this time beyond what we provided yesterday, in yesterday's electric inch keide report. but i will reiterate that no matter what the cause, we are saddened by the loss of property in this fire. our thoughts are with all those who have evacuated, and, again, we thank the first responders on the scene for in enormotheir en efforts to contain this fire. >> so, again, just a reminder, we have a dial-in line. mics in the room. we want to be able to hear the question on the phone line. anybody have questions for us? >> hi, san francisco chronicle. of the 1,000 customers still without power in sonoma, how many of them are expected to have power restored before the second shutoffs go into place? >> that's a good question.

right now we don't know. because we are under the direction of cal fire in terms of having access to the scene. i can tell thaw fryou that from public safety power shutoff standpoint we're in an all-clear state, now it's a matter of coordinating with cal fire and when they give us access to the scene we can go in there and get people back in lights. >> got it. in terms of just the causations you have no other information about what caused the fires or anything else that you would like to provide an update on? >> we don't have any additional information in terms of causation. those investigations are ongoing, and we're going to support them fully. what i will say going forward, that when we experience something like we experienced with the operation of a transmission tower, the question has come up, why wasn't that de-energized. we talked to the protocol, we talked to the higher standard that both transmissions is

designed to. and in regard to the relays. what we have done is taken information based on the event we saw, revisited and tested our protocols against them, and, as a result, we have looked to do much more refined analysis of wind speeds given the topography that those assets may find themselves in. meaning that a lot of the weather data that we have is at relatively high levels in the atmosphere, and we predict those wind speeds. what we also recognize is that some of these assets may be seeing stronger winds based on the top kbraography, based on w they are. so we're trying to get a better view in the meteorological data and those assets. one thing i can say as a result of what happened yesterday, we have revisited and adjusted some of our standards and protocols in determining when we will de-energize high-voltage lines. >> if pg&e is found to be the

cause of the fires, where does this leave the company? >> i won't engage in a hypothetical, but there will be time to take a full look at the event. right now as the head of the utility and working with these gentlemen behind me, we are focussed on what as ahead and getting out of the wildfires. >> let's continue with abc 7 news at 6:00 as we continue to monitor the conference. it sounds like they're close to wrapping it up. i'm larry beale. >> and i'm ama daetz. the news conference says they may be making a decision at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow if they're going to go ahead with the next power sutoff because of the extreme fire danger we're experiencing. >> this is being described as the largest public safety power shutoff to date many a. and that would start tomorrow. at last time it was 179,000

customers impacted. this could be 850,000 customers impacted. let's listen. >> we are preparing for what is likely going to be a widespread safety shutoff across our service territory to combat the risk of a catastrophic wildfire. we have not made the final determination yet to move forward. we expect to make that decision at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> now, if they make the call, the massive shutoff would begin in the bay area at 7:00 p.m. this is all in advance of potentially dangerous fire conditions which are predicted to be the strongest so far this year and perhaps the strongest in several years. >> prime ministg and e customer this outage could last several days. melanie woodrow is at that conference with more on the

investigation into what caused the kincaid fire.r: you absolute the headline here, and that is that this is the strongest event they're expecting this year and possibly in several years. as you said, potentially 850,000 prime minist of pg and e's customers could be affected. that all-important decision will get made atle 8:00 tomorrow. they still have not determined what caused that fire. but a lot of attention was being paid to pg and e's power line equipment failure, that jumper that failed. governor newsom said discussions were had about whether or not that may have caused the kincaid fire, but the determination has motte been ma not been made and the investigation is ongoing. sky 7 over the area where the kincaid fire began. pg and e became aware of a transmission level outage. something glowing in the distance, then it fades, and

then fire. the transmission line had not been kde-energized because it didn't meet wind conditions for a shutoff. yesterday they responded to a jumper, a wire that conducts over the insulator. still it's not clear whether pg and e's tower failure caused the fire. today greed and mismanagement was cited along with lack of focus. >> they simply did not do their job. >> reporter: the governor promising pg and e will be taken to task. >> we will hold them to an account that they have never been held to in the past. we will do everything in our pour to restructure pg and e. >> reporter: also saying pg&e eeld accountable.

