Middle east most of the east except for the bay shoreline and peninsula. And we have a high wind warning into effect tonight through monday morning with the same gusts. Also we could see gusts from 60 to 80 miles an hour upper emphasises. By 3 00 tomorrow morning we are looking at the gusty winds. And well talk about how long its going to last the rest of your weather, the sevenday outlining if a few months. Two breaking stories were following for you. The kincade fire . Sonoma county now burning nearly how acres firefighters rushing to increase containment before heavy winds move in its making pg e put much of the bay area on notice. In just a few hours well find out if youll lose electricity in another planned power outage. We anticipate that in shutoff could impact 850,000 of our 5 million electric customers. This will be the strongest event of the year. And if models are right, stronger than the october 8th, 2017, fire event. Pg e will make the final decision at 8 00 this morning who specifically loses power. If the utilities forecast holds the north bay would lose power around 5 00 p. M. Tonight. 7 00 p. M. For many other counties here is the full list of counties and numbers of customers potentially affected in the areas. Alameda, kornet costa. Marin napa santa clara, solano and sonoma counties. Right now coverage begins with abc 7 News Reporter chris reyes in hayward who caught up with many customers who may have power turned off. We already have a lot of things in place from the last time we thought there was going to be a power shutdown. Were prepared. Our chef know what is to do how to prepare theed we have flashlights. Were old we just go to bed. We got through it last time with a little bit of struggle. Whether at the oakland zoo or the local restaurant . San leandro orb neighborhoods on the latest pg e shut off list the Silver Lining is everyone knows what to expect. It will become a new normal i think. I dont think we should be okay with that. Patricia certainly isnt. She has been in her house 15 years. Never experienced the looming threat of blackouts. I just got call today saying they were going to turn it off tomorrow for 24 hours. Now i dont know whether to believe it or not. Because, what do we know . That uncertainty is a huge headache for the oakland zoo especially this weekend because of boo is he zoo. Potentially turning away families and kids coming to have a great time. At paradisio restaurant they hope not to turn customers away. Instead give them a place to go. We would condense the menu and have items we can offer from saute and or oven and candle light. And of course some of the people went through the outages during the first round of shutoffs a few weeks ago. For others this could be the first time. 48,000 pg e customers in Contra Costa County were told they may lose power. Including businesses and haunted Film Festival in orinda may have to put festivity on paws. You think in america wed be advanced we wouldnt have to shut off power every time there is wind in the summer. It sounds like this is the pattern that pg e is trying to establish. Pg e said last night it will provide back up generate toes keep b. A. R. T. Returning they say the caldecott and lantos tunnels will remain in service even the area loses power. The uc berkeley expects to lose power sometime today. The school alerted people yesterday. Cal will some backup generation which can help with limited power splay. Cal warned that students and staff should stay off campus if they dont need to be there. The university is going to keep power going to dorms in the dining halls. And power critical lab and Research Operations so that vital work is not affected. Now if you want to find out if your home or neighborhood is included in the outage map we posted the list on the website, abc7news. Com. Just about every county is on it. So go for the link at the top of our home page and check out if your neighborhood is on it. And remember, you can download the abc 7 news app for everything you need to know about the pg e shutoffs. We send out breaking news armistice through the app enable push armts. We want to get back now to that destructive kincade fire that is faerpg through the wine country. It start snd sonoma county. Last checked, its scorched nearly 24,000 acres. Its 5 contained as crews race to get ahead of the gusts expected this we could. So far calfire says 21 homes have been destroyed. Now if you are inside the evacuation zone or think the fire may be getting close, there is an Evacuation Center at the Healdsburg Community center and you can bring small animal and pets. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena tracked down a family already forced out because of the flames. They she tells their story from the fair grounds in santa rosa where large animals are sheltered. The familys mother remembers the flames inchesing up to the house. Ferocious and unexpected the flames down in pine flat road in guys areville threaten people homes and years of memories. Its like really hitting me. Because the fire is now like blazing down our mountain. There is no way that hour our house is still there. Its kbb. Ramona hall and her 10yearold daughter maria are part of nearly 2,000 people ordered to evacuate. Eight years ago their home was burn by another wildfire. Im just scared because this house this has happened before. And i feel like all of our lives are in danger. On her mind her horse rescued by calfire this morning. And a tiny Family Member that she was surpred to hear her mom was able to take. We got the hamster. The hamster, good. Yeah my hamser gizmo i was worried sick i thought he was dying if the fire. Calfire confirmed