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The fire has now burned more than 54,000 acres, a steep increase from this morning when firefighters said the fire was 30,000 acres. Containment has fallen from 10 to just 5 . 94 structures have been destroyed and Officials Say another 80,000 structures are still threatened tonight. Also today authorities evacuated another 90,000 people from Sonoma County bringing the total number of people evacuated to 180,000. Heres a look at the evacuation zone. You can see the evacuations stretch from healds...

Now burning, the light lavender area section of the map, those are mandatory evacuation zones, county Officials Say nearly half the people who live in snow Sonoma County have been order to evacuate. Another spare the air day, if you can imagine the strong wind spreading smoke from the fires all around the bay area adding to the bad air quality. Expect to see and smell smoke especially San Francisco, the east bay in the north bay. Speaking of the north bay more wind expected, the wind the big iss...

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 eas...

Kenny and michelle, right now winds are gusting up to 24 Miles Per Hour on San Bruno Mountain. Here is a live look. Were looking west. You can see the fire burning out there. And on our sf 0 camera, you can sea the smoke on our live camera. Current conditions near brisbane at the mountain area, Current Conditions looking at northnortheasterly winds very dry air sustained at 12, and low relative humidity values down to 23 . We still have a red flag warning in affect until 5 00 p. M. For the north...

This is the measure of last resort and given the extreme nature of what is being forecasted we think this is the appropriate approach from a Risk Reduction perspective to again ensure the continued safety of our customers and our communities. Were now just 2 hours away from the beginning of a massive power shut off across the bay area. Pg e is set to turn off the power to about 800,000 customers the earliest shut down set to begin at midnight and continue in phases. Thanks for joining us at 10, ...

Power shut off. How they plan to keep running safely. Schools are also shutting down, uc berkeley is among those shutting down. The scope of this power shut off is unprecedented but so are the catastrophic wildfires we have seen in recent years. Pg e is set to pull the plug on 800,000 homes and businesses starting just after midnight. It will begin to our north and then roll south across the bay area as the day progresses. More than 200,000 of those pg e customers are in the bay area. The outage...

Listed so that you can make plans. Terry, the rush is on tonight to get ready for what could be a very long week for some people. Reporter yeah. The notification came out this evening saying that people in sausalito, are going to be without power that. Led to a major rush and it meant really bad news, a major financial loss for the shops and restaurants in this tourist town. People flocked to goodmans hardware in mill valley searching for the light. Lanterns, flash lights, batteries, flying off ...

In downtown napa where some businesses will be in the dark after midnight. Preparing for the unknown. Residents in san jose admit they arent exactly sure how to handle anticipated power shutoffs. Im meteorologist sand huh patel. Fire danger on the rise. Ill show you the areas at greatest risk of extreme fire behavior. The utility finally gave specifics as to when they finally plan to cut power to counties throughout california. Abc 7 news starts right now. Everybodys like grabbing water, grabbin...

Out to the delta. Konocti at 19 out of the west. And early breeson santa rosa 12. Atlas peaks west, southwest. 46 humidity. Notice how this picks up by this evening. Not so much at noon but by 4 00 at 5 00 thats when things start. Picking up. 31 in napa. Then they really crank up overnight wednesday into thursday. Fairfield, 43 Miles Per Hour. Napa, 44. Santa rosa, 44. Combine that with humidity maybe in the single digits. Thats why theyre shutting off the power. Anticipation of something of thi...

Commute. Giant generators were brought into the caldecott tunnel, a major traffic route in the east bay. Caltrans had to figure out how to keep the tunnel lights and fans on or face a traffic nightmare. The tunnels themselves have a very large fans that circulate to make sure that the exhaust from the cars are actually taken out of the tunnels. Caltrans first thought some of the four tunnels would need to be shut down but bringing in those generators may have fixed the problem. The lantos tunnel...