Reporter good morning. There is no power at this church where evacuees have been told to go. You can see people are gathered around candles and have flashlights. The red cross is here providing blankets, food and coffee. With me i have one of the evacuees, eric, you said your family was asleep and he woke up you live in this neighborhood that had to be evacuated. What happened . We were fast asleep. We went to sleep early because of the blackout. There was really nothing much to do besides go to sleep. My mom who lives next door came banging on the door and she has a key so she came in and said wake up. Weve got to go. There is a fire. We have to evacuate. So we got dressed in a little bit of a panic. We werent sure what to take and in the end we just left. Reporter did you see the fire or smell the smoke . Smell the smoke when we went outside. Could not smell it from inside. Could not see the fire. It was on the other side of the neighborhood. Reporter described her was the neighborhood. Is there a lot of open space . Dry grass . A small neighborhood. Maybe 140 homes surrounded by pastures of grass and hills. Definitely a fire concern. I always wondered what would happen if those hills caught on fire. Reporter all of us were told to prepare but now having this be a reality for you, how would you describe that . Definitely, literally a wake up call. I think you have to think in advance what to take on the way out of the, maybe we shouldve taken those documents we thought we would take and in the end we did not take. We need to think a little harder on what to do the next time it happens if it happens again. Reporter how is your family doing . Your kids look like youre staying warm in the car. They are doing fine. I think they will leverage this into missing school tomorrow. Its could be a win for them. We are doing fine. Speak reporter thank you. If we can show you the church again. You can see the evacuees coming in and out. The red cross has been providing blankets to keep you warm. It is pretty cold. Residents i spoke to told me the power went out around 11 00 last night. Everybody in the dark when they got these evacuation orders. No structures have been burned at this point but 140 are threatened. Firefighters are making progress on this fire at this point. 70 contained. Elissa harrington, ktvu fox 2 news. Good news is now 70 contained. We spoke to the Fire Department come moragaorinda, saying the wind was not bad out there this morning so thats good news. The fire can create its own weather. They jump on that so 70 is good. Tell us about the other areas of concern. The wind can be pretty bad. Mainly higher elevation. And also after the valley so far. People say look. We are getting gusts from 6070 Miles Per Hour. Mount diablo had a guest at 75. Mount st. Helena, 77. The Santa Cruz Mountains, 60 Miles Per Hour. Thats where the National WeatherService Radar site is located. 3540 over the caldecott. Mount tam, 36. Airflow is offshore. Thats the direction the wind is coming from. From ukiah down to san jose that is in easterly or northeasterly breeze. Wind advisories in the North East Bay hills until 3 00. This will slide south. Santa cruz mountains make it on this as well. Maybe 50 Miles Per Hour gust. Red flag warning. Most locations it ends at 5 00. Some in the north may end up sooner but lets just say today is another red flag day. 50s on the temperatures. Lafayette, fortier park upper 50s and low 60s. A lot of thisis winddriven for now and there are some good humidity is in the u te can see 17 in oakland over the caldecott. 13 at atlas peak. And travis, its rolling. 40 Miles Per Hour. The same toward vacaville. Unfortunately the napa airport is not been reporting data since midnight. Concord and oakland have a slight north dorr northeast breezes. We are still in that northerly direction. The big strong deep trough is moving east. As it does things will start to calm down but not until later this afternoon. On the peninsula, a lot of 40s. Upper 40s. 50s and 60s. A lot of missing data. On the coast youre getting 60s on the san mateo coast. Look for sunshine today. Breezy or windy at times. High fire danger. Things will be better tomorrow. We get more of a westerly breeze or a decrease in the easterly component. High fire danger with us for one more day. Im going to start with a fire in marin county that was just reported a few moments ago. Actually just reported as a large fire if you moments ago. Southbound 101 at the tamalpais drive. Southbound 101 traffic is going to be slow in the area briefly but its more of a concern for the Fire Department. Away and you can see traffic is not really affected. It looks like the fire may be out but i want you to know about it. Lets talk about the Altamont Pass and westbound 580. That traffic is going to be okay driving through the Altamont Pass. After slowing before that on 580 and 205 and getting up to Castro Valley. Northbound 880, a crash near high street. It was there and blocking lanes. I saw chp doing a traffic break but traffic never really got busy because its so early. At the bay bridge we have a little backup. 