. You cant help but feel bad for the businesses and i ammic looilo looking at them in orinda and a second day and morning of not being able to light. Its the same situation in lafayette and also in moraga. Their downtown areas do not have power and, of course, some homes also have had their lights turned out. We have seen Grocery Stores bring in lights to stay in business. Some people are frustrated. You can go on nextdoor and read how hard this is for people as they try to distance learn and work without power. The Hardware Store now say they plan for these. After last years one we restocked and held stock on things like generators and cords for generators, oil for y generators and
Back to the winds guys which is the changing factor here thats resulting in that uptick in fire danger because we all know its not feeling quite as oppressively hot as it was last week. Still hot enough and still dry enough though that when you add in those winds. Were back to that familiar territory which is this fire danger looking outside from see church hour. It is nice and clear all the way out to the east bay, a very thin marine layer this morning that isnt really going to be blocking out anybodys view. We have 2 rounds of advisories here the first which is in the north bay in deep red which were in the midst of right now these peach areas well these are fire weather watches that are likely to become red flag warnings later on this week ahead of what will be another round of winds later on as for the winds that were in right now thats the north bay wind event were talking about upper moran and sonoma counties all of lake county much of napa and solano counties. Lit up in these re
Later on today across the bay area we get a look for to this day time highs back into the 70s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose and all under abundantly sunny skies. Robin and we enjoy that sunshine. Thank you john, lets check in on the traffic we like when we can have a smooth quiet commute right. Were starting off with a look at 6. 80 this time around taking a look at the drivethru wanted creek. The shot not too far from the 24 split. Were looking at 14 minutes thats a cute direction for south 6. 80 from the highway 4 split through 24 and out danville youre clocking in at 14 minutes here the richmond sandra fell bridge. Its just now getting busy so were seeing the traffic come to a crawl leading up to the toll plaza typical commuters hitting the road heading into the north bay, but only 9 minutes for your total drive times so thats still good. Checking in on the bay bridge commute. We have a little bit of a backup in that car pool lanes its gone, its gonna come back youll see a
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