Opthping. Petaluma right now 30 humidity. Check out napa, just 11 . Livermore, just 14 . That is not a good sign. That is one reason we are under the red flag warning. We have dry air and dry brush. We are expecting gusts 60 Miles Per Hour plus. 45 Miles Per Hour plus in the Santa Cruz Mountains. When you have that dry air and windy conditions, that can spark quickly. It is gusting up to 24 Miles Per Hour. You can see we are already starting to see some of the effects of this as we track through here. Just to show you, this is what we are expecting. You can see upwards of 24 Miles Per Hour. That is at 10 pm. Look what happens during the overnight. This is for a him. Now we have over 40 Miles Per Hour gusts. It is not ramp down until later in the day on thursday. We will talk more about this when i come back. I see a very dangerous night ahead tonight. Paul chambers is in the east bay after talking to frustrated Business Owners who shut down operations today but never lost power. Kristin talk to pg e after someone fired pg e truck. We began in sonoma were parts of the city has been without power since early this morning. Tom . Reporter there are light breezes out here. If the breezes were not blowing, it would be downright hot. That is not the case. The big winds not yet showing up, the power is off anyhow. Some of the sonoma business folks have decided they are going to treat the folks here will. Very well. Sonoma, a wine country of about 11,000, finds themselves without power with not even a breeze today. Right now what is so calm. For us, its like, could it have waited until e winds are expected to be ira lives in the hills about a mile away. It is not at all wendy. It probably hasnt been windy at all for the past day, and even right now. Reporter nonetheless, the power is off. It sounds like it is pretty serious. You just have to make the best of it. Reporter the problem is that usually means an economic shut down. The town of sonoma almost burned down two years ago. The businesses are ready. What happened two years ago set the stage for the community to be together. Reporter i said that the stores who stay open really want to say open. Two years ago when the fires were here, we stay open into we were kicked out. Reporter the town square bar visiting with tourists on weekends is very much a local watering hole. We stayed open as long as we could. A hometown bar and Gathering Place for people to come in. They dont have power at home. They are coming down here and being social. Reporter some were not happy with pg e. To make of this is very simple. Pg e has screwed up by not doing all the work they need to the power lines of the rest of us are paying for it. We are making the best of it. This being sonoma, we are going to have a good time while we do it. Reporter before returns, every inch of every line, every connector must be inspect it if necessary, repaired. You can see the traffic lights here and throughout the city are not operating. That means people have to treat everything as a four way stop. As a note, the bookstore was open all day. While you may have me today flashlight to purchase a book and you had to leave your credit card number because they cannot process the card, they were open the business and happy to see people. One thing you always worry about, you touched on it, that four way intersection behind you. When the streetlights go out, people treated as a fourway stop. Are you finding that is the case . That is the everything here right now is brandnew. What i mean by that is a new experience. A day or two days later, people are going to be in a hurry. They will probably push the limit like they did with stop signs right now. I think what we have to do is recognize that this is fresh. As time wears on, it is not going to be so fresh. Authorities are confirming they are investigating a report of an incident where someone fired a shot as a p ene vehicle. They set up barriers out of concern for their employees. Fortunately, the driver was not hurt. The chp confirming that the driver was not injured. The driver telling people he believes it happened because of the shutdown. A woman who tells ktvu she is married to a pg e worker shows us the aftermath of a bullet hole. About 7 45 pm tuesday evening, a worker who had been driving on interstate 5 notified authorities he had heard what he thought was a gunshot and his passenger window had shattered. The driver was injured. The safety of our employees and our customers is our top priority. Reporter a spokesperson did not directly address the incident. Shortly afterwards, pg e brought out. Eight stupid people coming in and out of the San Francisco headquarters through security. Again, the company not saying whether the barricades were added in response to the shooting. The safety of our employees is the number one priority as we move forward through this safety shut off. Reporter the Operations Center was a hive of activity is pg e pushback the expected shutdown. The next round shutdowns is expected at around 8 pm. Pg e has also confirmed they will be holding a News Conference at 6 pm, a little less than an hour, after San