The fire season. Good evening, everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Red flag conditions are back with the highest warning for fire danger set to go into effect at 11 00 tonight. Debbie begins our coverage. Well, julie, this red flag warning runs through 8 00 wednesday morning, and Governor Newsom said the next week is critical. Up there you can see just solid brush field and stuff that would really burn. Reporter climbing a fire road on marin countys mount, we top out at 2600 feet, where the winds whip hardest during red flag conditions. You can hear it just walking around. Reporter and where fuels are dry, even this close to the ocean, during august, lightning, a free strike, started a fire, kept small, but crews worry about this canopy with homes in the forest and what could happen. The wrong fire on the wrong day would be something that would be almost impossible to stop if it got going. Reporter the woodward fire was impossible to stop for a fire, burning more than a month. 31 lives that have been lost in this wildfire season. Reporter Governor Newsom recaps the year so far. Almost 10,000 structures destroyed. Just over 4 million acres burned. And almost all of that since august. He points to climate change. Weve had wildfires historically, but the ferocity and the devastation of these mega fires. Reporter in his words, Mother Nature bats last and bats a thousand. And shes chemistry, shes biology, and she is physics. Shes not a political point of view or an ideology. Reporter and now the north bay braces for another week of high risk. Like everybody, were concerned that weve entered this new world in which fires are more intense. Reporter this resident moved to mount tamm slopes during fire season, quickly accepting the need to be proactive. That means being prepared, keeping on top of all of the warnings from the state, and working closely with local officials to make sure we evacuate if necessary. Reporter for firefighters, winter rain can come anytime. It starts from being a spark to 20,000 acres in a day. When i first started, you would go to a 20,000 acre fire, and that would be the biggest fire of the year. The governor noted 12 major firers fire complexes are still burning right now, is and it was not only the hottest august on record, julie, but the hottest september, as well. Deborah, thank you. Now to chief meteorologist bill martin who is tracking the conditions that prompted the red flag warning. Bill . I think the big thing that is prompting this warning is certainly the lack of rain. Its been dry, as it always is this time of year. But these warnings were hyper vigilant now, and these warnings are coming more frequently, and they will until we get some rain in here. That red flag warning is in red, obviously. Thats until wednesday morning for the north bay hills. This is north baycentric. This could turn into a red flag warning, but i say this all the time, red flag warnings come in varying shades. Theyre all scary and need to be taken seriously, but lets say the Oakland Hills was a 10 red flag warning. This is probably about a 5 or a 6, based on the computer model winds im seeing. It doesnt mean its not dangerous, just means were not seeing 70 mile an hour winds. So we will see 35, maybe 40 mile an hour winds, less than with the last event last week, but still something to be concerned with. In the north bay, the winds right now are relatively light. Air quality has been good. Weve got fog back at the coast, and that fog certainly helps the coastal conditions, but up at the higher elevations, above the inversion, its warm, and its going to be breezy, starting a little bit tonight, but i think will be more noticeable tomorrow night, and north bay hills, a red flag warning above 1,000 feet. Pg e is warning customers that Public Safety power shutoffs are possible later this week due to gusty winds in the forecast. About 50,000 customers in Northern California have been put on a psps watch. Thats one level below a warning. Pg e said shutoffs are possible for part of six counties in the north pay, eastboy bay, and the south bay. In addition to the wind, they are also worried about hot, dry conditions. The planned outages could begin as early as wednesday night, and continue through friday. Were continuing to update the ktvu mobile news app 24 hours a day with Important Information about weather warnings and power shutoff. You can sign up for push alerts to be sent directly to your phone. Election day two weeks from tomorrow. Tonight is the deadline to register to vote in california. You can fill out your registration online until midnight. After that, people can visit their county Registrars Office to fill out a provisional registration. There an unprecedent understood rule for the president ial candidates at this thursdays nationallytelevised debate. We look now at how mic muting will work, and how pollsters are changing the way they survey likely voters. Jana . Julie, the commission on president ial elections announced today that they will be muting the microphones of the candidates during the Opening Statements, when it is not their turn to speak. New polls are showing that biden is coming into this with a lead, but with the debate coming this week, and also questions about polls accuracy, that means that the campaigns are taking nothing for granted. The second president ial debate at Belmont University in nashville will be the final faceoff between President Trump and former Vice President joe biden, with one big difference. Unlike the first debate, mics will be turned off during Opening Statements to prevent interruptions. Biden campaigned over the weekend, but is taking several days off to prepare