Making water drops, retardant drops over the burn zone. Just minutes ago, still happening life to the fire broke out in the area, we appreciate the viewer email, giving us the correct pronunciation here. Lower Childs Valley in Childs Valley road. The fire prompting road closures. In the flames of course no word on the cause of this, how it got started but we will continue to stay on top of this firefight and bring you the very latest. Now within the past 15 minutes, we learned that marin county is preparing for a potential pg e power shut off because of the extreme weather and the fire conditions that are coming. The watch what is in effect starting sunday afternoon for approximately 20,000 customers. And those of the higher elevations. Our special coverage of campaign 2020, President Trump speaking live right now in florida, the postdebate blitz, the Battle Ground states. The critical voting resource comes to the bay area neighborhood, residents dont have their own mailboxes. Making sure your ballot counts, could come down to one tiny detail on the envelope. As an unprecedented number of mail in ballots pouring. Good evening, i am was with cook. Im alan martin. Verified about to come down to your signature. But as devin fehely explains, if you have a problem, there is still time to fix it. Reporter if you will send out millions of mail in ballots you have to have a system to ensure that they are received, filled out, and returned by the right person. That system hinges on a comparison of the signature on the envelope, the signature that is compared more often than not, to how you sign your drivers license, possibly years ago. That is exactly what was so and raging to me. Because a how i signed and no, i do not think that my signature, on my ballot, was different enough from the signature on dmv. Reporter despite that she received a letter this week notifying her that her signature and her ballot were being challenged. I they dont like my signature, or someone has tamper with my ballot. Either way, im getting notification that my signature needs to be verified. In a county across california dozens of people are working behind the scenes ever to star Voters Office is, sorting, verifying and readying ballots for election day. Every mail in ballot is scanned, and one by one, staff never compares the signature on the envelope into the signature on record. Typically from the dmv or from your Voter Registration paperwork. If for some reason the signature was challenged, the voter will receive a notification, and they will have plenty of time based on the law to come to the office, and provide their signature. Your signature can and does change over time. Age, injury or illness can affect it as well. I started getting mail in ballot, we are brought them down here. He could check the signature. It has been 30 something years since i registered to vote here in this county. It took multiple phone calls and emails over several days, to convince her local Election Office to accept her signature and ballot. Im literally pulling teeth here, going through hoops, to try to convince them that i am who i say i am, and that is my ballot. Reporter of the signature is being challenged you have up to 28 days after the election to get it all sorted out, your signature verified, and your ballot counted. In san jose, devin fehely, kpix5. As the campaign, a live look at pensacola, florida, President Trump is back metropolitan last nights debate. Wrapping up a great make America Great again rally. It is a second rally in the Sunshine State today. Earlier, he was in the villages. The selection is a choice between a trump recovery, a trump super recovery, and a biden depression. Meanwhile joe biden continues to hammer the president s handling of the coronavirus in delaware today. We dont have to be held prisoner by this administrations failures. We can choose a different path. Meanwhile more than 35 Million People tuned into last nights final president ial debate, down 11 from the last debate, that is according to pulmonary nielsen ratings across cable networks. The number does not include those who live stream the event. Good news for those living in chinatown, the neighborhood getting its first ever ballot drop off booth. Mail, typically left on the stairs, or in an entryway. Community leaders say most buildings in the area dont have a central postal location, and that is certainly problem during elections. It typically people vote in person, and theyre not able to vote in person this year, they dont fill countable or safe doing that, then it is very possible that we are going to have lower voter turnout and the community in chinatown. That is really concerning to us. The drop off booth will be open in portsmouth square on kearny and washington street starting october 31. The state Appeals Court dealt a blow to write your companies, the court ruled that uber and lyft must reclassify their drivers as employees, instead of independent contractors. That means they would be eligible for minimum wage, overtime, paid sick leave, and unemployment insurance. Uber and lyft can appeal the ruling to the state supreme court. There also Many Companies trying to get prop 22 past which would exempt them from that law. Tonight, break down what is arguably the most complicated state proposition on the ballot. Proposition 19. The commercials make it look pretty straightforward. It will help block fire victims to recover but at its core, it is really a property tax break swap, some people benefit, others lose out. This is just