Morning. And there are also School Closures this morning. Those will be listed at the bomb of the screen and abc7news. Com. Lets check in with mik nio. The r fg warning is for all of us except for the santa cruz mountains, that begins at 5 00 this evening. Now the wind event just begins. Just now at 6 00, the wind advisory went into affect for those north to northeast winds of 35 to 55 Miles Per Hour. That could down some trees, power lines, that could help spark and spread fires if they do develop. Heres a look at some of the winds in the higher elevations. Still very manageable. The fastest is mount diablo, 3,800 feet at 36 Miles Per Hour. Lets look at the humidity. Still manageable. Just in the initial infant stages of this fire threat. Were doing well there. Let me tell that you things will get worse especially tonight. But during the day today if youre going to be out and eoy temperatures. Mainly in the 60s at noon. 60s at the coast. Mid 70s for the rest of us at 4 00. Not as warm
Will be without power at noon in the north bay thats where were seeing phase one happening right now these areas we see the pink and purple polygon to those are work. Pg hasnt actually shut off power so no customers are receiving electricity in these areas and you can see is fairly widespread in and around napa and especially along a highway 1, 1, you head up towards santa rosa from sausalito so thats where the power again is cut off at the moment, but later today around noontime the east bay and the south bay will also have the power shut switch flipped off in fact, lets go to san jose right now where theyre talking about their plans. In a moment, well hear from city officials we will hear from council excuse me vice mayor Chappie Jones as well as city manager dave sykes deputy city manager park this on pg a scheduled for today saw turn it over to vice mayor jones thank you. In close communication with p g on the plan Public Safety power set off. Late last night that they do not expec
Cant have city workers here every day putting roc back. Reporter last six months neighbors say they tried to do things right way. I agree they temporarily worked. Problem is they were not big enough, able to be pushed on the street. Reporter dealing with drug dealers on the sidewalk falls on San Francisco police. Contacted them, havent heard back. Many of the neighbors might have voted for you, expecting to feel your support. Are they . Its not about who voted for me. Whether you voted for me or not, im mayor for entire city and part is being accountable to address real challenges. Reporter working with district eight supervisor. More pole activity to stop drug dealers is needed. Planning to meet with the chief of police about this . As soon as i can get on his calendar. You have contact with his office . What do they say . We work closely with the police on responding to a lot of stuff. I want to talk with the chief about whether more broadly theres a change in approach. For now the c
Where you can charge your batteries things that you need and then and new today, were looking at hundreds of thousands of more people without power because the shuttles are happening in waves. Initially where the winds strongest was the north bay so they had their power cut off last night but this afternoon, the winds are really pick up in the east bay and south and so those are the areas we expected noon today to have the swit flipped and the lights go dark, means we should start in the Weather Center with john travel taking a look. Yeah guys and even though has been breezy overnight this past evening, the wars strongest of winds will those have still yet to arrive and thats why we still have so many more Power Outages just around the corner looking likely including areas in the east bay, your view from berkeley right here is going to be one of those very windy spots. Area where this camera situated at least that is under a redflag warning right now clear skies up above a dry day ahea
You will have to remember your drivers ed course training and come up to a big intersection and give it a fourway stop. The lights may not be flashing. It is one of those days that reminds me of being in the News Business when there is big news going on and people will be tuning in for updates on a lot of things. There is also a lot of debate going on right now on whether what pg e is doing on these power shutoffs is really the right thing to do. Some people say yes based on what we have experienced over the last couple of years in the bay area. And some people say no its not worth it. 95 of most wildfires start because of a human, throwing out a cigarette or whatever it is. That debate will continue. Right now we do know that 186,000 pg e customers have no power in the bay area. Just after midnight the utility started shutting off power to customers as part of its Public Safety power shut off program during red flag warnings. The first took place near the oregon border as well as in m