Be the strongest we have seen so far this fire season. Pg e not taking any chances. Its getting ready to cut power. In the last 15 minutes the Utility Company releetsed where the Public Safety power shut offs could happen. The area in yellow. On this map. You can see every bay area county with the exception of San Francisco could be affected. These areas include the north bay mountains, east bay. Also the Oakland Hills and communities in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It could start sunday morning and go through tuesday morning. We have Team Coverage tonight. Lets start with chief meteorologist of course keeping a close eye on the strong wind. Everything really is materializing for the wind to not only impact the mountains but whats different about this that we havent seen lately is the low elevations getting in on the wind. The large low pressure system. Its expansive. Disrupting the atmosphere. As that starts to drop down. Sunday, monday and tuesday. Its going to bring a cold blast to us. 60s coming our way. It will produce snow in denver. Where they have had the wild fires outside of the area. And for us the same storm will bring the wind down. A closer look youll see the bay area. The entire area here from the north bay. To the south bay is covered in this red flag fire warning. 20 to 50 plus Miles Per Hour winds for the mountains. Wind gusts of 15 to 40 Miles Per Hour in the lower elevations. Humidity to 10 at times. Wind forecast for tomorrow were okay. If you have to do any kind of prep outside check on tree limbs. Bring stuff in from the porch. Youll be good. Not gusty through saturday. Rolling through sunday morning the big thing is the north bay. You can see the red popping up. The key at the top left of the screen. Those are the 40 Miles Per Hour wind that begin to build in. Where we get into trouble is sunday night. You can see that red to magenta color developing for the north bay. The Higher Elevation of the east bay. Down to the Santa Cruz Mountains and we would likely stay with this wind. As we move through monday morning. So again, sunday night into monday. Thats especially troublesome. We have more looks at this and the fire danger. The entire forecast. Thank you. This is exactly why firefighters are concerned. A live look. Above the pope fire burning in napa county. Southeast of this is near where the glass fire burned and was finally contained this week. So far flames burned between five and 30 acres. Rite now no word on any structures threatened. Also no word on evacuation order. We have a crew headed to the fire lines. And continue to follow this and bring yo updates online. And on air. Throughout the newscast. Thousands of people across the bay area are worried about the winds theres particular concern for the north bay and range. In contra kos ta. We caught up with people preparing for the worst. Live in the foothills now. Good evening. The warning is be prepared for heavy wind late this weekend. Also be prepared to leave in a hurry if you have to. Reporter dry grass and high winds are once again expected to be a dangerous combination here this weekend. Pg e says a Public Safety power shut off event could lead to power being shut off to 20,000 customers in contra kos ta county. Starting Late Afternoon sunday. Lasting until tuesday. What we ask customers is to get a go bag ready. Emergency bag. Medication, cash, credit card. Charge your phone. Have extra chargers and anything if you have to evacuate. Theyre saying this will be the big one of the year. We found residents talking about it outside the local ace hardware. I have a plan. I know where i would go. I have family in San Francisco. Not stocking up on supplies yet, but checking their phones for updates on the weather. I am concerned. I have Great Respect for the pg e. And if they need to cut off power im all for it. We cant have anymore fires. Pg e says it will send alerts to the targeted areas. You can also type your address in on the pg e web site. And theyll let you know if you are affected. Thank you. We continue to track weather alerts across the bay area. You can find out if your neighborhood is affected by the high wind on our web site. Click on weather alerts on our weather page. A month long positive trend has ended. Number of daily new cases is on the rise. You can see it here. Yesterday more than 6,000 new reported cases. Thats up from 3,000 the day before. Onethird of the in yonumbers c from l. A. County. Due in part of the clearing of a backlog of reported cases there. It stems from the Technical Glitch earlier in the summer. Public Health Officials say the state cleared the backlog. Today is the day you might call opening day. You can eat in doors, watch a movie in a theater and sit in a church. Despite the easing of restrictions some businesses are choosing to remain closed including a church where its too soon to bring the congregation inside. Mask on. Wipe it down. Starting today they are easing restrictions and allowing Family Entertainment centers like in rock climbing gym to reopen. Im superexcited. We have been closed ever since march. Owner has spent the last seven months