they have notified all their potential customers that will be impacted by the potential additional shutoff. they say if you have not received one of those note notifications you will not be affected. >> pg&e stock has tanked to the lowest point in the company's history, dropping 30%, now at $5 per share in after hours trading. that's far lower than the previous record, the previous low was $6.36 per share in mid january after pg and e filed for bankruptcy. analysts with citi group say if pg&e is found to be responsible for causing the fire, its shares would be worthless. >> we are 24 hours away from dangerous conditions that could lead to pg and e's largest shutoff yet. >> 850,000 customers all across

california could lose their libertariani electricity this weekend. almost half are in the bay area. it would be considerably more than were affected last time. >> eight of the bay area's nine counties are in the sown. kristin sze shows us how to find out if you are affected. >> on the pg and e website, can you find a couple tools to help you find information during the next power shutoff. first, this potential outage map. you see the vast majority area n orange. zooming into street level pofor you, we want to show you, i zoomed in in san mateo. the mills hospital is shown to be in the shutoff zone. but take a look at the second tool. this is where you can enter an address. same one there, mills peninsula hospital. and you're supposed to also get

a result. this i'm it time it says no imp. now, remember, pg and e says this map is not as accurate as actually typing in your information. so this map is approximate. remember that if case there is conflicting info for your particular address. pg&e has been much criticized for its information during the previous power shutoffs. they have moved features to the cloud so it's easier to add capacity and hopefully avoid crashing. kristin sze, abc 7 news. some people went through that power shutoff two weeks ago. for others, this will be the first time. >> leslie brinkley live in lafayette joining us with both perspectives on this, leslie? >> reporter: well, there's a big swath of the east bay that's likely tomorrow and into the weekend to experience a power outage. there's still a lot of confusion, and people feel a little disconcerted. they really don't know what to

expect. n shede he was warned known. 1:00 p.m. the power will go off in lafayette. the county seemed to indicate it might be more in the evening. pg and e indicated it may be around 3:00 in the afternoon. a lot ofunknowns, but this power outage is going to be bigger than the last one and have other repercussions. >> super heroes, and i hope the super heroes do not take the power out. >> reporter: businesses define the week before halloween, and a haunted film fest could vget interrupted and more. >> i hope we have power. because sunday we have an event here. and it's, you know, it's the kids expecting to halloween parade, and we're ready for the customers, also, get coloring books. >> this time, with poor air quality and hot weather, many people are not going to be able

to close their windows and put air conditioning. we advise people to also go where there's not going to be a power outage. >> reporter: the bad air will roll in during the outage. so the county is advising the public to escape somewhere with ac to filter it. in west county, that could be bay side. the whole concord and walnut creek corridor should have power. much of the highway 4 corridor is expected to be also spared from the outage. >> you'd think, in america, we'd be advanced enough that we wouldn't have to shut off power every toime there's wind in the summer, and it seems like this is the pattern that pg&e is trying to establish. >> we're still ready from the last one. >> reporter: the contra costa county reasonable malmedical center has backup generators. it's a reminder to everyone to not just think about cell phone,

gassing up your car, getting ice if you might experience power outage, but to find another place to maybe go if the air quality's bad and to consider that pharmacies, urgent care clinics might be closed in your area. reporting live in lafayette, leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> the fierce firefight meanwhile continues in the north bay on the kincaid fire which sparked late wednesday night near geyserville. >> 2,000 people have been evacuated. more than 700 buildings are still at risk from the fire, which has burned about 22,000 acres and is only 5% contained. firefighters expect to have full containment by halloween. that's thursday. >> thursday is going to feel like a long ways away. given what many will experience this weekend. this is a live look from sky 7, it at the kincaid fire. a number of hotspots there. difficult terrain to work in. and a little bit of a lull today in terms of the wind. so, you know, maybe a little bit

of progress made, but given the conditions that weigh a are exp to experience over the weekend, things could change dramatically. a few minutes ago we heard pg&e's andy vici say he has never seen conditions like this, where you have 100 million dead trees all across the state of california, basically, that's tinder for any spark, and you can see what the result is here, once a fire does get started. very difficult to contain. >> and that smoke is just filling the air. we're starting to feel it here in the other parts of the bay area. like you said, a little bit of a break with the winds, but the weekend is going to be a disaster, really, they're hoping to get as much containment as they can before the conditions get worse over the weekend. >> but all that smoke up in the atmosphere, we can see it and spencer will have an update on the conditions in just a pfew

minutes. but that's a live look from sky 7 as firefighters desperately try to get a handle on the ken ca kincaid fire. once nightfall hits it's much more difficult because you can't fly at night. for everything you need to know about the fire and outages that are coming, we'll send breaking news alerts throughout the weekend, through our app and give you the latest news just as soon as it happens. >> and we expect kcal fire to give you an update at 7:00. up next, live in healdsburg your brain is an amazing thing. but as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory.

