A very good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us this monday morning. Im laura garcia. We went on an extra 30 minutes early this morning at 4 00 a. M. Just because of this red flag warning. Im kris sanchez in for marcus washington. We are seeing some vegetation fires pop up overnight. Kari hall is watching those winds. And the high fire danger will continue throughout this morning as weve seen the high wind gusts especially in our upper elevations and the wind advisory will expire at 11 00 but the rest of the day will be breezy as we see the winds gusting for even our valleys up to 50 miles an hour. This red flag warning will continue for today. Up until tomorrow morning so were still looking at breezy winds and some very dry air. Well continue to monitor that and talk about whats ahead in our forecast coming up. Mike, how is it looking driving to work this morning . Kari, your system and my system are map share data as we look at the maps for traffic data, the speed looks fine but the highlighted yellow is where gusty winds reported over the last half hour throughout the Santa Cruz Mountains and the south bay. A live look shows you outside we have a little shake from the observing c oakland camera and moving smoothly across the bay bridge. We continue on the biggest wind event to hit the bay area so far this year. This morning about 225,000 pg e customers are without power all across northern california. A live look at that pg e outage map there on your screen. The north bay, the east bay heavily affected as well as parts of the south bay. Pg e tells us the weather should be safe enough for them to start looking at the lines and restoring power later tonight and possibly into tomorrow. We have Live Team Coverage this morning on those whipping winds. Bob redell tracking the situation for us in the east bay. Lets start with Sharon Katsuda and the largest number of Power Outages right now. Sharon . Reporter we do have some good news. In the downtown sonoma area the lights are still on. Take a look around me here. You can see what is left behind from the winds that kicked through overnight, big tree limbs on the street along with a lot of leaves that have fallen from the trees. Now this is the biggest wind event of the year. The wind whipping around the flag of the video we shot. Four School Districts in Sonoma County are closing because of this. All schools are closed today. No inperson or virtual classes. One district is closing all schools but kids are asked to do their own learning at home. This in response to the power shutoffs. The deli is usually open well past sundown but the owner had to lock up early because customers couldnt shop in the dark. His last customer of the day came in for some candles. They had to conduct the transaction by the light of a cell phone. Business owners are learning to improvise. I try my best to keep everything cool and from yesterday i tried to save food and i moved some stuff to my cousins and highway 12. They have stores over there. They have power over there. Its not easy. Reporter the biggest concerns are the winds that are sweeping through the area. You can see behind me there is a very eager trash collector here having to cut through all the leaves here and the debris. And do be careful because our photographer on the way here we were experiencing gusty winds and he said definitely two hands on the wheel because of the gusty winds. Im Sharon Katsuda, today in the bay. We were wondering what all that racket was behind you, sharon. Folks get to work but we were concerned maybe it was the wind. Maybe youre up early because the winds woke you up. I didnt need my alarm clock this morning. The winds brought down trees. Bob redell is live in dublin where there was a scare at the santa rita jail overnight because of the winds. Bob, tell us about that. Reporter its been gusty out here similar to what sharon is experiencing in the north bay. My photographer and i were commenting how cold this wind is as well. Which is good in the context of decreasing the risk of a fire danger this is a tree that came down in the parking lot of the santa rita jail in dublin. We believe it might have fallen down on a squad car. No one was hurt. A sense of how windy it is. You can see the trees brust willing in the wind here. Lets go to livermore just east of here about ten miles. You see a large section of a tree broke off. Federal Security Officers are out early this morning and checked it out. They expect to have that cleared up shortly if not already. To san leandro from davis street to 580. Clearing the roadway for what may or may not be a commute with the pandemic. This is in case the winds were to knock down equipment. Here in Alameda County over 16,000 customers are without power. Contra costa county over 15,000. The assistant manager of lafayette Ace Hardware Store says its been extremely busy and people have been stocking up. The store sold