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that breaking news is the unprecedented action being taken tonight by pg&e. the utility is cutting power in areas under a red flag warning to prevent wildfires. right now nearly 20,000 customers have no electricity. good evening and thanks for joining us. my dion lim. >> i'm arraceric thomas. we have team coverage of this breaking news. >> we start with kate larson in calestoga where the power has been shutoff. kate? >> reporter: well, dion, eric, that's why it's completely dark here in downtown calestoga. and the wind for the past two hours has been gusting. not consistent, though. you can take a look at those flags, kind of calm, not too bad. but the gusts are coming and

going. and let's take a look at this intersection. completely dark, but i did just speak to some public workers who were out here and they said they were driving over to check the city's generators to make sure the sewage system was still pumping. it may look dark and quiet but there's still a lot of work to be done. i want to show you this restaurant. this is all seasons bistro. and save for a few candles in the back, it is completely dark. i found an extra bin of ice on the ground and they got very excited. take a look. >> close it. >> good, good, good. >> if they seemed a little panicked getting that ice into the freezer it's because they've got about $10,000 worth of for the rusteraestaurant inside. the restaurant is hoping pg&e will turn on the power tomorrow

morning. shortly after the power was cut around 8:30, 9:00 tonight, police showed up to put some cones in the streets to create some kind of stops while the lights were out. they both told me they understand why pg&e cut the power and tat the inconvenience is better than losing homes and lives. but both would have liked a little more warning this outage might have happened so they could have better prepared. is there anything you could have done to protect your inventory? >> not on that short of notice. everything is iced down, and we've got -- a generator is definitely in the works at this point. i think everyone needs to have a generator. if this is the protocol, wonderful. now we need to know what's going to happen. >> we had no idea until it went out at the restaurant we were eating at. >> and you would have done things differently had you known. >> right, our batteries, our

phones are almost dead and it would have been nice to know because then we would have charged our phones ahead of time. >> late tonight calestoga joint unified sent out messages via facebook that school here is canceled tomorrow. so it seems some people in calestoga are preparing for an extended outage. now the city of calestoga and pg&e at this point say there's no estimate when this outage will be restored. the wind you can see calm right now but the gusts are coming and going, and i can tell you it is warm out here. live in calestoga, i'm kate larson, abc 7 news. now our coverage continues with abc 7's >> reporter: you can see there is a light breeze here, it is

also warm in this area. those pg&e crews, they are fanned out across the region tonight because in some cases they have to shut the power off on location, not just at the substations in the region. now, we caught up with a homeowner in heelsberg. it's a high fire risk area, and they could shutoff the power the in the area which is great to prevent fires, but it will also cut off communication. he says he's ready. >> a sleeping bag i just got out. >> reporter: for a power outage or a fire evacuation. >> because if we have to get out of here, backing into the road and slowing everybody else down when you need to evacuate is not good. >> reporter: he supports pg&e's preemptive efforts of cutting power to prevent devastating fires. >> i'm totally behind it. i believe that it needs to be judicious. >> reporter: pat and his wife evacuated heelsberg's fitch mountain area last year during

the pocket fire. tonight wind is calm on the mountain, but earlier today he put his red flag out to warn his neighbors of the high fire risk forecasted through monday. if power goes out some 339 home owners in the area are on their own. there's no cell service or land lines. pat will have to rely on battery operated radios. >> if we know that the power is being taken down to avoid the opportunity for a fire to catch, i' going to be paying a lot of attention. >> reporter: pg&e says they're doing everything they can to notify people early especiallyo medical support. >> we also have dispatched trucks and employees to knock on the doors of about 4,400 medical baseline customers and we'll continue to call these customers as the shutoffs continue. >> reporter: the wind has picked up. as you can see pat and others on fitch mountain have started a

neighborhood alert system because if the power goes out, if there's a fire in the area they'll likely be on their own to evacuate because it is so remote. he says a long-term solution to preventing wildfires in this area would be for pg&e toy pur underground. abc 7 news. >> katey, thank you. now we are hearing of school closures in lake county as well. kelseyville, lakeport, and middle town districts are closed as well as woodland, creativity schools. you can find a list on abc7.com. >> and the winds have been picking up for the past couple of hours. >> parts in the north bay haven't seen conditions like this since last october. drew tuma watching it all for us tonight. >> our highest fire danger will be over the next 12 hours. those winds have been on the rise and very active. wind gusts rights now 30 to 40

