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Good morning and thank you for joining us on mornings on 2. Thursday, october 24. Im pam cook. Im dave clark. We are starting with breaking news. A fastmoving wildfire pushed by powerful wind fcing mandatory evacuations east of geyserville in northeast in Sonoma County. Crews say the fire is burning at a dangerous rate. We will check in in just a moment. Cristina rendon is in that area. We will check on the weather. And it could actually get windier when the sun comes up. Is going to start decreasing. We talked to a sergeant up there. He said he saw 60 and ive seen that. It will be 3040 around 1500 feet up to 3000 feet or 4000 feet. Alms all observations are showing low humidity. The temperatures are warm. Read ranch, 1300 feet. Not selena west has gusted 58. The last i saw was 45. Some may be coming down a bit but still Strong Enough and you are getting a northerly direction or northeast. Windsor has a north east at 12. There is a north, northwest throughout much of napa county. North east in Sonoma County High Pressure to the north and High Pressure in nevada and low pressure here. High pressure doesnt like low pressure so what does it with wind. That will start to relax later on but humidity is dry. In the teens for some. It may get a little lower. And temperatures a very warm. 77 in windsor. 78 in penngrove. These are all wind drift. Tiburon, 71. It looks like another wind event is on tap for sunday and that one could be even stronger. Today we see decreasing wind throughout the day. Highs in the 80s and 90s. We get a break and then we need to focus on sunday. Sal is here. Back to the desk. We will check in with sal in just a moment. Cruise right now saying that fire in Sonoma County is burning at a dangerous rate. It doubled in size overnight and will continue to burn out of control with 0 containment. Cristina rendon is in the area this morning and joins us by phone. What can you tell us about the wind . Steve said they may die down but it hasnt been good. Reporter it hasnt been good and just driving up here as we were leaving the oakland area, coming up to this area, we could feel the wind on the car. This is a very big fire and we got our first look as we were driving north coming through rohnert park. We could see the flames in the distance as we were looking to the horizon line. We were heading north near the community of healdsburg and geyserville. Right now we are in healdsburg trying to make her ways to the media area and we can see an orange glow in the sky east of us. And you really can tell its big from where you are seeking imagine what its like for firefighters in the thick of this fight. Lets get to some numbers to give people an idea of whats going on. The fire was first transported around 9 30 pm. The wind really push those flames. Around midnight it was 400 acres and th it just exploded in the last few hours to 10,000 acres. Right now there is 0 containment. Its burning out of control. Cal fire is trying to get a handle on it but they have not been able to get any helicopters into the air. They said the wind was too strong. Theyre hoping to get those choppers up at sunrise. This is being called the kincade fire. It started, we understand, along kincade road near the geysers geothermal field. Cal fire saying they cannot get up with their choppers in the air so they are working on the ground right now. Thankfully right now there are no reports of injuries or any homes or structures that have been burned. But there are mandatory evacuations in place for people because this thing is moving fast. At this point these are mandatory evacuations that went in just after midnight. These are areas along red winery road, Alexander Mountain road, state highway 128 from geysers road to river road including the red rock casino area. All of that area has been told they need to leave and get to a safe place. They have evacuation site set up. One at Windsor High School and the other at Healdsburg Community center. Those are two places people can go to get to safety. At this point the cause of the fire is unknown. We just know its moving fast. We know this started in an area where pg e had implemented their Public Safety power shut off and we did get a statement from pg e. They said they are aware of the fire and it was near the Public Safety power shut off footprint and they are working to gather additional information. That was a quote from them. We are trying to understand what exactly that means but we know that at least power in the area was shut off when this power started. This will be a long investigation but at this point the concern is for the Public Safety. They need to get to safe ground if theyre in the area, of eastern areas in the hills. Its burning near wine country land so that will be a concern, im sure come up for some wineries. At this point no one has been hurt and this fire is moving dangerously fast because the wind is so strong. I know you said you are in the healdsburg area trying to make your way closer to the Evacuation Center and to get more information but what can you tell us. Under the big concern with wind, embers blowing, they