Reporter good morning. There is no power at this church where evacuees have been told to go. You can see people are gathered around candles and have flashlights. The red cross is here providing blankets, food and coffee. With me i have one of the evacuees, eric, you said your family was asleep and he woke up you live in this neighborhood that had to be evacuated. What happened . We were fast asleep. We went to sleep early because of the blackout. There was really nothing much to do besides go to sleep. My mom who lives next door came banging on the door and she has a key so she came in and said wake up. Weve got to go. There is a fire. We have to evacuate. So we got dressed in a little bit of a panic. We werent sure what to take and in the end we just left. Reporter did you see the fire or smell the smoke . Smell the smoke when we went outside. Could not smell it from inside. Could not see the fire. It was on the other side of the neighborhood. Reporter described her was the neighborhood. Is there a lot of open space . Dry grass . A small neighborhood. Maybe 140 homes surrounded by pastures of grass and hills. Definitely a fire concern. I always wondered what would happen if those hills caught on fire. Reporter all of us were told to prepare but now having this be a reality for you, how would you describe that . Definitely, literally a wake up call. I think you have to think in advance what to take on the way out of the, maybe we shouldve taken those documents we thought we would take and in the end we did not take. We need to think a little harder on what to do the next time it happens if it happens again. Reporter how is your family doing . Your kids look like youre staying warm in the car. They are doing fine. I think they will leverage this into missing school tomorrow. Its could be a win for them. We are doing fine. Speak reporter thank you. If we can show you the church again. You can see the evacuees coming in and out. The red cross has been providing blankets to keep you warm. It is pretty cold. Residents i spoke to told me the power went out around 11 00 last night. Everybody in the dark when they got these evacuation orders. No structures have been burned at this point but 140 are threatened. Firefighters are making progress on this fire at this point. 70 contained. Elissa harrington, ktvu fox 2 news. Good news is now 70 contained. We spoke to the Fire Department come moragaorinda, saying the wind was not bad out there this morning so thats good news. The fire can create its own weather. They jump on that so 70 is good. Tell us about the other areas of concern. The wind can be pretty bad. Mainly higher elevation. And also after the valley so far. People say look. We are getting gusts from 6070 Miles Per Hour. Mount diablo had a guest at 75. Mount st. Helena, 77. The Santa Cruz Mountains, 60 Miles Per Hour. Thats where the National WeatherService Radar site is located. 3540 over the caldecott. Mount tam, 36. Airflow is offshore. Thats the direction the wind is coming from. From ukiah down to san jose that is in easterly or northeasterly breeze. Wind advisories in the North East Bay hills until 3 00. This will slide south. Santa cruz mountains make it on this as well. Maybe 50 Miles Per Hour gust. Red flag warning. Most locations it ends at 5 00. Some in the north may end up sooner but lets just say today is another red flag day. 50s on the temperatures. Lafayette, fortier park upper 50s and low 60s. A lot of thisis winddriven for now and there are some good humidity is in the u te can see 17 in oakland over the caldecott. 13 at atlas peak. And travis, its rolling. 40 Miles Per Hour. The same toward vacaville. Unfortunately the napa airport is not been reporting data since midnight. Concord and oakland have a slight north dorr northeast breezes. We are still in that northerly direction. The big strong deep trough is moving east. As it does things will start to calm down but not until later this afternoon. On the peninsula, a lot of 40s. Upper 40s. 50s and 60s. A lot of missing data. On the coast youre getting 60s on the san mateo coast. Look for sunshine today. Breezy or windy at times. High fire danger. Things will be better tomorrow. We get more of a westerly breeze or a decrease in the easterly component. High fire danger with us for one more day. Im going to start with a fire in marin county that was just reported a few moments ago. Actually just reported as a large fire if you moments ago. Southbound 101 at the tamalpais drive. Southbound 101 traffic is going to be slow in the area briefly but its more of a concern for the Fire Department. Away and you can see traffic is not really affected. It looks like the fire may be out but i want you to know about it. Lets talk about the Altamont Pass and westbound 580. That traffic is going to be okay driving through the Altamont Pass. After slowing before that on 580 and 205 and getting up to Castro Valley. Northbound 880, a crash near high street. It was there and blocking lanes. I saw chp doing a traffic break but traffic never really got busy because its so early. At the bay bridge we have a little backup. 