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sonoma county's kincaid fire from the air. sky map can show us what this looks like from google earth. this is what you would usually see from the helicopter. sky 7 sharing the firefighteri firefighting planes. >> this fire sparked just after the second anniversary of the north bay wildfires. now two years later, hundreds of residents are chased out again. >> abc news anchor eric thomas live in healdsburg. these people have been through so much and here they go again. >> reporter: it seems like a redo of 2017, but the fire is

heading to different parts. homes that weren't threatened before are threatened now. we're at the healdsburg community center. dinner has arrived. we saw huge covered dishes and a bunk bunch of pizzas there, but that is little comfort for those who know they have to deal with the fire this weekend. the view is even more heartbreaking. residents had to leave these homes in a hurry, and even those whose homes were spared were forced to run for their lives. tina remembers the power being out and feeling her way to the door to get a frantic warning. >> when i opened the door, all you see is a silhouette of the person, and i'm going, he's going "get out! fire "!

it hit me. it's a fire, i'm going to lose everything. >> reporter: so far their home is okay. but everyone is worried about the wind picking up this weekend. that includes vintners. it's grape harvesting time, and what should be a happen he dy d now it's filled with concern. >> we don't know the extent of possible smoke taint or problems with ash on the grapes. >> reporter: he's gone through this before in 2017. but he's not only worried about the business. he lives in healdsburg. however, something has changed. now he has an 8 month old son to worry about. >> i'm scared he can't breathe this air. scared to sleep in my house tonight. i'm not sure if i'm going to. >> reporter: as the sun sets we see the air here is very still as you take a look at these leaves above me on this tree. if the folks around me had three

wishes, i'm sure one would be to keep the winds as they are. that's probably not going to happen. 138 people checked into this red cross evacuation center last night. it is unclear whether all will stay the night. but a great many are those who would be ordinarily picking grapes. it is harvest time. and a lot of the grapes are still on the vine because of the fire. >> in petaluma, farms and stables rely on water wells to feed the livestock, wells which require electricity. they rely on electric for their animals. we are joined live. >> reporter: the owners of the horse ranch in petaluma have been trying to reach out to pg&e with questions about possibly turning the lights out.

pg&e has not responded. that's why they turned to us. and hoere's why. seven horses were transported, rescued in the morning hours during the kincaid fire. >> and we've got some goats over there, too. >> reporter: that's june lowmire who boards horses. at 97 she still makes the rounds on a golf cart. on a property like this one, lesson number one is knowing how a water well operates. >> it takes electricity to use the pump to get the water from our well. >> reporter: in other words, without water, these horses would be in a dire situation. we asked june's daughter where exactly was that well? >> see the trees way up there. >> and see that hill up there? there's a path that goes behind those trees, and that well is way up back beyond the hill. >> reporter: up we went, on a hot, dusty road to find the well can june's son dave sherman. conditions are as dry as they

get. leave it to a city slicker like me to ask why not put a generator up there. >> you could have a generator up here. then you got to think about fire from the generator. because it's so dry. >> reporter: if pg&e cuts their power off because of strong wind conditions, the pump will automatically shut off. they have no way to store water for the horses. >> at the most, two days. that's it. >> reporter: the stable was not affected last time pg&e cut power to thousands of customers. >> it just looks pretty ominous this time. i think it's going to go this time. i think they're going to turn it off. >> and when you're through with what's in the tank you've got no water. and the same thing goes for me. >> reporter: ironically, they may have to seek help for their horses from other stables if they end up running dry. so a lot of water districts throughout the san francisco bay area are telling customers to be prepared, conserve water, about

one to two gallons per person per day. but here is the reality. someone like me probably can consume a gallon, maybe two a day. but let's take a horse. you're talking about 12,000, 1200, rather, pounds. that's average a horse weighs. a horse consumes a lot, a lot of water. gallons and gallons and gallons of water. so what they're telling me is that there's no way to prepare. we'll be thinking about them. i'm live in petaluma. lyanne melendez. abc 7 news. >> so much going on with the weather conditions, and the big impact it has on the fire and the power, as you look at sunset right here. spencer is tracking all of the

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and let's get right to spencer christian. >> you can see from this camera view we have haze in the air e from the smoke and fire. strong gusty winds develop late tomorrow night, continue into monday morning and of course we have high fire danger until monday morning as well. a high wind warning in effect for much of the northern-most part of our viewing area, and a wind advisory for the remainder of the bay area, along with that a red flag warning for the entire region, from tomorrow night to monday morning. wind gusts 35-60 miles per hour.