installing all of the led lights into his climbing wall and researching ways to keep the gym covid19 free. Thinking about five people at one time. Or one group. One family group. No more loose chalk for a good grip. Hes loading up on liquid chalk with alcohol. The county is allowing restaurants to serve guests inside. At 25 . Or fewer than 100. That applies to movie theaters and indoor worship services. Despite the green light from the county the new theater is choosing to stay closed. It posted online it will not reopen until theres a vaccine thats commercially available. Over at the Gospel Church the risers are in the parking lot. For this sundays drive through service. The people of god all said 200 or so cars. And pa parking lot. The county is giving them the go ahead to let a select number of congregates inside. Pastor says his congregation of 6,000 is just too big. It might be great for other churches. For us it leaves us closed. It captivated worldwide attention 15 years ago. The murder conviction of Scott Peterson for the death of his wife. And their unborn child. After a decade on death row, he could be getting a new trial. As prosecutors push to reinstate the death penalty. More on the new Development Going on. If you lived in california during the disappearance of lacy peterson, you remember that agonizing search for the pregnant young woman. Then you also remember the trial of Scott Peterson. It was riveting and caught everyones attention. It was tragically sad. Now it appears that high profile case is headed for a retrial in some form. More than 15 years after a jury convicted him of murdering his pregnant wife. He is back in a courtroom virtually. He appeared from prison. Prosecutors announce they plan to retry the penalty faze in hopes of reinstating the death penalty. That sentence was thrown out last month. The California Supreme Court ordered a reexamination of the murder conviction. Because of possible jury misconduct. We need justice. We dont have justice for lacy with him on death row. Hes innocent. Were looking at the most high profile trial of all time. Coming back for rerun. His brother and sisterinlaw were in court today. Her parents were not in court and havent commented publicly. I think we can all remember we both covered that trial. If you remember correctly, i remember probably the most pivotal part. Her family. The commitment to finding her. And i remember that april when a body was found in the bay. And we heard her agonizing describe the loss her and her family was going through. It is sered in my memory forever that day. That trial is so unforgettable. We worked on it every day. I remember sitting in the courtroom. I was still getting emails not just from the bay area but from viewers and from people from south america, parts of europe. They wanted more information. They wanted every detail going on inside the courtroom. I remember my boss at the time said you have to write up daily trial notes. Like a blog. And people are so fascinated. Every time we mention them and conner. People are still so intrigued about this case. We could be hearing about it a lot more in the future. Thanks so much. It really captured us. For sure. It still does. Up next playground could soon be reopening. The one thing you will need to bring with you if you plan to go. Preparing for another round of power outages. What you need know to get your house ready. Ill have another look at the fire warning and cooler temperatures on the way for tomorrow. Apology tonight from the Oakland School district after a survey inclupded a derogatory term for people of asian decent. The survey went out in a message from the superintendent to 10,000 people. District Officials Say they took down the message as soon as they noticed. It is investigating how the language ended up in the survey. And may have been tampered with from someone outside the district. The city started getting ready to welcome kids back. How san jose is prepping playgrounds for a safe reopening. Starting today the city says crews started cleaning up its play structures sp inspecting them to reopen. We saw workers cutting grass and cleaning up. When ready, crews will put up signs and four languages with playground rules and max kpa capacity requirements. It will take time to cover all that ground. Were looking forward to being done in a week. Workers wont be regularly sanitizing the 300 playgrounds and encourage parents and care givers to bring Hand Sanitizer and other supplies. Its up to us to manage the cleanliness of the children. So we use Hand Sanitizer and keep everybody safe. He is glad the playgrounds will reopen. Isnt ready to take his daughter just yet. Its great. We will probably still avoid it. Kids put stuff in their mouth and until theres a clear cut sanitizing of the parks and playgrounds and we can be safe about it. We probably wont go. Its always in your mind. To be very careful. What we have seen in the neighborhoods parents have been careful. Everybody is taking distance and not taking any risk. Social distancing is one ocht citys rules. Not the only one. Always if you dont feel well, stay home. Take care of yourself