Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Overnight, lightning strikes off the coast as a Severe Thunderstorm Warning moves across the bay area. Were bracing for another day of intense recordbreaking heat after more rolling Power Outages affect hundreds of thousands of people. Good morning, everyone. It is sunday, august 16. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Those thunderstorms were seen off the coast of santa cruz, on the peninsula, near pacifica, and all across the bay area overnight. From the lightning to the winds to the heat to now these brush fires were tracking, were following it all. Lets get over to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at whats happening right now. Lisa . Hey, liz. You know, when we had one of these thunderstorms around fairfield, the temperature went from the 80s to 100. That was a heat burst that came down from the upper levels of the atmosphere with a thunderstorm. Just amazing whether the around here. As we go in c
Crystal clear. We failed to predict and plan the shortages and thats simply unacceptable. Youre frustrated and irate governor newsome demands an investigation. Into weekend power shut off his millions of californians had to deal with sweltering heat. Governor said that the agency failed to properly. Brace for the Current Energy shortage in subsequent power disruptions. Leaders from cal iso though firing back saying they constantly warn the Public Utilities commission that power shutoffs could happen saying the situation could have been avoided. The regulatory authorities how the grid operates. People to do a lot of Different Things i guess what i have to do a better job of making our voices heard through all of that. The Public Utilities commission has not responded today. The governor also signed a proclamation allowing utilities and other energy users to use backup thats amid a record heat wave that is scorching the state this was the first time cal iso ordered rolling blackouts in s
So a lot of people that live here theyve lost their food and they have lost a lot of other things since the blackout but pg e tells me that theyre still looking into this issue whether it was heat related or caused by something else. As many prepared for planned rolling blackouts. When neighborhoods power went out sooner and the rest with no warning it just went out. And then we got a message that said of the power has gone out. And then we got the one that said were doing rolling blackouts but this is not a rolling east at a constant blackout for pan be a saudi in her neighbors on port going drive who say they havent had power since 5. 30 sunday night. Saudi says she received a message from pg and e the crews will be coming out, but still no one has showed up got a message saying. Powers out for 25 homes and crews will come out some time tonight. Nobody came out we havent had any other messages as to whats going on neighbor michael ball lives in one of the 25 homes affected i get so a
The only spots on the map that arent lit up in pink or immediate coastline and San Francisco today. As for a chance of thunderstorms that really drops yesterday we had some in the north bay obviously sunday, it woke us up and carried us through the morning. Today we take a step back from that. Just keeping the hot temperatures around todays daytime highs in the 70s 80s at the coast. 90s in triple digits, further inland. Ive got more details on what to expect this afternoon where youre at still to come back to you. All right, lets get back to the big story which are the fires for large wildfires and you can see pictures of all of them here on your screen the burning in the east bay and in the north bay and they were likely sparked by lightning, lets zoom in on the fires and look at them on a map james yes, those begin to the one for this to the south a marsh fire burning near sunil in the regional wilderness area there in Alameda County. Right along santa clara border broke out sunday.
Freak weather, that is all i can say. Reporter a busy day for tree removal crews, coming up i will show you the problems caused by the overnight storm in one bay area city. There is still lightning, just not in the bay area right now. However, that will change by tomorrow morning, another round on the way. We are going to look at that. Thanks for joining us,am n. Lets t breaking we hanew video into neminutes ago, is burning nea 600 acres total. The flames burning just outside of milpitas, near oak ridge roads. The cruiser racing to contain the blaze, fueled by thick brush, sending thick smoke to the reservoir. A bizarre storm putting on quite a show this morning, we have been getting incredible video of thunder and lightning into the newsroom, all day long. This was the scene in San Francisco, and santa rosa, san jose, and sunnyvale. Check this out. They caught was seen at the santa cruz coast this morning. Big question is are we done . Here is darren, with the answer. We are not gone,