Compromised folks, maybe the elderly, the young. As we look at temperatures now in geyserville, it is cooler. The relative humidity is up to 21 . Not great, but betterment the winds are much lighter out there. So were looking at all across the bay 40 to 50 , getting back in line with where we should be. It will be another warm day today. Not as warm as yesterday. The winds will be lighter. Its going to be a better fall afternoon. 3 00 temperatures will be in the upper 70s to the mid 80s up in the north bay. Another warm one out there. Above average. As we go through the afternoon, numbers will drop off into the 70s. A nice friday night on the way. We have a nice day to enjoy before we get into those watches and warnings which will go into effect by late tomorrow night for the gusty winds and the high fire danger. Thank you. Good morning. So were taking a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge right now. Everything is smooth there. Its been that way all morning. We expect that it will be like that as we continue on throughout the morning commute. First now i want to go to an issue that has popped up in san lorenzo. It involves three vehicles, including a big rig. Started out as a stall. Looks like two cars crashed into the big rig. This is southbound 880 under northbound 238. This is going to be a slowdown for quite some time because it appears the big rig is out of gas. Speeds are down to 12 Miles Per Hour. To our drive times here this morning, richmond to san rafael bridge, 7 minutes. San mateo prij, bridge, 14 minu. B dumbarton bridge, 9 minutes. The fire has spread to 16,000 acres. This as whipping winds are expected this weekend. Cal fire says 49 structures have been destroyed. More are threatened. The fire is 5 contained this morning. Weve also learned that a pg e transmission line failed around the same time that the fire started. Mandatory evacuations are in effect east of highway 128 to geyserville. You can see it in that yellow shaded area. It is a race against time right now to get the fire under control before strong winds come this weekend. Amy hollyfield ise in sonoma with more. Good morning. Theres so much destruction here. Of those 49 structures, a half dozen of them were homes on geyser road. Fire just destroyed them. We are not expecting much wind today, so a lot of the smoke is just lingering. Evacuation orders are in place. This windwhipped fire spread to quickly down the mountain and into Alexander Valley. They say it grew by 1,000 acres an hour. They will send more firefighters to the scene today. Theyre worried about the fire burning now and also focused on this weekend and the next wind event expected here. We are up against the clock not only with the continually drying fuel, but the winds predicted over the next couple of days are expected to be worse than we had the other night. River rock casino is part of the evacuation area. The casino was not damaged in the fire, but the fire did come very close to the building. No one has been hurt in this fire. No one was killed or has been reported missing. No word on when the Evacuation Orders will be lifted. Amy hollyfield, abc7 news. What a picture behind you. Thanks to you. As weve told you, the kincaid fire burned homes in geyserville and forced thousands to flee. For many its a chilling reminder of the north bay fires two years ago. The kincaid fire forced the evacuation of about 2,000 residents from geyserville and the hills to the east. Many of the same people who endured the devastating north bay fires of 2017. The Sheriffs Office wants to acknowledge this is an emotional time for many people. s only tw fires that devastated our community. Theres still a lot of trauma in Sonoma County from the fires of two years ago, waking up to a day like today brings back a lot of memories. Firefighters from throughout Northern California have come in to help. The goal now is to get it mostly contained before the next round of high winds is expected this weekend. The bay area air Quality Management district says heavy smoke from the fire is expected to drift into the area today. Even if you cant see it it does not mean its not a health hazard. Particulate matter pollution is invisible to the naked eye because the particles are so small, they can bypass your lungs natural defense systems, just because you cant see the smoke doesnt mean you wont be impacted. Children, seniors, people with asthma are most vulnerable. Doctors recommend that people stay inside when its smoky, avoid exercising outdoors and make sure you use air filters. The district declared a spare the air day today. If you want to learn more about air quality, smoke and the kincaid fire, download the abc 7 news app. Youll find all the headlines plus easy access to the weather forecasts. We also send out breaking news alerts through the app. Its how youll find out the latest as it happens. As the fire danger increases, pg e is preparing for another round of power shutoffs. All of this will impact people here in the bay area this weekend. Jobina joins us at the live desk. Look at that map. A lot of yellow there. So much yellow. Pg e says it has restored 93 of customers impacted by the power shutoff. Now officials are warning of another Public Safety shutoff that could start as soon as tomorrow. I have here the ease bay behit me. We have piedmont, orinda, lafayette, moraga, alamo,alamo, valley, fairview. If i go here and zoom out a little bit, you can see just how much this orange area covers. The it swallows up the sport bay. This could be the biggest shutoff weve seen so far. Pg es ceo and president bill johnson said it would likely affect the peninsula, east bay and north bay area. No word yet on how many people could be affected. Winds are forecast to gust between 40 and 60 Miles Per Hour over most elevated terrain in Northern California. He says the utility is at elevated potential for a new shutdown and 8 of the 9 Service