and the strongest gusts in the hills could range from 65-80 miles per hour. tomorrow will be a spare the air day. air quality's likely to be poor in all areas. so as we look at the accuweather forecast, once we get through the weekend into monday morning winds start to subside, then we have a calm and pleasant week ahead. >> thank you so much. coming up next, an update on the biggest fire currently burning in northern california. >> also we expect to hear from cal fire in just a matter of minutes to find out what's happening on the front lines of

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breaking news is fire. firefighters working around the clock trying to contain the k kincaid fire before dangerous conditions kick in tomorrow. last report >> we are taking it live for

you. we're hoping the update will take place at 6:406789 t. 2,000 people remain evacuated, including the community of geyserville. >> a major concern is air quality in the bay area. here's a live look at the website. purple air.com. it monitors particulate matter in the air. the worse area is in the kincai fire area, which makes sense, but air quality to deteriorate this weekend. this animation was tweeted today, a satellite image of smoke from the kincaid fire. you can see it drifting towards the bay area. we can see it from a variety of our cameras here at abc 7. >> let's check in with spencer about the winds and air quality. >> the wind, as you probably know, has been relatively calm all day. but the smoke continues to drift southward from the area of the fire. let me give you a couple camera views. you can see the haze building up in the air.

here's one from sutro tower. the haze is pretty thick there, notice it's pretty warm. temperatures in the upper 70s and low 80s. you can see the haze from the golden gate bridge as well, and notice how many temperature readings across the area the the 80s. we have another spare the air day coming our way. one quick look at wind gusts. they'll start to intensify, big time, tomorrow night, between midnight tomorrow night and 4:00 a.m. sunday is when we expect wind gusts to peak, and then it's just going to remain windy all the way through the day sunday and into early monday. larry and ama? >> spencer, thank you. and the strong winds already are moving smoke from the kincaid fire across the bay area. some people are concerned that

inhaling that smoke could make children more vulnerable to a asta astma and allergy. >> they've already been studying children in fresno. they studied last november during the camp fire with about 60 blood samples. millions of cells are examined for 40 markers for a particular attention on t-regulatory cells. >> those in high pollution areas may have fewer cells and they may dmnot work as well. >> t-regulatory cells are essential to the immune system. they want to see whether it triggers a reaction. and if a child's access to health care can make a difference. the doctor and her team believe

wildfire smoke is more toxic because of metal and plastic burned. they hope to find about 400 participates and take blood samples before a major fire and then take more blood samples after breathing smoke. >> we'll have those people come in after that exposure, and look at blood pressure and other markers to see, are there changes. >> one of the big challenges is willing to donate blood to do the analysis. children could develop asthma or allergies. the impact to lead to life-long health issues. go to our website if you'd like more details about volunteering for the study. at stanford, david louie, abc p 7 news. we go live to the fair grounds where there is an

update. structures threatened and still 2,000 people evacuated. we still have 49 structures that have been destroyed many a. and we are now over 1300 firefighters out on the line. at it 2:00 today, 1400 hours we notified unified command with the sheriff's department, and we had an incident with an iwi occur on the line. that literally is being handled at this moment. fire activity picked up, and additional resources were called in due to some sort of event. we will get more information about that when it is available. we dealing with the situation. and we'll get the information out for that as soon as we can. there are some rupemors out the, but we will clarify them as soon as we get better intel on that. we have supervisor zain here from sonoma county, officer lopez from the california

highw highway patrol. division chief nichols and the unit chief shawna jones. behind me in the two red hats are two of the incident commanders from cal fire from imt 6. josh janson and chief vike to my left. we have the sheriff hessic here on my left as well as abbott. >> my name is there was a slight increase in the incident. it is still broken into three geographical areas. the day started on a slower side as an inversion layer held the smoke down. unfortunately, as soon as that smoke inversion raises and the heat picks up, the humidity continues to decrease, we normally do see an increase of fire behavior, which we did see

today, and we expecting that behavior change. we did have a slight wind that did come out of the northwest, you can see the branch one area of the fire. you'll notice when we show an updated fire perimeter map the majority of the growth was on this branch one on the east flank of our fire. we don't have the exact perimeter at this time. that is currently being mapped and validated as we speak. the rest of the fire was extremely active. firefighters were able to hold very close to the containment lines as you'll see when the map comes up, around the other branches, nine divisions of the fire. that concludes my report. >> thank you, chief ernst. i'd like to introduce from the sheriff's department, sheriff esick. our evacuation orders are in place. i would like to talk about a