out of propane gas heaters, things like that. Why its important the power be shutoff. Oak forest and fires are very possible. The biggest thing really that worries us. Hoping its not as bad as they expect to be. Preparing but hoping for the best. Reporter a look at the pg e website has a map of the bay area. You can see a lot of the color in the east bay. Most areas are impacted. The website indicates the power and the workers and they have to check out the power lines. Reporting live here in dublin, bob redell, today in the bay. Thank you very much, bob. You can also get uptotheminute weather alerts sent straight to your phone with your nbc bay area app. Its free to download. And now to decision 2020, and it is a fight to the finish this week in the race for the white house, the last full week for President Trump and former Vice President joe biden to sway voters. Today in the bays tracie potts has more with the candidates final push and more on a new covid19 cluster surrounding Vice President mike pence. Reporter final argument biden is the shutdown candidate. Reporter the last big push. Whats up, detroit . Reporter both president ial campaigns spending the last full week focusing on swing states. When donald trump wins florida big on Election Night it will set the path for the rest of the night. Reporter democrats hoping to take back the midwest. Its an uphill fight but were going to win it. Why are so many powerful people trying to suppress our vote . Trying to confuse us about voting. Messing up the post office. Its like a poll except much more accurate. Reporter both campaigns kicking off the week with 60 minute interviews where President Trump walked out on lesley stahl. Thats enough. Lets go. Lets go. Reporter and joe biden defended his tax plan. Do you think its a good idea to raise taxes . Reporter decision 2020 nearing an end with indecision still in whereby wash to deal with the coronavirus economy. Five people close to Vice President pence have tested positive including his chief of staff. The white house says pence, who is negative, wont quarantine because hes an essential worker. Tracie potts, nbc news. The senate is set to vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett. Following the passing of the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. They voted to advance judge barrett to the final confirmation vote despite democratic objections the nominee should be chosen by the winner of this years president ial election. Coming up at 5 25 on today in the bay, the reason hundreds of people have already been banned during the pandemic from flying on delta airlines. At facebook theyre preparing new rules just in case the election gets out of hand. Plus, a u. P. S. Driver finding easy entertainment along his route. Straight ahead, the very adorable reason his Instagram Account is going viral. Youre watching today in the bay. How do i use better than bouillon . I just add a spoonful to my marinades. To stir frys. Sauces. Just whisk it in. Brush it on. Saute it. It adds a cooked all day taste. That doesnt take all day. Better than bouillon. Dont just make it. Make it better because when i get home, we like to play crocodile on the floor. Promist maxs pad removes over 99 of bacteria, with just water. Better cleaning with less waste. Ocedar. It feels great to feel at home. Right now at 5 13 we are seeing very high wind gusts around the bay area. Oakland measuring a 57mileperhour wind gust and pretty high elsewhere as well. A look at our Mountain Wind gusts and whats ahead in a few minutes. Kari, you talked about the wind. Thats a note from chp as well. A map of silicon valley. The highlighted yellow is where our index registered gusty winds overnight and visually as we look at the camera as well. You can tell by the look at this traffic, the shake of the camera from the rooftop in oakland, there you go. Gusty conditions through oakland. And good morning. A very happy monday to you as well. American airlines is moving forward with its plan to put the 737 max back into service. Once the faa says it is safe to do so. The max 8 version was grounded after nearly backtoback fatal crashes overseas. Federal regulators have been working with boeing to solve the problems at the root of the crashes and american says it will allow the flying public to tour the airplane and ask questions of mechanics and pilots at select airports in an effort to settle any fears that people have. Facebook is preparing some emergency measures should the election not go smoothly. Measures it says it developed for atrisk countries with shaky governments, places like myanmar. The wall street journal reports facebooks plan calls for slowing down reposts of some material. And tweaking the news feed. Facebook has not implemented the plan yet. They tell the journal they would only deploy the tools in dire circumstances such as Election Related Violence but the Company Needs to be prepared for