Counties across northern and Central California will have their electricity shut off as a precaution starting just after midnight. Nearly 800,000 customers will be affected overall. Pg e is warning the people who arent in the shut off phone could still lose power because of the windy conditions. Lets take a look at the planned power shut off by numbers. As you can see the most affected area is Sonoma County with more than 66,000 being told they will lose power. The number of outages in marin county has not yet been announced. It is important to remember that not every customer in each county will experience a blackout. Henry lee begins our coverage and he is live with more on what the city and residents are doing to prepare for this. Reporter thousands of residents here could have their power cut off as early as midnight. Many here are getting ready and city officials are warning people that this power outage could last for days. Power will likely be shut off for thousands in Alameda C
And drew tuma is on the rooftop. Lets begin with spencer. Reporter lets start with a red flag warning. It remains in effect until 5 p. M. On thursday. The exception being the Santa Cruz Mountains where the time line is different. The red flag warning goes into effect at 5 p. M. And stays in effect until noon on thursday. All across the region we can expect wind gusts between 35 and 55 Miles Per Hour. Very low humidity. Under these conditions, fires can easily start and spread. Look at the wind gust animation. You see 10 00 tomorrow morning, it will be quite windy especially over napa, fairfield, in the eastern part of our viewing area. Going into the afternoon and evening hours tomorrow night, well see the winds beginning to peak and overnight tomorrow night and into thursday well see gusts in the windiest locations between 45 and 55 Miles Per Hour. The wind will not begin to taper off significantly until thursday morning and later thursday afternoon. Well see the wind moderating. Wind
Suicide blast as u. S. Military special Operations Forces cornered him and moved in toward the tunnel where he was. President trump spoke about this at the white house, lets get right to Jennifer Griffin with the latest right now. It was a mission more dangerous than bin laden raid, the president said the flight in and out of syria was the most dangerous part. The flight took over an hour, up to 70 u. S. Special Operations Forces launched in kurdish held northern iraq, they took fire approaching the target, the president described Abu Bakr Albaghdadi last moments. He died after running into a deadend tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way, he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. He ignited his vest killing himself and the 3 children. The president says u. S. Forces were on the ground in the compound for over 2 hours and collected, quote, highly Sensitive Information on future isis operations, a large number of isis fighters were killed, some were
The fire has now burned more than 54,000 acres, a steep increase from this morning when firefighters said the fire was 30,000 acres. Containment has fallen from 10 to just 5 . 94 structures have been destroyed and Officials Say another 80,000 structures are still threatened tonight. Also today authorities evacuated another 90,000 people from Sonoma County bringing the total number of people evacuated to 180,000. Heres a look at the evacuation zone. You can see the evacuations stretch from healdsburg down to santa rosa and then all the way to the coast. We begin our Live Team Coverage tonight with ktvus jana katsuyama. Reporter we just got an update. The wind gusts have been pretty intense here. I understand from one of the officials here that the fire has already jumped font road. Up the hill we saw about 15 minutes ago a number of vehicles coming out of shiloh ridge and dashing south down font road because in the past 10 minutes there has been an Emergency Alert imminent fire threat t
From about 10 down to 5 . So far 94 structures have been destroyed and Officials Say another 80,000 structures are threatened still tonight. Today authorities evacuated another 90,000 people from Sonoma County. That brings the total number of people vac waited evacuated to more than 180,000. You can see the evacuations stretch from healdsburg to santa rosa to the coast. We begin our Live Team Coverage tonight with jana katsuyama. The situation in shiloh near windsor has changed since your last report at 10 00. Reporter just in the past 15 minutes, julie. We were down on shiloh road right at the intersection for all of the evening and now they are moving trucks both in and out of that area. We are right now at old redwood highway and had to pull out because they said we need to evacuate immediately. Let me show you some video that mark hamburg, my photographer, shot a short while ago of the flames that have now crept up towards pleasant avenue. They have cross over and we understand fie