5 07 am. Tens of thousands around the bay area have no power this morning because of the pg e power shut off. Last night just after 10 pm pg e started power shutoffs in the east bay, the south bay and santa cruz county. Youre looking at video from orinda in the east bay last night. Just after the power went out and the city was plunged into darkness. Crews put up portable stop signs at intersections where the stop lights went out. Earlier yesterday pg e shot off power to parts of the north bay all because of the red flag warnings and the possibility of high wind. At this point more than 350,000 homes and businesses in the bay area have no power. The first phase of the pg e Power Outages began in parts of sonoma, napa and marin county early yesterday morning. Then last night, pg e shutdown power to parts of the east bay, the south bay and santa cruz county. Sonoma county have the highest number of homes and businesses without power. There are about 70,000 pg e customers affected by the shuttle. Some Traffic Signals are out which led to accident. Santa rosa Police Responded to 20 accidents yesterday. Half of them resulted in injuries. And people are frustrated. More money needs to be spent on safety over profits. Longterm, people will not be tolerating this. In the meantime we are pulling together and making the best of it. Santa rosas Kaiser Hospital is in the outages and now operating on emergency power. Only urgent procedures are being performed. Some incoming patients have been diverted to other facilities. This morning people in different parts of the east bay are starting this day with no power. The power went out just before 11 00 in areas including orinda and moraga while many homes lost power, the streetlights stayed on for several hours overnight running on battery power. In the meantime orinda and other cities have spent money on generators, fuel and staffing for Community Centers with phone charging stations as well as water. We worry about our seniors in the community. Fragile individuals who require , for example, electricity to provide selfhelp support services. Reporter east bay m. U. D. Said it spent more than 400,000 on backup generators and 75,000 on fuel because of the plan power outage. The uncertainty of the situation is adding to the frustrations of people in the outages zones. They say the pg e website detailing the outages are crashing because of so many people trying to log on. Since people dont know how long the shutoffs will last, they are stocking up on emergency supplies. Ace hardware, the store in oakland, ran out of batteries, lanterns and generators by noon. Homeowners ithe Berkley Hills area are questioning why pg e attorney off the power while neglecting to take care of Hazardous Conditions that construct the fires such as tree limbs next to the electrical lines. Some experts say pg es preemptive Power Outages this week could cost homeowners and businesses more than 1 billion. The director of the claimant Energy Program policy said the Economic Impacts could fall any wide range between 65 million to 2. 5 billion depending on how long the outages last and where they occur. These figures were calculated by usine interruption cost estimate calculator developed by Lawrence Berkeley national lab. Several their area schools are canceling classes today because of the Power Outages. Oakland unified says classes have been canceled at nine of its goals. Uc berkeley cancel class today again. And there are Additional Closures in sonoma, napa and santa clara counties. We have more information on a website, ktvu. Com. You can find information on School Closures and also a link from pg e that allows people to search for their home address to get the latest status update but again the website is having problems so hopefully they get that worked out. We are still following the latest on that wildfire burning and moraga forcing evacuations. We do have a crew on the scene. Plus, officials at sfo got an urgent call from a plane that needed to make an emergency landing. After the break we tell you what caused the emergency and forced the pilot to turn around. Not fair to make everybody else pay the price of pg es longterm and chronic negligence. Calls for pg e to make changes to its procols. We have the utilitys response. We do have a commute that is going to be busy if youre driving on the bridges. We let you know more straight ahead. Some good gusts and Higher Elevations of to 75 Miles Per Hour at mount diablo and good gusts. It took a while to get going but its here now. You know when youre at ross and your new fall look just keeps Getting Better . Check this out thats yes for less. Score a headtotoe look youll love and save 20 to 60 percent off Department Store prices. At ross. Yes for less. And you get first dibs on that brand. At that price . Thats yes for less. Seriously, get the fall brands and styles you love and save 20 to 60 off Department