now at 00, an overnight fire in the east bay highlighting how fast flames can spread during a red flag warning. people in moraga forced from their homes as crews fought a 40-acre fire overnight. >> this is what it looks like right now because people had to evacuate. the evacuation center is open. at last check this fire was 70% contained. we have a crew there and here at this evacuation center where people had to rush out of their homes. they're now able to go back inside. it's thursday, october 10th. this fire is coming during pg&e's public safety power

shutoff. >> thousands of people still in the bark adark all over the bay because of the high fire danger. we'll look at the latest outages in a moment. first we want to get over to mike nicco. we have been seeing some high gusts. >> after peaking at about 72 miles per hour, we are down to 67 degrees. around 2,000 feet, 25 to 30 miles per hour. up in knoxville, up to 40 miles per hour. the fastest winds are hitting us now and they will be fastest from now until about 10:00. they'll still be fast enough after that to keep the red flag warning in effect until 5:00 for most areas. noon for the santa cruz mountains. we have those winds that will be around until 3:00 that could reach levels of 45 to 55. even outside of that 10:00 cutoff for the fastest winds, we'll still have some

impresses sieve gu ive gusts th knock down trees and power li lines. waking up to low to mid 50s this morning. 70 everywhere at noon. near 70 at the coast at 4:00, the rest of us in the upper 70s. by 7:00, take a deep breath. it's over. sue? >> headed to the san mateo bridge to look at your early thursday morning commute. taillights headed westbound. looking good, without delays making your way towards the foster city side of things. otherwise let's head back to marin county. southbound 101 near tamalpais drive. the fire department has blocked off the two right lanes there because of a fire on the hillside that is visible from the freeway. it's up behind where marin joe's is. casa baena drive. it is visible from the freeway. in about another 35, 40 minutes

they hope to have the lanes reopened. a look at drive times if you're making your way westbound on 580, moderate. highway 4 in the green. not bad at all over the golden gate. worst fears were realized this morning as a brush fire broke out in moraga. >> the bay area is on edge. job onis live ina fortson is li evacuation center in moraga where some people had to spend their morning. >> the moraga orinda fire department said 40 acres burned and the fire is about 70% contained. that's the latest information that we haven at situation in the hills. i want to bring you to where you can see the red cross. they're unloading vans here, bringing in drinks, blankets. all these different resources and items for the evacuees. this is at st. monica parish

center, right here in the center of moraga. i'll bring you into the lobby. you can see the power is out inside. police officers are having to hold up flashlights. they've been helping people here get situated because they were awakened in the middle of the night. now i want to take you to video so you can see how close the flames were to peoples homes. as of 4:00 this morning, evacuees on sanders drive were able to return home. anyone living on sanders ranch is still under an evacuation order. i was in this evacuation center earlier this morning. there is a lieutenant available to give updates to the residents here. at this point they do not know when these evacuees will be able to return home. i also spoke with a neighbor that lives on sanders ranch, here's what she told me she heard early this morning. >> the first sound i heard was it sounds like a freight train. it really does. the fire is gathering so much

air, i guess. the weeds, crispy. so -- >> wow. you idour 92-year-old mother, you had to help her get out of the house. how is she? where is she right now? >> she is in the car. we have our walker with us. i didn't dress her. she has her shoes. she's fine. >> the evacuation center has blankets, drinks, coffee, restrooms, anything anyone needs and they will remain open until the last person is able t go home. for now reporting live from moraga, jobina fortson, abc7 news. >> it's wild to see an evacuation center in the dark like that. >> yeah. because they have no power. a lot of people in the area are waking up with no power. that's the other breaking news story that we're concerned with this morning. this is because of the massive pg&e safety power cutoff. >> drew tuma is looking at who doesn't have power now. >> yeah.

