The fire season. Good evening, everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Red flag conditions are back with the highest warning for fire danger set to go into effect at 11 00 tonight. Debbie begins our coverage. Well, julie, this red flag warning runs through 8 00 wednesday morning, and Governor Newsom said the next week is critical. Up there you can see just solid brush field and stuff that would really burn. Reporter climbing a fire road on marin countys mount, we top out at 2600 feet, where the winds whip hardest during red flag conditions. You can hear it just walking around. Reporter and where fuels are dry, even this close to the ocean, during august, lightning, a free strike, started a fire, kept small, but crews worry about this canopy with homes in the forest and what could happen. The wrong fire on the wrong day would be something that would be almost impossible to stop if it got going. Reporter the woodward fire was impossible to stop for a fire, burning more than a
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Instead to wait out the weather at a nearby hotel or with family or friends. We typically stay during a red flag warning, but this one seemed worth not risking. Reporter theyve been riding out red flag warnings at their park area home and deciding against evacuating for more than a decade. This time theyre going to spend a few days in a hotel. Berkeleys mayor and fire officials warn extremely high winds could sweep to the region which is already bone dry during a record fire season. This is the first time in recent memory we felt conditions narrative broadly advising preevacuation. Reporter theyre especially concerned about People Living in the hills where winding and narrow roads make last second evacuations nightmares. So were asking people to preevacuate if they live in parts of our hills that in which theyll have difficulty getting out quickly in a fire. Reporter nearly 1,000 berkeley customers could be affected by pg e emergency power shutoffs and without power and the threat of s
And the reason for it is the way the setup is when it comes to the arrival of the cold front. I will go into detail on that in my full forecast. For now we have a great start in san francisco, a beautiful view there. Lets take a look at the current wind direction. Its light and calm now. Notice the time bar in the righthand corner there. 11 00 a. M. Is when the winds start to move down, pushing down from the north. Notice santa rosa and napa you can see the increase in the color change with that time bar there. Thats when the red flag warning initially kicks in for the north bay mountains. Itll come from the sacramento area and then it will begin to spread over to the east bay hills. Fast forwarding that time line in through the evening hours, the winds are only expected to get worse. So here are the headlines, i will go over the red flag warnings and the timing in my full forecast. Kira . We look forward to all of that information, vianey. Well see you in about 15 minutes. Thanks. For
8 55 utc. The epicenter was at a depth of 40 kilometers. The center is recommending people in the area to remain observant and exercise normal caution near the sea and no action is required. Japans Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide will leave vietnam for indonesia for talks with president joko widodo on tuesday. Translator i want the two countries to work closely on various issues including the coronavirus and the economy. I want the summit to establish such a relationship. In the meeting suga is expected to emphasize that as a key member of asean indonesia is a Strategic Partner and the two countries share basic values like freedom and democracy. Suga hopes the nations will agree to Work Together over a range of regional issues including chinas growing maritime presence. He wants to arrange a meeting of their foreign and defense ministers soon. Suga also plans to accelerate negotiations on the transfer of defense equipment. Indonesia has the highest total number of coronavirus cases in so