destroyed including 40 homes. >> the kincade fire has burned near where the tubs fire was, remember back in 2017, that catastrophic fire. that fire burned a smaller area, but destroyed more than 5,000 homes. >> we do have team coverage on the kincade fire. abc 7 news reporter joins us live from the sonoma county fire grounds with evacuees. >> we'll begin with abc 7 reporter wayne freedman reporting live. >> reporter: you were talking a few moments ago about evacuees, this is the route some will take, highway 101 north. traffic is, however, picking up as western sonoma does reopen to evacuees. closer to the fire, however, it's going to take much this is what passes for

activity, from burn scape, now smolder scape, and considering all the property some how saved, the eventually they get home if more red flags don't keep them away. that will take a while in the entire country. >> should anybody have to go through all of this. >> no, sir, this is insanity. >> reporter: for context, we checked in on joel chandler and his wife tina where hundreds of homes burned two years ago. they moved back just recently. only to be evacuated again. it's all too much tina told us. everything about this. especially the smell of smoke. yes, the smell of smoke, makes me nauseous. >> reporter: that's a mental thing. >> it's mental. it's post-traumatic stress. so many of our neighbors and friend have it. it's a real thing. >> it just feels like it's out of control, you know.

it's like it's the same thing keeps happening over and over again. you know, it's like, i know everybody's tried to make improvements but obviously it's not working. >> reporter: as we come back to 101 north live again, that was joel chandler talking about pg&e and efforts to control some of these fires and keep them from igniting in this general area. i asked joel if he ever left his house this time. he said, no, he put in a 17,000 gallon pool in the backyard and a pump. he stayed right there. he said he would save it himself. live in sonoma county, wayne freedman, abc 7. >> what is the difference, wayne for residents between this year and two years ago? >> reporter: we've heard this one a bunch of times, dan. the difference, they say, is time. the time they had from the warning to the time they had to leave. for joel chandler, he said this time he had roughly two days.

last time, 20 minutes. >> yeah, that's a huge difference. thanks, wayne, very much. at least 96 structures including 40 homes have been destroyed by the kincade fire. >> many residents are staying in shelters in the north bay. lu >> reporter: there are 450 evacuees in the sonoma fairgrounds shelter. we spoke to a family in petaluma. they are wondering if they can go back home and if they'll have a home to go to in a couple of days. how are you? >> tired. stressed. want to go home. but we're doing okay. we're doing okay otherwise. so. >> reporter: do you know if your home is okay? >> i don't know anything. i just know that we cane 't go back right now. >> reporter: outside of the s e

sonoma marine fairgrounds, they were evacuated on sunday. the flames were inching to their home. >> the entire horizon was just orange, like a bright orange glow. and like we could just watch the fire the whole night, just waiting until we got the alert. >> reporter: the green family used their rv as a bulldozer to run over tvs and get a convoy of ten family members out of the red zone of the fire. after the 2017 fires, they thought they had seen it all. now they're back here at a shelter, holding on to hope that their home is still standing. >> do you remember two years ago going through something similar, correct. >> yeah, it seems almost like a cut and paste of just two years back. kind of same thing happening just different time and seems s like i don't know, just seems like it's worse or better in some regards. >> and some good news over here, we just got word that zone 7 of

this shelter will be able to go home. those are residents of bodega bay. we got confirmation of the governor of california will be here speaking to some evacuees at 5:00 p.m. we'll have that for you. in in. the kincade fire forced 185,000 people to leave their homes. the largest evacuation order in sonoma county history. many of the evacuations in sonoma county are at capacity, the centers that is, but napa valley expo communty church napa and petaluma valley baptist church are accepting evacuees. it is all about the weather, particularly the wind, and another wind event is on the way. >> and let's talk about the timing of this. spencer christian standing by with a look at conditions. spencer. >> we're not getting much of a break in terms of weather conditions. here's a look at conditions at te location of the fire. 65 degrees, relative humidity, once again, bone dry, about 10%. the steady wind out of the west,