Zones for pg e. Some areas may see peak gusts of 70 to 80 Miles Per Hour. Officials say the possible outage could stretch into monday. Lets continue our coverage of those power outages. Lauren martinez is joining us live from orinda. Good morning. Good morning. More than 120,000 Contra Costa County residents could be impacted by the shutoffs that start tomorrow night. The list includes walnut creek, moraga, orinda, and lafayette. The outages are because of extreme fire conditions were expected to see this weekend. We do think it will be the strongest offshore wind event this season by a large margin. If models are correct, possibly the strongest offshore winds weve seen in years. In Alameda County 57,000 pg e customers could lose power as well. Now, if you still need a way to get around, b. A. R. T. Will still be up and running. They run on their own power supplies. So theyll still be on during an outage. These possible outages could start tomorrow at 10 00 p. M. And last until 2 00 p. M. On monday. Im lauren martinez, abc7 news. All right. Good morning to you. Of course youve been hearing about our next system that is going to shut off a lot of power around the bay area. The difference with this system is that these have been upper level winds. The winds now will mix down to the valley. Thats why so many other communities are involved. Looking at the air quality today, right now were not bad. Once the winds get going things will get worse. As you get through the afternoon, winds will continue to push the smoke down throughout the bay area. Heres our fire danger index. Starting this at 11 00 p. M. Tomorrow night. You can see the areas up in the north bay. As we get to the overnight hours, it spreads westward to much of marin and then eastward, the diablo range, the santa cruz mountains, sunday morning it expands further. Thats why were so concerned. Strong winds mixing down to the valley floors. Were talking about 15 to 30mileperhour winds. Gusting perhaps up to 75 Miles Per Hour. This could last into monday. So some of those tree branches could be down in your neighborhood daughter to the winds winds. I want to show everyone a live picture of the bay bridge toll plaza. There is a stalled car when you get on the opposite side of the toll plaza. Its off to the right hand shoulder. Just want to give you a heads up as you head into the area. As we move into the tracy commute, things are slowing down th eeds a Miles Per Hour. 37 and34 Miles Per Hour as you move into the altamont pass. An update into our issue in san lorenzo involving the big rig and two cars. Looks like the big rig was stalled on southbound 880 under northbound 238. Those two cars ran into rig. They are getting towed. So its getting very, very slow. All right. Thanks. Protecting yourself from wildfires smoke. We will likely have some drifting into the bay area today. Somewhere unexpected. Everything you need is at your fingertips. And at the home depot. Ontrend styles, with innovations to make it petproof. Make it lifeproof. Make it waterproof. Make it. Beautiful. And the home depot has everything you need to make it yours. Today is the day for doing with new waterresistant home decorators collection laminate flooring starting at 1. 58 a square foot. Only from the home depot. Annoepidemic fueled by juul use with their kidfriendly flavors. San francisco voters stopped the sale of flavored ecigarettes. But then juul, backed by big tobacco, wrote prop c to weaken ecigarette protections. The San Francisco chronicle reports prop c is an audacious overreach, threatening to overturn the ban on flavored products approved by voters. Prop c means more kids vaping. Thats a dangerous idea. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. Here are the areas under mandatory Evacuation Order because of the kincaid fire. The entire town of geyserville and areas east. This is stretching past highway 128 into Black Mountain and mercuriville. Closed roads are cloverdale, geysers red ryan wi, Alexander Valley, moody lane and pine flat. There are three open Evacuation Centers united stat s right now. One at the Sonoma County fair grounds in santa rosa, thats available for you and your large animals. A second is across the street at the Veterans Memorial building. This is where you can take small animals and pets. The third is Healdsburg Community center. Evacuees have taken their livestock with them to the sonoma fair grounds. About 45 animals have been brought to the fairgrounds so far. Here is matilda getting picked up by her owners. She had to be moved to another location. The site is base camp for cal fire and sonoma sheriffs to work together. The focus right now is on getting the fire out. The winds have subsided, were anticipating significant winds again this weekend. So were bringing a ton of firefighters into this community to get as much containment on this fire as possible. Horses, we have some mules, a donkey, we have some goats. We think there might be some alpacas coming in. The fairgrounds is for livestock only though. People with regular pets can go across the street. If you have driven on highway 12 in kenwood you know theres a lot of wineries and restaurants there. Many of them were without power shutdown. F the forced pg e it was a slow day because of it. As we told you, pg e is warning of another wind event tomorrow night into sunday morning which may require even more power shutoffs. That is bad news for wineries. Chateau st. Jeans manager said they have a generator which was purchased after the 2017 fires. The winery is known for hosting a lot of weddings and other events. Actually bring in additional generators just for the various spaces around the property in case there cant support all of that. Now across the street, st. Annes crossingss owner put up a sign to let people know his winery is open for business. