Hundreds of thousands of people. A wind whipped wildfire and more on the horizon. Im alex savidge, frank is hoff tonight. Nd am julie haenor. The fire has grown to 16,000 acre, 5 contained, 49 structures have been destroyed. The good new, authorities report no deaths or injuries. The fire has been burning nc it broke out near the geothermal plant and it spread fast with winds up to 60 Miles Per Hour. We have Team Coverage of the kincade fire. Paul chamber spoke to some of the evacuees. Bill martin has been monitoring the wind conditions but first we begin with amber lee live in geyserville with the latest on the firefight. Amber. Reporter julie, were on red winery road where homes have been destroyed. Whats left of this home is a water heater, stove and a car but not much more. Strong dry winds gusting 60 Miles Per Hour and more fuel add fast moving fire that forced thousands from their home in wine country. A text alert around 615 thursday morning followed by police knocking on the doors of homes woke up the people of geyserville. Scary. There were explosions too, flames. When i saw the text message i grabbed my daughter, a few little things. Reporter cynthia and her family were among the two thousand people evacuated. I was scared and crying. Why were you crying . Because my animal that avi in the house and i didnt want my house to burn down. Reporter they returned briefly late in the afternoon to retrieve necessities, her mothers medication for a thyroid disorder and a picture. Reporter while their home was not damaged, others reduced to piles of rubble. One home we saw burning with a fire crew working to put it out. On geysers road we saw downed power lines on fire with a pg e crew on stand by. Cal fire confirm thad 49 structures have been destroyed. Damage assessment continues. It is not over. Reporter Sonoma County sheriff says all evacuation orders remain in effect. Once you leave an area you will not be allowed back in. That is for your safety and that of the firefighters. Reporter cal fire says there are more than 1300 firefighters on the line and that number is expected to increase by 50 by friday. One family says theyre in limbo. I dont know when theyll let us go in. Reporter they plan to stay with relatives and they say theyre worryed the fire could damage their home. The good news is that there are no reports of injuries or deaths. That certainly is good news. Amber lee inside the fire zone. Chief meteorologist bill martin joins us now with the latest on the Current Conditions near the fire. Yeah, good news and bad news. Right now the wipeds are light, temperatures have dropped in the fire zone and some of the number, 4mile an hour winds, a lot of on shore winds. Theyre not necessarily strong offshore so we still have a wind up on one of the ridge lines up to 17 Miles Per Hour and hills burling hills up to 20 but the winds have laid down in comparison to last night. The bad news is were getting back into it saturday and sunday and thats why there is a fire weather watch in all the same spots. This will turn into a red flag warning saturday night. The winds on this one are going to be more robust, more widespread. If you notice, east bay valley, east bay hills, 55mile an hour marker, this is covering a lot larger area than what we experienced with the last red flag warning yesterday. A larger area and longer lived. They want to mop this fire up as best they can because when winds come up theyll be ferocious. I think the next one will impact more people with more potential Power Outages. All eyes on this weekend. Bill, thank you. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes because of the kincade fire and approximate many of them have crowded into Evacuation Centers in Sonoma County. Paul chambers went to the hills burg commune tip center and talked to people who say these fires are just the new normal. Reporter flames from the kincade fire can be seen from miles away. We walked out on to our deck and we had a vantage point. Are this is a view we had at the cal fire hills burg station a. Few hours after the fire started wednesday e scene and p it was time to go. The sheriffs came through with siren, bull horn, evacuation, leave now. Reporter she and her family packed up their home in geyserville and came to the evacuation center. Two years ago kaylinn lost her home in the pocket fire. She said it was too close for come forth. We had to cut out with a chain saw last time. I dont have anything. I wanted to go back and get my jewelry box, my dads wedding ring and they wouldnt let me go back in. Now they told me the house is gone. Reporter this is all that remains of her home in geyserville. The fire destroyed it and others. Cal fires most re sent numbers say 49 structures as the fire furnitured 16,000 acres leaving two thousand under evacuation orders. Overnight well have 26 deputies protecting the neighborhoods that have been evacuated. Reporter right now the sheriff says all evacuation orders remain in place. The good news is he says as of right now no casualties, no injuries and no one reported missing. Paul, thank you. Pg e acknowledges an outage in a high voltage line