Including a big rig, that crash on southbound 880 under 238 is all cleared. Speeds are slow still this morning. Moving over to b. A. R. T. I want to keep people posted on whats happening there. Tenminute delays on the San Francisco line headed into the east bay because of work in the tube. And another alert for b. A. R. T. Riders. The Holiday Plaza side is closed. Access can be from the westfield mall side. We will be watching. Thanks. We begin with the fire emergency in Sonoma County. Heres what we know. The fire spread to 16,000 acres. This as whipping winds are expected this weekend. Cal fire is telling us 49 structures have been december tr destroyed and more are threatened. We have learned that a pg e transmission line failed at about the same time that fire started. Mandatory evacuations are in effect east of highway 128 to geyserville. The Healdsburg Community center, Sonoma County fairgrounds and the sonoma Veterans Memorial building are being used as Evacuation Centers. It is really a race against time to get this fire under control before more high winds come in this weekend. Amy hollyfield has more on the situation on hand. Looking behind you, the devastation is hard to at this fire has done. Ng to see about a half dozen homes on this street were destroyed they are getting a break in the weather today. Thats a bit of good news. Its not windy now, that should help in the firefight but theres a lot of smoke lingering in this area. We do want to point out Evacuation Orders are still in place. There were rumors going around yesterday that those were lifted. They have not. This fire spread so quickly down the mountain and into alexander valley. They say it grew about a thousand acres an hour. They will send more firefighters to the scene today. Theyre worried about the fire burning now but also very focused on this weekend and the next wind event that is expected here. We are up against the clock not only with the continually drying fuel, but the winds predicted over the next couple of days are expected to be worse than we had the other night. River rock casino is part of the evacuation area. The casino was not damaged in the fire, but the fire did come very close to the building. No one has been hurt in this fire. No one was killed or has been reported missing. No word on when the Evacuation Orders will be lifted. Amy hollyfield, abc7 news. We appreciate that report, amy, thank you. This weekend the fire conditions a s are expected to the worst in years. Lauren martinez joins us from orinda. Good morning. More than 120,000 Contra Costa County residents could be impacted by the shutoffs that start tomorrow night. The list includes walnut creek, moraga, orinda, and lafayette. The likely outages are because of extreme fire conditions were expected to experience this we do think it will be the strongest offshore wind event this season by a large margin. If models are correct, possibly the strongest offshore winds weve seen in years. In Alameda County 57,000 pg e customers could lose power as well. Now, if you still need a way to get around, b. A. R. T. Will still be up and running. They run on their own power supplies. So theyll still be on during an outage. These possible outages could start tomorrow at 10 00 p. M. And last until 2 00 p. M. On monday. Im lauren martinez, abc7 news. As we told you the kincaid fire burned homes in geyserville and forced thousands to leave the area. For many its a chilling rminder of the north bay fires two years ago. The kincaid fire forced the evacuation of 2,000 people. The Sheriffs Office wants to acknowledge this is an emotional time for many people. Its only two years since the fres that devastated our community. Theres still a lot of trauma in Sonoma County from the fires of two years ago, waking up to a day like today brings back memories. Hundreds of firefighters from throughout northern a clos look have come in to help. The goal now is to get it contained before higher winds are expected this weekend. Heavy smoke from the fires is expected to drift into the bay area today. Even if you cant see it, it doesnt mean its not a health hazard. Particulate matter pollution is invisible to the naked eye because the particles are so small, they can bypass your lungs natural defense systems, just because you cant see the smoke doesnt mean you wont be impacted. Children, seniors, people with asthma are most vulnerable. Doctors recommend that people stay inside when its smoky, avoid exercising outdoors and make sure you use air filters. You can download the abc 7 news app for everything you need to know about air quality, smoke and the kincaid fire. We send out breaking news alerts through the app and give you the latest updates as they happen. Much more ahead on the kincaid fire including where people can take their animals in the fires path. And look at what sky 7 has for us. A beautiful shot over San Francisco this morning. The look at all the lights. Its just gorgeous out there. Temperatures are much cooler in the 50s and 60s. The relative humidity is up. We can just sit on this for quite awhile. When we get back, ill pass on to you the advisories, beyond the routine checkups. Beyond the notsoroutine