we just got the latest numbers in from pg&e. after they have now implemented phase two of the safety power shutoffs, overnight the company cut power to customers in the east bay, the peninsula, the south bay, and santa cruz counties. so the power went out in parts of the east bay, peninsula and santa cruz county around 11:00 last night. pg&e cut the power to par of the south bay later at about d midnight. many parts of the north bay remain in the dark. in total about 359,000 pg&e customers are without power in our viewing area as you wake up this morning. now, pg&e has launched a new website to keep people informed of this power shutoff. we've heard a lot over the past couple of days that the website has been hard to access. as of right now you can get on the website. you see a public safety power

sh shutoff is under way. customers can search their exact address to find out if their home or business is affected by the power outage. this morning you know if you don't have power that you're affected by it. you can either enter an exact address or a city. so we'll type in moraga right now. you click on moraga, california, what you get is that message. a public safety power shutoff has happened due to gusty winds, dry conditions and we have been tracking that fire in moraga for several hours this morning. thankfully cal fire has it under control. you can search an address. pg&e also has this wider map of the entire bay area. a lot of purple on the screen. that means you are without power. of course we have links to both of these websites on abc7news.com, so you can check if you, friends or other family members are affected by this >> thank you very much. as drew has been saying, people are waking up to outages in parts of the east bay.

>> amy hollyfield is in lafayette. they don't have power there either, right? >> no power here. it's so dark down here. we got an update from continue ta co contra costa county sheriff that pg&e plans to turn lights back on around noon but it could take one to five days were all the fire is restored. a broad window there. they didn't turn the power off until 10:45 last night at lafayette. restaurants had already closed in anticipation of the outage. at first the outage was planned for noon, then 8:00 p.m. it kept getting pushed. so there was a lot of zigging and zagging as people prepared. turns out the restaurants could have been open and done a huge business last night because the power was on. look at the preparations that when into this power outage as people had plenty of time to prepare. because there were so many different times of when the

power outage was going to happen. so people rushed grocery stor grabbed all the ice they could. really cleared out the hardware stores. >> everybody took everything. >> do you have any flashlights left? >> no. no flashlights left. we even went to a point where we were selling the outdoor solar lights. they got all the refrigerator ice packs that we they got cantles. every candle we have. then over there, we practically sold out of our ice chests. even the very expensive ice chest. >> how much does that one cost? >> like $300. >> wow. look at this video of the caldecott tunnel. this was shot last night after the power had been turned off. proof for you that the tunnel did remain open. there was some talk that they would possibly close it, which

would have snarled traffic. they were able to get generators in place. that tunnel is open but the lights are still out. reporting live in amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> thank you. the power is also out in the south bay this morning or parts of it here's a live picture from abc 7 news photojournalist, edgar turon. he is in cupertino where lights are out. people in the north bay are anxiously waiting for their power to be turned back on. in the meantime they're salvaging what they can from their fridge. abc7 news was in santa rosa through her perishables. rted >> i'm saving all the dairy goods and meats. they're very expensive, i don't want to lose them. >> they said she is bringing groceries to her daughter's house because she lives across town. pg&e launched a new website that drew showed you after the

original one kept crashing. >> our sincere apologies for the impact of not having the pg&e.com website available. we understand and appreciate the patience of customers and communities. >> pg&e officials thanked people for their patiencetipl times during this press conference last night. the company says the website is designed to handle heavy traffic, unlike the one you see here. >> i was checking the winds in the south bay. the southest wind on tfastest w floor is about 15 miles per hour. up in the hills, saratoga, about 30 miles per hour. these are the surface temperatures. it's pretty calm out there. pushing us into a false sense of security until you get up around fairfield where it's 37 degrees. the fire danger is still real. there are areas where it's gust tichlt look at this picture from our roof cam looking down at the ferry building. you can see the flags are unfurled by that north wind

pushing up to 20 miles per hour. so remember, keep your yard fire retardant as possible. there may be debris in it now that could start, ignite easily and help spread a wildfire. make sure you clean a this up this morning. be vigilant if you're out and about. you have to change your activities a little bit so you don't cause a wildfire. there will be breezes on the bay today, north of the bay bridge again. for the north bay, 50 at 7:00. temperatures from noon to 6:00 will range from the low 70s to near 80 then back down to the low 70s. that's the way it will be pretty much everywhere. accuweather seven-day forecast coming up. here is sue. >> richmond-san rafael bridge is light this morning. no high wind advisory here. a few cars headed over towards marin county. >> i guess we said sue is done. sorry, sue. >> we'll get back to sue in a minute. still ahead, frustration with pg&e. what reportedly happened at one office in bute county. and issues with two planes

