Brandnew reboot supposedly to make it easier for kids to learn their abcs. You be the judge ahead ahead in the skinny. Its monday, october 28th. A new alphabet song. A new desk to show the world here. So shiny, so we scuff it all up. Shiny, new, its got the blingbling on it. Its so bright right now. Its so bright. It is so bright, its got those beautiful monitors down there. I cant wait to wreck this thing. Thanks for having me back to help you. Oh, you dont get a slow clap anymore, youre here. Im just here. Shes just now here. Filling in for janai norman, its great to have you and welcome back. We begin with the wildfires devastating many parts of california. Dozens of fires are burning. From one end of the state to the other. Threefourths of the states counties are under red flag watches. The Power Companies plan more outages to help prevent new fires. Governor gavin newsom met with some of the nearly 200,000 residents who have been evacuated. He said the state is mobilizing resource
Wind speeds. This is the second wave of announcer now from abc7, power shutoffs, and the electricity is going off in the east bay right now. Live breaking news. Lets get right over to abc7 that breaking news is the News Reporter kate larsen who is second wave of pg e shutoffs in lafayette with the latest. Just getting under way right kate. Reporter well, ama, dan, now. Youre taking a live look were here on mount diablo from sky7 over oakland. This is the montclair neighborhood. You saw a Police Vehicle right boulevard. Ive been looking over my in the middle of the street shoulder all night to wait and there. We are seeing huge swaths in the see if those whole foods lights dark tonight. Just look at that. Go out. Now pg e confirmed the they could go out any minute since pg e told us about 20 shutoffs in the last 30 minutes minutes ago they had begun those for parts of the east bay, south bay, and santa cruz counties. Phase two shutoffs in the east the shutoff process will bay. Continue
Announcer now from abc7, live breaking news. That breaking news is theth neighborhood. You saw a Police Vehicle right in the middle of the street there. We are seeing huge swaths in the dark tonight. Just look at that. Now pg e confirmed the shutoffs in the last 30 minutes for parts of the east bay, south bay, and santa cruz counties. The shutoff process will continue for the next hour in the counties highlighted there in orange. We have Live Team Coverage around the bay area tonight. Cornell barnard is in the north bay. Amanda del castillo is the south bay. Kate larsen is in the east bay. Lets begin with meteorologist sandhya patel who wds acking the gusty winds. Absolutely. Lets take a look at those winld gusts. 41 miles an hour at knoxville creek. 42 at hawkeye. Take a look at the hour by hour forecast. Midnight tonight, lower elevations looking at 35 to 36mileanhour wins, picking up to 37 in the wee hours of the morning. 41 miles an hour at calistoga at 7 00 a. M. Fire danger eleva
Air and, they cannot figure out what direction it was coming from. Power had already been turned off at this point. We had to run around gathering stuff with our legend. We had no power. We turned off our phones because we were trying to conserve power. We did not get any text update. We do not even know of our phones would work. Police have issued evacuation orders for the entire ranch neighborhood. They should evacuate from their and come here to say Monicas Church because this is where they have all the resources set up. We spoke to some evacuees who have been told by police that they may be allowed back in the ho witn an hour or an hour and a half. We will see what ends up happening. About 380 acres burning in this grass fire near a wind farm. Just west of rio vista. At one point the flames jumped highway 12. So far no reports of any structure damaged. There was no official cause. We are tracking this weather conditions. Especially up in the higher elevations. Dealing with those du
Firefighters obviously trying to. A fight against a comeback before this burns any bigger what we see and lets go under will tran a hes live in raw. The one thing complicating the whole thing is that these poor residents had been plunged into darkness before the fire even broke out so theyre trying to find their way around and power to get out of the neighborhood. No street lights at all as well because pg had cut off the power about an hour before the fire started so there was no power. Running through the lines. James talked about that breezy conditions let me show you video of the fire. It was around according to cal fire going about 15 Miles Per Hour or so at the time of the fire a little bit gusty but according to them nothing out of the ordinary the fire happened at a very dry remote area along a ridge line and the fire raced to the left and the right of the ridge line going downhill. Ndhas why they were forced evacuate about a 140 people we did talk to a lot of people and they s