It morning and welcome back to mornings on 2, Tuesday Morning october 8 im dave clark. Im pam cook, thank you for waking up with us. The top story is a potential power shut off related to weather. We checked with stephen he was bringing up good points. We were talking about gas pumps. They will be out. So fill up your gas tank. And we are finding out about bart. This is tomorrow not today, wednesday into early thursday. The why what the weather watch is not for heat, it is for wind and very dry conditions. So some people said this doesnt include the Santa Cruz Mountains but it does, the east bay, even along the coast, even parts of the marin coast as well will get into some pretty good gusts, low humidity and very strong wind, this system right here is the one coming and it is what we call a dry cold front. There might be some high clouds with it but the end result is most of the energy is plunging into the great basin and the intermountain region, Eastern Nevada and points east, this is a big system for them and we are on the western edge but its going to ramp up the wind. 70s and 80s in the forecast highs, getting closer to average but we are still above for everybody, 72 7258 for the city but its normally 7054. 40s 50s and 60s on the temps here, 490 for santa rosa, pleasant at 52, it will be sunny except for patchy fog once the system sweeps through and then the wind will pick up and that is why we have a fire weather watch. It will probably be a warning, but temperatures wont be that warm, in the 60s and 70s but the wind will be howling. Steve weve been getting asked about bart and if bart Power Outages will affect the commute and the answer is no, bart has already said they expect no disruption of the treynor Station Service due to any of the Power Outages due to new enhanced power redundancies. They are on a Different Network than you and i so their power stays on. This is a look at vallejo to hercules and it looks pretty good, no problems on the bridges and continuing all the way down to Contra Costa County it looks very nice, 80 westbound, 60 minutes and at the bay bridge toll plaza we have a small backup at 4 34 am lets the desk. Exactly 2 years ago today the tubbs fire began in napa county, it spread to sonoma and lake county before it was contained 24 days later. It is the second most destructive wildfire in california history burning more than 2500 homes, me justin santa rosa. City Officials Say only about 10 of Property Owners have rebuilt homes so far. In many cases that is because it takes a long time to clear the property, replace infrastructure and get construction permits. Many fire victims to say that two years have passed, and their Insurance Companies will stop paying temporary housing benefits. A couple thousand people are running out of their temporary rent benefit from their insurance and now they will have to dig into their own pockets to cover until they can move back into a replaced home. Some Insurance Companies have already extended Living Expenses for 12 more months. Tonight Sonoma County and santa rosa officials are hosting a public gathering, to mark two years since the big fire. It starts at 5 pm at old Courthouse Square in downtown santa rosa. Here is a look at some of the top stories we are following for you this morning, thousands of bay area customers could lose power as early as tomorrow morning. Pg nde plans to preemptively shut down power because of the dangerous fire conditions. Strong wind and dry brush are creating huge concerns over wildfire danger. As of right now pg e is only issuing warnings about shutting off the power. Turkey has launched a military attack on northeastern syria just hours after pres. Trump announced american troops will be pulling out of the region. Syrian kurds say the Turkish Operation risks overturning years of achievements against the islamic state. Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments in three cases involvingand transgender rights. The cases will test whether the 1964 Civil Rights Act applies to and transgender workers. The answer will be particularly important in 28 states that do not have their own protections. T to the European Union who was named in the original whistleblower complaint leading to the impeachment inquiry against pres. Trump. Reporter democrats are moving pretty quickly here focusing now on multiple whistleblowers and potentially explosive Text Messages. The Us Ambassador to the European Union gordons online has been in the spotlight before but never quite like this. On capitol hill today he will be questioned about Text Messages from a month ago that he exchanged with a then top us diplomat in ukraine who questioned that phone call between pres. Trump and the president of ukraine. I think it is crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a Political Campaign the diplomat wrote. Sonia linda responded the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. Was that a cover or does it help make the president