miles per hour, open hills. seeing wind gusts over 20 miles an hour. mount diablo over 50 miles an hour. and the winds are bringing in some dangerously dry air. look at had the humidity. we are in the teens at this late hour. that is bone dry air overhead in the north bay. it's for that combination of dry, gusty winds that red flag warning continues until tomorrow at noon. for the north bay hill and the east bay hills those winds will likely gust over 40 miles an hour overnight tonight. we're going to go hour by hour for you on future weather, show you those active winds and when they finally calm down when i see you guys in a few minutes. >> we do want to mention again the north bay communities where pg&e plans to or already has cut in napar.wepo county, angwin, c stoega, deer park, and in sonoma

county, cloverdale, and lake county, clear lake, clear lake oaks, clear lake park, cobb, lower lake and middle town. you can go to our website, abc7news.com to find out if your power may get shutoff. we have a link where you can type in your address and it will tell you if your home is served by pg&e and is going to lose its electricity. now, we sent out an alert about the power outage at 9:08 p.m. threw the abc 7 news mobile app. that app is a great way to stay on top of breaking news. it's free to download. just make sure to enable those push alerttr t by the transbay terminal is reopening. traffic will flow a instretch between howard and mission streets in the city. two cracks were discovered in the ceiling of theui causing fremont to close.

the reopening of fremont street could have a significant impact on your commute. we've got you covered starting at 4:30 in the morning. traffic reporter hp yalouaex g there are any trouble spots in the morning. on the san francisco side of the bay bridge for the next couple of weeks during the late night and early morning hours al trans is replacing seals one bridge. the overnight repair work will fluctuate between the upper and lower decks dependi on the day. cal trans says four of the five lanes could be closed for the work and that could lead to expensive delays. a sonoma county sheriff's deputy escaped serious injury after a high-speed chase came to a fiery end in boga bay

earlier this morning. the deputy crashed his patrol car into a home hwig hay cruise both burst into flames. the deputy was able to get out of the vehicle and rescueidhe the home before fire swept through the building. >> during theeheir f structure completely involved and a defensive attack finally extinguish it. >> all of this started when the deputy spotted a vehicle that was linked to several thefts in the area. that suspect got away. on the peninsula police are searching for whoever shot four people in east palo alto killing twenty-two of them. it happened on pulgayst all appears to have started with a dispute at a halloween party. police say people called 911

about the shooting but they also received a spot shotter alert about it. spot shotter is a sound based system that pins down the location of gunshots so officers can respond. the faa says tonight it will investigate a fatal skydiving accident that happened this afternoon in the scounty. the skydiver was killed when her parachute failed to deploy. the victim has not yet been identified. this is the latest fatality connected to the lodi parachute facility. a person who answered the phone at the center tells abc 7 news the company will release more information tomorrow. still o ns at this is defin flagrance and large bit of vandalism. >> politics bleeds over into art. the messages ng popularci murafals in san francisco's dis

arltesarltists vowing to take actionmism. the bay area county in desperate need of poll workers. and a little later the growing tension over a

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artists behind a san francisco mural say they will restore their works after someone vandalized them. >> they were between mission and valencia streets. some were vandalized with the message fake news and the message support newly appointed brett kavanaugh.

the artists were furious, but they vow to repair their pieces. >> they didn't go and paint their own pro-trump mural. they came and dumped on other people's murals rather than having something else they really stand for. they just know what they're against. >> the murals had been been vandalized before, but the muralists we spoke to today said not in this matter. with less than a month until election day the registrars office is working against the clock to staff 849 polling places. both english-only and bilingual speakers are encouraged to apply. high school students 16 and older can alsoarpateit restrictions. now, if you need help understanding all of the propositions and local races, there are a lot of them. we've got you covered. you can head to our website abc7news.com and there you'll find the complete list. we'll also have profiles of some

of those candidates. in just hours electric scooters will reappear on francisco streets. that follows a judge's decision friday to deny a temporary restraining order filed by lime protesting they were not permitted by the city to provide scooters. they have limited the number to 1,250. it could authorize up to 2,500 later. the organizers of the red woods festival celebrated a milestone today. beautiful day to do it. abc 7 news was in san francisco gardens as the save the agelte oonco thega yst'sot jt re iortant f the environment.

