Life. Youve heard it before over the past several weeks and you are hearing it again, more record High Temperatures and increasing fire danger for the bay area, details coming up in your forecast. Or make thousands of ballots have been asked already, tonight, the safeguards put in place to make sure yours are counted. And why a growing number of bay area families are turning to private jets during the pandemic. Good evening, now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area, high fire danger expected overnight as hot temperatures combined with whipping winds and low humidity. Paul heggen has a red flag warning set to take effect in just a few hours. This goes into effect at 5 00 wednesday morning for most of the bay area. So the north bay, inland east bay and Santa Cruz Mountains are included in this. The most dangerous weather conditions will shape up tomorrow night into thursday morning. A beginning late tonight, even before the sun comes up, we will see dropping humidity levels and gusting winds. Starting in the 40 to 50 range for the lowest values but those numbers just crater as we head into the afternoon, down to around nine or 10 by 3 00 in the afternoon. That is not unusual but what is unusual is the offshore wind will keep the relative humidity levels very low. Throughout tomorrow night and no recovery overnight, combined that with gusting winds kicking in and thats a dangerous combination. By tomorrow midafternoon the wind will be at about 10 to 20 miles per hour. By midnight we are talking about 25 to 35 mile per hour gusts that will continue into early thursday morning. All that combined will allow any fire that gets started to rapidly spread. We will hope everyone is cautious and we dont see any new fires that actually get started. That of course plays into the power situation as well read i will come back with details on the heat and air quality in a few minutes. Thousands of pg e customers in seven bay area counties could lose their power because of this wildfire risk. The only counties not on the watchlist are San Francisco and marin. But going dark is not the only concern. For many communities in the north bay, Andrea Nakano is in calistoga where residents just returned home after the glass fire. Reporter tonight here in calistoga theres of feeling of year we go again, its warm, dry and you can still smell the smoking is from the glass fire. Now this community is preparing for a Public Safety but off but the real question is can it prevent another fire. I just want to live a normal life. Its just so much chaos going on. Its the new normal, really. For these two lifelong coastal residents, they may have to leave their home for the second time this year first the glass fire now a public power safety shut off. I was staying at a hotel in bakersfield because everything in napa was booked. I didnt know where to go, i had my family, my wife and two kids. Its like where do we go, you know . Pg e is trying to reduce the impact only a small area in the affected communities. Our intent was to make them as small as we can, make them as short as possible and as smart for our customers. According to pg e its using these temporary generators to provide power to roughly 1500 customers in the downtown calistoga area. It has a similar microgrid in england. The hope is that the winds state relatively calm and pg e wont have to initiate that ps ps. Businesses have had enough disruptions in 2020. Put the fires and covid, and everything else, its been so upanddown. The main concern is whether or not another fire will spark during the red flag warning. Pg e has set up a base camp between st. Helena and calistoga. It has all the equipment to restart service once the fire danger passes or the crews needed to respond to that power gas adages if another major fire ignites. I know what it is, its a war, climate change. Thats the war. The shutoffs, if they happen, are expected to start at 6 00 tomorrow night. Pg e should have more of an idea by tomorrow morning. If all goes well the power should be back on by friday. Onto campaign 2020, tonight the question lots of voters want answered, what are Election Officials in doing to ensure your vote gets counted . Joe vasquez takes us behind the scenes in san mateo. Reporter early voting is well underway in San Mateo CountyElection Officials say theyve received at least 37,000 votes. Thats at least twice as many as they received at this time back in 2016. Voters can rest assured that voting is extremely safe. The assistant chief elections officer for San Mateo County says these days High Tech Systems keep votes secure. Sophisticated machinery sorts the votes and matches them to Voter Registration codes and make sure there is no fraud. The system does not allow anyone to vote twice. For example if they were accidentally delivered to ballots. If you were to send in that second ballot it would be rejected by the system. Only the first ballot in would be the one to be counted. People are a big part of the process, checking signatures and making sure computers were in correctly. And what about vote harvesting . Can you take someone elses vote to a box . They have design giving me authorization to drop off their ballot. You can do that with in permission but setting up your own ballot boxes and calling them official, they Republican Party operatives who did that claim it is legal and the attorney generals considering criminal charges. People should make sure to drop off ballots at designated locations, read your