>> so that means turning off the power. pg&e says nearly 106,000 customers in the bay area are without power this morning and that is to prevent wildfires from starting. each of the purple triangles marks the location of a public safety power shutoff. taking a look closer to some of the neighborhoods without power. amy hollyfield live in lafayette this morning. >> reporter: good morning. a dark and windy lafayette, the businesses behind me, this noah's bagels does not have power, but when i type in different addresses the neighborhoods south of here do have power, addresses in moraga do not have power. it's scattered throughout this area. take a look at some video, you will see as you drive down mt. diablo boulevard in lafayette it is dark, the only lights are from the car head lights and the portable lights they use for construction crews that there

are a lot of darkened businesses without generators probably going to have to be closed today. pg&e believes that this psps should last for two days. some people tell us they can't wait that long to get their power back. we met a college student who is going to head home to southern california, she's now without electricity and wifi at st. mary's in moraga. >> i can't do school without wifi, especially because we are all online so it's impossible because we can't go to in-person classes. so i told my mom and she was like, yeah, let's book you a flight home right away. >> reporter: if these winds spark a fire contra costa firefighters are ready to go on the ground and in the air. they have two helicopters with expandable water buckets ready to go, they can drop water on any flames that pop up. they also have ground crews ready to go, but the weather will play a role in whether the helicopters can go up.

if the wind is too intense those helicopters have to stay on the ground. it is windy right now, it's a cold wind, so make sure you grab your jacket. this is not the summer wind we are used to anymore, definitely feels like fall out here. reporting live in lafayette, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. the oakland unified school district sauce power outages are impacting six of its school, grass valley elementary, poured elementary, montclair elementary, thornhill element y elementary, king estates. they can do their work offlisten and report it back to the teacher once the power gets on gentleman our team coverage continues with a look at the power outages in the north bay. abc 7 news reporter lauren martinez live in mill valley with what's going on there, lauren? >> reporter: we're just outside of downtown mill valley. lights are still on over there but are off where we're standing. we're near the fire station. yesterday we were in sonoma

county where glen allen lost power restaurant owners at tips roadside just north in kenwood were pretty angry for what happened in midafternoon. >> at 3:00, boom, power went out an hour before it was supposed to and it was really -- it was really disappointing because we needed that time to get everything on ice. >> i don't know if they saw wind coming early and that's why they chose to shut down early, but it was just frustrating. >> reporter: at one point on sunday more than 24,000 customers in sonoma county were without power and about 14 of them -- 1,400 of them lost power he recalledy due to high winds which is likely what caused an early outage is that restaurant. more than 13,000 customers are expected to lose power here in marin county. reporting live from mill valley, lauren martinez, abc 7 news. >> thank you, lauren. pg&e has set up more than

100 daytime community resource centers across the state during these power outages. they will reopen at 8:00 this morning. this is a center you're seeing in moraga, all the centers have bathrooms, hand washing statements and medical equipment. wifi is available. there's also bottled water and snacks. sme centers offer electric vehicle charging, too. we have information on our website on how to prepare for a public safety power shutoff, from making sure your phone is charged to getting ready for the extended time without your electricity. you can find this all on our guide at abc7news.com. election day it is just eight days away. can you believe it? president trump will be campaigning in pennsylvania with polls showing a close race even in red state texas. democratic vice presidential nominee kamala harris will be traveling to the lone star state this week. here is abc news reporter andrew

dymburt. >> reporter: despite is a small slip while coming off air force 2 and a covid outbreak in his inner circle this weekend, vice president mike pence shows no signs of slowing down, holding a rally in north carolina last night. >> we are all standing out here in the rain for one reason and one reason only, and that is that north carolina and america need four more years of president donald trump in the white house. >> reporter: at least five people close to the vice president recently tested positive for covid-19, pence aide marty obst testing positive wednesday, the white house revealing pence's chief of staff marc short tested positive. short was seen here with the vice president friday. the white house says the vice president and the second lady tested negative sunday and says pence will maintain his schedule in accordance with the cdc guidelines for essential personnel. democratic vice presidential nominee kamala harris who suspended campaigning when a member of her staff tested positive took aim at her

opponent. >> i think we have modeled the right and good behavior and they should take our lead. >> reporter: meanwhile, president trump at the white house last night handing out candy to children of health care workers and military families. overnight the trump seem seizing on the halloween spirit releasing this new ad mocking joe biden as a zombie. >> exhibits aggressive behavior, craves human flesh and utters incoherent moans and groans, with your help we can prevent the zom me uprising. >> reporter: despite the ads and two debates a new poll shows the favorability of both candidates remains relatively unchanged since the summer. so far an unprecedented 58 million ballots have already been cast in the election and now a new push to secure ballots after surveillance video captured one setting a drop off box on fire in boston. officials say 122 ballots were inside, 87 were able to be salvaged and processed. >> i sent out an urgent directive this afternoon to secure ballot drop boxes if at