Francisco headquarters. We hope to learn more about the next round shutdowns, the duration. We will find out if you will be impacted, the website was down. Almost completely unacceptable yesterday, pg e said he received seven or eight times the normal volume of traffic. We tried a couple of hours ago, and we simply came up with an error screen. We were told that our account information was unacceptable. Those are some of the questions we want to try to pin down in pg e so that customers, people who might be affected, will know before they are impacted whether or not they are going to be seeing a shutdown in their area. Again that News Conference coming up in a little less than an hour. We will be carrying that News Conference lives. Thank you. There is some relief for east bay commuters. Caltrans says it will remain open even if the power is shut off. Crews worked all night to set up temporary generators that can produce three megawatts of power. That is enough to keep lights and exhaust fans going and security cameras and Fire Suppression systems. More than 180,000 commuters use the tunnel every day. The agency says the tunnels were built with Power Sources on both sides. If there was an earthquake or other emergency, we can set off power on one side of the tunnel is still have power coming in on the other side, keeping the tunnel open. We never imagined that we would be going through some type of public power shut off that we are currently experience today in california. Caltrans says it has ordered its on highway 1 in San Mateo County will also be open. You spoke with the Business Owners who shut down thinking they would not have any power. Reporter julie, we did. Many of them are upset. Pg e has pushed it nearly 24 hours and cost them hundreds of dollars. Many Business Owners question whether to close or not too close. Within a two block radius, some businesses were open, and some had their doors shut. Some owners say the constant back and forth from the Power Company has him on edge. I have no idea if to open or close. Are they going to shut it off or not . They say midnight. Then they say between 4 and 5. Reporter she decided not to open, losing inventory and a lot of money. Are we going to be open until 5 pm . The thing is, we dont know nothing. Reporter right nextdoor sweet dreams. It appears the decision to open paid off. We sold games because the parents want the kids to have more activities. Reporter one station shut down their pumps. Down the road, one man said pg e i spent a whole night to make this on and frozen food. Still with the possibility of losing power, customers say it is better to be safe than sorry. We are getting ice to put in coolers, but we are not panicking. It is what it is. Hopefully it will be short lived. We will move on. We hope it all works out and it is all or nothing. It is a good exercise. Reporter they question for people here, will pg e make the 8 pm outage deadline or will they pushback even further . Is their plan the same going into tonight . Are they going to stay closed tomorrow as well . Reporter they are doing it case by case. They are not sure exactly what more. The man who owned the cafi was very angry. He owns two restaurants. Paul, thank you. Extra fire injures, extra firefighters. Stationed around the Santa Cruz Mountains. Cal fire talk about its preparation a case of fire. Plus danger over anger over potential Power Outages. The history of the deadly fire in the east bay hills. Be . Check this out thats yes for less. 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What i am seeing is the wind does not look like it is too bad. That is a huge help to firefighters both in the sense that it keeps it from spreading more quickly but it lets them get around it easier without thinking the wind could shift and change direction and make it difficult for them to make an attack. This is what we are facing as we go into tonight. Just very difficult conditions. At least we dont have temperatures high. The relative humidity dropping, all of it becomes kindling. Dry air and dry brush. A tough night. This is burni it is called the montezuma soly 12 and highway 13. In the meantime, many people expected to be in the dark all afternoon but have the power arm. Officials in Santa Clara County say they are expecting the winds to pick up in the power to start going off later around 8 pm. We are live in san jose. You learned some new information about an hour ago. Reporter julie, good evening. San jose Officials Say they have implemented their power vulnerability plan they been working on. The city of santa clara, pg e, are all working in lockstep as the shuttle starts at 8 pm. Officially potentially san joses i fire and police have extra officers. The lack of electric service weighing heavily on the minds of some residents. I worry about my family. My sister, my neighbors. They need to have their medication in the refrigerator. How much longer . How long is it going to be . Reporter this resident says prayers may be the only thing preventing an extended power shut off. According to pg e starting at 8 pm and lasting until thursday afternoon, the