Thank you for joining us. This map highlights where people are likely to be affected by the Public Safety power shut off. In total 22,000 local pg e customers could lose power. The shut offs are starting now in the north bay and three counties, napa, sonoma. It a fresh round for residents who lived through fires, smoke and other Power Outages. Lets go to abc 7 news Cornell Bernard live in st. Helena. Reporter dan and ama, if folks havent been through enough, thousands could lose power again. Its in the name of safety but the timing is really tough. Im stocked up on batteries, flashlights, i have more flashlights, lanterns. Reporter she has what napa needs. Im here to service the community. Reporter shes assistant manager at Outdoor Supply hardware with a possible pg e shut off hours away, most of the portable generators have sold out. This could do a refrigerator, couple lights. Reporter john was buying extra flashlight batteries and not happy about it. There is a general sense of disillusion to pg e. I think one place seems to be under control and another place comes in after that. I dont like it. Reporter the utility says it has to cut power to thousands of bay area customers due to hot, dry windy conditions or risk sparking a fire from an active power line. At the end of the day, we have to stand by the side of safety and if necessary, we need to do this to prevent any emergencies from occurring. Reporter nancy lived through the glass fire. Her st. Helena dry cleaners was closed for a week due to Power Outages and evacuations. Its been dismal for everyone. Reporter she risks losing power again. When we cant work, we get behind, then people really need their garments and its undo stress. Reporter mayor Jeff Elsworth wants locals to be ready but many expressed high anxiety over the fire. You come off an experience like that and think its time to take breaths and recover and that recovery phase were in but we have to stay alert. Reporter yes, stay alert and have a plan. Pg e says have flashlights and batteries handy. Keep your cell phone charges, and have cash on hand and gas in your car because atms and gas stations could shut down in the event of an outage. Pg e says power could be restored by friday night at the latest. Were live in st. Helena tonight, Cornell Bernard. Tough for those folks. Thank you, cornell. About 10,000 customers on the peninsula and south bay and east bay could lose power starting at 8 00 tonight. Of this second wave, the biggest outages will hit alameda county. Abc 7 News ReporterLeslie Brinkley joins us live from oakland, leslie . Reporter hi, im down here in montclair village. Its hot and dry but no wind yet but that red flag warning, that means that the power will begin shutting off most likely later tonight for businesses right down here that are barely hanging on because of covid restrictions and also for homes up in the hills. Possible wind whipped power lines on dry brush hillsides is prompting pg e to cut electricity to target zones starting wednesday night much of the Oakland Hills from grizzly peak and in the mount diablo foothills, these streets in east walnut creek. This family was told to expect a blackout by 10 00 p. M. That will last for 48 hours. They have an electric car, no way to plug it in. They work from home and their fifth grade son will be cut off from remote learning. The schools told me if we lose power, they will just give him a twoday past for not having to do any school work, but that doesnt help us out any. They dont really have a plan to make up for that somehow. Reporter pg e says they are aiming to make this event less painful. Were also trying to make them shorter events and smaller events so were really targeting areas trying to make it more pockets and targeted zones, rather than larger areas. Reporter this parking lot at march r the college is a charging station to juice up phones and computers. This mont claire restaurant own ser frustrated. First, the business is not good and then if they shut off the power, we have to shut the store down meaning there will be nobody here eating at my restaurant, which will affect my income. Reporter well, the owner you hear from there said the last psps he lost like 900, 1,000 in food. He hopes that doesnt happen again. This kind of shutdown for these businesses is somewhat disastrous, the whole hope is that its a nice short shutdown. In mont claire, im Leslie Brinkley. Thank you. Happening u now, pg e is holding an update. Were streaming it live and monitoring it. Well bring you anything that impacts our local area. Our weather team has Important Information on the winds and hot weather, dan. Absolutely right, ama. Watching closely because the next couple days will be critical. Spencer christian is live with that part of our coverage tonight and the forecast, spencer . Reporter ok. Dan and ama where the conditions are critical, its much warmer, hotter as a matter of fact than you expect at this time of the evening this late into the fall. We have temperatures in the 90s in our inland areas and mid 80s and 70 on the coast and the wind gust, especially above 1,000 feet is getting stronger and stronger as we had predicted so those elements can contribute to high fire danger. The red flag warning will be in effect until midday friday for not only the hills but valleys of the north bay and east bay and santa cruz mountains, wind gusts could reach or exceed 50 Miles Per Hour. Our fuels, vegetation are exceedingly dry. Relative humidity is low and that elevates concerns for fire and a wind 5d viadvisory from 1 tonight until 11 00 tomorrow morning for all of the north bay. There could be downed trees, maybe power lines and fuels are at record dry levels. Here is some