county website instead of listening to politicians. Do not rely on information given by others that you do not know or trust. Be sure to verify any information you are given by individuals. Voters have to be careful right now. President trump is shifting his Campaign Schedule into high gear. He held a packed rally in pennsylvania tonight despite concerns over coronavirus. The president also has events planned in iowa, north carolina, florida and georgia. All five states are seeing a rise in infections. And former Vice President joe biden is also making a big play for florida. A state that President Trump won in 2016. Biden campaigned there today in small socially distanced events. In one guests sat in their cars as they hunt approval. If you havent registered to vote yet you have until monday. For more information on how come into our website, kpix. Com campaign 2020. Lets take a live look at capitol hill where now we are just hours away from the second day of questioning in the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee judge amy coney barrett. Today she defended her judicial record and declined to say how she might rule on issues like healthcare. I cant really give you the kind of commitment or precommitment you are asking for me of how i would weigh factors or structure my decisionmaking process. I would ask you to consider if you are confirmed on the court a credible benefit of the Affordable Care act, and that the destruction of its protections will have a devastating impact on millions, hundreds of millions. Judge barrett also refused to commit to recusing herself on any possible election related cases read but she did make it clear she hasnt had any conversations with white house officials. I certainly hope that all members of the committee have more confidence in my integrity and to think that i would allow myself to be used as upon to decide this election for the american people. The republicanled Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote on barretts nomination for this thursday. Democrats are expected to request a one week delay. We will have all the latebreaking developments from washington tomorrow or next starting at 4 30. Tonight on marin County Church is deciding what to do with a statue that was defaced and knocked down by protesters. Right now the broken statue is hidden in a private space inside at mission san rafael. Five people have been arrested for vandalizing and toppling the statue. The group sprayed red paint on the statue before then pulling it off of its pedestal yesterday. The catholic saint has been accused of exploiting native americans. Today catholics gathered at the site of the broken pedestal to pray for the protesters. Still ahead, and just hours Santa Clara County will loosen its restrictions on a wide range of businesses. The notable exceptions. For the second time in as many days Clinical Trials for coronavirus are abruptly halted. That pandemic has hammered that commercial air travel industry and private chat service is surging. Coming up, we will tell you who is flying. A reminder, kpix 5 has a new app and it gives you 24 7 access to cbsn bay area and tonight costars are remembering the 2 1 2 men actress is a beautiful actress. Her 12 season turn as housekeeper roberta earned her two emmy nominees, she died yesterday following cardiac arrest and she was 77 years old. One person has died and another remains in Critical Condition tonight after an suv plowed into a group of outdoor diners in the san jose. Police say the 69yearold driver may have suffered some sort of medical emergency before the crash outside dynasty chinese at the grand century mall. The family friend says the driver and his wife are heartbroken. When i talk to her she cries a lot and she say oh my god hopefully nobody dead, you know. But im really sad. That is one of the major things we look at. Did you intend to do this, and right now as i understand, none of these drivers intended to cause these collisions. The District Attorneys Office will investigate to decide whether to file charges. Tonight a lot more Santa Clara County businesses are preparing to operate with a lot fewer restrictions after the county moved into the orange tear of the states covid19 tracking map. Starting tomorrow capacity limits will be lifted on malls and retail stores. Outdoor gatherings of up to 200 people will be allowed, and indoor gatherings and dining may resume at 25 capacity. This is half of what the state allows at the orange level. The county is also banning ambient music inside restaurants because that might prompt patrons to raise their voices and potentially project the virus into the air. Alameda county has also turned orange today but is not planning any major changes right away. Sonoma is now the only bay area county in the most restrictive purple tear. State Health Officials releasing some guidelines on how you can safely celebrate halloween this year. They are telling people not together at parties and are discouraging traditional trick ortreating. Instead they say family should plan safer alternatives like a candy Scavenger Hunt at home. For the second time in two days Clinical Trials related to covid19 were put on hold over potential safety concerns. Eli Lilly Confirms it has halted trials of an antibody treatment aimed at fighting the virus. Its unclear what triggered the pause but stanford dr. Maldonado says it was the right thing to do. It does speak to the reputed heavy response that despite the fact that they have tens