s case . Its just a scam, its a scam by the democrats to try to win an election that they are not going to win in 2020. Reporter democrats meanwhile are talking about the second whistleblower that has emerged, one who may have firsthand knowledge of events, but there are questions about how any whistleblower can testify and remain anonymous. We cannot allow the president to somehow get to the whistleblower or threaten him or discourage him or her from telling their side of the story, and us learning what exactly is the extent of the alleged scheme, displayed in his complaint. Reporter the subpoena battles mean time continue, next up the secretary of defense and the acting white house budget leader. Focusing on californias housing crisis governor gavin newsom will be in oakland to kick off a statewide tour, the governor will find several bills designed to make homes more affordable. Inhome the governor will sign the biggest statewide renter protection package and there will be a similar signing packages in the days ahead. We hope you will join us during the 8 oclock hour of mornings on two, we will chat about a new collaboration with every bill to house homeless families as well as oaklands efforts to philpott hills in the street they should fill fill potholes in the street. The governor signed new legislation allowing pharmacist to furnish preventative drugs for hiv without a doctors prescription. State sen. Scott wieners coauthored the bill claiming it will expand access to the bill among communities of color. Studies show some of these drugs are 98 effective in preventing hiv infection if used daily. A ban on the sale of flavored Tobacco Products will be enforced today, that ordinance also bans the sale of all Tobacco Products in pharmacies in san carlo. The man took effect back in may but enforcement was delayed until today. Er will stop selling e cigarettes, this is amid the growing health concerns. Walgreens is one of the nations biggest drugstore chains, kroger is one of americas biggest supermarket chains. Just last month walmart announced it plans to discontinue the sale of e cigarettes. The first lady is speaking out on the dangers of vaping, misses trump appeared at the kickoff of the 31st annual Red Ribbon Campaign yesterday. The nations largest Drug Prevention effort. She delivered remarks on addiction and how it affects youth before voicing concerns on the rapid use of ecigarette products. We need to continue encouraging teenagers and young adults that have fallen into drug addiction. To be brave enough to talk about it and to get help. It also includes addiction associated with the cigarettes and vaping. It is important to me that we all work to educate children and families about the dangers associated with this habit. Marketing this addictive product to children must stop. The first lady initially came out against e cigarettes last month on twitter saying she was deeply concerned about the growing epidemic of e cigarette use among children. That was two days before the president said he would work to ban the sale of vaping products. Coming up during the 7 oclock hour we will talk about effective ways to quit vaping, our medical Team Reporter will tell us where people can start, is nicotine replacement therapy right for you and how to find help using your cell phone. 4 41 am, the democratic president ial candidate Kamala Harris is pushing a plan that will let new parents spend more time at home with her baby. The california senator revealed a proposal yesterday that would provide every worker in america six months of paid family and medical leave. People who make less than 75,000 a year would qualify for full salary replacement during their leave. With smaller benefits for the household with a higher salary. In addition to caring for new children, that proposal would allow workers to take leave for personal or family medical issues. The Harris Campaign says that proposal would be funded by new payroll taxes on employers and employees. California election offices are now accepting vote by mail and some counties have also opened early voting centers. In San Francisco election staff say about 50 people cast votes yesterday in the basement of city hall, voters should receive election guides and vote by mail ballots by the end of the week and although Party Affiliation does not matter in the november election it will make a big difference next year. Our time is 4 42 am, tv Game Show Host alex trebek has got some more medical problems, still ahead what the longterm host of jeopardy says that will mean for that game show. And the average daily commute is getting longer, how much time people are losing in their cars and the impact it is having on families. We are off to a decent start commute wise, we see some of these roads are looking okay, 4 42 am. This is the in between day, tomorrow is when we will talk about the wind but temperatures will cool off today, more of an onshore breeze and we will talk about the forecast