a cruel thing to do to families, especially when it is not been fully disclosed in the commercials, that that is what this motion would do. It has providing some level of stability for folks with it was fire victims, seniors, or whether it is folks were disabled, makes a lot of sense for california. Opponents called cynical and misleading, supporters say it is the changed a property tax policy that is long overdue. Susie has the full story for us tonight at 11. Kpix5 bring you tools that you need to vote smart the selection, on air, on our new news app, and also streaming on cbsn bay area, and kpix. Com. Coming up she started out in the girl scouts, but one Northern California team had a big dreams. How shes crossing gender barriers to make history. The new iphone released, it looks a lot different from your typical apple launch. Coming up new at six, bay area county is on standby. We are days away from another possible power shut off. Why fire crews are on high alert this weekend. A andria borba in san francisco. Election day is officially november 3 Elections Officials want you to drop off your ballot and im jerome gage. Im a fulltime lyft driver. When this pandemic first started, i bought my own ppe because uber and lyft didnt provide it. These companies have been exploiting drivers like me for years. Now prop 22 denies us basic rights like Unemployment Benefits and sick time. Uber and lyft are billiondollar companies, and they still wont let drivers get access to Unemployment Benefits. Thats just wrong. Tell uber and lyft to stop exploiting their drivers. Vote no on prop 22. It provides property tax fairness for disabled homeowners like cynde, stuck living with a broken elevator. Nineteen helps wildfire victims, like ellie, one of 24,000 whove lost their homes to fire. And seniors like pam who need to move closer to family or medical care, without a tax penalty. Prop 19 limits taxes on our most vulnerable. Yes on 19. Doctors in the pandemic is linked to a spike in drug overdoses, and now california atty. Gen. Is urging people to take part in a National Drug take back day. Let me be blunt. The abuse of prescription drugs kills. Death from drug overdoses, that of car accidents, guns, or aids. There will be drop boxes aptly stations across the state tomorrow, to safely get rid of old or unused medications. Health experts believe the uptick in overdoses is linked to the pandemic which is people strapped, isolated, and without access to treatment. Officials are trying to figure out what caused the gas leak, in walnut creek. Because traffic jams downtown. Pg e shop the lines, it was able to cap the lead. Nearly 50,000 model as and model acts electric vehicles being recalled in that country. The concern is a potentially faulty and unsafe front and rear suspensions. Tesla share price, following that announcement, the u. S. The national highway Traffic Safety administration, has not said whether a similar recall may be necessary here. The iphone 12 until today, but they cannot expect to see fans waiting in line. If youre looking to get your hands on a new smart phone, you may make important to pick one up. Most do not allow walkins. You can also order online, and have it delivered. The iphone 12 is 5g equipped, it starts at 799. They all endorse yes on prop 25. To end unfair, unjust, discriminatory money bail. Governor gavin newsom and van jones. Theyre voting yes on 25. The western center on law and poverty. The Dolores Huerta foundation. Californians for safety and justice. And the California Democratic party. They all agree that the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. So, vote yes on prop 25. 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. But i cant say i expected this. Because it was easy. Rescue caltrain. 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. A 14yearold girl in yolo county is making history. She is working to become the first email eagle scout in all of Northern California. Listen to music says it has been her dreams since she was a little girl come to become an eagle scout. The highest honor in the scouts. She started as a girl scout when she was just five years old, but it was not long before the boy scouts caught her eye. Her father is thrilled she decided to pursue the scouts, and says a new title is a badge of honor for their family. A whole bunch of friends who are working toward it, as well, and i think it is pretty cool to be part of that. I think it would be great to represent both organizations, and woman in general. Is a thirdgeneration eagle scout because her grandfather and uncle are also eagle scouts. She says she is complete her project in the paperwork. She is now just waiting until february, when the process will be formalized. Chopper five live over the wildfire that is burning in napa county right now, we have had the fire aircraft there, there is one of them, theyre making fire retardant as well as water drops from the air. Flames have burned up to 30 acres so far in the past two hours. This fire sparked east of healdsburg on lower Childs Valley road and hiles pope valley road. It is between calistoga and lake berryessa. Very remote area. We are told no structures have threatened, as they continue the water drops. Will continue to follow the fire fight. This is just the beginning of what is going to be a really potentially rough weekend as far as those five conditions are concerned. With the monitoring the situation because those Public Safety power shutoffs are becoming more likely and they just put up the map, outlining