this is historic, this is the largest fire season we've had in terms of total acreage. >> nearly 2 million acres have burned across the state of california so far this year. now, a power shut off, an attempt to keep more fires from starting. good afternoon. thank you for joining us. >> the hot weather is wreaking havoc across california for a day's long heat wave to a red flag warning. now, pg&e is shutting off power to thousands of customers as fires continue to burn across the state. >> if there is ghi weather news right now, it is not quite so hot anymore. temperatures have dropped sharply from the levels of the last couple days. look at the current readings. we have some mid 90s in livermore and san ramon and concord but yesterday all these

areas were anywhere from 106 degrees to 112 degrees at this hour. so we've had quite a cooldown in part because of the lingering smoke and haze and the more vigorous marine layer than was anticipated. yet we have high fire dangers 8:00 tomorrow morning for all the hills and mountains of the bay area. and with very low humidity and strong gusty winds. wind gusts right now in the higher elevations. the wind advisory will be in effect until 11:00 for the north bay hills and mountains. there is a possible there of downed trees and power lines and maybe even power outages. i'll have a closer look a little later. >> all right. thank you. more than 170,000 pg&e customers in 22 counties had their power turned off today. we'll show you a ma'am where the out outages are in the bay area. the upside down magenta

triangles, we'll try to get the map for you but it is impacting napa and sonoma counties. another round of frustrating shutoffs. >> reporter: here's the latest. highway 12 has been on the unincorporated sonoma county and behind me, a back-up. people trying to get home from work. the traffic lights are not working because they don't have power. there's that going on and a lot of other stuff. >> in sonoma county, despite the hum of portable generators, the power is out and intersections are operating on the honor system. it is deja vu all over again. >> i would say it is a little sooner than i would have expected. >> i'm. just blaming pg&e. i'll blaming our government and our local leaders. >> pg&e's latest public safety power shutoff to prevent

wildfires has left people in the dark since 3:00 a.m. it may last until tomorrow. this may be the first of many. >> this is interrupting people's lives. >> power was needed for his wife's oxygen machine. >> it could be fatal. this is life saving. >> that. we did find some good news, a man limited only by the length of his extensions cords. >> why you? >> because i can. >> bill o'brian, the patron saint, he has an rv with a generator and it does travel, feeding power to neighbors. >> i'm a single woman and it is nice to have somebody that thinks outside his box.

>> we would expect nothing less from a decorated and retired new york paramedic. >> could you clone yourself? >> i would love to because then i could have someone who would do that stuff for me. >> reporter: as we come back live to highway 12, one thing we definitely learned. today everybody needs a neighbor like bill o'brian. as we said, pg&e hopes to restore power here by tomorrow. that feels like a very long time for the residents living here. that would be a two-day outage. they remember last year when they had more than a week of days like this. live in sonoma county. >> thank you. in addition to the power shut off, there is a red flag warning in effect for the east bay hills overnightful leslie brinkley looked into the preparations in contra costa county for the wind

event. >> the fire danger high. >> reporter: fire crews on high alert. last year the inconceivable happened as the fire braexd highway 24 and 680. since then a giant swath of land has been created with dozers and brush clearing through east bay hills from martinez and pleasant hill, lafayette and san pablo road and el so brande. >> it creates a fuel break and a first break for any fires that may begin to the north and be driven by the diablo winds as early as this evening. the winds out of the north, pushing south. it protects lafayette and the communities to the west. >> reporter: for the danger that lies ahead tom, a 12-person hand crew is on stand by. they've also stepped up two extra engine companies. and the state has given the okay to reposition them.

>> a water truck is standing by further east. >> our area that we're most concerned about is the marsh creek area. it is running alongside. >> technology is helping with the alert wildfire camera network that allows fire crews to assess situations remotely and direct will have resources in and out of a growing fire zone. >> here we go again. once we get through tomorrow, it looks like the temperatures should be going back down. the wind should be dying back down. >> reporter: in the east bay hills, i'm leslie brinkley. abc7 news. mt. diablo state park is closed due to the fire danger. it applies to all visitors including hikers, equestrians, campers and vehicles. the park will reopen when conditions improve. developing news out of

monterey county. there is a fire that has been burning the last three weeks in the los padres national park. it just exploded in size overnight. the dolan fire added 50,000 to 60,000 acres due to high pressure and winds. the bulldozer operators were hurt this morning. head to key employ an emergency shelter. they were flown out to a hospital in fresno. >> the rest of the group moved to our helibase. and i just talked to they will. they're moving themselves into king city where they can be in air conditioned and be a bit of a debrief and start working on when he we'll go next. >> air conditioning probably sounds pretty good. officials say the fire was started by arson. on august 18th, a man has been arrested in that case. here's a look at the damage done by the creek fire which erupted in size. nearly 144,000 acres now. no containment on this fire

