Its on pg es watch this is happening. The governor says he understands why every one is upset but this needs to happen to keepplan power outage may impact santa clara county. This is look at the News Conference that just started. They are discussing how the community can best prepare. Well tell you the key take aways on our 6 00 newscast. The next 48 hours will be challenging for parents. Schools across the bay area will be closed if the power goes out. Were listing all the schools at the bottom of our screen. Nbc bay area melissa colorado joins us in oakland. Reporter the district spokesperson tells centers will be impacted. You might have to close tomorrow as well. The reason pg e electric system is interconnected in the power lines in the hills affects the grid here below. They will tell the public to prepare for a black out. City lead ers say the worst cas scenario is the power outage could last up to five days. This is the type of interruption that should not happen. Reporter even though who had tomorrow off must report to work. Detectives will also be patrolling neighborhoods left in the dark to make sure looters dont take advantage of the power shutdown. We are fully staffed to keep this city running well. Reporter firefighters will be in Oakland Hills taking part in patrols first thing tomorrow morning until the strong dry winds subside. Were going to do it because we agree its in the interest of the safety of people but we have got to do better. Reporter if the power is out, these 12 oakland schools will have to close until the power comes back on. The district says parents will get a robocall tonight warning them about the closure and letting them know about back up plans for their kids. Our families are put in a tough position. Reporter this man who survived the Oakland Hills0 yea power shutdown feels excessive. Seems to me they are saying you wanted safety, you got safety. Its like over doing it. They are concerned the emergency lines will be jammed up. If youre trying to report a down tree, a down power line call 311 instead. Thats the latest, im melissa colorado. Thank you. Its not just the wind and the heat. This is about pg e equipment which could spark or fuel a wildfire. We asked why the planned outage include so many people. This is the biggest one we have seen in a while and the devastating fires of 2017 and 2018 have made it clear that more must be done. Were seeing winds that could gust up to 50 miles an hour. The average wind a lot of the lower elevations will experience are sustained winds of about 20 miles an hour. 5 00 a. M. On wednesday and 5 00 p. M. On thursday. This includes the north bay, east bay and for the hills of the south bay. On and off mountain gusts 20 to 50 miles an hour. Going to heighten that fire danger. As ive been talking about the sustained wind, thats your steady or average wind, humidity may go as low as 10 . Whats the number one location for that fire danger. Its marin, thnapa, sonoma coun. Number two, contra costa, alameda even down toward the san jose elevation. Its a twoday event with the worst of the wind wednesday night and thursday morning. Ul have an hour by hour look in about 15 minutes. Thank you. While much of focus has been on the power outage, its the fire of fire that is of this. Reporter to groif an idea of how quickly things change under these dangerous fire condition, still 20 minutes ago there was a cal fire helicopter right here where im standing. A crew of six took off heading for a fire. No fire fight is easy but cal fire crews are gearing up for what they call the perfect storm. Low humidity and high wind. Thats a big concern for joe forney. With the drier fuel and the wind, you can get paradise quick to happen up here as well. Reporter to prepare cal fire is beefing up staffing throughout the bay area. Sf going to move a team down into the bay area as well which is an additional 20 firefighters. Reporter two additional engines and extra water trucks have been brought in. This helicopter is ready to fly. Oth other choppers and air tankers have been told to prepare the fly at 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning instead of 10 00 just to get a jump on fighting any fires that start other night. Some staff have been sent to help at livemore airport. We have two individuals that went to help manage and support an additional type one heli tanker. Reporter theres also a contingency plan for the expected pg e rely o e gas and the emergency command center. If youre having problems getting onto pg es website, youre not alone. The website hasnt been working. Pg e tweeted the website was down because of too much traffic. Too many people logging on. Also tweeted its working to get the site back up and running. Even if you cant see the possible outage map, you can still get information on whether youre in a shut out zone. Go to nbcbayarea. Com. We have posted a list of cities and neighborhoods that will be or could be impacted. You can sign up for text alerts. Scott budman explains how to sign first thing to do, go to 97633. Again, e, to pg e. They will give you a couple of ptrompt that says you have successfully enrolled and pg e can text you if your area is going to lose power. Pretty straightforward and very important. Mplgt up next, more of the impact of the power shut offs. Well tell you how long you have before your food will go bad in your fridge. Early tomorrow morning at 2 00 a. M. , winds only 5 to about 20 miles an hour but ill show you when it will be the worst and really pick up. I have an hour by hour look in about ten minutes. Were following other major stories including a new law that may put a law to sky rocking rent across the state. When a toop u. S. Ambassador was a no show, House Democrats subpoenaed him. T at the last minute the state department blocked testimony from gordon sondland, ambassador to the european union. He became a central figure in the ukraine controversy after text messagessondland to testify but not in front of a compromised kangaroo court. Many republicans agree. This is a clown show. The American People have the right to know if the president is acting in their interests and not in his narrow personal political interest. President trump is hearing bipartisan criticism over his withdrawal from syria. Californias first statewide rent control law takes effect on january 1st. The new law limits yearly rent hikes to maximum of 10 a year. The governor says this is just the start. Now we know this can be done. Youre going to see this happening in states all acrosss. Theres no doubt in my theot in 2030 but they can be marks t the out break of the wine country fire. Those fires among the most destructive in state history. 