southwest, actually, at 7 miles per hour with occasional gusts up to about 15. so the wind is not very strong at the moment, and for the next few hours, as you look at the 24 hour wind gust forecast, you can see the wind will remain relatively calm, generally under 10 miles per hour, until early tomorrow morning, all of a sudden we're going to get a sudden and dramatic increase in wind gusts up to nearly 30 miles per hour in the area of the fire, and not only there, but all across much of the north bay and into the east bay tomorrow we'll see winds increasing dramatically, starting in the morning hours. the result is a high red flag warning for high fire danger going into effect for the north bay, for the remountaainder of area, and all across the region during this high wind event. we can expect gusts between 30 and 65 miles per hour. i'll give you a closer look at that in a few minutes. dion. >> spencer, thanks very much. pg&e gave the final all clear this morning to begin the process of restoring power, but

the company is already warning customers that that forecast weather condition spencer is talking about could force the utility to keep the power off a while longer. the new round of shutoffs could start tomorrow. if so, this would be the fourth time this month pg&e has started to send out alerts. power was cut to 960,000 customers this weekend. >> well, speaking of customers, abc 7 news reporter, laura anthony is in oakland where some businesses are really feeling the impact of the power outage. >> laura? >> reporter: yeah, high, dion, hi hi dan. actually, the good news, i'm hearing from people their power is starting to go back on in the east bay, the north side of oakland, i have heard from parts of marinda that the power is starting to go back on. here in the montclair district of oakland, the businesses are still shut tight. this restaurant behind me, the

owner told me it's becoming an extreme hardship. >> we're having that conversation right now. we are having that conversation amongst the partners. >> for rob lamb, the owner of the pearl restaurant in oakland's montclair district, this latest power shutoff may prove to be a setback he can't survive. closed since friday, the outage has already cost him $40,000 and counting. >> so you're in the day four. >> yeah, day four of a really crucial end o. monf the month, of holiday parties and everything going on, so yeah, it's a real heartbreaker. >> what do we have in there. >> these are some of the items that we could actually try to save. >> reporter: lamb rented a generator to keep his perishables cold, and he's continue to go pay his 20 employees. but faced with the prospect of more days without power. >> the real concern is my staff, going five days, these are hard working people, and they got to pay rent coming up. >> reporter: in lafayette, it's

a giant generator that's keeping the perishables on the shelves and the store open for residents. growing weary of another public safety power shutoff. >> i know people have lost property up in sonoma, and with the fires that broke out yesterday in laugh yfayette, i'y with it. i was a skeptic before. i would rather have no power and a house and a neighborhood than not. > reporter: and again, we're live in the montclair district of oakland, the power here is still out, but the very latest is that power is slowly being restored to the communities here in the east bay. of course the big question for how long. i just spoke with or heard from a pg&e representative who said n they are making those decisions right now. we could see power shutoffs again as early as 4:30 tomorrow morning. it's unclear at this point whether conditions depending exactly how widespread this next

outage might be. some folks have been warned that they might not see their power go back on at all before the next outage, so for instance, this restaurant concerned, he may not be able to open again for two or three more days. live in oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> yeah, that is tough. okay, laura. thank you. many marrin county residents without power have been coming to san francisco for essentials like gasoline. this is the marina earlier this morning. a lot of people filling up their cars and gas cans as you see here. pg&e says it is expecting equipment in marin county, the first step in getting the power back on. some could go back off again because of more wind. as we mentioned, pge and may proactively shut off power in a few days. >> you're going to start out on the potential psps outages maps page. scroll down and you want to