of the kincade fire. They say it happened around 9 20 last night on a transmission tower near where the fire started. This more thanking pg e worker spoke to a cal personnel at the site who pointed out a broken piece of quip many on the fire. Pg e said the line had not been deenergized before the fire although lower voltage lines were turned off. They did not meet the conditions we forecast for transmission level outages. We didnt see the wind speeds in the forecast that we typically would see for transmission outage. Pg e says that tow irhad been inspected four times in just the past two years. It appears to have been in secretarily inspected so well have to wait for the results of our investigation and cal fire to learn more about that. Pg e says cal fire has taped off an area around the base of the transmission tower pending an investigation. The utility says it doesnt know if the equipment sparked the kincade fire. Were following breaking news right now. A new fire on the San Mateo County coast this. Is new video posted on twitter showing the fire through brush. It started just before 6 00 tonight. Cal fire says so far its burned about 75 acres. Let me show you a map of this area. Its burning off of highway 1 about 5 miles away from peskadera. In mare rain county crews will stay overnight at a fire that was reported at about 10 45 this morning. It burned 58 acres. No buildingings threatened and no one evacuated. Smoke from a brushfire in richmond today was visible for miles. It start this had afternoon and fire Officials Say it was about 12 45 and the fire broke out near the bayview avenue off ramp from i80. A homeless camp in the area had to be evacuated. Crews from richmond, hercules and east Bay Regional Park District were on scene along with a helicopter that was doing water drop. Now to Southern California whereat least 40,000 people have been evacuated aa wind driven fire, two of them, raged near neighborhoods north of los angeles. Several homes burned today as the fire swept through dryer brush for the edge of the communities in the Santa Clarita area. More homes are in danger. No injuries were immediately reported. Los angeles county fire chief says more than 3000 acres have burned and the fire is 5 contained. No word on how it started. increased fire danger here in the bay area prompting pg e to shut off power again this weekend. Smoke from the kincade fire will make its way through the area. The air quality officials have. A repeat hat a north bay mall and how officer were able to arrest her even after she pepper sprayed an employee who tried to stop her. Tonight pg e updated us on its latest planned power outage while it looks ahead to bigger blackouts this weekend. Theta announceed the lights are back on for 84 of the Northern California customers affected by yesterdays blackout. 179,000 customers across 17 counties were in the dark at one time. Tonight pg e is preparing for what could be the strongest winds and most dangerous weather conditions of the year. Theyre warning customers of a large scale power shutoff on saturday. They include marin, sonoma, alameda, san mateo, santa clara counties and more. Were joined from san jose where city officials briefed her on how many could be affected there. Reporter julie, more than 25,000 customers here in the south bay could lose power according to the city officials here in san jose. Pg e says the planned power out tambellinis would be similar to the one on october 9 but longer. Reporter pg e says a third safety power shutoff is top horizon. High wind speed, low humidity, these power shutoffs are a necessary tool for safety. Pg e Officials Say theyre closely monitoring the strongest offshore wind event this season, possibly in year, set to take aim late saturday. Right now were forecasting widespread wind dusts, 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour in general over most of the elevated terrain of Northern California with peak gusts 70 to 80 Miles Per Hour. That means customers who lost power wednesday may have their service back on temporarily before the next shutoff begins. Pg e began notifying customers in the sierra foothills, Central Coast and more. Al me ta countdy Sheriffs Office says it will likely start saturday night until monday afternoon affecting 57,000 customers. 48,000 in contra kosta county. Were going through who is going to ooff. Reporter city officials in san jose say 27,000 customers in Santa Clara County could impacted. The frequency is annoying but it gives us a chance to hone our skills in the Emergency Operation center. Reporter firefighters throughout Northern California are stocking up this weekend in case a fire breaks out. The Fire Department is going to staff two additional wild land fire engines saturday and sunday. Theyll be available throughout the district. Are many Fire Agencies have secretary strike teams to help fight the kincade fire. Many cities including here in san jose plan to activate the Emergency Centers over the weekend. Once again, Governor Newsom is expressing frustration with pg e and its growing number of planned Power Outages in california. The governor spoke this morning after meeting with state emergency officials in los angeles. They better step things up. This is simply unacceptable. 