could travel miles and also the air quality in the area. Reporter we can physically smell the smoke in our car. Its coming through the air vents and we are quite a distance away. In terms of the air quality, i would say its not too good right now where we are in healdsburg as we make our way north and we can see into the distance, we are too far to see how those embers are flying or spreading but we can see a big low and a big cloud above that glow. There is going to be some activity in terms of the fire spreading quickly and in terms of the fact that it started so small with 300 400 acres and just exploded to 10,000. Im sure the next update will show that its grown larger. We just havent heard from them yet. Cristina rendon. Keep us posted as far as traffic goes as you get closer to that area a lot of people will be evacuating and eating that information. Thank you for joining us with epic we will let her go so she can get closer to the Evacuation Centers. Sal, you are watching that area i would imagine it will increase the traffic. There are so people under an Evacuation Order to be prepared and some people, honestly, if they are still suffering from the stress of two years ago and they may try to get out of there sooner because its just too worrisome. There will be closures and a lot of Police Presence in the area. So far 101 through the area has not been significantly affected but that may change. Lets go to the area we can see traffic is moving along okay if youre coming in from tracy. There is some slowing on 205 and 580 as is normally the case. As you drive over to Castro Valley in hayward, its a nice drive and interstate 880 in oakland looks okay. Clear weather here. Visibility is good at the bay bridge. Also the traffic is beginning to get a little more crowded getting across the bridge. 5 09 am. Lets go back to the desk. As expected early this morning pg e kara duffy Public Safety power shut off in San Mateo County. So far 195 customers have lost their power but ifthe high wind continues that number could go higher later this morning. And napa county more than 6000 homes and businesses have no power and in Sonoma County, they have the most without power. More than 27,000 customers have lost power. People we talked to in santa rosa say Power Outages seem to be the new reality. In santa rosa, officials said they are working with pg e to help keep people safe including using generators out there to keep Traffic Signals at the busiest intersections working. The Sonoma County Emergency Operations center has been open since tuesday. Worker said they are coordinating the countywide response. The county is also opening three Community Resource centers at 8 am. They will provide water coming airconditioning and a place to charge cell phone batteries. These centers are located at the santa rosa Memorial Veterans building on maple avenue. The cloverdale citrus fair and the Hanna Boys Center on arnold drive in sonoma. The power shut off has led to several School Closures in Sonoma County. All the schools in the Alexander Valley School District and at the geyserville unified School District are closed today. That is in the area of the fire. The Santa Rosa City School District has canceled classes at Hidden Valley elementary, Rincon Valley middle school, Maria Carrillo high school and the santa rosa accelerated charter school. The Rincon Valley union School District is shutting down five elementary schools. They are austin creek, sequoia, binkley, madrone and the sequoia campus of Rincon Valley charter schools. Pg e officials will closely watch the weather today as they decide if they can start restoring power. But now there are new concerns about another and possibly even bigger round of Power Outages as soon as this weekend. Pg e is forecast shows more fire danger with high wind sunday and monday. Steve paulson is talking about that too. The forecast shows the higher risk for power shutoffs in almost all service areas. Some of the models we look at such as the european model suggests that this could be the strongest wind event of the season. Pg e says the strong wind is expected to dry out grass and brush even more. That would increase the already high fire danger. However, pg e says no decisions have been made yet about more power shutoffs for this weekend. You can go to our website, ktvu. Com. You can go at any time. We will continue to have the very latest information on the power shutoffs. We will continue to follow that fastmoving fire burning in Sonoma County near geyserville. People are being evacuated. [ crowd chanting ]. Real chaos at an Oakland School board meeting. We will show you the Police Moving in and removing several protesters. Bay area bridge traffic looks all right. Here is san mateo bridge. A decent commute driving over to the peninsula. 6, 7, 8 big dreams start with small steps. But dedication can get you there. So just start small. Start saving. Easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. Chase. Make more of whats yours®. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Here is the latest on the breaking news in northeastern Sonoma County. Look at your tv screen. A 10,000 acre wildfire is burning right now. Its the kincade fire. It is 0 contained. Its out of control east of geyserville. Hundreds of homes are under mandatory evacuations as well as the River Rock Casino. So far no injuries are reported but the kincade fire just exploded to 10,000 acres. Thats 15. 5 square miles. We will keep you updated on this throughout the morning and make sure you check our ktvu social media accounts for updates. Oakland high schools have soil contaminated with lead. The elevated lead levels were found under pavement at the Ralph Bunche Academy in west oakland and Street Academy in the pill hill neighborhood. School and county Officials Say the soil does not pose a health risk to students because its under the blacktop and is entirely contained. Several people could Face Criminal Charges after a chaotic School Board Meeting in oakland. [ crowd chanting ] parents say they were trying to get past barricades to reach the stage at the meeting last night when they were confronted by Oakland Unified Police and security guards. The district said the barricades were brought in for safety because of takeover style protests at previous meetings. Six people were detained. We are pleading to them. Pleading to them. We are trying to get on stage to get your attention and, still, our parents have been arrested. Our teachers have been bruised. Hurt. Weve been threatened with mace and wooden clubs. And what is the scope are doing now . They are having their meetings upstairs where parents cant even make public comment. Parents have been protesting plant closures and mergers of several blue schools next school year. The district plans to hold a News Conference today. Changing gears now. At baseballs world series, the Washington Nationals are now two wins away from being world series champs. The nationals have won games on the road come up both games against the astros. Last night game, you saw that here on ktvu fox 2 , it was a blowout in later innings and the nationals one, 123. Now the world series moves to the Nations Capital tomorrow night. Ktvu fox 2 is your home for the world series. Pregame coverage begins tomorrow at 4 30 pm. The first pitch is that 5 pm. Lets check in with sal for a look at traffic. What are you watching for the commute . We are looking at the faraway commute and that like the giver to me. Driving from gilroy to san jose or beyond is going to get a little slower. I would not say its critical levels but we do have slow traffic on highway 25 as you head west over to 101. The other freeways are okay. 152 and 156 has a little slow traffic which is not out of the ordinary. In gilroy to san jose it has been a decent drive with slowing in morgan hill and the rest of it looks good out to the west valley. If youre looking at 280 in san jose, its a nice drive and we look at the east bay too. Not much going on. They bay bridge is getting filled up at the toll plaza. 5 18 am. Lets bring steve in. Head up through Sonoma County and lake county and know that napa county where the wind is offshore. Its north or northeast for just about everybody. 30 Miles Per Hour at ridge ranch, thats at 1300 feet. Healdsburg, 77, northeast at 18. Mount st. Helena, west with gusts up to 58. But still strong but not as strong as it was an hour ago but there have been gusts over 60. Windsor has come down but still northeast at five in Sonoma County into napa county you see anywhere from 1525 Miles Per Hour. Some areas are not reporting for a number of reasons. The airflow is strongly offshore. Some of it being funneled into areas. Can see how the wind flickers from land to see and that will be with us most of the day along with low humidity. Its gone up a little bit. Santa rosa 11 and now at 14 . Teens for the relative humidity in novato in fairfield. Higher to the south and east but temperatures are warm. Wind, windsor, 77. 78, penngrove. Novato, 55. Tiburon, 71. Dillon beach, 73. Red flag, high fire danger today and also on sunday it looks like. It would be two events. One this morning. The wind will decrease but it looks like it will pick up again as we head toward sunday as another system digs in. This one looks like a stronger event on sunday. The red flag will continue. Very dry. Temperatures will be warm. Not as warm this weekend. Today will be the warmest with 90s for some and very dry and gusty wind. 90s for many. San francisco make it there around 88. Santa rosa, 95. A record in the city is 90. It will be close today. The average is 68 and 52. They are way above on both. Everything is offshore. You see the low clouds are pushed into the pacific. 70s for the temperatures. Santa cruz is a little cooler. 40s and 50s in the santa cruz mountains. Signal, 68. Look at the difference for morgan hill to san martin and gillibrand. 11 degrees. Monster ridge of High Pressure equals warm temperatures and high fire danger. The wind will decrease tonight or later this afternoon. 