cases. Comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. All working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gigspeed network. Because beyond technology. There is human ingenuity. Every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. To do the extraordinary. Take your business beyond. Good morning to you. Another warm to hot day is expected today. We are looking at better relative humidity coming up somewhat. Temperatures are cooler in the 50s here. This is up in the north bay, near geyserville. Winds are light out of the northnortheast. Very little gusts out there. Check out what were anticipating. A high wind watch for late saturday night into monday morning. Northeast winds 15 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Gusts could be as high as 75 Miles Per Hour. So this coincides with our fire weather watch. Same time through monday. Low relative humidity. We are lkit those gusty winds starting out here. But then theyll mix down to the valleys. So were looking at that Early Morning sunday time period where we look for the very gusty winds into your sunday morning into the valleys of the east bay and also the south bay. Well be watching it closely for you. 6 10 this morning. Were looking at the bay bridge. Nice and smooth. Busy at this time. Also what is starting to fill in now is the richmondsan rafael ge a little wait as you enter the tool plaza there. For commuters out of tracy, that slowdown earlier is now really filling in. A quick look at our drive times, highway 4 to the maze, 14 nutes. Minutes. Highway 85 to san jose airport, 85 minutes. All right. Good to see that green. Next, the pg e Power Outages planned for this weekend and the closer look at the neighborhoods where those lights could go out. As we head to break, well take a live look outside looking from our east bay hills annoepidemic fueled by juul use with their kidfriendly flavors. San francisco voters stopped the sale of flavored ecigarettes. But then juul, backed by big tobacco, wrote prop c to weaken ecigarette protections. The San Francisco chronicle reports prop c is an audacious overreach, threatening to overturn the ban on flavored products approved by voters. Prop c means more kids vaping. Thats a dangerous idea. Vote no on juul. 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Closed roads are cloverdale, geysers, red winery, alexander valley, moody lane and pine flat. There are three open Evacuation Centers right now. One at the Sonoma County fair grounds in santa rosa, thats available for you and your large animals. A second is across the street at the Veterans Memorial building. This is where you can take small animals and pets. The third is Healdsburg Community center. Evacuees have taken their livestock with them to the Sonoma County fair grounds. About 45 animals have been brought to the fairgrounds so far. Including this pig, matilda. Matilda was then picked up by her owners and moved to a different location. The site is base camp for cal fire and sonoma sheriffs to work together. The fair grounds are for large animals only. Pg e is preparing for another round of power shutoffs. This will impact people in the bay area this weekend. Jobina fortson has a look at all of the shut downs and who this will affect. J jobina. Yes, im pulling up this text message here. Have you received this at home . Alerts asking people to prepare for the potential shutoffs. I want to send you over here to the website so you can see the projecti projection. Look at this. So much of the east bay lost it there. Ill bring it back so you can see. There are look, orinda, lafayette, little further down, portions of castro valley, looking over here in the peninsula, pacifica as. Half moon bay and going up to the north bay. Pg es ceo and president bill johnson said it would likely affect all of these areas. No word on how many people could be affected. Winds gusting between 40 and 60 Miles Per Hour over most elevated terrain in Northern California. The utility is at elevated potential for a new shutdown in eight of the nine zones pg e serves. Some areas may see peak gusts of up to 70 and 80 Miles Per Hour. Officials say the power outage could stretch into monday. Now well check in with lisa. I know youve been following all of this. Can you tell us more about those winds . Yes. Were looking at not only winds and an onshore component later on today, but offshore right now. The air quality is not bad as of yet. Here are temperatures in the 60s. Alameda, 55. 