Activity, from burn scape, now smolder scape, and considering all the property some how saved, the eventually they get home if more red flags dont keep them away. That will take a while in the entire country. Should anybody have to go through all of this. No, sir, this is insanity. Reporter for context, we checked in on Joel Chandler and his wife tina where hundreds of homes burned two years ago. They moved back just recently. Only to be evacuated again. Its all too much tina told us. Everything about this. Especially the smell of smoke. Yes, the smell of smoke, makes me nauseous. Reporter thats a mental thing. Its mental. Its posttraumatic stress. So many of our neighbors and friend have it. Its a real thing. It just feels like its out of control, you know. Its like its the same thing keeps happening over and over again. You know, its like, i know everybodys tried to make improvements but obviously its not working. Reporter as we come back to 101 north live again, that was Joel Chandler talking about pg e and efforts to control some of these fires and keep them from igniting in this general area. I asked joel if he ever left his house this time. He said, no, he put in a 17,000 gallon pool in the backyard and a pump. He stayed right there. He said he would save it himself. Live in Sonoma County, wayne freedman, abc 7. What is the difference, wayne for residents between this year and two years ago . Reporter weve heard this one a bunch of times, dan. The difference, they say, is time. The time they had from the warning to the time they had to leave. For Joel Chandler, he said this time he had roughly two days. Last time, 20 minutes. Yeah, thats a huge difference. Thanks, wayne, very much. At least 96 structures including 40 homes have been destroyed by the kincade fire. Many residents are staying in shelters in the north bay. Lu reporter there are 450 evacuees in the sonoma fairgrounds shelter. We spoke to a family in petaluma. They are wondering if they can go back home and if theyll have a home to go to in a couple of days. How are you . Tired. Stressed. Want to go home. But were doing okay. Were doing okay otherwise. So. Reporter do you know if your home is okay . I dont know anything. I just know that we cane t go back right now. Reporter outside of the s e sonoma marine fairgrounds, they were evacuated on sunday. The flames were inching to their home. The entire horizon was just orange, like a bright orange glow. And like we could just watch the fire the whole night, just waiting until we got the alert. Reporter the green family used their rv as a bulldozer to run over tvs and get a convoy of ten family members out of the red zone of the fire. After the 2017 fires, they thought they had seen it all. Now theyre back here at a shelter, holding on to hope that their home is still standing. Do you remember two years ago going through something similar, correct. Yeah, it seems almost like a cut and paste of just two years back. Kind of same thing happening just different time and seems s like i dont know, just seems like its worse or better in some regards. And some good news over here, we just got word that zone 7 of this shelter will be able to go home. Those are residents of bodega bay. We got confirmation of the governor of california will be here speaking to some evacuees at 5 00 p. M. Well have that for you. In in. The kincade fire forced 185,000 people to leave their homes. The largest Evacuation Order in Sonoma County history. Many of the evacuations in Sonoma County are at capacity, the centers that is, but napa valley expo communty church napa and Petaluma Valley Baptist Church are accepting evacuees. It is all about the weather, particularly the wind, and another wind event is on the way. And lets talk about the timing of this. Spencer christian standing by with a look at conditions. Spencer. Were not getting much of a break in terms of weather conditions. Heres a look at conditions at te location of the fire. 65 degrees, relative humidity, once again, bone dry, about 10 . The steady wind out of the west, southwest, actually, at 7 Miles Per Hour with occasional gusts up to about 15. So the wind is not very strong at the moment, and for the next few hours, as you look at the 24 hour wind gust forecast, you can see the wind will remain relatively calm, generally under 10 Miles Per Hour, until early tomorrow morning, all of a sudden were going to get a sudden and dramatic increase in wind gusts up to nearly 30 Miles Per Hour in the area of the fire, and not only there, but all across much of the north bay and into the east bay tomorrow well see winds increasing dramatically, starting in the morning hours. The result is a high red flag warning for high fire danger going into effect for the north bay, for the remountaainder of area, and all across the region during this high wind event. We can expect gusts between 30 and 65 Miles Per Hour. Ill give you a closer look at that in a few minutes. Dion. Spencer, thanks very much. Pg e gave the final all clear this morning to begin the process of restoring power, but the company is already warning customers that that forecast weather condition spencer is talking about could force the utility to keep the power off a while longer. The new round of shutoffs could start tomorrow. If so, this would be the fourth time this month pg e has started to send out alerts. Power was cut to 960,000 customers this weekend. Well, speaking of customers, abc 7 News Reporter, Laura Anthony is in oakland where some businesses are really feeling the impact of the power outage. Laura . Reporter yeah, high, dion, hi hi dan. Actually, the good news, im hearing from people their power is starting to go back on in the east bay, the north side of oakland, i have heard from parts of