lose their power. >> the communities likely to be impacted included santa rosa, kenwood, windsor, guerneville among others. some customers there have already had their power turned off. now, in napa county an estimated 7400 customers are at risk of power outages and that includes calistoga, deer park, rutherford and lake berryessa. >> in san mateo county the power is expected to be shut off overni in woodside, san gregorio and unincorporated parts of the county. we have live team coverage this afternoon. sandhya patel is monitoring the conditions prompting the shutoffs but we begin with reporter liz kreutz in sonoma county. liz. >> reporter: hi, ama. yes, power has been off in sonoma county, parts of sonoma county and here in santa rosa for more than an hour n some parts power went off as early as 2:00 p.m. that's because it's part of the gradual process of deenergizing

the power lines. we're inside santa rosa's emergency operations center. this is where law enforcement, public safety officials are working together with the county and pg&e to monitor outages, monitor traffic and send out those nixel alerts. we want to get a live update with paul from santa rosa fire. i know that you have a realtime map where you've been following. where are the areas most impacted? >> the far east of santa rosa did go without power at 2:20 this afternoon. part of what we're doing here in the emergency operations center is monitoring the conditions. you can see we've seen where the outages are occurring and seeing where our critical facilities are, like our water pump stations and also watching traffic. because this occurred during the middle of rush hour, we are seeing a significant amount of traffic october east side of santa rosa and that's a concern of ours. >> and that was a lesson learned from two weeks ago. >> law enforcement and transportation and public works department have done a lot of work putting stop signs out. we've been working to get

critical messaging out to the communities knowing these intersections will be without power. we knew this was a potential to happen and we're seeing it happen a little earlier than anticipated. >> how did that impact you seeing 45 minutes ahead of schedule, seeing these outages. >> there was work being done coordinating with schools. knowing they were going to happen during rush hour, we are trying to lean in and be a little better prepared but we're reacting and that's why we have all the staff here. >> thanks so much, paul. this is sort of the rapid response center where they are getting realtime updates and monitoring medical needs as well. we did go to the oakmont retirement community earlier today. this is a community that lost power two weeks ago. again they have lost power today. we spoke with dave. he's the owner of the oakmont village market. he hauled in more than 1,000 pounds of dry ice and 1,000 pounds of regular ice that he could sell to customers and to save for his food. he also lost power during the

last outages. he spent $2,500 on ice and lost $2,500 in food but he said it's worth it. >> the reason it's worth it, this is a retirement community. they really rely on us. they don't -- some of them don't even leave the gates here of oakmont. we deliver to people here. we have to try to take care of them. >> i'm fed up. i'm tired of it. >> it's too hard. especially, i think, on older people. it's very difficult to cope with. >> reporter: behind me here is where a team is working on sending the nixel alerts and where they're updating the santa rosa city web pages and social media. pg&e tells us right now about 26,000 customers are without power here in sonoma county. by 5:00 p.m. everybody in sonoma county who's supposed to lose power should have lost their power. they hope that by tomorrow most people will be able to get their power turned on but it could take a couple more days

depending on how long the inspections take. live here in santa rosa, liz kreutz, abc 7 news. >> we'll check with liz throughout the afternoon and evening. santa rosa schools impacted by the shutoff. four schools released students early. hidden valley elementary, santa rosa accelerated charter school, rincon valley middle school. they will not be in session tomorrow and friday is up in the air, depending on how soon pg&e begins to turn the electricity back on. >> pg&e is shutting off the power because of a red flag warning that is now in effect. >> take a look at a live picture from mt. tam. abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel keeping a close watch on what's happening. obviously, sandhya, everybody is worried about the wind conditions. >> and with good reason. let's take a look at those winds. right now the strongest winds are over the highest elevations,