the 49 structures destroyed including 21 homes hand 28 out building, extreme fire behaviors expected with gusty winds, picking up saturday night into sunday. And how is calfire preparing for this . Calfire obviously looks at fires regionally and preparation regionally. So we have staffing patterns and additional staffing statewide at the moment. I want that old adage of all hands on deck for an event of in size. 1,300 firefighters from across the state battle the flames. From the air andio ground. We ask Calfire Division chief cox to show us the most problematic area. He pointed us to the low countryside where the terrain is steep. We literally have crews of 15 people cutting line with their hands chain saws, tools. And that battle continues. There are a total of 50 officers patrolling geyserville to prevent looting and there are no fatality ohs ror injury reported at this time. Now california cals state Emergency Response team is it ramping four up for potential fire by prepositions crews. You can see resources in the northern and southern parts of california and ready to responds. But new this morning calfire waist says one firefighter and two other people are recovering after being taken to the hospital. They say the firefighter found the two people yesterday in the process of trying to evacuate near pine flat road in uncorporated sonoma county. When calfire says the flames intensified. The firefighter actually had to deploy his fire shelter which is a shielding device used as a last resort in these type of fires. Luckily the three people were later found by other crews and fortunately are expected to be okay. Lisa that story goes to show sort of how unpredictable and fast moving the flames can be and now were worried about another red flag tonight. Yeah, thats right. This is certainly going to be a very strong event. And weve got the watches and warnings for you. Air quality today. Well its not good. The winds have been drifting allowing that smoke to drift throughout the bay area. Right now its 58 in San Francisco. 55 in concord. Cooler weather is on the way. And the gusty winds that will take us through tonight into sunday, even into monday, these advisories dont expire until. Ill have the full Weather Forecast market next. Thanks lisa more coverage of the planned pg e Power Outages. See where they called in a special delivery of propane gas as people try to stock up. And Governor Newsome got the up close look at the f i just add a spoonful to my marinades. To stir frys. Sauces. Just whisk it in. Brush it on. Saute it. It adds a cooked all day taste. That doesnt take all day. Better than bouillon. Dont just make it. Make it better. Dont just make it. And the breadwinner arrives home from a long day at work. Now the family can sit down at the table, where everyone knows to be mindful of their manners. Dinnertime has changed. Our quality hasnt. Reynolds wrap foil made in the usa since 1947. Welcome being back. Its 5 12 this this saturday morning. You can see a look from the roof cam of the beautiful bay bridge and ferry building. The literally the couple before the storm as we wait for higher winds kick in later on this evening. In will not be an event we have seen in recent memory. This will be the strongest event of the year. And possibly the strongest of the last several years, unfortunately. And that means we are awaiting pg e final word coming up at 8 00 a. M. Detailing just how many in the bay area will have the lights turned off. In the south bay, more than 70,000 pg e skers face a weekend without power. Abc 7 News Reporter amanda del castillo spoke to residents who learned a thing or two from last outage. People living in the Santa Cruz Mount are no stranger to taking out the power from nature. The but pg e and public shower power shut office have the people skeptical. When its nice out like the nicest day of the year and power goes off you go, whats up with that. Still preparation is under way for a weekend without power. Busy would be an understatement for the only gas station in ben lomond. I feel like that 200 to 250 gas can and 230 dwalens of propane. Shell manager jake hampton says last psps the location ran out of gas. This time the propane phang is you will full and more to arrive. Hampton says there is a needo adapt if this is the new norm. Its nonstep. I havent sat down for six hours. Pg e warns dry conditions and heightened fire risk leave 45,000 Santa Cruz County customers in the dark. Impacted areas include ponts spots without power in the last right now of shut office. Our power was out 24 hours. Don baker says issues encountered last psps forced him to prepare asap. We havent stocked up with as much as w like. Were better off than some probably. In ask thes value amanda del castillo abc 7. And Governor Newsom once again slammed pg e during the calfire News Conference in healdsburg. He says years of greed and mismanagement have gotten us where we are today with the power shut office. The g has precipitated a lack of intentionallity and focus and hardening the grid. Undergrounding the transmission lines did not do their jobs. Knows tough words coming yesterday afternoon. Governor newsom also added pg e will be held accountable for the costs associated with the blackouts. He believe it will restructured to a completely different entity when it gets out of bankruptcy june of next year. Pg e dropped to the lowest point in the utility history calling 30 to 5 per share in after hoursd trading. The previous low was 6. 