click here. it's available in english and several other languages. once this page loads, this portion is important. this shows october 26th and 27th. that is the most recent psps situation that we're looking at. you want to click this to view the map for olctober 29th, whic is tomorrow. i have the two pages pulled up for comparison. this is from the most recent outage. this is for the potential of the new one. you can see there's a lot less orange we're seeing across the map, but still areas in the east bay as well. we can see here, orinda, lafayette, moraga. move over to the peninsula. there's areas over here as well, over to half-moon bay and keeps going further south and still much of the north bay as well, when you bring it up to here. significantly less when comparing to the map that we have been looking at for the past couple of days. pg&e continues to say all areas outlined are proximate and advised people to use the

address look up tool for the most accurate information. reporting in the studio, abc 7 news. bad air, you can see the thick smoke in the sky but what is it doing to your health. plus, fire masks, you have heard about those masks you're supposed to wear when the air is bad but do they really work. and power problems, it's bad for everyone, but even worse for

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investigated for starting a fire. the i team told you last week about a pge and owned transmission tower that may be the source of the kincade fire roaring through the county. >> the utility has discovered two power lines may be to blame for fires that started yesterday. melanie woodrow is live in the newsroom with the story. >> on the documents filed with the state's public utilities commission, outline how pg&e could be responsible for the two separate fires on either side of the freeway, and they started blocks from where power had been turned off. flames threatened homes and destroyed the lafayette tennis club yesterday when a grass fire roared through dry brush fanned by high winds. it was one of two blazes that popped in the area, sending smoke over highway 24. today pg&e reported to the cpuc that there were two separate incidents, involving its energized power lines at about 2:30 yesterday. one incident was at pleasant

hill, where pg&e reported a communication lashing wire as a potential ignition source, and the other at ka mcamino diablo . you can see what the stretch of roadway looked like in april of this year. there were trees in the area close to power lines. the exact scenario pg&e has been concerned about and the reason it says it is cutting power to millions of customers when high winds pick up. now there are questions as to why the two lines that may hae been involved in yesterday's fires were energized at all. take a look at this pg&e planned public safety outage map from yesterday. that orange color is where power was shut off. this is where the ka mdiablo fi started both just outside the outage zone. raising more questions about the effectiveness and keexecution o pg&e's planned outages. >> in the newsr newsr newsr newr

team, melanie woodrow. firefighters have the upper hand on the sky fire that started yesterday morning near crockett and contra costa county, the fire that jumped the carcinas strait and sparked a grass fire in vallejo. that fire is 90% another fire burning in solano county burned, and started yesterday afternoon and has burned at least 1,500 acres. no structures are in danger. chef and food network host tyler florence is in sonoma to help feed the evacuees. he shared this video on twitter of the meal he prepared last night for about 6,000 people at the sonoma county fairgrounds. if you want to volunteer anytime this week, he asks that you send him a direct message. they would prefer kitchen experience, of course, but he says if you have a strong back and can handle a knife, hey, they'll take you and can use the help. if your power is out, you might

be wondering what is in your refrigerator and freezer that is still safe to eat. according to the usda, your fridge will keep food safe up to four hours, and if you have a full freezer, food should safe for 48 hours. throw out refrigerated food like meat and eggs after four hours without power. get rid of dairy, processed or hard cheeses, uncut fruits and vegetables are safe to eat as well as open fruit juices. when in doubt, throw it out. we have more information on the recommendations on our web site, abc7news.com. i have been without power since saturday, and am doing that prose no-- process now, looking through the refrigerator. >> times you have to do what you need to do. >> we're thankful, at least we have our homes. >> small inconvenience. the wind is calm right now for most of the bay area. it's going to intensify once again, as you know, and it's not going to be very far into the future.