39 at hawkeye, mt. diablo out of the north at 34 miles an hour. this tends to dry out the air so that is a big concern. red flag warning is in effect for the north and east bay until 4:00 p.m. tomorrow. it goes into effect for the santa cruz mountains beginning at 7:00 p.m. tonight. it's a combination of gusty winds, the low relative humidity that could spell extreme fire behavior. so definitely worth keeping an eye on the winds, remaining aware of your surroundings. 7:00 tonight you'll notice 34-mile-an-hour winds around fairfield, calistoga. they ramp up to 36 calistoga 9:00 tonight. the gusty winds continue into tomorrow morning before those winds relax by the time we head into the lunch hour. but the fire danger will remain high going into tomorrow. ama. >> sanda, tnk you. pg&e is planning to turn off the power to nearly 400 customers on parts of the peninsula overnight, sometime

around 1:00. david louie joins us live from la honda in the santa cruz mountains where people are getting ready. david? >> reporter: indeed they are, ama. here in the rural la honda hills above redwood city and woodwide, a lot of the people here are retired seniors. the anticipation of losing their power and uncertainty of how long and exactly when it will happen is making it difficult for some of these seniors to cope. gerard powell has been through power outages and even hurricanes, but the anxiety of losing power isn't easy for some to handle. two weeks ago stress put one of his neighbors in the hospital. >> he suddenly found himself in a medical emergency due to the stress of the uncertainty of what was going to happen, whether he could get his medications. >> reporter: powell is lending that neighbor a spare generator to get through tonight's shutdown. the stress is prevalent among seniors in half moon bay. uncertainty gnaws at them just like the last time.

>> the anxiety was just off the roof. >> and you don't need this kind of stress? >> no, not at my age. >> reporter: she uses a bi-pap res ratpirat respirator. nancy wears a back brace and she suffered back pain after having to do stairs after the elevator went out. >> there are many seniors that can't do the stairs. that's a really big problem. >> reporter: the executive director points out that pg&e outages have created other problems. >> people have innovative beds and may not be able to get out of them or get back into them or something like that. so it is very challenging for our older adults. >> reporter: la honda residents said it took 44 hours before power was restored last time so they're trying to help each other out. >> all we have is each other out here and that spirit shines through.

>> reporter: what a spirit la honda does have. now, the general store here is planning on being closed tomorrow. a lot of the residents have been leaving town briefly to go down to half moon bay to fill up their vehicles and get gas for their generators. david louie, abc 7 news. >> pg&e will be holding a briefing about all these outages at 5:30 tonight and we'll carry that live. it will be an expanded edition of the news at 5:00. >> we will let you know the company's plans through our abc 7 news app. enable push alerts so you can get the updates. you can find out how to prepare for a shutoff on our website, abc7news.com. closing arguments started today in a hillsboro murder case. the victim, the former lover and father of her children. vic lee is live at the redwood city hall of justice. >> reporter: good evening. tiffany li walked through the

doors of this courthouse this morning. she has been out on $35 million bail. this whole case and both sides agree is based on circumstantial evidence. the prosecution said there was no other reasonable explanation for any of this except that the murder was committed by tiffany li. >> there's no smoking gun in this case. this is a case that involves a lot of pieces of evidence, circuit shal, that in my prosecutor's mind and our office's mind add up to guilt. >> reporter: tiffany li and her boyfriend accused of murdering the father of her two young children, keith greene who disappeared in april 2016 after meeting li at the millbrae pancake house. the next month greene's body was found in a field in sonoma county, dead from a single gunshot wound to the mouth. authorities believe greene was killed in li's hillsboro mansion.

it took the prosecutor just two led jurorsulouy ugh closing art through a timeline that started when li and greene broke up in october of 2015 until when li, bayott and a third suspect were arrested in 2016. adela was charged with the dumpingf the body. he entered a plea deal but was rearrested after contacting a former girlfriend and witness in the case. the time line included text messages which the prosecution said was meant to distance e couple from greene's whereabouts when he was shot. the defense attorney told jurs that the case against li was solely based on circumstantial evidence and that te prosecution was neglecting factual evidence. carr contends that it was adelea who killed greene. >> there's more evidence consistent with it being a failed kidnap than it being a murder and that something went wrong. >> reporter: well, at this hour

tiffany li's lawyers still arguing his case, hammering away at the prosecution, saying that they distorted the facts. after they're done, lawyer will take his turn. this case is examine ed to spill over into tomorrow. a new twist in the battle over the oakland coliseum property. the athletics are now offering to buy or lease the city of oakland's share of the complex that would ending a legal log jam, but the city would have to drop its lawsuit against the a's redevelopment plans for the cal seem site. the a's proposal includes a clause that the city allow them to build a new ballpark elsewhere in oakland and ownership is wiell on the way t having a stadium constructed at howard terminal. a deputy killed in the line of duty. the call that he was responding to when one suspect opened fire.

