Christie smith spoke in light of the power shutoff. They remember that day like it was yesterday. They shared stories of loss and rebuilding. There was talk about updates on Community Preparedness and some pointed out challenges that are still ahead. In oakland, they remembered the disastrous and deadly fire that swept through the hills 28 years ago. I would ask that we give a moment of silence and the preparedness center. Her home burned in 1991 and many of her neighbors are new. Some of them dont know about trimming the trees or keeping the brush back on the house and all of that basic stuff that i was not aware of. She learned all about the Disaster Preparedness after the fire, but her planning was tested this month when pg e turned off power to help prevent wildfires. What i gained from this power outage was how what an island i was. I couldnt communicate. Council member believes the shutoff plan was not well sought out. The utility has said it will improve communications. The city keeps working on its plan. Well look for more money as well to clear out brush and to inspect peoples private properties to make sure theyre obeying the law and we have the weather events and these red flag days. Crews are always looking at different methods. What theyve started doing recently in the last day or two is try to preplan the socalled mutual aid responses or strike teams. He was in the 1991 fire and oakland shined a spotlight on Community Preparedness. Burgess says this month she saw there may be more to do. I think im pretty prepared, but it was a good education to see that we have a good way to learn and we have to learn a lot more and its going to be changing. Oakland firefighters also showed off some of their fourwheel drive trucks that theyve acquired that can maneuver it better through the winding hills and of course, they say that the remembrance will be even bigger in two years on the 30th anniversary. Reporting live in oakland, christie smith, nbc bay area news. Just into the newsroom. Firefighters on scene of the small vegetation fire in santa teresa county park in san jose. This picture just tweeted by cal fire 30 minutes ago. Its burned four acres so far at the top of a ridge. Cal fire says progress on the fire has now been stopped and we are tracking the possibility for high winds in the week ahead and the nbc forecaster is here and when is the fire danger going to be the greatest . We try to monitor it closely and as of now we are seeing the winds get, specially gusty. This is what we know. Dry offshore and northeasterly winds expected and heading into monday, we have a warming trend and its on wednesday night into thursday morning and if you look at the timeline and wednesday 10 25 and thursday right around 2 00 a. M. And thats always our concern. Were talking about upwards of 20 mile per hour gusts and its always with the Higher Elevations and notice by friday the winds diminish by 10 15 and likely, we will have fire warnings throughout the area and this is another thing worth mentioning. If you are traveling to socal or have family in southern california, in the Ventura County and Los Angeles County and the mountaintop areas are under a red flag warning right now through tomorrow evening because were expecting some pretty gusty conditions overnight with humidity as low as single digits. Were talking less than 10 . Ill go more into detail about the winds and of course, what were expecting in terms of your sevenday forecast. I know you have family down south. Thanks very much. A strong jolt rattled people near cupertino this morning and the 2. 8 quake hit just after 10 00 and no reports of any damage or injuries and what a week its been and this quake follows a 4. 5 that hit southern lil on monday and a 4. 7 monday and hollister on tuesday and both areas have seen several aftershocks after that. New at 5 00, police are trying to get to the bottom of an overnight homicide near san jose state and it happened along south 10th street. The victim who was not a student was shot, died at a hospital and this is the citys 30th homicide this year. Brentwood police are looking into an overnight driveby shooting that injured two and those victims just 19 and 16 years old. It happened around midnight around lone tree way in the in and out parking lot and the victims were standing with a group of people at the time and both are expected to survive and the restaurant itself was hit by a couple of bullets and police are looking for a newer model silver honda accord with rear, tinted windows. Theistrict attorney was sworn into office just before voters go to the polls. The swearingin ceremony was controversial because mayor lunden breed has tipped the scales in favor of her preferred candidate. Rgiouintana is live at the city hall and justice with more on that. Sergio . This is a wideopen race because there is no incumbent in this race susie loftis is one of four candidates running for District Attorney. Mayor lunden breed is working in favor o her choice with the city and it was a recurring theme from both the mayor and the new interim d. A. But her appointment to the office is not sitting well with the three other candidates that are vying for the position. All three have voiced concerns that loftis has an advantage and the americanivil Liberties Union has described it as a tilting of the scales and if this move by the mayor is giving her a leg up and she replied by saying it has certainly made voters pay more attention to the race. Look, i took immunity to my Public School and im raising my family here and the fact that the mayor of the city that i grew up in and was raising my family believes im the most qualified person to lead this office is a tremendous honor and im serving as interim District Attorney. Thats what i am here to do. Reporter the former District Attorney decided not to run for reelection. Hes eyeing a run for District Attorney in los angeles. His exit ends eight years as one of the big city District Attorneys and the race to replace him includes loftis and three other candidates and nancy tung. Interim District Attorney takes the rein of the District Attorneys office which is november 5th. Reporting live in San Francisco, im sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. New at 5 00, a suspect in custo custody on a string of artsons. He is accused of setting eight separate fires over a 48hour period. Several