Dangerous winds there, even in the lower elevations, 37 in fairfield. Down to 20 in concord. 30 in napa. 22 in novato. 27 in San Francisco. Look at the peninsula, 25 to 31 whether youre in san mateo or sfo. A noisy night out there, there will be a lot of debris on the road, so drive around that and be careful. Our lower elevations, still in the red flag warning until 11 00. Higher elevations until 5 00 tomorrow afternoon. The winds will subside for most of us after 11 00, its so dry and the winds will below wind advisory criteria, but still fast enough to have that high fire danger. Reggie . That breaking news is in the east bay, high winds are now blowing. Youre looking at what happened in concord after a tree toppled bringing down power lines on Birchwood Court late last night. Contra costa county firefighters responded to similar calls reporting either fallen trees or downed power lines. This morning nearly 107,000 customers throughout the bay area are in the dark. Pg e shut off power to reduce the risk of wildfires while we see some of the strongest winds. This is the utilitys map that shows where the outages are right now. Were looking at a bunch of purple triangles, that indicates the location of a Public Safety power shutoff. Most areas will not have power turned back on until tomorrow. Many homes and businesses are without power in the north bay. Well take in with lauren martine martinez. Parts of mill valley are in the dark. There will be a Resource Center opened at 8 00, a place for snacks, and a place to charge your device. In sonoma county, 24,000 customers will be losing power. Yesterday we heard from residents that say theyre growing frustrated over another shutoff. It is just getting awful tiring, you know, going through this. Its getting awful tiring and ive lived life and have not seen anything like this in the last three years, since 2017. Like mike nicco mentioned earlier this morning, the period of concern is from 7 00 to 10 00 this morning where winds are expected to be strong. Reporting live from mill valley, lauren martinez, abc7 news. Thank you. The dangerous fire conditions also stretching across the east bay. The Contra Costa County put out this detailed map which are the areas at highest risk for wildfires. Theres a stretch running from richmond down to el cerrito and another one on highway 24 corridor that covers lafayette and morinda. Amy hollyfield has more. Good morning. Outages are scattered here. Were in downtown lafayette. The businesses behind me are dark. Some of the homes in this area do have power. I checked on the pg e website, some addresses and some businesses in moraga dont have power. Its hit and miss around this area. Fire crews are ready to go in the event this wind sparks a wildfire. So on the ground and in the air they do have resources ready to go. Contra costa firefighters say they can call on two helicopters. Theyre based at buchanan field, they can be up within an emergency within minutes if the weather is cooperatincooper course. If its too windy they cant go up. But those helicopters can drop 180 gallons of water on any flames if need be. So they are ready to go just in case. The wildland urban interface in this country and all over is a high threat zone. It depends on how close the fire and water source are together. But with the helicopter, especially a light helicopter like this, you like to have a close water source so you can make a lot of drops. If you are headed out today, keep in mind, especially right now, its so dark and those intersections need to be treated as fourway stops if the lights are not working there. Take everything with precaution. Just slow down. It is really dark out here and windy and cold. Dont forget your jacket. This is not the hot, dry wind that weve been used to the last few months. It is very chilly out here. Reporting live in lafayette, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you. Well continue checking in with you throughout the morning. A hotel in berkeley is opening. They planned to close over the weekend because of slow business but people looking for a safer place to be began calling for reservations, so the owner reopened. They have a special 90 rate for evacuees. The hotel will stay open for as long as people need a place. The oakland zoo say they may have to close today and tomorrow. The zoo is currently without power. There are backup generators for animal facilities but the decision would be made for guests safety. The zoo will have their decision on whether to open or not at 7 00 a. M. We have information on our website on how to make your phone battery last longer. Find that and other power outage resources at abc7news. Com. Were coming up on 5shg 07. Looking at neighborhood temperatures before we get back to our fire threat. Mainly mid 50s throughout our east bay inland neighborhoods. Check out mount diablo, 41. You can see the cooler weather is there and thats what will settle into our valleys the next couple of nights. The breezes will keep the atmosphere turned over, thats why were mild this morning with mid 50s to low 60s. When you step outside there are pockets of Colder Weather like where amy was, but not as cold as its going to be the rest of the week. Lets talk about your commute. Ive been looking at some of the crossbreezes across our bridges, theyre getting up around 30, 35mileperhour gusts. If youre on an east west road or bridge, its going to be a tug at the Steering Wheel turning you one way or another. You have to be careful with that. Plus theres debris on the roads from the winds chiccing stu ingt of the trees. Lets talk about the humidity. At Higher Elevations, less than 20 . We could do even drier than that in the lower elevations. Look at danville, 5 relative humidity. 