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 rio, r

rio nito, duncan, mills, guerneville, forestville and parts of grayton. a satellite image shows the smoke pouring out of it. this is from 488 miles up, if you can believe it. abc 7 news reporter, luz pena is live with more on the evacuations from santa rosa at the sonoma county fairgrounds. luz. >> that's right, governor gavin newsom is here visiting the evacuation center in santa rosa. he was just around here thanking many of the first responders for their work. i want to point to an interview for a couple who evacuated at their home yesterday in santa rosa. let's hear. >> my mom there in the tent taking care of cats, my son, my wife, my other son and his girlfriend are inside right now taking a nap. yeah, that's the circus. wind knocking everything over as

we're scrambling to grab whatever we could into the rv and cars, and then i just used this thing as a bulldozer going up the hill, pushing trees out of the way, and power lines that came down and down the hill, pushing trees out of the way and power lines while everybody tailed behind me. >> you were able to make it out. >> yeah, yeah. this thing has saved our butts twice now. >> reporter: now, here in the sonoma fairgrounds, 450 evacuees are staying in this place, some of them wondering if they're going to have a home to go back to. in santa rosa, luz pena, abc 7 news. >> thanks very much. our coverage continues with abc 7 news reporter, wayne freedman on river road in sonoma county, wayne. >> actually, we have moved from river road, we are now in larkfield estates. we have been talking about evacuated areas. this is one neighborhood that has not been evacuated yet. it looks a lot different than it did this time two years ago, and that's a good thing.

but it's a little too close to home, and this is a difficult situation for residents who live here as they have been evacuated again. >> it's kind of an eerie feeling. >> imagine watching your neighborhood burn two years ago, having rebuilt a good portion of it, and then being told to evacuate again. >> i just spent the last two years of my life rebuilding this house. >> that is the plight of larkfield estates where homes rise like fe nixphoenixes from ashes. >> what would happen if it burned again, what would you do. >> i'm not sure. i'm not sure i would want to go through it all again. right now, i'm not sure we would rebuild a second time. >> just a couple of miles to the south, here's yesterday's front line along chalk hill road, it is a smoldering landscape, filled with hot spots, where normally the fall grapevines would seem ablaze. the miracle here is how much firefighters it saved.

it is a better outcome than two years ag. for tina chandler who just moved back in with her husband joel, this had already become a difficult time of year. >> i loved seeing fall, i loved seeing the leaves roll down the street. you don't see any leaves because we don't have any trees to create leaves. and it's not the same. >> reporter: and that's where surviving a fire, that's where it leads you. tina tells us that at this point just the smell of smoke makes her nauseous. she's says it's post-traumatic disorder and a lot of people have it. live in larkfield estates in sonoma county, wayne freedman abc 7 news. the wind is pushing smoke from the kincade fire south. you can probably see the hazy black line in this live picture on our camera, in san francisco. both sides of the bay, really. abc 7's spencer christian joins us live with the latest conditions. >> that smoke is pouring out of the area. here's a look at weather conditions near the fire right now. temperature is 65 degrees.

of course very very dry with relative humidity at 13%. they gust to only about 15 miles per hour right now. and they have been stronger, of course, and likely to get much stronger early tomorrow morning. here's our wind gust forecast over the next 24 hours. notice during the overnight hours, the wind will remain relatively calm near the fire but there's going to be a sudden and dramatic intensification of the wind between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., and for the remainder of the day tomorrow, the wind will be gusting to 25 and 40 miles per hour near the fire. here's our wind gust animation for the entire bay area. notice by 3:00 tomorrow afternoon, we'll see the wind gusts mainly about 20 to 30 miles per hour, generally across the bay area, peaking at about 45 miles per hour or higher before the evening arrives tomorrow. so we have another big wind event coming our way, and of course the red flag warning, more details a little bit later. dan. >> just what we don't need. spencer, thank you so much. the smoke from the fire can be seen all over the bay area. pollution experts tell us they

expect we'll see and smell more smoke from the kincade fire in sonoma county. one commuter in san francisco describes what he experienced inside his home in vallejo. >> it's so thick there in the house. there's no way you could even prevent it from coming underneath the house and to the windows. it was awful. >> if their indoor air quality is compromised, they should go to a cooling center or a place with filtered air like a library. >> the bay area air quality management district urges anyone with a condition like asthma or heart problems, maybe, to contact their doctor if they feel sick. don't delay. >> vallejo firefighters say hair quality in their city is at an unhealthy level or unhealthy levels because of smoke from so many fires like this one. this is a grass fire in the grizzly island wildlife area outside of sassoon city. it started yesterday afternoon and is not threatening any structures. it is emitting thick, strong smelling smoke. >> chris reyes is live in