we don't have to wait for long for it. let's take a look at current conditions. you can see how much haze is still in the air. the view from our super tower camera looking out over san francisco, today is a spare the air today, tomorrow will be as well as that haze won't move away for a while. 68 degrees in the city, oakland, 70. low 70s at san jose and gilroy. 69 at pacifica, and the view looking west from emeryville, you can see the haze, 6 69 d, 69 in santa rosa, and fairfield, concord and livermore, and from the golden gate, you can see way off in the distance in the far north there evidence of that haze. we have blue skies over the golden gate, and these are our forecast features, mostly clear skies and chilly conditions overnight. the next wind event will begin tomorrow and continue into wednesday, and then we'll have a calmer pattern that will last a while, beginning oh, late wednesday into thursday. once again, tomorrow will be a spare the air day, the poorest

air quality will be along the coast and central bay. most other regions across the bay area, will have moderate air quality tomorrow, and this is our red flag warning. once again, it's important to bear in mind this begins in the north bay, 8:00 tomorrow morning. the remainder of the bay area goes into effect until 1:00 tomorrow afternoon and during this time we may see guests in the higher elevations up to 65 miles per hour with very low relative humidity. obviously under those conditions. we have high fire danger. here's our wind gust animation starting at 8:00 tomorrow morning, at which point it will be breezy in parts of the north bay and over into the east bay a little bit, but the wind won't become very intense and very widespread until later in the afternoon, we'll start to see gusts between 20 and 30 miles per hour. and then those gusts become more widespread, andta and they'll b stronger in the evening hours, notice gusts from 35 to about 45 miles per hour, will be widespread. from midnight tomorrow night into about 4:00 a.m. wednesday. you'll see, again, a range of

wind gusts, 35 to 45 miles per hour in the areas most severely affected by this increase in wind, but then much like this most recent event, this will taper off sharply, around, oh, mid afternoon on wednesday and the wind will settle down again. we have slightly elevated wave heights right now. we don't have a beach hazard advisory in effect. a statement of increased risk. overnight lows will drop into the 30s with some of our inland valleys, and low 40s just about everywhere else. here's the accuweather, seven-day forecast. once we get through the next gusty wind event on wednesday we'll have calmer weather for the remainder of the week. in fact, thursday's weather, halloween is thursday. thursday's weather will be a treat, not a trick. finally we get a pattern of sunny, mild days, steady range of temperatures and calm wind. >> calm sounds nice. >> i have been waiting to hear when you will say trick or treat

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continue talk about these terrible fires we're dealing with in the bay area. joining me is former firefighter and fema federal image management agency. mark, great to have you with us. so much to talk about here. as a former fema coordinator, what are some of the biggest issues in the next few days, and next few weeks. >> this is unprecedent. if we were just dealing with fire, that's one thing, but now power shortages, energizing and reenergizing, presents great challenges, especially coupled together. we're seeing red flag coming up over the next 24 hours. there's concern certainly about the growth of the fire. we noticed today the fire actually totally reversed. it was moving toward 101 at

great wind speed, hurricane force, turn around, now it's going towards santa aolano, nap have 4,000 firefighters on the line. now you've got the power situation and that in itself is a whole different incident to manage but you couple them together. >> how so, let's talk about that, how that hard to manage? >> and this is not a political statement. this is a standpoint from an operator, emergency manager. what we know took place yesterday were numerous fires throughout the bay area. you have to assume to some degree that those fires were caused by electrical equipment. we do know the paradise fire was caused by electrical equipment. there's conjecture that this recent fire as well as the lafayette fires. so from an emergency manager, you have to plan that that situation of reenergizing and deenergizing equipment is going to cause more fires, and you have to be prepared for that while also managing the kincade fire. >> that's fascinating, so even the promise of doing what pg&e

believes is safe could cause problems in and of itself, deenergizing, reenergizing. >> you hope that doesn't happen but wer did see that to some degree. you have to plan for that. we're talking about 44 helicopters, another 40 coming, they've got 6,000 people out doing wonderful line work. they brought mutual aid, 260 construction crews in, so they're bringing resources in. the state's beefed up resources, we saw that yesterday with the carcinas fire where the helicopter came in. that helicopter had been based at the livermore airport. it's above the normal inventory of resources. so when the governor and cal oes, office of emergency services saw this was coming, they brought in more staffing, more engines. >> do you think, mark, that cutting the power off preventatively is a good idea. does that prevent fires or does it also come with some risk that it could actually start fires. >> i don't think we quite know that yet. that's one of the challenges.