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two planes have landed safely at sfo after this terrifying incident for passengers. >> united confirmed that one of its flights to orange county had to come back to sfo because of a bird strike. the second incident was with a lufthansa plane. this may have been an engine problem but that's not been

confirmed. passengers say there was just panic when the issue happened. >> within 30 seconds, probably five or six good booms. good pops. people in the back were screaming. i was in the front, i didn't see the engine. people in the back were screaming fire. >> okay. no. >> oh. that's scary. >> un-huh. >> i would be flipping out. >> i know. luckily nobody was hurt in either incident. some people are taking their frstration with pg&e to an extre extreme. in mute county someone reportedly egged an office in orville. that office remains closed. a security offser remaiceiceic r outside. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. here is mike. >> people in walnut creek are waking up saying wind? what wind? you go 300 feet in elevation, winds are 20 miles per hour. up on mount diablo, it's around

66 miles per hour. winds are hitting peaks today. the rest of us are seasony and season seasonal. temperatures will return back to average on sunday. here is the guide for the fire index danger. we want to be in the green or blue. we don't want to be in the yellow, orange or red. look a lot of the north bay in that. you can see the diablo range very high, heading from 5:00 this morning to noon, that's when we start to see the diablo range pull out of the high, just a bit of a high index around the altamont pass. there's still the extreme, the highest level in the north bay at noon. when the winds calm down this afternoon, we'll fall out of the extreme. because the air is so dry at 5:00 this evening, for the next couple hours after that, there is still a high fire index.

we won't have the winds to fan those flames. it will be more because of the dry air. temperatures tomorrow a couple degrees warmer. sme thing on saturday. that looks to be our warmest day. we pull back 4, 6 degrees on sunday. hanging out 60s at the coast, 70s around the bay. 80 inland for monday, tuesday and wednesday. sue? >> southbound 101, taillights headed past the north gate mall up towards san pedro. you are moving. you may find a slowdown south 101 at corte madera, fire crews are out there. two right lanes, the fire is out, it was on the hillside above where marin joe's is, near tamalpais drive. crews are out there mopping up. i'm not seeing a lot of slow traffic. richmond-san rafael bridge that we looked at, looking really

good. san mateo bridge as well under 15 minutes. dumbarton commute from the east bay over to the peninsula, less than ten minutes. still ahead, how the pg&e power outage is impacting one local zoo. and treat week festivities in san francisco. the free fun that continues today. a live look outside as folks are getting ready to go to work across the bay bridge. think you know price gouging when you see it? let's check. this is a 7 on your side quick tip. what's the difference between ripping someone off and getting what your product and service is worth? it's all context. for instance, a beach hotel will charge more for rooms during the summer months, that's fine and expected if that same hotel charges more after a firestorm when people need someplace to stay, it's probably breaking the law. so, what are the rules? they are different across the

country. here's the basic, when they charge more than 10% extra after an emergency has been declared, either state, federal or local. if you think you're being ripped off and you're a victim of price gouging, take some pictures with your camera phone. also hang on to your receipt and report it to the district attorney. d.a.

i want to thank you for the feedback we're receiving on facebook and twitter. i want to talk to a few of you who are saying it's not windy in my neighborhood, why should i be concerned? why am i under red flag warnings. somebody from benicia said it's just a whisper here. it's not very windy there. but up in fairfield the winds are gusting to 37 miles per hour. so if a fi shouldre erupts

where the embers will blow? beneath into the valleys. that's why these areas are in the red fire danger, not because the wins are fast where you are, but as you climb up in elevation the winds increase rapidly. you get up around 3,000 feet, we're seeing gusts around 60 miles per hour. that's the reason some of you are in the red flag warning even though it's not windy in your neighborhoods. the areas in yellow are elevations above 1,000 feet. that's where we expect the winds for the next 4 1/2 hours or so to push 45 to 55. we had a 72-mile-per-hour wind on mount diablo about an hour ago. here's the wind forecast. it will be fastest up in the north bay. heading towards 9:00 it will tearer taper a bit. we remain in dangerous levels until we get to the evening commute. once the sun sets, everything is

over. >> the power shutdown is reminiscent of the rolling blackouts that we experienced dewing the energy crisis in the 2000. >> then governor gray davis faced a recall over that issue. >> the precautionary efforts they're taking to shut off power is one of the tools they were given by statute. the puc had to approve the plan before it could go into effect. obviously when you lose power it's not fun. nobody knows that better than i. but it's a minor irritation when you compare that to what happened to paradise. >> you can listen to davis' full interview on our website, abc7news.com. the power shutdown forced the oakland zoo to close to visitors yesterday. but the staff was there to take care of the animals. generators kept all the necessary power on. there's no word yet on if the zoo will be open today. >> i think they're doing the best they can. they're reacting to a terrible situation we had last year.

