Will be busy at the Altamont Pass with slow traffic on 205 l no major issues driving into hayward. We do have traffic that is also going to be okay here and at the bay bridge toll plaza. Is a little bit of a backup. No problems on the bridge into San Francisco. Because of changes in the weather, pg e now says we will not see the widespread power safety shutoffs that were first planned. The new plan for shutoffs will now affect 150,000 pg e customers and 18 counties across the state. That includes almost 43,000 customers in napa, solano and lake counties along with part of Sonoma County. And those shutoffs are due to begin at 7 00 this morning. However pg e says later this afternoon Sonoma County will have a second phase of power safety shutoffs beginning at 4 pm. Emergency Officials Say preparing for all of this is getting easier but its taking a toll. It is becoming a machine that we are able to quickly and efficiently put into motion. Its not getting easier for the community. We full
Bam, everything went off and that was the end of the day. Reporter the city of santa rosa has its Emergency Operations center fully staffed. They estimate 50,000 to 60,000 people will be impacted within the city limits. Traffic lights at 24 intersections are expected to go dark. Our goal is to make sure that during the shutoff, that we do the most we can to protect our community. Reporter the owner of bettys fish andhips cooked up lunch for customers before the shutoff. They lost power for three days during the last outage. With a freezer full of just delivered fish, the potential losses are once again huge. I dont think theyre thinking about the families that are impacted, small businesses, retail, restaurants. There just has to be another way. Reporter now, we are inside village pet store. The good news here, just after the power turned off, they were able to start up a generator. You can see the freezers are now powered. Im going to walk you back here to the animal section. You can
Theyre waiting for sun light as well and how they can tackle it even further. Manned attorneydatory evacuatio for northern healdsburg and geyserville including River Rock Casino. This map shows where the flames have spread. That fire started after 9 00 last night outside of the geysers near kinkade road and byrne mountain road. Crews tell us they are on edge. The unpredictability. You dont know if it will travel ten miles right away or in two days. Two years ago it was traveling so fast that people didnt have time to escape even in a car. I have all my stuff packed up and ready to go at a moments notice. Thats why were here to keep an eye on things. We are as well. We have two reporters in the fire zone this morning. Right now we want to start with pete suratos. He is out there and, pete, i see you have a mask on now. Has the smoke intensified out there . Reporter yeah, it definitely has. Good morning, marcus. We are wearing these masks similar to past fires as this begins to pick up.
Anything positive to help. The winter decrease later on. The strongest gusts are in the Sonoma County area. More coming up later. Here is sal. All rights. Right now we do look at the commute that is going to be busy if you were driving on 80 westbound. I want to show you that the traffic is beginning to wrap up a little bit heading out to the macarthur maze. 22 minute drive. Right now the bay bridge is a typical commute. If youre driving on interstate 880, this traffic is beginning to ramp up. We are getting into the ramp up stage of the morning commute on all the freeways in the bay area including the east bay although you have an opportunity to jump ahead of the crowd, especially for the Silicon Valley commute. You can see 87 has a problem northbound but the rest of that is easy. Use 101 or 85 to 17. Lets go back to dave. Complete coverage of this outofcontrol wired fire. Cristina rendon is near the front lines of the kincade fire. Give us the latest from where you are. Reporter good
Customers will lose power covering part of eight towns including calistoga and st. Helena and lake buriesa. And sonoma will see the most impact and 2,800 homes and businesses will be impacted. That zone includes santa rosa, healdsburg and sonoma. Again the north bay shutoff happening around 3 00. To the south bay, in san mateo, shutoffs will happen overnight. 1 00 a. M. Tomorrow is the protected time for the power to be cut. Fewer than 1,000 homes are under the advisory. Mostly in remote areas but including parts of woodside and la hand ow. This is expected to happen around 1 00 a. M. On thursday. Now all week weve been bringing you Live Team Coverage to prepare for the blackouts. Well start off with kari hall who is tracking the fire danger. Kari, it is hot already. It is starting to heat up out there and this is what were going to experience for the next couple of days. Hot and dry conditions and the hills will see those conditions really going downhill as we start to see those winds