all possibilities. Its now been three months since the speaker and the white house started coronavirus stimulus talks. The third side in all of this Mitch Mcconnells senate has been clear it will not pass a bill pelosi and the white house may hammer out. The senate goes on break after voting on the new Supreme Court justice. All sides seem to agree they want more stimulus checks sent out to americans but they cant agree on the other parts of the deal. Democrats want more spending as in many cases does the white house as well, but theyre not getting support from the senate. Nasa says it will announce something about the moon today. We believe it was discovered by a sophia project, an infrared telescope on an airplane. Water on the moon, even in the form of ice. As you know, you get two hs and an 0, thats hydrogen and oxygen that can be used to keep astronauts alive. All right, were looking forward to that. Big news. Thank you, scott. All right. Well be following that. 5 15 right now. Were back with more in just a bit. 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A job with some amazing perks. You have to see this. A u. P. S. Driver in new orleans on his rounds makes it a point to snap selfies with pets. He started about two years ago. This is so cute. He started taking pictures every friday. Now its gone viral. He says he gets thousands of likes on instagram. I just followed him myself because i could use a little dose of that on my friday mornings. Thats nice to see because our mail man just runs the other way if a dog even looks at him. I feel bad. Sorry. Probably bad experiences. Not with our dog, though. He thinks hes a savage. Youd better hold the leash tightly this morning. It is a windy one out there especially if you have a little dog like me. Yeah, you dont want it to blow away in the wind. Its been quite gusty out there. Lets take a look at our live view in walnut creek. To some of our mountain tops, you were expecting the winds to really gust up pretty high. Mt. St. Helena went above and beyond that with a high wind gust at 89 miles an hour. Middletown had a wind gust of 71. We saw calaveras road at 63 Miles Per Hour. Mt. Umunhum topped 59. Mt. Diablo 56. Its still windy this morning. Were looking at the high winds through at least 11 00 and thats when the wind advisory will expire. But here we are at 11 00 and the winds coming in from the north and northeast at about 35 Miles Per Hour in a lot of these areas. Then as we go into this evening, it starts to calm down a little bit for the south bay, still may be gusty in the north bay. For tonight into early tomorrow morning thats the reason why the red flag warning and the high fire danger does continue through tomorrow morning, but were going to see those temperatures reaching into the mid70s and our sevenday forecast shows a lot of 70s throughout the week. We should have some much more quiet conditions after tomorrow. But then well be turning our attention to the potential of another high wind event by the end of the week as we look into the week its going to warm up just slightly. A lot to watch out here for as our temperatures are very cold but those winds are still pretty high. How is it looking right now for the morning commute, mike . Kari, it looks like we have two new incidents on my map. Theyre not traffic incidents. They just popped up from our traffic report. Lets get a look. We have a couple san jose incidents, one looks like a crash and another is a hazard. Both are small fires that got reported to our traffic system so they just put a marker in there. Theyll probably clear in the next couple of minutes but small fires sparking around because of fallen wires throughout the overnight hours. Were looking to southbound 84, westbound, i should say, coming down to 680. Thats where a new crash off the roadways just past the ge plant. Very narrow there. It will be a distraction. A live look at the bay bridge. The bay bridge itself seeing more volume. Most of the bridges do have wind advisories so do hold on tight. Be careful. Back to you. Reporter he pays his hospital bill and has written proof from the bank, but guess who keeps calling him. Debt collectors. Im chris chmura, nbc bay area responds next. Over the weekend my family celebrated a really great anniversary for us. Five years ago we adopted this little puppy there named pip squeak. It looks like we rescued him but he was the one who really rescued us this year. Hes just a bundle of happiness. Share with us your big events in your life especially during this pandemic. We all need a little happy. Follow me on facebook, twitter and instagram. A lot more news ahead at 5 23. Hows everybody doing . Hey you guys. Hi its time to lean on each other. All of you guys, so much great support. And laugh with each other. laughs cheers lets do it together. With caregiving chats and more. Come find us at aarp. 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