80s and 90s on the temperatures. Cooler on saturday and then the wind will cranked up. It may be windier on sunday. City leaders around the bay area are growing more frustrated with pg e. Next, the steps san jose is taking to become energy independent. Police are investigating his string of laptop thefts at three east bay schools. How they may have broken in and what else was stolen. Welcome back to mornings on 2. We have new video to show you. A family almost being hit in phoenix. Look at this. A couple was crossing the street with the baby in the stroller. A driver ran a red light. The car then smashes into an oncoming car in the other direction just feet from this family. You can see them running across the street. After that the driver and a passenger ran away from the scene but the driver was arrested soon after on suspicion of dui. Police in alameda and oakland are looking for the people who stole computers from several school campuses. As henry lee tells us, police are investigating whether the incidents are related. Reporter doors boarded up after thieves invaded classrooms at ruby Bridges Elementary School in alameda. And stole computers. Its the latest laptop burglary and an east bay school. They broke through glass doors. Reporter it happened tuesday night when the campus was closed. Thieves shatter the glass on classrooms doors install laptops. The custodians arrived early this morning, contacted the Maintenance Department to come and clean up the glass and start securing the classrooms again. Reporter students were relocated to other classrooms as the mess was cleaned up. Is disappointing when people break into our schools and take your property. We are here to educate and take care of children. Use of public resources. They broke into the cabin and took the power tools and sifted through this. Reporter at this High School East oakland burglars may have used a credit card to slip into the campuss lab or fabrication were made. They made off with computers, power and hand tools worth tens of thousands of dollars. We dont have the tools to run the program. The classes we offer our projects we need to do are put on pause until those tools are replenished or were able to get new ones. Reporter castlemont is not alone. Many schools in oakland have been victimized by computer thieves. Anybody doing this kind of activity needs to stop because this is only hurting our kids and our schools and the city of oakland. Reporter did not just Public Schools that have been hits. That redwood day, a private school in oakland can i thieves cleaned out the library and computer lab of the laptops and desktops. They still teacher laptops that had been locked and hidden. Leads are few and the staffs. Oakland city and School Police in Alameda Police are trying to determine if the cases are related. Anyone with information about the steps is asked to call the local police department. Henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. Fire season is not over. It appears to be far from over. We are following a fire near geyserville that doubled in size overnight, fueled by strong wind and dry brush. We have an update on the conditions, the evacuations and the fight to get it under control. Plus the reason republican lawmakers stormed the closed door hearing on capitol hill and what they claim is not there about those hearings. Oh, so much. I used to think that all kale was alike. Its not. Its not . Mmmm. They look alike. [chuckles] you used to think all eye doctors were alike too. Female narrator choose a vsp private practice doctor with the orange premier banner for advanced technology and personalized attention. Schedule your annual eye exam with a private practice doctor at vsp. Com premier. This is what more looks like. Thats some nice kale. Thats swiss chard. [laughs] good morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Thursday, october 24. Im dave clark. Im pam cook. We continue to follow todays breaking news. A wild fire is burning out of control in Sonoma County near geyserville. Moments ago received word the fire jumped across highway 128, closer to the River Rock Casino which has been evacuated. The fire exploded in size. It was 5000 acres overnight but overnight moved to 7000 and the latest count is 10,000 acres. 0 containment. That is 15. 5 square miles. Cristina rendon is out there this morning. And you were on the phone with us now. What do you see and what are you hearing . Reporter we can tell the wind is strong. As we can come we can see the embers being swirled by the wind as we drive. And the smell of smoke is very strong. We are coming up to the cal fire post in healdsburg. If you seconds ago we were passed by a cal fire truck with its lights glaring, likely heading to help with that fire. As you mentioned it jumped 128 east toward River Rock Casino. Thats one of the areas they will likely be focusing on now. We have not been able to pull over to give you a good shot of the fire just because the smoke is so thick. We were getting a good shot of it near some wineries just off the freeway. We pulled off on an exit and were looking at the flames and they were going very strong, burning out of control. And in a few minutes the wind changed, the smoke got very thick and we could no longer get that vantage point. And it shows how unpredictable this fire is and will be, continue to be throughout the Morning Hours as firefighters try to get a handle on it. This kincade fire, like you said, is burning out of control. 