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with the el dorado county sherifoffice. he is survived by his wife and their three children. an oakland sailor is back home after taking a history-making voyage. randall reeves sailed a figure eight around the american and antarctica continents on his 45-foot aluminum vessel. take a look at this trek. past cape warren in southern chile, that was twice around the. he also touchedvery one of the world's oceans. did it alone, making him the first human to achieve this title in one season and joins us now to share his journey. >> you make it sound so hard. >> you still haven't shaved. >> first things first. >> so what was the first thing you did when you got back on land? >> i landed at the sausalito yacht club on the 19th. the first thing i was able to do is give my lovely wife a kiss. she had arranged my landing there. she met me at the dock and that was just fantastic. i have been pursuing this goal

for about five years and failed the first time. so it was just lovely to actually complete the loop, get home, see family and friends. >> this had to be so lonely at times. >> well, at times, but i feel i'm fairly adapted to this kind of travel. you don't necessarily feel alone when you're kind of in tune with the boat, you're in te with the waves, and when you are busy. it's a very, very busy thing to do, trying to man the boat yourself, doing all your own navigati navigating, all your own sail changes, cooking, cleaning. so you don't have time for loneliness most of the time. >> 40,000 miles. no refrigerator or water purification on the boat. how did you manage that? >> i left san francisco on september 30 with 200 gallons of water on the boat. i used less than three-quarters of a gallon of fresh water a day so i had 250 days of water on board. in the southern ocean it rains

qua bit. you're overtaken by gales quite frequently and i caught quite a bit of rain. 237 days at sea. i arrived at halifaxith almost as much water on board as i left with. don't need that water-making technology when you know gather. >> so 237 days without human contact. >> right. >> i assume you had radio contact with people? >> not radio so much. >> facetime? i don't know. >> high-tech satellite. one of my goals was to be able to send video and high-resolution photographs from sea, which takes pretty expensive tech. so i had that. so i was able to communicate via email with the wife and with friends. but i didn't see another -- i didn't see land except for cape horn. i saw very few ships. when you're down in the southern ocean, nothing is there. most of the shipping goes through the panama canal. somebody told me at certain points of the voyage, somebody on the space station was closer to me than anybody on land. >> wow.

>> so it's pretty remote. >> scary at all? >> oh, sure. yes, yes. there's plenty of opportunity to be scared when your boat is 45 feet long and the waves are three stories high and falling down on you. yes. there are many days you wonder i'm not sure how i'm going to get past the next ten days, past the next 18 hours. then thece ithe arctic, i still don't know how i got through some of that ice. it is so thick and so cruel, it's quite frightening. >> you've got video. you've got to make a documentary about this, i assume. >> i thought i had. >> is it all done already? >> no, just in terms of documenting the passage. >> i meant a whole program. maybe we'll air it here. randall, it was great meeting you. glad to see you made it back in one piece. >> thank you. >> congratulations on your journey. >> thank you. >> randall reeves, one of a kind. >> that's so cool. let's get over to meteorologist sandhya patel because we need to know what's going on with our weather and the fire danger. >> the fire danger is elevated right now, ama.

i want to show you what's going on. the wind direction is coming out of the north-northeast when the clouds are just swept away from the entire coastline, which is why fire danger is running high in southern california. here's a live look from our golden gate bridge camera. there's barely a breeze at the lower elevations, but that's ing to be changing. higher elevations it's already gusty. san francisco, oakland, you're in the low 80s. 85 in san jose. it is 86 in gilroy. from our san jose camera we are seeing bright skies right now and a look at those temperatures up to 90 in santa rosa, 83 in san rafael. you're in the upper 80s from concord to fairfield, so definitely a warm one out there. from our mt. tam cam, not a very shaky camera right now as we look back towards san francisco. stronger winds expected later tonight. fire danger high through tomorrow. we're looking at sunny and warm weather to continue the next two ys. let's check out the relative humidities right now. air mass is dry, pretty clear here, 14% in vacavile, 13% in santa rosa, 15% in concord.