a lot of people a angry at pg&e. i mean, what's your choice? >> that is the question a lot of people are asking. pg&e customers have feelings about the company. we talked to the co-owner of buck's restaurant in woodside. that restaurant had to close at 11:00 a.m. because of the power shutdown. all right. it is 5:25. let's switch gears a bit and talk about the blue angels. they're going to be practicing above the bay today in preparation for this weekend's fleet week. >> the angels are the top draw but not the only attraction. the feststivities in san francisco include free ship tours, people can climb on board cruisers docked embarcadero. embarcadero. the big ship tours are free. they continue today at pier 30, 32 and 35. the blue angels will perform

tomorrow, saturday and sunday. i always -- i'm -- i think it's remarkable what they do. they're within inches of each other. it gives me a scare every time they fly above me. it's so super loud. we're coming back with another full 90 minutes of news. plus families forced from their homes in the east bay overnight as the fire grows to 40 acres. we're live at the evacuation center. at 5:26, a live look outside. there is some proof of the wind gusts we're experiencing this morning. they're pretty much at their peak now. that will die down by sunset. we'll be right back.

somebody was pounding on the door, asking us to leave. >> i saw smoke, and i saw the sky was red towards st. mary's. >> what a scary morning for these neighbors in moraga. they were forced from their homes this morning as the fire was coming up to their backyards. it grew to 40 acres. thanks for joining us on this thursday, october 10th. >> that was scary this morning. >> that was definitely scary. i have to tip my hat to the officials in moraga. they did a fantastic job.

they practiced this and from what we heard went off flawlessly. that's what we were worried about, this happening when it's dark and people without power. we are still in that dan dan as far as winds. look at that 69 on mount diablo. 48 in knoxville. everywhere else around 25 to 30. the winds are out there. they're fastest now through about 10:00. they'll stay above the threshold we need for critical fire conditions. that's why the red flag warning goes until 5:00. in the sfranta cruz mountains i goes to noon. all right. that wind advisory, the fastest winds, the winds that can cause the most damage, they hang around until 3:00 in areas above 1,000 feet. let's talk about your day. when you head out, dress for low to mid 50s. it's not a constant breeze out there, if you're driving across the bay bridge like i was, at

times you will get blown, other times nothing at all. here's a look at the temperatures another noon. 70. hanging at 70 around the coast. the rest of us upper 70s to near 80. by 7:00, we can stop talking about this and look forward to a relaxing weekend. here is sue with the commute. >> good morning. looking at walnut creek, taillights are moving southbound on 680. everything looks good. they have traffic signals out southbound 680 and northbound at treat boulevard. always treat that as a four-way stop. i know it seems redundant, i can't tell you how many people i've seen blow through intersections when lights are out or blinking. that's a four-way stop. use extra caution on northbound 680 at treat. slow and go out of tracy. up to a 40-minute drive from tracy up to dublin pleasantson.

two right lanes blocked on south 101 in corte madera. a fire up in the hill visible from the freeway at tamil drive. they have that fire out and not a big delay. >> in the east bay, the fire under control after erupting st. mary's in moraga. jobina fortson is live with more. we have breaking news here, in the last minute, sanders ranch is being repopulated. people will be able to go back home. you can see people are slowly starting to trickle up from the tables here and go back. however merrill circle, if you live on that street or no someone that does, they cannot go home. that is the latest update here. i finished speaking with the

fire chief of moraga orinda fire, he says roughly between 40 and 60 acres has burned in the hills of moraga. 70% of that fire has been contained. the power is still out at this evacuation center, which is complicating things a bit. the red cross has come with dozens of flashlights, lanterns and providing people with coffee, bathrooms, food, snacks so they have a place to stay warm. we're at st. monica church. look at the flames and how close they got to some of the homes up there in the hills. the fire chief does tell me this was a close call. that's how he is describing this. he said several fences burned. there were several homes threatened. they do not have an exact count right now. officers and firefighters went door to door waking people up. it's been quite a morning for people as they are coming in to this evacuation center, now finally getting ready to leave this evacuation center. and here is what one family told

