Underway. You can see the lights are on directly behind me. Then you walk across the street and you can see total darkness. Destructive fires, evacuations and now power outages. Those living in the Santa Cruz Mountains they say cant catch a break. Damages you offshore winds have forecast tonight, which prompted a red flag warning. The hunt for a missing lemur at the San Francisco zoo, why police think the animal was taken from its enclosure and what we can all do to help. Abc 7 news starts right now. Now from abc 7 live breaking news. I know it has to be done because of the fires and everything, but we dont have any wind or anything right now. I dont see what the big deal is. Our breaking news is the extreme fire conditions that have forced pg e to cut power to thousands of people across the bay area tonight. This map f pg es website shows you exactly whos affected by the Public Safety shutoffs right now. Expected to lose power in 7 bay area counties. The utility hopes to restore power
East bay will be windy at times maybe some gusts over 30 Miles Per Hour down below the 4050 up above already started to see a change in the winds and youll see numbers running in the 2030 mile an hour range across the north bay mountains right now the 31 right now that lets be 33 so discreet 27 spanish flat, so these winds start to ramp up and then notice the direction too coming out of a northerly direction that is that very dry hot wind now developing looks like it will intensify overnight tonight. You see all the color of the Central Valley start to see the winds picking up already. This is going to kind of settle in overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. So you can see a lot of colors, the red even some purple beginning to show up those are gusts over 40 maybe 50 Miles Per Hour. Now as we head to the middle of the day tomorrow love the winds are going to move a little further to the south so stay blustery in the north bay, but i think picking up in places like the oakland h
Now at 11, breaking news, Scott Petersons murder case headed back to us in macao san u when the lights should com back on in the bay area city. At this point we are just living out of suitcases. Low humidity tonight getting even lower during the day tomorrow. With high temperatures and gusty winds, it is a dangerous mix. An endangered animal stolen from the San Francisco zoo. Its possible that the suspect chased after the animal that was easiest to catch. Good evening, we begin today with breaking news. In the case of scott peterson, it is heading back to San Mateo County court over a potential issue with a juror. It is reported that a Supreme Court ordered a judge to consider whether petersons convictions for murdering his wife lacey and unborn son should be overturned. The news comes after a juror failed to disclose that shed been the victim of a crime when she was pregnant. Supreme court already overturned petersons death sentence back in august. Peterson is currently being housed i
Darkness for a day, maybe two. The reason is red flag warning for high fire danger and fear that dry, windy conditions could damage Utility Equipment and start wildfires. We have Team Coverage tonight from our chief meteorologist bill martin. We begin with Debora Villalon in the north bay where the first doctors happened shortly after 6 00 tonight. Reporter thats right, frank. We are talking about 53,000 customers across 24 counties. The south bay and monterey started deenergizing at about 8 00 tonight. Sonoma and napa counties even earlier. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part of two days. And watching the wind and its only like four Miles Per Hour on mount st. Helena and three down here. Reporter residents know the overnight hours may intensified. Anyhow sprung for generators and more. Solar panels and batteries, its kind of a pain in the butt , but it beats getting burned down. To make the fire storm that roared from calistoga to santa rosa
Underway. You can see the lights are on directly behind me. Then you walk across the street and you can see total darkness. Destructive fires, evacuations and now power outages. Those living in the Santa Cruz Mountains they say cant catch a break. Damages you offshore winds have forecast tonight, which prompted a red flag warning. The hunt for a missing lemur at the San Francisco zoo, why police think the animal was taken from its enclosure and what we can all do to help. Abc 7 news starts right now. Now from abc 7 live breaking news. I know it has to be done because of the fires and everything, but we dont have any wind or anything right now. I dont see what the big deal is. Our breaking news is the extreme fire conditions that have forced pg e to cut power to thousands of people across the bay area tonight. This map from pg es website shows you exactly whos affected by the Public Safety shutoffs right now. Expected to lose power in 7 bay area counties. The utility hopes to restore po