these values will be lowering as we head through the night and into tomorrow morning. let's look at our fire danger index. it's a combination of things from wind to the temperatures and also the dryness of the air that is combined to show you the highest fire danger. so 6:00 p.m. tonight, it's moderate to high in the north bay. watch what happens when we head into late tonight. you start to see some reds and oranges, indicating very high to extreme fire danger coming up, particularly in the north bay going into tomorrow morning. even parts of san mateo county and the east bay so definitely remain vigilant as we go into tonight and tomorrow. tomorrow morning clear skies. it is going to be windy in the hills. temperatures in the upper 50s to the low 60s, so they're not going to fall as low as they have been in the last couple of days with those gusty winds. tomorrow afternoon in the south bay it's going to be a warm one, 90 in san jose, 92 gilroy, 88 in milpitas. mid-80s at the coastline, half

moon bay 85 degrees. unseasonably warm for this time of year. 87 in downtown san francisco, 85 in the sunset district. north bay temperatures, 92 in santa rosa, 90 in san rafael. around this time of year we expect dry offshore winds. it's not uncommon in october. these temperatures, though, a good 10 to 20 degrees above average. in the east bay 89 in oakland, fremont. 91 in concord, 90 in livermore, 89 in pleasanton. accuweather seven-day forecast, fire danger elevated tomorrow. warm, sunny skies expected for friday. then notice the cooling trending as we begin the weekend. temperatures will come out of the 90s in the inland locations, but another round of gusty winds are expected on sunday. that could mean high fire danger again with the possibility of more power outages, power shutoffs, excuse me, and a cooler pattern monday through wednesday with 60s and 70s. carefully for you as it develops

for sunday as well. >> thank you, sandhya. still to come on abc 7 news at 4:00, fixing the squirrel problem. that's creating fire danger in the east bay. and abc 7 news is building a better bay area. up next we dig into why affordable housing is not being approved for many housing developments that are in progress.

abc 7 news is committed to building a better bay area. for residents right outside walnut creek things got better today. >> pg&e finally replaced an old power pole that residents blamed for five grass fires over the past dozen years. eric thomas with more. >> reporter: today the whine of these chain saws was like music to the ears of residents who live along golden rain drive in

ro rossmoor. >> this is great progress railroads jim brennan has lived a stone's throw away from the power pole for 15 years. he has seen grass fires burn up the hill time after time most recently a few weeks ago. >> yes, we did experience a fire in september caused by a squirrel that had made contact with our equipment. >> reporter: pg&e crews were out on this windy red flag wednesday on a steep hillside working to replace the old power pole with a sturdier, new model. with the old pole, squirrels could climb up and be electrocuted by the high voltage conntors at the top and fall to the ground below igniting grass fires. >> so what we're doing now is adding covers to our vertical conductors and connections, and that should help prevent those kinds of problems from occurring moving forward. >> reporter: but not so fast says jim brennan. he says pg&e first promised to fix this by the end of last year and with a different kind of replacement pole. >> and they led us to believe that the new pole was going to

be steel. now, you can see that's not the case. >> reporter: pg&e responded that the terrain is so rough they n'tring in a regular cherry picker so they had to install a po pole that workers can climb and that means wood. residents say the other keep is keeping the vegetation on these hillsides to a minimum. the utility says the plan may not be perfect but it should be effective. jim brennan says he's keeping his fingers crossed that they're right. at rossmoor, eric thomas, abc 7 news. just ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, we'll have an update on pg&e's emergency power shutoff. in fact the lights have already gone off in some places. plus the work the utility is doing to try to keep its website from crashing. we'll check to see if the changes are actually working. >> let me be clear. you do no fact checking on any ads, is that correct? >> a facebook face-off on capitol hill. mark zuckerberg under fire for questionable political ads and