marinda that the power is starting to go back on. Here in the montclair district of oakland, the businesses are still shut tight. This restaurant behind me, the owner told me its becoming an extreme hardship. Were having that conversation right now. We are having that conversation amongst the partners. For rob lamb, the owner of the pearl restaurant in oaklands montclair district, this latest power shutoff may prove to be a setback he cant survive. Closed since friday, the outage has already cost him 40,000 and counting. So youre in the day four. Yeah, day four of a really crucial end o. Monf the month, of holiday parties and everything going on, so yeah, its a real heartbreaker. What do we have in there. These are some of the items that we could actually try to save. Reporter lamb rented a generator to keep his perishables cold, and hes continue to go pay his 20 employees. But faced with the prospect of more days without power. The real concern is my staff, going five days, these are hard working people, and they got to pay rent coming up. Reporter in lafayette, its a giant generator thats keeping the perishables on the shelves and the store open for residents. Growing weary of another Public Safety power shutoff. I know people have lost property up in sonoma, and with the fires that broke out yesterday in laugh yfayette, iy with it. I was a skeptic before. I would rather have no power and a house and a neighborhood than not. Reporter and again, were live in the montclair district of oakland, the power here is still out, but the very latest is that power is slowly being restored to the communities here in the east bay. Of course the big question for how long. I just spoke with or heard from a pg e representative who said n they are making those decisions right now. We could see power shutoffs again as early as 4 30 tomorrow morning. Its unclear at this point whether conditions depending exactly how widespread this next outage might be. Some folks have been warned that they might not see their power go back on at all before the next outage, so for instance, this restaurant concerned, he may not be able to open again for two or three more days. Live in oakland, Laura Anthony, abc 7 news. Yeah, that is tough. Okay, laura. Thank you. Many marrin county residents without power have been coming to San Francisco for essentials like gasoline. This is the marina earlier this morning. A lot of people filling up their cars and gas cans as you see here. Pg e says it is expecting equipment in marin county, the first step in getting the power back on. Some could go back off again because of more wind. As we mentioned, pge and may proactively shut off power in a few days. Youre going to start out on the potential psps outages maps page. Scroll down and you want to click here. Its available in english and several other languages. Once this page loads, this portion is important. This shows october 26th and 27th. That is the most recent psps situation that were looking at. You want to click this to view the map for olctober 29th, whic is tomorrow. I have the two pages pulled up for comparison. This is from the most recent outage. This is for the potential of the new one. You can see theres a lot less orange were seeing across the map, but still areas in the east bay as well. We can see here, orinda, lafayette, moraga. Move over to the peninsula. Theres areas over here as well, over to halfmoon bay and keeps going further south and still much of the north bay as well, when you bring it up to here. Significantly less when comparing to the map that we have been looking at for the past couple of days. Pg e continues to say all areas outlined are proximate and advised people to use the address look up tool for the most accurate information. Reporting in the studio, abc 7 news. Bad air, you can see the thick smoke in the sky but what is it doing to your health. Plus, fire masks, you have heard about those masks youre supposed to wear when the air is bad but do they really work. And power problems, its bad for everyone, but even worse for. 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®. Pg es Public Safety power shutoffs are supposed to reduce the risk of the utility sparking a fire with its power lines. The question is why then is another power line being investigated for starting a fire. The i team told you last week about a pge and owned transmission tower that may be the source of the kincade fire roaring through the county. The utility has discovered two power lines may be to blame for fires that started yesterday. Melanie woodrow is live in the newsroom with the story. On the documents filed with the states Public Utilities commission, outline how pg e could be responsible for the two separate fires on either side of the freeway, and they started blocks from where power had been turned off. Flames threatened homes and destroyed the Lafayette Tennis Club yesterday when a grass fire roared through dry brush fanned by high winds. It was one of two blazes that popped in the area, sending smoke over highway 24. Today pg e reported to the cpuc that there were two separate incidents, involving its energized power lines at about 2 30 yesterday. One incident was at pleasant hill, where pg e reported a communication lashing wire as a potential ignition source, and the other at ka mcamino diablo. You can see what the stretch of roadway looked like in april of this year. There were trees in the area close to power lines. The exact scenario pg e has been concerned about and the reason it says it is cutting power to millions of customers when high winds pick up. Now there are questions as to why the two lines that may hae been involved in yesterdays fires were energized at all. Take a look at this pg e planned Public Safety