The key is to attack fire relatively small. Strike teams were also in place. The Immediate Response was helpful for early evacuations. We knew the vent was coming. Abl a lot of notice. Reporter strike teams could be disbanded saturday but not likely with record winds expected to return sunday. Hot, dry wind is probably the biggest problem with wildfires. Clearly the temperatures have come down but the wind combined with the dry fuels that we still have could present a very big problem for us. Reporter the strike teams will have a lot of help from cal fire in covering all this territory. Cal fire has already got extra staffing and equipment ready for this windy weekend. Live in san jose, robert honda, nbc bay area news. Thank you, robert. Were getting our first look at the east bay yous have them to help on the front lines. The chopper became fully certified to battle flames from the sky. Its already helped crews fight several fires over the past few weeks. We have lots of questions for chief meteorologist. Lets bring jeff in now. Most has to do with the wind. Whats the time line looking like right now . Its really going to be on sunday and monday. We have been telling everybody about this for the past four to five days but now things are going to materialize with the gusty winds on sunday and monday. The thing with this wind event is its not only for the mountains but the lower elevation so everybody getting in on this wind. You can see the red flag fire warning indicate that well as all the bay area is under this fire warning. What can we expect. Mountain wind gusts of 50 plus miles an hour at the highest peaks. Lower elevation gusts of 15 to 40 miles an hour and overall sustained or steady winds of 15 to 30 and humidity values also low, 10 to 25 . Even though colder air is moving in this weekend, we industrial the dry fuel out there that could burn. 9 00 p. M. On saturday. I dont see any problem as you move through tomorrow but watch as the colors change on this map as we move into sunday morning. Right there up in the north bay starting to see the red. Those are 40 miles an hour wind gusts. Notice sunday night, thats when things could get dicey in the higher elevations. That is the wind gusts of around 50 plus Miles Per Hour in the mountains. Were talking more about this cold system to bring the wind. Ill have details on that, a full wrap up of what you can expect in about 15 minutes. Thank you very much. Our nbc bay area app will also keep you informed on the weather in realtime. Our team will send alerts through the app when conditions change. You can down load it right now on the app store. The Scott Peterson trial part two could happen. Its been 16 years since the jury sentenced peterson to death for murdering his wife and unborn son. Today he appeared back in court virtually. This because of new revelations of jury misconduct. Jodi hernandez cover the case and the entire trial. Reporter its been more than 15 years since Scott Peterson made his first court appearance. He returned to court today to learn his case appears to be heading for a retrial. Dressed in prison clothes and wearing a mask, Scott Peterson attended court virtually. Innocent man has been sitting in jail for 15 years. Its time to get him out. Reporter his family and legal team hope he will be freed. Not only has the California Supreme Court overturned the death sentence, its ordered the entire case to be reexamined because of possible jury misconduct. We still need justice for lacy, connor an scott. We dont have justice for lacy on death row because scott is innocent. We may be looking at the most high profile trial of all times coming back for a rerun. Reporter the case will likely be retreed in some form. Prosecutors announced today they plan to retry the penalty phase in hopes of reinstating a death penalty. Lacys family will likely have to testify. They may have to go through all of this again. I guarantee you those raw emotions have not gone away. Reporter peterson has maintained his innocence all along. He sat down with me when lacy was still missing. Lacys family expressed no doubt the guilty verdicts were spot on. Commented on the potential of a retrial. Reporter its unclear whether it would take place in san mateo or here. Im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Lets go to the coronavirus pandemic. Big changes in the works in the bay areas biggest counties. Lets go back to jessica. Were talking about something a lot of people, particularly parents, have been looking forward to. Couple of Different Things happening today that are super important and a step forward when it comes to the coronavirus. As you know, i live in pleasanton and Business Owners here an customers and people like myself who like to go out and have dinner have been waiting for this since march. Indoor dining, if youre up for that. There are some restrictions. Not just Indoor Dining but movie theaters, Indoor Church Services are back on. Theres some restrictions. The county is capping it at 25 or less than 100 people. Thats super important. Still, some businesses are opting to stay closed. The new Parkway Theater in oakland posted on its Facebook Page it wont reopen until theres vaccine thats commercial available. Over at the gospel church, sunday services will stay outside. The Church Pastor says his