Nearly 800,000 pg e customers in 34 counties could be in the dark for days. High fire danger prompteded unprecedented power shutoffs. The first round of shutoffs set to begin a little less than seven hours from now. Pg e is directing customers to its website for details, but is that easier said than done. The site has been crash reg petedly due to overwhelming traffic. All of this an eerie coincidence for fire survivors in the north bay. As we mark the second anniversary of the devastating wine co wildfires. Good evening to you, Wilson Walker is live in downtown santa rosa where the community is still rebuilding, physically and emotionally. Wilson . Reporter absolutely. Just in the past half hour, a small gathering to remember the 44 people who lost their lives in the fires that started two years ago tonight. Two year was rebuilding, trying to move past what happened. Fire is still very much a way of life in this part of california. I think weve made a heck of a lot of progress. And thats what we kinda have to go on. Yeah. Its around, you know . Two years ago, this is just looked like a war zone. Reporter a series of waves. That is how he described the past two years in his corner of glen ellen. The nuns fire marched over warm springs road. This is what this neighborhood looks like on the morning of october ninth. The tourists in the middle of the town, they dont even know that a fire happened. If they do, theyll wander up the street and not really know why are they doing all this construction . Reporter with nearly half the homes in his neighbor rebuilt, that that is a very good number compared to much of the county. He says two, and not just the anniversary, recalls the magnitude of whaptd here. Pg e shutting off the power, threatening to shut off the power, and that kind of stuff. It goes oh, there isnt that stability as far as you really have to be prepared for just about anything. It shatters your sense of security. Like oh, yeah, you could lose your house, kinda thing. I think theres now an awareness and even a fear in the background that it could happen again. It was so powerful. Affected the whole area, changed the economy, the psychology, the emotions. Changed the expectation for the future. Reporter even for those who did not lose love ones or homes, the 4 still affected everyone from housing costs to hardware stores. The land itself it, changes with i and your life. Its powerful when i really look at the land and the recovery of the land even two years later. Its still dark, black. Its powerful. Reporter the rebuilding goes on. Some neighborhoods doing better than others. None of it has been easy. Its a tight neighborhood. And thats one of the reasons everybody came back and didnt give up. Reporter a lot of people looking at their phones, reloading those pages you were talking about, trying to get information. The website is down. Hipeople asking me if i knew more about what was gonna happen over the next 24, 48 hours. And it all sorta goes back to two years ago. And i think its something that everyone, its still so fresh in a lot of peoples minds. Its just something thats gonna i dont know, itll always kinda be there. Especially if you live up here. Wilson, you were there two years ago. We remember your coverage. What are your expressions of the area now . Being there today . Reporter you know, i think the two gentlemen that were in that story kinda summed it up. Its sort of half rebuilt. And yet youll occasionally see parts of the landscape where it really hasnt changed much. Theres enough there to really remind you what happened. I think we all talk about the fires a lot. And lord knows we play the video from that night. I dont think theres two videos that go by where we dont use some of the video from that night. And on a day like today, you really stop and think about to what happened over the course of that night. And really, five, six days out of that, i dont think theres anyone who was intimately involved with what happened, especially tse first eight to 12 hours, that wouldnt tell you that its something that just sticks with you. It was a really amazing night. And 2 years later, people are still here talking about what happened. And how you move on from Something Like that. It was a night for the ages, thats for sure. It has been hard. Wilson walker live for us there in santa rosa. We appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thousands of customers in Sonoma County will lose power tonight. Thats just one of eight bay area counties that will feel the impact. Emily turner asked pg e what you can expect. Reporter im here with a spokesperson for pg e and this is the biggest poages you have ever had. Power shutoff you have ever had. 800,000 customers. This decision was not made lightly. It took a lot of time. And monitoring of of the weather. And what were seeing are is a window thats going to be very significant throughout our state. Between the wind gusts, the dry, hot temperatures, and many factors. It was determined that much of the state is in a position where we need to do the power shutoff. Were talking about 34 different counties. I imagine youre not just gonna flip the switch all at once. Were monitoring the weather. It looks like were going to be starting with the northernmost counties and working our way down there is the possibility of changes. But we want for our customers to be prepared. For an outage up to several days. This is because once the we dies down, were still going to have to go out, inspect those lines visually, make sure theyre safe before we reenergize. Reporter as pg e makes their announcements about these outages and when theyll happen, there are initial alerts going out for the individual municipalities. Napa and sonoma, their power will be going out for that initial aalert just after midnight. Marin county, 4 00 am. And Everything Else there will be determined by the weather. Kpix 5 is your Survival Guide for those shutoffoffs. Rauls find the check list of supplies you need to keep onhand. And you can always log onto kpix. Com through your smart phoner other mobile device. It is official. Governor newsom has signed legislation giving california the strongest renter protection in the country. It caps annual rent hikes at 5 , plus inflation, for the next decade. It also protects renters from being evicted without cause. The la times reports rent which ises in San Francisco would have been increases in San Francisco would have been limited to 8. 