in parts of marin and orinda if the weather doesn't change. >> people's entire lives are about to be disrupted maybe for a day, maybe up to five days. think about what that means for businesses, schools, even something as usually reliable as plugging your phone in to get a charge. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield live in orinda this morning. amy? >> reporter: hi, good morning. one thing people can do, reggie, fill up that gas tank. gas stations like this one here in orinda will be shut down without electricity, without a generator. these pumps won't be working. pg&e has alerted the cities of lafayette, orinda and moraga the power will be turned off as a preventative measure. the utility is worried old equipment could fall over during the wind that is expected and could start a fire. this could impact about 120,000 customers in contra costa county. fire officials say people need

to prepare now. >> got to make sure they have a plan to charge their phones, to get them through two, three, four, five days. they can do that with backup batteries. they can go to community centers that pg&e will set up around the county. >> reporter: fire departments have been getting ready for this possibility along with county and city officials and school districts. they say you should make sure you have signed up for alerts from your local agencies. pg&e has not said how long the power will be shut off. they're saying at least through thursday afternoon is theld ta several days before they can get the power turned back on. so go ahead and take today to get ready. live in orinda, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> that is a big deal. amy, thank you. bay area school districts say they have plans in place to deal with a power shutdown am oakland unified has sent out a warning ten of their schools

could lose power this week. the district says any affected schools will close for the day. plans are in place for robo calls and online notifications for students and parents. other school districts have similar plans in place. b.a.r.t. says any pg&e power shutoff should not affect service. its trains will continue to operate because they don't rely on pg&e for power. station escalators, ticket vending machines and lighting do rely on pg&e for power but the transit agency enhanced its backup power supply. pg&e says the best way to find out if your power is going to go out is to monitor its outage website. dan ashley shows us how it works. >> reporter: pg&e's website allows you to view areas that have their power shut off. start by going to pg&e.com. then you choose public safety power shutoff on the right side as you can see.

choose, find out if your service may be impacted. it will take you to the power outage maps. scroll down to find out if your service is affected. if you scroll down further there is a second map that will show you the areas that could have the power turned off. you can then zoom in on the map to get a closer view right down to the neighborhoods affected. abc 7 news has put together tips about preparing for power outages where you live, and so here are a few. store plenty of fresh batteries and flashlights and radios. keep a stash of emergency cash on hand. most atms and credit card readers won't work if the power is out. disconnect your computer and use a surge protector. and learn to operate your garage door without electricity. we have a list of resources to help you prepare and s informed. you will find a way to sign up for power outage alerts from pg&e.

that's all at abc7news.com. other news this morning, happening today supreme court justices will hear arguments in one of the most high-profile cases of the year. they'll decide if lgbtq workers can be discriminated against by employers for their sexual orientation. amy stevens was fired when she told her boss she would start dressing as a woman. she will argue lgbtq workers deserve the same protections as those of different races, religions, and national origins under the 1964 civil rights act. president trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria is drawing backlash from some of the president's biggest supporters. mr. trump says he's making good on a campaign promise, but top republicans say the u.s. is betraying its strongest ally in the fight against isis. >> turkey, syria, let them take care of it. let them take care of it. we want to bring our troops back home. >> good luck getting anybody to help america and the radical

islam, al qaeda and isis. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says, quote, it would increase the risk that isis and other terrorist groups regroup. u.s. plans to step aside and allow turkey to invade syria. happening today governor gavin newsom kicking off a statewide tour to try and tackle the affordable housing crisis. that will include a signing of a series of bills into law this week. the first one happening in oakland today. that law will put a statewide limit on rent hikes. other bills signed this week address homelessness and cost of living. building a better bay area means creating more affordable housing. tech companies are stepping up to the challenge. >> a comment about hong kong gets the nba in hot water in china. the league's top man is reacting this morning. all of that is ahead. first, it is 4:35. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. here is mike. the big story if you're just joining us, the heightened fire

danger is getting closer, getting more likely. it will start through noon thursday for just about all those areas. it is for all those areas you see in red. what's not in it right now is solano, mendocino and lake counties. you are still in a fire weather watch and you'll be upgraded to a red flag warning later on today. let's talk temperatures. it's 45 in half moon bay. dress warmer this morning in menlo park. mid to upper 50s across the rest of the peninsula where it's mainly clear but we do have clouds developing along the coast as the sea breeze is starting to gear up as we talked about. 4 in palo alto. we have low to mid-50s through the inland and east bay neighborhoods until you get to antioch. 48 right now in santa rosa and napa at 51. 59 in oakland. a look from south beach. you can see it's very quiet. you can even see somers e. no dri wll he cud the coast mass transit will be good.