which started friday evening. at least 60 homes have been destroyed as well as 20 other structures. the fire started near towns of shaver lake, big creek is that huntington lake but it has spread. hundreds needed help getting out of the area. some had to be rescued by helicopters. the san jose father and son were escorted out of the area with flames on both sides of the road. so scary. abc7 news reporter chris reyes has their story. >> reporter: this was the abrupt end of what was supposed to be a fun fishing weekend for father and son. their car is still wreaking of smoke after driving hours out of fire zone, burning this fresno, ma daria. it is burning 143,000 acres in size. >> just beyond the lake is where we saw the burned out areas. you can see smoke coming off the trees, flames, stumps still on first. >> reporter: this scene at fresno yosemite airport is one

of a number of dramatic operations by the california national guard this weekend. this group, 46 people and four dogs were rescued by helicopter. >> it was very heroic for them to get to the evacuees who really needed to get out of area quick. the mass evacuation is an event that quite honestly, we haven't seen us involved with something in this magnitude in reason years. >> reporter: they're regular campers. they've also never been through anything like this ride in their life. it took 14 hours to get home. >> i was more worried about waiting in the parking lot. you could see the names across from us and you could see little spots starting to glow. one california national guard pilot. even combat doesn't compare to what he saw over the weekend. >> the pilot was very, very open to saying, i've never seen anything like this. with what is happening or what they went through on saturday with the flame, the smoke. he said it was a scary

experience. something he had never experienced before. >> reporter: cal fires officials don't expect to have the creek fire contained until least october 15. abc7 news. in mend cino county,county, fire says firefighters are working in steam and rugged terrain and are challenged by high heat and low humidity. evacuation orders are in effect. there are more than 200 firefighters working on the incident. the other local fires include the massive complexes. the lnu complex in the north bay is 91% contained. it has burned more than 375,000 acres. the scu complex is 94% contained at 396,000 acres. containment on the czu complex has increased to 81%. 86,000 acres have burned. you can find the latest with our tracker. the abc7 fire tracker is on the

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santa clara county is one of five counties that has moved from the purple to the red tier on the tracker. that means some personal care services and gyms can reopen. >> reporter: governor newsom announced santa clara county and santa cruz county are two of five california counties that have been moved from purple to red on the state's four-tier reopening classification. red is the second worst category and indicates there is still substantial spread of the virus. santa clara county officials responded saying businesses and activity cosmetic resume under the state's framework as well as the risk reduction order. >> this movement is a reflection of the fact that here in our county, we're doing a bit better relative to many other parts of the state in come batting covid. >> reporter: personal care services like watching and nail sal onlies as well as tattoo

parlors are allowed to reopen with modifications. zoos can open at 25% capacity. gyms and fitness centers can open indoors at 10% capacity. shopping malls are allowed to open at 50% capacity, up from 25% previously. if santa clara county remains in the red tier for 14 days, k-12 schools can reopen. i am door dining, movie theaters and gatherings remain prohibited under the risk reduction order. ma ridge county was expected to be changed from purple to red but the state opted to hold off and moderate the trends for another week. >> the last thing we want to do is see a county move for one week and only to see the potential for a backward movement. very soon. >> changes to the map will be announced weekly. melanie woodrow, abc7 news. >> and as melanie mentioned in the north bay, some businesses

were prepared to reopen today but the state said no. the county can't move out of the purple tier yet. the state department of public health notified the county of the decision late last night and that angered some business owners who made preparations to open today. >> i have a bunch of employees coming in today. i don't know what to tell them. they thought they had their job back. we hired new people. you have this ridiculous rules and you keep changing the goalposts. right? you said we could reopen. and in the 11th hour, you completely changed the rules. >> a final determination of marin county's tier standing is expected before the end of the week. meanwhile, astrazeneca has put a hold to vaccine trials as it investigate as patient who had a serious side effect. this as nine ceos pledged safety for any virus vaccine. they've vowed not to release any vaccine until it has been proven to be safe and effective. few of us thought remote

work would be in its sixth month. a tech company is trying to make remote work more pleasant. a look at how they're working the build a better bay area. >> she's one of 120 remote workers at redwood city's work board. she was surprised six months ago to receive these flowers. even posting a photo of them on social media. >> it was a day where i really needed the flowers and a mood boost. it was really nice. >> reporter: every week every work board team mental gets flowers delivered to their home as a thank you from the ceo. >> it is a miss the way to bring us together. >> no gift card is attached. tom had some fun and didn't tell his family who was sending them. >> i really want to take credit but when they start showing up on week two, week three, week four. they knew it wasn't me.