>> red wood forests sequester ue more per acre than any other for a long shot. >> 31 million visitors come to see the red woods each year at parks across the state. >> the winds were pretty calm then, but on the hills around the bay areas, different sto ar meteorologist drew tuma standing we e wating.peexct those winds very closely. they are gusting over 30 miles per hour in several spots right now. we're dealing with mainly clear skies across much of the bay of these winds when they come racing down our hill side they actually warm uhe tp so right now you can see the 24-hour temperature change between napa and santa rosa. we're nearly 20 degrees warmer

right now than we were this time last night. so if you're watching us in the north bay it probably feels pretty mild out there for this time of the night. at 70 in concord and fairfield. much cooler where you have calmer conditions. san jose right now, 59 degrees. 58 in san francisco. half moon bay is cool right now coming in the upper 40s. our strongest winds are in the north bay, gusting to 30. currently in fairfield between santa rosa, clear lake, flanapad nevada. you go up in height, though, and those winds are much stronger in our hills right now. look at those numbers. 22 mile per hour gusts at atlas peak, 23 at tam. mount diablo currently gusting at 53 miles an hour. time out these active winds. early tomorrow morn, 3:00 on your monday morning these winds continue to be rather busy in

the north bay. once again we're going to see gusts well over 40 miles an hour out of the north and out of the east. as we advance this clock, 8:00, 9:00 monday morning we do expect those winds to begin to back off. so by midday, the lunchtime hour, noon, you see those winds are really backing off. pretty much less than 10 miles an hour in most spots. monday afternoon will feature some pretty calm conditions. but the next 12 hours that fire danger is running high thanks to those elevated winds. it's for that fact we continue to have that red flag warning. this will last until tomorrow at noon. for the north bay hills and the east bay hills we have these northeast winds right now sometimes gusting well over 40 miles an hour, dragging in dry air as well. so fires can easily start and easily spread under these conditions. overnight tonight here's a call from accuweather. mainly clear skies. it will be rather windy in our north bay and east bay hills. temperatures mainly dropping into the 50s over the next 12

hours. it is a windy start to our day tomorrow morning, but by the afternoon those winds will really calm down. it will be a warm day no matter where you live. from the coast to the bay inland, 70s and 80s across the board. accuweather seven-day forecast tomorrow is all about those winds in the hills tomorrow morning. relaxing in the afternoon. it's a warm day tomorrow. lots of sunshine on tuesday, just a light breeze and those winds are really not an issue for the rest of the extended forecast. but really at least through noon tomorrow we will see those active winds in our hills like we're seeing right now. >> yeah, the relief couldn't come soon enough. drew, thanks. talk about rocking. we'll introduce you to a boy who got the opportunity of a lifetime from the foofighters. how they america. land of blue jeans. and burgers. and while blue jeans got all skinny on us... i can't feel my legs. ...no way are we giving up on burgers.

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the raiders have experienced bigg bigger losses, a 52-0, a 28-0 blow out by the chiefs in 2011. but today's 27-3 loss to sea hawks in london seemedor. an n london work, supposed to abe a raiders home game, but you judge. derek carr got sacked a lot, six times. seattle didn't suffer any jet lag.

look at russell wilson. oakland's injury list grew. bradley mcdougal hit a morry cooper, speared him, actually knocking the receiver out for a short time. cooper left the game under his own power, thankfully. he was diagnosed with a concussion. carr threw for just 142 yards. he appeared to hurt his non-throwing arm late in the game. carr says he is okay, but oakland's dignity is not. they got their butts whopped. 27-3 the final. >> we're going to have to do the best we can to find five men that canollectivy pass protect much better, and that's what we will do. >> you can hit me a thousand times and i'm never going to complain about those guys because their whole job is they want to keep my up right. >> it hurts my heart to lose, it mur hurts my heart for our fans that traveled all this way. a lot of people traveled all

that way and we just got beat like that. you know, that hurts me. >> rams, broncos, the 49ers and raiders division foes facing off on a cold denver day. but all kind of hot, girly 28 2 carries, two scores. rams are now 6 and 0. sunday night football, it patriots taking on the undefeated chiefs. tom brady the legend he threw for 340 yards and one score. and also ran for a touch down. this gave new england a 37-30 lead. patrick muroe patrick mahomes including that 72 yard strike. 142 receiving yards. this game is now tied at 40. 51 seconds left brady goes to the big man, rob gronkowski, a 39-yard game. that setup

by gronkowski. and sharks ended their five-game road trip in new jersey. late second period logan lost the puck, but tim omayer is there to put it away. scoring his second goal of the game, and less than three minutes later the puck squeezed through the arm, and john sebastian sebastian dee is there to clean it up. this abc 7 sports report is sponsored by river rock casino. but coming up in a half-hour we'll actually have some fun raiders memes that might make them feel a bit better about what happened today. >> can i go to my grumpy old fan mode? >> please do. >> 50 seconds left against tom brady and the patriots, and you

lose gronkowski downfield someplace? >> and he's not a small guy. >> okay, just wondering. much more to come on abc 7 new at 11:00 including the growing fight between the u.s. and saudi arabia over the disappearance of a journalist. the saudis response to a threat from president trump. developing news on the future of sears.