me they did not actually have any firefighters or officers come for a mandatory evacuation, but they went ahead and just left. >> i was just asleep, and then i heard my dad get up. he was walking down. it was early in the morning, i think about 3:00. one of our neighbors knocked on the door saying there was a fire in sanders ranch. >> for you, was that scary? how did you feel? you seem pretty collected. >> it was kind of -- i was kind of nervous, even though sanders ranch is far away, we had fires, like, a few times before, and people have kind of been freaking out about them. i was pretty calm because we're pretty far away from it and we were well prepared. >> i want to bring you back out here live. you can see people are beginning to fold up blankets. giving each other hugs. walking out the door here because we just got that good news about two minutes ago that

people on sanders ranch and in sanders ranch can go back home. it is just merrill circle that is still under the evacuation. again, the fire 70% contained. 40 to 60 acres burned in the hills up there. jobina fortson, abc7 news. >> i'm happy to hear that. >> me, too. >> they're ready to get back home. >> they are. they'll still be in the dark. >> yeah. >> not a whole lot to look forward to. at least they can be in their own bed. >> another breaking story this morning is the massive pg&e safety power cutoff. in the last hour pg&e confirmed that 359,000 customers in the bay area are with the lights off. meteorologist drew tuma is tracking those outages. >> that's a lot of people. pg&e ovnight implemented phase two of the safety power shetout. the company cut the power off to

the east bay, santa cruz county. pg&e launched a new website. i know in the last 24 hours a lot of us have been frustrated that we cannot access this website. as of 5:35 this morning, you can get on this new website. this shows you that you can look up an address. you can see if power has not only been cut off where you are, you would know that, of course, but maybe your friends or family had their power cut off. you can use an exact address or search a city. we'll type in moraga right now. we had that wildfire in the area. we will type in moraga, this is what you get. the public safety power shutoff due to heightened winds and dry conditions. that's why pg&e shut off power in her rag gmoraga. everywhere in orange, that's

where the power is out. so about 359,000 people are in the dark right now. you can also track this map. this shows the entire bay area, you can zoom in to different communities. that's where pg&e cut power. if you click on, you will get a polygon that pops up. it shows you how many people are affected in each area. this area by cupertino, almost 4,000 customers affected by power. so a customer is a meter. it could be a business or a home. so the number affected by this power outage is likely higher than the number seen on your screen. we have both of these links at abc7news.com. you can access the map or if you want to look up the address of a loved one and see the status of their power, we'll keep tracking this closely and let you know when or if we get information on

when that power could potentially get restored. >> all right. thanks for that update, drew. right now we're taking a live look from sky 7 over san leandro. you can tell the traffic is moving, but it looks like it's dark in these areas. some lights on back here. greg is in sky 7 with us. greg, what are you seeing from your vantage point? >> sky7 is over the scene of the black outhere in east oakland along 580 and 106th avenue. as you can see, it's really dark. there are some areas wither they have power, but that's due to having their own power generators, like at this produce market. there you see 580 going up your screen and to the right is the oakland hills. it's very dark.

you can see there's probably some commuters heading on their way to work. it's really dark out here. back to you. >> this is sky7 giving us an idea of how these power outages are impacted people in san leandro. he mentioned 5 e ed 580ed 580 d well. people going to work or wherever they're going. the only areas that have power in the area have their own generators. like this market you see here. it's the only light in this area of darkness >> it does look like some flashing lights he's zooming in on. not sure what that is in response to. >> looks like a police motorcycle at that intersection. it's an intersection that is dark. the lights are shut off. maybe it's there to help people navigate through the area. we've seen a few cars making

their way along the roadway. there's so many areas of darkness in san leandro, the only places that we're seeing that have lights are places with their own generators. you can see greg is zooming up so we can see that area without power. >> with nothing. >> drew has been tracking that to see when the outages done. >> the same for east by a residents in lafayette. they have been without power overnight. >> amy hollyfield is there with the details. amy? >> good morning. it is so dark here. contra costa county sheriffs tweeted that pg&e will start turning the lights back on at noon. so a short power outage, but still impacting businesses here. look at this sign. this was up last night during the dirn hounner hour. they were closed, they were anticipating the power outage.