next. Welcome back to mornings on 2, bart back on schedule after service in the east bay was interrupted last night because of a shooting. It happened on the pittsburgh bay point bart station platform, no one was hit. Why police say five people were detained at the scene. A san ancisco man suspected of going drug youtube engineer coffee will be enwith several crimes including attempted murder. Investigators say he was celebrating the july 4 holiday with some friends when he reportedly took lsd. His friends say coffee became delusional, punched and stabbed a security guard, stole his truck and drove away hitting several people along the way. No one was seriously hurt. Coffee is expected in court at 8 30 am today. We have an update to a story we told about over the weekend, to snakes stolen were found, the owner says a duffel bag containing four pythons and a lizard was stolen on saturday. Two snakes were found at a downwnpet store, the owner says snakes say he in found them in a dumpster. The other two snakes and a lizard are still missing. 4 47 am, police in sunnyvale are searching for a suspected arsonist. Police seven se park there was no structural damage and no one was hurt. Police are concerned about the danger posed to people in that area. Its scary, frightening, so if that would have caught on fire it would have led to an explosion. It felt very violating. Some of the People Living in one of the areas that ktvu visited say the man in that photo looks exactly like their neighbor who spoke with police on the night of the fires. Sunnyvale police say they are still investigating. Fire investigators in San Francisco are trying to determine the cause of a house fire that started monday morning just south of silver avenue. Investigators say the fire started inside one house and quickly spread to the house next door. Four people were hurt in the fire including a firefighter but everyone is expected to recover. Two cats died though and a dog and cat are still missing. The time is 4 48 am, barts new general manager will be hosting a twitter townhall later this afternoon, general manager bob howard says he will be online answering your questions between noon and 1 pm. He has also launched a listening tour of the bart stations, they will tour ashley and powell stations tomorrow. Construction is underway on a major bart bart the long awaited walnut creek scranton village, plans call for that 16 acre site to house almost 600 apartments and 26,000 ft. 2 of retail. The first phase of the project is expected to be finished in three years. New figures so the average commute nationwide is longer than ever, the Us Census Bureau says the average american commute included 27 minutes one way 2018, that is a twominute increase from 2009. It may not sound like a lot but over the course of the year it adds up to 17 additional hours commuting. The shift is being driven by an increase in the number of workers with a long commute. About 8 of workers had a one way commute of 60 minutes or more, last year nearly 10 had that long of a commute. Research shows longer commutes are bad for workers, and employ with long commutes tend to be less physically active. And longer commutes are associated with higher rates of divorce, and children with families with long commutes say they have more emotional problems. A study shows that a daily increase of commute time of 20 minutes effect on Worker Satisfaction as a 19 pay cut. It affects the whole body and mind. I have to say that is one great thing about getting up in the middle of the night for us, we usually dont have to deal with traffic. We get her pretty quickly. You see pam and there is always something good about this. Yes there is. Good morning everyone, if you are getting up now and watching us for a little bit before you get on the road, the commute is better than it will be in an hour or two when you go to the heart of the commute. Thalready on the tracy super commute, 580 at 205 but when you get to the dublin area it looks good. I think i skipped ahead on the slides a lets go back to here. You can see that westbound 580 is okay, its a little slow and no problems into livermore. As i work the overhead projector, it looks pretty good to dublin and over to 880 n. Does anyone still use overhead projectors . Do you remember those . This is a look at 880 in oakland, traffic is moving well and at the bay bridge there is a little backup but still this is a good hour as pam mentioned, if you get up early you get a better commute. 