70 in bodega bay. Once they switch around to the onshore component, we will see that smoke drift through the bay area. We have the spare the air alert. The air quality will be for a as the winds funnel that smoke into the area. Right now straight out of the north, 12 to 14 Miles Per Hour in the oakland hills, knoxville creek. Still dry in the hills, 12 to 14 humidity. So we dont have much time until we get more wind that will bring down that relative humidity and also dry out things even though were cooling temperatures off. So looking at big changes again as we get a bit of ther reprieve out there. The high fire danger, the gusty winds return late saturday night into sunday. Heres your fire danger index. Starting out 11 00 saturday from napa through the delta, strong winds pushing through the northern mountains, moving down the diablo range and the coastal hills. Plan on another day with 80s in San Francisco. About 5 degrees cooler in oakland, 88 in the south bay. Low 90s up towards santa rosa. For saturday, sunday, monday, the cooling trend continues. We will have those winds to deal with. The strongest that weve seen all season long. Jobina . Thank you. Now we will take a look at what is happening in the north bay. That area where she was just talking about where the fire is. State route 128 between geyserville avenue to woodleaf is still closed. Emergency responders are focused on the fire efforts. Albany to the maze, 5 minutes. Fremont to san jose, 15 minutes. And highway 101 to cupertino 11 minutes. Looking very nice over there. I want to bring back our mass transit alert. A viewer reached out to us. Thank you very much, about the powell street station. Hallidie pla. Our b. A. R. T. Update said holiday, its hallidie. You cannot get to the train on that side. Good morning america is coming up at 7 00 on abc 7. Ginger zee has a look at whats ahead. Good morning. Good morning. Coming up on gma, we are live in california tracking those fires you have been talking about. Will reeve is up by you all. Matt gutman is in Southern California. Thousands of acres have been scorched. Well give you some updates and forecasts. I know nothing more than you all in the expert zone can do. Also the desperate search for a missing 14yearold girl. Her family is pleading for her safe return after Authorities Say she disappeared with a 34yearold man that they believe is armed and dangerous. And were helping you get the job. New ways that more companies are investing in talent that lead to better jobs and pay. Rebecca jarvis will bring you that story. And counting down to halloween with great diy decor. And the talented Harry Connick jr. With a giant orchestra comes in and plays. 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These are homes burning collar re clarita. At least 50,000 people have been ordered to evacuate from neighborhoods north of los angeles. In three hours the fire grew to just under 4,000 acres. Right now the fire is threatening 10,000 homes. Schools and colleges in the area are closed this morning because of the fire danger. And like here in the bay area, air quality is also a big concern right now. Hard to watch those flames grow. Crews are battling a winddriven wildfire that erupted along highway 18 in San Bernardino. It prompted mandatory and voluntary evacuations of 100 homes. So far no structures have been destroyed. The old water fire burned 75 acres and it is 30 contained. An emergency power shutoff is in effect in six Southern California counties. Nothing like what weve seen in the north part of the state. Southern california edison shut off power to 19,000 customers in riverside, los angeles, San Bernardino and ventura due to strong winds. The utility is monitoring 260,000 others for consider for shutoff. 49,000 are being considered to have power shutoff. Republican researchers at the Fire Weather Research lab just returned from Sonoma County after getting rare access to the front lines of the kincaid fire. Using state of the art technology, the professor says the Data Collected will be useful in the long run. This helps us better understand future fires and changing climate with the more extreme conditions we need to understand the extreme fire behavior. Theres no way do it except probing inside the fire. Clements says that modeling tools and observations with wind profilers could limit power shutoffs in the future. Breaking News Coverage continues next at 6 30. 49 structures destroyed in the kincaid fire. It is still very smoky here. Firefighters are still watching for hot spots here. Ill have an update coming up. Plus were learning new details about how the fire may have started fire emergency. Thousands evacuated froheir homes this they were really t now. Grab your keys, dogs and go. Crews racing to gain control of that massive inferno in Sonoma County as it burns out of control. What will i come home to . The overnight developments from the front lines. Plus the dire warning about this weekend. We do think it will be the strongest offshore wind event this send by a large margin. Were tracking the next wind event and how soon pg e can turn off power to tens of thousands in the bay area for a third time. We begin with sky7, this Vantage Point overhead where you can see the kincaid fire in Sonoma County. You can see the flames burning in the night. This fire exploded in the past few hours. We began with 300 acres earlier on wednesday. Quickly this erupted into 10,000 acres. The latest numbers from cal fire now at 16,000. We know its just 5 contained. Zero percent yesterday. Theyre still trying to make progress and try doing this knowing more winds are on the way. It is really a race against time. It is. They have about a day out there. We have that light offshore flow allowing for not only dry air but look at this temperature now. Were looking at numbers with the east wind at 19 Miles Per Hour. Relative humidity is at 19 . Computer doesnt want to work. I can