0 containment. It started around 9 30 pm last night. We understand in the area where the kaiser geothermal field is. At this point no one has been hurt and there are no reports of injuries that we know of at this point. We are getting some incredible images overnight of how intense this fire is that the wind is whipping these flames and really pushing them and growing at a fast rate going from 300 acres burned to 10,000 acres burned and growing. Cal fire has their work cut out for them. In the last i we will hear from the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office that they have been helping with evacuations and trying to help cal fire with the inquiries with what is going on. If youre just tuning in, youre listening to Cristina Rendon in Sonoma County moving through the fire zone. Tell us about getting around on the roads for you guys. What is it like trying to move around out there . Reporter its not too bad for us because theres not too much traffic on the freeway but in terms of visibility, it is slow and poor. I would say as you approach healdsburg , if you keep going north toward cloverdale, the smoke is very thick on 101 and we had to drive pretty slowly in the area because we could not really see where we were going and we had to turn around because it was getting too dangerous. And as you do turn around and make your way down south, you can see those embers in front of you and you can see how the wind is swirling them in the air and creating these low visibility issues. You can imagine how it is for firefighters in the thick of it. Are you going to try to make your way to one of the Evacuation Centers . I know you were talking about it earlier. A number of people have been evacuated and others are under warnings to get ready to evacuate if necessary. Reporter yes. Thats right. We will try to make her way to one of the Evacuation Centers. We came to a media command post first. The cal fire command post in healdsburg. We do not see anyone here. Thats likely because everyone is out and the resources are out fighting the fire. We thought maybe we would have a cal fire spokesperson had to give us more information but its completely empty and likely because all of the crews are out dedicating those resources to the fire. I believe Windsor High School is one of those Evacuation Centers so we are trying to get to that location. And a lot of the areas along 128, many of those communities and homes have been told they need to get out because its not safe. You can see that glow in the distance and it is very big. Yes, we will try to make her way to and Evacuation Center but we have not been able to talk to anyone yet. Please be safe out there. You guys be safe. We just heard again that the fire jumped highway 128. Certainly a big concern. Cristina rendon up in that area and will check in with her throughout the morning. Right now we want to go over to steve because of the wind really was the story overnight and that fire doubled in size. 60 . Buyer creates its own wind and its own weather too. And you know that area pretty well. And with somewhat. Not as much as i used to. Topping 128, is that moving closer to holmes . I would have to look. We will check on that. We do have extreme conditions and they will be wi us most of the day. The wind throughout the day will decrease. Ryan said 71 in tiburon. The wind feels warmer than the ambient air. That is true. There are some very warm temperatures around the bay and on the coast. Tiburon at 70 now but kensington, 73. Berkeley lab, 73. Alameda at 76. And look at bodega bay in healdsburg, windsor and dillon beach, all in the 70s. Even penngrove at 76 and thats the reason why coming off of Copper Mountain and mount st. Helena, 53 Miles Per Hour. That is a 4300 feet. I think the geyserville ranch should read northeast and not west because the humidity is 10 . Also ridge ranch at 1300 feet, is probably the closest to the fire. That is a little northeast of geyserville. Thats almost 30 Miles Per Hour with 75 degrees and 10 humidity. There is the mount st. Helena, west. Some locations are not reporting. You could be a number of reasons why. Even a napa county you see 2025 Miles Per Hour. Its all of the north, northeast. The humidity continues to be very low. Teens for some. Maybe even Single Digits with relative humidity. The red flag is in full force. High wind, drive fuel and low committed to. Thank you. Here i am and we are looking at some of the commutes. So far on 80, we start with 80 to vallejo in fairfield and it looks all right. There have been no major slowdowns. Theres a little bit of slowing approaching interstate 780 and highway 37 west out of vallejo is very crowded. We have a pocket of stop and go traffic near the bridge. And there are no problems on interstate 80 from hercules to richmond or on 680. A little slowing on 242 and slowing on highway 4 and contra costa county. 