vallejo with more on this. chris. >> good afternoon, guys, well, this is what residents of south vallejo are waking up to, take a look behind me. you can see it's quite a scary sight, completely charred hills. this is a reminder of what happened yesterday morning when flames erupted here. very quickly, now the sky fire, which is what it's being called affected communities in vallejo, and crockett and burned through 140 acres, and today that means poor air quality and the inspection of damaged buildings as well as some closed schools. but before we goet to that, we want to show you what we spotted this afternoon, and what we continue to see doing this live shot, which is pg&e crews all over this area. spotted at about 3 this afternoon, pg&e crews appear to be inspecting lines driving over this ring where the fire started sunday morning. flames charred this entire hill in less than ten minutes, threatening homes, the cause of the fire has not been determined. at its peak, the sky fire jumped

i-80 and engulfed the carcinas bridge, a sight from our sky 7 cameras and the ground. this is what cal maritime is waking up to, a building destroyed, some sailboats were also dajmageddamaged. the academy evacuated 200 students. >> it was scary. it's all right. i ran fast. >> we just went straight to one guy's house, had like 12 dudes in one living room. >> at lu pine elementary, this was the uniform of the day, schools in west contra costa unified district closed early because of the poor air quality. >> a mask to protect my nose and mouth from the smoke today. people are going home early because of the smoke. it's making people sick. >> if you're in the dark and you have no ability to get outside into fresh air, that's a double whammy for those schools. >> reporter: like this classroom in john sweat high school staying open without power.

most schools in the john sweat school district also closed early. at cal maritime, no plans to open for an entire week with the number of hot spots still burning on campus. >> what we want to make sure is all of that is clear before we even begin to start making moves. >> reporter: by the way, the only school to remain open in the area, rodeo hill elementary school, the only reason is three weeks ago, they installed a brand new state of the art hvac system. right now power is coming back on throughout the bay area. we have heard from residents of oakland and lafayette who say their service just came back on. >> a total of 325,000 people as of 4:30 this afternoon. it's not bad for everyone yet. >> that's right. and life without power is getting harder for some as you can imagine. people in marin county are discovering the necessity is the mother of invention. >> leah melendez shows how people are adapting in this report in mill valley. >> there are things in life that people today are not ready to

give up. their electronics for one, and that cup of coffee. >> it took me a half an hour to get this coffee. >> running on a generator, whole foods and mill valley was open which brought in a people. some came to charge their phones using the outlets outside. others took advantage of the free wi-fi, like this entire family, mother, kids and grandparents. then there were those who decided to make this their space away from home. we asked lupe coleman, a long time resident here to describe in a few words what life is like without power. >> a pain in the -- >> we can't put that on tv. >> well, it's a pain in the neck. >> reporter: barbara and bill would agree. they made their way here to escape the smoke. >> we came here about an hour and a half ago, just looking for cleaner air, and something open, so this is what we found. >> just north in the novato, the

parking lot of the vintage oaks shopping center had several trailers and rvs. people who had been evacuationed from the area. >> security guard met us and said you're welcome if you're an evacuee, we're happy to have you. >> reporter: costco also welcomed them by feeding evacuees sunday night. in no vae tvato, lyanne melende 7 news. governor newsom has arrived. let's listen in before the governor's arrival. he'll speak momentarily. >> how to help our communities has been noticed as well. there's tremendous leadership from cal fire, tom porter, our area unit chief, shanna jones. we've got a great incident commander in jeff. this is all extraordinarily noted. how highly trained the team is that's here to help protect this community and help fight this

fire. the planning that's gone into it, it's night and day. where we are today right now, compared to two years ago at this very same site, and you can see the prepositioning and preplanning for the thoughtfulness. >> the governor is standing right behind the we'll get an update from cal fire. >> he did get a chance to tour that evacuation center and speak with people so we'll hear what he has to say. coming up, right now, the problems keep mounting for pg&e. >> up next, the how the utility says it's to blame for two fires yesterday in lafayette. plus, abc 7 news contributor phil ma tier looks at liability they are facing and what it means for their bankruptcy situation. the burning backdrop, the

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pg&e admits its power lines may have sparked two fires. one destroyed a building at the lafayette tennis club. utility reported to state regulators that one of the electrical lines came into contact with a communications cable belonging to another company and that may have sparked the fire. abc 7 news contributor, phil matier joins us with a lot of thoughts. you can say pg&e is in a situation, dams med if you do, dammed if you don't. >> right, they're dammed if teyt do, because they are responsible for anything that happens in the lines, whether it's their fault. they're dam for what they did in the past or didn't do. we're dammed too because we're in the middle of it. >> we're stuck! we're stuck. so where do we go going

well pg&e is in bankruptcy. there's $30 billion in counting of liability still out there. here's what governor newsom had to say, he's taking aim at several targets today when he talked about who's to blame for the wildfires in our state, but criticized the government and pg&e as well. let's listen to what he had to say. >> the biggest and most stubborn reality is these utilities and they have to modernize their equipment and we have to get this through bankruptcy, and come out the other side as a reimagined operation that's resilient and safety focused. we have the protocols in place. >> it's going to take time, between 1 1/2 billion to 2 1/2 billion dollars to get the lines up to snuff. it's going to take several years. that's the best count i got out of pg&e, several years, no definition. this is going to go on for a while. >> maybe as long as ten years, and all of this is less expensive than the 30 billion

