Announcer now from abc7, live breaking news. Were playing both offense and defense right now on two different sides of the fire. Making progress. Fire crews race to gain ground against the exploding kincade fire as another windstorm looms. Thats the reason we were made vigilant. Thats the reason we take nothing for granted. As pg e hurries to restore power, hundreds of thousands prepare for another massive blackout in just a few hours. Right now we are just hours away from the next planned power shutoff. Pg e warns 605,000 customers in 29 counties will be affected, and the utility has already started alerting customers. Heres a look at the areas pg e is warning of further blackouts. Some customers may not have their power restored before the next power shutoff begins. Abc7 News Reporter ancer hassan begins our Team Coverage on the uncertainty hanging over customers tonight. Hes live in oakland. Reporter the good news, you can see the power is back on in this part of oakland. The power
Breaking news we are hours away from another planned power shut off. How long will you be left in the dark this time . Firefighters in Sonoma County racing the wins. What they are doing to get ahead of those claims. Thousands evacuated Sonoma County. Why one san jose professor was heading for the kincaid fire. A couple says i do in the middle of a disaster zone. The story behind this viral photo. Project home. Tenants take on San Francisco biggest landlord. And they win. How are investigation led to a victory. We begin with that breaking news. Pg e planning and of the power shut off getting tomorrow morning because of severe wind. Before this month. Versions of counties could be impacted. Alameda marin napa san Mateo Santa Clara and sonoma. Power could go off in the north bay as early as 7 am. A number of homes and businesses affected will be somewhere between 240 and 605,000. Pg e expects the outage to last until wednesday morning. In the bay area the north bay will be hit the hardest
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San francisco and marin counties are not included in that list. We have Live Team Coverage for you tonight. Ktvus Debora Villalon is in santa rosa with how people there are getting ready. But first, lets go to meteorologist with more on the conditions we are facing. Itll get a little difficult starting on wednesday going into the overnight on wednesday night. And that is why the National Weather service has us under a fire weather watch beginning early in the morning on wednesday. The reason for that . Were expecting gusty winds to gust upwards of 45 miles an hour. A northerly flow. Dry conditions, low relative humidity level and a drop into the teens as we head into that overnight. And again as frank mentioned a lot of vegetation out there that will make it difficult for the dry vegetation. Temperatures are dropping down into the upper 70s in the inland comhelp a bit. And that is what we have coming our way. This is where the wind is tonight. But as you can see as we look at that fore
Customers will lose power covering part of eight towns including calistoga and st. Helena and lake buriesa. And sonoma will see the most impact and 2,800 homes and businesses will be impacted. That zone includes santa rosa, healdsburg and sonoma. Again the north bay shutoff happening around 3 00. To the south bay, in san mateo, shutoffs will happen overnight. 1 00 a. M. Tomorrow is the protected time for the power to be cut. Fewer than 1,000 homes are under the advisory. Mostly in remote areas but including parts of woodside and la hand ow. This is expected to happen around 1 00 a. M. On thursday. Now all week weve been bringing you Live Team Coverage to prepare for the blackouts. Well start off with kari hall who is tracking the fire danger. Kari, it is hot already. It is starting to heat up out there and this is what were going to experience for the next couple of days. Hot and dry conditions and the hills will see those conditions really going downhill as we start to see those winds