Wayne friedman has just arrived in windsor. What are you seeing and hearing there . Reporter were seeing good stuff tonight. What a difference a couple of days can make. Behind me you have remembers of the Fire Department here on foothill road. They were in the heart of this fight saturday, receiving thank yous and congratulations from residents here. They saved their homes. These are the people, you may have seen the video yesterday, of going door to door to save neighborhoods and get people out. That was then and this is now. So its a really nice thing to have them here at this point. Earlier today we had another visit to the region by governor gavin newsom. Thanks for sticking in n cor governor gavin newsom met with fire evacuees at a food bank in santa rosa this morning, there were two words he said more than any others. Im sorry. Yeah, thank you. Sorry. Reporter as you walked through the crowd you apologized a lot. Yeah. Reporter what were you apologizing for . People shouldnt hav
Reporter they say gusty winds expected to peak overnight are to blame for the latest round of outages. Utility wants more shutoffs could be coming this weekend. Good evening. Right now about 178,000 customers in 15 different counties are without power. Pg e said the number of customers will be losing power in san mateo and kern counties starting at 1 am. More than 400,000 people across Northern California. Most of them and the sierra foothills. In napa county about 7700 customers are affected. In Sonoma County the number is higher about 26,000 customers. Are without power. We have Team Coverage tonight. Bill martin is monitoring the wind conditions. Allison rodriguez will tell us about how the outages are affecting schools in Sonoma County. Lets go to amber live tonight in santa rosa with more on the impact of the outages to businesses and homeowners in that area. Reporter tonight we visited a home and business to see how people are coping. We are on Fourth Street at rogers way. Where
Looking at unhealthy groups. Moderate air quality for san rafael, San Francisco, san jose and for livermore. We are looking at a sparethe air alert that is in effect for your tuesday. The air quality unhealthy for sensitive groups for the bay area due to the smoke from the kincade fire as well as for the grizzly fire so your weather headlines, we have that smoke this morning, chilly temps, down to the 30s, 40s and low 50s, patchy frost, hazy sunshine this afternoon with seasonal daytime highs and we are going to see those strong winds that will return with the wind advisory for the north bay and a red flag warning, details on all of this coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. The new normal, another pg e power shutoff as high winds batter the bay area. Kpix5s jackie ward is live this morning in santa rosa for the fifth round of power shutoffs. Jackie. Reporter good morning. I am in Sonoma County but actually we are in rohnert part this morning, standing in front of the university where
Still outlined here in purple but what we dont have any more as that evacuation plan for evacuation extended the coast anymore this section and blue now has been downgraded to evacuation warning, which means residents here need to be ready to evacuate should the need arise as for the mandatory evacuation area you can see its more and more being swallowed up by the new fires that have been burning here in the last 24 to 36 hours. A good bit of it burning to the south where we see it really encroaching on some of want to one corridor communities like healdsburg like winds are 5 windsors been suffering a pretty pitched battle with firefighters are trying to ep the flames at bay but were also seeing now beginning to burn into neighbori napa county particularly in the area of calistoga i want to show you their map now you can see this area in bloom indicates what theyre caught classifying as an evacuation. Advisory right now which means its not mandatory and now warning just yet but people
Warning. So theres a high fire danger for all of the state. So were seeing quite a few fires burning as a new red flag warning goes up for the north bay starting at 8 00 this morning for the east bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains well see that red flag warning and the high fire danger beginning at 1 00 today. Well have gusty wins that could pick up over 50 Miles Per Hour, especially in the higher elevations, so ill have a look at our timeline of the wind forecast coming up in a couple of minutes. Mike, lots of folks are heading out of oakland. Right. Whether or not they live there, their traveling out of oakland across the bay bridge. The backup is forming for the cash lanes and fastrak. For tuesday this may be lighter than we typically see. Weve seen that, we typically see that, now its a pattern over here when we have the outages and the fire safety going on and the power safety shutoffs. Were watching for the traffic flow. Right now a minor crash. Highway 4 at willow pass road. Anywh