In the bay area impacted by tonights power shut off is the city of calistoga. The entire city was forced to evacuate because of the glass fire. Reporter in downtown calistoga, plenty took a stroll in the warm autumn evening. For many their power is out and it has been happening a lot the last couple of years. If we dont have power, we lose everything. We are a workingclass community. You cant replacing the content of your refrigerator over and over again. The calistoga mayor said the power at his house went out at 6 57 but most of the town is in because of a power generating station set up on the edge of town. When it was initiated tonight, about 40 went dark. Nearly all of the homes and businesses are not connected to the generators because of fire safety concerns. We noticed quite a few getting through the night by candlelight. It is hard to see. It is really hard. Residents and Business Owners have their own generators. But for those that dont it will be a long night. Nothing to do. Be in the darkness doing nothing. Many as 22,000 customers could be affected. Now this is the current situation. All of the purple and pink triangles indicate where power shutdowns are in effect. You can see there mostly in the santa cruz mountains. The Oakland Hills has been put on notice but has power for now. One Business Owner telling me tonight he got an alert telling him that power will be shut off in the area between 11 00 to 1 00 a. M. News a lot of people have been dre dreading. Reporter Oaklands Public Works Department putting out stop signs as pge prepares to shut off power. That has some worried about the impact tonight and tomorrow as well. The power shut off came in phases and starting at 8 00 Alameda County was on anisomov. They are tracking current wind conditions which may provide problems past tonight. It will be followed by another period of wind thursday night through friday. It is looking like two periods of winds. She has been through this before. She has to keep her home air conditioned because she raises english bulldogs and bought a new generator out of frustration. All of my food will spoil in my refrigerator. I have steaks on the grill. I am trying to blow through whatever i can. At this point that is all anyone can do to prepare for the power shut offs. This has been the worst fire season in california history and we may not be done. The wind and the heat is going to batter us this weekend. It is just relentless. We are not expecting a major force of wind. It is all about the Higher Elevations for the focus of gusty winds. It is getting real in mt. St. E helena. Higher elevations getting the wind and on average we will expect those in the mountains, at least until friday morning. It is a different situation at the lower elevations. We have that low humidity. The real focus will continue to be the north bay for the best chance of the gustiest winds. You can see the red to magenta here, the 30 to 50 Miles Per Hour in the forecast. This comes on top of all of the horrific fire weather we have seen this year and now it ranks as one of the worst on record. Over 4 million acres have been burned. I am back with more in about 15 minutes. Check out the comprehensive guy. We posted it on our website. President trump took his Campaign Message to iowa. All of this as coronavirus cases are spiking in california. Joe biden said that the president heads to iowa to spread more lies about the pandemic and distract from his record of failure. As you know the second president ial debate was called off tomorrow night because President Trump did not want to do it virtually but nbc news will host a town hall with the president instead taking place in miami outside the perez art museum. Savannah guthrie will moderate a conversation between the president and miami voters. You can watch it here at 8 00. P. M. The network had offered President Trump the same opportunity and he has accepted. If you missed the biden town hall on the 5th, check it out on the website at nbc bay area. Com and click on biden town hall at the top of the screen. A live look at capitol hill in washington d. C. Where lawmakers are preparing for the final day of testimony in the confirmation hearing of judge amy coney barrett. She maintained it would be inappropriate to comment on the National Health care law. The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments known as obamacare a week after the election. New video shows a deadly shooting. The deputy stopping a man in a traffic stop and a minute later shots were fired. The Department Said the deputy had no choice and that the body cam video proved it. Reporter started as a routine traffic stop and within a minute juan garcia was shot by a napa sergeant. Garcia approaching the officer with his hands behind his back. The sergeant tries to create distance and garcia approaches him again with one hand behind him. Stop. Stop. Stop. He perceived a threat. A threat of deadly force. So, with that and all of the events and the things that occurred he perceived that threat. He tried to deescalate it. Juan always had a smile on his face, cool, calm, collected. Garcias coworker said it does not make sense. He worked with garcia at this busy napa restaurant. He said the officer did not need to shoot. He was absolutely unarmed. This is napa. Who carries guns in napa . No one. We carry chardonay. We dont carry pistols. I did not see the dashcam video. That would have shown juans hands were empty getting out of the car. I did not see the officer give juan any warning before firing the shots at juan. Garcias older brother is devastated. A surge of cases in france is prompting hospitals to activate emergency measures immediately. Covid19 patients make up nearly half of the units in paris alone. A nightly curfew is imposed for more than half the country starting this saturday going from 9 00 in the night until the morning. Beginning tomorrow passengers flying on united to hawaii can get a rapid covid19 test. It will cost you 250. The results take 15 minutes. Hawaii opens to tourists starting tomorrow and skip the mandatory quarantine test if you have the negative covid test. Police are on the case. Still ahead the search for a highly endangered animal believed to be stolen from the San Francisco zoo. Tonights billboard awards are turning the spotlight back on to the music world. A look at when and how live music will resume next. I will have our hourbyhour wind forecast in what is ahead coming up in about eight minutes. Proposition 16 takes on discrimination. Some women make as little as 42 of what a man makes. Voting yes on prop 16 helps us fix that. Its supported by leaders like Kamala Harris and opposed by those who have always opposed equality. We either fall from grace or we rise. Together. Proposition 16 provides equal opportunities, levelling the Playing Field for all of us. Vote yes on prop 16. A desperate call for help as it appears