Of restoring power to 6 Million People, getting gasoline back in these ports. Jim and david, going to be a big story in port tampa bay later on today, which handles 37 million tons of cargo a year a third of all cargo that comes in and out of florida, 5,000 acres, the largest port in the state, in physical size. Were going to talk to the president of port tampa bay, Paul Anderson later in thelogis airlines and fdr saying specialty retail, 10 of their coverage universe is affected by irma versus only 2 in harvey. One more indication how large the wind field was in this storm. Guys carl, thank you of course, carls down there all weekend monitoring the storm, and going to be fully part of the show as he always is. Right but bring us up to date on all the things he just mentioned, jim i guess in some ways a sigh of relief, strangely enough. Right, right. Could seemingly have been worse. Yeah. I mean seemingly could have been a lot worse. It is strange on the start of a week to see futures
Saw it, hundreds of lightning strikes late this afternoon and continues right now. Among the many concerns a strike on the taxi way of sfo. Right near one of the grounds crew members there. No injuries right now but they are dangerous conditions. We have more information with our meteorologist and whats happening with the lightning strikes. Were going to answer all that for you. You can see 80 lightning strikes that last round that pummelled San Francisco. Right here from fremont, starting at 8 00 tonight. Also noted can you see these areas of purple on the radar, that was hail imped in the thunderstorms. A current view shows just a few areas of scattered showers. You should know the heavyiest of it has started to move out towards the pacific at least at this point. So why all of the thunderstorms across the bay area with at least a thousand lightning strikes . Weve told you about the area of low pressure since last week. That brought the instability throughout the bay area, but also h
Power to thousands of customers. 20 minutes ago there were 17,000 outages system ride from eureka to kern county. Bay area numbers have gone to more than 9000. The biggest outages in fremont with more than 3500. The peninsula more than 2400. San francisco more than 2300. There have been 1000 lightning strikes in the bay area. Maybes less than that. 800 to 1000 strikes. Most of them were just offshore. Looking at the live camera. We change the perspective. Heres golden gate bridge. The thunder lightning showers are in the north bay to point reyes. We see some distant flashes. Most of the heavy stuff is early is over. I dont think there is anywhere that you word you did not see clashes. It was interesting. The clouds were pretty high. The lightning was pretty high. I think everybody saw them. Even in the east they looking west you saw the flashes. There is that cluster of storms offshore. We saw some rainfall. 1 10 of an inch in some places. What is left of that. You see some scattered s
The sky. The trivalley, a small crash off 680 or in niles canyon. A little slowing shows up as crews move and over the bay bridge. We are looking at the north bay. Look at this. Time for highway 37, 13 minutes out of vallejo. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Back to weather coverage, a live look at at t park. The skies are looking calm, at least right now. Certainly wasnt the case last night. Lightning and rain into the Early Morning hours. That wasnt the only spot where the bizarre weather struck. Look at the lightning. Today in the bay is live at sfo with an emergency that happened there last night. Good morning to you, sharon. Reporter good morning, here at sfo, apparently lightning struck a worker here behind me on the taxi way and apparently paramedics treated him for ringing in the ear, but he will be okay. Because of rain and lightning, the giants game didnt get started until 11 00 after a fourhour delay. A giants win at 2 15 this morning. The radar showed it was clearing out and w
You can see the clouds as we start out tuesday morning. San jose, highs up to 85. Not as hot as yesterday, but still humid. 91 in concord, 73 in San Francisco. Napa, 70 degrees. A better chance tomorrow morning. Ill talk about that coming up. Mike has more in the south bay. We are going to have a slowdown on 101 but were looking at 101 and 87. It started over here at capital expressway. I didnt see anything on the live camera. We see that shifting around. It does start at capital expressway. Now, 87 has slowing. We will track the south bay. Again, no major crashes and watch for a different traffic pattern around 6 00. Here at 24 and 680. That may be an early start. Well track the volume of track. In the east bay, just the typical slowing. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 6 01. A live look from at t park camera this morning. You can see its all covered up. It was raining last night at that giants game, but all lit up still, after that big win. On the ground. On the backhand. Thats the ball ga