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in the north bay saennta rosa a sonoma county, the city and the county have both opened an emergency operation center to monitor the situation. residents and business owners bought tons of ice and hope it will keep food and other perishale items from spoiling. one woman took home plenty of ice with a strategy. >> packed the freezer as best i can, put the things that i know is safe to freeze down there. put all the ice in there and don't open the door. >> a lot of coordination going on behind the scenes so we try to make this event as smooth as possible for our community. >> people are bracing for life without electricity along the san mateo county coast. the last shutoff lasted for 44 hours in la honda. during the last outage a couple of weeks ago, a lot of people reported problems with pg&e's website. we just checked and everything does seem to be working properly, but that was not the case only a few hours ago. we tested it on midday live. >> this is the pg&e web ght no we were all talking about this in the break. if you go to current

information, this is for the public safety power shutoff. you click that, nothing. event updates. still nothing. >> there was so much criticism two weeks ago because people couldn't access the website and get the information. they did say they made improvements to that in yesterday's new conference. >> the only thing that really works on here is outage preparation, which we don't really need right now. we need where, when, all of that information. >> to see if my street is on the map. >> pg&e says it's been working with a third-party vendor to address the problems with its website. during the last planned power shutoff, it couldn't handle the volume that they had. this afternoon a spokesperson said there have been some intermittent issues but they have teams looking into any problems that arise. >> we recognize that we fell short of our commitments on communication, particularly our website during the last public safety power shutoff event. we have bolstered our resources and capacity on our website. it has been functioning properly.

pge.com continues to be a resource for our customers. >> so again, their website is working right now. in fact the key here is you can look up your address to see if you'll be affected by the shutoff. pg&e says it has also called and sent text messages or emailed the customers whose power will be turned off. as we mentioned earlier, pg&e is holding a briefing about the outages coming up at 5:30 this evening. we will carry that live for you here in an expanded edition of abc 7 news at 5:00. lawmakers, they grilled facebook ceo mark zuckerberg on capitol hill this morning. zuckerberg was supposed to testify before the house financial services committee about his company's plan to create a global digital currency. but he faced scrutiny about a whole bunch of other challenges facebook is trying to overcome, including privacy lapses, tolerance of hateful speech and fake political ads. los angeles congresswoman maxine waters criticized zuckerberg over the fact checking of political advertisements that appear on facebook. >> let me be clear.

you do no fact checking on any ads, is that correct? >> chairwoman, what we do is we work with a set of independent fact checkers -- >> somebody fact checks on ads. you contract with someone to do that, is that right? >> chairwoman, yes. >> as for facebook's cryptocurrency project, zuckerberg told lawmakers the concept could make exchanging money more affordable for people worldwide. the plan has been met with skepticism in washington. all right. joining us now to put all of this into perspective is connie from c-net. let's start with the fake ads right away, because zuckerberg in a six-hour stint where he was grilled pretty harshly by some congress people, he's not really budging much on fake ads. >> that's correct. he said that the issue he sees is a platform for free speech and that people should be smart enough to know what is right and what is wrong in their platform

so she is allowing politicians o put up ads even with fake content. that has got a lot of those politicians riled because they are the victims of some of this misinformation that is being disseminated on frankly the world's largest social media platform. >> it's not likely to change. this is just the way it's going to be for 2020? >> he has been sticking to his guns over the past week. he's had several conversations and speeches where he's talked about this. he is insisting that they see themselves as a distributor of content and, again, they don't want to get in the way of somehow curating or monitoring speech even when it's demonstrably false. joe biden and other politicians have pointed out when things are factually incorrect. this is not my interpretation or your interpretation, just blatantly factually incorrect and facebook is letting it stand. >> are they doing anything to help prevent this with the upcoming election? any other options they're using? >> they're talking about ways that they might be able to flag

content that perhaps is not appropriate. and by appropriate, they mean things that might lead to voter suppression. so if someone is posting the wrong election day or telling you you can vote by text, they say they will pull those things down because that is actually interfering with the vote. but if they want to say something about you, if politician wants to say something about you that is very, very wrong or would dissuade your constituency from voting for you, they'll let that stand. >> all right. let's talk about cryptocurrency, that is digital currency. facebook has its own project, libra. a lot of companies like paypal that would handle the payment processing, they have bailed. credit card companies have bailed. how do you see this project moving forward? >> so there are a couple of issues with libra, which is a project that facebook announced in june. it's a personal project that zuckerberg has been overseeing and ushering. he calls it a way for people around the world who don't have bank accounts or credit cards to be able to buy and sell goods using facebook as the platform for that money exchange.