5 07 am. Tens of thousands around the bay area have no power this morning because of the pg e power shut off. Last night just after 10 pm pg e started power shutoffs in the east bay, the south bay and santa cruz county. Youre looking at video from orinda in the east bay last night. Just after the power went out and the city was plunged into darkness. Crews put up portable stop signs at intersections where the stop lights went out. Earlier yesterday pg e shot off power to parts of the north bay all because of the red flag warnings and the possibility of high wind. At this point more than 350,000 homes and businesses in the bay area have no power. The first phase of the pg e Power Outages began in parts of sonoma, napa and marin county early yesterday morning. Then last night, pg e shutdown power to parts of the east bay, the south bay and santa cruz county. Sonoma county have the highest number of homes and businesses without power. There are about 70,000 pg e customers affected by the shuttle. Some Traffic Signals are out which led to accident. Santa rosa Police Responded to 20 accidents yesterday. Half of them resulted in injuries. And people are frustrated. More money needs to be spent on safety over profits. Longterm, people will not be tolerating this. In the meantime we are pulling together and making the best of it. Santa rosas Kaiser Hospital is in the outages and now operating on emergency power. Only urgent procedures are being performed. Some incoming patients have been diverted to other facilities. This morning people in different parts of the east bay are starting this day with no power. The power went out just before 11 00 in areas including orinda and moraga while many homes lost power, the streetlights stayed on for several hours overnight running on battery power. In the meantime orinda and other cities have spent money on generators, fuel and staffing for Community Centers with phone charging stations as well as water. We worry about our seniors in the community. Fragile individuals who require , for example, electricity to provide selfhelp support services. Reporter east bay m. U. D. Said it spent more than 400,000 on backup generators and 75,000 on fuel because of the plan power outage. The uncertainty of the situation is adding to the frustrations of people in the outages zones. They say the pg e website detailing the outages are crashing because of so many people trying to log on. Since people dont know how long the shutoffs will last, they are stocking up on emergency supplies. Ace hardware, the store in oakland, ran out of batteries, lanterns and generators by noon. Homeowners ithe Berkley Hills area are questioning why pg e attorney off the power while neglecting to take care of Hazardous Conditions that construct the fires such as tree limbs next to the electrical lines. Some experts say pg es preemptive Power Outages this week could cost homeowners and businesses more than 1 billion. The director of the claimant Energy Program policy said the Economic Impacts could fall any wide range between 65 million to 2. 5 billion depending on how long the outages last and where they occur. These figures were calculated by usine interruption cost estimate calculator developed by Lawrence Berkeley national lab. Several their area schools are canceling classes today because of the Power Outages. Oakland unified says classes have been canceled at nine of its goals. Uc berkeley cancel class today again. And there are Additional Closures in sonoma, napa and santa clara counties. We have more information on a website, ktvu. Com. You can find information on School Closures and also a link from pg e that allows people to search for their home address to get the latest status update but again the website is having problems so hopefully they get that worked out. We are still following the latest on that wildfire burning and moraga forcing evacuations. We do have a crew on the scene. Plus, officials at sfo got an urgent call from a plane that needed to make an emergency landing. After the break we tell you what caused the emergency and forced the pilot to turn around. Not fair to make everybody else pay the price of pg es longterm and chronic negligence. Calls for pg e to make changes to its procols. We have the utilitys response. We do have a commute that is going to be busy if youre driving on the bridges. We let you know more straight ahead. Some good gusts and Higher Elevations of to 75 Miles Per Hour at mount diablo and good gusts. It took a while to get going but its here now. You know when youre at ross and your new fall look just keeps Getting Better . Check this out thats yes for less. Score a headtotoe look youll love and save 20 to 60 percent off Department Store prices. At ross. Yes for less. And you get first dibs on that brand. At that price . Thats yes for less. Seriously, get the fall brands and styles you love and save 20 to 60 off Department Store prices. At ross. Yes for less. Welcome back to mornings on 2. We are following breaking news in the east bay where a wild fire is burning and moraga and there are evacuations. Its called the merrill fire and its burned more than 40 acres and is 70 contained this started around 1 am near merrill circle north and Sanders Ranch road and Contra Costa County. Police ordered the evacuations for People Living along Sanders Ranch road, Maryland Drive and herrington road. About 1 am we heard honking and then we smelled smoke and we could see the flames pretty clearly from our deck. It was on the hill overlooking juliana court, Sanders Ranch, which is the street thats like a court right off of Maryland Drive where we live. Merrill circle. Spencer larson told us it was breezy overnight and then it started to pick up in parts of town. The family