That fire. People who live from geysers road to highway 128 are being ordered to evacuate. Along with people along pine flat road and red winery road. An evacuation warning has been issued for Northern Hills. And geyserville. The Sheriffs Office said people in those communities should be ready to evacuate. Bill martin has been monitoring the latest wind conditions near the area. Where the fire is burning. What are firefighters facing . This is up in the hill. We have good location on it. It is higher up. We see wind gusts the 37 miles per hour. Sustained winds 18 to 20. That dust in the fire zone it can go stronger than that. That is a big deal. We have the red flag warning. A sticky look at the topography. We dont have direct coordinates on this fire. Here is cloverdale appear. Here is hills berg here. Geyserville in between. The winds are blowing. The winds are coming. The winds are blowing like this. Whatever direction. The funneling and the canyons will. This fire will have a tendency to flare this way. There are some issues with 128 the highway. It is going to burn sword 101. If you were to think about firebreaks. You look at this area here. If you know this area that is floodplain. Along parts of the old russian river. It is some flat ground. If it were to flare out. That is the way it will go. It will burn towards the south and towards the west. The arrows i created for you. With that said youve got a lot to burn in here. It is going to definitely firefighters would have a pretty good shot in the flats. We dont have a lot of information. I do know. Were not going to get a lot of aerial support. You have 37 mile per hour winds. The humidity is 9 . The temperature is 68. It is definitely something that if you got an Evacuation Order in this area there is not a lot of population there. Hills berg is a good size city. Parts of Northern Hills berg are being asked to move. We have to watch this. We will get some more pictures. Gives you an idea of the fire. I believe we are north of the fire. We are left to right is where the fire is burning. You can see the smoke shearing off that way. It is a very slow update. It has grown a little bit since we have been watching it. This is the story right now. This fire rneast southeast of cloverdale. North in a bit east of hills berg. Joining us now on the phone is cal fire spokesman jonathan cox. What can you tell us about this wildfire . Is th a wi driven fire. acres what we consider the geysers area. That is that hilly area when youre driving up 101 between hills berg and Cloverdale Geyserville area. Right now the conditions are really just being by the wind gusts. Eric attack over the scene of the fire. They were reporting severe turbulence in their flight. A lot of resources are being sent that way. Strike teams from throughout the area. Preposition resources in the counties of the red flag warnings. There are obviously evacuations conducted by the Sheriffs Department. This is a wind driven fire. Moving at what we consider a criticals rate of spread. It sounds like you mentioned you are you do have some aircraft and some helicopters that are flying here even though it is dark out that are able to do some drops. We have i dont know about helicopters. We do have an air attack over the fire. That air attack is able to give us good ice with the fire activity is doing. There is a limit for them being and the sky as far as how much it can take. They have already requested at the crack of dawn we have all of our rotary wing aircraft available to respond. Anticipation of when the winds do die down. We can get helicopters and aircraft in there. As quickly as possible. Right now the real focus is what we fall back to on the wind driven fires. Which is evacuation. Engaging where we can on the fire. But obviously it moves a lot faster than we can. Getting people out of harms way is our number one priority. When it comes to overnight strategy when it is dark out there and you have a wind dripping fire spreading rapidly. A critical rate of speed. What is the biggest priority and how to firefighters tried to get some type of containment lines started . That is a great question. The real priority is life to the firefighters. In the public pick getting people out of the way. Second said that we engage where we have targets of opportunity. Protecting structures. Protecting communities. Making sure we are looking at asset that need protecting in front of the fire. Thirdly when the wind dies down. We will actually engage in some perimeter control to try to stop the head of the fire. We have to be tactical about that. We cant take the fire head on. Jonathan cox we appreciate your expertise. We wish firefighters good luck in trying to get the fire under control. As quickly as possible. Back now to the pg e outages. Roughly 178,000 customers in 15 counties are without power. Pg ne said another 1000 customers will lose power in san mateo and kern counties around 1 am. That is more than 400,000 people in Northern California most of those in the sierra foothills. It was able to reduce the number of outages by segmenting parts of the system. To limit the impact to customers. Others were kept online with generators. The ceo of pg e was asked if the failure to upgrade their equipment is to blame for the spread of fires. 