however, there are concerns about how do you regulate that currency. how do you stop problems like money laundering or people buying and selling things that they shouldn't, like weapons or other material. and you have an overall sse from regulators not only in the u.s. but around the world that they don't trust facebook. facebook wants to get big. they see this cryptocurrency as a way to do it and they're facing an issue of trust. >> all right, connie, we thank you so much for your insight today. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. a separate standoff in the halls of capitol hill today. a group of house republicans barging into a closed door impeachment inquiry hearing. take a look at this. their disruption forced the testimony from a top pentagon official to be put on hold. the gro says they're just getting frustrated with the investigation into president trump. they want more transparency in all of this. democrats say their colleagues just need to follow the rules. >> there's no reason why the american public shouldn't be

able to watch this in realtime live. >> republican members who are not on the committees of jurisdiction try to go into a secured area. they also brought in their cell phones, which is a violation. >> all this follows yesterday's testimony from the top u.s. diplomat to ukraine. bill taylor said multiple administration officials told him president trump personally blocked aid to ukraine to obtain political dirt on joe biden. president trump is declaring victory in syria, saying the u.s. handling of the conflic between turkey and syrian kurds is a big success. critics say otherwise. even the president's own secretary of defense says turkey may have committed war crimes. trevor alt has the latest. >> reporter: today president trump declaring a major breakthrough in the middle east. >> the government of turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping comba and their offensive in syria and making the cease-fire permanent.

this was an outcome created by us, the united states, and nobody else. >> reporter: that announcement coming a day after turkey met with russia and announced the second cease-fire separate from the one negotiated with the u.s. last week. the fighting between turkey and the kurds now expected to come to a complete stop with kurdish forces withdrawing from a 20-mile safe zone. president trump touting america's need to get out of this part of the region. >> let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand. >> reporter: the president's announcement comes in the midst of concern and outrage from republicans and democrats. many accusing the president of abandoning the kurds, more than 10,000 of whom died fighting alongside the u.s. in the battle against isis. some feel today's new arrangement paves the way for the resurgence of isis. secretary of defense mark esper admitting more than 100 isis fighters have escaped from jail in the past two weeks. the president is praising turkey

for stopping its onslaught and immediately lifting all sanctions against the country, secretary esper tells cnn they may have committed war crimes. >> if accurate, they would be war crimes. i think those responsible should be held accountable. in many cases it would be the government of turkey should be held accountable for this. >> reporter: president trump did cast some doubt as to how permanent this permanent cease-fire will be. he said he believes in the deal but this is a volatile part of the world, adding we'll see what happens. trevor ault, abc news, new york. still to come, new research on why we reach for the junk food instead of a healthy snack when you get a late-night craving. i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. we're seeing b

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more. >> how do we make that happen? >> that i don't know. sandi sandhya has it figur out. >> i just sleep a lot on the weekends, that's all i can say. i haven't figured it out. let's take a look at the red flag warning that is in effect for the north and the east bay. it is in effect until tomorrow afternoon. santa cruz mountains goes up at 7:00 p.m. watch out, those gusty winds along with low relative humidity means extreme fire danger is certainly possible. skies are clear. looking at live doppler 7 right now and tomorrow afternoon, we are expecting the temperatures to peak. it is going to be a warm one, anywhere from 85 at half moon bay to 92 degrees in fairfield. these temperatures well above average for this time of year, but not for long. so we'll go into friday, still warm, 70s to 90s. saturday those temperatures drop down to the 80s inland, 60s at the coast. by sunday it's all over. 60s, 70s, closer to average for this time of year. accuweather seven-day forecast, fire danger elevated tomorrow.

warm sunshine continues on friday and then we'll notice that cooling trend taking us through the weekend and into early next week. we'll see those temperatures in the mid-60s to mid-70s by monday. a breezy pattern on monday. sunday is the day that we'll be watching as well with another round of gusty winds coming up. >> i just find napping at my desk makes up for it. >> or during the newscast. >> the bosses love it. they think it's great. just ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, new figures from boeing on just how much money the 737 max fiasco has cost the company, and the number is really staggering. plus one man's idea on what to do with a massive pumpkin. >> i like that. >> apparently it didn't quite work out, though. i'm 7 on your side's michael finney. fake so that early retirement we planned. it's going ok? great. now i'm spending more time with the kids. i'm introducing them to crab. crab!? they love it. so, you mentioned that that money we set aside. yeah. the kids and i want to build our own crab shack.