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north bay communities are without electricity tonight after an unprecedented move by pg&e. the utility turned off power in several communities because of the high fire danger posed by strong winds. parts of napa, sonoma and lake counties saw electricity turned off this evening. businesses and residents in the north bay say the outages have proven to be a hassle. one restaurants says hundreds of pounds of perishable food could go bad. the outages are impacting more than 17,000 customers in the north bay. a one block street has reopened to strange this morning. the street was shutdown at the sales force transit w two steel beams were discovered with cracks. the transit center itself remains closed with no new opening date khash was last seen entering the saudi arabian

consulate in istanbul, >> abc 7 news reporter with the push back against the threat. >> reporter: saudi arabia denying any role in the disappearance of "the washington post" reporter jamal khashoggi. and today promising to push back against any severe punishment targeting its government. >> we're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment. >> reporter: khashoggi last seen walking into the istanbul consulate. >> there's a lot of stake and maybe especially so because this man was a reporter. you'll be surprised to hear me say that, there's something really disgusting about that if that is the case. >> reporter: but the president insisting if it is confirmed he will not cancel a lucrative arms deal with the saudis.

>> boeing -- all these, i don't want to hurt jobs, i don't want to lose an order like that. and, you know, there are other w ways of punishing. >> reporter: the foreign ministers saying there needs to be an investigation establishing the truth of what happened. and now business leaders reassessing their ties with saudi arabia. but that doesn't include u.s. treasury secretary steve mnuchin. >> mr. mnuchin will make up his mind as the week progresses and new information surfaces. >> but senator marco rubio told cnn's jake tapper it's a poor choice. >> i don't think we should continue as business as usual. >> reporter: abc news, washington. in florida the massive relief effort is under way following hurricane michael. this is a staging area at the pensacola fair grounds. >> you can see truck after truck lined up and ready to roll. all that equipment heading to hard hit panama city.

right now dozens of people are still missing. at least 18 people have died. >> today the director of fema and florida's governor toured mexico beach, one of the areas hardest hit by michael. >> almost 300 people including ten children stayed and rode out the storm there. >> i met a guy he was right on the beach and he stayed. he had a motel there, and he said he had one customer that wouldn't leave, and so he stayed. he said he'll never do it again. he had no idea what the storm surge was like. >> ss the florida panhandle are helping people affected by the storm. airdropping food and water in remote areas where people can't get to distribution centers. tomorrow president trump is expected to visit florida and georgia to see the recovery effort first-hand. more than two dozen people were hurt after a charter bus crashed on a busy freeway this afternoon. it went over the center divide

into on coming traffic in the san fernando valley. that triggered a series of collisions on both sides of the freeway. 25 people were hurt, five of them seriously. the bus was taking people from a church in engel side. developing news with sears tonight. the legendry store has filed for bankruptcy protection. once america's largest retailer now it's hoping the chapper 11 filing will keep the company operating at least through the holidays. sources told "the times" their reorganization plans called for a loan of $500 million. the company is also planning to close as many as 150 stores. over the last five years sears closed more than 1,000 stores. still ahead on abc 7 news at 11:00. >> on the run. a boy runs 50 5ks in 50 days with his final run in san francisco. he'll tell us what's motivating him. and i'm meteorologist drew tuma. we continue to track those winds that are very breezy in our

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students showed off their musical talent to help raise money for school music programs. ♪ >> abc 7 news was in belmont for the 16th annual save the music festival. each year a show is put onto support music programs in the belmont red wood shores district. a music director we spoke with says it's not j >> we need to have those programs in our schools if we want to develop a full functioning adult. >> this year's theme was an epic battle of the marching bands between stanford and cal davis. a 10-year-old boy is sleeping well tonight after accomplishing a big mission,

running his 50th 5k in 50 days. nile mcdermott finished his last 5k this morning. he's run a 5k every day for nearly two months to raise money for lung cancer research. miles said it was tough but he didn't doubt himself not once. >> it was kind of tiring, but when i got up i instantly felt i could do it because i'd already done it before. >> more than $4,000 was raised beating the original goal of $3,000. way to go. in some parts of the bay area >> and tha threat really just e continues at least for the next 12 hours. those winds are busy in our hills right now. we're at 56 in mount diablo,

