reporter: with most of the outages occurring in the richmond el cerrito area. the outages are scattered throughout the east bay. for them, they do not have power. for them, it does not have power. >> we saw there was no power here. right away, i called pg&e. this is a commercial joint, we need electricity. reporter: he was preparing for a busy sunday with many reservations but with no power, he cannot cook most of his food. >> 80% of the menu we are not serving. we are not taking any dine in. we cannot give them a proper meal. reporter: pg&e did not anticipate this many outages. they usually have people clean the powerlines but with a dry year, many lines are full of dirt. they slowly start power but cannot offer a timetable. >> said they are trying their best. they said i have no idea when did no estimate. reporter: he needs the power back before the dinner rush happens. he already had to cancel one reservation and is afraid he will do it again. >> if there is no power until 2:00, we gotta cancel. dion: don't forget, you can keep track real-time weather condit

reporter: with most of outages occurring in the richmond el cerrito area.the outag out throughout the east bay. for them, they do not have power. >> we saw there was no power here. right away, i called pg&e. reporter: he was preparing prepp busy sunday with many reservations but with no power, he cannot cook most of his food. >> 80% of the menu we are not serving. we are not taking any dine in. we cannot give them a proper meal. reporter: pg&e did not anticipate this many outages. they usually have people clean the powerlines but with a dry year, many lines are full of dirt. they slowly start power but cannot offer a timetable. >> said they are trying their best. they said i have no idea when did no estimate. reporter: he needs the power back before the dinner rush happens. he already had to cancel one reservation and is afraid he will do it again. >> if there is no power until 2:00, we gotta cancel. dion: track real-time weather conditions where you live. this tool shows you the latest seven day forecast, live doppler seven and air quality. you can find it

in some areas of el cerrito, it may be 10:00 this morning. oakland, no estimates yet. reporting live in san pablo, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. reggie: thank you. large portions of kings canyon national park is closed as a wildfire has grown to 21,000 acres. the lightning sparked wildfire has been burning for eight days. flames have now reached the edge of the forest in a sequoia national park. thank fully, the world's largest tree has not seen any flames and has been protected from the growing fire. it is still 0% contained. kumasi: new this morning, visors -- pfizer says its vaccine is safe for children five years old to 11 years old. >> we should note that this has not been peer-reviewed yet. pfizer says the vaccine is safe and it showed robust neutralizing antibody responses in kids. pfizer points to submit its data to the fda and other agencies as soon as possible so it can get emergency use authorization for this age group. visors latest trial involved about 2200 kids. researchers gave each per to spend two doses of the vaccine three weeks apart. doses for young's

reporter: people say they just want more answers from like the owner of this restaurant in el cerrito, who says he is shocked to learn that a bit of rain can cause such a widespread outage. >> i have uncles that live in florida and when their power goes out, it is because there is a hurricane. reporter: he says his restaurant lost power on sunday. now that he is back on, he had to throughout 500 dollars of spoiled food. he is also working in the kitchen because outages prevented his staff from receiving their schedule and coming to work. >> for thousands to lose power, it doesn't make sense. >> we are in the middle of the 21st-century in the bay area,. reporter: this should not be happening this man is hoping to get more answers from pg&e. he believes the utility needs to do more. >> the issue is what investment is pg&e making in maintaining its infrastructure? reporter: contreras says the utility is working to expand their poor washing program. >> we share their concerns and we are working with the mayor of richmond and partners across the county to have a more full-fledged program.

the outage map shows customers in richmond, el cerrito, and san pablo are without electricity.s many people can have their power restored by midnight, but for some it could take until tomorrow morning. some of the outages happened when several power poles caught fire and that left some east bay business owners scrambling and hoping for a quicker fix this afternoon. ryan carey got an one nation on what went wrong. >> people in el cerrito woke up to dark rooms and broken street lights sunday. weather related issues from the rain caused power outages for hundreds of customers. >> it has been a long dry spell, and the first light rain comes along and turns the dust and salt in everything accumulating on the lines into a mode mixture, which conducts electricity and causes an outage. >> the map showed spotted outages. that side of the street currently has power. the outages are scattered throughout this area of the east bay. >> when we came in here, her there was no power. right away, i called pg&e said, this is -- and it said this is the situation. >> he was preparing for a busy sun