15 of our service area was designated high fire threat. This year 52 more than a threefold increase in the geography of risk. In that period of time. As for tonights outages pg e expects to get the all clear hopefully about noon tomorrow. They say they will be monitoring weather conditions throughout the night tonight. And could potentially restore power earlier if conditions improve. Schools have been canceled tomorrow. The second closure in two weeks as a result of the planned outages. Allison joins us now live in santa rosa. With how people they are are coping. Reporter this gas station behind me should be open 24 hours. As you can see the lights are off and it is in the dark. Just across the street the street lights are on. We also have that walgreens on the corner lids up open for customers. This tough times for businesses like this gas station. But also for schools were not sure where the money is going to come from to pay for the shutoffs. School districts really are at the mercy of pg e. Reporter with the latest round of pg e power shutoffs dozens of schools in Sonoma County will suffer. We stopped in santa rosa were 4 of the district schools were let out early wednesday and will be closed thursday. With the Santa Rosa School districts that the rest of the week is uncertain. They wont have much warning. We need the electricity to be on by friday morning in order to have school on friday. Reporter the closures include rankin Valley Middle School maria hi. Santa rosa charter. Where we ught up with one mom who is making arrangements because of the shutoffs for the second time. It impacts. Running aarons were having to occupy them finding out. Let them play around. Reporter she thinks the shutdowns could be better organized. At first i understood. It seems a little extreme. The power is going to be shut off. The emails you get are we may or may not turn off your power. You will know when it happens. Reporter the last round of outages cost the district 450,000. She is not sure what this round will cost. She said schools know they need help. We hope that sacramento can come up with some solutions for us. As far as making up the lost revenue that you get that you lose when your students are not in school. Reporter i asked about getting generators for the schools. She said it will cost more than 1 million per school. And with 24 schools in the district the money is just not there. Resident melissa said she is still working on ways to make it through these blackouts. We will probably get a generator. Just to be more prepared. Reporter i did ask how the Santa Rosa School district plans to make up for all of these missed days. They told me right now they dont know. They dont have a plan for this. Tomorrow superintendent is scheduled to meet up with the principals to try to discuss some possible solutions. A pg ne worker was shot at with what officials believe was a pellet gun. It happened in glenn county. The worker was not hurt. It is unclear if any arrests have been made. During a News Conference today pg ne ceos set these types of attacks will not be tolerated. A worker was shot at in Colusa County during the first round of Power Outages. Two weeks ago. San jose fire captain uses personal experience to teach students about the dangers of distracted driving. Chaos at the School Board Meeting tonight. Why police had to be called and demonstrators were taken into custody. 6, 7, 8 big dreams start with small steps. But dedication can get you there. So just start small. Start saving. Easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. Chase. Make more of whats yours®. A man walking on train tracks was killed by a caltrain in san francisco. This happened at the 6 30 pm tonight inside the tunnel just south of the 22nd street station. There were 400 passengers on board the train. None of them was injured. Trains in the area were stopped for a time. He started moving again an hour later. Six people were taken into custody during a chaotic demonstration at tonights oakland School Board Meeting. The district said is set up barricades for safety because of takeovers style protests at previous meetings. Parents and supporters say they were trying to get past the barricades to get on the stage of the meeting. They were confrontedby Oakland Unified Police and security guards. We are pleading to them pleading to them. We are trying to get on stage to get your attention. And still our parents have been arrested. Teachers have been bruised. Hurts. We have been threatened with mays. Wooden clubs. What is the school board doing . They are having the meeting upstairs where parents cannot even make public comment. Parents have been protesting planned closures and mergers of several schools next year. Is san sefire captain opened up about the loss of his 15yearold daughter killed in a reckless driving crash. Christopher salcido spoke to students and parents at Gilroy High School tonight. About the dangers of distracted driving. His daughter natalia was in a car with friends when the driver took her ice off the road to see someones snapchat video. He said in that split second the car curved the road curved in the car slammed into a tree. Killing natalia. Had the other girls in the car not been distracted natalia will still be here with us. She would be in college right now. Says natalias death five years ago the family has started a Legacy Foundation in her honor. So far it has provided 70,000 in grants and scholarships. Our coverage of the pg e Power Outages continues with how people and businesses are dealing with the shutoffs in the north bay. An update on that wildfire continuing to burn out of control in Sonoma County tonight. We will look back into that fire. That is the big story. We will take a peek at what you can expect with the next red flag warning coming in a few 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 are back to the breaking news via following. It wildfire broke out before 10 pm tonight and is raising raging out of cellcontrol east of cloverdale. The fire is burning along geyser peak in evacuations have been ordered. East of geyserville. The flames are spreading quickly in the gusty conditions. The fire is already grown to about 300 acres. The Sonoma County Sheriffs Department is warning people in Northern Hills. In geyserville they should be ready to evacuate. Bill martin joins us with the latest conditions. Reporter this is the cold red situation. Not a lot of population around