21st century in a state like our, an economy as vibrant as ours, to see this kind of disruption, potentially putting the lives of millions at risk because they cant access Critical Care or even water in some cases is unacceptable. Governor newsom has been urging pg e to financially compensate customer ewhoseewhos lost electricity during blackouts. Hes credit of 100 to residents and 250 to small businesses. This map illustrates how smoke from the kincade fire will spread across the bay area. It has prompt add spare the air alert tomorrow. Experts has advice for those who see or smell smoke. If you do smell smoke now i dont ear being impacted 0 impacted stay indoors the windows and doors close fundamental you can. Those with breathing problems are especially vulnerable and encouraged to take extra precautions. Lets go back over to bill for the latest on the forecast. Right off the bat the winds have died down. Were talking about the kincade fire. Things are not so up there but theyll accelerate into saturday night. Its dark, getting cooler so the smoke from the fire is settling down on hills burg and parts of the north bay. The air quality in the overnight hours into the morning as the smoke drifts into our zone is for seen. If you smell it, its not good. If you can see it, its not good and you just want to be prepared. A lot of times when its like that just stay endorse and do not go out for a run. Itll hard on you. You can see the flow right now and you can see in is smoke wrapped up with cloud cover. Its wrapping back around. The smoke is going to pull down over us tomorrow. Tomorrow is not as warm as today. Itll be a few degrees cooler. We expect temperatures tomorrow to be slightly down as the wipeds are more on shore. You can see the warmth out there now. We have a little bit more of a slack wind if you will. Its not robust offshore. Ay, transition day, saturday a transition day achance to get a handle on kincade. Saturday night thats the red zone for wind and the red flag warning. Thats the real story right now, saturday night and sunday morning. Wen we get back well look at the wind model. Well, warrior fans packed the chase Center Tonight for the teams first regular season game in their new home. Woo it appears to be a full house since the warriors are taking on the l. A. Clippers and fans seem to be enjoying the new arena. We talked to several people at the game and they say theyre going to miss the atmosphere at oracle in oakland but theyre enjoying the shop, atracs and the food, most of all. The food is better. I love it. Its a lot better. The food is a lot better. I love the food. Thats one good thing. Fan were impressed by the new jumbotron. Itll 9699 square feet. Later on in sport, mark shows us if they started off with a win. How Oakland School officials responded today after a chaotic School Board Meeting. Ol board meeting. So that early retirement we planned. Its going ok . Great. Now im spending more time with the kids. Im introducing them to crab. Crab . They love it. So, you mentioned that that money we set aside. Yeah. The kids and i want to build our own crab shack. Ahhh, youre finally building that outdoor kitchen. Yup with room for the whole gang. See how investing with a j. P. Morgan advisor can help you. Visit your local chase branch. The Oakland Unified School district is responding after nix protesters were arrested a the a School Board Meeting last night. Protesters clashed with police after jumping over and pushing through a barricade. The barricade was set up for safety because of similar protest at other meetings. Parents have been protesting the mergers of schools next year. What happened last night the troubling and not reflective of who we are as a community. They continue to violate the relocate it. Police say the six people who were arrested have been cited and released on charges of disturbing the peace and disrupting a School Board Meeting. San Francisco Police are investigating shooting out said of Lowell High School today about 2 00 that left one in critical condition. Officials say one person was shot and at least one man was detained there at the scene. Lowell high school was placed on lockdown for about ten minutes but school Officials Say there was no threat to the school and all students are safe. An oh motional day in a courtroom. A man who ran a red light in antioch killing to young sisters riding in a truck was 25yearold salcido was convicted on two counts. Two girl, just two and four years old were killed in the crash. Their mother was driving when he slammed into their truck. He was driving a stolen truck. In court today, the mother buried her face and sobbed as the verdict was read. Be sentenced next year and could go to prison for the rest of his life. Our coverage of the kincade fire continues after the break. Well talk to a Sonoma County official to get an update. A woman committing the same crime in the bay area, the plan they came up with to catch her. This was looking at patterns of theft. Later to night, these