3 . It has some restrictions. They dont cover apartments built in the last 15 years or singlefamily home rentals unless they are owned by corporations. Were diving into an 18 billion industry in the i. San francisco is at the center of it. Corporate rentals. Businesses like veritas are running rentals in buildings. This was the companys game plan all along. Small, cheap, and quick xruments to convert temporary furnished rentals. Aaron pefk sin trying to make that prospect almost. Its not as though they cannot rent the units for lots ofey. Except that theyre going to have to rent them to a real person. And they will be subject to rent control. This is a phenomenon for large corporate owners. Veritas is speaking out on its corporate rentals. They say theyre meant for people just moving to the city or for locals who need a place to stay. 18 passengers on a recent American Airlines flight may have been exposed to hepatitisa. The passengers were travelling from San Francisco to charlotte, north carolina, on september 21st. Officials say the risk of limited to only the passengers on the flight. They are in contact with the cdc and health officials. Those passengers have been vaccinated. Bernie sanders says he plans to slow down the pace of his president ial campaign after his recent heart attack. Just was more fatigued than i usually have been. And i should have listened to those symptoms. I should have listened to symptoms. If theres any message that i hope we can get out there, is that i want people to Pay Attention to their symptoms. The 78yearold sanders spoke outside his vermont home today as he headed to an appointment with a cardiologist. Doctors inserted two stents to open a clogged artery in his heart. Sanders acknowledged that voters will likely consider his health when deciding whether to support him. Two mountain lions found dead in Southern California. The troubling discovery about what killed the big cats. Reporter one homeowner says hes had enough. Hes building his home out of concrete. Live news as we are just learning tonight about some major traffic impacts that could be the result of these power shutoffs. Specifically San Mateo County tells us that they will be shutting down the devils slide tunnel at noon tomorrow. This is because when the power is off, is there no Fire Suppression systems in those tunnels to take out the fumes. Commuters will have to take highway 92 to interstate 280 and drive all the way around. Probably a good idea to leave your car parked on the street tonight. Those electric doors can be quite heavy. If you just want to avoid that all together. Go ahead and park on the driveway or park outside tonight. Check out our Survival Guide on kpix. Com. The devastating wildfires have provided some valuable lessons in how to build homes more resistant to wildfire. Reporter fire swept through this neighborhood. There was nothing left but concrete foundations. So one homeowner said, concrete, that sounds interesting. Their home burned to the ground and they were lucky to escape. Fire running across the street, over our head. And on both sides of the road. Reporter bill and michael are building a very different home. Yes, it will be nearly identical to their old one. Except the interior wall will actually be concrete. A concrete house is still an oddity though. That didnt bother me at all. I think the ones who are crazy are the ones who build wood houses in fire zones. Reporter the house stands out from the rest of the neighborhood. Sixinch thick walls reenforced with steel rebar. Industrialgrade floors reenforced to withstand earthquakes. A concrete staircase. Even the roof is solid concrete. The contractor says when its all done it, will look exactly like all the other houses in the neighborhood. Our interest isnt just to keep this technology to ourselves. We want everybody to embrace it. Were gonna share it. Because this is really the solution. Reporter most of the interior is fireproof and fire resistant too. And they are predicting the house will be completed by the end of november. 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But earlier this morning and the afternoon we had a beautiful deck of the marine layer come in. Let me switch back over to the numbers. Because of that onshore flow, were 14 degrees cooler today in San Francisco. 12 degrees cooler in oakland. But we did not experience as much of an influence from that beautiful surge over the bridge. Livermore, concord, we went down 2, 4 degrees today. It was 90s again. Look at the daytime highs. Half moon bay down to 69. Tomorrows daytime highs, we are gonna get concord down to 78. Average would be 80. In other words were gonna cool everybody down tomorrow to average. And then were gonna stray there for much of the next seven days. Let me show you what you should get used to, at least temperaturewise. Numbers in the south bay, in the mid70s. Palo alto 73. Pleasant hill at 78, livermore, 77. Well top out at 77, petaluma. And ukiah, only going to 78. Not bad. The temperatures are the good stories. The wind is the issue. And i just want to walk you through the wind and get you through the worst of it. By this point, tomorrow morning, 11 00 am. The red flag warnings are already in place. And weve already started to pick up strong winds in the north bay hills. For most of us, santa rose down to san jose. Were starting to see a little bit of a breeze where we live. Biat this point, ontos not that windy for most of us. The bullseye is gonna come overnight, wednesday into thursday. And you can see as we pause in here, thursday morning, 3 00 am. Not only are the gusts hitting 34 in napa. Weve got our 60mile an hour gusts in the mountains. And we will notice wind in most of the rest of the communities. By thursday morning, guffs a, gusts around the 20s. And watch this surge of drier area in the offshore flow out to the golden gate. Thursday morning. Not only are the humidities in santa rosa down to 20 , but you g t a closer look at. This. Humidity levels come down to 8 , 5,000 feet. There are a lot of dprds that go into a red flag warning. Those are the main ones to be aware of. The rest of the sevenday forecast, and youll notice the temperatures are gonna be the manhing to see here. And weve already kinda talked about this headline. Everybody cools down to average tomorrow. And we pretty much just stay right there. Not a lot of change for the next seven days. The focus will be the wind event happening in the mountains, wednesday and thursday. But it is a really goodlooking forecast friday and through next weekend. Thank you. Time is running out before pg e shuts off power across much of the bay area. Our topfive ways to get ready while those lights are still on. Plus, long lines at the pump. The race to get gas as the first urban areas in the bay area will be impacted by this blackout. And the new law to keep rent in check. There are those who will say that youre too fat. Too skinny. Too hard. Too soft. Too old. Too much. Too unexpected. Too limited. 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City leaders feel like they have been left in the dark by pg e. Coming up, ill tell you how thats affected their ability to plan for outages and other emergencies. This power outage could last for several days. The topfive things you should do right now to get ready. Late details on an emergency power shutoff. Im ken bastida. Im veronica de la cruz. And were just six hours away from the first planned outages. Some 250,000 bay area customers could lose their electricity in all. You are looking at the counties affected. Sonoma county seeing the biggest impact. San francisco county is the only one not expected to be impacted. Minutes ago, we got a kind of timeline on those outages. The shutoff will happen in phases. The first counties impacted will be napa