for the debate. President trump held a ratliff in arizona monday. Were going to win the state of arizona. Reporter the Trump Campaign is dismiss missing national and state polls that show President Trump trailing bead. Me president won arizona in 2016, but a recent role in shows him down by 3 points, and in north carolina, which he won in 2016, shows a dead heat. But many have mixed feelings after Hillary Clintons loss in 2016 about polling. Given what happened in 2016, im not, like, jumping up and down and going, yeah, knit the bag. I dont think that it is. I think that its close. Theres so much more enthusiasm for the Trump Administration right now. So as far as their being a 7, or 8, whatever the lead is now, i think it could be a closer lead. Reporter pollsters have corrected their mistakes from 2016, according to dean of the u. C. Berkeley school of public policy. Turns out in 2016, there was a failure to actually pick up a lot of people who had little or no college education, and in 2020, the pollsters are working very hard to get those people into their samples. Reporter brady said other changes include using cellphone numbers and texting to reach people and focusing more on swing states that determine the Electoral College votes. He said there is also evidence that polls in 2016 might have led to complacency. If the idea is that someone going win no matter what, then people might not turn out. In 2016, i didnt vote. Didnt think it mattered. I wont make that mistake again. I think they should focus on arizona, pennsylvania, the states that really, really are going to decide the election, and just absolutely make sure that they get the turnover they need there. And the same thing with the Trump Campaign. Thursdays debate will be 90 minutes, covering six different topic. While there might somebody drama, brady said he does not believe that it will impact anyones opinion. Julie . And later this hour, our election coverage continues. 16 at 10 30, prop 82, the highing stakes bags over ride share drivers, and whether they are contractors or employees. And at 10 45, ballot security, how you can track your vote and make sure it gets counted. In southern california, someone set fire to an official ballot collection box about 8 00 last night in baldwin park, east of l. A. , in the san gabriel valley. Arson investigators say a number of the ballots inside were burned. The l. A. County Registrars Office is asking voters who dropped ballots in this drop box location to call their office for assistance. Tomorrow morning, family and friends will gather for the funeral of a San Francisco firefighter and paramidweek died on the job. They held a private Memorial Service today for jason cortez. He was a 13year veteran of the department. He died earlier this month after he fell three stories during a training accident. Cortez was a husband and father of two young children. Coming up, new information about a deadly shooting by police in San Francisco. What new video reveals about the confrontation. Plus, a Coronavirus Vaccine . Governor newsom lays out who will get it first and how the state will ensure it is safe. After the break, a halloween display that raised eyebrows and some consider it offensive. How the person behind this hangman explains it. A halloween display in the front yard of a home in newark is attracting unwanted attention. It features a life sized figure hanging from a tree. New at 10 00 tonight, amber lee joins us now, in newark, and this display generating complaints, even threats. Reporter thats right, julie. The resident tells me she hung up the figure last wednesday night here in newark. Now, starting the next day, she received complaints. We had a hangman, and i guess people took it the wrong way. Reporter this mother of two spoke with me on the condition we not identify her. She said she made this figure as part of the halloween display she put up last wednesday in the front yard of her home in newark. We just put it up, because we wanted to make it look scary. Reporter she tells me this is the first time shes. Up a halloween display during the 15 years her family has lived here. A way to celebrate halloween during the pandemic. We just did it for our kids, for them to have a good time, because theyre not going to be able to go out trickor treating. Reporter she said the day after the display went up, police came by and said they had received complaints from neighbors. In response, she put a mask on the figure. We are live manage some sensitive times now. Reporter but the woman did take down the figure as of monday afternoon. One neighbor at what has her own halloween display had this reaction. I do think it was distasteful, and that probably they should have thought twice about putting it up. Reporter one African American neighbor said years ago, people would burn cross on his lawn. He was not offended by the display. Theres a lot of bad things that go on, but i didnt feel like that was her intent. They havent resident showed me some of the many online comments critical of the display. One wrote what is the closest cross street . Im going to rip it down. Honestly, im sorry if i hurt someone, that this was not meant to it didnt mean anything. Reporter the woman tells me shes Mexican American and knows racism. She said she has no intention of displaying the figure again, and that it was not meant to be a statement of any kind. New information tonight about a massive cleanup at a homeless encampment near i80 and berkeley. A spokesperson for the city said workers hauled away at least 30 truckloads of trash and debris yesterday. About 50 to 60 people live in tents at the encampment, put the Homeless People were not asked to leave