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annoepidemic fueled by juul use with their kid-friendly flavors. san francisco voters stopped the sale of flavored e-cigarettes. but then juul, backed by big tobacco, wrote prop c to weaken e-cigarette protections. the san francisco chronicle reports prop c is an audacious overreach, threatening to overturn the ban on flavored products approved by voters. prop c means more kids vaping. that's a dangerous idea. vote no on juul. no on big tobacco. no on prop c. boeing says the ongoing 737 max plane fiasco has kauftd tco company more than $9 million and counting. boeing expects a regulatory review of the jetliner to begin in the next fiscal quarter. they're cutting production of their dreamliner jets citing the

ongoing trade war with china for that cut. it can happen to any of us, ending up with a counterfeit bill. just like that, you lost money. >> so how do you protect yourself? 7 on your side's michael finney here with a closer look. >> the u.s. department of the treasury says there's about $70 million of counterfeit bills in circulation. with that much floating around, you could end up holding some of the fake money yourself. then what? joining me now is tom edwards, special agent in charge of the u.s. secret servicield office in san francisco. let's start with a question that intro just begged, which is if i'm holding counterfeit bills, i'm just out the money? >> you are. you're out the money. >> wow. >> because there's no refund mechanism to get your money back. so buyer beware when you get your money. >> where do the counterfeits come from? >> most are produced here domestically made with common ink jet printers, like a 4 in 1. the most popular is the $20 bill

and internationally is the $100 bill. >> can i tell the difference? is it possible for me to tell? >> you can. you have to take your time and look at it. i brought some notes with me. >> yeah, sure. >> the best way to see a real bill is to feel the paper. real paper is about 70% cotton, about 30% fiber so it's almost like a t-shirt, that's why you can wash it so many times. >> it feels bumpy. >> exactly. the ink sits on top of the paper. when you're making counterfeit on an ink jet printer, the ink actually goes into the paper so it feels really smooth. >> it does, yeah. it feels much smoother. >> so when you're feeling the ridges around the jacket or the portrait, that will tell you that's genuine currency. if it's smooth, it's probably fake. >> now, you were saying sometimes fake money comes into town and it's because of movies being made? >> yeah, there's motion picture money that has to be used in a film production so i brought you one to show you. it actually says motion picture money use only and it looks like a real $100 bill. >> it looks exactly the same

other than where -- where does it say, instead of u.s. treasury it says for motion picture use only. >> if you look at the eyes of ben franklin, they look a little shifty. >> yeah, they do look shifty. wow, that's amazing. you said this is a good time to be talking about this because of the holiday season? >> yeah, it's a great time. we see a big uptick of the passing of counterfeit around the holidays. the criminals take advantage of the long lines at the stores when the clerks are busy and they know that they have 20 or 30 people in line, that's a great time to pass counterfeit because no one is checking the bills. >> when you see people holding them up to light or using the pen, does that really protect them? >> it does something. i think if someone is in line thinking about counterfeit and there's a clerk at the store doing that additional step to protect the store from theft, yeah, it works because they're looking for a water mark, they're checking with the pen. that will deter some people from passing the counterfeit at that

business. >> is it organized crime or just little operators, somebody who goes and buys a copy machine giving it a shot? >> it can be both. mostly it's little operators that are trying to make profit every day little by little. >> tom edwards, special agent in charge here in than fraisco office, hey, thanks a lot. >> thank you, michael. >> be careful. >> fascinating stuff right there. if you ever wonder what should be done with those giant pumpkins at the half moon bay weigh-off, a faumrmer in tennese has one possible solution. >> no way. >> yeah, the folks on shore, they wanted their shot inside this massive 910-pound pumpkin. the farmer thought it would be fun to hollow out the gigantic gourd and make a boat. his wife recorded him paddling around. she also captured the scene when he tried to get a little cute and he goes down into the drink and the pumpkin sinks as well.

