According to the Sonoma County twitter account, it says evacuations have been issued. These in response to this fire, stay alert, and more information will be posted. Here is the list of evacuations. Evacuation orders east of geyserville, evacuation warnings for the north and geysers road. Highway 128, pine flat road, and red winery road. Leave immediately if you are in or near these road if you feel unsafe to, go ahead and evacuate as well. This is being fueled by the wind that has prompted the Public Safety power sto. As we exited the highway there were maybe a dozen fire engines there ready to go and tackle this fire. And well bring you more on this fire as the information becomes available. Well beheing backut, thank you. Lots of people posting to social media tonight. The smoke and orange glow can be enor miles all over the north bay right now. The National Weather service in the bay area picked up the fire on its geyser peak cam. You can see the sky filled with smoke rising from the intense fl our meteorologist with a look at the wind speeds there. An unusual map behind me to pinpoint why the fire is burning in the concerning area. This is the outline for Sonoma County. That red square is where the satellite is to detect the heat signals coming off the fire. So we knew exactly where this was burning. Im gonna switch from that image and were gonna show you the image full. This is just at the peak of the ridges in the north bay where were see something of the strongest gusts. So that high flat road, thats one of the closest weather stations i have to the locate of the fire. Thats also where weve recorded a 17 mile an hour gust. Its too close to the area where were seeing the most intense winds tonight. Ill be back with more on the rest of that red flag warning. Coming up in a few minutes. Thank you for that. Almost 35,000 customers without power in napa and Sonoma County. At 1 00 am, pg e says theyll shut electricity to about 1,000 customers in San Mateo County as well. Much of Sonoma County is in the dark tonight. 17,000 pg e customers are without power in that area. Unlike last time, the city of santa rosa has installed generators at some of the intersections. Workers will be at those intersections throughout the night to make sure that traffic lights are working. Many feeling the impact of the shutoff. Many stocked up on ice. Others unable to accept any card payments. This is what pg e says it is going to take to restore more than 8,000 miles of distribution and Transmission System helicopters. 6,000 crew members. And aircraft with the help of cal fire. Thats if they turn the power back on between this event and the next one scheduled for this weekend. Kpix 5 is your Survival Guide for the power shutoffoffs. An arrest at a School Board Meeting at oakland unified headquarters. Plan protestors squared off with Board Members and police. A district spokesperson tells us tonights protests were expected. Some barricades were set up in front of the stage. Oakland unified released a statement saying, quote, keep their okays peaceful and allow the board of directors to conduct the work we node for the benefit of all oakland students. The santa cruz sheriff is urging the people to help them catch a killer. Reporter shirley was kidnapped and found murdered in santa cruz county. The sheriff announced a 25,000 reward for information leading directly to an arrest. That reward isnt being offered for long. Help us arrest this suspect. Reporter sheriff jim hart isnt doing any interface with the media. He released a recorded message. Urging the community to help investigators track down audreys killer. With this as an incident testify come forward. Citizens are offering doll 25,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of suspects responsible for this terrible crime. Reporter the sheriff goes on to say that reward is only valid until november 30th, 2019. Reporter on october 1st, more than one suspect kidnapped. The body was found inside his girlfriends suv several miles away. He died from gunshot wound. We have no idea why. Reporter some told xiks 5 they were too afraid to go on camera and the killers were still out there. Investigators believe robbery wassa i motive behind the crime. Reporter that 25,000 reward is only valid until november 30th. The sheriff also released a statement saying, quote, several people were involved in this murder, and someone out there knows who they are. That is a terrible secret to keep. A live look at washington where there was chaos on capitol hill tonight. Republicans interrupted proceedings, democrats called it a stunt. About two dozen republicans, including some who are not involved in the inquiries entered a secured room demanding transparency. Democrats say the attack was in response to testimony yesterday from trumps top diplomat bill tear. Theyre just delaying the inevitable which this is president is gonna be held accountable. There is a lot that has been presented to these committees that i dont know. They also received a letter from Top Republicans requesting that the original whistleblower testify publicly. We continue to follow breaking news in Sonoma County. Seniors fearful they will lose their its hard to have a actual processed thought on this whole thing. It seems like its somethg that is somewhat preventible. It seems like something were always prepared for, its something that is becoming almost routine here in Sonoma County during the season. But its terrifying to know that oh, even as much as were prepared, as much as we think about it, we try to prepare. It just happens out of nowhere. Today i remember they were talking about we got all the notifyings on our phone, cutting out the power completely. Reporter and it still happens. Thank you so much for sharing what you have. Well fry to bring you more information. We appreciate it. Were gonna continue to follow this story and bring you any updates. Now on our original series, project home. The Senior Citizen population growing faster than the national average. Many are struggling to afford their home homes. Some worry the rising rents could put them out on the streets. I dont want to worry about it my rent and i shouldnt have to. It may be legal but its not fair. Reporter r reporter these Senior Citizens should be easing into retirement, checking social security. Instead theyre worried about housing ibsecurity. Nearly all the residents are living on fixed incomes. Elects officials, please helps ump reporter more than hundred one tenants at this Affordable Apartment complex say theyre at ri of being priced out. Its clear the developers wish to advertise it as lowincome house figure are seniors has become unaffordable. Reporter john is working two jobs in order to