that didn't happen, they could have been open. they lost all that business. a lot of zigging and zagging with the preparation for this power outage that kept getting postponed. so it got very confusing. it is very dark now. the power went out at about 10:45 last night. firefighters and residents dealing with that fire were also trying to evacuate in the dark. firefighters say they were wearing head lamps. residents say the power outage added an extra challenge to their evacuation. >> it was definitely harder. because they gave us the heads up, we had a lot of flashlights all over the house. probably 15 flashlights. thankfully we had a good moon, too. so we had some light. we have emergency lights in the house. those were all on thankfully. >> this area is prepared. people cleaned out the hardware stores here in the last few days as they got ready for the shutdown. i want to show you the video from the caldecott tunnel from

last night. it's open. here is your proof. this was after the power went out. there had been a possibility that they were going to close it, they got so the generators to keep that rolling. good news for your commute this morning. this power outage started at 10:45. they're saying lights could start coming on around noon. they are also saying it could take one to five days. so just keep in mind and keep turning to us for updates. also don't forget it's so dark that these intersections still need to be treated as four-way stops even though you don't see traffic lights. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> thank you. a bit of a surprise to see the contra costa sheriff's office saying that pg&e is telling them they could start the process of turning on at noon. let's see what's happening in the south bay. a live picture from cupertino. as you can see, proof that the lights are out there as well. we'll check in now with meteorologist mike nicco to see how we're doing wind-wise.

>> i was driving on highway 24 this morning, the money light was brighter than just about anything around as i was driving by those areas that didn't have power. it was kind of spooky, a little erie. let's talk about the humidity out there. you can see how dry it is everywhere. down in the teens and 20s. look at the golden gate bridge. what caught my eyes, look at that flag, completely unfurled and blowing out over the ocean. that's a northeast offshore breeze that is gusting to 26 miles per hour. you got a little nasty crosswind there if you're about to cross the golden gate bridge. it has chased away any threat of fog. at least the visibility is very good. you do have power on that bridge. now, as we've been talking about all morning coming to those areas, four-way stops, that's your biggest driving concern, the weather does have something to do with that power going out. mass transit, sue says everything is good. i'll say for now we may have some other issues.

the wind and chop will be out theren at bay all day today. you may want to stay inside if you're taking a ferry ride. let's take a quick look at temperatures. we're going to have -- sorry, the winds. they are very strong in the north bay as we head through the morning hours. and they start to calm down at least the fastest around 10:00. we see the winds really drop below the critical fire condition levels, that's why the red flag warning will end at 5:00. until then we have a lot to talk about. we'll bring sue in here. what's going on with the roads? >> so far so good through moraga on highway 24. we have the metering lights on at the bay bridge at 5:20. that's normal. and you are stacked up over past the overcrossings. if you can carpool you're in good shape southbound 101 near tamalpais

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fruitvale, howard, montclair, sequoia, elmhurst united, skyline and sojourner truth are closed. all other oakland public schools are open. there are many closures in the north bay. we have a complete list on abc7news.com. >> pg&e gave us an outage update last night and dan noyes was there. >> he asked about pg&e's efforts to improve the safety of overhead power lines. >> what steps are you taking to do that much more quickly that's the key reason you are doing this because you can't trust your own equipment at this point, correct? >> we are not necessarily saying that we can't trust our equipment. the factor of safety that existed in the environment naturally when the electrical systems were compromised does not exist anymore. >> the utility says they restored power to 50,000 people in the sierra foothills.

they have isolated transmission lines from other lines that may face a high wildfire risk. some residents in humboldt got a sliver of good news. the office of emergency management tweeted this saying pg&e's reporting that it has been given the all-clear to immediately begin the process to restore power to the county. this doesn't mean electricity will be restored immediately. plan for another night without power. at least that's some timeline. >> right. but it doesn't say you won't have power for two more nights, three more nights. anything is possible. >> yeah. >> that's the way i'm looking at it. >> prepare for the worst, hope for the best when you don't have the data to nail things down. san jose at 87. you can see this is where one of the fastest winds is blowing.