tell you the story is the winds will switch to an onshore component. Once that happens we get more smoke in the bay area and well be looking at that poor air quality throughout the rest of the day. Keep in mind, it another warm one with temperatures in the 80s. 5 degrees cooler than yesterday. Thank you. Good morning. Well start off with a live look to our friends in the south bay, this is 87 in san jose, smooth this morning. The same story over in if we can get this pulled up here, san rafael, 101. Smooth there this morning as well. I do want to check in on the closures because of the fires. So as we head over,, highway 1 between muir woods is closed because of the fire there. Further up north, state route 128 between geyserville avenue to woodleaf is also closed because of the fire. Thanks. This morning around 7 00 we are expecting cal fire to update us on the kincaid fire in Sonoma County. The firefight forced thousands to leave their homes and destroyed other homes. That fire spread to 16,000 acres. Fire crews are working to get a handle on the fire before the wind picks up this weekend. Cal fire says 49 homes are been destroyed. More homes and other buildings are been threatened. The fire is 5 contained. Weve also learned that a pg e transmission line failed around the same time the fire started. Mandatory evacuations are in effect east of highway 128 to geyserville. It is a race against time to get the fire under control before more strong winds come this weekend. Amy hollyfieldollyfieldollyfy county when the fire was raging out of control yesterday morning. Shes there now. Whats going on now . The weather is much better than yesterday. So the firefight should be easier today than yesterday. The wind is not blowing at all right now but this fire has already done so much destruction. Look behind me. This is one of the homes destroyed destroy destroyed on geysers road. Of the 49 destructions, about half of them are on this block. Its still smoky here. No wind means it will linger here for a while. So its difficult to breathe in this area. Firefighters are out watching for hot spots. This fire burned 16,000 acres. Thats the latest figure we have. Officials have Evacuation Orders in place. They have Police Officers out watching for any issues. They say so far theres no reports of looting. We have over 50 deputies on duty right now. Over night well have 26 deputies protecting neighborhoods that have been evacuated and directing folks on how to evacuate. Reporter this windwhipped fire spread so quickly. It grew about 1,000 acres an hour. Not surprised to hear that. We were watching it expde down the mountain, down to the valley floor. Winds today have died down but theyre all focused on this weekend. Very worried about it. Very worried about what could kick up here at the kincaid fire. Right now about 2,000 people have been evacuated and are still evacuated. That has not been lifted. No word on when they will let everyone return home. Reporting live from guisersvilley hollield, abc7 news. In the north bay about 2,000 people are still under evacuation because of the fire. Some are waking up at the Healdsburg Community center, which is one of two places where people could go. Best of a bad situation riding their bikes in the parking lot. One red cross volunteer was just waiting for news and hoping for the best. Im just praying our house is still there when we go back. We dont know right now. It was very close. The center was running smoothly offering free coffee and supplies and toiletries. Yesterday the center reached capacity but now there are openings. This morning were also seeing some devastation left behind by the kincaid fire. Abc News Reporter will reeve filed this brandnew report in the last hour. Reporter this burned down structure is one of 49 reported destroyed by the kincaid fire so far as it burns 16,000 acres and counting in Sonoma County. Just 5 contained. Firefighters up in the mountains now trying to get a handle on it. The lower winds and cooler temperatures today should be helpful to them as they race against the clock with more high winds coming this weekend. Red flag warnings will be in effect. Officials are investigating the cause of the fire. Pg e may be at the center of it. Pg e restored power to 93 of Northern California residents that it services. It remains to be seen why this fire got started, how it began, and it remains to be seen how and when firefighters can contain it and put it out before it gets into a more heavily populated area. More to come this weekend as firefighters and officials race the clock to get this out before more danger comes to Northern California. In Sonoma County, im will reeve, abc7 news. As the fire danger increases, pg e is preparing for another round of power shutoffs. A lot of you have probably already received Text Messages or phone calls letting you know the power could turn off beginning at 10 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Once again to jobina at the live desk and that map is matching your dress. Just a little bit. I wish it didnt look like this for everybody here. Lets take a peek. Starting on the peninsula, half moon bay, pacifica, san bruno, burlingame, san mateo, over