and your family. If youre coming to the playground, always wash or sanitize your hands well before and after. Wear a Face Covering at all times. And if there are others waiting to use the play grund in order to keep social distancing try to limit the play it 30 minutes. We have already told you this evening about the windy conditions were expecting in the bay area. This weekend. It has Fire Departments on edge. Something extra to get ready. Special strike teams. The teams are made up of local Fire Departments setting up in high fire danger zones to give them a jump on response if a fire breaks out. Worried about the strong wind being forecast throughout the bay area. The last time the local strike teams were mobilized was in advance of the august lightening siege that sparked 400 wild fires. In california. What should you do to prepare before the power goes out make sure your Contact Information up to date. Pg e can send you alerts. Add an emergency supply kit with water and food and flash flights. And make sure you have a fully charged cell phone. For the complete list on how to prepare, go to our web site. We have to talk about this high fire danger. This alert has gone out starting sunday morning. Some of the gustiest winds all year. Tell us more. This storm system we had seen about five days ago. We started mentioning the chance of the gusty wind for sunday and monday. Everything at this point continues to materialize that it wont only happen in the mountains but loer elevation. This makes it different than the other events. They have been way up in the mountains. This looks widespread. Lets bring you into the forecast. Something good to look at to start is the sunset in wood side. Beautiful sunset this evening. And i really think through tomorrow youll have good weather to prepare for things if you want to check on tree limbs. Get your emergency bag ready. Just in case you need tomorrow is the day to prepare. Trees not en moving around at all here. Very calm. Another look at the fire warning in case you missed it. Its for sunday monday and tuesday. And all of that red. Thats the warning that covers the bay area. Lower elevations 15 to 40 Miles Per Hour gusts. Temperatures keep cooling off. This is whats unusual. We have the storm system dropping down to bring the wind. Its a lot colder. Tomorrow no more 80s or 90s as we have the 70s returning. The big problem of course is all of the fuel out there. Its so dry. 12. 74 of california is now in a severe drought. We have that drought continuing to build here from the north bay. Off toward the south bay. Coming up in about 25 minutes. Ill look at the colder system thats bringing us the wind and also some snow to colorado. And really beginning to have a big impact on the fire zone. Thats burning historic acreage at the moment. Follow jeff on twitter. Well be right back. In the bay area, we believe in science. Traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. Thats why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. Which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. To keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight Climate Change. And measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. Relieve traffic. Reduce pollution. Rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. Making it in the bay got harder during the pandemic. The covid19 kris is fast tracked housing for the homeless. 300 units of transitional housing will open in south san jose. They were created in 120 days instead of several years. The covid slow down enabled the governor to launch the project. Providing grant money and cutting red tape. My heart goes out for you guys because you are doing a great job. Were being treated like people. 78 jurisdictions currently have projects under contract, under construction. Or completed. In 45 jurisdictions in this state. All of that since july. We can do this. The governor praised what he called the south bay army that built the project. At the Emergency Interim Housing Community residents can get counselling and treatment and other tools to find permanent housing. Up next eleven days until election day. The message the two candidates for president have for voters tonight. Is Customer ServiceGetting Better or worse . We want to hear from you. Well show you how to participate in new national survey. Right now. It is the final sprint to election day. Both candidates are back on the campaign trail. As we are just eleven days from november 3. You may have watched it here. The final debate of the 2020 election. It was far more civil than the first debate. Today, as they hit the campaign trail again, both President Trump and joe biden are claiming victory. We have more on the count down to election day. Candidates for president in the final sprint to election day. After their final face off thursday night. President trump traveling to florida to rally seniors. Democrat joe biden staying at home in delaware. To focus on pandemic and the economy. Today, each side claiming victory in last nights debate. It was very successful. We have gotten great reviews and polls. Everything. Last night we saw the president