12 to 18 i just checked some reporting stations to the southwest in saratoga, as you head you the to the santa cruz mountains, gusts up to 30 miles per hour. that's why the fire danger continues today for that area. also sunny and seasonal across the board today, temperatures above average around the coast in san francisco. the rest of us pretty close to average. calmer and warmer tomorrow and sat. we get a break for the next six days in my accuweather seven-day forecast. it is not going to be a forecast with wild swings nor winds like this. red flag warning, and then down to southern california tomorrow. you broaden this out, about a third of the state is under critical fire conditions today. here's a look at the fire index. this takes into account the winds, the humidity, the temperatures. as we head through the morning hours, you can see the north bay

has the very high to winds. with you see we're high and very high initially around the diablo range. around noon you're at high. we'll continue to have high and extreme in the north bay until the afternoon hours when we start to drop down to just high. here's my accuweather seven-day forecast. 80s inland, mid 70s to near 80 around the bay. 70s at the coast. sue? >> let's look at our traffic maps. slow in all the usual spots. westbound 580 coming out of tracy. we have this accident southbound 880 in oakland, right lane remains blocked near hegenberger. sensors remain green there. i don't see any effect on b.a.r.t., caltrain or ace trains because of the

pg&e put barrierers arous as san francisco headquarters. the chp says someone shot towards a pg&e worker while that person was driving in a marked

truck tuesday night north of sacramento. nobody got hurt. it's created this kind of womaonse. a whose husband worked for pg&e posted a photo online in support of the utility crews. at image has since gone viral. >> these people are human. they have nothing to do with the power outages or the fires. they've humans. they're workers. they're trying to provide for their families. >> katie barbier took these photos this one shows her cousin who also works for pg&e and his new baby. in the oakland hills, one company was giving away a sweet treat but they really didn't have a choice. without power, all that gelato would melt. >> i guess i have to thank pg&e, i feel like i'm living in limbo. other than that this has to make it a little better. >> they even put a sign out front saying free gelato thanks to pg&e. >> as we learned from michael finney, they won't reimburse them for that. >> no. >> they haven't reimbursed anybody for the claims they made after the fires and their losses. >> as their pr person told me yesterday they won't charge them for power while the power is

off. >> thank you. i won't be using any either will i? hmm. i will update that graphic. sorry, we've been on the air nonstop since about 2:45. i walkedn the door, kumasi and the producers were like we have to go. we have a fire in moraga. at any time when we have the proper conditions you want to avoid activities with open flames, that means properly discarding cigarettes. we had a tractor start a fire. keep your vehicles, if you can, away from dry grass or dry vegetation or anything that could ignite easily. if a fi starre starts, let the firefighters fight it. you need to evacuate if called upon and be prepared to do that. >> all right. looking at the golden gate bridge. it looks good here. the lights are on on the bridge. coming through the robin williams tunnel from marin county into san francisco, those lights are out. it's a bit dark in there. not too long of a tunnel. and your traffic is light through the area. we'll look back, speaking of

marin county, we had an earlier fire visible from the freeway. the fire department was blocking the two right lanes southbound near tamalpais that has been cleared out. traffic is getting by without delay. still with the right lane blocked, 880 near hegenberger in oakland. it's easy going through the area. nsors remain green. >> all right. thank you. we have much more coming up at 6:00 including the fire in moraga overnight. neighbors forced from their hopes as the fla homes as the flames quickly spread. and sky 7 is flying over areas in the east bay that do not have power this morning. this is a live look. you can see how much of the area is in the dark. we'll have the latest numbers from pg&e and how many people are

right now at 6:00 a., a frightening morning for people in the east bay when a fire

breaks out in raga. it's a good example of howast flames can spread during a red flag warning. >> alsosky7 is in the air as thousands of people are dealing with a planned pg&e blackout. >> it's thursday, october 10th. we've been tracking all of this since we came on the air at 3:00 a.m. >> drew is here, sue is here, mike is here. he's been telling us for days these dangerous conditions would get here overnight. >> sure enough there you go i was just updating mount diablo. you can see we're gusting to 72 miles per hour on mount diablo. for a hurricane, 74. winds are out there at 3,800 feet. a lot of us don't live up there, but when the sun comes up, the atmosphere turns over that means the air rises because it's getting warm. the colder faster air will sink down. we'll see