to the east bay, castro valley, san leandro, lafayette, orinda, going up some more, then it looks like it just about swallows the north bay when you move off to the side. This is just as people are starting to begin to get power restored. Now looking at this potential outage. Pg es ceo and president bill johnson says it would likely affect all of these areas that you see here. No word on how many people could be impacted. Winds are forecasted to gust between 40 and 60 Miles Per Hour over most elevated terrain in Northern California. He says the utility is at elevated potential for a new shutdown in 8 of the 9 zones that pg e services. So youre looking at this whole area here where you can see wind gusts of 70 to 80 Miles Per Hour and Officials Say the possible outage could stretch into monday. All right. Thank you. In San Mateo County the few hundred pg e customers who had power cut are waiting for it to be restored. Others who dodged the power shutoffs are pentense knowing i could ha easily been them. We thought we were going to lose our power up until 2 30 yesterday and then we received an email and text alert that we would not lose power. Five miles down the road they lost power. Doesnt seem to hyme o reason to it. Places that are one street away didnt lose it. Some people lost it. Alices restaurant in woodside opened help people charp phon and laptops again. Pg e has not said when power will fully be back on in San Mateo County. Governor newsom has harsh words for pg e. He was in Southern California where some utilities will be undergoing their own power shutoffs. Newsom promises to restructure the company once they emerge from bankruptcy. We will hold the ious and utilities accountable. We will make sure people are compensated for this. We will do everything in our power to negate the need to do this moving forward. The governor is demanding pg e put more investment into Vegetation Management and burying lines. Back out live nowsky7 which is over the kincaid fire. Its still burning there. You can see those hot spots in Sonoma County closeo geyserville. I think we have sky map 7 to give us a better idea of where the fire is burning. This is big geysers road. It looks like the majority of the flames are there. The a far cry from what we were seeing yesterday when that fire was racing out of control. We know firefighters still have a lot of work to do. They told us earlier its only 5 contained. Theyre working to get this fire under control before we get more winds coming this weekend. In addition, the rough and rocky terrain is making things challenging for firefighters right now. They are having a hard time fighting this firerom t ground. Instead they are choosing to use air drops. We have seen that in theast couple of days, once again things look much better from this Vantage Point compared to one day ago. Cal fire will give us a press update in about 20 minutes. Well give you an update as soon as we get that information. Were gathering details on a breaking news story in the south bay. Theres a big Police Investigation in san jose. First a check of your weather and traffic. Lets kick it over to lisa with a look at the weather conditions. Good morning to you. Live doppler 7. This next system will bring the gusty winds. It will be compliments of this cold, cold system that will dive down east of california. That sets up the Pressure Gradient and the strong winds. 72 in half moon bay. 48 in santa rosa. We do have a spare the air alert as smoke from the kincaid fire continues to drift south all across the bay area today. You will notice that. Youll smell it. Heres what were expecting late saturday into sunday. That offshore flow, it begins in the northern mountains. Then look what happens. It slides down through the delta. The diablo range, look at these winds. 45 Miles Per Hour, 30 Miles Per Hour, these are dow to the surface. Well see these winds gusting in the valleys. This continues into Early Saturday Morning before sunrise. 70s in half moon bay. 60s in San Francisco. 53 in redwood city. Another warm afternoon, but boy a chilly start for some of you in the north bay. 47 for petaluma. 48 in santa rosa. Get set for more mid 80s in oakland, palo alto. Low 90s in the north bay. Slightly better conditions. We go right back to a big event that will impact many more people. I know. Its unfortunate to see the outage map what were looking at as far as the number of homes and customers. But friday commute, is it the friday commute is good. We can deliver any good news to people, it would be that. Work with me, i know the bay bridge toll plaza looks scary. Its backed up there. Metering lights came on at 5 25. Once you get over the bridge its smooth sailing. A live look at the san mateo bridge. A little crawl there as well. Things are moving. There are no major incidents on our roadways. Heres a quick look at whats happening out of tracy. The commuters there. 