structures and a fence were damaged and evidence led to his arrest. No friday night lights for a school in the north bay. They were forced to play the home coming game against san rafael. In the daylight this afternoon and all because of a fouryear long battle and to save san marin argued the friday night Football Games are too bright and theyre too noisy and this week the judge agreed at least temporarily, ordering the school not to turn on the lights while the case continues and parents say its a disappointment if the school could not have a big game on friday night. Its unfortunate that we had the lights and followed all of the procedures and three folks from the coalition of san marin followed an injunction three days before the home coming and we werent able to have our thousands of kids enjoy their evening. As for those light, the final ruling will be made on november 14th which is two weeks after the season ends. In San Francisco, a small, but significant change could soon be coming to munis bus fleet. One bus is currently the guinea pig for sliding doors and the doors that open inward. They create more space for passengers and eliminate the need to shuffle and reshuffle. If it works out well the entire fleet will have sliding doors. Still ahead on nbc bay area news at 5 00, brexit back and forth and the Uk Parliament makes a critical vote. Why the decision is angering a Prime Minister. Ca on camera, a moving display of emotion after a coach helps disa a suicidal High School Student and what we are learning about that mans connection to the bay area. The fogs rolling in and a live look right now at the Golden Gate Bridge. I hope youre enjoying the cooler, falling temperatures because im tracking a warmup and of course, ill have the fire concerns heading into the workweek coming up. A powerful moment caught on camera is making national headlines. It shows a former assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers embracing a student who he had just disarmed. Shgun to Park Rose High School in portland back in may. Keenan lowe found the teen in a baroom with the gun and was able to separate the student from the weapon. He then hugs the gunman as you see in the video there. Police say the teen was suicidal. The student was sentenced to 36 months of probation and Mental Health treatment. Lowe now works as a coach at the school after working with the niners back in 2016. There are conflicting reports tonight about the ceasefire on the turkeysyria border. A senior u. S. Official and the top kurdish commander tells nbc news that the ceasefire is not holding, but the u. S. Embassy in turkey says there has been no major violations. Turkey is using the ceasefire to continue to advance and take territory in and around the key border city. This comes following president trumps decision to pull troops out of syria. British lawmakers have voted to postpone a decision whether to back a brexit deal with the European Union. The decision requires Prime MinisterBoris Johnson to ask the eu for a delay and something he strongly opposes. Nbc Steve Patterson has more from london. Reporter it was billed as Super Saturday and the decisive day on brexit when parliament would come together for one special session, to decide on Prime MinisterBoris Johnsons plan to exit the European Union. It was one of several options. Either they would go for it, vote against it, but there was actually a third option on the table which was this amendment which circumvented the Decisive Action that was supposed to happen today. The ayes to the right, 322. The noes to the left, 306. So the ayes have it. The ayes have it. What does that mean in it means johnson now has to go back according to the law to the European Union to ask for an extension on a deadline that he himself said he would never cross and thats exactly what the law says has to happen that the point. I will not negotiate a delay with the eu. Further delay would be bad for this country and bad for our European Union and bad for democracy. Will it happen . That remains to be seen and now is in the speaker of the commons court. He will decide what happens moving on into this week. Will it be a second referendum . Will it be further elections in the parliament . Will it possibly even be another vote on johnsons proposal . That all remains to be seen. Its all once again up in the air as so much is with this brexit situation. Im Steve Patterson. Well send it back to you. Still ahead on nbc bay area news at 5 00, senator Bernie Sanders returns to the campaign trail for his first major event since his heart attack and tebs tens of thousands of people turn out and well it will you about the key endorsement he just picked up. We have a cold front passing just off to our north, but a warming trend is on the way. Ill bring it all down for you coming up. Now to decision 2020. It was a huge turnout for senator Bernie Sanders. It brought out 20,000 supporters, and it was his First Campaign event since he suffered a heart attack at that rally. He picked up an endorsement from alexandria ocasiocortez. She told the crowd the senator was her inspiration to run for congress. The only reason that i had any hope in launching a longshot campaign for congress is because Bernie Sanders proves that you can run a Grassroots Campaign and win in an america where we almost thought it was impossible. [ cheers and applause ] todays event is what the senator calls a, quote, vigorous return to campaigning. Orange is flooding half moon bay, here it comes and today is the 46th annual pumpkin festival. Thousands coming out to see the star of the parade, the winning pumpkin from this weeks weighoff, 2,175 pounds. Is that still a pumpkin when it weighs that much . I dont know. The grower from napa, its his second time winning and he won more than 15,000 for the massive pumpkin and the festival goes until tomorrow. What does he have for soil . Its a truckload and fertilizer and maybe a thousand pumpkin pies will be coming our way. Probably not. Did you observe that everyone was wearing hoodies and people took out the scarf . It gives us a hint. Possibly, if you didnt get a chance to call it in a fall coat, youre not going to need it this week. Go out and enjoy it after the newscast, though. Look at the fog on the Golden Gate Bridge and the current temperature is 61 degrees. You can see the flag slightly waving there with seas at 12 Miles Per