of the United States lie to the american people. And repeatedly lie. About the state of the pandemic. Positive assessment from the two teams following a surprisingly substantiative exchange. Covering issues from race to Climate Change to coronavirus. With cases surging nationwide hitting a new record, 77,000 cases yesterday. Were rounding the turn. Its going away. Were about to go into a dark winter. And he has no clear plan. While biden hit the president hard on handling of the pandemic. The president walked biden into a potential le costly comment on oil. It has to be replaced by renewable energy. Over time. I stop giving to the oil industry id stop giving federal subsidies. Hes going to destroy the oil industry. Remember that texas. Remember that pennsylvania. Oklahoma . With more than 50 million americans already having voted theyll spend the next 11 days trying to win over the rest. So how many people have voted so far . According to the u. S. Election project, 52 million have already cast their ballot nationwide. In california, 6 million including nearly 1. 2 million in the bay area. The early voting total in 2020 has already exceeded the number of early slovotes cast in 2016. Update on the pope fire. Burning in napa county. Flames have burned 50 acres but containment is 25 . The fire is burning off southeast near the glass fire burned. And finally contained this week. Well continue to follow the pope fire. And update online and on air. Three days after george floyd was killed in minneapolis. A Police Precinct went up in flames. Today a selfprofessed member of the boog a loo boys was charged with firing an ak 47 into the building. The ties to murder of Law Enforcement murders that alerted them to hunter. He messaged a member on facebook in between the two members. His attorney was not available for comment. Oakland is seeing an unprecedented spike violent crime. Oakland has 80 homicides compared to 58 in all of last year. Police arrested a suspect wanted in a double killing. Police say its a problem all across the country right now. In most major cities. The Sheriff Department says this month alone high land hospital reported 41 gunshot victims and five stabbing victims. Gun sales have surged during the pandemic. According to to a recent study. Researchers hooked at the impact of covid19 on firearm purchases. They found 110,000 californiaens bought a gun during the pandemic. Nearly half are new gun owners. Many said its because of increase concern. They have become victims of violence. We respond to frustrated consumers every day. Customer service is the pits and its getting worse. Is it . Consumer investigator has an invitation for you to tell us what you think. Good evening. Were looking to take a pulse of the people. Together with our stations nationwide. Were conducting a survey about Customer Service. This is your chance to tell us what you think. Reporter service with a smile. The way it was. The way it is. Does a smiley emoji from an Automated Bot count. We have heard from hundreds. Waited and waited. Who criticize their contact with all sorts of Customer Service centers. Ill send smoke signals. They are more likely to answer that. Many fema service is trending down. Te spite a ton of business innovation. In the past you had three ways to contact a company. In person, by phone or mail. These days you can email. Text. Post on social media. And even chat with a bot. All that is a mixed bag for Customer Service. With all the new sounding board, theres out sourcing. Long hold times and bots that just dont get it. Its frustrating. Customer service is all about fundamental. Unfortunately just the way business often operate thats thrown out the window for efficiency. Founder of the Customer Service institute of america. For 13 years the institute has Trained Companies in Customer Service. And annually awarded companies that deliver. We certify. We educate. And recognize. Whats her take on Customer Service today . Are companies keeping up with expectation. Are people demanding too much . Consumers arent unreasonable. What they want is to be recognized. They want to have an organization or the person theyre talking to understand what it is they need. And dont feel like a number. Theres lots more to discuss. We want to hear from you. Tell us what you think about Customer Service in the year 2020. Do you have a horror story or Success Story . Poipt a smart phone at the code or go to our web site. Either route takes us to a five minute questionnaire. Well have the survey up and running for two weeks. Then well be back with results in november. Thank you in advance for participating. Up next two High School Students are trying to keep the Community Safe during the pandemic. What they created that could help the whole country. Prop 19 helps californias most vulnerable. It provides property tax fairness for disabled homeowners like cynde, stuck living with a broken elevator. Nineteen helps wildfire victims, like ellie, one of 24,000 whove lost their homes to fire. And seniors like pam who need to move closer to family or medical care, without a tax penalty. Prop 19 limits taxes on our most vulnerable. Yes on 19. You make my heart sing wild thing i. Think i. You know what i think . I think you owe us 48. 