18 minutes to drive from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze and another 10 15 minutes waiting at the bay bridge toll plaza. At 5 37 am. Lets go back to the desk. 33,000 pg e customers have no power right now after pg e shut off power and San Mateo County early this morning. Right now, 195 customers near woodside and la junta have lost their power but its the strong , if that win continues, that number could go higher. A napa county more than 6000 homes and businesses have no power. In Sonoma County has the most without power. The power has been cut to more than 27,000 customers. Pg e says its been taking action to limit the amount of customers affected by the power shutoffs and one way they are doing that is called segmenting parts of the service system. They are also using generators to keep other customers online. We were also able to secure backup generation for a few communities, specifically anglin , plasserville, calistoga and grass valley. Altogether slightly above 5000 customers are able to be restored via backup generation. Pg e says as soon as its meteorologist say it safe, ground crews will go back out and check power lines for any damage. Pg es ceo was also asked if the threat of wildfires can be blamed on the failure of pg e to maintain and upgrade its equipment. The fire risk has grown exponentially, particularly in this region in the last couple years. 2012, 15 of our service area was designated high fire threat. This year, 52 , more than a threefold increase in the geography of risk in that period of time. Pg e expects to get the all clear for the Current Power shutoffs by noontime today. After they have inspected each powerline segment, that part of the system can be reenergized. Pg e says it could take up to 48 hours to get everybody back online. The city of san jose is moving forward with possibly cutting ties with pg e. Mayor sam liccardo is considering the proposal to create the citys own power grid bybuying assets from the utility. San joses rules committee discussed a plan to create a local customer owned utility that would ultimately go to the full city council. The city would start by building microgrids throughout san jose and eventually take control of pg e transmission lines. But its a plan to utility already rejected in san francisco. Although pg e has stated that the Company Assets are not for sale, in fact, they are in bankruptcy court. They are for sale. And whether they like it or not, they are at the mercy of a bankruptcy judge and ultimately the cpuc. This is the time to talk about how pg e gets reorganized in a way that will fulfill the Public Interest and hopefully do a better job in providing reliable power. The full council will discuss the pros and cons of the proposal next month. The city also plans to get feedback from customers to see where they stand on the matter. The California Public Utilities Commission is set to vote on the bailout for pg e. The proposal approved by the state legislature creates a 21 billion Wildfire Insurance Fund which will be accessible to utilities who pay out damages to victims of utility caused wildfires. The vote will take place at a cpuc meeting in redding neck. Acted as plan to hold demonstration outside the meeting. They say the bailout bailout were getting updates from Sonoma County on the fast moving wildfire burning thousands of acres near geyserville right now. After the break, firefighters talk about their plan to get the fire under control while evacuating homes and businesses. If youre living with a condition, Kaiser Permanentes integrated care team will help you get through life without missing a beat. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. 6, 7, 8 big dreams start with small steps. But dedication can get you there. So just start small. Start saving. Easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. Chase. Make more of whats yours®. Welcome back. We want to go back out to Cristina Rendon who was with cal fire. We have an update on that kincade fire burning near geyserville. Good morning. What can you tell us . Reporter good morning. We were able to pull over on the side of the road and we saw a cal fire trip pulled over so we pulled over with them and started asking questions. Lets take a look at the ash you can see on the truck. Its swirling all over us like ash raining down where we are between healdsburg and geysers a bill. To give us more information on this fire is will powers with cal fire. Give us the latest information in terms of acreage and containment. As of right now we are at 10,000 acres and 0 containment. What is the firefight like in the mountains . Very roll. Not a lot of good access. Steep terrain. Its very windy right now and very dry. Reporter is the wind a big factor in why it spread so fast . We are seeing it basically exploded overnight. Yes. The wind played a big factor in pushing this fire. Reporter what can you say to people watching this and thinking, here we go again. What do they need to know right now . If youre in the area or in one of the mandatory evacuation zones and you have not left yet, we urge you to get out. Reporter what areas . That is 128 corridor, pine flat, red winery road, those areas right now. Reporter in terms of how this is spreading and moving, do you anticipate it will grow even larger in the next few hours . You cant predict that but like you