this fire. The winds are blowing gusting up to 37 miles per hour. We are seeing sustained winds of 10 to 15 miles per hour. In northeast the window which is what we are seeing up there is essentially. There is the fire. The fire is being driven this way. Youve got hillsboro down here further. Im not sure the coordinates of this fire. Here is 128 right here. That would be a natural firebreak depending on where the fire is. This is a wind driven fire. There are lots of ranches and farms in this area. This time of night this type of wind. The winds are going to get stronger. This fire is going to grow. We started at 30 acres. It is at 300 acres now. The winds up there 38. Humidity is down to 9 . Temperature is 60 degrees. It is a horrendous firefighting conditions right now. Would try to get as much information as we can on this. If youre in any of those areas. You can reverse 911. I would get out of there. Parts of Northern Hills bird. I dont know how far the town limits go. They have been doing evacuations or suggesting people leave there. Will be on it. Tomorrow morning. We will keep going on this. The winds will get stronger tonight. Which is not good. The temperatures. The red area and orange area is where the air is sinking. That is where the wind is. This is where the fire is in this zone up here. This is the prime wind area. 20 degrees warmer in santa rosa. The winds really coming down. Beautiful night in san francisco. We are not in the north bay. Where folks are under the gun right now. Concerned about this fire. Just east of cloverdale. South and east of cloverdale. North and east of hills bird. The configuration is intact. We will see more continued winds tonight. Here is the forecast for late tonight. The winds died down quickly tomorrow. There is 3 am. They go away quick. Here is the concern. Watch what happens on sunday. Morning. That is a wind event. That stays longer. It stays through sunday afternoon. This is the time of year. This is the thing you dont want to see. The lead story is the fire burning in cloverdale. It is growing rapidly. Red flag warnings in that area. Winds are gusting to 38 miles per hour. We will try to dig up some more on this when we can. We are following we are keeping tabs on the pg e Power Outages affecting tens of thousands of people across the bay area tonight. Many people in santa rosa described the outages as they are new reality. Amber takes a look at what it is like in the areas where the power went out earlier this afternoon. Reporter a generator is powering the traffic signal lights at the busy intersection highway 12 meets. We came to bring the generators. Making sure they are filled with gas. Making sure we are leading up the stoplights. Reporter the company he works for has been hired by pg e to keep traffic lights working at some intersections. He bought plenty of batteries for his flashlight. This is the second time in two weeks pg e has shut off power to his home. The 81yearold tells me the electrical chair left his wife relies on to get up and down the stairs is now running on batteries. That will only last a limited amount of time. We decided to get the stairs so we can stay in this house. Reporter at the Sunrise Plaza dismisses put up signs letting customers know they closed early due to the outage. The winds off at 2 20 pm. It got dark. We were looking at each other. Reporter Jennifer Olson inside home care assistance. The places caregivers and clients homes. She was working in the dark. Working on laptops in our cell phones. We still can get stuff done. Reporter the Emergency Operations center in Sonoma County has been open since tuesday. Workers are monitoring the outage. In coordinating the countys response. They say what they are seeing is residents helping each other. We are prepared. Any kind of notifications we need to during this time. One of the things Sonoma County does well is come together. Reporter as for bailey he said the outages are an inconvenience that he will survive. How many more of these are we going to have . Reporter officials are urging people who have questions or need nonemergency help to call 211. The astros were looking for a bounce back but tonight in game two of the world series. Mark is up next to tell usf houston was able to tie up the series. Sports is up next. Mark is here. Were talking world series baseball. Game two tonight. Houston was looking to even up the series. Mark is here to tell us how they did. Im stunned. Talk about a team on a roll. Eight consecutive postseason victories. They dont look like they will be stopped by the astros. Immensely talented team on their home field. They destroyed its king and queen of houston. They will have long faces all night long. Starting in the first inning. Justin verlander. Gets tagged by anthony. That is a two run double out the scoreboard. And quickly houston put in the hole. They even it. Alex bregman takes stephen strasburg. The deepest of shots with a man on. We have a 22 ball game. Before former as catcher kurt suzuki the veteran. Put the sweet part of the bad on that thing. 32 lead. They werent about to end there. It all comes apart for the astros. Ryan zimmerman. He throws it away. That is an error by a nearly flawless defensive team. Two run score. Look who is in the driver seat right now. Going back to dc. Nationals up to 1. 20. Tomorrow night at chase the unveiling in a real way. Against the clippers. 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That is the sporting life right now. Once give you one last look tonight at the fire burning east of cloverdale. In Sonoma County. We have been following. This new video for the protection district. This fire is officially about 300 acres. There are some reports that this fire is growing rapidly. And could be much larger than that. Potentially close to 1000 acres in terms of the size. You can see the gusty conditions in