Wildfire risk of the year. The wind is already picking up at this hour and gusts could reach 70 miles an hour in the highest elevations. Pg e is closely monitoring power lines and any trees that could knock them out. The entire bay area except San Francisco could be in the dark by the end of tonight. The first round of shutoffs are underway in parts of napa and sonoma counties. In less than an hour residents in marin could lose power and the shutoffs are expected to sweep across a large portion of the east bay and the peninsula. The threat of powerful gusts once the sun goes down. Yeah. The wind is already picking up and our red flag warning is already in effect. I guess well go to darren first. Paul, i know youll focus heavily on the red flag warning. In fact, i could do that first. The red flag warning has been extended. It start tonight and it will take us through the remainder of this evening and into tuesday. Read the details on the bottom lefthand corner. Extreme fire weather bay
Now the red flag warnings will be continued for these areas through 5 00 on tuesday. The winds arent going to be as strong, but they will still be gusty. The humidity be very low to the north bay mountains, thats where we are talking about the red flag warning through tuesday evening and we have wind advisory that is in effect for the entire bay area through 11 00 tomorrow morning. Even if youre in a spot that doesnt have a high fire threat, youll still need to prepare for the potential of Power Outages as whole trees could get knocked down by those winds. Darren has a closer look at that part of the bay area. Yeah, paul, this is not going to hit the bay area equally. Itll hit some places harder than others. John ramos is in the Berkeley Hills talking about preevaccuations there for a reason. Well be showing you why the Berkeley Hills are one of the places that really need to take this seriously. Well come in for a close up look now. The week hasnt kicked in at this point, but once we
Live shows all through the election. Theres something so great about having snl live. Not that i can stay up for it but i like that its there. We want to begin this half an hour with a check of the headlines. We start with the fears of a new coronavirus wave as the number of cases across the country gets closer to 8. 1 million. More than three dozen states right now, many of them in the midwest, are reporting an alarming increase in cases as the death toll has now approached 220,000. It comes as pfizer announced it will not seek authorization of its vaccine until at least midnovember. Heading overseas, some breaking news overnight. A horrific attack in france. Several people have been detained near paris in connection with the brutal killing of a teacher in the middle of the street. The teacher was beheaded after showing caricatures of islams profit mohammed to his class. Police shot and killed the suspect after he refused to surrender. In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers kept their p
Journalist lies a monday, talks about her book cold girls. The American Woman code breakers of world war ii. The next session is one that i had mentioned earlier, unfortunately lynn olson could not make it and our other panelists, lies a monday has agreed to expand on her original top. Weve asked catherine to lead this section this session. Shes been involved with the museum for over a decade, and just a month ago she had organized a joint program with our museum and the Second World War research group, where we had everyone come for a deallong program. So catherines information is in your program, and i would point out in addition to being a professor at the Mississippi State university, shes an author of two books. One called a curse, and the other one strategy and tactics. Ladies and gentlemen doctor Catherine Barr b. A. And liza munday. Good morning, happy to see all these nice faces up in front, this is a fantastic event and im excited to be part of it, i would like to introduce l
Was stolen. He was an aging wild animal who needed special care, including special medicines like for arthritis. While hes back here, hes still agitated, dehydrated, and hungry. Were working with our vet teams and wellness teams to get him back to health. Hes socially distancing from his primate family but we hope to get him returning with his family soon. Reporter now, the zoo was offering a 2,100 reward, if you remember, for any information leading to makis location. They told us today, the zoo officials, that they are donating that money here to the school and to the church. Reporting live in daly city, anoushah rasta, nbc bay area news. I bet they could use it. Thank you, anoushah. Now to our other top story. Hot, dry weather, fire danger, and power outages. The bay area dealing with all of it. Fires sparked in both vacaville and South San Francisco. Youre looking at timelapse video of both. The one in South San Francisco charred the citys well known sign. The one in vacaville stop