utility will cut power to portions of Santa Clara County, including two areas in san jose. We beefed up the districts and areas that we think will be affected. We have staffing plans and casey outages do occur to provide additional resources. Close to the foothills in the valley section. Over 38,000 residents are directed along with 1100 so called medical base line customers. Response, officials made an emergency declaration. We do an emergency proclamation anytime we see an event that looks like it could require massive mutual aid or potentially overwhelm any of our county services. Reporter county Officials Say fivecounty sites will use backup generators including read hillview airport. The city of san jose has all 11 Community Centers opened to assist those affected. Three are deemed Resource Centers, including may. Community center. They will have charging stations. Pg e has opened a Resource Center at the stadium. We want to make sure that the entire city has access to resources. The residence in the areas cannot get to a stadium, they will have a center near them where they can access resources. Reporter san jose unified Officials Say schools open, alum rock unified. Schools closed. It will not affect light rail service. If you are on the bus using the east ridge transportation center, it could be delayed as the signal lights maybe out. Santa fe Officials Saying that drivers in the effective areas should not be driving on the road after 8 pm. In morgan hill, that pedestrian curfew that started at 7 is now being pushed back to when the power actually gets shut off. We are live in downtown san jose, jesse gary. Did you just mentioned there is a pedestrian curfew possibly . Reporter that is in the city of morgan hills, for people who live in the impacted areas. The pedestrian curfew. Initially they said it was going to start at 7. Then they said 8. Now they say whenever the power goes out, thats when they dont want pedestrians walking around. Public safety, and of course, some people take advantage of an opportunity such as no power and no lights. Is a very fluid situation. Thank you. We just got an update from the Oakland Unified School district. They tell us nine schools, these nine schools in oakland will be closed tomorrow because of the planned outages. The school sent out a robocall to parents with all the effective schools. You can also see the list of schools that will be closed on our website ktvu. Com. The rest of the schools in oakland will be open, and all schools are expected to be open for classes on friday. Also in open, there will be increased fire patrol. Henry road along today. Oakland firefighters got briefed hours before an expensive safetyrelated power outage. They went out to patrol high fire danger neighborhoods in the oakland hills. Ktvu let alone with them. They can pump and roll. That means they can pump water while driving. This is suitable for they are doing mobile attack firefighting. Reporter one engineer and one lieutenant were on the engine. Getting a truck up here. Reporter imagine the same route in the dark in heavy snow. Smoke. As we maneuver through winding streets, we saw plenty of obstruction. There were cars on the side of the road, legally part, but potentially in the way of firetrucks. There were powerlines in tree branches. You can see these trees. In the events that we had the high winds, the branches come down. You have this power line across the road. The road is unusable. Reporter firefighters say the role of the rolling patrol is safety. The power shut off is a necessary evil. It is something we have to deal with. Reporter the residents we spoke to were appreciative. It makes me feel safe. It is a little inconvenient. We love it. When they come to my house and they tell us to cut back, my wife gets all over me. We have to cut this back. Its dangerous. Reporter as firefighters kept close watch on the ground, Police Patrol to the air. In dublin, the Alameda County Sheriffs Office spoke from the emergency center. We will be here staffing this from the duration, around the clock, 12 hours on and 12 hours off for the staff. We will do that for as long as this of it is protracted out. Reporter firefighters are urging residents to park in their driveways. We were talking earlier about dark intersections. People on foot and in cars, railroad crossings, be very careful. Some of them may not be working. Make sure the trains are not coming from either direction. That is a great point. I have not thought of that with train crossings. Henry, thank you. Coming up, our coverage of the pg e power outage continues. We are expecting to receive an update from pg e right around 6 pm. We will bring that to you live. Thats an amazing deal, jack hey, thanks, stanley. Ow. Wait, whats happening . Stanley youre deflating hold me, jack only at jack in the box. At at t we believe in access. The opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. Connecting with the things that matter most. 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Relative humidity, i am singh dropping into the tens and teens in nampa county. 