26 in San Francisco. 35 in mountain view. About as humid as it gets. When we talk about the dew point, thats how the temperature has to cool in order for it to become saturated. It is so dry out there that everybody this morning is waking up very high or extreme conditions. Well get rid of the high after the lunch hour in the santa cruz mountains. Its still in the east bay and up in the north bay. As we head into the overnight hours it will shrink in the east bay with still extreme conditions in the north bay through about 3 00 tomorrow. We are not out of the woods yet. Lets switch gears right now and talk to sue about the morning commute. Good morning. Well take a live look back at the bay bridge. No metering lights. Traffic is flowing nicely. The winds are affecting your commute this morning. As mike mentioned, the debris flying all over. When i drove in this morning over the waldo grade, it definitely is blowing with leaves and a tug on the wheel, thats what happened. So be careful of the debris. We have a high wind advisory on the bay bridge, highway 13 in the oakland hills,,, bridge, altamont pass, all bay area bridges affected. We have slow traffic with roadwork on 880 near 23rd. Thats due to be picked up at 6 00 a. M. This morning. All right. Thank you. This morning there are growing concerns that american hospitals could become overwhelmed with covid19 patients as the number of cases surge in many parts of the country. California has more than 906,000 cases. 17,000 deaths. Nationally the u. S. Has more than 8. 6 million cases and 225,000 people have died. Heres elizabeth schulze. This morning new milestones in the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Surpassing 225,000 deaths as the sevenday average for new cases hits its highest level on record. Last week 20 states in puerto rico set new record highs for daily cases, 16 hitting record hospitalizations. In el paso, texas, the number of new covid cases tripled in two weeks. Medical workers setting up outdoor tents to house new patients. Were at a point in which the Health Care System is overloaded. Reporter El Paso County under kcurfew can nonessential traffic banned after 10 00 p. M. In illinois, a top doctor getting emotional. We are reporting 3,874 new cases for a total of the start of this pandemic. In new jersey, this woman lost her husband, rob, due to covid. The numbers are increasing and it will not get better before it gets worse. Reporter in some parts of the country images like these from ohio alarming officials. And some kids in utah are saying they will not get their kids tested in an effort to keep schools open and sports running. Theyre encouraging each other not to have their children tested. Frequent testing allows rapid identification of children with covid, this containment reduces the rapid spread. Reporter the latest surge in covid cases is not just in the u. S. New cases are also hitting records in parts of europe as new lockdowns and restrictions are put in place. Elizabeth schulze, abc news, washington. Coming up, the countdown to election day. The bay area wasting no time casting their ballots. The stunning turnout so far this year. And the pandemic is changing how we are shopping for this Holiday Season. The new trend thats emerging. And the grand plan to distribute a covid19 vaccine and why the Trump Administration considered giving mall santas priority. All right. Before we get to those stories, but i cant say i expected this. Because it was easy. To fight these fires, we need funding plain and simple. For this crisis, and for the next one. Prop 15 closes tax loopholes so rich corporations pay their fair share of taxes. 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Towards noon, down to the 20s and 30s. Were not out of the woods yet. As we get to 6 00, were seeing the calmness take over. Most of the fast winds in the valleys will be in the napa valley during the overnight hours and in the sunol grade heading towards tomorrow morning. Well have those faster winds in the hills through about 5 00 tomorrow afternoon. Were not the only ones in the fire danger. At least four states including us red flag warnings today and tomorrow. Reggie . Thank you. New developments on the pope fire in rural napa county. Cal fire says that wildfire is fully contained. It started on friday and grew to more than 60 acres. Because of our high fire danger crew also remain at that scene for the next few days. A driver in petaluma is accused of driving and intentionally hitting into a firefighter. Petaluma fire crews were responding to a medical call at a Shopping Center on north mcdowell boulevard yesterday morning. A Avril Thompson began asking questions. When he was asked to leave he got into his car and drove towards the firefighters hitting one of them. They arrested thompson and the firefighter was not seriously hurt. President trump plans to make three Campaign Appearances today with rallies across the battleground state of pennsylvania. President trumps democratic challenger, joe biden, has no events planned. Bidens running mate, Kamala Harris, will appear on the view at 10 00 on abc7. With eight days to go until election day, more than 1. 