60 Miles Per Hour, 14 Miles Per Hour, 27 Miles Per Hour. That is our usual slow spot. Quickly here for b. A. R. T. Riders, here is the Service Alert for the powell street station, Hallidie Plaza side is closed. Enter through the westfield mall side. Well be back with our fire hey. Hey. You must be stevens phone. Now you can ke control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network. Only with xfinity xfi. Download the xfi app today. Good morning. High fire danger exists for the southland and Southern California today. A red flag warning until 10 00 tonight. Dealing with gusty offshore winds. Right here in the sacramento valley, a fire weather watch until monday at 5 00 p. M. This coincides with what well be dealing with as we get into saturday night. Those gusty offshore winds. As we take a current check up for where the fires are around geyserville, 52 degrees. 54 relative humidity. No wind to speak of. Were following breaking news out of the south bay right now. A heavy Police Presence investigating a possible death. Lauren martinez is live at the greenway recovery facility in san jose. Good morning, lauren. Good morning. We just arrived to this recycling and disposal facility. Look at the scene behind me. You can see that there is a Police Presence here. This is what we know. An employee says a Death Investigation is under way. We reached out to the San Jose Police department and were waiting to learn more. An officer i spoke with sup will taervisor will talk to. Earlier an ambulance we saw an ambulance and officers talking with employees. Were at the green Waste Recovery Center off charles street in san jose. We will continue to monitor this situation and bring you updates as it becomes available. Reporting live in san jose, im lauren martinez, abc7 news. Thank you for that update. Well check back in with you. For the time being, we want to show you, this is incredible. This is a live look at the fire in Sonoma County this morning. The kincaid fire. This is from sky7. We have mike davich in sky7 live with us now. Fworning to yo ing good morning to you, mike. What area are you over . Good morning. We are about 9,000 feet and just east of 101 in cloverdale. Were showing you the fire that seems to be spreading throughout the geysers. The Geothermal Power facility here. So weve seen spotty flames throughout the hills here. Were just going to zoom out and ill show you the distance between geyser road and the fire head there. Seems to be about a mile and a half from geysers road. Theres different parts of the fire out here. Ill pan over, you can see all the smoke. The smoke is laying down right now because its kind of cool outside. We are trying to show you what we can through the smoke. But the fire is making progress. And hopefully the conditions will keep it from advancing later on today. Mike, i know its really dark out there and smoky. Can you able to see anything else . Any fire crews out there doing anything . Are you just or just not from your Vantage Point . We have not seen lights from fire rigs. There could be ground crews down there doing hand work. But we dont physically see that with our eyeballs. I dont think its widespread this morning. I think they are just trying to keep a perimeter on it until the sun comes up and they can do their aerial work. Mike live for us on the air over the situation in the kincaid fire. Thank you. Of course we note big question this morning when it comes to the kincaid fire is how did it even start . Pg e did confirm that there was an issue with its transmission line in the geyserville area which was not deenergizeded. We should keep in mind that other areas around Sonoma County had their power shut off when that fire started. Pg e has filed an incident report with the cpuc. Were continuing to investigate, filing the eir doesnt tell us where the fire started. The fact that were filing it, cal fire and we are investigating, that does not tell us what caused the fire or where it started. Abc 7 iteam reporter Melanie Woodrow has more on what happened when the fire started wednesday night. Vegetation fire reported as in the geysers. Going to be on john kincaid road. Reporter this time lapse video shows just how quickly the kincaid fire exploded, spreading over Sonoma County. Fire dispatchers quickly identify power lines as a possible cause. Possible power lines down in the area. All units acknowledge life safety hazard on check back. Reporter look at another angle of the fire at about 9 20. Theres something glowing in the distance, then it fades and then theres fire. Firefighters arrived at 9 27 to already find a large fire spread over several hundred acres. Vegetation fire. The geysers. Reporter this animation from google earth gives you an idea of the topography of the area before the fire began and its proximity to the guisers Geothermal Power plant. From sky 7 you can see the network of buildings, power lines and geothermal pipelines that run across the area. Cal fire investigators are now on the scene looking for evidence in an area identified as kincaid road and the now aptly named Burned Mountain road. Close attention is paid to those power lines. Calpine who owns the geysers power plant provided a statement saying in part consistent with our Fire Prevention protocols, due to the wind conditions we had deenergizeded our local power line system before the fire started. We do not believe our facilities caused the fire. There are power lines operated by third parties across the geysers. Melanie woodrow, abc7 news. Theres so many questions. They will be investigating and looking into that. Yeah. We want to know why the fire started especially when we have more winds coming over the weekend. We do. We have a bit of a break today looking at live doppler 7 right now. Conditions looking pretty nice. When you see that fiery orange sunrise, you know you have some particulate matter, some pollutants down at the surface. You can see that in the distance. Spare the air alert today as the winds push in that smoke from the north bay. Switching around to a northwesterly component. Here is the roof camera. Temperatures in the 60s downtown. 