Proud boys would know how to find them. The fbi says its an attempt to create chaos and undermine confidence in the election, but they insist our election systems are resilient. Do not allow these efforts to have their intended effect. If you receive an intimidating or manipulative email in your inbox, dont be alarmed and do not spread it. This is not a partisan issue. He added that russia and iran have independently obtained Voter Registration information but that data is already public. Our other top story this evening, thousands of people are gearing up for the lights to go out in a matter of hours. For some this will be the fourth pg e outage of the year. Pg e does confirm it will turn off the power to 4,200 bay area customers tonight because of dangerous fire conditions. You can see the yellow there on your map. Those are the yellow, those are the counties impacted by what will happen tonight. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez has the latest from napa county. This is my mothers rescues. She gave them to me literally on her deathbed at 71 years old is in. Buster davis says there is no such thing as giving up. The former 49er Football Player has been cooking and serving his late mothers recipes at his calistoga restaurant for more than two decades and hes not about to quit. You dont walk away. If somebodys beating you, you just get in there. You just do it. Reporter but Mother Nature has dealt him blow after blow. The pandemic, the fires, and multiple power shutoffs have taken a huge toll. Tonight hes gearing up for yet another power outage. Pg e confirms 4,200 bay area customers will lose electricity overnight. At this time, we will be moving forward with a Public Safety power shutoff due to the weather conditions and the gusting winds that we are expecting. Im ready to the locusts to come. Reporter davis says so far hes been able to keep afloat without laying off any of his hardworking staff. He says his Loyal Customer base hasnt let him down. By the grace of god, you know, who i believe in, they keep coming back. So thats what keeps us going. Reporter davis has invested in a generate . Is planning to buy another one. Hes taking it day by day. I put one shoe on at a time and i get up and i do it. You get in there and you deal with it. Reporter the next outage is one more challenge he plans to overcome. Well get through this power outage and well come out good, too. Reporter pg e says the lights will start going out in parts of napa county at 4 00 a. M. And may not be restored until friday night. In calistoga, im Jodi Hernandez, nbc bay area news. Lets bring now our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri and get some more information. Jeff, youre tracking the winds. How gusty will they get . I definitely think we can get to around the 40mileperhour range, but its going to be very isolated. This will not be a widespread bay area wind event for us. As ive been telling you, the main focus will be in the mountains. Were talking 2,000 to 3,000 feet up at the highest levels where we would get the 10 to 40mileperhour wind gusts. You can see the red flag fire warning for the northeast and also the south bay elevations. Right now im only seeing winds of 15 miles per hour, Mount Saint Helena and just 17 at mount diablo. When do the winds really pick up . Weve been focussing on the best chance for winds to increase by thursday. You can see were beginning to see the red color pop here. The key on the lefthand side of the screen. Thats winds about 30 to 40 miles per hour. Once we roll into tomorrow morning, we should begin to see that spread over parts of those north bay Higher Elevations and a little bit of wind down there for the east bay around mount diablo. Coming up this hour were tracking not one but two different systems to drop our temperatures and maybe a second round of wind. Well get you everything you need to know about this. Ill see you at 6 19, also 6 48 tonight. Okay. Thanks, jeff. Jeff is continuing to track the power shutoffs also this evening. We are on our website as well. You can find it right there to see if your neighborhood is affected. Just go to nbcbayarea. Com and click on power shutoffs in our top stories bar. From bad to worse, antiasian hate. One Organization Says hate rhetoric against asians is ticking up as the election draws near, election day. Jessica aguirre is with us now. Jess, not only parts of the country, its happening right here in parts of the bay area. It is for sure happening right here in the bay area, raj, and a lot of people say it has to do not only with politicians, but it has to do with the pandemic, of course, and with that phrase that we keep hearing thats permeated kind of like the lexicon, which is the china virus or the china plague. This group says thats whats at the core of this. The group is called stop aapi hate. Its a National Coalition thats trying to deal with antiasian discrimination. Which they say is on the rise here and across the country as well. Remember a couple of weeks ago here we told you about two attacks that happened in the tenderloin. Two asian women in their 70s physically assaulted while walking. Now, police have since arrested a suspect. The group says that since march they received more than 2,700 reports of haterelated incidents and crimes from 49 states. And they say some of them are absolutely frightening. The two University Employees in new orleans, louisiana, and persistently asked them their race. Are you chinese or japanese . Are you chinese or japanese . Because if you are, im going to kill you. He then opened up his shirt to reveal the possession of a handgun. A second incident involved a woman and her sister who were crossing the street in brooklyn, new york. A car came speeding toward them. The driver and his friends rolled down their