Store prices. At ross. Yes for less. Welcome back to mornings on 2. We are following breaking news in the east bay where a wild fire is burning and moraga and there are evacuations. Its called the merrill fire and its burned more than 40 acres and is 70 contained this started around 1 am near merrill circle north and Sanders Ranch road and Contra Costa County. Police ordered the evacuations for People Living along Sanders Ranch road, Maryland Drive and herrington road. About 1 am we heard honking and then we smelled smoke and we could see the flames pretty clearly from our deck. It was on the hill overlooking juliana court, Sanders Ranch, which is the street thats like a court right off of Maryland Drive where we live. Merrill circle. Spencer larson told us it was breezy overnight and then it started to pick up in parts of town. The family actually left the home before the mandatory evacuations took effect. Most pg e customers said they understand the need for safety but is still frustrated with the outages. Greg lee tells us about the changes some are calling for and how the utility is responding. Not fair to make everybody else pay the price of pg es longterm and chronic negligence. Reporter mark toney echoing the frustrations of many pg e customers finding themselves in the dark during this Public Safety power shut off. He is the executive director of an advocacy group, turn. If pg e had spent the money we gave them on trimming the trees and maintaining their power lines safely, we would not be in this position. Reporter he said they shot off should be a last resort. Pg e continues to say they do not take this decision lightly and safety is a priority. They also say the company has been working on improvements but in its latest filing to a federal judge pg e says its completed less than one third of its tree trimming work this season. Pg e has faced major scrutiny from state senator jerry hill who represents san bruno where a 2010 pg e gas line exploded took eight lives. The Embattled Company warned this could happen again. We do want to make sure our customers are prepared for potential additional Public Safety power shutoffs this year. We are still in the midst of wildfire season. Reporter greg lee, ktvu fox 2 news. State senator scott weiner in San Francisco is proposing able to restrict power shutoffs. In a tweet he said , quote, its hard to overstate the impact of this massive rolling blackout. He says he hopes his bill will set clear standards for when utilities can pull the plug the problem i have is that pg e appears to be erring on the side of going as broad as possible and shutting off power for millions of people potentially and thats not okay. The bill would impose hourly fines against the utilities during plant back out and prevent them from charging customers for service during power shutoffs. The legislature is expected to hold hearings on the bill in january. Thats a big deal. Sal is coming back and he is watching the commute. Right now we do have traffic that is doing okay. Im looking around in a dont see anything unusual. Weve seen a couple of crashes but for the most part it has been a decent drive. As we look at the northbound onetoone commute from gilroy to san jose, it continues to be a nice commute with a little bit of slowing in morgan hill. That i will say will be slow getting up there and into san jose with no major issues. No problems in downtown san jose getting up to highway 17 and traffic here is moving well westbound bay bridge. A little bit of slowing at the toll plaza. At 5 19 am. Lets bring steve in. Thank you, sir. Lets get to it. Im spending all morning writing people back. Lets get to it. The wind did not pick up yesterday but finally did late in the evening and overnight. By the way, just to let you know there was hardly any breeze yesterday at all at the Sonoma County airport and the committee was 3 . 3 without a breeze. Now the wind has picked up. Mount st. Helena, 77 Miles Per Hour. Thats a 4300 p. Mount diablo had guessed at 75. Currently at 67. Mount tam, 36. Oakland hills, mt. Umunhum in the Santa Cruz Mountains, 60. Everything is still offshore. Thats the direction the wind is coming from. Thats the surface airflow so it goes from land to see. It will be much with us most of the day. Wind advisory until 3 00 today. Does not mean a 3 00 things will shut down but thats when things should start to lighten up. The pressure gradients were relax and the wind will decrease with gusts up to 50 above 2303. Red flag warning for just about everyone. Even dunk with the Santa Cruz Mountains, they could extend that but for most it will be 5 00 today. 40s, 50s and 60s. 02 morocco sites anyone is reporting. Theres also a saint marys site its not reporting. I have looked. 