4 51 am here is steve. Im going to do my weather in a slideshow like your dad used to do with photos from your vacation. Wait one flight is upside down. Here we go. Today is a quiet day, we will cool a little down into tomorrow, the fire danger tomorrow will not be for high temperatures but for wind and dry conditions, we could easily have 45 to 50 mileperhour gusting, this looks to be everybody including the Santa Cruz Mountains and the marin coast, the system is going to be sliding in. There it is near portland and seattle, the bulk of this is going into the great basin and the intermountain region. This is a huge deal for areas such as montana and wyoming down into the rockies. And points east. We are on the western of it but e d its going to fill in with wind. Not today but starting tomorrow morning. This looks to be anywhere from 25 to 40 mph even at the surface so thursday morning, the napper airport 39 miles an hour, fairfield at 34 mph, then it will start to trail off, thursday morning will still be windy but by about noon we should start to see a little let up and that it looks like by thursday night things will calm down. But it will be wednesday into early thursday. Today mostly sunny and cooler, weve replaced that light offshore breeze we had yesterday with an onshore breeze, 70s and 80s, this is all above average but it will go below tomorrow. 7258 for the city in the normal is 7054 after yesterdays 83, back to back days of 83 for this city. 40s 50s and 60s, santa rosa 48, 52 sand land, vacaville 51, on the peninsula it is 50s and 60s, even 49. Look at that, los altos at 68, montero beach at 53. 28 in truckee, maybe a little patchy fog but everything is up to the north with the system sweeping through tomorrow but then the wind will crank up tomorrow and it will be wind and dry conditions. 60s, 70s and 80s today for temperatures as they start to come down than they really come down tomorrow but the wind will pick up, and it looks sunny but temperatures back in the 70s by the weekend with partly cloudy skies. The time is 4 54 am, plans for a massive shut off of power around the bay area, still ahead how tens of thousands are preparing for power to be cut possibly for several days. And drastic action taken by china against the nba. We will show you why the Chinese State tv says they wont be showing nba games. We will bring you to a special event. Welcome back to mornings on 2 the time is 4 56 am, alex trebek the longtime host of jeopardy is being treated for cancer and may have to give a posting that show. Trebek says his chemotherapy treatments for pancreatic cancer make it hard for him to speak. He is 79 years old and has hosted the show since 1984. The time is 4 57 am, the Chinese State television announces they wont broadcast nba preseason games scheduled in china, this is coming as the nba fends off criticism that the nba is putting profits over principal. This started by a tweet supporting prodemocracy protesters in hong kong, that led to a statement by the nba calling the tweet regrettable for having offended the people of china. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are now criticizing the nba. There was a lot of excitement at the chase center in San Francisco last night, the Golden State Warriors hosted an event that is held every year giving the preseason, during the preseason that gives fans a behindthe scenes look at the team and their favorite players. Team officials told amber lee this years event sold out for the first time. Reporter nearly 17,000 fans filled chase center, to see the Golden State Warriors, not a game but a once eager event ca e. To show appreciation for fans. The anticipation of a new season, a new arena and new players. Im still trying to figure out the names but we are excited. Reporter the players experienced the adoration of fans, with Clay Thompson receiving the loudest t applause. Thompson was injured during the final last season which ended in the loss but he is obviously a winner in the eyes of fans. We are going all the way. We are waiting for clay to get back, lets go play. Reporter warriors and players interacted with fans, the one he goes to the the money goes to the worst foundation. We been to a couple of games but this is the closest weve been. It opens the sound for anybody to come and enjoy chase center and see the team and all of the new players. It is an exciting day. Reporter players invited children to come down from the stands to participate in drills. I got to shoot the ball and i met all my favorite players. Who are your favorite players . Speak neck reporter rookies were asked to show off their singing talents. One player showed off his fancy footwork with fans, open practice fans say is an unforgettable experience. I get to sit are really close and i get to see all my favorite players up close. It is really good for the fans. Reporter the next preseason game is thursday night, the warriors opened the regular season october 24 right here at chase center. In San Francisco, amber lee, ktvu fox 2 news. Any power being off, theres a lot of things that can go terribly wrong. Several bay area communities expect to lose power soon as the wind gets stronger increasing the fire danger. How hundreds of thousands of pg e customers may be affected, people scramble before the planned power outage. And the Supreme Court takes on the first of its many hot button cases today, coming up the one case from california the court has refused to hear