>> his wife appreciates the flowers, to. >> hey, tom? i'm going to take these to my classroom. >> my wife keeps them. >> they only cost about $10 per person. the ceo recognizes it is not easy to work weeks on end in ice haitian devoid of in-person interaction. >> if i can make a small contribution to a little bit of delight to offset whatever drama is going on in our world right now. it's an easy move. a really easy move. >> abc7 news. all right. so finally, it is a little cooler. let's check in with spencer christian on the air quality. >> we've had a sharp cooldown since yesterday. the air quality is not good so let me set my maps in motion and give you a look right now. we've got temperature readings of, let's see. 64 in san francisco. i'm going with this.

i think a couple of these items, a couple of these locations are not reported properly. 64 at san francisco. 75 in oakland. we've got 80s and 90s this time year. we had temperatures well into the 100s. red flag warnings until 8:00. hills and mountains because of high fire danger, low humidity, and i'm going to make one more little change if you just bear with me. i want to give you the most up to date readings we have. we'll stay on that graphic for just a second while i make a change and i'll bounce back over in just a second. so the winds will be gusting rather heavily in the hills above 1,000 feet between the overnight hours. and that will bring us some dry, warm air coming down, rushing down the slopes. and that of course elevates the concerns for fire. we have a wind advisory in effect for that same period of time going into tomorrow morning. now, this is big story. the 24-hour temperature change.

check this out. 24 degrees cooler in san francisco right now than it was this hour yesterday. 23 degrees cooler in santa rosa and we've got 10 to 15 to 18 degrees cooler in all other locations. once again, wind gusts in the higher elevations. 18-mile-per-hour at atlas creek. you can see why we have the fire danger with winds so strong out of north. flowing offshore, drying winds as they come down those slopes so that adds to the concerns for fire. this is how kirty our air is. check the view from sutro tower. these temperature readings are inaccurate. i'm going to speed through those and give you a look at our air quality. another spare the air day. overnight we'll see a marine layer developing much like last night. it won't push very far across the bay. we've already had a cooling

effect from last night. overnight, the low to mid 70s. still pretty mild for overnight readings. upper 60s at the coast. low 80s along the bay shoreline. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. this cooling will continue on thursday and right into the weekend. with what we had the last couple days, even with the dirty air, we should welcome the cooling. >> we all do indeed. fires and smoke bringing bad air to the bay area and what you can expect. plus, you can soon know what a ca

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take a look at what it looked like outside from our exploratorium tower camera. this is a time lapse taken about 30 minutes ago, or over the course of 30 minutes. you can see the sun was eerie ee reddish orange all over the sky. from oakland you can see how hazy it was across the bay. and here's that sun again. oh, boy, these conditions are no good at all. let's check if with drew tuma live on the roof with a look at conditions. >> you probably woke up and you thought you were on a completely different planet. the sky had a yellowish orange

hugh to it with the smoke and the way the sun light is scattered. and again at we're going to have that yellow, orangish hue. where is it coming from? here's satellite today. the august complex has flared up because of the juror shore winds had that developed over the last 12 hours. we'll put the winds on for you. the offshore winds are running right over the august complex fire and into the bay area setting all that smoke from the wildfire right into our neighborhood. that won't change. it didn't smell smoky near the surface. the winds are gusting close to 40-mile-per-hour. the strong winds which have commented the red flag warning are keeping the smoke alofted and not near the surface and

that's why it doesn't feel so smoky as it should when you go outside. the air quality, we have issues. we're talking about moderate to poor across the entire bay area. and once those winds calm down, larry and kristin, we will find more of that smoke going to the surface and our air quality decline. we'll keep our eyes on it. >> thank you. it's like half eclipse. we're going b to get some images from outer crews of the actihave taken the photos, the largest ever taken in a single shot. by contrast your iphone, maybe 3,200. they stay resolution is so high, you can see a golf ball from 15 miles away. the photos were taken by an array of imaging sensors in