things we can do to protect ourselves. Remove flammable fall vegetation, pack and update emergency kits and prepare evacuation routes in case we feel in danger and review insurance policies. Ill have the complete forecast and look when to expect a break in the heat a little later, dan and ama . Thank you very much. If you want to see if your home is on the list of possible power shut offs, we have a helpful tool where you plug in your address to find out. You can find it on abc7news. Com. New details tonight about the moments that led up to a napa sheriff sergent shooting and killing a man last week. Today the Sheriffs Department released video of the stop and Wayne Freedman spoke with the sheriff who explains why it ended in gunfire. Reporter this is napa county sheriffs body cam footage showing seconds leading up to a shooting that would cost juan garcia his life. It began with a routine traffic stop. Tests would later show garcias blood whole level at. 338. It is almost four times the legal limit. Reporter the Sheriffs Department says this escalated when mr. Garcia got out of the car and advanced on the sheriff with his hands behind his back fearing a weapon, ackman fired six times. [ gunshots ]. You shoot until the threat is eliminated, and thats what he did. People tend to hide firearms in their back. Weve all seen it on tv. Weve all seen it in real life. The manner in which he had his hand behind his back, it was in a position that looked like he was grasping something. Reporter juan garcias family did not return calls from abc 7 news today. They have hired an attorney who has seen the video. She says Sergeant Ackman did not give the victim enough time or enough warning. We dont see the officer saying show me your hands, get on the ground. We dont see the officer retreating more than a few seconds. We dont see the dashcam video that would show that juans hands were empty. We dont see an immediate threat of death of serious Bodily Injury presented by juan and we dont see the officer warning juan that hes about to use deadly force. Reporter so clearly, we have not heard the end of this. The Major Crimes Task force is conducting an independent investigation. The sheriff said in his opinion the shooting was justified. In napa, Wayne Freedman, abc 7 news. Thank you, wayne. Police are investigating the disappearance of a Police Believe the animal was taken overnight. Sky 7 was over the been habitat. With fewer than three weeks until the election, if you have voting questions, were getting answers for you right now. Here is a live look at the voting 2020 q and a session happening on our abc 7 News Facebook page. Liz kreutz is getting viewer questions answered by voting experts. Log on to our Facebook Page to get your questions answered live. The event runs until 7 00 tonight. As i said, it going on now. Tomorrow at this time, youll be watching abc news host a town hall with democratic president ial nominee joe biden. You can watch live starting at 5 00 p. M. Here on abc 7 and our connected tv apps on roku, amazon fire, android tv and apple tv. Because of the pandemic, rents in San Francisco are dropping but thats not enough to keep some people in the bay area. And if youre working from home, are you working efficiently . Artificial intelligence can now analyze your taking california for a ride. Companies like uber, lyft, doordash. Breaking state employment laws for years. Now these multibilliondollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. To deny drivers the rights they deserve. No sick leave. No workers comp. No unemployment benefits. Vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22. One ride california doesnt want to take. Doordash prop 22. When you take a it all begins to unravel. Ann ravels no reformer, shes backed by big corporations whove poured hundreds of thousands into her campaign. And she opposes ballot measures to make the economy more fair for working people. Only dave cortese is endorsed by the California Democratic party. Hes helping us battle the pandemic with a sciencebased approach. And expanding Health Services and child care to those in need. For state senate, Democrat Dave cortese. President trumps son baron had coronavirus according to Melania Trump boaron tested positive with his parents but since tested negative. A look at the latest headlines. The bay area seen a total of 109,549 cases since the start of the pandemic. Santa clara county is in the orange tier so restaurants, movie theaters and places of worship were able to allow people inside today. In San Francisco, more than 180 outdoor playgrounds reopened today. There will be city monitors at each park to keep an eye on capacity. Visitors can only stay for 30 minutes if there are others in the park and parents are asked to make sure their kids are social distancing and wears m k masks. Certainly no surprise a study found that rents are cratering in San Francisco. The median price for a studio is down 31 from last year. Its now 2,285 a month and a onebedroom dropped 24 to just over 2800 a month. Twobedrooms are down 2 21 to 3900 a month matt boon looks at what this means for the rest of the bay area. Reporter all you have to do is walk around a few blocks and the statistics turn into this. People moving out of the city. In this case we bumped into lisa moving up to the north bay. 20 years of city living packed up in a single day. When you say i left my heart in San Francisco, i really will be leaving it. Reporter but with remote work and her own business struggling, lisa says it was time for a change. I just wanted more space, more nature, and to be in the outdoors, so im leaving the city. Reporter shes clearly not alone. Rents for a studio apartment in San Francisco