we know there was fire because of energized equipment. we can have that discussion at a later date. right now, the key part is to get through the next 24 hours in terms of the red flag plus the energy going up and down. >> when you see this wind that we're talking about yesterday, i was outside, 50, 60, 70 miles an hour. you can understand why it's all but impossible to stop these fires or put them out, maybe try to contain the spread. that's it. >> interesting enough coming in here, on your radio station, there was a gentleman that called in. his name was doug. he was flying back from a trip with his wife. he was coming from oregon. they flew over the kincade fire. they talked about on the radio that there was a fire tornado, 150 feet wide, 250 feet tall just hovering on one of the peaks over the fire area, and everything around that area had been destroyed, all the foliage, trees, gone. >> it's just wild, just crazy, as you said, unprecedented. mark, thank you so much for coming in. great to have you with us mark

navo, former firefighter, fema coordinator. still to come on abc 7 news at four, flying embers do damage again, setting a barn on fire in sonoma. see how the owner and out of town firefighters kept the horses who lived there safe and sound. plus, knock it off. you feel like you have been violated. >> a bold message, a double dose of difficulty for some east bay seniors, power outag

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now, from abc 7, live, breaking news. >> we are getting a closer look at the devastation from the fire including the soda rock winery in the alexander valley. it's been there since 1869. >> but today, there were some victories on the fire lines to talk about. here's abc 7 news reporter, cornell bernard. >> reporter: an intense, dynamic situation happening here in sonoma county. want to show you what's going on right now. firefighters this morning doused a fire that started in this hay barn. the owners right now are removing a lot of smoldering hay from here. it was likely started according to cal fire by flying embers from the kincade fire which was burning up on the ridge several miles from here. it was quick work by firefighters.

actually, the firefighters from culver city and beverly hills. we have firefighters from all across california. they made quick work and put out the fire. as for the ridge above us, firefighters made some progress overnight, slowing the spread into santa rosa. that is some good news. we saw one home being saved. sadly another could not be saved. it was a total loss. cal fire says the winds certainly working in their favor today, certainly nothing like we saw yesterday. that is the good news. as far as this horse farm goes, check it out. owner is very glad that this place is still standing. this is a barn that has been in the family since the 1900s, and they're very happy it is still here. in santa rosa, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >> nice to see it still there. thousands of firefighters are on the front lines and sonoma county sheriffs deputies continue to patrol the fire

areas. this is video taken from a deputy's dash camera, just before midnight. you can see pockets of fire as the deputy drives down highway 128 near clayton road, about 6 miles north of kag st kag sto that's an intense driver as you can see. >> and it would be great to get relief in the form of rain or if the winds die down a little bit. >> let's see what's in the forecast, spencer christian is tracking it all for us ch. we do know more wind is coming. >> forecast starting 8:00 tomorrow morning. the wind will be calm in most locations, brisk in the north bay and east bay. later in the day, you can see the wind becoming more intense and widespread, and into the evening hours, it just really intensifies dramatically, with 35 to 40 miles per hour gusts going into the late night, and overnight hours tomorrow night into wednesday morning. and then by midday wednesday, we'll see the wind tapering off once again. during that period of the high wind gusts, we're going to hav low relative humidity as our

humidity forecast indicator shows you. we'll see relative humidity readings dropping into the single digits and teens once again. it's going to be very dry and very windy, and of course the result means a red flag warning for high fire danger for the entire bay area, basically from tomorrow into wednesday afternoon, so we'll keep updating you on any changes but right now, be prepared for high gusty wind, and low relative humidity. dion. >> spencer, thanks. smoke from the grizzly fire and kincade fire is billowing across the bay area. you are looking from the view from our mount diablo camera. here's a look, where you can see the color of sky looking from san francisco to the east bay there. that smoke, much thicker in santa rosa. this video you see here was shot driving southbound on highway 101 earlier today. abc 7 news reporter david louie is live for us in san francisco with more on the health concerns this air brings. david. >> there was no question about