of thousands of patients in these trials, if they have a signal, a safety signal, they will stop very quickly, and they will investigate. Yesterday Johnson Johnson halted its trials for a Coronavirus Vaccine due to an unexplained illness with a participant. Knew at 11, getting away isnt quite as easy during this pandemic. There has been a shift in who is flying in how they are doing it. Betty yu shows us why private jets are becoming the preferred way for some we to travel. Reporter the pandemic may have stalled commercial air travel but more people are getting on board with private jets. Companies are seeing a rise in demand from people worried about exposure on a commercial airplane or cramped terminals in the age of covid. The price for safety and peace of mind, a light chat starts at 5000 per hour. I think private jets are usually something people take about as a lifestyle or productivity tool. It really turned into a utility. It is on track for a record making sales month, the best is 20 year history. Its bringing up to 40 million in chat card purchases of flight hours per month. A typical month would range between 20 and 25 million. Very quickly when people realize they wanted to avoid crowds and they want to connect with family or go back to their country or whatever it may be, we started to see arise. Business travel has dipped during the pandemic for new customers are fueling this boom. Sentient is now back to the same value of flights they were doing at this time last year. In june and july about half of the sales came from new customers. And pretran08 over a third of the sales came from private clients. It is prate great timing. Im not spending an hour or hour and a half sometimes trying to get into the airport or out of the airport. Checking makes it much simpler. Bread often commutes between burbank and oakland or concord. Flights start at 89 per person. Like many jed companies it is ramping up cleaning and rolling out new sterilization and contactless protocols. You walk in and you have a machine you stand in front of the you take your temperature. You get online and there is social distancing circles. But its not in line with 15, 20 or 30 people. Sentient says that the bay area is a Main Business hub for them and more people are flying out of the bay area then entering the pandemic. 10 parks in the east Bay Regional Parks district are closing due to high fire danger. If all goes well they will reopen by friday morning at 11. Just in time to enjoy the weekend. And its going to be toasty, and people need to be careful. Yes, that is the main thing over the next couple of days. While we are still waiting to hear specific reasons why the the glass fire got started, it is not the time to be careless with anything that can get a sparkling. That is all it would take as temperatures build up. But its even more complicated than that, there is a storm system over the Pacific Ocean that is getting stronger and amplifying the area of High Pressure that is going to lead to our hot temperatures and our dry gusty offshore winds that will be kicking it over the next couple of days. That ramps up the fire danger which we talked about in our first segment, and we want to talk about the air quality. It is good for now. The area of High Pressure will drop anything court near the surface. At worst, if, big if, if no new fires get started the worst we will be looking at is moderate air quality. Some of the other wildfire smoke from around the state can get blown in and out. But no spare the air day for us unless local fires get started once again. That is a big possibility. Right now though, beautiful with temperatures mostly in the 60s. Santa rosa still hanging onto 72 degrees and the temperatures in the north bay will help escalate the fire danger as we head through the day tomorrow. But especially tomorrow night into thursday morning. Temperatures tonight in the upper 50s and low 60s across the board to begin the day on wednesday. Temperatures will heat up, so that big doggie smile on freckles may not be such a big doggie smile when the heat kicks in. In valeo, in the upper 80s on wednesday but likely up to around 90 by thursday and friday with other inland portions of the bay area heating up to an even greater extent. So take it easy on your for friends. Temperatures will reach the low 70s along the coast tomorrow. 80s for the most part around the bay, some of the warmer spots touching 90. And low to mid 90s for inland portions of the bay area. The trivalley reaching the mid 90s and talking mid to upper 90s e. Of the diablo range. That is close to recordsetting for this time of the year. I think the only spot that will set a record High Temperature tomorrow is concord. 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Hockey news, Patrick Harlow is coming back to san jose for his third tour of duty, signing a oneyear deal to play what might be his final nhl season. He left that shark in 2017 to try to when the stanley cup. That that not work at coming back to san jose and then was traded to pittsburgh. Hes a franchise leader for goals, points. If he lays 45 more games he will pass for most games played in the history of the nhl. Hats off to doug wilson, he San Franciscos amos house of prime rib reopens on thursday. If you are lucky you might be able to get in this year hurried in the 36 hours its been taking reservations its already booked about 3000 diners who when they get in the door will have their mellow music the bay area is a golden destination