7 million bay area residents have voted already. California has mailed ballots to every registered voter this year because of covid19. In order to count mailin ballots they have to be signed, dated and post marked by election day which is november 3rd. In los angeles, more than 50 black cowboys rode through the streets of compton on horseback to encourage people to vote. The cowboys wore leather jackets and ten gallon hats as they delivered their votes to the ballot boxes yesterday. They call themselves the compton cowboys. Theyre part of an organization that uses horseback riding and equestrian culture to make a positive impact on inner city youth. This week on abc were showing you the new way to holiday. So were looking at holiday traditions and how theyll be changing because of the pandemic. Of course Holiday Shopping is a tradition for a lot of us. Retailers could use our help right now, but they dont expect to be very packed, not in the actual stores this year. One expert tells liz kreutz theres a new trend emerging. I like to say were trying to flatten the curve of holiday so were not having those big crowds. Reporter Something Else is people are trying to be more mindful of how they shop. According to jill, people want to reward companies that are taking care of employees during the pandemic and they want to shop at businesses that stand for their moral values. 4 in 10 want to shop with minority owned businesses. All week well be showing you more information about this including lizs full report which airs tonight on abc7 at 6 00. A Public ServiceCoronavirus Ad Campaign funded by millions of dollars in taxpayer money is getting yanked. It would have offered a vaccine deal to santa claus performers, his friends, how about that. According to the wall street journal, a top Trump Administration official wanted santa performers to promote the benefits of a covid19 vaccine in exchange they would have had early access to a vaccine before the general public but the department of health and Human Services said the plan is going to be scrapped. Santas vip. Its tough to talk about santa on the news. I prefer not to. Okay. Lets talk to mike. Hi, mike. Hi. Well diverge from that subject for now and talk about the weather once again. Were looking from sutro tower, Clear Conditions out there. Our fire danger is highest right now through about 11 00. Then well move it out of the lower elevations and put it back up in the Higher Elevations where its going to remain through at least 5 00 tomorrow afternoon. Calmer and much cooler nights ahead. Not necessarily tonight but watch out wednesday and thursday morning. Temperatures in the 30s and 40s everybody where. No tricks, all treats this weekend. It looks like a nice weekend. The last couple of halloweens we had the threat of wet weather. Not in this case. Thats a positive byproduct of what were dealing with. Look how progressive this jet stream is, going from honolulu up to nearly the arctic circle, but once it gets up there, it loses that humidity and it comes down and it downslopes off the mountains and gets drier. Were in the bowl of the driest air were going to have this go around. Thats going to allow temperatures with the sunshine we still get less than 11 hours. Its enough. Winds coming off the mountains and subsiding into the valleys, compresses and heats. Thats why were looking at mid 70s to upper 70s. Near 70 at the coast. Tonight you can see those areas of shelter in youcaip rosa and the rest of us are in the 50s. Well be under this air mass until at least thursday. 70s and 80s, barely 80 for highs. You can see the marine layer comes back friday. Temperatures back to average and a quiet weekend other than setting our clocks back. We get that extra hour of sleep, kumasi. Happy about that. This morning stunning video of the Harlem Ballet Company dancing to bach that will give you goosebumps. So the Dance Theater of Harlem Company created this combination of ballet music in the streets of new york city. All the ballet dancers as you can see there are wearing masks. The backdrops include various landmarks. They also shot at city college, which is down the street from us. Its funny, its the beautiful background where you see the female dancers. Everyone who has watched that, they asked me is that paris . No, its harlem. It is beautiful. So are they. The director of the Dance Theater of harlem says the videos are a reminder of the importance of the arts especially now when many public performances are on hold because of the pandemic. I will say, thats what i miss the most, just beautiful performances, music, art and dance in person. Me, too. I do, too. So many performers are waiting for that paycheck. Lets get that vaccine and lets go see shows again, please. Exactly. Coming up next, the 7 things to know this morning. Plus coronavirus is no trick. Many cities across the u. S. Putting a ban on trick or treating. The changes to halloween. And as we fight the coronavirus pandemic, california is mandating face masks to stop the spread. Thats why abc7 wants to remind you to wear a mask for you, for your loved heres 7 things to know this morning. We have dangerous winds. Were in the heart of the most challenging weather right now with gusts up to 40 Miles Per Hour in santa rosa. Ive seen gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour and 60 Miles Per Hour across the north bay and the east bay. Nothing has changed. Still a red flag warning until 11 00 for lower elevations, 5 00 tomorrow afternoon for our Higher Elevations. And the winds will be dangerous through 11 00 for all of us. Number two, firefighters have been really busy putting out fires all night long. This is new video from interstate 580 n 0 near regatta boulevard. Fires were reported in Castro Valley and healdsburg. All of the fires were contained quickly. Tens of thousands of east bay homes and businesses are without power now because