window and screamed go back to wuhan, china, you stupid [ bleep ]. Now, the organization is studying speech used by president ial and Vice President ial candidates as well as senate candidates. It accuses some, including the president , of using words about the pandemic and they say that is fueling the hate. Now, 11 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are eligible to vote. Its expected that they make up nearly 5 of eligible voters. And it is expected that they will be going to the polls, raj. Yeah, such a big Asian Community here in the bay area. Its concerning for a lot of us. Thank you, jessica. Thanks, jess. The heads of californias most popular amusement parks lash out at Governor Newsom for not loosening restrictions and allowing them to reopen. Theme parks like disneyland have been shut down since march because of the pandemic. State leaders toured the parks in the past week to check out health protocols. The state said the parks will basically stay closed until their counties reach the most optimal tier. The administrations visit this last week just seemed to be just a show. They made no changes to the guidance for the large parks from what we saw two weeks ago. Many of the parks already plan to remain close until next year, but now say they cant predict when they might reopen. We should note Universal Studios is a Sister Company of nbc bay area. Both are owned by comcast. Its a covid timeout. Marin county Catholic High School sent all their students back home for distance learning. The reason, too much partying and getting together. The high school suspended inperson learning starting on monday after reports of a large Party Last Weekend involving students and numerous sleep overs. This socalled timeout will last for two weeks. The school also cancelling all sporting and extracurricular activities. School leaders say any behavior that puts students and teachers at a higher risk will not be tolerated. Students will come back to campus beginning november 2nd. The east bay is loosening up. Alameda county will soon allow more businesses to reopen. Starting this friday Indoor Dining can resume, so can indoor worship services. Movie theaters will also be able to reopen. Businesses can only operate at 25 capacity. Of course social distancing guidelines must be followed and masks must be worn by everyone. Up next here at 6 00, offering free athome testing to anyone who wants it here in the bay area. The stanfordled project and how it will help us learn more about covid19. Plus, missing in the mail . The bay area neighborhood where people havent gotten their ballots yet. And some cooling on the way for tomorrow. Ill also show you a tenday outlook and what we can expect over the next couple of days. Coming up in about nine minutes. In the east bay, nearly 100 registered voters in berkeley still have not received their ballots in the mail. The Alameda County registrar says the missing ballots were printed on time and given to the Postal Service so where did things go wrong . Nbc bay areas melissa colorado set out to get some answers. My plan is to vote by mail if my ballot arrives. Reporter time is ticking for julie of berkeley, and the ballot that still has not made it into her mailbox. Our household we have four registered voters and none of our ballots have arrived. Reporter with less than two weeks to go until election day, she is one of 98 registered voters in her neighborhood who has yet to receive her ballot. According to figures released by the Alameda County registrar. This year were having a lot of problems with mail delivery. Have not had mail in the last few days. Reporter a spokesperson says election mail did not arrive on time to some people who live in this neighborhood of central berkeley. Zip code 94703. Bussgang living on channing way. The Alameda County registrar looked into the complaints and said the ballots were printed on time and delivered to the Postal Service. 98 ballots did not make it through the Postal Servicess automation process. The registrar says postal workers now have to manually sort through the 98 ballots, adding to the delay. This is so unacceptable, but i am in no way blaming any of the postal workers. Reporter the Postal Service says their number one priority is the secure, Timely Delivery of election mail and is looking into the issue. Were just going to keep our fingers crossed that the ballots arrive. Reporter in berkeley, melissa colorado, nbc bay area news. Well, it is the hot Meeting Place for political talk these days. Social media with sites like snapchat, tiktok and twitter seeing record growth. Young people make up the bulk of that audience. From leftleaning sites lime tiktok for biden to the conservative hype house, social media is dominating the election cycle for young voters. They say theyre flocking to these sites not only because theyre full of likeminded people, but because they want to let other young people know that voting is important and that this years election will affect their lives for a long time. But at least one local professor says his students also see a downside to being online. All of these people come out and attack them. All of these people try to put them down or make them feel weaker. And as a result, i think some of them are weary or leery of voting because of the social media reactions they might receive. But that hasnt slowed down the number of users. Stock prices of social Media Companies are at record highs. A lot of people watching aoc on twitch last night as well. How about fighting the coronavirus in your own home . Stanford is teaming up with some powerful names like microsoft. Theyve developed a way for you to test yourself along with new software so they can track cases. Heres nbc bay areas anousha redu rasta with the detail. Reporter stanford wants to