50. Wild thing. If you ride, you get it. Geico motorcycle. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Police and firefighters likely saved bears at the oakland zoo. An abandoned stolen truck was found near the zoo. Along with items someone set on fire. Police posted the pictures on twitter. The fire could have spread to the bear exhibit nearby. If crews hadnt arrived so quickly. No word on who is responsible. A north bay school is about to test a new kind of Contact Tracing app. This is one created by its own students. The School Started setting the ground work for a safe reopening days after the pandemic shut them down. During the Closure School leaders reached out to one student. Along with another. From nearby asking them to come up with something to track students health. They came up with trace. A covid Contact Tracing and daily Health Department assessment app. Students can just report i interacted with such and such. I have these symptoms every morning. They can show i have no symptoms. Im let in the school. In the case of an out break they can trace that back and see who interacted with who. They can report that easily to the county. To make informed decisions. The school just recently reopened for in person learning. With safety protocol. Including a tight bubble of students and out door classrooms. The creator say if all goes well with the Pilot Program they hope other schools consider using it as well. Smart kids. Very useful. The weekend is here. Theres going it be high fire danger and something not effecting the Higher Elevation areas. But the entire bay area. You got that right. The other thing i want people to know is tomorrow looks good. Whatever you have to get done. Tomorrow is the day. The Grocery Store or get ice. Check for gas. Tomorrow is the day. Well talk about the winds moving in for sunday and monday. 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. 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. Is you. Whos supkamala harris. 5 . 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. We all know housing is a hot button issue in the bay area and especially a Affordable Housing. November 3 San Francisco voters dpet to weigh in on a new Affordable Housing plan. How it would work. Reporter if theres any issue that will stoke passion in San Francisco, its the issue of housing. At the center of what many see as a crisis is availability of Affordable Housing. People cant afford to rent and afford to eat and pay rent. San francisco activist is among those making a home in the city hotel. Shes also one of the mind behind prop k on the ballot. Which would authorize San Francisco to begin a Pilot Program creating whats known as municipal social housing. Public housing for a range of different income levels and its selfsustaining. The plan would allow the city to build, buy or rehab up to 10,000 units of Affordable Housing which it would operate. And go to people making lez than 80 of the median income. Demand at the high end. People in the middle class and works class cant afford San Francisco. Supporters have to go to the ballot box because article 34 in the state constitution bans cities from developing their own low rent housing unless its approved by local voters. Prop k coauthor calls article 34 a vestage of racist planning history. You can vote it keep low income people out directly. And race. Chairman of San FranciscoLibertarian Party doesnt see it as racist. He thinks its aimed at protecting cities from plans like prop k. Does anybody know what social housing means . Its a term they brought from europe. To hide the fact that what theyre building is more Public Housing projects. And government builds those they turn into slums over time. Prop k wouldnt cost any money. It authorizes the pilot to go forward. The city could tap into funds generated by prop i on ballot if it passes. Increase the transfer tax on properties over 10 million. Davis says if prop k passes she hopes it will open new doors to people like her. Social housing and be among people with incomes and many different walks of life. Our web site has a complete voter guide on the state propositions and ballot issues in every county. You can find information about voting by mail. And official ballot drop off locations go to bay area. Com. Election guide. Colorado is dealing with a record breaking wild fire season. The east troublesome fire scorched 188,000 acres forcing evacuations there. Flames are burning in the Rocky Mountain national park. The fire is creating the orange glow and orange skies across colorado. Its similar to what we saw last month. After a half dozen large complex fires were burning in the bay area. Lets turn to chief meteorologist. Obviously the big concern this weekend when it comes to fire danger is the high wind. No doubt. We are looking at that really starting to build for sunday and also on monday. You are just plain exhausted of the heat of the fire danger. It has been such a long season. I did want to start off with this first. It has been a record setting