congregation of 6,000 people is too big to cap at less than 100 so theyll stay out doors. How can you pick 100 people to come to your Church Service when you service the whole community. For us it leaves us closed. Thats the sad part. Reporter other things to consider, weddings and funerals are allowed to have more guests now. Were capping that at 100 people. Lets talk about city parks. This is what you were talking about. City parks in san jose, the city started preparing its playground to reopen. Yay for so many parents. That includes reinstalling the swings, trimming the grass. Our crews spotted workers prepping the rotary play garden. The goal is to have all 290 playgrounds across the city reopened in a week. Theres one critical note for parents. This is byos. Bring your own sanitizer. Ty says it will not be regularly sanitizing the playground. When each park is ready, crews will put up a sign in four languages with the rules and the Maximum Capacity requirement. Lots of participants are happy. Others say they may not be ready for the jungle gym just yet. Kids put stuff in their mouth. Until theres a clear cut sanitization of the parks and the playgrounds, we can be really safe about it, we probably wont. Reporter theres going to be a designated waiting area. That means you get to the park. Theres way too many people, you sit in the waiting area instead and theres enough room you can be socially distant and adhere to the rules then you and your child can go in. Remember, byos, bring your own sanitizer. Thank you so much. California today got a rare look at something good that came from the pandemic. 300 units of housing will open in south san jose soon for homeless residents created in 120 days instead of several years. The covid slowdown enables the governor to launch the home key project which provided grant money and cut red tape. 78 jurisdictions have projects under contract, under construction or completed in 45 jurisdictions in the state. All of that since july. We can do this. The governor lavished praise on the south bay army that came together to make the project happen. The Emergency Interim Housing Community is Transitional Living where they can get counselling, treatment and other tools to help them find permanent homes. 11 days away, the final sprints election day. Joe biden stayed home in delaware to focus on the pan dij and the economy. Each side is claiming victory in last nights debate. Last night was very, very successful. Ive gotten great reviews, great polls. Last night we saw the president of the United States lie to the American People and repeatedly lie about the state of this pandemic. Tomorrow biden heads to pennsylvania while the president casts his ballot in florida. Coming up, who shot and killed a pregnant woman as she sat in her car. The massive reward now being offered in berkeley. Its an app that can trace your covid symptoms and who you may have been in contact with. Well introduce you to the two teenagers who designed it. An up date on the critical fire danger but the lower elevations. Ill see you back in eight minutes. The grim new projection of covid deaths and new study into what saves lives. Well have that plus the future of in her honperson shopping, a nightly news. I didnt choose this job because it was easy. But i cant say i expected this. 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. So firefighters like me, have what we need to do the job, and to do it right. The big corporations want to keep their tax loopholes. Its what they do. Well, i do what i do. If yould like to help, join me and vote yes on prop 15. Oex land is seeing an unprecedented spike in violent crime. Oakland has had 80 homicide. Oakland Police Arrested a suspect. Oakland police say its a problem all across the country right now in most major cities. Homicides, shootings and assault with a firearm have spiked anywhere from 50 to 08 . The Alameda County sheriffs september says Highland Hospital has reported 41 gunshot victims and five stabbing victims. A reward is being helped tosoever the murder of a pregnant woman in the east bay. The city of berkeley is putting up 50,000 for information leading to an arrest. 19yearold serenity henderson was gunned down in her car a block from her home wednesday night. If you have any information, please call berkeley pd. Fraud has been a concern at the state Employment Department for the last several months and now more than 350,000 debit cards filled with money for Unemployment Benefits are frozen. The edd says its because its seen a high number of claims at single addresses. Its part of the federal pandemic unemployment assistance program. Its only those claims affected. More than a Million People are waiting to sever benefits because of a backlog. The agency doesnt expect to clear it until january of next year. Tracking covid. Theres now an app for that. Some north bay students have created an app for coronavirus contact tracing. Christy smith show us how i works. Reporter shes the head of school at the Branson School and at the start of the pandemic closures she and her staff thought about ways to return to school safely. She knew just the student to reach out to. The two of them worked all summer. He had already designed an app for the School Freshman year. He took up this challenge with fellow senior beck from the