40s, 50s and 60s. Big spreads on these terms. If you dont have a breeze its probably pretty cold where you are but if you do come up in the hills you can save your gusting at 20. Humidity in the Oakland Hills at 70 . At black diamond, above clayton, 70 . Atlas p, 13 . Timidity is very low in were getting and easterly breeze. Napa airport is not been reporting since midnight. For the love of you know what please get that fixed. That is very important. Fairfield, 23 gusting to 37. Vacaville, gusts up to 40. Concord and oakland have a northeastern and easterly breeze but you dont have to go far to go from 40 Miles Per Hour to almost calm. Really deep vigorous system is kicking out in the plains as it moves these things will start to calm down. 64 at sfo. Redwood city, 48. You dont see that all the time. 49 in san leandro. The city is 64. A lot of 50s and 60s. Vacaville and fairfield in the low 60s because of the wind. Santa cruz is at 48. Double cola, 45. San jose, 60. Saratoga, 49. A lot of data missing and the reasons are obvious. They dont have power. As far as the system goes after it moves it will be sunny with temperatures still mainly in the upper 70s but the wind will hold any get close to some low to mid 80s. High fire danger until 5 00. 60s, 70s and 80s on the temperatures. Windy at times but that will decrease. It will be cold tomorrow morning but sunny and cool are going into the weekend. We continue to follow that wildfire forcing evacuations in moraga. 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That game was never in question. The cardinals scored a postseason record 10 runs in the first inning and cruised to the win. A new poll says the tides are shifting on impeachment. Next, the democratic residential candidate, joe biden, what hes seeing. We have breaking news this morning. The merrill fire burning in moraga has forced evacuations. We have the latest development when we come back. Good morning. We are off to a decent start. You will see some slowing out there but for the most part we are off to a nice start on 80. Still some costs and Higher Elevations. Another day of high fire danger. After today things will be okay but the wind has picked up for many when it wasnt there yesterday. Good morning and welcome back to mornings on 2. Thsday, october. M ve clark. Im pam cook. We continue to follow the newest developments of the wildfire in the moraga area. Moments ago we learned most evacuees are allowed to go back to their homes. Elissa harrington is at saint monicas catholic church. New information and you are talking to someone now. Reporter good morning. Evacuees are surrounded by flashlights and candlelight that with me i have the moraga over the fire chief to give us an update. Good morning, chief. Who can go home and when can they start going come . Were in the process of repopulating the majority of Sanders Ranch road people live on the upper end of merrill circle b delayed in their ability to repopulate wiley clear a fire apparatus and crews still working in the area to fully contain the interior pockets of the fire. It sounds like they are announcing now people can head to their cars. Can you tell us about the fire . How much burned and how close to get to homes . Approximately 60 acres, the area burned at this time. Thats a rough estimate. As the sun comes up we can visualize the fire. The fire got very close to homes. Several homes, their fences burned. It was the decisive actions of the initial firefighters on the scene that were able to prevent the spread of fire into the homes as well as feels management and vegetation controlled by the Sanders Ranch a. Reporter pg e to shut off power last night. Does that impact firefighting abilities at all . No impact at all. Not windy here. Wasnt windy with a fire was burning. On the ridge top the wind was howling and when, when you get weather and topography, the fire can make rapid spread. The first firefighters on the scene reported rapid rates of spread up the hill that caused them to have to change their tactics to focus on protecting homes and that allow the fire to spread which resulted in larger acreage however no loss of homes. In these conditions we have to prioritize. They prioritize their actions to protect the homes and made the right call. While the fire spread further than it may have otherwise, there was no loss of structures. Reporter thank you. As you can see people are starting to pack up and many are getting ready to go home. Firefighters did have to evacuate about 100 people. There are 140 homes in the area near where this fire was spreading. I spoke with several families this morning and he told me many of them were asleep when just before 1 am some of them smelled smoke and others had neighbors and friends banging on the door telling them there was a fire. They had to drive down the hill as quickly as possible. Some only able to grab their bags and their pets and flashlights. Very concerning. We did learn that no structures were burned and firefighters and police say the Homeowners Association in the Sanders Ranch neighborhood took a lot of measures to cut brush and cut down trees and make a lot of Defensible Space in the area. They say that helped greatly as they were fighting this fire. Elissa harrington, trend 10. We continue to follow the weather. Thats been a big concern. Red flag warnings around much of the bay area today. Steve talking about where the big concerns are. Im here. I have a few things im doing. I know. The red flag until this evening . 