just dress warmer and light again. the breezes out on the bay. the north bay 50 at 7:00. high clouds hit us by 11:00 and they'll keep that along with the sea breeze. our temperatures in the upper 70s to near 80s. 66 at 7:00. for the east bay we'll start to see some clouds roll in. maybe a few low clouds this morning at 57. then high clouds and sunshine and mid-70s this afternoon. down to a cool 64 at 7:00. and san francisco, the 80s are gone. barely a few 70s. most of us in the mid to upper 60s under increasing high clouds. so it's not going to be as bright today but the air is going to be cleaner. not a spare the air day. more on the fire danger coming up first. turn it over to frances and how is the commute? >> not too bad. it might be difficult so keep that in mind. a live shot of 101 in san rafael where we just had a new crash reported.

you can see it in the left lane, a car hit a deer, and i think traffic will back up but they will try to clear it from the left lanes because apparently the car hit the deer, they can't move the car at this point. they'll probably run a traffic break to clear it to the right-hand side. we're having trouble in the north bay in novato. there's some road work going on. completely shut down. it should be picked up by 5:00 this morning but keep that in mind. you will see a detour in place. a live shot where we're seeing lots of traffic as well. there is road work

some areas north and east of us in the high country are already dealing with fires and then the fire weather watch means conditions are going to get even worse for those firefighters dealing with that and the potential of new fires. this comes at 5:00 to 5:00 thursday evening. 36 hours of a critical fire condition. today windy conditions. breezy in yosemite at 79. mid-80s to near 90 through the central valley. 81 in l.a. still 100 in palm springs. if you're heading up to lake tahoe, that cold front coming through today. look at the temperatures drop into the upper 50s to mid-60s this weekend with freezing cold

mornings in the upper 20s to near 30 degrees. >> thanks, mike. new this morning three scientists will win the nobel prize in physics. theoretical discoveries in physic physical cosmology. two others won for their discovery of an exoplanet. adam silver is responding to the controversy dominating the sports world overnight. china said it is rethinking its entire partnership with the league. the before the minor league game the general manager tweeted out support for the pro-democracy protesters in hong kong. the nba issued an apology. some said it buckled under chinese pressure but then hours ago adam silver had a news

conference saying the league is focused on equality. >> at the end of the day we come with basketball as an opportunity to sell dreams, sell hopes. >> the chinese state broadcaster is now deciding to not air two nba preseason games scheduled for this week. >> it's one of the first things when it comes to building a better bay area. now some tech companies are pitching in money. reporter david louie shows a bit of what they're doing to help. >> reporter: projects like vilas on the park that shows progress is happening in creating affordable housing. it has raised $112 million from tech companies to start these projects. >> most recently google have

been able to provide us the capital we need in order to help start up affordable housing developments throughout the bay area. >> reporter: that fund has gone to more than 20 developers to create 2,300 units of affordable housing. some are still empty lots awaiting ground break. many sites are near public transit and jobs. a big challenge for affordable housing developers is finding land especially in the area where there is so much competing interest for commercial development. this site is going to be the site of 130 affordable housing units. >> every piece of land they're competing for, so is a luxury housing developer or so is an office developer. sometimes a city or county looking to cite another office building. >> reporter: silicon valley continues to grow jobs. the housing for silicon valley has had a banner year lending over $73 million in 2019.

an increase of $36 million from last year's $37 million. another program is also helping individuals with down payments to buy homes. a family was able to buy an $800,000 house. to come up with a 20% down payment it contributed $24,000 or 3% while the housing trust was able to lend $136,000 or 17%. in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. we want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. share them by joining our better bay area group on facebook. in the south bay today santa clara county leader will make a proposal to build something new at the fair grounds. cindy chavez asked what they wanted to do. tnkg of turning them into a park for concerts or building a stadium for the san jose giants minor league team. the county fair would still stay at the fair grounds under that plan.

alaska airlines creating a special edition aircraft. >> the one of a kind 737 landed at sfo yesterday. it's been decorated with toy story characters like woody and buzz lightyear. jesse the cowgirl is on the tail. most was hand painted over several weeks. >> 2,800 work hours for the paint. 40 different colors, 50 gallons of paint. it takes about 24 days to do one of these. >> all right. look what you missed. the characters were there and this was for the inaugural flight to orange county. the sixth disney theme plan for alaska airlines and disney is the parent company of abc 7. >> celebrating pixar, a new area of california adventure. given that we have pixar right here in the bay area it makes sense to me. thought that looke. mike? >> i'm with you. that was 100% spot on beautiful.

i loved it. of that or the tedt painting of that yesterday? >> yeah, on twitter. >> that was really neat. we have to pull back on the fun and talk about some serious issues, the high fire danger developing. a red flag warning. you need to be prepared for dangerous fire conditions and what to do if a fire erupts or if you lose power. we'll talk more about that. all these areas in red which is not the bay and the coast but just about everywhere else and it starts tomorrow morning and goes through thursday evening. in solano lake and mendocino counties still under the fire weather watch. you'll be upgraded, also. a look at the difference today, though. for today we're talking about the sea breeze and look at this, the fog rolling back across the golden gate. we'll have low clouds replaced by high clouds.