nearby academy. Together they created marine trace. They were having a lot of trouble finding existing solutions that fit all their needs. The system they are currently using now is a basic checking system. I would describe it as an app that allows you to say whether or not you have covid19 symptoms before you come to campus and a place where you can log the people who you have been in contact with so in the case of an infection, hopefully not, the school and Public Health authorities can contact trace. Reporter they had attended a county meeting on covid19 and heard students talk about the affects of Online Learning and being away from friends. They see this with an automated private and ser cure way to bring this back together. Were operating at full capacity. About 50 students and some adults are kppded to be part of the problem. They learn with safety preka precautions. Christy smith, nbc bay area use. The big change with this one is that everybody is going to be impacted by the wind. The last one you had to go up to 2 to 3,000 feet to get some of those 40 miles an hour wind gusts. With the way the new storm is developing, everybody will be experiencing some wind continuing to increase the fire danger. I know its the last thing any of us need here in 2020. Im going to give you the best and clearest information so you can stay planned. Lets bring it into the weather map and this is quite a dynamic storm system were seeing develop. Its going to impact much of the west. Its this huge area of low pressure and its bringing down this cold blast of air just disrupting the atmosphere. Its going to put snow in denver where they are dealing with the worst wildfires they have had. The counterclockwise circulation will help to drive down the wind flow. In case you missed it earlier, the red flag fire warning does go into effect sunday, monday and tuesday and its for all the bay area from napa down do San Francisco, livermore and san jose and here is the clear information i want you to understand. Mountains, 50 plus miles an hour is possible at those highest peaks. 2 to 3,000 plus. Its going to be on and off gusts at 15 to 40 and see sustained winds of 15 to 30. Humidity down to about 10 when we see some of the strongest wind. Thats whats going to really make it so dangerous is the air will be so dry. I want to spend a lot of time on this hour by hour forecast. By saturday night were still not seeing any big problems. I think saturday youre okay to prepare and do anything you need to do. Maybe check for some limbs and get the yard ready to go. As we move through sunday morning well start to see the wind build up. You can see the red color. Its gusts of about 40 miles an hour. As we head through sunday night, look at how the wind becomes a lot more widespread. Higher elevations and the santa cruz mountains. By monday night, and into tuesday well gradually see that wind decrease. I think sunday and monday will be the worst of it. Temperatures tomorrow to start will be in the 50s for most of us. A little bit of fog near the coastline and for San Francisco and the coldest in the north bay at 47. Temperatures drop as that cold storm moves in. No more 90s. No more 80s. 67 oakland. My extended forecast here in San Francisco does keep it in the 60s through tuesday. Well go up warmer by the end of next week. Well drop it down to 6 f9 for e average. Well go back up as we head through. I just want everybody to understand that. A lot of people didnt feel that wind because it was up in the mountains. We may be done with wildfire season but its not done with us. Coming up, a turkey with a habit of attacking people inside an oakland park is now gone. The clever way animal control lured it out of the the park and into a more wild environment. We want to update you on some breaking news we told you about at the top ov the hour. This is in the north bay over a new fire. Sky ranger flying over the pope fire. You can see its general ratsing a lot of smoke. It started about an hour ago and quickly grown to about 25 to 30 acres. Its very aggressive making fire retardant drops. Trying to get the upper hand before it gets out of control. The fire started off chilly pope valley road. Thats southeast. You can see the flame is burning right there there. This is right near the glass fire which was just fully contained a couple of days ago. Again, this fire has burned about 25 to 30 acres. Generating a lot of smoke in napa county at this time. No structures threatened, no evacuations orders. Sky ranger over the scene. Well continue follow this. If theres new developments well bring it to you in this newscast and online. Lets switch to something not quite as serious. The alpha turkey whose aggression over the rose garden can be as wild as you want. The oakland neighbors called his gerald and blame the people who fed him for his escalating habits. Wildlife dressed up as an old woman which is his target. He can now safely boss the other turkeys around there. Wow. Sticking to the animal theme. We have an update on the lemur stolen and returned to San Francisco zoo. We have new picture, next. In business you have to be able to shiftpivotadapt. Then do it all over again. Comcast business gives you fast, reliable internet on the nations largest gigspeed network. 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