it, that sky 7 video really is dramatic showing the smoke covering the bay area. in fact, some people are complaining they can smell the smoke inside the homes with the windows and doors closed. the big question, of course, is how hazardous is this. scientists say they still don't know. it doesn't take a scientist to recognize we're breathing some nasty air. >> it was very harsh. the smell, it was like, itching, like your throat is itching, and it's just harder to breathe. >> research into the impact of wild land fire smoke is still in its early stages. scientists have focused more on particulate matter on forest fires and vehicles that produced air pollution. however, that's changing with the frequency of the northern california fires. >> and so we think there could be a different toxicity to wildfire smoke than from other sources. but mostly this is still an open area of scientific inquiry to try to figure that out! data collected by air monitoring devices like this one at 35 locations across bay area will

help. there was a dramatic spike in fine particulate matter, known as pm 2.5, as well as a similar spike at napa valley college. the monitors are won by the bay area air quality management district. the readout tapes show darker circles. over time, data driven research may help to develop recommendations or policies to protect the public from wildland fire smoke. >> do we put air filtration units, portable air filtration units in school gymnasiums, for instance, for shelters. does everybody go out and purchase if they can afford one, an air filtration unit for their home. >> health experts warn that breathing smoke can be harmful to those with heart and lung conditions. more data driven research may help determine other health risks. with engineers and scientists saying it may be several more years before they have enough data to provide definitive

answers. that means those of us breathing the smoke today and in the days ahead are essentially their test subjects. live in san francisco, david louie, abc 7 news. >> david, thank you. now, last year, experts told us to wear the n 95 face mask to protect us from the unhealthy air and the particles in the air. those masks are still recommended. some experts say people in the fire zones should opt for more protection than just those masks. 7 on your side's michael finney has a look at the latest recommendations. >> you sure see a lot of these masks in the fire zones. reporters, aid workers and many first responders wear these things. they are not without controversy, so let's break this down. the masks are officially called a particulate respirator. only those tested and approved by the national institute of occupational safety and health should be worn. during last year's fire, the common recommendation was to wear a mask marked in 95. this dwreyear, the recommendatis

for the n 100 mask which blocks particulates. the p 100 is also recommended. it also has oil resistance. to be most effective, the mask must fit correctly. now juan lopez here is an intern on 7 on your side. he's going to show us how it's put on the correctly. he makes sure the mask is above your nose and below your chin. it must have two straps, one strap goes above the ear, the other one goes below the ear. and for it to be most effective, you should be clean shaven, unlike juan here. if you have heart or lung issues, you really should talk to your physician before wearing one of these masks. and maybe obvious, but the best thing you can do is actually just get out of the area, get away from the smoke. if that's not possible, get indoors and close the windows. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. governor newsom today vowed once again to work with the state public utilities

commission to get pg&e to reimburse customers. >> the power shutoffs are more common in southern california than they are in northern california. they have been more common since 2007, and san diego gas and electric. they do not reimburse. pg&e has not been in this position before. we would like them to consider reimbursements and we're going to be very forceful in advancing that. >> the governor also reiterated that he thinks pg&e is too big, and once again encouraged local governmented to buy out -- government to buy out utility corporations. residents in fremont got their power back on after being out since saturday. others are bracing for another round of shutoffs that could be coming. looi live at the mobile canyon home park, chris nguyen. >> reporter: the power situation

isn't the only thing residents are dealing with. this is what's left of a carport, blown off its foundation, and landing on the roof before crashing on to the neighboring home. needless to say, they're very worried about what could happen next. this afternoon, a feeling of despair as residents in the senior living community anticipate another night without power. >> i'm not supposed to be under stress, but it's stressful, as a people probably more so. >> theresa lives here at the niles canyon mobile home park in fremont which had it power turned off over the weekend. she's 93 and uses an oxygen tank to breathe. >> i'm usually pretty calm. it shouldn't be. >> adding to the stress, her carport came down during yesterday's wind event which sent residents scrambling for safety. bruce hanke has been checking in on his neighbors throughout the outage. >> people in walkers, people in