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facing new job realities from new safety protocols. we're spending this entire week looking at our changing workplace and highlighting ways% people are making it work. one of the issues is office versus working from home. joining me now, joe allen, the author of healthy buildings, how indoor spaces drive abilities. also from the harvard school of public health. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> we're more than six months into this pandemic. what do we know about productivity at home versus the office? >> well, we know it varies widely. there are some industries doing fine and even thriving. many can't work from home. many are essential workers and don't have that luxury. and what we're finding is kids who go back to school or don't go back to school, the burden is falling disproportionately on

women. we got through this in the spring when we had to. we're now eight months into this pandemic with no real plan from our national government and we're starting to see the effects on people and businesses. >> so what is the long range look like? it appears we're going to be in this mode for a while. >> i am hopeful. a lot of companies and ceos i talk to are starting to implement the strategies. the healthy building strategies to keep people safe so they can go back to school, the office, the doctor's office. they can go back safely. and these strategies include the things we've been talking. about mask wearing, distancing when we can, hand washing. but fewer people are talking about this healthy building control strategies like higher ventilation and better filtration. if we do all those things, we can get back to work safely when community spread is low. and so i am hopeful that we're not stuck in this purgatory

position for much longer if companies and schools us that in these risk reduction strategies. so one of your studies indicated that 57% of all sick leave was attributable to poor ventilation in the workplace. when i saw that, i was shocked. that seems shockingly high. >> well, it's the truth. people are really surprised to hear stats like that. we talk about this throughout the book. that we are in the sick building era. for decades, i used to do sick building forensic investigations. we're in this era largely because of our decisions to stop building buildings for people. that sounds crazy. the reality is we started building buildings with an engineering mind set first. not a human health mind set. we started choking them off from outdoor air. so we chronically underventilate our offices, our schools. and when you do that, it allows

for the build-up of pollutants which can be ten times higher than outdoor air pollution which is hard for people to believe. then we have sick building symptoms, people are absent from work more and it is all related to our decisions around things like convenient lags. we're not designing buildings for health anymore. >> when everybody returns to work, are we looking at a situation where all large businesses are doing temperature checks at the door? or once there is a vaccine, are we pretty much back to normal? what do you think? >> i think it will be back to normal per se. but in a different way. i think what we're facing here is that for the first time in history, nearly everyone on the plan set realizing just how important the indoor environment is to their health. so even when we come out of covid, whenever that is, i think people's expectations will be different and rightly so. they'll be asking about infectious disease issues like they should, but people will have a knew health lens.

thinking about their office, school, wherever they go, what about water quality? lighting? acoustics? what else is influencing my health i don't understand infectious disease transmission. so i'm helpful that this will usher in a new era away from sick buildings and toward healthy buildings. >> it is a fascinating topic. author of healthy buildings, how indoor spaces drive performance. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me on. >> all right. thank you. coming up, the major obstacles to returning to work you can and see our schedule for the rest of the week. you'll final these on our website after they air by going to abc7news.com. it appears netflix employees will be working from home well into next year. he said he doesn't expect them to return to work until the

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school. going to school is a little different now. at school elmo wears his mask. >> that's part of a covid health promo that was just unveiled today by governor gavin newsom. you can see him talking about his mask and he talks about staying home from school. we've got spencer and we've got dan stopping in for christian. it's like a tag team match. who is in and who is out? let's talk about that promo. one of the bay area's most heralded olympic athletes over her decision to not wear a mask. the three-time beale beach volleyball medalist is being criticized for posting that she went to the store without a mask. the stanford grad called it a little exercise in being brave, adding she wanted to stand up for her rights and freedoms without being reckless or putting others in danger. the back lash was immediate

forcing a follow-up post saying if her actions heard or upset anyone, she's sorry. we've had her on the phone so many times. her nickname is like six feet of sunshine. i'm smocked this whole thing happened. and we've talked about this repeatedly. i don't know this visceral reaction to putting on a mask for let's say ten minutes to go in a grocery store. >> i don't get it. >> do you feel your rights are imposed possible when you wear a seatbelt? i don't get it at all. i don't want to say anything unkind. >> it is part of the weird politicizing. you're not making a stand, a political stand when you don't wear a mask. you're putting yourself at risk. all that stuff. we have all kinds.

>> it's mind-boggling. >> it appears drivers in california nationwide are taking advantage of the drop in traffic during the pandemic but not in a good way. the chp issued more than 15,000 tickets for speeds exceeding 100 miles an hour between march and mid-august. that's a 100% increase over last year. not just in california. troopers in ohio and iowa are seeing huge spikes in speeding tickets, extreme speed. and authorities in north carolina arrested a man for hitting 187 miles an hour on interstate 95 over the labor day weekend. we've been on interstate 95 many, many times in our life times. you don't go 187 miles an hour only road or any other. it is crazy. and tempting because the roads a little more desolate but come on. >> especially in the beginning of the pandemic, march, april, the roads were really desolate.