44 people died. The lives of loved ones and family changes forever. The flames remember were ruthless damaging about 9,000 buildings at a loss of more than 10 billion. One fire, it was not just one. It was the tubs fire, the nuns fire and the atlas fire, all devastating. It became the focus of much of the recovery. Today there are hundreds of people homes either complete or under constructi. Tha you dont see. Behind the scenes very difficult struggles with insurance providers, substitute housing and just getting by. Over the past two years we have shared and heard countless stories of loss, survival and rebirth from the wake of those fires. Few stories captured hearts like 90yearold cowboy and the cow who means everything to him. We have the heartwarming update. We remember this story very well. Glen evans lost his wife the night the fire destroyed their rent. He poured all that emotion into caring for her favorite animal, a long horn cow named angel. Glen welcomed angel home and now the community is stepping up once again. On that day one year ago when angel finally returned to her pasture, you couldnt wipe the smile off of glens face. Thats great. Reporter for this old cowboy it was happy day. Just not a happy ending, at least that what evans was thinking. Hes hungry. Reporter glen son was thrilled too. His moms animal was home. Just not satisfied until his dad was home too. My father is 90 and hes missing his mate in life. Thats hard. He doesnt need to be somewhere else. He needs to be at home. Reporter while houses have been springing up all over nearby coffey park, not a shovel full of dirt has moved at the the evans ranch. We have got everything in order and we got to looking at the numbers and frustration and orte houston wasnt of the going to let that stop him. He went with cowboy hat in hand to the ghilotti construction company. My family wants to rebuild but we are going to need help doing this. Reporter they said yes. Willie is the engineer. Its the right thing to do and give back especially if were able to. Reporter two years to the day of fire, theyre preparing the Evans Foundation for free. Close to a 50,000 gift. I couldnt say enough good things about them if i had a week to say them in. The amount of thanks couldnt fill a rain cloud. Its so huge. I cant believe this is finally happening. Reporter hopefully in six months time they will finally be able the say welcome home. I cant wait until i can set my father down in a chair and tell him youre finally home. Thats nice. When that happens six month, well be there. Weve been following this story. The family as many people may know we talked about in the other story, angel the cow stands by the side of 101. Shes famous to the people. That was part of the connection that got the Community Involved with the family. The family has really become the community, become a symbol. The hope continues there. They really bring everybody together together. You have been working of time. Just kind of following the pattern and trends here. Whats the latest . Were really looking at this like we couldstor that wind would be the gustiest. Were honing on when we think i do want everybody to know wednesday night into thursday morning thats when the wind would ramp up to the strongest potential. The other thing i did want to start off with though is its just going to feel strange outside tomorrow. We know about the fire danger. We know about the wind but temperatures are acty drop off degrees cooler. This is not going to be a very hot event where we have 90s and 100s. I wanted to show you why. We have High Pressure in the pacific. Low pressure right now developing over the inner mountain west. This had cooler air with it. Its creating this vacuum effect. Pulling the windy conditions over Northern California tomorrow and well see a small slice of that cooler air move in as well. With any of these shut offs, we wont have airconditioning and its well, at least a little shred of good news that we wont have 90s and 100s. Emorrow into 5 00 p. M. On thursday for the north bay, east bay and the Higher Elevations of the south bay. Im still seeing wind gusts of 20 to 50 miles an hour out of the northeast and your sustained wind, thats your average wind. As we mepntioned were followin this like any other storm. When we get this wind moving in, i wanted to make sure we get an hour by hour forecast in here because i know a lot of our nerves are on edge with any kind of talk of any fire weather. Youll see as we hit tonight, its not that gusty. 1020 about 15 miles an hour. Things are just beginning. As your power gets shut off you may be saying what wind. The best chance of gusty winds near vacaville. Really not much in san josehat continue into thursday morning. Wednesday night into thursday morning, the gustiest with this wind event. As we move into thursday evening, well start to see the winds come on down. Well go through this fast here. Everybody starting off in the 50s. Mostly sunny skies. By the afternoon instead of mid80s we are back down into the 70s. 77 in downtown san jose. Over to the east bay. 79 in walnut creek. 76 in redwood city. San francisco 60s and no the north bay 79 in sonoma. Wind calms down by friday. Nice weekend in san francisco. Inland valleys wind also calm down friday. 83 degrees and were down to 78 once we hit sundays forecast. The good news, ive been looking at the long range forecast model, its trying to hint at maybe, just maybe the possibility of some showers moving cse at this point. Questions. That includes what to do about the food in your fridge in you lose power. Announcer Time Magazine reports the new american addiction. 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Your freezer might come to the rescue. The usda says a half stocked freezer will keep food frozen for 24 hours. Fully stocked its up to 48 hours. Here is a clever strategy. Freeze some water jugs right now and be sure to set the thermostat as cold as you can. One more solution if you have the money, buy some dry ice and put it in your freezer now. The temperature of dry ice is more than 100 degrees below zero. The usda whipped up ano understand graphic. We added a link on our website. It has more tips about keeping that food in your refrigerator healthy. Go to nbcbayarea. Com respond. Coming up at 6 00 well talk about what will happe your out zone. Good stuff about the food in the freezer. My freezer is packed so ive got 48 hours. All this talk about losing power. You can still find us. How do we get the information just download our free nbc app on your smartphone or tablet. Im watching the newscast right here. We stream it live. 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Well have a lot more on this coming up. Plenty updates. Well see you then. Up next, lester holt with nightly news. See you at 6 00. Machine breaking news tonight. The major escalation in the impeachment battle the Trump Administration firing off a letter to nancy pelosi for the first time refusing to cooperate with the inquiry the top diplomat blocked from testifying in what weve now learned the newly revealed phone call the president had after an ambassador questioned the white house strategy and our brandnew poll where do americans stand on impeachment . Also tonight, on the brink turkeys military on syrias border, prepared to attack the chaos and confusion after president trumps abrupt decision to pull u. S. Troops whats happening on the ground our Richard Engel in turkey tonight. The urgent manhunt two suspects on the run, wanted for the murder of a witness in the amber guyger trial a third suspect wounded and in