students never thought college was in their the celebration for a program in the south bay that made their dream as reality. Hey. Hey. You must be stevens phone. Now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network. Only with xfinity xfi. Download the xfi app today. Lets get an update on the wildfire causing destruction and forcing evacuations in Sonoma County. Cal fire says the kincade fire has grown to 16,000 acres with 5 containment. The fast moving fire has destroyed at least 49 buildings since it started last night near geyserville. Two thousand are under evacuation orders and cal fire is bringing in more resources with more than 1300 firefighters on the line. Its the same level we have at night and that continues 24 hours a day seven day as week. Its a seamless change from shifts every morning. The night shift goes off, the new shift comes on. Cal fire expects to see hundreds of more firefighters on the fire line as more crews arrive tomorrow. Sergeant krum joins us now on the phone. Sergeant, whats the strategy for tonight . Tonight were just maintaining status quo. We have about 50 to 75 deputies patroling the area of evacuations looking for potential looters. We have not had any reports of looting yet. We have no known reports of fatalities, injuries or missing people. We ear about maintaining law and order in the evacuation zone. Reporter you hearing any word about any new communities that may have to evacuate in the near future . We have not had any reported requests for any others at this time. The winds seem to have died down quite a bit tonight. Hopeful ratcliff it helps the fire efforts. As of now no new evacuations. Sergeant, what would you tell people, to this week end, there is a look luckily they caught a break today. This weekend were supposed to experience another wind event. What do you do heading into the weekend with what were expected to have. We heard there is a couple of wind events this weekend. Well take it as it comes. What were suggesting, be ready, have a go bag, be ready to go. Stay tuned to all of the media resources, tv, radio, all media chan, facebook, instagram, twitter, wireless Emergency Alert if necessary. Just Pay Attention and be fire smart this weekend and well get through it. Lots of concern with the winds coming up. You know pg e is planning more of the widespread blackouts. Do those planned power out tambellinis complicate the Sheriffs Offices efforts to try to evacuate people if you do have another fire break out . Yeah, when very the power out tambellinis its tough because the electric gates and things dont work. Getting home to home eknocking on doors can be difficult. We instituteed the high loci renn sound like a european siren. If you hear that siren no e that your area has a major evacuation plan going on and you should tune into the local radio and news. All right, thank you sergeant. We appreciate your help tonight. Good luck to all of the firefighters fighting the fire in Sonoma County. Thank you. Two large School District in case the geyserville area will be closed for a second day tomorrow because of the kincade. Alexander valley and geyserville. Parents are urged to check the office of education website to get the latest information. Our coverage of the kincade fire continues on ktvu. Com. Thats where youll find a resource guide, slide show and raw video of the fire. Were following breaking news in the east bay. Firefighters are al knee da county are battling a grass fire in livermore. The mines fire has grown to 15 acres. There is no reports of the fire burning homes or building, but its forceed the closure of mines road in both directions. When we get new information well bring to it you. She filled her arms with as much as she could hold and tried to get away. This time police were ready for her. This was the latest and grab from a bay area retail store. Henry lee says this time the Police Caught the suspected thief in the act. Reporter this is video showing casually walking into the kohls store. Two San Rafael Police detectives walks in, she drops it and runs. You can see a store worker running to the door. The suspect takes out pepper spray and sprays the worker as they began scuffling. The detectives were not far behind. 19yearold denard was arrested. How did the police get there so fast. This was from good Old Fashioned police work. This was detectives looking at patterns of the same woman has stolen from the mall 11 times since april. Ive learned shes been convicted of similar thefts at jc penney and for forever 21. Corporal cleland, detective dooley and others hatch the plan. We were going to stick units out in the front of the store, plain clothes, in the hope that is shed return. She went in on wednesday and corporal took out a taser. She had previously threatened to pep an pepper an employee. Danville is the safest city in california this. Are only three and a half Violent Crimes per ten thousand people with a population of about 45,000 and Median Income in 150,000 dollars. The next on the les, san ramon number , pleiss santana on the 19 and sunnyvale 20th. Oakland at 228. A new poll shows who is leading among