electric chairs, people that are on oxygen, their minds aren't as sharp as they were when they were younger and they need a lot of help. >> that help has been coming from the fremont fire department. >> given the gravity of the situation, we would rather be overprepared than under prepared. >> reporter: fire chief curtis j jacobson says his team is ready to respond. >> we have up staffed from 3 to 4 personnels on two engines in the hill region so we can get a quick attack before anything has the opportunity to escalate. >> reporter: residents in this mobile home park left with a lot of questions for pg&e. >> they have a lot of high powered upper management types that they're paying them good money. they ought to put on their thinking caps and kind of come up with some programs to ease the stress and the duress that they have created in certain communities. >> reporter: the city is making its community centers available throughout the day for residents who need access to air-conditioning or a place to

charge their mobile devices. we're live in fremont tonight, i'm chris nguyen, abc 7 news. >> make sure you are following abc 7 on social media and on air. we are constantly sending updates on the smoke fires and power outage. we do have much more at abc7news.com and our app, so be sure to enable push alerts to hey. ♪hey.

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down the block wasn't enough to save a two-story house on a busy street in capitola. a two alarm blaze gutted the house just a block from the fire station. no one was home at the time. a firefighter was hurt when a second story floor collapsed. a search is underway for a bay area nurse and her friend who disappeared during a plane trip. she went for a short visit near fort bragg but never came back. >> it was supposed to be a quick evening get away. last thursday, 27-year-old kayla rodriguez, a delivery nurse told friends she was heading out on an adventure. she and friend and landlord, the pair climbed on the plane at 6:00 p.m. on thursday. >> they both really love adventure, and especially kayla loves travel and adventure. that he would do this as a hobby and fly often. >> their plane disappeared from radar a few hours later. rodriguez's family and friends tried to piece together what

happened. they traced their movements to shelter cove, a small community along the lost coast in humboldt county. surveillance video shows the pair inside a restaurant within walking distance of the shelter cove airport. the pair apparently told their server they were heading back to san francisco. they can be seen walking around and eventually leaving the restaurant. it was dark outside already. the surveillance video shows it was about 8:30 in the evening. the airstrip at shelter cove airport does not have lights and operates only during the daytime. however, witnesses say they saw a plane leave in the dark. what happened next is a mystery. >> from there, they dropped off the radar, and flew. we haven't been able to contact either of them. >> the coast guard has searched area where the plane disappeared, north of fort bragg. in a statement to abc 7 news, rodriguez's family thanks the civil air patrol, coast guard and san francisco police department for their continued

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crews in los angeles are doing all they can to battle this raging inferno, burning near the famed getty museum. fierce winds quickly forced the evacuation of 10,000 homes and businesses. and the closure of interstate 405. authorities kept the busy freeway open until nine this morning, even though the flames came dangerously close to vehicles. the fire has since burned more than 600 acres and destroyed at least eight structures. abc news reporter, elena gomez has the latest. >> reporter: the getty fire in los angeles shut down southbound lanes of one of america's busiest highways, the 405 freeway. the fire charring hundreds of acres, and charring at least five homes in hours in the area of brent woowood, basketball al

star, lebron james forced to evacuate early this morning, along with former california governor, arnold schwarzenegger. >> i went out on my deck and looked to the left and saw this huge inferno of fire in smoke and flames. >> thousands of residents were told to evacuate. the mayor of los angeles telling them to take the notice seriously. >> if you have the evacuation notice and you're listening to me and you're in your home, leave. >> reporter: los angeles firefighters worked tirelessly to keep the fire at bay as windy conditions continue through the week. >> we expect another santa ana wind event to come through on wednesday and thursday that will be very strong. we're going to be working around the clock to extinguish as many hot spots as we can. >> here at the command post in brentwood, california, you can see fire engines lined up here. hundreds of firefighters ready to offer their help in southern california. elena gomez, abc news, brentwood, california. >> back in the bay area, no community is feeling the impact of the planned power outages