actually left the home before the mandatory evacuations took effect. Most pg e customers said they understand the need for safety but is still frustrated with the outages. Greg lee tells us about the changes some are calling for and how the utility is responding. Not fair to make everybody else pay the price of pg es longterm and chronic negligence. Reporter mark toney echoing the frustrations of many pg e customers finding themselves in the dark during this Public Safety power shut off. He is the executive director of an advocacy group, turn. If pg e had spent the money we gave them on trimming the trees and maintaining their power lines safely, we would not be in this position. Reporter he said they shot off should be a last resort. Pg e continues to say they do not take this decision lightly and safety is a priority. They also say the company has been working on improvements but in its latest filing to a federal judge pg e says its completed less than one third of its tree trimming work this season. Pg e has faced major scrutiny from state senator jerry hill who represents san bruno where a 2010 pg e gas line exploded took eight lives. The Embattled Company warned this could happen again. We do want to make sure our customers are prepared for potential additional Public Safety power shutoffs this year. We are still in the midst of wildfire season. Reporter greg lee, ktvu fox 2 news. State senator scott weiner in San Francisco is proposing able to restrict power shutoffs. In a tweet he said , quote, its hard to overstate the impact of this massive rolling blackout. He says he hopes his bill will set clear standards for when utilities can pull the plug the problem i have is that pg e appears to be erring on the side of going as broad as possible and shutting off power for millions of people potentially and thats not okay. The bill would impose hourly fines against the utilities during plant back out and prevent them from charging customers for service during power shutoffs. The legislature is expected to hold hearings on the bill in january. Thats a big deal. Sal is coming back and he is watching the commute. Right now we do have traffic that is doing okay. Im looking around in a dont see anything unusual. Weve seen a couple of crashes but for the most part it has been a decent drive. As we look at the northbound onetoone commute from gilroy to san jose, it continues to be a nice commute with a little bit of slowing in morgan hill. That i will say will be slow getting up there and into san jose with no major issues. No problems in downtown san jose getting up to highway 17 and traffic here is moving well westbound bay bridge. A little bit of slowing at the toll plaza. At 5 19 am. Lets bring steve in. Thank you, sir. Lets get to it. Im spending all morning writing people back. Lets get to it. The wind did not pick up yesterday but finally did late in the evening and overnight. By the way, just to let you know there was hardly any breeze yesterday at all at the Sonoma County airport and the committee was 3 . 3 without a breeze. Now the wind has picked up. Mount st. Helena, 77 Miles Per Hour. Thats a 4300 p. Mount diablo had guessed at 75. Currently at 67. Mount tam, 36. Oakland hills, mt. Umunhum in the Santa Cruz Mountains, 60. Everything is still offshore. Thats the direction the wind is coming from. Thats the surface airflow so it goes from land to see. It will be much with us most of the day. Wind advisory until 3 00 today. Does not mean a 3 00 things will shut down but thats when things should start to lighten up. The pressure gradients were relax and the wind will decrease with gusts up to 50 above 2303. Red flag warning for just about everyone. Even dunk with the Santa Cruz Mountains, they could extend that but for most it will be 5 00 today. 40s, 50s and 60s. 02 morocco sites anyone is reporting. Theres also a saint marys site its not reporting. I have looked. 40s, 50s and 60s. Big spreads on these terms. If you dont have a breeze its probably pretty cold where you are but if you do come up in the hills you can save your gusting at 20. Humidity in the Oakland Hills at 70 . At black diamond, above clayton, 70 . Atlas p, 13 . Timidity is very low in were getting and easterly breeze. Napa airport is not been reporting since midnight. For the love of you know what please get that fixed. That is very important. Fairfield, 23 gusting to 37. Vacaville, gusts up to 40. Concord and oakland have a northeastern and easterly breeze but you dont have to go far to go from 40 Miles Per Hour to almost calm. Really deep vigorous system is kicking out in the plains as it moves these things will start to calm down. 64 at sfo. Redwood city, 48. You dont see that all the time. 49 in san leandro. The city is 64. A lot of 50s and 60s. Vacaville and fairfield in the low 60s because of the wind. Santa cruz is at 48. Double cola, 45. San jose, 60. Saratoga, 49. A lot of data missing and the reasons are obvious. They dont have power. As far as the system goes after it moves it will be sunny with temperatures still mainly in the upper 70s but the wind will hold any get close to some low to mid 80s. High fire danger until 5 00. 60s, 70s and 80s on the temperatures. Windy at times but that will decrease. It will be cold tomorrow morning but sunny and cool are going into the weekend. We continue to follow that wildfire forcing evacuations in moraga. 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