the Democratic Candidates for president. Plus senator Bernie Sanders released a plan on how legalize marijuana if elected. Coming up well take a peak at the forecast saturday and sunday. Back in a bit. How quick shipping is negatively impacting amazons earnings. Do you recall, not long ago we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun we needed somebody to lean on all we need is someone to lean on. Republicans are continuing their push back against the house impeachment inquiry and the way its conducted. Senator Lindsey Graham wants the thousands vote on a formal impeachment inquiry. They say the house has denied the president and denied him basic fairness. There are 44 co sponsors and most are concerned about due process. There is a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it and this is a dangerous way to do it. The president needs the opportunity in an open setting to have the opportunity to respond to some of these accusations. House republicans demanded to be let into a closed door meeting of the house intelligence tomorrow where laura cooper testified. House democrats dismissed the move and say eventually the meetings will be public. Bernie sanders said hed issue an executive order removing marijuana from the list of controlled federal cub stances and would clear the records of those convicted of marijuana related crimes. He said marijuana has disproportionately ruined the lives of millions of americans and ruins the lives of others. Elizabeth warren is leading the race with 28 of democrats and independent voters. The survey was released to date. Joe biden stands at 21 in the poland senator Bernie Sanders at 15 . Tesla reported a 143 million quarterly profit and deliver add record 97,000 cars. This comes after the company last more than a billion dollars in the first half of the year. Analyst expect add 250 million loss for the quarter and sharyns for up 17 . Stocking were higher today, dow down 28 point, nasdaq up 66 points and s p gained 5 points. Solidayly from microsoft, pay pal and other Companies Pushed the markets higher. Amazon sharyns fell after they report add 26 drop in net income. They say theyre spending 17. 5 billion to speed up their delivery time to one day. Theyre adding more workers and expanding with truck, jets and package sorting facilities. Stock fell about 7 today. A promise delivered in the south bay. Its my drive and motivation pushing me but their support helping me get there. A unique program is celebrating their first graduates after students receive two years of Community College for free. Warm and windy weather continues and chief meteorologist bill martin has your forecast and more on the fire danger coming up in the next few day, right after the break. Beyond the routine checkups. Beyond the notsoroutine cases. Comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. All working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gigspeed network. Because beyond technology. There is human ingenuity. Every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. To do the extraordinary. Take your business beyond. Two years ago san jose made a promise to residents that Community College books and fees would be available free of charge. The first students are graduating from the program and the mayor is making plans to expand it. Reporter a student at San Jose City college now of turnin interest into physics into a a couple of years ago the dreams seemed out of reach. Ive always come from a poor family. Attending college was never a reality until this. Reporter san jose promise offers two years of Community College free of charge. The program is celebrating its first graduates. When i first found out about it i was hike youre joking to me. I was like no. They covered my tuition and books. Imm able to be a fulltime student rather than a fulltime employee. the san jose evergreen Community College district is seeing the im exact. They say theyre Opening Doors to people who never would have considered college. Were seeing increase in lle success. Reporter the mayor says this is the just the beginning. He hopes to increase the size of the program, perhaps extending to four year institutions too. Its been a great boost. We need to be able to extend this help. A boost is just what they needed, a way to reach the potential austin always had. Im the one studying and getting all it will grades. Its my drive and motivation pushing me but their support getting me there. So it was warm day today, record in oakland, 89 downtown. Today warmesatures. That adds into it and the humidity but it really is about the wind and the fact that we have not seen rain in a long time. Up in the fire zone the winds have died down so thats good. We still have a 19mile an hour wind but 2 Miles Per Hour winds in geyserville. Thats helpful. Tomorrow will be a good day for firefighters as well and will as well. Saturday night and sunday we get back into this pattern of the high dropping, the low dropping in and the high reacting with that. Youll see it again. Youve seen it before a bunch of times. Its the pattern that sets us up for the fall. We have great fall weather