but now if you drive, it feels like we're back to that era where everybody is driving around. so i would be shocked if people are able to go 100 miles an hour, it's still packed with people from my experience. >> i know you were the law-abiding type. this is not an excuse for you. >> i see these people speeding excessively all the time around the bay area. especially on this one stretch of 580 between, say, emeryville and dublin. and literally, during the shutdown and now, with heavier traffic flow. i see people driving 99 miles an hour. sometimes i'm driving 70 to 75 and they pass me like i'm standing still. >> it makes me mad. especially when they're weaving in and out, cutting it close. it is infuriating. >> i'm offended because the insinuation is that drew and i are not law-abiding and spencer

is. i'm not saying that's inaccurate but i'm offended. >> for me pointing it out. >> exactly. some familiar locations highlight the list of places to retire. a huge surprise in the top 20. orlando, tampa and charleston, south carolina, are the top three places to retire. number 20 might surprise you. it is san francisco which received a high grade for things to do ranking second overall. the bay area didn't fare well on the rest of the list. fremont came in at 119. oakland at 122. san jose, the hub of silicon valley, came in at 142 and a list of 186 cities and towns. i don't know if they should dub this list retirement for millionaires. >> if you're in san francisco, drew, take it. >> if you're lucky enough to retire in san francisco. it is good for you. i was a little shocked.

i don't know why orlando came in first. i don't know if people want to retire there for the cost of living or maybe the entertainment they can get. but that kind of shocked me. >> well, no state income tax in florida. that's a draw for a lot of people and we love the bay area. it just costs a pretty penny to live here. >> if you can afford it, great to retire in san francisco. i'm not a big fan of the humidity in the southeast. if write going on retire to a warm place, i would retire in the southwest where the humidity is lower. >> that's a good point. charleston, south carolina, i lived there many years. it's lovely. july and august. >> well, that he wipeloton want some changes like the bike plus with speakers. starting tomorrow, the price of the most popular bike will be reduced by $350. the founder and ceo told the

"wall street journal," the goal is to attract new members who might think they're for the wealthy. tom point, they plan to release a lower priced treadmill as well. and they've been flying off the shelves, so to speak. because of the lockdown. you're a big fitness buff. >> i know a lot of people love everything that they put out and also the fact that you can do a live workout with your personal trainer. not your personal trainer but a trainer that guys you through the course. you've got to be a peloton guy. any one of the four of us, i'm just an old-fashioned recouple been bike guy. >> i do have a trend who has one. they try it out. i do get the allure to it. i have been kind of stalking the

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announced the conmen use the words to attract people. word of a break through will give them another opening. amazon will restrict the sale of plan seeds to u.s. providers. what's going on? this is apparently profited by zon users receiving unidentified packs of seeds in the mail. we've reported on this. investigators believe the seeds were shipped so that fake good reviews could be attributed to the supposed verified buyers. now, this is just a guess but this is what is believed the seed policy will take effect september 10th. google has announce ad new feature for its android phone app that will filter potential scam cars. the new verified calls feature will show a business name, logo, and verification symbol and the reason for the telephone call. google says the phone app will come pre loaded on some devices

and will be available at the google play store soon. now if we could only get that when our executive producers call us. the reason they're calling, who is calling? >> blocked, blocked, blocked. [ laughter ] >> we need on all of our devices but thank you. if you have questions about the census including why it matters and how you can take part, join us tomorrow from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. i'll be taking your calls live so you can call in, get your answers and make yourself down. apple has released invites to a digital only event a week from. today it will be broadcast from the steve jobs athlete order the keeper tino campus. the company is expected to reveal some new products. the annual iphone event is expected to be delayed because of bottlenecks caused by famd. more apple news. they're introducing a new floating store. look at this.

it opens thursday. the company giving us a sneak peek. this singapore location is surrounded by water and offers uninterrupted 360 degree panoramic views of the city and the skyline. the sphere is a first of its kind dome structure comprised of 114 pieces of glass. it is also home to the first underwaterboard room located on the lower level of the store. that looks like fun place to go visit. and singapore sounds pretty good right now, given our air quality here. >> let's look at our overnight conditions. it will be windy in the hills. we have a high fire danger. overnight lows, low to mid 60s. another mild to warm day. the heat wave has gone. the haze is still here. the highs will range from upper 60s at the coast to about 80 on the bay to mid 90s inland.

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next at 5:00, new fire fears across the bay area. the intense heat is off. now the winds are on. and the north bay on edge again. new power shutoffs on the pandemic and the wildfires. it has people angry and nearly out of resilience. >> also ahead, santa clara county gets the go ahead to move into a new phase. what can reopen now with the new less restricted it tier? plus the consequences of climate change. one expert says it means our wildfires are here to stay. >> with wind events that we're experiencing currently and what we anticipate over the coming days, we have to be