5 00 for most. Lets get the wind speeds. I realize there were many last night and a lot has changed overnight. Mount diablo, 75. Mount st. Helena, 77. Oakland hills, 40. Mt. Umunhum, 60. Mount tam and east bay hills, 3540. The wind direction is still offshore even at the surface. You can see it east, northeast. If you have travel plans on i 80, hang on. 37 Miles Per Hour with gusts in travis and vacaville of 40 Miles Per Hour. Davis, 31 out of the north. And in the east bay hills we are looking for low humidity. Gusts from 253540 Miles Per Hour. Humidity in the teens and is mainly in easterly or northeasterly breeze. The wind advisory for the east bay hills and north bay until 3 00. Could easily get gusts over 50 above 2500 feet. And the red flag for most goes until 5 00. They should broadbrush it and say most of today will be a red flag warning. Hi 70s and 80. Sal is here. Where would you like to begin . We will check solano county. I want to show you that 80 westbound if you are driving on the vallejo freeway is still looking okay. There is slowing on 37 heading over to 121 and on 80 after highway 4 some slowing. And also slowing on 80 near 70 zero. The venetia bridge looks okay. South bend 680 looks good. Westbound highway 4, slowing in pittsburg. We are off to a gentle star. We do not have a lot of slowing or incidents at the bay bridge. Its full strength and backed up for a 10 minute delay already. Lets go back to the desk. More people in the bay area have no power this morning. Pg e has activated phase 2 of its Public Safety power shutoff. Affecting parts of the east bay, the south bay and santa cruz county. You are looking at video from orinda last night just after 10 30 pm when the power went off there. Earlier yesterday pg e shut off power to parts of the north bay, all because of the red flag warnings and the possibility of strong wind. In the south bay the city of morgan hill, there is a curfew where pg e has shut off power. The police are out there patrolling areas and enforcing this curfew in areas with no power. It applies only to pedestrians to cut down on loitering, especially in downto morgan hill. You are still allowed to drive and check up on your neighbors. That is not considered loitering. We do not want people to feel like they cant check on their neighbor or be on their own property. Its walking around, loitering around areas that dont have any power. This is just to make sure we keep the community safe. The curfew in morgan hill will stay in effect until 6 30 am when it will be light enough for you to see even without power. Pg e has shut off power to parts of the south bay. In santa clara county, 38,000 customers lost power. One of the areas affected is the alum rock foothills and almaden in south san jose. And for the second day in a row the nine and for the second day in a row the 9000 students at the alum rock scotus would not have class today. We are no different than our neighbors throughout the bay area that are inconvenienced by the way this has been ruled out and the fact this is a decision that pg e thought was a good idea. San jose police and fire are adding extra patrols to respond to 911 calls but they say they do not have enough Police Officers to staff every intersection where the lights are out. There reminding drivers to treat every intersection where the lights are not working as a fourway stop. A new fox news poll is out saying more americans now support the impeachment inquiry of President Trumps. According to a fox news poll, 51 of voters polled now say the president should be impeached. 4 believe the president should be impeached but not removed. 40 said President Trumps should not be impeached. You do have a group of voters were now sitting there thinking, i dont really know that i like what happened with the ukraine call. I dont really like what the president is doing necessarily in his job as president but i dont know this is the right answer for that. Not surprisingly democrats overwhelmingly favor impeachment while only 13 of republicans feel that way. The president had a job Approval Rating of july 1945 . Now its down to 43 . Apple has removed an app that allows the protesters in hong kong to report police movement. Apple cider removed the app because authorities in hong kong said protesters were using it to attack police. In china and the people daily, the newspaper of the communist Party Published an editorial that accused apple of aiding rioters in hong kong. President trumps is reacting to the growing tension between china and the nba. Beijing reacting negatively after daryl morey the general manager of the Houston Rockets tweeted his support for protesters in hong kong. That tweet has since been deleted and morey apologize for what was perceived as criticism of the chinese government. The