afford his third rent increase in three years. Many of his neighbors in their 70s are still working, afraid that if they retire, they wont be able to make rent. We cant keep pace. Its just a question of time. More of us have to leave. Reporter there have been 13 rent increases in 16 years here. According to hud, for housing to be affordable, tenants should not be spending more than 30 of their income on rent. More than half of novattos lowincome tenants spend 50 on housing. Some are spending as much as 144 of their income on rent due to recent rent hikes. Whats happening here is perfectly legal. Hamilton was built in part with financing obtained through californias lowincome housing tax program. Levels are set by hud. The disparity between what you need to do to qualify as lowincome compared to what the Median Income is for marin is huge were reporter both john and theresa have been homeless before. The apartment was their haven. An affordable place to stay that pulled them out of homelessness. Now theyre worried theyll spend what should be their golden years working to stay off the street. Ill have to start looking for another place to live. I wont be able to afford it. Itll just be too much. I dont think that our representatives understand that the end result these days is that their seniors living on a fixed income in Affordable Housing projects are getting evicted and driven out right and left. Reporter another property is Affordable Housing access, they operate out of Newport Beach and did not respond to our quest for comments. After the rally, we heard from tenants and landlords want to have a dialogue. Its hitting so many Different Levels of society. Thank you. Keep spending your ideas and stories to us. You can use project home at kpix. Com. There are tens of thousands of people without power outside of the bay area. In nevada county, 43,000 people are without power county. 40,000 are in the dark in El Dorado County as well. And it could be more than 48 hours before the lights are turned back on in the sierra foothills. Some Small Business owners are taking matters into their own hand hands. Tonight some Southern California firefighters invented a handy tool that could help homeowners fight wildfires before help arrives. Its called the portable fire pump cart system. And it lets people use water from their swimming pools. The water can be pumped through multiple lines at a time. Their job is to basically put the system at the poole side. Put the suction hose into the pool itself, and layout the fire hose. Thats all were asking them to do. Put the signage in front and they can leave. They back their rig into the driveway and have a hose thats laid out for them. If you want to try out those pumps, you have to rent it out from a fire defense service. And their website says they are experiencing a high demand. So you will be need some patience. The wind is the source of all this right now. And i can give you a quick review on the fire we started with. We come in for a closer examination on this. Where is that fire burning . Right on the sonoma and lake county lines. Its a Small Community called merrle. Some moderatery good news close to the fire, winds at about 20 miles an hour. You dont want any winds. But a 20 mile an hour wind is much better than whats right up the hill. Theres our locator again. The Sonoma County line. We can just go up the hill to the top of those mountains. Once you g to that 3,000, 4,000 foot level, the 70s. Are recording gusts in winds are gusting up to 50 miles an hour in the mountains right now. Red flag warning in effect until the afternoon tomorrow, thursday afternoon. By about 10 00, 11 00 tomorrow, the situation will start to calm down. This is gonna be warm to hot for many of us tomorrow. San francisco, my extreme example. 88 in the city tomorrow. Record temperatures here. Both locations are gonna be right there. If you look at the rest of the daytime highs, theres not a whole lot of spread there. 71 near the coast and inland. It kind of levels the playing field. And yes, is there an opportunity for another offshore wind event on sunday. Heres the current setup in the atmosphere right now. See that center of High Pressure spinning clockwise . Its driving the winds over Northern California from the northeast. Iing to vance this to sunday. The colors are brighter red, the wind speeds have intensified, and the orientation is northeast right over us. So the pattern really picks up with a little more concern here by the time we get into sunday. Thats what we will start focusing on. Lets get through tonight. And well start looking at what could be red flag warnings for sunday. Breaking news out sof noma county. Evacuees ordered after a fastmoving wildfire breaks out. That breaking news out of Sonoma County. This wildfire. Winery. There is the evacuation warning for northern heelsburg and the town of geyserville. A former 49 sercoming back to the bay area. Hes not bearing gifts for his former team. And why are these guys so happy . Announcer 5 million kids use ecigarettes. Its an epidemic fueled by juul with their kidfriendly flavors. San francisco voters stopped the sale of flavored ecigarettes. But then juul, backed by big tobacco, wrote prop c to weaken ecigarette protections. The San Francisco chronicle reports prop c is an audacious overreach, threatening to overturn the ban on flavored products approved by voters. Prop c means more kids vaping. Thats a dangerous idea. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. The holidays begin here at the disneyland resort. Those teams that have won the first two games end up winning the world series 77 of the time. Say again, please. Houston, we have a problem. The problem is that man, stephen strasburg, an e. R. A. Under 2 in the postseason. 22 game. Kurt suzuki, solo home run. Thats when it all fell apart for the astros. Asdrzbal cabrera, tworun score. Nationals score six in the 7th inning. Going back to dc now. Eric reed is now a carolina panther. Hes looking for payback this sunday on the 49ers. Definitely the way i feel like i was treated there. The way they run that organization. I remember they changed my position and my contract. I remember they released the ball to bowman who led in tackles the year before at that position. Sixers, ben simmons. The 76ers start strong. Dominic smith, sidney crosby, finds the back of the net. How about is it for hou alvarez, a line drive. Cabrera money on the field. And at the plate tonight. Dude is hungry. He won the game, 120 101. This oklahoma announcing their famous sooner schooner will not run again. This was during last saturdays game. The school is building a new one for next season. 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