make testing for covid19 as simple as possible by sending you a kit like this in the mail so you can do the test yourself at home. Just fill out an online form and the university will send you a test kit within 24 hours. Swab the inside of your nose and mail the sample back. What were doing is connecting Testing Capacity to people that need to test. Reporter stanfords school of medicine launched the Research Study this week called c. A. T. C. H. , the community alines to test the coronavirus at home. Researchers say it will help them figure out a more accurate number of covid cases in the bay area and help them identify hot spots, too. What we want to do is track people who might be infected and people who arent infected. Reporter the university developed an Online Program called vera where people can log on, register and track their symptoms. Researchers need more people to register to participate in the study so they can see whether the athome testing plan works for everyone. Angie mauer from danville already did. By the next day, almost 24 hours, actually, i received my results, which was amazing. The steps, the equipment, the materials provided are very secure, very welldone. Instructions are super simple. Reporter arthur libberman is 80 years old and a retired scientist. He believes stanfords test is the safest way for vulnerable groups like himself to check for coronavirus. This way, its at home, zero possibility of contracting anything. So i was very comfortable with doing it. Reporter researchers say theyve tested about 2,000 people so far but hoping for 100,000. The test is free and the university expects to know in a couple of months if the plan will work for the public. Anousha rasta, nbc bay area news. That is really interesting. Weve been doing this for about seven months and so much of whats happening with covid19 is happening here in the bay area. Its been fascinating to watch. For sure. A lot of the research and development and a lot of the technology. Lets get a check of our high fire danger that could last through friday, jeff . Thats right. And there could be another round of wind after that. This one is really focused up across the Higher Elevations, the mountains, even, you know, really more focused right up towards the north bay Higher Elevations. So lets go ahead and get you outside to our highdef information sky camera network. Wanted to show you woodside right now. The trees arent even blowing around. A beautiful view here. Thats because woodside is at an elevation of 347 feet. You really have to go up higher than that to get some of these wind gusts. Lets bring you into the microclimate forecast and start off first with our fire warning. Again, this is at 2,000 to 3,000 feet for the best chance of 15 to 40mileperhour wind gusts for the north bay and south bay. Sustained winds of 5 to 15. The interesting thing is as the dryer wind builds in, well actually start to see temperatures cool off. Youll see in my forecast not quite as hot. 82 in livermore. 76, half moon bay. I wanted to show you tonight, look at my tenday forecast, and that is some good news. 100s right now look to stay away from places like napa in the north bay that have been hit so hard by the fire danger. So thats a little bit of good news. Even if we cant get some rain in here, we are looking at, well, 100s stay agway. Coming up, well talk about two different systems that bring a dramatic drop to our temperatures this weekend. And well check in with lucy. She knows its lucy wednesday. Shes right down here, you guys. And well see what shes been up to. I know a lot of viewers like to see her from time to time. Viewers and your colleagues here in the studio. Love to see her all the time. Thats right. I cant forget. It helps our mental health. Thank you, jeff. Chris chmura is also with us. The pandemic cancelled her mexico vacation and she bought insurance. So wheres her refund . Im consumer investigator chris chmura, nbc bay area responds with a tip for everyone next. In the bay area, we believe in science. Traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. Thats why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. Which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. To keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. And measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. Relieve traffic. Reduce pollution. Rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. Well, safe to say most of us are not traveling, but were still getting a lot of travel complaints into our newsroom. Our consumer investigator chris chmura here with one of these complaints that stands out. Chris . Antoinette martinez in sunnyvale told us she couldnt get her money back for a flight to mexico after she cancelled the trip. She paid about 1,000 for airfare and travel insurance when she booked through aarp, but when she asked for a refund, antoinette said the agency only offered an Airline Credit of 350 bucks. She turned to us because she expected a full cash refund. We reached out to aarp. A few days later, antoinette said she got all her money back, 1,027. 38. So what changed . We dont know. Aarp only told us it made contact with antoinette and we feel the situation is resolved sa satisfactory. True antoinette is happy. We have one quick note about travel insurance. One of the main reasons to buy it prepandemic was to avoid Nasty Airline change fees and Hotel Cancellation fees, but Many Airlines and hotels have stopped charging them. So before you buy travel insurance today, figure out what youll actually get out of it tomorrow. If anything. If youre getting nowhere with a business, tell us about it. Click the responds option on nbcbayarea. Com or call us 1888996tips. Up next at 6 30, we are on the eve of the final president ial debate. How the two candidates