President Trump is calling out Golden State Warriors coach steve kerr after he chose not to answer a question about the controversy. I watched the way that, like, kerr, popovich, and some of the others were pandering to china and yet to our own country its like they dont respect it. Like they dont respect it. I said, what a difference. Isnt it sad . Very sad. To me its very sad. The in the accounts of events leading up to games scheduled to be played in china. The commissioner said the league still expects the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets will play the game set for this week however chinese officials are not saying if they plan to allow those games to go on as scheduled. A very busy thursday. Fire crews are busy, closely watching for wildfires despite the pg e power shut off. Next we ridelong with oakland firefighters to see how they have been preparing in the east bay. Plus, the fight against vaping is ramping up. Next, details on what lawmakers, School Districts and teenage activists are doing to fight that Public Health crisis. Good morning. You can see traffic is moving along pretty well if you are driving around the bay bridge getting into San Francisco. We tell you more about its coming up. There are those who will say that youre too fat. Too skinny. Too hard. Too soft. Too old. Too much. Too unexpected. Too limited. And to them we say too bad. Because at kaiser permanente, we believe that everyone deserves the right to thrive. Welcome back to mornings on 2. We are still following breaking news and Contra Costa County of a wildfire burning in moraga. People have been evacuated but we found out minutes ago some of the evacuees are getting ready to go back home. We will keep you posted on that. The merrill fire has burned more than 40 acres. So far its 70 contained. It started around 1 am near merrill circle north and Sanders Ranch road and Police Issued evacuation orders for people in the area. Some of the evacuees gathered at the Safeway Store on moraga way. Others are at the other Evacuation Center at st. Monicas church. Some of the evacuees talked about the sudden overnight evacuations. Quite honestly i was a little bit confused but then i got really worried just because if it is going to be a forced evacuation where the cops start stepping and telling us we have to leave moraga my first thought was, i dont know where im going to go. I dont have friends and family in the area who also would be able to have us. Most of my friends live in moraga also so i was worried about everyone else. She told her she and her family are waiting it out in the Church Parking lot until they find out more from the firefighters who told us the evacuation orders have been lifted for about 70 of the 140 homes that were evacuated. Since most of the bay area is under a red flag warning Fire Departments are increasing patrols. Ktvu road along with a crew on a special fire engine , one of three extra vehicles roving the Oakland Hills. Fire crews say that area is particularly dangerous because of the terrain, making it difficult for them to put out any fires. The neighborhood near the park has winding streets and cars parked on the side of the road that can get in the way of the fire trucks. You see these trees over growing the power lines. In the event we have high wind these branches come down, you drop the power line across the road. This road is unusual now. These people are unable to get in and out and we cant get by. The firefighters watch the ground and police are patrolling the skies. In dublin the Emergency Operations center for the Alameda CountySheriffs Office is now open. And it will be staffed around the clock with everyone working 12 hour shifts. Workers at the oakland zoo are making sure the most vulnerable animals are taken care of during the plant shut off. Managers closed the zoo yesterday in preparation for the outage. Workers brought in generators to bring their total to eight. The generators are for climate regulated habitats for endangered species. Generators are also for refrigerators to prevent the food for the animals from spoiling. Frank somerville went on facebook to check in on how you are dealing with the shutoffs and we received hundreds of responses. Here are a few of them. Brian king and petaluma share this photo and wrote, poker night at the king household. Living the 19th century lifestyle with frozen gallon Water Bottles in my chest freezer hoping to lasted out. And take a look at this photos sent in by viewer anna. She wrote, cooked on the gas stove using l. E. D. Candles and watching the emmy winning, flee back, we downloaded on the ipad last night in advance. Making the best of the situation up here in santa rosa. You can share your photos with us why the power is out. Go to ktvu. Com or connect with us on social media. Lawmakers and teachers across the country are coming together to end the vaping epidemic. The number of states have issued temporary bands on a flavored vaping products including several in the bay