said we have people on the ground. We have a dozier line in engines on the ground and when the sun comes up we will have aircraft we can put on the fire. Reporter is there reason why the had to Stay Grounded . The aircraft fly during the day. And this started in the evening so there was some difficulty there. Reporter tell us about the origin of the fire. What area did it started and why is it called the kincade fire . The kincade fire started in that area. Usually its after a road or an area of origin. That is is the area where it started. Reporter were getting reports the fire had jumped the 128 corridor going toward River Rock Casino. Are you aware of that . What can you tell us . Have not had any of that information come to me on it jumping the corridor but i know it spreading actively up there in those areas. Reporter p are under a mandatory evacuation, what are you doing or is it Sonoma County going doortodoor . Making calls . Of course you have engines and fire personnel out there but the local Sheriffs Office was going doortodoor making those evacuations door to door. Reporter do we know how understands about 300 ed . Residents and the mentor evacuation zone at this time in over 1000 in an advisory. Reporter i think one of our crew has a question back there. Do you have a question we can relay that information . I wanted to come under trying to pinpoint exactly to give people an idea of where it is. We are looking at maps trying to figure out exactly as well. I know he does not know if it jumped 128 but does he know, is it burning its burning toward the River Rock Casino. It looks like that would be between the Russian River and 101. Is 101 in any danger or is a burning toward the Russian River or away from it . Reporter the question is whether or not the fire is burning toward the Russian River or away from the Russian River . We know the fire may have jumped 128 so were trying to figure out which way its going. Is 101 in danger . As of right now and not heard anything about the 10 one quarter in danger or threatened at this time. The fire is burning south, southwesterly direction which is the northeasterly wind that was predicted. Reporter in terms of structure damage, any reports of any structure damage x we are hearing there may be some homes on red winery road that may be affected. To our residents in those areas but no reports of damage or destroyed structures at this time. Reporter anything else you can tell people who are watching this closely and the need to get out if they havent gotten out already . If you have not gotten out, you should go. If youre in one of those areas where you may be under a warning, be ready to go. Stay close to your phones and close to the next so and watch the news and social media. Reporter and give us those Evacuation Centers . One of the Healdsburg Community center and one of the Windsor High School. Reporter thank you so much for your time. We will let you get back to finding those resources for the fire and we will try to make her way north as we try to get closer to the flames to give you a better look. It is moving fast and it is unpredictable at this point so will we get a good location we will bring it to you. Cristina rendon, ktvu fox 2 news. We can see ash falling on your head so we know this is quite a fluid situation. Thank you for that update. We will keep you updated on if any businesses or homes, it is near schools and businesses in the 128 area. Special news program. 2, mike mibach sat down for a roundtable discussion on the record Bay Area Police chiefs. During the first part of the report you we hear from gary police chief scot smithee for the first time the chief opens up about that shooting at the gilroy garlic festival. Even though it was late on the last day of the garlic festival there was still thousands and thousands of people there. And comments so, when the shots rang out, those thousands of people started running and they did not stop running. As i was coming in, the streets were filled with people running away from the venue. The emotional part for me was the emotion of the family. Of the people that witnessed it. Of the officers that tried to save their lives and you could feel that emotion. The Police Chiefs of hayward and san jose joined the conversation. One part of the discussion focuses on Mass Shootings and the chiefs talked about whether assault weapons should be banned. Banning guns, is that an answer to this . I will tell you, and other record i will tell you i dont believe an assault rifle, and ar15 should be in the hands of anybody but military or law enforcement. The whole purpose of the invention of that weaponry to begin with. On the record, Bay Area Police chiefs airs tonight after thursday night football and sportswrap. Then join us for the 10 00 news. Sal his back, watching the commute. How does it look out there . For the most part the inner core of the commute is doing well. Im not seeing anything new pop up on my screens. Things could change at any moment but we are actually doing okay. I do see slow traffic popping up which is normal as i have a wide view of the map. You see a little bit of red and there is some read on 580. 