season. It ranks one ocht worst fire seasons on the record. Over 4 million acres burned alone in our state. Again, high fire danger on the way. Sunday night and monday. Thats likely going to coordinate with the power outages. Lets look at storm system that will be producing this wind. It is massive storm. It will move down into the atmosphere. And bring us windy conditions for the fire danger. We talk about the fires in colorado. There are going to get a cold blast from the same storm. And one to two feet of snow from some parts of the fire stone. That are burning in colorado. The good effects of this. Were getting the bad. If you miss the fire warning earlier i want to show it again. Sunday and monday is wind in the mountains that could top 50 Miles Per Hour. In the highest gusts about three to 4,000 feet up. Lower elevations on and off gusts 15 to 40. Sustained 15 to 30. All of the bay area will be impacted. Opposed to the last time we have had the fire danger. When its been across the mountains rmt tomorrow your day is get things done. Theres no big wind through tomorrow. 9 00 at night. Its not that bad. Watch how things change. Into sunday 11 00 a. M. Some of the color popping up toward the north bay. Thats the wind in the mountains about 40 Miles Per Hour. Into sunday night we can get into trouble. The red to magenta color. The wind gusts of 40 to 50. The northeast bay. And the Santa Cruz Mountains. Stay with that through monday forecast. And then i think through monday night and tuesday, well begin to see the wind starting to taper off. Sunday night and monday. That will be the zone of the big fire danger. Techs tomorrow out early going to the store. We have 50s to start. Patchy fog near the bay and coast. My cold weather in the north bay down to 47. Afternoon highs not nearly as warm. 73. 65 San Francisco. 60s through the early part of next week. And for the inland valley, no hot 100s. If you dont have airconditioning. Theres good news. 69 on sunday. And 72 on monday. Im probably like a will the of folks got the generators out. Tested everything. Made sure i had a good well ventilated place for the generator. We have a small one. Made sure to get gas. They can be really dangerous if theyre not in an open ventilated area. A little tip from me. Ventilate it properly. Good tip. I need to get going on my fire power shut off package. I have candles. A big night. Spar sans are back. Preparations the team is staking now to make sure the players are safe. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. A lot of excitement at san jose state. Kicking off the football season this weekend. Some of the challenges the team has to over come to get ready for the game. After months of uncertainty the moment has arrived. They will play under the lights in the Season Opener saturday night. Watching College Football on saturday in september not being part of it. It was devastating t. We love it so much. Originally postponed until spring. Because of covid19. The conference put together a return to play eight game shortened College Football season. Its been an incredible journey so far. A will the of hard days. But just incredibly wonderful magical days. The spar tans and the rest of the teams in the conference will be tested three times a week prior to game day. Not everyone is comfortable. Four players have opted out of the season. The reality is i have to coach the players that are here. We have to get this team ready to play this weekend. The guys that chose to opt out good for them. They did whats best for them. Trying to do whats best for his team. Forced the coach to get creative. Because of county regulations they traveled 300 miles away for the first 12 days of fall camp. Thats five more days than practicing on campus to prepare for air force. We have a big time Football Game on saturday. Excellent team. They are well coached. Last year they got after us. And this is a challenge week one. Well be excited to play. Kick off 7 30 p. M. At san jose state. That will be fun. Grammy winner adele will play a different role on saturday night live. Shes hosting. She has performed twice. Tomorrow shoes the most. The musical guest will be her. And spoofing the president ial debate. You can see the show tomorrow at 8 30 and 11 30. Sgr. Always entertaining. Alway. In the bay area, we believe in science. Traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. Thats why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. Which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. To keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight Climate Change. And measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. Relieve traffic. Reduce pollution. Rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. I warn you they will not hesitate. Rudy guiliani versus borat. What Sacha Baron Cohen is saying now about the controversial movie moment. Oh my god. Behind the mask getting snl ready. Plus a powerful new position for ariana . This case begins with a mystery. Who is this young woman in the water . Did a kahn man informant point the finger at a wrong guy or is he really guilty . I had nothing to do with it