area. Now many School Districts are filing lawsuits against the San Franciscobased ecigarette manufacture, juul. This comes at the number of serious illnesses tied to e cigarette use continues to climb. We have details on the nationwide efforts to combat the Public Health crisis. Reporter the crackdown on the Vaping Health crisis is firing up. Washington is the latest date to issue a temporary ban on flavored vaping products. At a hearing wednesday, Health Officials unanimously voted to pass the emergency rule, however, not everyone was on board. Vape store owners against the ban say it will send a smokers back to the pack. The serious part of all this are the hundreds, hundreds of customers that have told me they will go back to cigarettes. Reporter meanwhile juul labs is being blamed for fueling the epidemic. Three School Districts across the country are now suing the nations largest ecigarette maker, accusing the company of intentionally marketing its products to teenagers. They actually took a page out of the old tobacco playbook and determined that if they hoped kids on nicotine young they would have customers for life. Reporter lawsuits arent the only things knocking on juul office door. At a rally wednesday, dozens of protesters swarming outside the companys offices in washington, d. C. Office door. At a rally wednesday, dozens of protesters swarming outside the companys offices in washington, d. C. Young activists calling on their peers to stop vaping immediately. I never realized how addictive it was until it was almost too late. So far more than 1000 cases of vaping related lung illnesses have been reported with at least 18 deaths confirmed. Of those cases about 80 are patients under 35 years old according to the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Happening today, protests by students, parents and teachers against the Oakland Unified School district. They do not want any Public Schools closed and are taking action against the secretary of Education Betsy Devos and jonathan climb, the executive director of go Public Schools oakland. Demonstrators say both have contributed to Board Members personal campaigns resulting in those Board Members voting to close Public Schools and replace them with charter schools. They will be protesting at Todays SchoolBoard Meeting in oakland. The city of San Francisco and mayor london breed have funded a new program for teachers who work directly with young kids. The program is called, compensation and retention, early educators stipend. It will distribute 23. 9 million in funding over the next three years, supporting 2500 eligible teachers. Each eligible teacher will get an annual stipend of 4000. The first stipends will be issued by the end of this year. Its a competition thats become a tradition in San Francisco. Today is the 55th cable car bellringing contest. This year marks a milestone anniversary. The cable car system was designated a National Historic landmark 55 years ago. The best of the professional bloggers will be competing for trophies, prizes and the title of bellringing world champion. This is a free event starting at noon. This yearss judges include our very own sal castaneda. Youve been a judge out there before. He tried her hand that it. Its harder than it looks. You know it when you hear it. Dave, i think youve done Something Like this before where the guys who have the rhythm, and these are our guys who do this every day. You know it when you hear it. Have fun out there. Thank you. Good morning. Lets go to the Altamont Pass. I do see slow traffic there approaching the past and on 205, the tracy commute is pretty robust. Nothing out of the ordinary. Once you get to livermore it looks better and driving over to Castro Valley you see traffic that is all right. No major issues on interstate 880. An earlier accident near high street that cleared up early enough not to be a major problem and also westbound bay bridge traffic looks okay. They also were talking, or they were clearing up a grass fire or brush fire on the freeway on southbound 101 near the tamalpais exit. That is now out. Hold on, sal. Im trying to do too much. Go ahead and toss to me now. And now, meteorologist, steve paulson. Thank you. That was pretty good. Okay. Lets get to this and then ill get to current weather. A lot of people are asking i heard something about rain next week. Can you clarify . Inquiring minds want to know. There is a possibility. Let me say possibility. This typhoon right there was a hurricane at one point and it wouldve been a category 5. It will now impact japan. This is in the western pacific. It is lifting northward at 12 Miles Per Hour when it re curves and heads up it will head up toward the aleutians and merge with another system that will do what we call turn extratropical. Some of the forecast models have been dropping the remains of this as a system on us next thursday. The problem is the details. Its a week away and one day they have a ton of rain and the next its dry. Thats the problem. If there isnt any rain it would be a week from today and that would be the source. Wind gusts, 75 at mount diablo. Mount st. Helena, 77. 