couple small incidents that have happened. we know this is a very difficult time to be evacuated from your home, but we've had aggressive people approaching some of our check points with the california highway patrol along with our sheriff's deputies. we want to reiterate that you need you to be kind to our first responders. be patient with us. we're there to try to help you and keep you safe, keep you out of the evacuated areas. we currently have about 50 deputies patrolling the area of geyserville and east of geyserville. those deputies are there to prevent looting, and we've had no reports of looting at this point. they're also there to help with evacuations, provide direction and support. we have no missing persons reports at this point, and we have no fatalities reported as well. finally, i want to talk about what you can do to help us over the weekend as we see this historic wind event coming at us. we would like you to stay hope. please stay home unless you're

being evacuated. we would like you to stay off the roads, stay off the highways so emergency vehicles can get around. stay vigilant, stay informed. be in contact with your neighbors, especially those neighbors who are old, elderly or infirmed. you can take advantage of notifying yourself, keeping yourself informed by following us on nixle, twitter, soco alert. thank you for your patience. the sheriff's office has always been here pour yofor you. we will continue to be here for you. but we are keeping these areas evacuated for your safety and so first responders can be in there dealing with this very unpredictable situation. thank you. >> next, representing the county of

>> i mmy name is david rabbit. we're so thankful for all the first responders here. it does bring back a lot of memories from just two years ago. even to see this facility loaded with fire engines brings back those memories. a lot has been talkedbout with this wind event over the weekend. we are in the red flag warning. we have a high wind warning for north bay mountains, valleys and coast lines. the words used are a little ominous. dangerously strong offshore winds, crilly low humidity. and the event looks to be historic and even stronger winds than what we saw on october 8th in 2017. like the sheriff said, it's a good weekend to stay home. it's a fogood weekend to make se you're ready for any power outage that could occur both tomorrow and sunday. we also want to remind people to watch out for winds throughout

their own communities, let alone the fires. tree branches may be downed. we also ask you to please stay away from either immediately getting the chain saw out to take care of that problem as you may spark a fire which will only make things worse. be safe, and we'll get through the weekend together. thank you very much. >> thank you. happy to answer any questions for any of the individuals who are standing up here. [ inaudible question ] >> yeah, so cal fire, obviously, looks at fires regionally and preparation regionally. so we have staffing patterns and additional staffing statewide at the moment. it's the old adage of all hands on deck for an event of this size. it's not just cal fire boosting its resources, but local government engines, additional aircraft brought into the state. resources from outside of the

state also coming in. so this is, although historic, very strong reaction from the department and from all fire agencies across the state right now to get as in position as best as possible before this wind actually hits. [ inaudible question ] >> yeah, so i think if you look at the past three years, all of the large and damaging fires have occurred this time of year, during that offshore wind event period. particularly during the red flag warnings. although we've had minimal fire activity this year, our fuels are now hitting that critical stage. you kind of compound that with the fact that we're potentially going to see a historical wind event, and it has us highly concerned that the vulnerable areas of california could see some explosive fires. so that's why we are reiterating this kind of vigilance that we're preaching to everybody that 95% of fires in this state

are caused by humans. if we can actually take care of what we're doing in our vehicles, in our activities when we're outside, everything is going to count and help this weekend. [ inaudible question ] >> yeah, it's a great question. you know, we would love to have it at 90% containment. as you can imagine, when 10,000 acres burns in less than 12 hours, the number of miles of fire perimeter that are open on that are overwhelming. although we have 1300 firefighters, 24 hours a day on the ground and aircraft during the day flying this, the task is monumental. we'd love to see it at 90%, and we are throwing as many resources as we can at it. but we also have to plan for the worse, and we also have to think about this large wind event that

is coming. [ inaudible question ] >> yeah, we do know that after 1630 there was an increased fire behavior up on the incident. additional resources were both fire and ems. that is currently being investigated. as to the status and what actually occurred up there. so, it's really too early to speculate. we have people at that scene dealing and investigating it. in the interest of not providing m misinformation, we will get that out as soon as we can verify it. we can cop frm thenfirm there wh dense within an incident [ inaudible question ] >> so our aircraft are a great