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Meteorologist lisa argen is here tracking the latest. Good morning. Good morning. As you know, it has to do with the wind flow around here. Those strong offshore winds is what we dont like in october. We have light winds now. Theyll be switching around to an onshore component. That will drift the smoke into the bay area. Were looking at 9mile visibility up in santa rosa with some haze. As we get to that onshore component mid afternoon, thats when well see some smoke drift across the bay and bring us poor air quality. As we look outside, its clear with 50 in san ramon and dublin. 68 in san carlos. 60s in the city. Low 50s to upper 50s up in napa. Relative humidity, its up into the comfortable region. 33 by fairfield. 40 in petaluma. 56 in San Francisco. Going through the afternoon, things are looking pretty normal. Its when we get into later on saturday that when the winds kick up well see the changes in the relative humidity. So skies will be smoky at times this afternoon. Cooler weather for the weekend. Dry and gusty wins with the fire watch into saturday night and sunday. 88 in san jose. 86 in milpitas. Mid 80s on the peninsula. Even though that winl of High Pressure is drifting off, we have numbers above average. 70s and 82 downtown. It was 87 yesterday. So coming down about 5 degrees in the city. 89 in petpetaluma. Mid 80s in oakland. 87 in san ramon. The accuweather sevenday forecast, cooler over the weekend, strong winds begin saturday night into sunday with the power shut offas ea as earl 10 00 p. M. On saturday. Things are filling in here on the san mateo bridge. I want to give people a heads up if youre heading this direction, if you check this out, this issue in san lorenzo is beginning to clog things up and also for people going over to westbound 580. The issue is on southbound 880 undernorthbound 238. Theres a big rig there that is out of gas. Two cars ran into it when it stalled out on the freeway. Theyre working on getting it towed. Its causing a slowdown. That purple lane means its completely stopped in one portion. Theyre working on navigating through this. It will be a little problem. Brace yourself. Heres the drive time that were looking at this morning for antioch to hercules, 26 minutes. Highway 4 to the maze, 13 minutes. Highway 5 to the san jose airport, 7 minutes. Back with breaking News Coverage of the fire and the pg e good morning. 40s, 50s, 60s to start out with an air quality alert, a spare the air alert as we get through the afternoon. That wind shift brings some of the smoke into the bay area. Temperatures at 9 00, in the 60s. Another warm day. Mid 70s San Francisco and oakland at 1 00. 80s in the inland east bay. Heading towards 3 00, we have mid 80s east bay, upper 70s in San Francisco. Cooler days ahead. More gusty winds in the forecast. A fire weather watch coming in to effect tomorrow. In todays gma first look, the fbi is joining the search for a missing 14yearold girl in virginia. A desperate search for isabel hicks. I love you. I want you to come home and just let me know if youre okay. The virginia teen missing for four days. Authorities say disappearing in the early hours monday with 34yearold bruce lynch who is known by the family. The fbi joining the search this morning believing that lynch is armed and dangerous. Warning anyone who may come in contact to not approach. Our focus being the safe return of isabel to her family. Reporter missing posters of the teen seen throughout the community. Residents on high alert. Authorities have not confirmed whether isabel left with lynch voluntarily but the fbi has classified the missing teen as an endangered missing juvenile. As smoke drifts into the bay area today, you will want to take precautions. We heard about those masks, but experts say they may not make a difference. Michael finney looks at the latest recommendations and the best thing you can do to protect yourself. You see a lot of these masks in the fire zones. Reporters, aid workers, many First Responders wear these things. The masks are called a particulate respiration. Only those tested and approved should be worn. Last year the common recommendation was to wear a mask named n95. This year the recommendation is the n100 mask. The p100 is also recommended. It also has oil resistane. To be most effective, it must fit correctly. Juan lopez is an intern with 7 on your side. You make sure the mask is above your nose and below your chin. It must have two straps. One strap goes above your ear, the other below your ear. And for it to be most effective, you should be cleanshaven unlike juan. If you have heart or lung issues, you should talk to a physician before you wear a mask. It may be obvious but the best thing you can do is g out of the area. Get away from the smoke. If thats not possible, get indoors and close the windows. Im michael finney, 7 on your side. We spoke with a bay area Quality Management district and they say masks can give you a false sense of security and harm you in some cases. Thats because when you take the mask on and off the particles get inside. So the best thing to do is stay indoors in a place with clean air as much as possible. At least 50,000 people have been ordered to evacuate from neighborhoods north of los angeles. The tick fire burned several homes in the Santa Clarita area. In three hours the fire grew to under 4,000 acres with 5 containment. Crews are battling a wind driving wildfire that erupted along highway 18 in san bernardino. It prompted mandatory and voluntary evacuations of 100 homes. So far no structures have been december trstroy destroyed. The old water fire burned 75 ache sgleers well be back with another full 90 minutes of news, including nearly 50 structures gutted. And we are learning new details about how the fire may have started and pg e right in the middle of it. The abc 7 iteam investigates. Hate to wake up and see this. A major wildfire burning out of control in Sonoma County today. Evacuation orders are in