Dangerous fire conditions and pg e power shut offs. A repeat performance of something they have done several times before. But it never gets easier. The winds could be the worst we have seen so far this fire season and expected to move from north to south. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. We have Team Coverage with reporters fanned out across the north bay. We begin with meteorologist. This is serious. Very serious. The conditions were going to be facing tonight are are very similar to the conditions that we faced that started the massive fires over the last few years. Also right around this time of the year. Now the coast and lower elevations the red flag warning will start tonight at 8 00. In the north bay mountains it already started and continued and extended until 5 00 p. M. Tuesday. Gusty winds up to 70 Miles Per Hour. Desert bone dry conditions. With humidity dropping to Single Digits. Its not too bad rite now. High elevations winds are picking up. I i want to show you what happens during the 6 00 and 8 00 hour. The winds start to spread that north nort east direction. And gusty over night. So try to prepare and do what you want and the red flag warning expires for the bay area in the lower elevations at 11 00 tomorrow morning. We are getting ready for the worst and well keep you posted. Because of the high winds, pg e began turning off power to thousands this morning. For safety reasons. In total more than 360,000 households and businesses in parts of 36 counties will lose l electricity. Including every county in the bay area except San Francisco. Part of pg e effort to keep the equipment from sparking wild fires. Pg e will provide an update in an hour. And we will carry it live. Fire officials and residents say they are bracing for the winds that could be stronger than what we saw in the 2017 north bay fire. That devastated entire communities. Live now from sky farm drive in santa rose. What is the picture where you are . Good evening. The winds really started picking up over the past hour. Fire Officials Say wild fires will burn up in the hills but tonight the concern is that the winds will push down into the valley. Which puts more people at risk. She had friends come by to t help her cut threes around her house. Im worried especially with the winds. Next two days. If theres another fire, this brush thats been accumulating for 20 years might catch fire. Her house was spared bit glass fire. If its true they will have high winds. Id rather have the power off than a fire. The concern is the winds. The assistant fire marshall. He says crews have been prestaffed and prepositioned so if a fire does break out they can quickly respond in effort to keep the fires from spreading. The big concern is the wind. Blowing into the more populated valley below. And also reaching the areas that burned in 2017. The tubs fire have had three years of regrowth. Theres seasonal grass and brush that regrew and it remains a concern. Because pg e reduced the number of customers who will have power cut it means more energized lines which can pose additional risk. A good part of the city remain energized. Theres the potential we could have fires as a result of live power lines down in the valley. The they stocked up on supplies. Clearing the yard and garage and attic. They say its been a tough subpoena. Were exhausted. Today i spent cutting down more grasses, raking up more leaves. Its just overwhelming. Now i just spoke can fire officials a few minutes ago. They say no evacuation warnings have been issued. They are advising residents who feel unsafe to relocate for the next day or two. You really understand the frustration in the peoples voices. Thanks to you. Report reporter joins us live where residents have started to lose power. Half a mile down the road they are woit power. They lost electricity around 3 00 this afternoon. Here in this neighborhood a different story. Meaning those lines up there those are still energized now. That will likely change around 6 00 this evening. In this neighborhood. I talked with a number of people who have mixed feelings about this. If its an emergency, if its god for the fires. Okay. But if its not its very bad. With no light we cannot cook. And the kids cannot do home work. No schools have been cancelled. It will effect homes and businesses in 36 counties. Almost every bay area county is affected. Those numbers are much higher this time around. In the thousands. And almost every county. Here, residents have been told they may not have power until tuesday. Many have generators, they arent happy. And say this isnt a long term plan. Its just getting awful tiring. Going through this. Its getting awful tiring and i have lived here all my life and havent seen anything like this. Its been the last three years. Back out here live. The electricity is on. In this neighborhood its expected to go out around 6 00. Different story in other neighborhoods. One man who lives here says he was thankful. He was able to watch the 49ers game. We all have priorities. Glad everyone is safe so far. Right now in the east bay. This are no evacuation orders in con kra costa. Officials in the high fire zone may consider live leaving now. Hillside areas, kensington and richmond heights. The west hils of the city of richmond. Martinez. And lafayette north of highway 24. Pg e is setting up 110 daytime Community ResourceCenters Across the state during the Power Outages. This opened at 8 00 a. M. Today. All the centers will provide bathrooms kp hand washing stations approximate medical equipment. Wifi is available. And you can charge your phone or computer. Pick up bottled water and snacks. Offer airconditioning and heating, seating and ice. Some will offer electric vehicle charging. A hotel in berkeley is opening to people who are escaping the fire hazard zone. It was closed this weekend due to slow business. People began looking for safer places to stay and calling for reservations. The owner decided to reopen. The hotel