even the oakland hills, rather, we have winds gusting over 20 miles an hour. here we go, that red flag warning this in effect for the next 12 hours through noon on our monday. we have those northeast winds right now, and they could gust well over 40 miles an hour at time, and you see the areas affected. the north bay hill and the east bay hills under these conditions, fires can easily start and spread. these winds also drag in some dry air. it is in the teens if not single digits, so it's very dry air overhead right now. window in the morning in our hills. those winds do relax in the afternoon. it is a warm day tomorrow evening. even along the dos we're in the mid-70s. our warmest spots inland will be in the mid-80s. >> ingood news ahead for weather, and we are hoping for good news out of sports. >> you have to be able to laugh sometimes or you'll cry, right? >> absolutely. radar nation is keeping its sense of humor somewhat. we share some of the best responses to today's loss.

at least the warriors season starts tuesday, right?

well, this weekend's practices the final tune-up before the warriors' season opener tuesday night. steve kerr called it a rehab day for curry. he works through a knee issue, but klay thompson, he's good to go. >> everything from my childhood, you know, to the journey it took to get here, and when i was drafted by the warriors, to have

the third banner going up. i definitely did not see that happening, so it's been a special, special time. these eight years, and hopefully the next eight are even better. >> in any sport teams that don't win at home in the post-season don't advance. after the astros took game one of the alcs at fenway the 108 win red sox felt the pressure tonight in game two. though the fans certainly didn't seem to show any of it. boston scored two in the first but quickly gave it back. in the top of the second george springer goes opposite field. a nice little bounce would bring in two and ties the game up. in thee isoi to of it would have gone out of the park if the sign wasn't in the way. but the astros take a 4-2 inn bs loaded for jackie bradley, jr. he'll go off the green monster, and you talk about good bounces, well that one allowed all three

runners to score. boston goes ahead by one. top of the ninth now, sox leading by two. astros have the tying run at the plate. alex bregman takes this one to the warning track, but it's not high or deep enough. next three games in houston starting on tuesday night. dolphins and fwabears went into overtime. remember this guy? frank gore, getting it done. sets up first and goal for the win. but gore is out and kenyan drake comes in the next play and fumb therk wlailrakeut because he missed a 53-yarder. so now the dolphins just need a field goal to win and jason sanders nails it from 40 yards out. miami survives, 21-38 the final. steelers and bankles, joe nixon

with a four-yard touch down run. bengals take a 1-point lead. with 15 seconds left rothilousburger. we know things are pretty bad for raiders nation, so we're going to have a bit of fun. the internet always finds ways to lighten the mood. the the raiders official twitter account posted the final count. and here's one, wolverine looking sadly at a picture of derek carr and khalil mack. how about this fan coming up, he decided to block the raiders twitter account altogether, right? would you do that? so he just blocked them. how about this raiders logo? eric, any response to this one? >> the unknown radar, yeah. >> and if you can't take it out

on the raiders, just have your dog show the raiders how you feel. >> oh, my. >> really? >> i was really scared. >> because there are many other things that could illustrate this feeling. >> and there's another one. we'll show you later. but this abc 7 sports report sponsored by river rock casino. so you kind of have a little fun. >> the paper bag over the head i think works pretty well. >> that was pretty good, although showing a radar running back with the ball, have you lost, you know, that many points, it's kind ofot representative. maybe face down on the dirt. >> it wasn't even the score, it was just the way they lost. there's so much hope and expectation for the season and as we said just the way the game played out it seems all of that is gone. >> maybe our memes next week will be a bit better. look how optimistic i'm trying

to be. >> maybe. >> sorry, i got to call coach gruden out. if you're asking where your pass rush is, it's in chicago. >> yeah, they have more issues than that, though. >> mindy, thank you very mup. and all you meme folks, thank you very much. >> i can't wait to see what comes down the pipeline next time. that's it, everybody. >> abc 7 news continues tomorrow morning at 4:30. thanks for being here. have a great evening and a bett

with pg&e in the sierras. and i'm an arborist since the onset of the drought, more than 129 million trees have died in california. pg&e prunes and removes over a million trees every year to ensure that hazardous trees can't impact power lines. and since the onset of the drought we've doubled our efforts. i grew up in the forests out in this area and honestly it's heartbreaking to see all these trees dying. what guides me is ensuring that the public is going to be safer and that these forests can be sustained and enjoyed by the community in the future.

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