Warning. So theres a high fire danger for all of the state. So were seeing quite a few fires burning as a new red flag warning goes up for the north bay starting at 8 00 this morning for the east bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains well see that red flag warning and the high fire danger beginning at 1 00 today. Well have gusty wins that could pick up over 50 Miles Per Hour, especially in the higher elevations, so ill have a look at our timeline of the wind forecast coming up in a couple of minutes. Mike, lots of folks are heading out of oakland. Right. Whether or not they live there, their traveling out of oakland across the bay bridge. The backup is forming for the cash lanes and fastrak. For tuesday this may be lighter than we typically see. Weve seen that, we typically see that, now its a pattern over here when we have the outages and the fire safety going on and the power safety shutoffs. Were watching for the traffic flow. Right now a minor crash. Highway 4 at willow pass road. Anywhere south of there moves nicely, calmly and smoothly. Well track to see how that south bay commute moves. Yesterday it was lighter and definitely in the north bay lives disrupted because of the evacuations and the kincade fire. 128 still has the low suclosure. The evacuations as well. Back to you guys. Breaking news that were following. Firefighters in Sonoma County are on a big push to make progress knocking down the kincade fire before red flag warning conditions pick up later today. The high winds are forecast to return in just a matter of hours. The fires have burned more than 74,000 acres. Its 15 contained. At least 123 structures are destroyed including 57 homes. Also some 90,000 buildings and homes still threatened. More than 100,000 people still under evacuation orders. As of the next wind event, firefighters are formulating an attack plan while trying to protect nearby towns and homes from one of the biggest fires in Sonoma County history. Pete suratos joins us live from santa rosa where firefighters are also facing another challenge theyre tired, theyre fatigued. A lot of fatigue probably setting in. Good morning to you guys. Were here at the Sonoma County fair grou fairgrounds. This is the incident command center. This is where the firefighters will be as they continue to fight the kincade fire. You know that more than 4,000 firefighters are here on the Ground Fighting this fire. They are here at the Sonoma County fairgrounds to recharge and get debriefed before heading to the fire lines in towns like windsor, healdsburg and geyserville. One concern is if the kincade fire crosses highway 101. This would mark another significant turn for the kincade fire which prompted nearly 200,000 people to evacuate Sonoma County. This is the biggest evacuation in Sonoma County history. Here is a cal fire spokesperson explaining the plan of attack when it comes to dealing with a wildfire of this magnitude. When you have 4,000 firefighters on the line, we have everything going on from bulldozers cutting into the dirt to actually put some perimeter in. We have firefighters with hoses around structures that the fire came close to putting out hot spots and patrolling. We also have aircraft pretreating hillsides. Tackling all these fires specifically, the kincade fire is definitely taking a toll on the firefighters as you guys mentioned. Youre looking at images of firefighters, theyre resting up before heading back to the front lines. We have firefighters from departmentses around california and the country battling the kincade fire. Incident command here, this is where the firefighters will be stationed in between the fires before they head out. At 7 00 a. M. , crews will be debriefed on the plan ahead. Well be there when it takes place. Live in santa rosa, pete suratos, today in the bay. Thank you. Lets talk about those winds. We had a little break. Firefighters had 15 containment progress. So thats good. They did make containment progress and the winds will be picking up. When the winds increase, theres not much they can do at that time. Through the 9 00 hour, 32mileperhour gusts in the Oakland Hills over towards San Francisco as well as the north bay. Then the winds get stronger, especially in the north bay hills going into the rest of the day. At 11 00, clear lake at 36mileperhour gusts. Reaching over 41 later today at 2 00. Vacaville with wind dusts up to 36. The rest of the bay area with wind gusts 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Even into the evening. This will be several hours of some high winds. It doesnt look as strong as the wind event that we had on sunday. But still winds at 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour is going to potentially fan the flames and cause the kincade fire to spread a little bit more than weve seen previously. Well continue to track this. Ill talk about the temperature forecast and what were expecting there as well as relative humidity numbers, thats coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Right now more than 1 Million People across Northern California are still in the dark from the latest pg e Power Outages. Later today a new round of outages set to kick in. Heres a map showing you the current blackout areas and when the next round of outages starts some 600 thoush,000 homes and businesses will feel that impact. Pg e saying todays power shutoff will start in the north bay as soon as 8 30 in the morning. By tonight neighborhoods in the east bay and south bay will also feel the impact. Those areas that we saw earlier in the oranging those are the possible outages. Pg e saying it sends out alerts if your home will be directly impacted or you can always go to nbcbayarea. Com to see it for yourself. The power blackout will last through at least tomorrow. With every pg e outage the outrage is growing. Lawmakers all