have gone down 3131 1 311 3 1 . Santa clara, san mateo and alameda also. You have a hyper inflated market. While rent is down by 30 in some complexes, that doesnt mean the entire city is on sale. Reporter david stark is with the association of realtors and says while prices are going down in the city, it a different story elsewhere. We may not see the big drops in the out lying suburbs because the demand for housing in these communities is still very high. Reporter not only are people like lisa moving from the city to the suburbs but less stock there to begin with. We have decades of job creation in the San Francisco bay area but not decades of new housing opportunity creation and were still dealing with that during covid19. Reporter some places are still seeing increases like sacramento which according to realtor. Com had a 16 increase for studios compared to last september. Because everybody is coming here. Reporter she moved out of San Francisco to sacramento in may. Noticing others from the bay area have followed. A lot more space to move around. Youre not stuck in traffic and people bike everywhere. It a lot more accessible. Im not surprised at all. Reporter in San Francisco, matt boon, abc 7 news. How well are you managing your time working from home . Do you find yourself taking breaks to raid the refrigerator or killing time between meetings . A calendar analyzer has the ability to make us more productive. Its part of the changing workplace as we build a better bay area. David louie shows us what it did. Reporter juggling meetings and finding private time to focus on projects have never been tougher. Coworkers are working from home. There is a platform called clockwise. What clockwise will do is automatically long f automatically is look for the best time for that event on your calendar and attendees but a series of algorithmalgorithms. Reporter the San Francisco based company is trying to address the research, 41 of our workday is wasted time spent on email, Collaboration Tools and dead time between meetings. The result is a loss of productivity. We always have cancelling meetings, nowhere to fit it. No good time to find that one on one. A lot of that isnt happening now. Reporter jeff gibson is an engineering manager at a Global Software company that started using clockwise three months ago. He calendars. Engineers is difficult to refaux cut r focus on a problem. Reporter some people see it as snooping. You can opt out. However for employees dealing with work from home child care and unexpected issues, the platform can be help. Clockwise will move meetings that might be in conflict with the child care block to other times. That makes it really simple. Reporter another Company Found employees gained 1. 5 hours of additional time for meetings per week, an increase of 12 . David louie, abc 7 news. Research by clockwise before the pandemic showed the average worker spends one hour and five minutes reading news sites and 44 minutes engaged in social media. Wildfires as weve reported st what . Never. Are you kidding me . For years, the residential burden has gone up. While the corporate burden has gone down. Prop 15 reverses that. It closes corporate loopholes and invests in schools, small business, and firefighters. And when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. Thats right. A savings of a hundred twentyone dollars a year for the average home. Give homeowners a break. Vote yes on 15. Proposition 16 takes some women make as little as 42 of what a man makes. Voting yes on prop 16 helps us fix that. Its supported by leaders like Kamala Harris and opposed by those who have always opposed equality. We either fall from grace or we rise. Together. Proposition 16 provides equal opportunities, levelling the Playing Field for all of us. Vote yes on prop 16. To wear a mask out in public around other people. Sure itll keep you healthy. But more importantly, i wont have to see your happy smiling face. Ugh. And if you dont want to wear a mask, ive just got one thing to tell you. Scram, go away. Ugh. Caring for each other because we are all in this together. So wear a mask and have a rotten day, will ya . Ugh. Pg e is turning off power to thousands as we speak. In all 22,000 customers could lose their electricity in the bay area tonight. Beginning at 6 00 p. M. , the utility began turning off power in areas of napa, salolano and sonoma. At 8 00 it will be cut off in alameda, contra costa and san mm m mateo. Because of extreme fire conditions, the utility needs to cut power to prevent wildfires that is frustrating to people bu a safety precaution and the weather is a critical factor. Yeah, absolutely. So lets get to Spencer Christian to find out how hot and how windy it going to be, spencer . Okay. Ama and dan to recap what is happening with weather thats creating this concern about fires, weve got strong gusty offshore flow. As those winds flow offshore down slope, they come press and get drier and warmer and of course, that raises the risk for fires. Lets take a look with the wind gusts getting a little stronger above 1,000 feet gusts above 25 Miles Per Hour. Some spots and likely to get stronger overnight. Here is a live view looking northward. It is 75 at San Francisco, oakland 79, 87 Mountain View and 86 san jose and 83 gilroy and 64 Half Moon Bay and some warmer readings for you as we look westward from emeryville. 91 right now at santa rosa. In fact, low 90s at napa, fairfield, concord and livermore at this hour at this point in the season and 88 in the cool spot and forecast features. Critical fire conditions will be with us through friday. Record heat is possible. Im talking about record afternoon high temperatures and record high overnight low