50s in the peninsula. 70s on the coast. Wide range. Look at this view. Looks pretty. Theres a reason for it. We have some pollution out there. You can see that from the sunrise. 47 in petaluma. By the delta, 40s. 50s in the inland east bays. The morning numbers seem more typical except the coast. 85 in oakland. 88 in napa. Skipping ahead to 11 00, sat night, the fire inkdex increase. Well be under a fire weather watch and a high wind watch as the winds pick up in the north bay through the delta. The diablo range, it will take us into your saturday morning. In terms of the wind, it will be gustier and more long lived than the last event. The temperatures on saturday, last day of the 80s. Sunday were cooler. Monday as well. We still have those winds. After that it looks like well calm down into a more typical pattern as we round out the end of the month with highs in the low to mid 70s around the bay and inland. 60s at the coast. Hazy out there today with the spare the air alert. Jobina . Good morning. I want to start off with some news that we have from cal fire coming in here. Were following an issue in lvermore because of the mines fire. Mines road and del valle road are closed this morning. This is the information. Very latest from them. 35 acres is burning, 40 contained. Mines road will be closed for an extended amount of time. Lets check in on the other closures. Here is state route 128 between guisersville avenue and woodleaf. That will be closed until further notice. Highway 1 between woods road and panoramic highway also closed because of a fire. And if we take a live look at san rafael and 101. Well be back with more news, weather and traffic and the 7 things to know to know for the day when we come back. Hate to wake up and see this. A major wildfire burning out of control in sonoma coty. Evacuation orders are in effect right now. Il confident this fire has grown beyond 10,000 acres. Were watching it explode behind us. Its hot. Its smoky. The winds are so unpredictable. That is the most dangerous component of this fire. Its reminiscent of two years ago. This is nature right now. Th the holidays begin here at the disneyland resort. Welcome back. Its 6 57. If youre just joining us, heres the 7 things to know before you go. Around 7 00 this morning we expect a cal fire update on the kincaid fire. This is a live picture from sky7 in Sonoma County to show you what firefighters are battling now. The fire has grown to 16,000 acres. Its 5 contained. Nearly 5 structu50 structures a destroyed. Number two, pg e officials are warning of another Public Safety shutoff. It could be the biggest one so far. The areas possibly effected are in the yellow on your pg e map. It could start as early as tomorrow night. The bay area air Quality Management district says heavy smoke from that fire is expected to drift into the bay area today. Kids, seniors, people with asthma are most vulnerable. Doctors recommend you say inside if its smoky. Number four, a warm and hazy day today. A 36hour break before this, our fire weather watch goes into effect tonight and tomorrow morning for gusty offshore winds. And number five, a heavy Police Presence right now at this green waste recovery facility in san jose. Taking a live look as we speak, one employee tells us police are investigating a death and an ambulance was on the scene. Police did not confirm details. Number six, looking at livermore. We learned from cal fire mines road will be closed for an extended amount of time. The mines fire southeast of of livermore is burning 35 acres. Number seven, the Sonoma County fairgrounds are serving as a Fire Evacuation center for livestock like matilda the pig. Shes one of about 45 animals there. Her owners have since moved her to another location. But that location is Still Available for people who need a place for their livestock. Across the street if you have regular pets. Good to see matilda doing okay. Definitely. Well be back in 25 minutes with an abc7 news update. Go good morning, america. As we join you this friday morning, weve got breaking news about those extreme wildfires out west. Wildfire emergency. Overnight, fires erupting all across the west. Thousands of acres scorched. More than 40,000 people forced to flee their homes as fierce winds and dry conditions fuel the inferno. Gma on the front lines with the firefighters battling the blazes. Were tracking the critical danger this morning, and for Northern California, the worst is yet to come. Breaking news, the anonymous author of a tellall white house book reveals there were in frequent meetings wh