no spare the air today. cold but windy tonight and we'll have average to above average highs throughout the extended. a look at the low clouds and see them churning along the coast today. a lot of orange and yellow. 70s and 80s. san jose at 84. we start at 80 and drop down into the mid-70s like 76 at san mateo. barely 70 in downtown. it's going to feel real comfortable today. sonoma at 84. along the east bay shore, mid to upper 70s with san leandro, newark at 79. and 83 to 87 our spread and east bay valleys. if you haven't used the air conditioner, don't need to worry about it. in our valleys, mid to upper 40s. elsewhere low 50s. up in the hills because of the winds and the fire danger we'll be in the 60s. thursday the same. it gets warmer than average

friday and saturday and back to average sunday and monday. more on the fire threat next. here is frances. we'll cover the east bay and north bay where we're seeing trouble right now. a live shot of 680 in walnut creek. we saw a bunch of brake lights. it was road work. they've cleared it and traffic is flowing well southbound for taillights. just a minor backup. kind of a normal start there. southbound past marin has been cleared from the left lanes. traffic is flowing well. down to the golden gate bridge. some problems or trouble in novato, westbound 37. there's a full freeway closure due to emergency road work. it should be picked up in the next ten minutes or so. traffic is being detoured on to atherton avenue. >> goodyear is listing the blimp

on airbnb. >> here's "tech bytes." in today's "tech bytes" facebook paying up over video views. >> the company admitted to inflating the number of views videos received over an 18-month period and it will pay $40 million to advertisers who claim they overpaid for facebook ads based on the inaccurate data. astronauts on the international space station are creating meat in zero gravity. >> using a 3d bioprinter, a major step in generating food supply. finally goodyear is now offering an opportunity to sleep in its famous blimp . >> the blimp is listed on an airbnb for the first time ever. it is offering three one-night stays for the college football games at the university of michigan on october 26th. the cost $150 a night. >> blimp on airbnb, it writes itself. those are your "tech bytes."

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welcome back. a couple things i want you to think about before you head out the door this morning, and as we livd through this event, first of all, the loss of power which will come first before the fires even start. have your emergency kit ready in

an evacuation route if a fire does develop. where is your meeting place, it could be at school. your spouse could be somewhere else. have all those things in mind over the next 48 hours. thanks, mike. happening today b.a.r.t. riders can take their questions and concerns directly to the general manager. the agency is holding a town hall on twitter. bob powers will answer questions from noon to 1:00 this afternoon. anyone can tweet their questions and comments at sf b.a.r.t. b.a.r.t. says this is an opportunity to ask about service, policies, safety and projects. >> if you're thirsty and feeling dehydrated forget about grabbing a glass of water. researchers at st. andrews in scotland tested 13 beverages and found nonfat milk does the best job of keeping the body hydrated over a four-hour period because of volume and protein nt nonfat milk followed by oral rehydration like pedialyte.pedie

orange juice fourth. cola fifth. the caveat is cola is only good for short-term hydration not long term. water number ten. >> who did this study? >> this was sponsored by coca-cola -- no, it wasn't. >> and the dairy industry. >> yeah, okay. sure. >> i like water. >> it's fine. i can't even believe a sugary drink would come in before water. all right. >> a lot of those have sugar in them, just about all of them but water. that's interesting. this is what's going to precipitate the high fire danger. you should probably make sure everything that's outside can withstand wind gusts up to 55 miles per hour. we could have down tree branches and possible power lines and that could spark the fire. there's nothing we can do about

the trees right now. we're going to shank out the weak ones, unfortunately, as we've had a very dry summer. there will be some dry ones out there. so 5:00 tomorrow morning you can see winds in fairfield are the fastest and notice as they pick up as we head into the morning hours starting to hit that 25 to 30 miles an hour. and then the winds will start to slack off a little bit at 3:00 wednesday. they'll continue to be very brisk all the way through thursday afternoon. here is frances. westbound 37 should be reopening at atherton avenue and i'm showing you a live shot of the bay bridge because someone had a flat tire and decided to get out of their car and try to change it in the lanes. not a good idea to try to change your tire on the freeway traffic lanes and a live shot of the san mateo bridge. we have no major problems on bay

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now at 5:00, more than half a million pg&e customers could be without power at this time tomorrow as fire danger increases. a fire weather watch is in effect right now. what to know ahead of the possible outages. and good morning on this tuesday, october 8th. >> mike, what's going on right now? >> the fire danger has increased. the red flag warning is now out. that's our highest level. you have to be prepared to move quickly and execute your emergency plan should a fire start in these areas in red in the north bay, the east bay, the santa cruz mountains. 5:00 tomorrow morning