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 shoreline tracking double digit warming this afternoon. Compared to 24 hours ago in fact already seen triple digit heat in parts of the north bay specifically in napa and delay ho widespread low to mid and upper 90s for everyone else in the bay area little relief along the coast. In fact, Half Moon Bay in the mid 70s, the one cooler location but still above average for this time of year thats what are currently under a heat advisory this is going to remain in effect through friday night. In addition to that high fire danger concerns because of dry and windy gusty northerly winds expected for tonight so once again wind speeds will increase right now on the calm side a little bit breezy for those of you in fairfield in oakland, but we are going to see sustained winds that 20 to 30 mile per hour range for throughout the valleys for those of you in the north bay and highest gusts will be with elevations above 1000 feet in the north bay mountains east bay hills, including the diablo range by around friday morning were going to start to notice winds start to subside but still tracking gusts even along the San Francisco peninsula 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour with calmer conditions expected by friday afternoon. But we are tracking this heat wave peaking on friday and thats just going to dry out vegetation already dry little relief during the overnight hours just in the teens were parts of the north bay like sonoma and yacht bill including fairfield as well and back in the Single Digits so tracking drier conditions for friday afternoon even after the winds have calmed down with those temperatures actually increasing are Holding Steady from today our inland valleys could actually top out to 102 degrees by friday with little relief this weekend more coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes just seen back to you thank you so much we have Team Coverage on pg es power shut offs and how people in the bay area are reacting to being in the dark and the heat. Well go now to kron 4 s Charles Clifford he is live now in napa county how hot is it there right now chuck. Well i i just checked my phone a minute ago and it is 100 degrees here in napa county and it feels like it is very hot just a slight breeze blowing that is good news, hopefully those winds will stay calm but as you mentioned earlier there are thousands of pg e customers still without power here in napa. Most of the outages across the county were in the hills to the east. The power was turned off wednesday evening at this point its not clear when service will be restored. The outage is stressful for napa residents have had to deal with heat fire and smoke for months this couple was at the Grocery Store a nap on thursday picking up supplies they live near saint but had to flee to plaster ville in the glass fire burned through their neighborhood. They came back to check on their house which is still standing, but they say the powers still out because of the psp s so they wont be sticking around. Right now its under effect as you as you know. And were just going to go clean at our house, a true friend rater and go back the plaster ville probably until we get some power, the genie has not said when full power will be restored to the area napa remains under red flag conditions until at least friday evening. Pg e crews will also need to inspect miles of power lines and equipment before they can safely re energize those lines. All right back live now pg e says theres more than 9,000 customers in their p s p s area here in napa county but not all of those customers may be without power. They say many of them have generators. But for now in the north bay Charles Clifford kron 4 news. Thank you so much struck. Well go to the south by now and now to the words of one Boulder Creek resident who told us we caught a break this time kron fours rob fladeboe is live for us now in Boulder Creek with an update on the power shut up situation in the santa cruz mountains, rob. That resident was referring to just how windy it did and did not get right. Yeah, thats right the window the highway never really materialized here thats a resident said that at most he said it was a little on the breezy side. But a lot of people did lose power nonetheless pg tells me that and one point that expected to shut off about the 6,000 customers but then when the weather started to improve a little bit last night they downgraded that to about 5,000 so they did in fact shut down about 5,000 customers but many of those have been not returned to power of us take a look at a graphic this is as of about midday. I spoke with pg e spokeswoman era to and she tells me right Boulder Creek. Theres still about 357 customers out here in felton 73 customers is santa cruz, 112 Scotts Valley 556 rather for a total of about 598 customers most of those customers are expected to be restored sometime later tonight or at the latest tomorrow morning now have been helicopters buzzing over town here this morning and into this afternoon pg e says that thats their crews and their audience pectin transmission lines looking for so far nothing has been relayed to me about any possible damage or anything that will stop them rstoring the power. It is probably is worth noting there are people and businesses running on generators up along some of road of highway 17 thats right was reporting from yesterday, ive been told that the burrell fire station up there as well as a Veterinary Clinic in some businesses and residents on either side of the summit. I was 17 are all among those that are still without power. As far as fires go nothing to the wins, but there was a a fairly small fire about a half an acre off bear creek road in a neighborhood called deer this morning versus me last night. Cal fire says though that was unrelated to the winds but it was because of someone doing some illegal burning of all things but thats the situation here in Boulder Creek most everybody has the power back on if not theyll have it by tonight with the latest tomorrow morning justine. Thank you so much rob and theres not only a psp s happening right now, but a flex alert it just went into effect at 3 oclock and will last now until 00 10pm tonight. The state is asking all of us to conserve energy too avoid any rolling blackouts and we have some tips on how you can conserve energy all listed on our website kron 4 dot com and we have continuing coverage on the power shut offs in the extreme conditions with the weather all on our web site and also on our kron 4 mobile app and our 24 7 streaming news service. Kron on both the apps are free to download in the app store right now. Well go to the east bay because mail theft is on the rise in that part of the Bay Area Police now one bay area city are saying that there appears to be a link to all that theft and the covid19 pandemic investigators are telling kron fours Haaziq Madyun how a network of cameras are helping police track down mail theft suspects. Youre looking at photos of 2 built that suspects being arrested by San Ramon Police. Investigators say the pair targeted mailboxes in multiple cities across the east bay, so we recovered stolen mail from our victims from this prior week as well as. Residents from within danville walnut creek and the lay the arrest happened within days of the actual crime as a result of the suspects vehicle being recorded by residential surveillance camera represented by the green that you see here on this map. The cameras part of a 280 citywide volunteer civilian camera registry, San Ramon Police captain Carrie Goldberg says that the vehicles information was given to Police Departments in the tri valley area who then use their own Police Network of license plate reader cameras to track down the suspects vehicle and theyll head and with that vehicle into our camera system. And we received the