this includes el cerrito, richmond and pinole valley high schools. >>> also tonight, marin county isring up to offer a covid vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. but first, they need that green light from the fda and cdc. that approval of the children's pfizer vaccine is expected late next month. the goal is to offer at least a first dose to 75% of kids in marin county. >> so in order to do that, we are working very closely with marin county office of education todentify opportunities to have both school-based clinics as well as some one-day larger clinics to make it easy for families to access the vaccine. >> marin county will also work closely with pediatricians to resolve any refrigeration or storage issues. the vaccine will be optional. public health officials say they have seen no long-term side effects among kids 12 and older who have received the vaccine already. >>> we're following some breaking news now in the south bay. a deadly shooting in san jose. it happened at colmar and story. this is in east san jose around 8:00 this evening. police sources tell us a woman was shot and

but they put it up pretty quickly, and el cerrito couple found themselves among thousands in the bay area lacking electricity. so this morning we woke up and we did not have power. um and then we went out to do a few errands and returns still did not have power. um i was moving today and had the gas up my u haul and all the gas stations were closed. the outage also knocked out power to traffic lights and businesses like this corner market in richmond that opened but was unable to take electronic payments. amanda morgan was one of several customers who came in to buy ice. it's just to keep my meets, um. from going bad because they're getting a little bit more in the refrigerator by two p.m. p. g any reported progress on restoration with slightly more than 9000 customers powerless a drop from what pg and e says was roughly 29,000 at peak. pg and e says it has a line washing program primarily centered around large, high voltage transmission lines, but is expanding the program to distribution lines serving neighborhoods. we did, um, do some washing in the east bay at locations in the eas

parts of contra costa county, richmond and el cerrito, more than 17,000 customers are without power. at least check pg&e crews said they should have power restored by 5:00 this evening. >>> we want to thank everybody that helped clear the shelters yesterday. thousands of pets in the bay area now have forever homes. >> i am here to adopt marcus washington. >> cute little cat. >> he's so handsome and very sweet. >> a cat named after our own marcus washington found his foreover home. the real marcus, 6'5" along with laura garcia were out at berkeley humane yesterday for the adopt-a-thon. >> one of the benefits of adopting from your local shelter is that typically all the spay/neuter surgeries, the vaccinations and microchipping has already been done. >> and here, kira klapper, the husky mix was adopted yesterday. i'm so proud. vianey still needs a forever home. for a full list of shelters go to nbcbayarea.com. >>> let's check in with the human vianey arana with one last look at the forecast. >> i hope she gets adopted. i am excited for her. >> i am sad they did not go home together. >>

you can take a bus to the el cerrito del norte station and expect 20 minutes delays on the richmond lineng lights on at 5:38 a.m. and the backup is officially there. south bay, live san jose, 10 one very different story, smooth conditions in the south bay. that reflects on the map. we still have an issue in martinez with a minor crash but really the fog in the northbay, heads up on low visibility. if you have been enjoying golden gate park, jfk drive, it has been closed since the beginning of the pandemic. the question is, should it stay that way? there is a public outreach effort to get community feedback and ideas so there will be two virtual events coming up september 30 and october 3 and they hope to represent (background talking and laughing) ♪ ♪ (child) ...some people just go there immediately... at kaiser permanente, your entire care team is connected. so even a routine appointment can save your life. i am so glad you did this mammogram, so we can detect it early. everything looks great with your eyes, and i see you're due for a mammogram. should we schedule it? oh yeah that'd be

people say they just one more answers from pg&e, like the owner of this restaurant in el cerrito, who said he is shocked to learn that a little bit of rain could cause such a widespread outage. >> i have uncles that live in florida. when their power goes out, it is because of a hurricane. >> matt said the outage forced him to throw out thousands of dollars worth of food. the contra costa county supervisor says he's hoping to get more answers from pg&e, believing the utility needs to do more to clean their powerlines. >> what investment is pg&e making in maintaining its infrastructure? >> contrary us says the utility is working to expand its pull washing program. >> to make sure this does not happen again. >> pg&e needs to be held accountable, they say. >> this should not be happening. ama: power is expected to be restored to the shipping terminal at the port of oakland any minute now. sky 7 was overhead. they have been without electricity since 6:00 a.m. sunday. that is impacting other vessels. generators are powering the containers that need refrigeration to prevent food from spoilin