5 pm is when we will be out of the red flag warning. If you are in the santa cruz valley, it is until noon. This is where we were just looking at the fire in solano county. It is to the west of rio vista. I just pulled up the weather station to show that windsor gusting about 25 Miles Per Hour. Notice that the humidity levels, dropping down into the teens. Very dry conditions are what we are concerned about. This is the forecast for the wind tonight. This is about 10 pm. You can see the westerly flow already upwards of 25 Miles Per Hour. It continues into the overnight. This is the really tough part, the overnight hours, you see gusting upwards of 45 Miles Per Hour. That is very dangerous. Any firewood spread very quickly. You go to 9 am tomorrow morning , and we finally start to ramp down. Tomorrow night around 6 pm we should see things return to normal. We are seeing gusts around mount st. Helena around 30 Miles Per Hour. An indication of what is to come. The reaction from elected officials and pg e customers has been swift, and many people are feeling frustrated. Our political reporter has some changes people are calling for. Reporter weaver seemed dozens of emails and phone calls. Customers frustrated, wondering if this is the new normal and wanting to know how we came to be in a situation of the scale. More than anything, people are telling us they want to see change. Not bear to make everybody else pay the price of pg chroni in the dark during this Public Safety power shut off. Tony is the executive director of an advocacy group. And pg e has spent the money we gave them on trimming the trees and maintaining their power lines safely, we would not be in this position. Tony says the shut off should be a last resort. Pg e continues to say they dont take this decision lightly , and safety is a priority. Education management, making sure our wires are clear of vegetation. Reporter in its latest valley to a federal judge, pg e said it has completed less than one third of its tree trimming work this season. Pg e has faced samper nowhere a gas line explosion took eight lives. Pg e needs to harden its sister and make it resilient and safe and not think power shut could we do want to make sure our customers are prepared for potential additional Public Safety shut off this year. We are still in the midst of wildfire season. Reporter last night, the government said the utility system has to be fixed. Pg e shareholders need to be held accountable for the cost of a shut off. When asked about, this was the companys response. Because we are setting up power for safety, we do not compensate for claims. Reporter pg e did say claims are handled on a caseby case basis. They are not alone in these power shut off. Other companies are dealing with similar winds. Up in oakland, they are not cutting my power. The only reason i can think of is that when they rebuilt the neighborhood, they put all the power lines underground. I would imagine that a lot of people are wondering why cant they put all power lines underground . Reporter those are some of the questions we have gotten to a lot of people into the newsroom. Why isnt this happening . Our investigators last year found that a lot of the funds allocated for this project have been spent for other projects for pg e. The short answer is that is a project that could take up to 10 years. Right now people are saying solutions need to be put in place for the imminent fire danger, which is today, tomorrow, next year. People are saying it is frustrating because there getting so many different messages. They were told they were going to lose power today, so they closed their businesses. The power stayed on. What do they say in response to mixed messages going out . Reporter we were in Carter County cast the contra county yesterday. Pg e said we dont know. The Police Department that we would rather have our people be prepared and have a heads up to be surprised when the power actually goes off. Thank you. We have this type of windy weather every year. Former fema coordinator mark says there are real safety concerns of the power outage drags on for days. Reporter in the paradise fire, the people who lost their lives were senior citizens. When we start to s down in california, that the same group that is affected. They dont have resources. Those are the ones who have medical equipment that require power that doesnt have can all power line to be set down without affecting the rest of the grid. If it has wheels and seats, someone is sitting in. The extra staff cal fire has standing by to be ready in case of an emergency. Hey. Hey. You must be stevens phone. Now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network. Only with xfinity xfi. Download the xfi app today. We have breaking news. Were major problems tonight that had nothing to do with Power Outages. There were big delays on the San Francisco line because there was Police Activity at the civic center station. They say they are recovering even though things are not all the way back to normal. Here is the latest on the Public Safety power shut off. The power has been out for 17 hours in parts of the north bay. A second wave in much of the