someone stole a lemur from the San Francisco zoo. Tonight the ring tailed lemur is missing. Police say this morning his habitat at the San Francisco zoo had signs of a breakin. The zoo took the video after it happened and said that he is well over his life except aepee. A professor who studies lemurs every year in madagascar. She met him two years ago and said lemurs are the most highly endangered mammal on the planet. The zoo pointed all of our questions to police who say they are also reviewing Surveillance Video from the property. It is illegal but part of our investigation is looking into the possible selling of machi. Reporter he needs a special diet to live that only the zoo can provide. It wont be a good experience for them. They will not enjoy the animal in their lives and the animal will not be enjoying a part of the human world. If you see him, call 911. That is terrible. Rent is dropping in the bay area and no place more than San Francisco. So many are leaving the city the studio apartment is down 30 from last year. One bedroom, down 24 . Recession, huge boom in the companies that do not require you to come to work physically anymore. Guest presenters, some musicians and not that many exciting wins. Musicians and fans and the audience much further back. When will concerts start again and what will they look like in the future . Reporter the next concert might have a different feel and might be a long way off. From rock on musicians are innovating around the pandemic. The band cancelled many of its schedule. Big concerts are still a nono and they organized a concert, a small crowd in cars. And even smaller audience at the San Francisco symphony hosting oneonone concerts. One musician plays for a masked fan throughout the hall. In the uk, old concert feel with a creative new seating chart. What we did broke the mold of it. Virgin money arena in newcastle, england bills itself as the first socially distant concert venue. Organizers seat fans in boxes that do not touch. Clever, but there is a catch. Ordtheirly the space could hold 45,000 fans. 95 fewer people. Yeah. It is. Tom is a tour promoter. Isnt really functioning until we can do full capacity shows. We dont anticipate we will have a concert until there is a vaccine. This august concert at a south dakota bike rally was attacked, few masks and no distancing and soon after covid cases spiked in the county. Three bay area venues told us it is too early to layout their concert plans. Concert pavilion said it will act accordingly and shoreline said they had no specific details to share. What is the status of the tour . For the first time nothing on the book. Reporter with almost everything on pause, smaller venues might have to shut down for good. Pretty difficult to sustain, but our industry for the most part, we are looking at 12 to 16 months. Reporter fans vow to keep making music even if they are only occasionally performing in nontraditional places like driveins. It is what we have got currently. If you want to take a closer look at the new seating arrangements or learn more about the oneonone concert, we posted info to our website. Well, we are going to talk about the fire danger. We are in the middle of fire season. High fire danger tonight. Jeff. We definitely do. It is the last thing that we need. We had so much fire danger. So many fires. You will see the high fire danger is really for the mountain gusts. Low humidity. 10 to 25 . Warm at the coast tomorrow 70s to 80s. Very gusty wins. Up to 60 Miles Per Hour. So, while a lot of us down at the lower elevations cant feel it, it is definitely windy throughout the mountains. Tomorrow morning the focus continues to be on the gusty winds, Higher Elevations. Reds and the magentas. As we move through the evening, it tries to relax but we will hang on through 6 00 a. M. On friday morning and as we move through friday we should start to see the wind calm down for us. That would be good news. As we move through the morning, temperatures on the warmer side with the dryer wind. 66. Mostly sunny skies and up to 69 in the north bay. Another three to five degrees. Check it out near the bay. A warm day for you in oakland. 92. Peninsula also getting in on the 90s. San francisco, more warm weather pushing us up to 86 in the mission and 72 in the marina. Across the bay we have 96 in clear lake and 97. Lets look at the extended forecast. Temperatures will drop. We are out of the wind by friday morning, we will start to see temperatures eventually dropping once we hit sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday in San Francisco as we head to early next week and across the inland valleys. We will have to wait for it. Down to 82 next tuesdays forecast. I do want to show you the rainfall chances. Santa rosa has been in the heart of the fire danger. Only a 10 chance of rain on monday. Bone dry. Here we go again. Horrible feeling tonight. Lets hope for the best. Thank you, jeff. What is something that hasnt happened in the bay but happened tonight. Official ballot boxes will stay. This comes after the secretary of state and the state attorney general, both democrats said the collection boxes are illegal and must be removed. The Republican Party says it complies with state harvesting laws. Back with more news in a moment. Our crews will be out looking for problem spots and live team coverage. A crucial decision of judge amy coney barrett. 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Qualifying restaurants can reopen at 25 capacity only. One person needs to be willing to provide Contact Information for contact tracing. Let the fun begin again. Outdoor playgrounds in San Francisco reopened and kids got back into the swing of things. Now there are new rules to remember. You must wear a mask, and parents are urged to watch kids closely to make sure they are social distancing. The 49ers need a win. They are hoping to break out of the funk in primetime and we will have an update on jimmy g too. I didnt choose this job because it was easy. But i cant say i expected this. 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. 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Hes helping us battle the pandemic with a sciencebased approach. And expanding Health Services and child care to those in need. For state senate, Democrat Dave cortese. Before we go we want to get another update from jeff. And most of the wind right now is in the Higher Elevations, 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour gusts over to mt. Diablo. Fire warning expires 11 00 a. M. On friday. As you look at the sevenday, we are looking at temperatures dropping by sunday, monday, tuesday. Right up into napa, we are going to see temperatures really drop once we hit the falling friday and saturday and sunday on the tenday forecast. There could be power shutoffs because of the red flag warning. Thanks so much jeff. We will see you tomorrow. Bye. Bye