To minimize that impact. Day one has been a challenge. That was the pg e Vice President essentially acknowledging the inconvenience. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Pg es big concern has been the red flag fire conditions and potential for high winds later tonight. The first phase of the Power Outages started in parts of sonoma, napa, and marin counties for this morning. That is the red on the map that included some 2000 pg e customers. Phase two involves the east bay and south bay, and another 169,000 homes and businesses. It was supposed to start at noon, then it was pushed back to 8 00 tonight, then it was pushed back again until right now at 10 00. Jana katsuyama live from downtown orinda where the power can go out at any moment. Jana, is there any sign of wind out there tonight . Reporter not very matchup here, frank and julie, and weve been throughout the county. You can see there are still some businesses open that have lights on, but it has been
Two nice pictures but what youre not seeing, unfortunately, is some trouble in the east bay. A new Traffic Alert . We have dont have a camera at 84 shut down in both directions, in livermore. Isabel avenue. Thats closed between concannon and vineyard due to an earlier accident. So if you typically take this route into livermore, you will need to use an alternate and continue on vallecitos turns into holmes. At theaccident 580 at santa rita road, 36 minutes from 205 to 680. And a new accident starting to cause some real delays along northbound 101 heading through san jose. The crash right near oakland road on the shoulder speeds below 20 Miles Per Hour and slow to 880. Thats a check of your traffic. Lets check in with neda on the forecast. We have had a clear night and a clear start to your morning and look at the golden gate bridge. Nice sparkling lights but also Cool Conditions in many areas because of clear skies. 41 in concord. Oakland 45. We are a few degrees warmer than this time
30,000 people from four different cities are under evacuation orders. 150 homes have burned. 12,000 other buildings are in the path. In Los Angeles County the skirball fire is at 5 containment. This fire started yesterday around this time and is burning near the mansions in bel air. A neighborhood that has not seen a major fire since 1961 one 500 homes burned. This time, four homes have been destroyed. 700 homes and apartment buildings and a school in West Los Angeles have been evacuated. Officials cannot say how many people have been affected. The creek fire in Los Angeles County has burned about 20 square miles. 150,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes. Four buildings have been destroyed and 2500 homes and businesses are threatened because the wind has been pushing the flames and carrying the embers into the hills where they set new fires. The problem is worse because of extremely low humidity. It is drying out the grass and brush. Crews have made progress fighting the r
67 in San Francisco. Once again we will talk about the hot temperatures today and then a cooldown. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Mike is tracking an early traffic jam in berkeley. Because of the road crew thats picking up so we see there. Theres the truck. Traveling backwards. You see that you lose a lane just before you get to ashby, university is at the top of the screen. Westbound 80 really jammed from golden gate field to this scene. The rest of the cones will clear and the morning commute as we look an our map will start to clear through the area. East shore freeway from basically the golden gate field area past university. As we look at the rest of the bay we do have a car fire reported around the coliseum. Ill show you what our Traffic Camera does show you. No lanes blocked there. The issue is that all lanes are blocked for highway 9. We have a deadly crash. Talk more about that and what happened but the traffic impact is highway 9 is closed or big basin way is closed at Red
Damage. In fact, the muddy shoe prints outside the daycare which opened this afternoon offer the only sign of moisture. Meanwhile, whats being called a sandbag brigade has just about completed the cleanup on the west side of the building, as this small group removes a large number of sandbags from alongside an exterior wall. We did disinfectant, this morning. And, we mopped everything up, and we had a lotta sand we had to vacuum up, and then all the mats went outside, the ones that werent out there, and then theyve all powerwashed. The principal, says, while classes are canceled, today, students are to return to their classrooms friday morning. As for the cleanup costs, she does not yet have an estimate, but says she may apply for grants if they end up being more than the school can afford. This is the latest, in mayville. Im justin williams, fox 6 heavy rainfall flooded streets and backed up traffic in west allis yesterday. Water even got into four of the areas schools. A spokesman fo