during yesterdays cleanup. Residents in West Berkeley are concerned that conditions there have deteriorated, and earlier this month, a man was shot at the catch. Now to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. It appears that a surge in cases widely predicted a month ago and being seen in other parts of the country has largely not happened in california. Instead, state data shows hospitalizations here are down 15 . Governor newsom admits its a quote slow, stubborn approach. The governor is also forming a group to evaluate any potential vaccine that would hit the market next year as expected. And as jesse gary explains, nobody will be able to get vaccinated in california until our states experts approve the drug. Reporter the still weeks or months away, california is taking steps to test the safety of any covid19 vaccines before theyre administered to the public. Of course we dont take anyones word for it. We will do our own independently reviewed process with our world class experts that just happen to live here in the state of california. Reporter monday, governor gavin newsom announcing a work group of 11 leading doctors and scientists to ensure safety protocols arent outpaced bay rush to administer a covid19 vaccine. He said the statements long history with vaccinations from h1n1 to hepatitis a to seasonal flu shots uniquely qualifies california to pair with other governments. Just giving you a sense that the expense with vaccinations is well established here. Reporter the work Group Includes members from ucsf, cal berkeley, stanford, ucsd, and ucla. Additionally, there are experts from county ask state government. The 11 members cover areas from bio statistics to epidemiology, to Health Equity and healthcare financing. These experts again will independently review and monitor any vaccine trials, to guarantee safety, to guarantee equity, and to guarantee the transparency of the distribution of our vaccines. The governor said the feds have provided california with over 28 Million Dollars for state and local Vaccine Planning efforts. However, the first round, which could be available next month, will be in a very, very limited basis. First to Healthcare Professionals and then to first responders. Might not be until mid2021 before the bulk of the populous can get vaccinated. Jesse gary, ktvu fox 2 news. The pandemic is having an outsized impact on the Asian Community in San Francisco. An analysis of data by usa today found that 38 of the 123 coronavirus deaths in the city and county were people of asian descent. Thats more than anyone other ethnic group. The report found that many asians faced barriers to testing and services. Health experts are also concerned that positivity rates among Asian Americans could be much higher than the 12 reported. And a warning tonight from the cdc about wearing a mask. The warning is aimed at passengers and workers on planes, trains, buses, taxis, and ridesharing vehicles. The new guidance says workers should refuse boarding to anyone not wearing a mask, except for special circumstances. The u. S. Travel association praised the cdc guidance. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin will meet again tomorrow to try to make a deal for another economic stimulus package. Pelosi says she remains hope alf deal can be reached before election day, but she says the clock is ticking. If an agreement is not reached within 48 hours, then its likely there will be not be a deal before the election. Democrats want to spend more than 2 trillion on economic relief. Republicans just recently upped their offer to 1. 8 trillion. Coming up here, new video from a Deadly Police shooting. What it reveals about the moments before officers opened fire on a carjacking suspect. Up first, though, developing news in oakland tonight, where firefighters are on the scene of a house fire that broke out about 8 30. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. Developing these tonight from oakland. Firefighters are at the scene of a house fire in the laurel neighborhood tonight. The red cross is helping a man and woman displaced from the fire. Police have arrested two men who hay say kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman in san leandro. Police say the woman was walking near his pairian boulevard yesterday when the two man forced her into is a car, drove her to another location and sexually assaulted her. They plan to release the names of the two suspects after they have been booked into jail. In San Francisco, Police Released body cam and Surveillance Video showing the deadly shooting of a carjacking suspect by officers earlier this month. Police say the suspect had a knife and kept moving toward the officers who repeatedly ordered him to stop. More now from ktvu Crime Reporter henry lee. Reporter body cam Footage Showing Police officers chasing caesar Antonio Vargas moments after he allegedly carjacked a woman driving a prius with a knife. Mr. Vargas took steps backwards and then sprinted towards the officers with a knife in his right hand. He yelled ill kill you, racial slur. Officers discharged their firearms and mr. Vargas fell to the ground. Officers immediately broadcast they had been involved in a shooting and requested medical assistance. Reporter vargas died at the scene. This happened moments after police say he carjacked a woman of her prius by junk on the car. The windshield was that iser and caved in as a result of his actions. Glass from the windshield fell on to her as she sat in the vehicle. Reporter officers chased him before fatally shooting him. There was a small group of protesters demonstrating outside the town hall meeting. Alex kareem said officers did not have to use