The sun coming up 6 00 a. M. Its wednesday, august 28th. And we have a lot to get to this morning. Including special counsel jack smith trying to salvage the federal Election Interference case against donald trump. Filing a formal indictment against the former president. Were going to bring you excellent analysis in just a moment. Meanwhile, donald trump now says that he will debate Vice President Kamala Harris in two weeks, but the Harris Campaign still needs to be resolved. And well have more details about that the operation that rescued an israeli man who was held hostage by hamas for more than 300 days. That comes as israel launches a broad operation in the west bank with raids and air strikes in that territory. Im Jonathan Lemire along with u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news katty kay in this morning for joe, mika and willie. Well be joined by Symone Sanderstownsend, and mike barnicle, and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, you just saw her on way too early, ali vitali. Lo
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Devastating fire. Once this wind event is over power will be then restored in phases starting on monday night through tuesday night so some people could be without power until tuesday evening all right we have Team Coverage on tonights wind event kron fours gayle ong is live in the east bay where winds are picking up tonight. We will have the latest from her location. In just a moment we want to start now with meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez who was monitoring the areas that are under the wind advisories. Winds are whipping across the east bay right now for theresa yeah thats right justine and and in fact the gusty as winds that ive seen all day and all night long happening right now for those of you in the north bay. And its going to continue to peek through 4 oclock for your monday morning and were seeing sustained winds in the 20 to 30 mile per hour range with gusts reported in the valleys at 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour highest peaks already seeing wind gusts at 60 to 70 Miles Per Hour.
That all cities from santa rosa down to santa cruz and gilroy are under a red flag warning tonight, coastal regions, Santa Cruz Mountains and lower valleys are also under a redflag warning but that runs through 11 oclock tomorrow morning. Pg e has already turned off the power to 225,000 customers across the state with 136,000 more expected to lose power at some point tonight and the power is already off in the north bay. The areas marked here in purple that with that triangle thats the places that have already lost power pg e is turning off the power because the wind gusts could knock over a power line and start another devastating fire. Once this wind event is over power will be restored in phases. Starting monday night through tuesday night. And we have Team Coverage of tonights events kron fours gayle ong is live for us now in the east bay, where the winds have just started to pick up. Well have the latest from her in just a few moments. But first want to check in with meteorologist
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