all possible have them inside of municipal facilities. >> reporter: andrew dymburt, abc news, new york. happening today the senate is expected to confirm judge amy coney barrett to the supreme court. senators met over the weekend to debate the nomination of president trump's supreme court pick. they voted largely along party lines yesterday to end the debate. >> this nomination forward and, colleagues, by tomorrow night we will have a new member of the united states supreme court. >> nearly every republican in this chamber led by the majority leader four years ago refused to even consider the supreme court nomination of a democratic president, my colleagues, there is no escaping this glaring hypocrisy. >> the senate will reconvene today to hold the final vote just eight days before the election. 4:37 on this monday. let's take a look at temperatures really quick. we're very mild thanks to the winds, look at these mid 50s,

even a few mid 60s out there like this 63 in oakland, 61 hayward, where we are not having much in the way of winds, los gatos 48 tucked in there in one of those valleys. 58 here as we look from the exploratorium. let's break down your day. it's going to be difficult working from home or remote learning, especially if you don't have any power. you have to figure out how to use natural light and some other ways of getting online if you can. it's going to be breezy, dry and dusty if you are going to be out and about, whether it's exercising or just doing whatever you do on a monday. a look at our humidity, we're running below 20% and down at the lower elevations it's down to even 10% in santa rosa, 11% in oakland, 13% one of our more humid areas, half-moon bay and san francisco 28%. tongue in cheek, i put the moon up there as a reference to how dry it is but it gives you an idea. when we have single digit dew points that's what the temperature would have to cool

to for dew to form. we would have to be down in the single digits that's how dry the air is. let's focus back on the fire danger. it is either very high orange or red extreme everywhere even in the santa cruz mountains, very high. as we head throughout the day notice santa cruz goes away, we're still very high in the east bay hills and still critical to extreme up in the north bay as we head into the evening hours and then as we go into the overnight hours through tomorrow morning we're still holding a few spots of high to very high in the east bay, but the extreme is still up in the north bay and then by tomorrow at 5:00 it's out of here and we can start talking about some really cold overnight temperatures which we wil do next. here is sue, she's in this morning and has your traffic. >> good morning, mike. good morning, everyone. we're going to talk windy as well, mike, with high wind advisories across all bay area bridges. not just san matteo, altamonte pass and the bay bridge, but the golden gate, dumbarton, antioch, all the bridges are gusty and

you have to hang on to that steering wheel. i came over the waldo grade this morning and it was really windy on that as well. we're looking at that and pretty light right now as far as traffic goes and we will come back in just a few minutes and give you an update on the current traffic flow conditions. guys? >> thank you, sue. san francisco's response to covid-19 is being touted as, quote, successful compared with other cities across the country. the "l.a. times" is reporting of the 20 most populous cities in the u.s., san francisco has the lowest death rate per capita from covid-19. mayor breed implemented a shelter in place order more than seven months ago. a doctor of ucsf said if the entire country followed the city's approach there would be 50,000 people dead instead of more than 225,000. also says people in san francisco tend to follow health rules more than in other places. last week the city became the first in california to entered the least restrictive tier for reopening.

an east bay school district wants to send kids back to school. coming up, their plan to ease into in-person learning. all this week we are focusing on the new way to holiday. this holiday season it's going to be especially tough because of the pandemic, how we can keep our mental health in check. and we are learning more about the antitrust lawsuit against google and how apple may have helped google become the dominant search engine. before we get to those in california, we're the only state where

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all right. here is a look from sutro tower this morning. you can see it bouncing around because of the winds. let's break down your day. we've got mainly 50s out there through 7:00, 60s at noon and we will hit the 70s this afternoon. a mild breeze no doubt, temperatures average if not a little bit above average. by 7:00 we are back in the 50s and 60s. here is a look at our wind gusts and this is at 5:00 and you can see there still potential for 30 to 40 mile per hour winds and then by 11:00 when it fades the wind advisory most of our winds in our lower elevations fade, they will still be a little gusty 10 to 20 mile per hour in the north bay overnight. this week on abc 7 we are showing you the new way to holiday looking at how the holiday season and so many of the traditions that we take for granted every year are being affected by coronavirus. specifically mental health and coping strategies for a time of year that's already challenging for many of us, even without a pandemic. here is abc 7 news reporter

chris reyes. >> reporter: so if we can have a mental health tool kit what would be on that list to help us get through those days when we're burned out or tapped out. with he reached out to one psychologist for advice. >> how do we begin to build these new strategies to help carry us through the rest of the year? >> so i think the number one thing i would focus on would be connection and making connection a priority. >> reporter: let's go through dr. fleischer's checklist. start by checking in with yourself. >> am i okay from the outside, am i going to work, am i going to school, am i present, engaged in my relationships? how am i feeling? how bad am i feeling? how worried am i? how angry am i? and to just stop and take a measure of that and see what you come up with. >> chris' full report airs tonight on abc 7 news at 4:00. mt. diablo unified school district is considering a man to return to in-person learning.