3660. Mt. Umunhum, in the Santa Cruz Mountains including the National WeatherService Radar site is there, 60 Miles Per Hour. Everything is driving offshore, eastern northeast. Out to the i84, napa airport is not been reporting data since midnight. If you were at the napa airport and you say im not getting information, thats probably why. They are not reporting. I hope they get that fixed. Travis, vacaville and davis, 30 40 Miles Per Hour out of the north and also in the Oakland Hills above the caldecott, Northeast Park the same above the oakland zoo. Black diamond, 23. At atlas p, 30. Humidity in the teens. The wind advisory in the north and east bay hills will go until 3 00. Red flag warning foremost until 5 00. Relative humidity yesterday without much of a breeze in santa rosa 03 . Dew points were amazingly low. Even without the breeze, very critical fire conditions. Look at that deep system sweeping across. Denver at 22 and looking for record lows in the teens and look at the division and the boundary between the cold air mass and the warm. Bismarck, 29. Minneapolis, 55. This will be a big player as far as temperatures go. Burns, oregon is 10. Starting to move into the sierra now but the teens and eastern nevada. A really strong cold system. We have some of that cool air but not a lot. Temperatures are all over the place. The city at 64. Berkeley, 52. 59 in tiburon. A lot of 60s in San Francisco. Lots of sunshine today. Breezy and windy until later this afternoon. Tomorrow morning will be cold. 70s and 80s today on the temperatures. Over the weekend we see partly cloudy skies. Cooler going into sunday and monday. We are following breaking news in the east bay. Overnight wildfire near st. Marys college in moraga forced evacuation we are there. We will bring you another live report in mites. Our coverage continues of the massive pg e power outage. Coming up, what experts say the power shutdowns could end up costing more than 1 billion. You know when youre at ross and your new fall look just keeps Getting Better . Check this out thats yes for less. Score a headtotoe look youll love and save 20 to 60 percent off Department Store prices. At ross. Yes for less. Its been reported that theres a cyberattack on business every 39 seconds. Ouch. I dont even want to think aboutt. Comcast business has a solution. 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Yes for less. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Turkish military jets have started attacking northern syria. The jets are supported by turkish tanks along the border between turkey and syria. Kurdish troops have been fighting alongside american troops and still prompt pulled them out earlier this week. The turkish president said the attacks will help bring peace to that region. Translator together with our commanders we will break down the tape recorder. We are determined our combat is not against civilians. Steps will be taken against the will not be taken against civilians. Curtis troupe say there have been several civilian casualties to the invasion has been condemned by many World Leaders but so far no one has stepped in to help the kurds. Former today show host matt lauer denying accusations he sexually assaulted a former colleague. Former nbc news staff are Brooke Nevils told author ronan farrow that matt lauer raped her while they were on assignment at the Olympic Games in sochi, russia. Yesterday the today show anchor Savannah Guthrie talked about the allegation. I know it took much for our colleagues forward then. Not easy now and we support her. Matt lauer wrote a letter denying it saying Brooke Nevils account is false and cleans the incident she describes was consensual and was a beginning of a two month long affair they had. It was a bit of a panic and literally a wakeup call. Mandatory evacuations overnight in moraga. The efforts to get a wild fire under control as people were rushed from their homes early this morning. That firefighting is happening in the dark. Major parts of the north bay, the east bay and south bay are still without power this morning. We have the latest numbers updated and when the power could be restored. Good morning. Thank you for waking up with us here on mornings on 2. Thursday, october 10. Im pam cook. Im dave clark. Lets get back to that breaking news weve been following all morning. The wild fire burning in moraga that forced evacuations overnight. Pretty scary as it got close to some homes. Around 1 am, burning near merrill circle north and Sanders Ranch road. Moraga Police Originally ordered evacuations for People Living in the area but about 30 minutes ago, half of the evacuees were allowed to go back to their home. Allie rasmus is in moraga with the latest. What are they telling you about the firefight this morning . Reporter they are feeling good about it. All the forward progress has been stopped so they have been able to