they're on the hook for. >> exactly. put yourself in pg&e's place. you get a choice, 30,000 people around lafayette, you have a choice. turn off the power, and gavin newsom wants you to rebate them $100 million. you leave the power on, have a hire like they had and you could be looking at ten times the amount, plus the devastation. you make the safe call. >> no good choice here, but i was stunned at how hard governor newsom went talking about municipal. and also, bidders, you're welcome, bid on their assets, break up pg&e. >> that's good political rhetoric, it's not easily done. for starters, you get somebody else to pay for it. it's got to work out. if you have a utility, you get a certain rate of return. let's say you're making this much stedly. >> a little more if you -- steadily. a little more if you get a higher rate. you're talking about 30 billion

already, and it growing every year until the problem is fixed. basically you're saying buy something that's guaranteed not to make money. how do you do that? yesterday, it was amazing, the news crew, everywhere. but there was a while there yesterday morning where you were jumping from one place to another right here in the east bay. it wasn't up in the north country. it was vallejo, it was lafayette. >> clayton. >> it was clayton. >> right. >> and that shows the urban interface that we have in the bay area where people's homes and businesses are right up against these areas where sparks can lead to a fire. we saw it yesterday. that was the really scary thing going forward. it's not something off in the distance. it's right here. >> phil, thanks, phil is the san francisco chronicle's insider and our contributor, phil, great to have you with us. >> we have to talk about high density housing in the urban wildlife. >> one crisis at a time. >> let's go now. governor gavin newsom is speaking. >> i think a lot of prepositioning that the state invested in had, i think, a lot

to do with our mitigation and suppression efforts but we nonetheless are entering into that peak part of the season where these winds start rising peaks, 90 miles per hour winds, not just here but in some cases southern california. i want to put things in perspective. in 24 hours, cal fire has put out 330 fires in the state. 330 saves. they didn't generate the national news that kincade fire generated or the getty fire in l.a. is generating. that's testament to the talent. testament to the spirit of those that are out there on the lines 24/7, keeping the people of this state safe. just consider what happened the last 24, 36 hours, just all around the northern part of the state. now some of these fires that were flaring up around the bay,

diablo, grass valley, some here in the north bay, ukiah, most of those have been suppressed completely or are under control. the kincade fire remains the most vexing, and challenging, particularly with the winds that are going to start coming back in the next 12 or so hours and tomorrow morning those winds start whipping up again. we don't anticipate them to be as acute as they were looking back 36 or 24 hours ago, but nonetheless, that's the reason we remain vigilant. it's the reason we take nothing for granted and while we're pleased we have been able to get people repopulated. >> that is governor gavin newsom speaking live from the sonoma county fairgrounds with what may co

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fire. >> the couple from chicago had it all planned out and then the kincade fire happened. >> abc 7 news reporter has more on this unforgettable wedding. >> reporter: a modern day wedding photo, bride and groom, picture perfect venue, and fire. when you see it, what do you think when you look at that photo now? > it's eerie a little bit. >> katie and curtis furland are the couple behind these masks. the newlyweds got married saturday night in sonoma county, the kincade fire burning miles away. >> the first thing we see on the tv when we turn it on is flames everywhere. >> first katie and curtis had to move to a hotel. air b and b had no power. still the show went on. >> the night before i had to redesign the entire event. >> we worked off a skeleton clue to make this happen. >> miraculously they did. their wedding photographer took this now viral photo to prove it. >> i was thinking of gothic, the

1930s painting, that was the regular normal of americn life at the time, and all of a sudden in a very strange way, this has become our new normal of the wine country. >> reporter: later that night, katie and curtis, along with all f their guests were also forced to evacuate. they came to san francisco, where get this, someone broke into katie's cars. >> thousands and thousands of dollars of merchandise stolen. >> reporter: despite the obstacles, this image is a last ing memory, a reminder of the people who came together to make their day happen. >> reporter: are we at the point we can say this is a comedy of errors. >> and now they have a story forever. >> they have a story. what a picture that is too. we want to check out the weather forecast

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forecast with spencer christian. >> a quick look at weather coming our way. tomorrow is a spare the air, the poor air quality in central bay, moderate air quality elsewhere and a red flag warning for high fire danger goes into effect tomorrow morning and will remain in effect until wednesday afternoon, a power, dry gusty wind again that will last into wednesday, midday wednesday afternoon. so here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. wind intensifies tomorrow afternoon into the evening. overnight tomorrow night into wednesday morning will be the period of the strongest gustiest winds and the highest fire danger. the wind will taper off on wednesday, fire danger will diminish and the remainder of the week starting with halloween will be a real treat. really. dan and kristen. >> definitely a treat. not a trick. world news tonight with david muir is next. we appreciate your time. i'm dan noyes. >> and i'm kristen sze. for spencer christian and all of us here.

>> we'll update you at abc 7 at six, on these fires in california, bye for now.

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