Hour and lets get a look at how it looks over san jose and you probably noticed the cloud cover and it will rain in san jose, no, not really and i want to show you the satellite and radar. Here it is. We have a a cold front that passed just to the north and notice east though, we could see drizzle just off the coast. A lot of that didnt even make it to the ground which means no measurable amounts of rain and we saw the cloud cover and it kept it comfortable in the 70s and i was talking about rocking the brandnew scarves. Livermore, 75 degrees. Oakland, 72 and San Francisco, might see the 70degree mark and half moon bashgs 67 will still catch some of the fog tonight as it did tomorrow, by the way, a lot of you are always asked about the lake tahoe forecast and its the squaw valley high cap and theyre getting a chance of showers overnight and lakewood advisory and as the cold front passes through by tomorrow, look at that. Sunshine and temperatures in the 50s and you should be waking up to just a little bit of drizzle and by the afternoon things should be okay and lets look at the weather heading into next week and were talking about the elevated fire danger. By wednesday into thursday the ridge of High Pressure starts to dominate and it turns hot and really, really dry and this is what we know right now. Again, this is out, a heres what were looking ahead in anticipation of this. A dry, southeast early wind, and gusts 10 25 and the timing right now, thursday, 2 00 a. M. To 10 00 a. M. And it appears that the models are showing 40 mile per hour gusts and it looks that by thursday night heading into friday the winds diminish and well monitor those models very closely because there could be fire warnings very likely heading into wednesday and thursday. Youre not going to believe what ill say and it will warm up. By monday, look at tuesday, 88 degrees and you would think its the return of summer as we head into wednesday night and thursday and we get the fire danger increasing and look at 89 by thursday. Again, were still on a saturday which means heading into monday and well have a closer look at just what were tracking in terms of the wind, but this is always something that we monitor and we want folks to be prepared and pg and e has the power outables last time and well be monitoring that closely. Ten, 15 degrees compared to what we saw last week. Thanks a lot. Still ahead on nbc bay area news at 5 00, he served his country during world war ii from the martinez area, normandy survivors, getting a chance to see how his sacrifice is being remembered. Announcer Time Magazine reports the new american addiction. How juul hooked kids and ignited a Public Health crisis. Other news outlets report juul took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Markets ecigarettes with kid friendly flavors and uses nicotine to addict them. 5 million kids use ecigarettes. Juul is following big tobaccos playbook. And now, juul is pushing prop c to overturn ecigarette protections. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. There are those who will say thatoo fat. too skinny. Too hard. Too soft. Too old. Too much. Too unexpected. Too limited. And to them we say too bad. Because at kaiser permanente, we believe that everyone deserves the right to thrive. Doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacistrecommendeding . Memory support brand. You can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. The department of housing and urban development is admitting that it saw relief buttons to puerto rico following hurricane maria. The agency missed a legallyrequired deadline to issue a funding notice for the island. They cite alleged corruption, fiscal irregularities and the islands capacity to manage the funds as reason for the move. So far puerto rico has received onethird of what kick has allocated toward hurricane recovery efforts. A veteran who survived dday is on his way back to the bay area. Jake larsen, the maybe the name sounds familiar, it should, ill get to that in a minute. On thursday he took off on a socalled honor flight and the Organization Helps fly veterans to the Nations Capital and theyre paying tribute to their service in a couple of hours and larson was one of four world war ii vets who lay a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National cemetery. We caught up with him before his trip and he said hes humbled and astounded by all the attention. This is beyond anything, and i cant i cant figure out that im of interest to all of these people. They have history books for this. [ laughter ] you may recognize him and you may have even sent lersen in june after his story aired on nbc bay area thousands of dollars were donated to cover the cost for that trip. Way to go. We will be right back. Tv just keeps getting better. How you watch it does too. This is xfinity x1. Featuring the Emmy Awardwinning voice remote. Streaming Services Without changing passwords and input. Live sports with realtime stats and scores. Access to the most 4k content. And your movies and shows to go. The best tv experience is the best tv value. Xfinity x1. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Now for a happy update and a happy ending. We first told you about four domestic peacocks at the Peninsula Humane Society acquired. Their previous owners couldnt take care of the animals anymore and anyway, volunteers put out the call to find them a forever home and now were happy to say that the animals will not be living on a large property in stockton. I do want to say, nbc bay area, we are the peacocks. Thats a good point. Thats the mascot for nbc. Im happy they found a home. If youll be home tonight, it will be chilly tomorrow and it will warm up. Chilly tomorrow. Thats the forecast. Were back. Chilly today. Hot tomorrow. Tonight, a powerful storm, tearing through the southeast, toppling an 18wheeler on the highway, spawning tornadoes. It sounded like the bottom fell out of things. Thousands without power its on the move at this hour. Nbc news exclusive, the top kurdish commander oneonone with our Richard Engel on what he calls ethnic cleansing and why he says the u. S. Has abandoned them rallying back senator Bernie Sanders with his first big event since his heart attack i am back and the major endorsement giving his campaign new life stunning moment, caught on camera a student with a shotgun and the coach who disarmed