rest of the bay area has been delayed until 8 pm tonight. We have also learned the caldecott tunnel will be open. Just a few minutes ago, apart from the planned outages, pg e says some San Francisco customers may also lose power due to the high winds in the forecast. Cal fire crews they have been gearing up for this red flag warning and high winds and low humidity. They are taking extra steps to make sure the power images wont slow their response. We are live along highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains to explain. Ann . Reporter that means taking their own generators and fuel reserves. They want to make sure that whatever happens overnight, they will be ready. The summit house, situated along highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It has beer and burgers. What it a while we still have power. We have another menu for when w with contingency plans. Including cal fire. They know their normal route may be slowed by Traffic Signals that are out in the normal Water Supplies may not work. The concerns or maybe the well pumps do not have a generator backup. We are dealing with that right now, going out into the community, ensuring those are still working. Reporter they have also hired local water tenders. That is an extra hundred firefighters. We have at least three extra hand crews in the Santa Cruz Mountains that we dont normally have. We have bulldozer staff 24 hours a day. If it has wheels and seats, we have people in it. Because they say with the red flag warning, the fire danger is real, even if the power is out. Ray elliott said just last night he spotted a guy with a bonfire by the side of the road, something that could easily have read to disaster. Pretty stressful. That is why i reacted the way i did. We are in a red flag warning situation. This guy is lighting fires. He was right on the edge of the wildland playing with fire. Reporter cal fire says with the wind picking up, they also expect some trees to come down. They are urging everyone to use caution and good judgment until the red flag warning expires. Julie . Thank you. Now to oakland and the hills where people were stocking up on ice and other essentials at the lucky store today. The store has generator power so we will be able to stay open if the power is shut off as predicted around 8 pm tonight. We are making sure we are doing what we can. We have water, we have food. We have a cooler to get ice on the way home to make sure we can put what is in the freezer in the cooler. That kind of thing. People we talked to today say they have questions about how pg e is handling the public notifications. They also understand the need for safety. People in the north bay who survived the 2017 fire are learning other fire victims have an urgent deadline. Fires burned more than 5600 buildings, many of those were homes. More than half of fire victims have still not filed plans against pg e. The deadline to do that is 5 pm october 21. People eligible to file include those who lost property, income, or suffered emotional distress. If you fail to file by the deadline, which is also called the bar day, you are barred forever from claiming against pg e for this fire. A group of survivors say victims do not need to hire lawyers or the monetary value of the claim before filing. 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We are now just about two hours away from a possible fire shut off in the east bay, south a command on the peninsula. We are joined by Michelle Durant from sam account so carry. About 50,000 customers may lose power. What is your message to the customers in advance . Our county, San Mateo Countys goal is for a residence and all the public to be informed and say. We are asking people to they havent already, sign up for the alerts from pg e so they can at the most uptodate information about the Power Outages and restoration. Also sign up for alerts and follow the county social media and make sure your family safe, you have enough provisions and water for up to five days. Also check on vulnerable neighbors, family, and others who may need help. That is such a great idea to check on neighbors. Are you in Constant Contact with pg e . And is it frustrating that the times keep changing . We understand that this is an evolving situation. We are talking about a weather pattern. As we are watching it, we do understand and knew from the getgo this was always going to e with our partners, with partners to make sure we can keep our residents say that they can have the most uptodate information as we get ourselves. Michelle, in terms of emergency services, what is San Mateo County doing tonight . Other extra precautions being taken x can you explain that . We have opened our emergency Operations Center as of this morning to monitor this. As we mentioned, we have been in close collaboration with pg e and our partners. Our Emergency Operation system is where all the people come together to make sure we are consistent with our information. We are monitoring it. If and when the shower power shut off happens, we will residents know is going on. Sheriffs office will increase patrols. We will also make sure that we have all the information out there so the residents can have it. Lets hope that problems are kept to a minimum. Thank you for talking to us. Thank you. The weather on everyones night tonight. North and east bay. We are starting to see the wind picked up in the north bay. In santa rosa, they have gusts up to 24 Miles Per Hour. It is relatively common in other spots. As we move further south, we do have a little wind at half moon bay. That is an onshore flow that happens regularly. About 25 Miles Per Hour there. These are the current temperatures. It has been a nice day outside of this of it. 63 degrees in San Francisco. 