36 about two weeks after it filed fornkr. Now planned Power Outages are not limited to just pg e customers. Southern california edison has been cutting electricity it homes to try and stave off wildfires. Right now 15,000 of its customers are without power. Now you might be seeing the haze or smoke from the kincade fire no matter where you live in the bay area. The smoke started drifting south yesterday and picked up by our network of cameras throughout the bay area. Sky7 also over the fire last night you can see the enormous plume. Sending up into our air with the sun going down, created quite a back drop as the smoke filtered out that orange glow. Meteorologist lisa argen is here tracking the forecast. Lisa, i know you have a busy day ahead of you. Yeah, we have plenty of watches and warnings going into effect tonight. And really the peak winds happen tomorrow by about sunrise. This time tomorrow in through about 7 00 is when we see the very, very gusty winds. Right now, bit of a lull out there. Here it is live doppler 7 where we look at mainly clear conditions. And look at all the watches and warnings. The reds indicate the warnings. I wanted to show you this high wind warning going into effect monday morning for these areas outside of the bay area. So we certainly are looking at not only the winds but looking at the relative humidity. Temperatures going down. But here is whats happening. We have High Pressure right over the bay area. Its in cold system thats dropping down to the east of us, setting up the sharp Pressure Gradient. And winds below from high to low pressure. So we are looking at the tight gradient, allowing for the very gusty winds. Air quality has not been good. And today another day where we are lacking at poor air quality and then an air quality advisory likely for tomorrow into monday. So you can see it in the air yesterday, probably smelling it as well. Temperatures much cooler out there. 45 in half moon bay. Novato santa rosa. Looking at upper 50s in hayward. And some areas mimeder clearlake clover dahl dale due to theed wind. A east wind in the upper elevations some temperatures in the 60s. Looking cooler this morning to 22 degrees cooler. That will changeened probably as the winds get going mixing up the atmosphere and allowing for temperatures really not to be the story. Retive humidity is up. So right now were racking at 66 . Novato, napa 68 . 28 though in fremont. And these will certainly go down quickly. Here is a look at current winds process. At 8 00 notice they are light. Out of the north. Some still coming off the ocean out of the northwest. This is 5 00 tonight. Still very light. As we go into the later hours look at this, 11 00 tonight ramping up. By the dealt up up through napa and then the direction will be changing to that offshore gradient. Here is a look at the fire danger index. 7 00 tonight, were all in the low category. But going through the evening, 10 00, right where it starts from the delta, napa, the winds continue to spread right on through sonoma, marin, down the diablo range then of course along the coastal hills here. So just San Francisco, the bay shoerl. The communities looking at less wind but still the upper elevation winds mix to the surface looking at gusts right where we live at 30 and 40 miles an hour. Hazy and cooler today. Strong gusty winds tonight through tomorrow. High fire danger through the weekend. The advisories dwoent expire until monday morning. Picking up 11 00 tonight. We have the offshore winds check out the magenta color. 4 00 tomorrow morning. 40, 50 miles an hour gusts. 8 00 continuing from the northeast bringing the humidity to single digits. Noontime tomorrow gusty all over the bay area. And taking this into 9 00 tomorrow night. Still very windy out there. Temperatures down, though, tomorrow in the 70s. Monday we keep the trend into tuesday. Looking at highs today still warm in the in valleys in the 80s. Otherwise, low 70s from the the coast. 80s in sand rafael. The accuweather sevenday forecast. And 80s and. And yoernt tonight into tomorrow. Strong winds, gusting into sunday and monday i should say and then the advisories should be lifting. Looking at more seasonal weather we get into late monday throughout the rest of the we can. So, yes, certainly a time to be very vigilant out there i think a lot of people are looking forward to maybe tuesday when power hopeful starts to get restored. And we sort of return to home owe stassis in the bay area. Yes. Thanks for keeping track of everything. Big College Football games on abc 7 highlighted by saturday night football. Number eight notre dame battles michigan in and asher. Espn College Game Day analyst have a preview of todays axe. College game day in south dakota state for the first time reese dafrs andes mond hourds the jack roberts of sd. U hosting north dakota state. The personual power. North dakota state won seven of the last eight national championships. And and the guy largely responsible for that dinety chris climbed, now the head coach at kansas state it ties back together to abc. First game at noon. Sneaky good dime. Chris has done a good job getting kansas state ready for big games. This is huge. In their backyard, the sooner coming in, number one offense in the country. Averaging 600 yards per contest and 40 points per game. And jaylen hurts to the legitimate heisman candidate. Kansas state inconsistent at times. But they coasted the rage knocked on Mississippi State early this season. Penn state off the victory against michigan. Goes to and James Franklin baten the sparnts one time being at penn state. He will have his guys ready for penn state. We expect a lot of rain in the game which favors michigan state. They want to make this game sloppy low scoring game. Defensive struggle. Take away the explosives. Kj hamler. 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