the areas that could see power shut off as we head into the weekend so we will start with that, and this is the latest update, all of these or in shaded areas in the north bay into the inlet east bay, and get power outages, as we head into the weekend. Check the website, see if your address is currently outlined for one of those ps ps outages. Lets take a look at whether headlines, what to expect as we head into the weekend specifically the fire threat, very strong, offshore wind beginning late sunday and continuing all the way through early tuesday. Extremely low relative humidity levels in the forecast as well so new fires, they end up getting going and will spread rapidly. One of those scenarios where just carelessly tossed cigarette can go from route to littering to a lifethreatening emergency in a very short amount of time. I was to go to the fire danger index, that of all the Different Things we look at, when we are evaluating the fire threat. How to the fire feels. Wrote if you many levels from the wind speed, wind direction, even the temperature potential not be a big deal but Everything Else is favoring extremely dangerous fire weather conditions beginning already by late sunday afternoon, so you see were already halfway up the scale here for the north bay and this is just 0 to 10, zero is where you want to be, tentatively where you dont want to be, we will see the numbers escalating even more as we head into sunday evening. And these are the fire danger index values, in the communities on the map. All across the bay area, not just focused on the north bay, just the east bay hills, the diablo range, it is most of the bay area that will see terri hines fire danger level, as we had through early monday morning, it runs on data at 11 00 monday morning. At that point the wind will still be strong enough, and the humidity is still going to be dropping, the dangerous conditions are going to continue throughout the day, on monday. In the short term, it was a lovely day across the bay area, all the problems are still about 40 miles down the road. In the city, otherwise low to mid 70s, very close to what is normal for this time of year. Current temperatures, not bad at 66 in napa so but 61 downtown. Mostly 60s on the map, even down to 59 already in petaluma, 72 degrees in concord, 72 in livermore and 76 in fairfield. The only spot the 70s. We dip down mostly to the low 50s by early tomorrow morning but if a few more 40 showing up. High temperatures tomorrow going to be very close to what is normal for this time of year. Is going to feel cool, just because we have not had much in the way of normal weather recently. Temperatures reaching up only to around 60 degrees, on the coast, upper 60s and low 70s around the south end of the bay with mostly low 70s for the santa clara valley. The east bay, for the inland, trivalley reaching up into the low to mid 70s, no 80s of the map for high temperatures on saturday. That is the first and that is happened in quite a while. Mostly mid to upper 60s around the bay itself, and up into mostly the low 70s for the north bay temptress father to the north, also dropping off significantly, no 80 degrees readings for mendocino and lake counties either. Temperatures will stay in the same territory on sunday, even as the wind get gusty, we warm up a little bit as we head into next week but it will not be out of control hot, it is going to be dry, and the gusty wind will be a factor throughout least early tuesday morning. I should the fire danger index for the entire bay area, just a second ago, we will zoom in on the north bay and east bay, qucbec 6 00. New at six bay area voters dropping off their ballots early, why it is more important this year than ever, to vote now. Plus. Two months after a fatal crash here on highway 85, involving three stolen vehicles that took the life of a 15year old girl, still no answers, as to what happened, and was responsible. Tonight, a mothers call for justice. We are monitoring a new wildfire in napa county today, just days before a concerning wind event. What fire crews have learned from massive fires in the past. Still ahead here at trying a new business certainly takes courage but this week students rising above scholar has that and more. Michelle griego introduces us to an oaklandbased entrepreneur who has a deep faith in herself, and others. Im of those people, and so they asked me to do something im always up for challenge. Reporter she is a warrior, the kind we all wish we were. My body just is shutting down. Reporter diners an auto immune disease the last semester of college, walking became a daily struggle for latasha. But graduation remained her dream. Even my mom got me to try to take that i was determined, is going to walk that stage, to get that, i called to the golden ticket. Me and my degree. Reporter she ran across that stage was degree in hand, the completion of a tough road. 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You dont want no one to never feel like they are less than any thing. We all have a purpose being here. And we all have the gift to share with others. Michelle griego, kpix5. The east bay business, and offers her beautiful hand good headpieces which you can order online through instagram. And learn more about students rising above, and it scholars, go to our website, kpix. Com sra. Now at six, breaking news, live pictures from chopper five, over wildfire that is burning in napa county. And this is just the start of a very dangerous weekend. A forecast that is strong comparisons, to