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reynolds wrap: foil made in the usa since 1947. primetime tonigh here on abc 7 starts out at 8:00, catch the goldbergs, then schooled, modern family followed by single parents. at 10:00, harry and meghan, an african journey. this is an interview with the royal couple about the causes of some of their stresses and issues that affect them the most. and then stay with us for abc 7 news at 11:00. of. abc 7 news is committed to building a better bay area. today we're taking a closer look at one specific housing problem. >> we recently told you that san francisco's housing production for low-income earners is just out of sync with the actual demand. it came out of the legislative budget analyst's office. >> lyanne melendez digs into the issue and possible solutions. >> reporter: construction is everywhere in san francisco. do you ever stop to wonder who gets to live in those pricey

buildings? i'll tell you who's going to occupy those units. the city projects that san francisco will have 15,000 high-income households by 2026. ready, willing and able to move in. people like that gentleman, or maybe him. or even her. and why not? the market rate units needed to house all those people have been approved or are in the pipeline. more than 18,000 units, according to a report by the legislative budget analyst's office. >> there's just more money for it. so right now in a very hot business economy, if you will, there's a lot of real estate capital. it's looking to, you know, put itself into new construction. >> reporter: okay. but what about low-income families? that's where we fall short, big time. the city has a shortage of 15,600 low income housing units. >> we are living in a chronic housing shortage and we've been

building that housingshortage for the last 50 years. >> reporter: only in the past few years has san francisco aggressively begun to tackle the problem. here's how. by next year san francisco will have built 30,000 affordable housing units. it's a lot, but clearly not enough. currently developers have to set aside 20% of the units they build towards affordable housing, or they can put money into a fund towards building affordable housing. that gives these nonprofits that oversee these projects more leverage because money in hand attracts state, federal, and private investments. so they get more bang for their buck. the city is also in the business of buying older buildings and refurbishing them but that has only given them about 200 units, again still not enough. since we're into finding solutions, here's what the

experts in that field say will help solve the housing crisis. this is affordable housing? >> yeah. this entire building is affordable housing. >> reporter: supporting ballot measures will brick in more money says peter cohen of the council of community housing organization. among the leaders of the affordable housing movement. meanwhile, neighborhoods have to stop legally challenging developments. >> there's a ton of land. there is an absolute gargantuan amount of land. they do not need to be one and two story single-family homes. >> reporter: other bay area cities also have to build more housing in order to lessen san francisco's burden. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >> well, we do want to hear your ideas about how we can build a better bay area. you can share them with us. all you have to do is join our better bay area group on facebook. >> thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. i'm larry beil.

>> i'm ama daetz. abc 7 news at 5:00 starts now. where are we going to have our dinner? have a hot shower in the morning? >> a north bay tourist left to wonder as another shutoff rolls in. there's a dividing line in one tale of two cities. >> turning off the lights can really turn on the nerves. some people are really feeling stressed out. now, what if there's no wind and your power is still cut? well, pg&e has the answer tonight. also beyond the blackouts. one city's plan to deal with the big picture by going small, and the critical move late today. plus, the woman called the hillsborough haireiress. a long-awaited trial reaches a turning point. pg&e officially pulls the plug. right now 34,000 customers in the bay area are either without power or about to be across northern california. that number jumps to 179,000 customers or 450,000 people. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze.

thanks for joining us. the shutoffs began at 2:00 today in the sierra foothills. they were supposed to begin at throw:00 p.m. in napa, sonoma, lake and mendocino counties. but some people said it went out an hour before that. >> as for san mateo and kern counties, the shutoffs should begin overnight at 1:00 a.m. sonoma county is facing themoun a pet resort in sonoma says these shutdowns really hurt. >> there's no city water out here, so when the power goes out, we have to have something to give water to the animals. so i have five gallon jugs and put fresh water in. i missed a lot of calls. i was basically out of business when they shut down last time. >> in napa