asset but are limited by visibility and wind. wind can be, basically make our retardant infective. it's also dangerous when you're flying in high winds. conversely, during high inversions you don't have the ability to see where we're dropping. conditions have to be right for our aircr what we do have is a number of fixed wing and rotary wing that are at a moment's notice in the sky and over the fire. there's literally an air attack flying overhead at all times. a helicopter below him at all times. and they're calling in coordinated drops with the ground crews are wherever those targets of opportunity actually come up when there's clarity. i know it's easy to assume that we are not using aircraft, but, you know, there's someone overhead during all daylight hours who, as soon as there's a target that's viable, they will launch on it, and that will continue until this thing's completely extinguished. >> and we are in the question and answer portion of this news conference happening at the

sonoma county fair grounds. on the kincaid i fifire, 23,700 acres and 5% contained. 2,000 people still evacuated. 600 structured threatened. 49 destroyed. and 1300 firefighters working on this. >> we will continue to stream the conference online. and you can find information

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the disastrous wildfires have insurance companies dropping homeowners living i disaster zones. >> michael finney says this is causing a lot of anxiety. >> and it's been doing it for a long time, actually. the state department of insurance released astonishing figures. insurance companies refuse to renew more than 167,000 homeowner policies last year alone. that's up 6% statewide and up 10% in wildfire areas. about 9,000 living in disaster zones lost their insurance in 2018. many didn't have any fire damage, like elizabeth of

arenda. >> i don't feel food abogood ab. i thought, gee, i've been with them about 40 years, here they are canceling my insurance. >> elizabeth lives in a wooded hillside area and says aaa refused to renew her policy, even though she never had fire damage. however, she was able to get insurance through state farm by bundling her homeowner and auto policies under one umbrella. moving all your business to another company can entice a carrier to cover you. keep that in mind if you're told no. and some hope for those in the kincaid fire and other major fires around the state. state law offers more protections for those who live in or near a declared disaster area. here's how it works. insurance companies must offer a one-year renewal pofor homeowne in a disaster zone even if they had no damage.

if a home is in a disaster, they must offer insurance pour two years. they must give all homeowners 45 days notice if they don't intend to renew their insurance policy. and a new law extends that notice to 75 days. that begins next july. now we're hearing from many of you in fire-prone areas saying your agents are not issuing new policies. well, get this. there's no law that says insurance companies must write policies. the state does offer a last resort known as f-a-i-r insurance. it's bare bones, really expensive, but it is coverage. >> it's a rough situation. >> it totally is. i want to hear from you. the final thought, a disaster has been declared in sonoma.

that means price gouging laws are now in effect. which means nothing can go up more than 10%. so gas has to, you know, hotel rooms, everything. >> good protection. >> good to know. petaluma firefighters posted this picture on facebook with the caption, when you're away from nearly 36 hours and get a break from the fire line you get rh rest when you can where you can. they thanked robert young, estate winery, for letting them bed down on the lawn. about 10% of their 450 acres burned. the vines were mostly spared. >> those firefighters have got to be just exhausted. and this is going to be another difficult weekend to contend with. >> yeah, spencer christian is here with the conditions they're facing. >> it's going to be so challenging. windy and dry. this red flag warning is in effect from late tomorrow into monday morning, wind gusting 35-60 miles per hour generally,

65-85 miles per hour in the higher elevations and dangerously low humidity. tomorrow is going to be a sunny one you aboutbut a hazy one. here's a look at the wind gust animation. 2:00 a.m. sunday, notice how intense these weind gusts will be. 35-45-mile-per-hour dp 35-45-mile-per-hour gusts. and it will blow all the way into early monday before they taper off. here's the accuweather forecast. we will still have haze left over on monday. probably that depends on how contained the fires will be by then. at least the wind will diminish and we'll get more seasonal weather patterns. >> and gusts up to 80 miles per hour in the north bay? >> the higher

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all right, let's get you caught up on the breaking news. cal fire gave us an update on the kincaid fire, and the sheriff has this advice. >> we would like you to stay home. please tay home unless you're being evacuated. we'd like to you stay off the roads, stay off the highways so emergency vehicles can get around. >> cal fire says the fire has now burned more than 23,000 acres. it's it's 5% contained. residents are watching the

changing weather conditions. we'll have much more at >> melanie woodrow was at the pg&e news conference where they announced they will make a decision tomorrow whether they need to turn off power to 850,000 customers. perhaps more than 2 million people impacted in the bay. >> so much to keep track of. we are doing that for you many you c thanks for joining us. >> for spencer christian, all of

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