is offering a special 90 rate for evacuees. All of this started with a phone call from the convention. Are you willing to open up for people who might be evacuated . We said yes. Immediately. Its something we want to do for the community. If ever there was a time the Community Needs to stick together its now. The hotel owner says they will stay open for as long as people need a place to stay. Oakland schools are keeping a eyen o pg e forecast. Here are the names of the schools. Could be impacted by the utility shut off. There are eleven in total. Wree we reached out for updates but havent heard back. If the power does go out at homes of the students they can do their work offline and report it back to the teacher the first chance they get. Several east bay parks are closed today because of the fire danger. We were along claire mont canyon. Where we saw some people hiking despite the closure. Near berkeley, fire trucks there were staging those two parks and nine others will be closed at least through tomorrow. And people who enter the parks can be cited or arrested. The oakland zoo is warning it may have to close tomorrow in tuesday. In a statement posted online, zoom management says pg e told them it is likely the zoo wont have power tomorrow. There are back up generators for animal facilities. But the decision would be made for guest safety. The web site will be updated tomorrow by 7 00 a. M. With the official decision on opening. If they close, people will tickets will be able to use them another day. Dont forget you can use our free app. Track the forecast and the latest on the empbt. We sent this alert earlier. We will send more breaking news with any updates. That app is free the unfair money bail system. He, accused of rape. While he, accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Voting yes on prop 25 ends this failed system, replacing it with one based on public safety. Because the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. But i cant say i expected this. Because it was easy. To fight these fires, we need funding plain and simple. For this crisis, and for the next one. Prop 15 closes tax loopholes so rich corporations pay their fair share of taxes. So firefighters like me, have what we need to do the job, and to do it right. The big corporations want to keep their tax loopholes. Its what they do. Well, i do what i do. If yould like to help, join me and vote yes on prop 15. To the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. Starting with california. The state has had more than 898,000 cases. Nationwide there have been more than 8. 6 million case. And tragic new milestone today. According to data the u. S. Surpassed 225,000 deaths from covid19. This morning President Trump chief of staff had this prediction on state of the union. Were not going to control the pandemic. We are going to criminal the fact that we get vaccines. Therapeutics and other mitigation. Why arent we going to get control . Its a contagious virus. Like the flu. Why not make efforts to contain it . Meantime europe is trying to ward off a second wave. Italy closed gyms and established a curfew for restaurants. Five people who work close to Vice President pence have tested positive for the coronavirus. That includes his chief of staff. And pences body man. Always five are in quarantine. And are assisting can contact tracing. Pence and wife karen tested negative yesterday. And once again this morning. The Vice President continues to campaign and just appeared at this rally in north carolina. With the election just nine days away, early voting is open in all 50 states. President trump campaigned today in several battleground states encouraging voters to vote in person. My biggest fear, my biggest risk for the election is the unsolicited. The millions of unsolicited ballots theyre sending out. In california theyre sending millions of ballots. Governor newsom ordered ballots to be sent only to the registered voters. Joe biden was in pennsylvania yesterday. Telling supporters the president failed the american people. What i told in that debate. Were not learning how to live with it. Were learning how to die with it. Unprecedented 57 million ballots have already been cast. Thats more than 40 of the total votes counted in the 2016 election. Stay with us. Well be official ballot drop box near need to fiyou . He closest just visit vote. Ca. Gov to find your nearest location. Then drop off your ballot. Your vote will be secure and counted. There are other ways to vote too. Just return your votebymail ballot at your voting location or mail it back. Or you can vote safely inperson during early voting or on election day. Vote the way youre most comfortable but vote by 8pm on november 3rd. Uber and lyft are like every big guy ive ever brought down. Prop 22 doesnt help their drivers it denies them benefits. 22 doesnt help women. It actually weakens Sexual Harassment laws, which are meant to protect them. Uber and lyft arent even required to investigate Sexual Harassment claims. I agree with the la times no on 22. Uber and lyft want all the power. So, show them the real power is you. Vote no on prop 22. Winds we have been talking about starting to pick un. Lets get back to the meteorologist. In fact the wind advisory started 4 00 this afternoon. Live radar image. Ill show you the loop. You see how the wind are shifting and coming from the northeast and pushing all the clouds away. In fact youll notice the trees blowing a bit more. And the flags blowing. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s. San francisco 61. Oakland 71. Halfmoon bay is cool at 57. In San Francisco the winds are blowing at 17 Miles Per Hour. As you saw the flag in the live shot. They will pick up. So the wind advisory already started. It is going to continue until 11 00 tomorrow. Gusts anywhere from 50 to 70 Miles Per Hour. At the high elevations. Possible downed trees and of course Power Outages are expected. In addition we have high fire danger. And it starts for the coast and also the lower elevations tonight at 8 00. So in addition to the strong gusty winds, 70 Miles Per Hour winds. Category 1 level hurricane wind are 74 Miles Per Hour. This is a kind of conditions were expecting. Humidity will also drop into the Single Digits. This is have extreme fire weather conditions. We have a gale warning for the bay. Were expecting gusts up to 50 notes. Hazard seas. This extends tomorrow morning. If youre driving or driving tonight across bridges or tomorrow morning. Both hands on the wheel. Youll feel it. I want to show you humidity. Well above 50 along the peninsula. You can see were drying out through the north bay. And then by tomorrow afternoon, well drop into the Single Digits for many areas in the north bay and east bay. Along the peninsula dropping to 25 . It is going to be bone dry. Lows tonight with clear skies will be chilly through the north bay. Dropping to the 30s. Well see really chilly nights over the next few nights as well. Highs tomorrow will be fair lu mild actually in uniform. Temperatures near 70 degrees. Along the beaches. Mid70s around the bay. And upper 70s for rt inland area. Get ready for the wind. It is coming. Its already starting to pick up. Heres a look at the 7day forecast. We have extreme fire danger. Extended through tuesday. Very chilly morning starting tuesday. Wednesday and thursday. Although with e get plenty of sunshine. Temperatures will warm up a bit. And well start to get partly cloudy conditions. Halloween saturday will be mild partly cloudy. And dont forget to turn your clock back one hour. As daylight safing ends sunday. The first day of november. Just be careful out there. Do what you can to stay safe with the red flag warnings in effect. Great reminder. Thanks. With the preview of football sunday. Coming up. Wild week 7 in the season. Tom brady and the bucks visit las vegas. And garoppolo returns to new england. Niners making a statement. It has been nearly three years since the niners traded for the patriots for garoppolo. They gave up a second round pick in 2018. Niners won that deal. Starting and coming back to the new england. Happy National Tight End day. He was fired up. Niners take the opening drive and march 75 yards. Wilson jr. Breaks the play. Its 70 niners in flash. New ton had a bad day. 98 yards and three interceptions. Fred warner snags that one. What an interception. Defense really figured it out the last cup games. Watch out for them. Give it to the juice. From four yards out. Hell spike it and 163 niners after the missed pat. Its wilson again. 16 yards and in. Second of the day. Niners had 300 yards of offense at half. The third time a Bill Belichick coached team has allowed that much. The defender lands on his ankle. And coach says its a high ankle sprain. Well wait and see. Edelman doesnt want to look at anything. Niners win 336. The largest patriots loss at home in the belichick era. Pride of san mateo. A buck in las vegas taking on the raiders. To gronk. For the score. The 92nd time they have hooked up. They ties young and rice for second most in history. Car making his 1 hundredth career start. A 2417 game. Fourth quarter raiders. Theyre down. Cars pass will go off the hands. The momentum is shifting. The bucks score two touch downs. Brady throws four touch downs and takes the lead over brees for now. Raiders give up 21 in the fourth. Bucks win. Raiders from 33 over all. That is your look at sports. Thanks. Next on the news. A young giants fan devastated when a wild fire burned her home and all her belofed baseball whos supporting prop 15 . Joe biden. Biden says, every kid deserves a quality education and every family deserves to live in a safe, healthy community. Thats why i support prop. 15. Vote yes. Schools and communities first is responsible for the contents of this ad. They all endorse yes on prop 25. To end unfair, unjust, discriminatory money bail. Governor gavin newsom and van jones. Theyre voting yes on 25. The western center on law and poverty. The Dolores Huerta foundation. Californians for safety and justice. And the California Democratic party. They all agree that the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. So, vote yes on prop 25. Whos supkamala harris. 5 . Jail. Harris says, a Corporate Tax loophole has allowed billions to be drained from our Public Schools and local communities. No more. Im proud to support prop 15. Vote yes. Schools and communities first is responsible for the content of this ad. Cal fire crews stepped up to help a young giants fan whose baseball cards went up in smoke in the skreek creek fire. 9 yearold had been collecting cards for two years. Part of group of kids who lost their home and hundreds of cards. Im a huge fan. My favorite one in the collection was buster posey. Fire crews are leading the step up the play campaign to help kids rebuild their collection. The first questions the kids asked, what about my baseball cards . This is real near and dear to their heart. This is an opportunity to help them out and replace the cards they lost. Theres an overwhelming response a. Donations can be dropped off at any cal fire station. Good to see the goodwill. Stay with us. Tonight, with just nine days until votes are counted, a new covid19 outbreak in the white house. At least five members of Vice President pences inner circle testing positive for the virus, including his chief of staff. The Vice President moving ahead with a rally tonight. And as President Trump downplays covid19 on the campaign trail, his chief of staff saying we are not going to control the pandemic. The other major election headline. The recordbreaking early voting across america. More than 58 million ballots already cast by mail and in person. Some lining up for hours, even in nonbattleground states. What voters are telling us. And a closer look at pennsylvania, the state that could determine the outcome on election night. Also developing, the frightening new numbers as covid cases climb. Backtoback days wi m