alert when it entered our city the suspects were arrested a short time later investigators say there appears to be a connection to the rise in bay area melt that crimes and thieves targeting people who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus and are waiting for their unemployment checks to arrive in the mail since the pandemic began and since the checks started being mailed out. You know Identity Theft was on the rise as well as mouth of has it made you kron 4 news. A big story were watching this afternoon is that the case against convicted killer Scott Peterson will head back to a San Mateo County courtroom. This decision was made yesterday by the California Supreme Court petersons legal team has been fighting for a new trial after claims of juror misconduct in his murder trial. Court records show a juror failed to disclose her involvement in another legal proceeding during the selection process. Peterson was convicted in 2004 for the murder of his wife lacey who was pregnant at the time with the couple sun. Now we live in earthquake country and saturday marks the 31st years since that deadly tragic loma prieta earthquake. And scientists have been saying since then we are due for another big one kron 4 Sanaz Tahernia joins us now live from the newsroom with more on the states effort to all help us be prepared for a big quake case knots. I just seen says californians we all remember the earthquake drills in grade school and alarm would ring in the middle of klaas you then take cover under your desk and wait for the or the fake earthquake to pass and today state officials conducted its annual statewide fire drill called the great california shakeout that the States Office of Emergency Services joined the state geologist the state Seismic Safety Commission and the state assembly to emphasize the importance of earthquake preparedness and to highlight i shake earthquake Early Warning app now those who have them i shake app downloaded onto their smartphones received 1015 today. That earthquake was coming. Participants were then told to drop cover and hold on average a state experiences about 10,000 earthquakes each year believe it or not and when the big earthquake does come around eventually being prepared ahead of time and having a plan for afterward is just as important as knowing what to do during the earthquake with the pandemic and the stay at home orders this years shakeout played a little difference. We worked really hard with all of our partners in earthquake preparedness. Those that planned the shakeout drill to give people options to give our educators options for how to encourage and practice drop cover and hold on for wherever you are. Thats the thing is we dont know where were going to be an earthquake. We could be in a building we could at a Grocery Store we could be at a technique that can be used anywhere you are. Its definitely scary stuff now if you dont have the my shape app downloaded you can find it in your app store it is supposed to provide if you second warning before an earthquake hits you can also find more resources on earthquake preparedness by going to earthquake dot ca dot gov. More on this later on tonight on kron 4 news at 5 and you can always follow this story on our streaming app kron on just in. Thanks so much as a much more coming up here on kron 4 news at 3 thousands of people are without power in the bay area right now. We will hear from people in walnut creek about how theyre dealing with being in the dark. Plus youve heard of drug and bombsniffing dogs but now they are training dogs to sniff out covid19 we have that story coming up. And when we return a live report from washington dc and how the last day of hearings went for Supreme Court nominee. Judge Amy Coney Barrett, how it all wrapped d d d today was the final day of confirmation hearings for judge Amy Coney Barrett she was not there but things still got heated our washington correspondent alexandra le mon joins us now from washington dc with details so how did things go today. Just in you know throughout the week the interactions between senators and judge barrett were mostly cordial. But today lawmakers didnt hold back. And they clashed with each other. Ways on points. In the final day of hearings Democratic Senators continued to push against the nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court this is as sham democrats say republicans previously vowed not to move forward with filling Supreme Court seats in an Election Year louisiana senator john kennedy says he made no such promise you just accused me breaking my word i can. Name some names the record will confirm that the chairman. In effect made that. Commitment democrats pointed to statements made by senator Lindsey Graham and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell when republicans blocked the nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016, he said the American People should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice Republican Utah senator mike lee defended both the process and judge barrett certainly there is nothing about this nominee. Can be left. As suggesting that shes anything other than an extraordinarily gifted jurist but illinois senator dick durbin says he didnt learn much about their positions i would be afraid to ask you about the presence of gravity on earth she may decline to answer because it may come up in the case. The Senate Judiciary committee will vote to advance judge beds nomination thats thursday and then the week after we expect the full senate to hold a final confirmation vote live in washington alexandra le mon. Thank you so much well go back now to our big story that were watching here in the bay area, thousands of people. Are being impacted by pg e is Public Safety power shutoff and having no power as frustrating a lot of people in the east bay kron 4 sweep to call has their story. Families here on air is court in walnut creek have been without power since about 8 oclock last night. Theyre among the more than 900 customers in Contra Costa County that have had their power shut off by the Public Safety power shutoff run by pj me and these families say that they could have their power restored by 10 oclock tonight thats what theyve been told. But pg e says that all customers should really expect to have their power fully restored by 10 oclock friday night. These families tell me that they can manage their older some of them but their homes have been able to manage the heat and its cool enough inside to where theyre not really burning up. You can tell behind me that there is some wind but its not as significant as many of these families thought it would be and thus theyre a little frustrated with this Public Safety power shutoff they dont believe that this area needed to have its power shut off they say they understand when it gets more rural as you drive up north gave road to the north gate entrance of Mount Diablo State Park maybe those areas are more prone to fires but here that is not the case but you can see the wind is starting to pick up. One woman tells me that pg e could avoid a lot of these shut offs if they do more mitigation throughout the year like cutting down trees that are affecting power line. She says thats where at least one thing that they could do. But in this case its out of their hands the powers off and they just hope that returns at some 0. 1 gentleman does have a generator running he wants to make sure his food stays fresh. Well see in walnut creek phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. It is so frustrating to be without power, especially when its this hot outside as we take a live look outside along highway 24 in walnut creek temperatures very hot there today and its windy. Meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is here now with more on the heat and the winds but today doesnt sound like its the hottest day of our