typically. This is one of the reasons for it. Beautiful day at ocean beach tonight. So here is the high. The last low was right over here. Thats why we got the wind from last night. Thats why were dealing with the fire. Its a stronger system and it comes up over the top. It kind of creates a hole and the high jumps into that. This hole is deeper than the last one, the gradient, the steepness is going to be the winds are going to be stronger. Thats the plan. It looks like a strong event. This forecast, wait and see what happens. The model is doing this. Saturday night late, early sunday morning there it is. This is the piece. This is big. These are big winds. Look at the bulls eye. Watch what happens. This is 12 hours later and its still going off. Its centered more on the central bay, North Central bay. More will be involved in the next event. I suspect pg e will knocking power out. Temperatures are down but the wind is up. Coming up in sport, the warriors hosted the clippers in their home opener at the new chase center. Mark will tell us if they were able to get the win. Coming up at 11 00, were continuing to follow the latest Sonoma County where the kincade fire is burning out of control. Okay, mark is here. The game didnt wind up the way the warriors were hoping. This is going to take some definite getting used to. This is a new world order for warriors and warrior fans. An absolute bottom on opening night. New dig, way back, like old memories brought up. Chase center beautiful, the game ugly. A San Francisco warrior, native bringing the cable car, Kawhi Leonard go. Dangelo russell out, left hand tonight this. Was scary. Draymond green injured right there. Looks like his elbow. He did return but was obviously in pain. The beat goes on. Steph curry had a rough night, 2 of 11 from three. Kawhi leonard was sensational. Look at that shot go in. He had 21 point, 9 assists. The clippers are loaded. Pat beverly with curry, eight turnovers. Clip right now. Harold with the rebound. The warriors lack defense here. He rebounds it and on the other end he slam dunks. The warriors give up 141 points. Those faces tell it all. 141122 was final. Scott was there. Reporter mark, quite the contrast between the energy and excitement leading up to the game and the stunned silence in the 4th quarter. It was not just the fans feeling the pain. It doesnt feel very good. Losing stinks. Its no fun, but you just, you know, this is reality. Nine guys 23 or younger and, you know, were starting over in many respects. Adding injury to insult, looney left the game with discomfort in the right hamstring. Its one game there, are 82 in a season. Its clear the warriors have a a lot to do before they hit the floor in oklahoma city. Patience is the word right now for the warriors. Shark, montreal tonight where there was at least one shark fan. We have a 11 game in the 2nd period. Four straight goals for sharks power play. Sharks lead, a shot on goal here. It is a 31 leadoff. Sharks have had trouble getting loose puck to go their way. Jumbo joe thornton gets it to carlson, 42 the final. The sharks are 451 in the early going. A lot of interesting angles as carolina comes to town trying to ruin the perfect season for the San Francisco 49ers. We talked about eric reid coming in with a chip on his shoulder last night. From nearby stanford where he played so greatly. Christian mccaffrey, that may be the play of the season. Hes in the mvp conversation. Hes scored nine touchdown, averaging over 5yard as carry. The 49ers are very well aware of this guy. He can beat you in the pass game, the run game. Theyre using him as much as possible. He is a very sport player, ball, ly talented the matchup did live down to expectation levels. Minnesota taking on woeful washington. One touchdown, galvin crook individuals it on a one yard grunt as the vikingings leads at half time. It continued. Adrian peterson rips off a nice 29yard run here and passes tomlinson on the rushing list. Viking fans remember him well when he played for minnesota. Gave him a nice ovation that he appreciates. 199 redskins are victorious. It would take a while to get used to whats going on with the warriors. No klay, no kd. Patience is the key. Thats it. Thats the sporting life. Next at 11 00,. It is a dangerous situation. You leave everything behind. It was the wildfire many feared in the most dangerous part of fire season, the kincade fire has destroyed homes and forced evacuations in Sonoma County. The 11 00 news starts now. Fire crews are slowly gaining ground on the kincade fire but its burning out of control. Im julie. And im alex in for frank. Firefighters report favorable conditions tonight but they admit they have a tough battle in the hours and days ahead. Here are the latest numbers for you. Cal fire said the fire has grown to 16,000 acres, containment is just 5 . The flames have destroyed at least 49 buildings however there are no reports of deaths or injuries. Last hour we spoke live with tsar swept and he said he has important advice for everyone in the fire zone ahead of what could be the strongest winds of
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