district superintendent is recommending to allowed staggered in-person learning, participation for school activities and let families decide between the hybrid or full year distance learning programs. classes could resume in january. families are finding some pretty creative ways to celebrate halloween this year. one father created a zoom costume for his daughter replicating the zoom interface with nine spooky participants. they include photos of his daughter in costumes. one box as you can see is reserved for the next victim. so if someone gets close enough to her they will appear in the box thanks to an ipad with a front-facing camera taped to the board. now, that is a really creative halloween costume. i like to see that. time is 4:46. we want to check in with mike for a look at our forecast. >> thank you, kumasi. let's take a look at what's going on with our sutro cam once again. you can see it bouncing around there, we have those breezes out there, it's about 57 degrees,

fire danger is going to be highest this morning for all of us, it will taper a little bit as we head into the afternoon and overnight hours, but it will still be very high up in the mountains. chilly nights on the way, is your furnace working? you might want to change those filters for sure after all that smoke we have had. and the weekend, we will see it's trending pretty seasonal. why is this air so dry? look at the jet stream. look at how far to the north it's going, almost all the way up to the arctic circle, grabbing that bone dry air and shooting it right down into our neighborhoods. in fact, you can see on the water vapor imagery we are so close to that orange which is the driest of the dry air and consequently you can see all those red flag warnings whether they're here, nevada, arizona or even utah. very dangerous situation across the west just not us. we are not the only ones dealing with this. today's temperatures near 70 along the coast, mid to upper 70s. tonight the breezes will be up just enough that it will keep us

in the 40s and 30s. 40s in the valleys, fremont, even palo alto could drop into the 40s like the south bay but i think the 30s are on our way tuesday night into wednesday, wednesday night into thursday. because this air is so dry, we're talking about temperatures that will warm nearly 40 degrees from morning into afternoon. we will drop down to closer to average temperatures friday and it looks really nice for halloween. don't forget, set your clocks back, we lose that -- we gain an hour of sleep as we head into

welcome back, everyone. there are widespread public safety power shutoffs across the bay area right now. you are looking at a map provided by pg&e showing the current outages. every purple triangle that you see there indicates 5,000 homes and businesses currently without power. as you can see there are a large concentration of outages across the north bay, east bay, peninsula and the south bay. you can use our free abc 7 news app to track the forecast and the latest on this psps event. we sent out this alert last night when we started to live stream pg&e's latest update. it is free to download from the app store. new details about a lucrative deal between two of the biggest silicon valley companies, apple and google are working together to feature

google's search engine as the pre selected choice on apple devices. "the new york times" is reporting that apple receives 8 to 12 billion dollars a year in the deal but now the partnership is in jeopardy. last week the justice department filed an antitrust lawsuit against google. listen to this story, a 24-year-old created a website to track every broken mcdonald's ice cream machine in the country. it's called mcbroken and it shows a map of every location in the u.s., the green dots mean there is a working machine, the red dots mean the machine is not working and we checked this morning because that's what we do and it shows that there are some broken machines in san francisco and in san jose, so before you head out, just be warned. the american music awards are less than a month away. up next, the celebrity on gma this morning to announce the nominees. and former california governor arnold schwarzenegger

on the road to recovery. the update from the terminator after heart surgery. and let's take a live look outside at the golden gate bridge. not much going on right now, we se

former california governor and terminator star arnold schwarzenegger says he feels, quote, fantastic after heart surgery. so you are looking at a tweet that the 73 year old actor turned politician sent receiving a new aortic valve on friday.

the tweet also included pictures of schwarzenegger posing with statues near ohio's cleveland clinic where he had the surgery. he is no stranger to heart surgery he had valves replaced in 2007 and 2019. a pop superstar is revealing the nomination for this year's american music awards. ♪ >> all right. dua lipa is announcing who is up for video of the year, favorite song, artist of the year and more at this year's am a's. the ceremony is set for sunday november 22nd and you can watch it right here on abc 7. coming up on gma at 7:00 you can be the first to hear the nominations. time is 4:56. checking in with mike on this high fire danger. >> still out there, we are still all under that red flag warning and lower elevations until 11:00 today, this morning, higher elevations until 5:00 tomorrow afternoon into the evening

hours, things will taper quickly. when they do look at our temperatures, as we head into tuesday morning, we're looking at a lot of 40s and 50s and look at some of the 30s starting to show up wednesday and 40s he was russell westbrook. it is going to be a chilly one wednesday and again thursday morning, kumasi. >> thank you, mike. next at 5:00, more team coverage of the public safety power shutoffs. plus -- >> coronavirus cases are surging across the country as the death toll has officially surpassed 225,000 in the u.s. that story coming up. and at 4:57 a live look

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saying i can't wait for 2020 to be over, but hopefully, you know, '21 will be much better. >> don't we hope. now at 5:00, people fed up with the dangerous weather causing these public safety power shutoffs. the latest rounds impacting hundreds of people. we have team coverage of the outages. >> all this week, abc7 news is focused on the new way to holiday. how the pandemic is changing holiday shopping this year. welcome to monday, october 26th. >> first we're checking in on those dangerous fire conditions. meteorologist mike nicco with our look at the day ahead. >> let's look at what's going on right now and how long it's going to last. here's our look at our current winds up in our higher elevations. we have 56 in saint helena, 55 in mount diablo, 57 in the east