. >> now it's happening to this family in el cerrito. gary owed $500 on his pg&e bill. >> no, i have clear pg&e for the last two months. he said it must be an error on our part. you still have to pay us full reimbursable. parking lot, scratched up the card and gave the number. never heard from him again. >> basically, i got scammed. >> lost $500, which is bad enough. lynn ellen wound up $7,000. linda was lucky. a friend told her to call pg&e directly. >> a suspicious phone call or email, press three. pg&e is aware of a new phone scam. >> when the imposter called back, linda was ready. >> i said bruno, i know this is a scam. >> bruno hung up. now gary wants to warn you, too. >> if we can help somebody, we are happy. >> what nice people, huh? i cannot emphasize enough, if someone calls claiming to be pg&e about to turn off your power, it is almost certainly a scam. pg&e would never shut off your power with less than an hour's notice. if you get any call like this, hang up and call pg&e directly. only use the phone number on your bill. don'

it's a nice day by berkeley andy el cerrito. inland, this is where we have the heat. well into the 90's. brentwood is 97. mid-90's inland today. look at the 60's each and every day along the coast. look at the numbers, getting pretty hot inland with high clouds. it's a pretty good week ahead. if you like it hot, this is your weekend. be careful out there. amanda: labor day seams early to be thinking about christmas shopping. this holiday season may be different. store owners sate suppliers can't fill orders. david explains why supply and demand could influence when to start shopping. >> while many are promoting labor day weekend sales, there is a difference. the family owned store stocked up early for christmas. >> we see price in deliveries. there are major issues we've not seen in 27 years. >> they are facing a big decision. do shopping early or risk empty shelves? >> i've ordered many products, over 250 rocks and received less than 50%. >> covid has shut garment factories in vietnam. there is a global shortage of computer chips. there are delays and ports, keeping

that will delay you coming off the richmond bridge heading down toward berkeley through el cerrito and richmond it's a drive, it's a smooth drive there, 80 going westbound if you don't takes the 580 extension there. slowing at the bay bridge and the cline. over there 37, highway 4 also slowing. there may be a crash in just before you get to the backup. i'll check on that through pittsburgh. no disturbance as far as that back. the rest of the bay shows a standard build. slowing through the eastbound. more through fremont. we'll check on the south bay as well. the gas leak just off of highway 101. back to you. >> thank you, mike. >>> chp is still not identifying the two drivers struck and killed during an argument outside their cars in the middle of interstate 80. this happened with early morning crash starting things yesterday west of university avenue. investigators say the two men were arguing on the freeway about who was responsible for that crash and then another car struck them in the middle of lanes. that driver did stay at the scene and is cooperating with officers. >>> happening

is just jam packed there on i 80 next to aquatic park heading up towards berkeley, richmond and el cerrito. ktvu channel two news at six will be ri to battlet howard terminal in jack london square, but city leaders have highlighted some issues that the team will have to address before building can even begin. one of them deals with the height of the proposed residential towers that could be part of the finished plan. ktvu is andre senior here now, with the latest potential snag in this project, andre well, franklin design of this ballpark must go through a review process. and now we're learning that one part of this project is a little too big for the people here in oakland, the group here in oakland that must sign off on this plan. the oakland athletics efforts to build the new ballpark at howard terminal and jack london square is, of course, a massive and complex undertaking. we'll start with a few design updates the latest layer of that complexity highlighted during oakland's design review committee meeting wednesday. committee chair clark menace expressing concern about the height of t

the west contra costa school district serves more than 28,000 students in richmond, el cerrito and san pablo. a few other bay area school districts are scheduled to vote this week on a possible vaccine mandate or requirement for students, including the oakland unified school district. and the berkeley and piedmont school districts. the biting administration says it will be lifting the ban on international travel to the united states. beginning in november, foreign travelers will be allowed to come into the u. s. if they have proved that they're fully vaccinated and a negative covid-19 test since early last year. travelers from many countries have not been allowed to enter the united states still to come. this noontime, a new pediatric intensive care unit about to open up in the east bay. we take a closer look inside the new state of the art facility. at ucsf benioff children's hospital plus a wanted to give back. that's all it is always helping out another veteran south bay barber struggling to stay in business, how he decided to think outside the box after he was hit hard by the panda