over the state speaking out against the utility blasting pg e for creating this situation through mismanagement. Kris sanchez joins us from the evergreen neighborhood with that part of the story. Im here at this elementary school, the middle school is down the way. These schools are in the outage area. The district says that if power goes out school will still be in session but it clearly creates diskr disruption for families and educators. Thats one reason why the governor and lawmakers are blasting pg e. During a briefing atkin cade Fire Evacuation center, Governor Newsom was outranged at pg e saying years of greed and mismanagement is why we are where we are today. In washington arc central v, a congressman spoke. Regular people cant choose to not pay their bills, pg e shouldnt be able to abuse that fact by refusing to invest in their grid. These blackouts are happening because rich executives gave themselves millions of dollars in bonuses instead of investing in their crumbling infrastructure. The congressman wants a law that would slap pg e with a 20 alternative minimum tax rate should the utility continue to pay bonuses while failing to meet infrastructure benchmarks. Pg e paid 25 million in bonuses in 2018 to top eight executives. But a 16 million bonus plan was just rejected by a bankruptcy judge this summer. We have heard Law Enforcement and also the pg e ceo say you can be outraged, you can be mad at pg e, but you should not take it out on the crews on the street in your community trying to fix equipment and restore power. Do be mindful of that. Be kind to the folks in your neighborhood in those blue pg e trucks, then just get in touch with lawmakers if you want them to make sure pg e feels the heat. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. Nbcbayarea. Com is a great source for immediate information on the outages and fires. Download the nbcbay area app before you lose power. You can watch our Live Team Coverage and receive instant alerts sent to your device. And as a reminder, our today in the bay team will be covering this story as it unfolds tomorrow morning. Were starting our newscast early for you tomorrow morning at 4 00 a. M. 5 10 for you right now. Authorities so far are not yet identifying a man accused of stabbing three people in a violent outburst on the peninsula. Heres video from the scene of the first stabbing. This happened in a parking lot of bjs restaurant in san mateo. About 7 00 p. M. , the man was in a car with his cousin and her boyfriend. After stabbing the boyfriend, he ran off and apparently then randomly stabbed two other people. Officers arrested him soon after catching up to him when he ran into a lagoon. All three stabbing victims are expected to recover from their injuries. Concern is growing this morning about a man and woman last heard from nearly one week ago. Shortly before the plane they were in went off the radar. Kayla rodriguez and Justin Winfrey were flying in a small plane that took off from novato. Coast guard crews have called off the search in nearby waters. A live look for you this morning after smoky skies over San Francisco. Air quality is expected to improve today but not by much. Theres another spare the air alert today due mostly to lingering wildfire smoke. Public Health Leaders advise anyone with respiratory problems to stay indoors. Experts say this kind of dirty air often has higher toxin levels and can even trigger asthma attacks. Very concerning for the elderly, young children. A lot of people like to get out there and jog, but probably not today. Not the best time. Weve seen a lot of smoke coming in. This shows the direction of the wind and whats been blowing the smoke. Most of it has been going off the coast. We did start to see yesterday it spread across the north bay and into parts of the east bay. Well see this same thing today. Starting out this morning with chilly temperatures. 35 in santa rosa. Livermore, 41. 45 in san jose. 46 in oakland. We will see some cooler air today along with those gusty winds. Ill have more on that in a few minutes. Mike, youre starting with a look at the bayshore freeway. Clearly flowing bayshore freeway. Pretty sign there. Thats off of university. If youre traveling south, that will be in your eyes. No need for sunglasses. The sun is not out yet. Smooth flow there as well as the rest of the bay. Yesterday we saw lighter flow. Incidents like this week where we have the power and the fire theres usually a lighter flow of traffic. The power outage there at marsh creek road did cause problems yesterday. The rest of the bay area, a light build. More on that coming up. 5 12. Coming up, a different kind of bus service. A new kind of shuttle to help get people around. Well explain how it works next. Seems like Facebook Changes its rules about political ads every day. Well bring you tuesdays rules when today in the bay continues. Tv just keeps Getting Better. How you watch it does too. This is xfinity x1. Featuring the Emmy Awardwinning voice remote. Streaming Services Without changing passwords and input. Live sports with realtime stats and scores. Access to the most 4k content. And your movies and shows to go. The best tv experience is the best tv value. Xfinity x1. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Right now at 5 15, our microclimate weather alert continues as we get ready for another high wind event starting later this morning. Winds are calm right now as we look live outside in fremont. Temperatures are very chilly. Starting out in the mid 40s heading into the low 60s by noon. We will have cooler air staying with us over the next few days along with high winds. Ill talk more about that and whats ahead coming up in less than five minutes. Winds are calm, so trucks like these crossing the richmondsan rafael bridge are all right. When that wind kicks up later on, they may have to watch it. Travel times are smooth now. Ill show you the bay bridge and i have an issue for the north bay commuters coming up. Good morning. Very happy tuesday to you. So which company would you least like to be ceo of . Pg e stock fell another 20 monday. Today the ceo of boeing faces congress over the deadly 737 max crashes. Meanwhile the s p 500 hit new highs. Lots going on. The fed starts its twoday Interest Rate meeting today. San franciscos juul will lay off hundreds. Google said expenses would cut into the profits. Amazon announced this morning it will offer free delivery of groceries to prime users. It will roll that out slowly. If youre on snap or Food Assistance you dont even need to be a prime customer. Right now theres about a 10 charge. Last week Mark Zuckerberg had real trouble explaining his companys political advertising policies. Admitting he didnt know what facebook would do in certain circumstances. Representative alexandria ocasiocortez asked if he would permit a fake ad claiming that republican Lindsey Graham supports the green new deal. Yeah, he said facebook would allow that. So an activist group made that fake ad claiming graham did support the new deal. Here it is. Facebook took it down. Took said it changed its policy slightly from what zuckerberg said last week. Its now going to take down fake ads by organizations but never individual politicians. So naturally at least one activist says he will run for governor of california so he can post fake ads just to see what facebook does. California still battling washington over emission standards. The Trump Administration wants to take away our states power to set higher requirements and therefore tailpipe emissions. Ford, bmw, honda and volkswagen said they will build cars to california standards. Yesterday general motors, toyota and chrysler put their support behind the white house. Today you have your first chance to check out new on demand Shuttle Service in cupertino. Its called viacupertino. First you need to download the via app to use it. You can request a mercedes van to take you anywhere in the city or to the sunnyvale caltrain station. Trips run between 1 and 5. The Shuttle Service launches at 9 30 this morning at civic center plaza. Bay area winds will be a big story once again today. Lets check out this photo. This is sent in by a viewer in boulder creek. A tree branch slammed into the windshield of the tesla. The car was empty at the time of that impact. Thank goodness. You can see how strong those winds have been. I passed the golf course, there was a huge tree down. There were golfers just Walking Around like, you know, im still going to get in my game. The winds will pick up again today. I want to show the outline of the kincade fire. It shows how much has burned. A large area, especially in some steep terrain. We know its been moving closer to more populated areas. I put some arrows on here to show you the direction of what were expecting today. The embers pushing to the south. High winds starting at 8 00 this morning. Right now winds are calm across the bay area. As we go through the forecast, at 8 00 this morning the winds are increasing as we look at the north bay. Even as we look at the Oakland Hills over towards San Francisco, wind speeds at about 30 Miles Per Hour. Even stronger at times. As we sees winds picking up throughout the day, well have several hours of high wind gusts and sustained winds that could reach over 40 Miles Per Hour going into the afternoon. We have some bright colors here showing where the winds will be today, tonight and tomorrow. As you head out the door, if youre going to the Pleasant Hill b. A. R. T. Station, temperatures in the low 40s, heading into the mid 60s by noon today. We still have these nice seasonable temperatures but the winds will be the issue. The area of low pressure giving us another burst of high winds will move away after a couple of days. As we go towards halloween and to the weekend, winds will be calmer as High Pressure builds. Our temperatures will be slightly warmer. Our sevenday forecast shows high winds today and early tomorrow, but the rest of the forecast is looking good here, hopefully getting more containment as the week goes along. Mike, youre looking at the metering lights. We should see them any minute here. Everything is on schedule at the bay bridge. Lighter getting there. A smooth drive from highway 4 to the backup there. Anywhere south of there, also green zone, except for the altamont pass. This is 521 now. Thats late for the commute to build over there. In the north bay, life disrupted, so we dont have the same type of commute here. The big concern is avoiding the areas, 128 still closed for the kincade fire over towards tubbs. 101 still open. The offramps, many of them are closed. Because of the psps, smart train yesterday, sunday and today service is canceled. No problems for b. A. R. T. Back to you. Coming up next, did you feel it . Two small earthquakes minutes apart south of gilroy. Well explain why this is the latest in a recent string of similar quakes. And going wild at a california zoo. The jail time one man faces after leaving with a lemur. Youre watching today in the bay. New yoefovernight, two smal earthquakes rattled the area around holster. A 3. 5 happened about 2 30 this morning followed by a 3. 2 six minutes later. This is all in the area where a 4. 7 hit two weeks ago. According to the usgs over the past ten days the same area has seen at least one aftershock every day, 3. 0 or higher. Okay. So talk about crazy this morning for your commute. Look at this. A pittsburgh, pennsylvania transit bus swallowed up by a sinkhole. Look at that. This happened yesterday morning while the bus was stopped at the light. Can you imagine . So just the driver and one passenger were on board at the time. Each suffered minor injuries. The pa