80 in santa rosa. About 72 in san jose. This is the direction of the wind that will be coming in from the north northwest tonight. It has certainly been a blue sky day. And the clouds will offshore. The reason we are seeing the wind avenges a tale of two pressure systems. , clockwise for high pressure. They come together dry the wind. That is why we are seeing the high fire danger. The red flag warning starting at at 5 pm he goes through tomorrow at 5 pm because we do have dry commissions. We have humidity levels dropping. We are expecting gusts of 45 or 50 Miles Per Hour as we head across the evening. Again, it is now between 5 pm tomorrow for our north and east bay hills and valleys. Something i have already noticed is out humidity levels dropping. This is napa right now. 73 degrees. Wind is not bad, just 10 Miles Per Hour. They are already down to 11 humidity. That means the air is dry. That is one of the conditions that could make it very easy for five to spread should it start. We have dry air. That is what we are starting to see in the county in particular. Overnight tonight, similar to last night. 56 degrees in San Francisco. Cooler tomorrow will look like today. 71 degrees for San Francisco. 78 in san jose. I want to run you through this map to show you, this is the future cast. This is midnight tonight. Upwards of 35 Miles Per Hour wind gusts. Overnight, the most dangerous time as we get over the 40 Miles Per Hour range about 5 am. Tomorrow morning, we are still in. We start the day gusty. As you can see, it will not ramp down until thursday at about 5 pm. A quick look at our extended forecast to show temperature saying in the low 80s. Staying dry over the next five days. Coming up, we are expecting to hear from pg e for an update on the power shut off. The first stage is already underway in the north bay. Another round of set to begin in a few hours across the east bay in south bay. We will bring you that press conference when it begins. 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. The best tv experience is thxfinity x1. Easy. Awe. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Former today show host matt lauer is strongly denying new allegations of sexual assault. It stems from the same situation that caused and be to fire him almost 2 years ago. Laura angle with our report. Reporter new details of what allegedly occurred inside a hotel room during the socially olympics in 2014 before former today show host matt lauer and a former nbc employee. The allegations were filled in and a certain variety magazine of an upcoming book by brooke neville. He tells she tells that lauer her. Nbc released a statement saying the conduct was reprehensible. That is why he was fired hours of the complaints. Our hearts break again for our colleague. Neville says she went to lauers hotel room. She claims lauer pushed her onto the bed asking her she asked like david ticker kind of sec. She claims she said that several times but that he quote just did it. Lauer former colleagues reacted to the allegations wednesday morning. I know it wasnt easy for our colleague to come forward them. It is not easy now. We support her. Reporter matt lauer sent a letter to a variety responding to the allegations saying quote, the story brooke tells is filled with false details intended only to create the impression this was an abusive encounter. Nothing could be further from the truth. There was absolutely nothing aggressive about that encounter. Brick did not do or say anything to object. Lauer claims the socially Hotel Encounter with the beginning of a long affair. Once he came forward to what she came for two nbc, she was reportedly paid more than 1 million. This is ktvu fox 2 news at 10. The winds are forecast to pick up in the north bay were tens of thousands of customers have been without power all day. Pg e has screwed up by not doing all the work they needed to, and the rest of us are paying for it. Frustration is building is pg e rolls out its largest ever preemptive Power Outages. Pg e pull the plug in the north bay early this morning. They are now waiting for the wind to pick up before cutting power in the east bay in south bay. That may happen around 8 pm tonight. The first phase started just after midnight and included parts of sonoma, napa, marin county. Those are the red areas on the map. They pg e customers. Phase 2 of the blackouts include the east bay in the south bay. They werbeen pushed back to 8 pm. That will affect another 169,000 customers