580 eastbound near the zoo, that is roadwork beer repaving. This is a momentary slowdown and then slow traffic approaching hayward. We are off to a nice start. We do see typical slow traffic we see approaching the Altamont Pass and the tracy triangle. That is normal and it happens every day. I think people who drive it or used to it. Other than that its a nice start with thursday morning commute as we look at interstate 889 the coliseum and at the bay bridge we have a 10 15 minute delay and the wind here, you can see as we go to steve , you can tell these flights were not very active and today they are. In fact, lets bring steve in it right now. Some really warm temperatures already here for many. 75 in bodega bay. Healdsburg and windsor, 72. Dillon beach, 74. This is all winddriven. Most locations have a northeast breezes. Mount st. Helena, gusts at 58. Coming off of cobb, 27. Ridge ranch, 1300 feet 74 degrees and 28 Miles Per Hour with 10 humidity. Healdsburg, south, 77 degrees. 11 humidity. Windsor has turned calm at that observation but in Sonoma County and napa county, south at northwest. 22. The strongest gusts have been to the north and you can see the airflow coming around. Higher pressure in nevada. Lower pressure here and that fills it with wind and that is all offshore. Thats the direction the wind is coming from. Its coming from the north, northeast and you can see why its so warm around petaluma, santa rosa and bodega bay. They are getting that offshore breeze. Humidity in the teens. But make it into the Single Digits later on. Santa rosa looking for a high today of 95. The red flag warning is in effect. Some of the higher gusts have been about 4030 500 feet up to 6070 Miles Per Hour. This will not be a good set up for today. This is the most critical time, this morning. 90s on the temperatures. Santa rosa, 95. San francisco, 88. San jose, 90. 88 in the city. The record will be 90. 66 the low. Thats the coolest temperature since 9 43 am yesterday. Its been very warm for many of the coast everything is up and over the ridge with High Pressure. 70s for some. 74 in montera. 74, napa airport. We have nothing good really to say as far as any hope of rain or anything like that. Temperatures will start to cool after today a little bit. The cool off into saturday. Unfortunately it looks like another wind event. This one may be stronger. Not as warm with the wind could be stronger on sunday. A huge wildfire, at least 10,000 acres still burning out of control right now in Sonoma County. We will take you alive to the front lines anwe will see what firefighters are dealing with right now. The bart board may decide as soon as today whether to ban panhandling at bart stations and on bart trains. We will take a look at the issue that is getting mixed reactions this morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. The Trump Administration challenging california on the way its fighting Climate Change. The Justice Department filed a civil complaint against california yesterday. Prosecutors say california bypassed federal authority in 2013 when it signed an agreement with the canadian province of quibec to limit fossil fuel emissions in a cap and trade system. The Justice Department calls that agreement illegal saying it amounted to a treaty between a u. S. State and a foreign power. ThTrump Administration also wants to overturn californias authority to curb car emissions by setting tougher mileage standards. Governor gavin newsom responded saying Carbon Pollution knows no borders and the Trump Administrations abysmal record of denying Climate Change and propping up big polluters makes cross border collaboration all the more necessary. A wildfire that started last night has already grown to be one of the largest this fire season. We are live with the mandatory evacuations now underway as people leave the path of the fire burning in the north bay. Thousands of pg e customers in the bay area have no power as part of the plan power shut off. Now pg e is warning it could turn off lights again this coming weekend. We take a look at that developing situation in moments. Good morning. Thank you for joining us on mornings on 2. Thursday, october 24. Im pam cook. Im dave clark. And at this hour the kincaid fire burning east of geyserville jumped highway 128 and is now heading toward the River Rock Casino. That fire doubled in size overnight and is at 10,000 acres continuing to grow. That is roughly 15. 5 square miles and containment is still at 0 . Lets go over to Steve Paulson talking more about the wind and the danger. Its been windy overnight with gusts over 60. Some reports of 70. It looks like its decreasing a little bit. Im seeing 58 Miles Per Hour at mount st. Helena. That is a 4300 feet. Good gusts and warm temperatures. Give me some time and i can probably get a geyserville temperature in there. Bodega bay, 76. Penngrove, 77. The wind direction is north, northeast and that is funneling in these very strong gusts. Copper mountain, 27. 28 at ridge ranch. 29 Miles Per Hour. With 10 humidity. Geyserville coming easterly and 77 degrees with 10 humidity. Healdsburg, 17 Miles Per Hour out of the northeast and 11