Smoky conditions will lead to reduced air quality over the next several days and the temperatures will drop slightly. Plus, is the third time that charm for joe biden . Thank you all, it means the world to me and my family. Good evening, now at 11, and streaming on cbsn bay area, fires are burning all over Northern California tonight, forcing more evacuations this evening and blanketing the bay area with unhealthy air. New evacuations were ordered near mount hamilton, that fire is part of a complex of 20 that has burned at least 35,000 s re and 1800 acre blaze along the Alameda Santa clara line has prompted evacuations and in eastern Contra Costa County a group of four fires has forced evacuations along marsh creek and Morgan Territory roads. Lets head over to Katie Nielsen who was in napa county tonight where homes have already been destroyed as residents are scrambling to safety. Reporter the roar of the fires echoed through canyons. As fastmoving flames consumed homes in the spanish
Continue. Governor newsom signing a proclamation to allow some of the emergency and energy users and utilities to use backup energy sources. This is to relieve that pressure on the grid during those peak times. We have Team Coverage for you this midday. Nbc bay areas bob redell is live for us in brentwood. This is where several crews are fighting those fires. But we want to take a look at the weather with meteorologist kari hall. We saw lightning yesterday. And lightning has been the cause of some of these fires. Right. And were seeing the sky just lit up once again. I want to show you whats going on as we take a live look outside in San Francisco. If we were to just sit here and look at this shot, you could see the sky lighting up as we are seeing another active morning for the bay area. As we get a look at the radar and whats happening right now, a lot of storms across the north bay and right off the coast that are getting ready to move into the bay area. So this round of storms for
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Areas were anywhere from 106 degrees to 112 degrees at this hour. So weve had quite a cooldown in part because of the lingering smoke and haze and the more vigorous marine layer than was anticipated. Yet we have high fire dangers 8 00 tomorrow morning for all the hills and mountains of the bay area. And with very low humidity and strong gusty winds. Wind gusts right now in the higher elevations. The wind advisory will be in effect until 11 00 for the north bay hills and mountains. There is a possible there of downed trees and power lines and maybe even power outages. Ill have a closer look a little later. All right. Thank you. More than 170,000 pg e customers in 22 counties had their power turned off today. Well show you a maam where the out outages are in the bay area. The upside down magenta triangles, well try to get the map for you but it is impacting napa and sonoma counties. Another round of frustrating shutoffs. Reporter heres the latest. Highway 12 has been on the unincorporate
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from Solano County right now as you can see unfortunately, a house on fire. New evacuation orders just issued as numerous wildfires burn in several bay area counties this morning. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, august 19th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. This morning, wildfires rning in several locations across the area. Are forcing more evacuations. And blackening the bay area with unhealthy air. All the details on the fires in just a moment. But first straight to mary lee for all the latest on the heat and the air quality. Yeah, len and michelle, firefighters will be up against the heat once again. So extreme heat continues. We are not done yet with our heat wave. Looking at excessive heat warnings that remain in effect today due to the dangerous heat. Now lets show you our temperatures. So looking at mid 70s in San Francisco. 83 in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and 102 for concord. So 8 to 15 deg