The president still recovering from the coronavirus a virtual format is the safer choice. He is contagious. He knows. Hes contagious. The Trump Campaign says both of the next 2 debates should be pushed back a week. But the Biden Campaign hasnt agreed to those terms. Reporting in washington, im kelly meyer. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will unveil a bill tomorrow which would create a commission to determine whether or not president is fit for office he is making it clear that she will be talking about the 25th amendment which outlines the transfer of power if a president is removed. Catherine heenan host of inside bay area politics is here. She has details Catherine Hamon can yet more drama as we are less than 4 weeks away from the selection Speaker Pelosi was talking to reporters about the coronavirus today. And suddenly said this. What are we talking about here. Tomorrow by the way. Tomorrow. Come here tomorrow, were going to be talking about the 25th amendment but not to take attention
Red flag warning has been issued as high winds and warm temperatures cause increased fire danger putting the bay area on high alert. Thank you for joining us at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the genie is also ready to shut off power to try to prevent a major wildfire. The utility says the potential power shut off could happen as early as tomorrow afternoon affecting more than 22,000 customers take a look at what bay area counties could be affected by the power shut off. Those counties are alameda contra costa santa clara and san mateo napa sonoma and solano counties, the highest probability areas or the north bay mountains near mount saint helene small pockets in the east bay near mount diablo the Oakland Hills east of piedmont and portions of the santa cruz area. And the power shutoffs do need to happen in your area you will be notified in advance via text call or email. Again thanks for joining us here at kron 4 news weve got Maureen Kelly shes joining us live from napa high morning. Thats why
L a new fire in fact those fires you can tell that the brush there was already set ready to go so youre in very active fire region and now weve got another fire burning. And weve got some very strong winds coming on the way. Winds right now weve seen of the 1618 Miles Per Hour in fire certainly enough to move that fire long. But thats not what were most concerned about is the winds that will likely take place this weekend, red flag warnings are going up for the entire bay area over the weekend expecting some 4050 mile an hour gusts, even down in the valley floors were going to see some very gusty winds extremely low humidity maybe even some places less than 10 and over the mountain tops maybe some 6070 mile an hour winds. So here we go put this into motion now as we take in tomorrow morning, not bad just an easy breeze. Now the west generally but then things begin to start to shift gears we start to see things pick up and by the afternoon and evening tomorrow, those winds start to pick
Thats right vicki and grant reducing the Positivity Rate in these hardhit communities is very important because this will be a key factor in any further reopening of the economy, heres more. Like this one posted that story and king roads in east, san jose remind residents that their community has been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus after reaching a high of roughly 60 the percentage of coronavirus cases here and in gilroy is now at 57. 1 that continues to trend downward. The failure to meet with the state says are Health Equity benchmarks could be a problem for the county as it works toward further reopenings has led the aisle. Betty is always a problem when you know the impacted segments and members your community. Or are not are not making the same progress as the rest of our commute were not going to thrive and let everybody drives a multicultural populist language barriers in early lack of testing and contact tracing. Contributed to the higher numbers, a door to door
In the bay area are in the dark this afternoon pg and e has turned off the power to prevent wildfires during this critical fire weather. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman 24 counties in the state are affected including several counties here in the bay area. So lets take a look out pg es outage map this is the latest information all the purple triangles are the affected areas. Thats where the power is currently out. Here in the bay area customers in alameda contra costa napa san Mateo Santa Clara santa cruz solano and sonoma counties are without power right now we can see that from the map. Pg says some customers may not see the power back on until 10 oclock tomorrow night. So we want to check now on just how hot and windy it is outside kron fours meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is here now shes tracking the latest temperatures for us good afternoon, the breeze its hot out there mixed really hard especially along the coast and the east bay shor