outage map from yesterday. That orange color is where power was shut off. This is where the ka mdiablo fi started both just outside the outage zone. Raising more questions about the effectiveness and keexecution o pg es planned outages. In the newsr newsr newsr newr team, melanie woodrow. Firefighters have the upper hand on the sky fire that started yesterday morning near crockett and contra costa county, the fire that jumped the carcinas strait and sparked a grass fire in vallejo. That fire is 90 another fire burning in Solano County burned, and started yesterday afternoon and has burned at least 1,500 acres. No structures are in danger. Chef and Food Network HostTyler Florence is in sonoma to help feed the evacuees. He shared this video on twitter of the meal he prepared last night for about 6,000 people at the Sonoma County fairgrounds. If you want to volunteer anytime this week, he asks that you send him a direct message. They would prefer kitchen experience, of course, but he says if you have a strong back and can handle a knife, hey, theyll take you and can use the help. If your power is out, you might be wondering what is in your refrigerator and freezer that is still safe to eat. According to the usda, your fridge will keep food safe up to four hours, and if you have a full freezer, food should safe for 48 hours. Throw out refrigerated food like meat and eggs after four hours without power. Get rid of dairy, processed or hard cheeses, uncut fruits and vegetables are safe to eat as well as open fruit juices. When in doubt, throw it out. We have more information on the recommendations on our web site, abc7news. Com. I have been without power since saturday, and am doing that prose no process now, looking through the refrigerator. Times you have to do what you need to do. Were thankful, at least we have our homes. Small inconvenience. The wind is calm right now for most of the bay area. Its going to intensify once again, as you know, and its not going to be very far into the future. We dont have to wait for long for it. Lets take a look at current conditions. You can see how much haze is still in the air. The view from our super tower camera looking out over San Francisco, today is a spare the air today, tomorrow will be as well as that haze wont move away for a while. 68 degrees in the city, oakland, 70. Low 70s at san jose and gilroy. 69 at pacifica, and the view looking west from emeryville, you can see the haze, 6 69 d, 69 in santa rosa, and fairfield, concord and livermore, and from the golden gate, you can see way off in the distance in the far north there evidence of that haze. We have blue skies over the golden gate, and these are our forecast features, mostly clear skies and chilly conditions overnight. The next wind event will begin tomorrow and continue into wednesday, and then well have a calmer pattern that will last a while, beginning oh, Late Wednesday into thursday. Once again, tomorrow will be a spare the air day, the poorest air quality will be along the coast and central bay. Most other regions across the bay area, will have moderate air quality tomorrow, and this is our red flag warning. Once again, its important to bear in mind this begins in the north bay, 8 00 tomorrow morning. The remainder of the bay area goes into effect until 1 00 tomorrow afternoon and during this time we may see guests in the Higher Elevations up to 65 Miles Per Hour with very low relative humidity. Obviously under those conditions. We have high fire danger. Heres our wind gust animation starting at 8 00 tomorrow morning, at which point it will be breezy in parts of the north bay and over into the east bay a little bit, but the wind wont become very intense and very widespread until later in the afternoon, well start to see gusts between 20 and 30 Miles Per Hour. And then those gusts become more widespread, andta and theyll b stronger in the evening hours, notice gusts from 35 to about 45 Miles Per Hour, will be widespread. From midnight tomorrow night into about 4 00 a. M. Wednesday. Youll see, again, a range of wind gusts, 35 to 45 Miles Per Hour in the areas most severely affected by this increase in wind, but then much like this most recent event, this will taper off sharply, around, oh, mid afternoon on wednesday and the wind will settle down again. We have slightly elevated wave heights right now. We dont have a beach hazard advisory in effect. A statement of increased risk. Overnight lows will drop into the 30s with some of our inland valleys, and low 40s just about everywhere else. Heres the accuweather, sevenday forecast. Once we get through the next gusty wind event on wednesday well have calmer weather for the remainder of the week. In fact, thursdays weather, halloween is thursday. Thursdays weather will be a treat, not a trick. Finally we get a pattern of sunny, mild days, steady range of temperatures and calm wind. Calm sounds nice. I have been waiting to hear when you will say trick or treat when it comes to the weather for halloween. The van gogh. To harrison, the wine collection. To craig, this rock. I leave these things to my heirs, all 39 million of you, on one condition. That you do everything to preserve and protect them. With love, california. 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. Continue talk about these terrible fires were dealing with in the bay area. Joining me is former firefighter and fema federal Image Management agency. Mark, great to have you with us. So much to talk about here. As a former fema coordinator, what are some of the biggest issues in the next few days, and next few weeks. This is unprecedent. If we were just dealing with fire, thats one thing, but now power shortages, energizing and reenergizing, presents great challenges, especially coupled tog