more than marin county. >> the outage is causing a residual impact that has raised some real safety concerns, and 7 on your side's michael finney is here with that part of the coverage. >> starting out with these numbers, absolutely incredible. some 99% of marin county residents are without power at this hour. now, that's a highest blackout rate of any county in the bay area: now with the outages, many cell phone towers have gone out. towers without generators or those with limited back up battery, have as little as four hours of life. they have shut down too. kat kathy is one of those with no cell phone service. >> it's tough but i have been able to communicate with the people i need to by text. >> reporter: others are not as lucky, and are without even texting service. >> concerns that we have obviously is maintaining communication with our residents in case of an emergency, if we need to evacuate or issue some

other protective order. >> reporter: if necessary, authorities will go around with bull horns, announcing any evacuations. now, in addition those with texting in need of emergency services can text 911. those without should immediately go to the nearest emergency service office. marin county isn't the only county facing this. we received a tweet from an oakland resident saying at&t has abandoned us. no phones last night, and a house full of smoke at 1:00 a.m. cell has been out since saturday. we reached out to at&t for comment. it did not get back to us by air time. verizon total discreet area will experience service disruption. they have generators and back up batteries at the majority of cell sites. it is providing unlimited calling, texting and data to customers in the kincade fire's true november 3rd. t-mobile is working to minimize

the cell outage, but customers in the oakland hills, marinda, lafayette, marin county, and along highway 101 from heelsburg all the way to eureka, along state route 20, north of clear lake will feel the biggest effect that we have not heard back from sprint. by the way, every county in the bay area, except for san francisco has enabled texting to 911 in an emergency. the calling is still the best way. if you can do that. >> okay. good information. thanks, mike. o cf1 o >> sure. thousands of firefighters are battling fires across the state. >> up next, the dramatic stand made by firefighters in the north bay captured live on social media. stay with us.

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you got to do what you got do. we still have strong, erratic winds. they are heroes in action. we are all dealing with a lot right now, the fire, smoke, power outages, to find your ally, go to abc7news.com/take action. you'll find a list of resources, including a disaster distress help line, ways to take care of

yourself, and your children. with that, thank you so much for joining us for abc 7 news at four. i'm dion lim. abc 7 news at five starts right now. we got ten people all crammed together in a tent and a small rv. >> people trying to get through this day. it is not easy. >> just have faith that it's not going to happen again. >> this couple recently moved into the area only to be evacuated again. >> also ahead, this is not a halloween costume. the new uniform for kids has so many fires push out a lot of smoke. the new spot in marin county, pretty popular when you can bring power to the people. from abc 7, live breaking news. >> we still have a lot of problems with the fire, a lot of spot fires. >> we understand that people are anxious to get into the burned areas to check on their property. at this point, we are not doing reentry at all. >> our breaking news starts in the north bay, sky 7 took

pictures of the kincade fire this morning. >> it has now grown to a hundred square miles. 80 homes are threatened. some evacuation orders are lifted this afternoon. >> a million people without power in a historic blackout. pg&e says it hopes to restore power in 48 hours of time. >> another high wind event is expected tomorrow with a new round of possible shutoffs. >> and the fires are pouring strong smelling smoke across the bay area. health warnings are in effect. no doubt you have probably smelled it yourself. good evening, i'm dadan ashley. >> let's get to the very latest on the kincade fire. it has burned 66,000 acres. that is more than twice the size of san francisco. >> just huge. cal fire estimates it won't be fully contained until november 7th. mandatory evacuation orders have been lifted for much of west sonoma county. this includes jenner, bodega bay, bodega, monte