it is october 23rd, 7:00 a.m. good morning, everyone. it's 7:00 a.m. thank you for joining us. we are waking up to this chilly sunday. i'm candice nguyen in for kira klapper. meteorologist vianey arana joins us now this morning with a look at your microclimate forecast. it was cold last night. i found myself reaching for a second blanket. >> oh, yeah. right now, we are already seeing some low 40s up through the north bay, beautiful view of emeryville. if you take a look, there are no clouds in site, but the temperatures right now, especially up through parts of the north bay, when you look at

napa, 40 degrees. that's almost in the 30s. we have that cold system that kept our daytime highs cool, but the 24-hour temperature change, really significant, especially up through parts of napa, areas like concord and down through the south bay. now, we will continue to see those winds kicking up today, because of that system. and as we continue to monitor this, this is going to be gusty from the north-northeast. we're going to especially focus on the hills, because we've got a lot of dry brush out there. this will bring evaluated fire danger. and pg&e is moving forward with planned power outages this morning to lower the risk of power outages causing fires. they started the shutoff about an hour and a half ago about 6:00 a.m. in the morning. we want to show you this yellow here. this represents where these planned potential outages are scheduled. you can see a huge chunk right here in the north bay and some in the east bay, as well. specifically, this includes 85 customers in napa county, 22

customers in sonoma county, and 86 in lake county. pg&e says they don't expect to turn the power back on until monday, 3:00 p.m., which is about 30 hours later. the company is sending notifications via phone, text, and email to all affected customers. and the big reason for these outages, the bay area coming out of a wind advisory. the strongest winds yesterday were seen along the coast, but the winds started picking up in the hills, as well. you can hear it there. at ocean beach in san francisco yesterday, teams were building sand sculptures for the 40th anniversary of the sand sculpture classic. however, organizers banned umbrellas and anything else that could come lose in the wind and builders had to use extra water to keep their sand art together. some visitors told us they expected some wind in san francisco, but the strong gusts surprised them. >> it was great. once you're on the beach, it's great. >> once you're down there, you don't have the wind as much as

you're experiencing right now. >> reporter: is this more than you expected, though? >> yes, we did not expect this today. >> pg&e is also tracking these winds as it considers more power shutoffs to consider fires. these are the first shutoffs of the year. the mysterious atherton car is now gone and there's nothing but a huge hole that remains at the site where police dug up a mercedes buried on the $15 million estate. here's video, from the view from nbc sky ranger before and after that mercedes was pulled out of the ground yesterday. "today in the bay's" thom jensen was outside that massive mansion, where so many questions still remain. he found police may be closer to finding out why a former owner buried a car in his own backyard. >> a white mercedes stuffed with unused cement bags was finally removed and is now at a bay area crime lab. the five-bedroom, seven-bath mansion and the dig site are

only visible to outsiders from the air. but neighbors continue to make daily trips by the property, hoping to learn something new about the intriguing and still unfolding story about the car and their former neighbor, who police believe buried it there three decades ago. >> i ran into him a few times. you know, you had no idea. >> reporter: don trager said he only spoke to the home's origin owner in passing. now, like most people, he wonders why lew would report his car stolen in 1992, fill it with several bags of cement, and bury it behind his new 12,600-square foot home. >> i think it's crazy. it's like, how could you have a place like this, property values so high, and you're scamming like, i don't know, $8,000 car? it just doesn't make any sense. >> reporter: trager had no idea that lew once told investigators that he was involved in organized crime or that he was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend in the 1960s and

convicted of attempted murder of another person in 1997, or about the numerous other run-ins with law, including insurance fraud in the 1990s, involving a plot to sink his own yacht by the golden gate bridge and collect the insurance money. however, it was lew's professed ties to organized crime that really had neighbors curious, especially after cadaver dogs alerted handlers to areas near the dig site. >> they could be reacting to blood, they could be reacting to old bones, they could be reacting to human vomit. it could be any one of those combinations of things. >> reporter: police confirmed there was no body in the car after they initially unearthed it. still, longtime neighbors who have been walking and driving by this home for nearly 30 years want to know what the car was doing there. >> this is so strange, so strange. >> reporter: they won't get any answers from their former neighbor, because lew passed away in 2015, a year after he sold the home that he had built two decades earlier. >> so while he was building it, maybe that's when he buried the

car, when he was digging it. >> reporter: we likely won't get anymore information about the car this weekend. atherton pd said they won't have anymore updates until monday at the earliest. thom jensen, "today in the bay." new this morning, police responded to two large overnight side shows. huge crowd there formed in vallejo around 11:00 p.m. this is in the area of columbus parkway and georgia street. wow, you can see all of that smoke and that car getting so close to people there. over 100 spectatos walking all directions as they watched the dangerous stunts in the middle of the intersection. police there broke up the crowds in about 20 minutes. then just a couple of hours later, reports of another side show in oakland at 90th and mcarthur. oakland police were seen about a block away from the side show, monitoring the crowds. and listen to this. at one point, possible gunfire was part of the show.

[ gunshots ] >> now, this is exactly why several departments, especially oakland pd says that side shows are becoming more disruptive and a lot more dangerous, exhausting emergency resources. i took a closer look at how side shows may be putting your safety at risk, even if you're not a spectator. i sat down with oakland police chief, la ron armstrong, to talk about why officers sometimes take a while to respond to these cases. watch the full report on nbcbayarea.com/investigations. in san francisco, some people were thinking about those halfway around the world. a rally last night showcased ukrainian culture to raise support for people in ukraine. "today in the bay's" melissa gourde was there, where organizers urged americans to not forget the families surviving the ongoing attacks from russia. >> reporter: in this pacific heights events hall, san franciscans heard a ukrainian folk song and reminders of the ongoing violence in the country

where the song came from. >> all good wars together, russian, ukrainian, and american community. and to let them remember, that war hasn't finished yet. >> reporter: ukraine right now is facing the aftermath of recent russian strikes, which led to wide scale damage to ukraine's power grid. thousands of miles away, attendees put on their best, hoping to raise money for nonprofits on the ground supporting ukrainians. >> they will never give up. and we are doing our best to support them there. >> reporter: ukrainian american artist alex schir is selling his underwater photography for this effort. >> they are handmade. >> reporter: yulia is selling pieces handmade by a woman she knows who runs an orphanage there. >> what we are doing, is we are fund-raising for her to be able to buy a minivan, so she could be able to evacuate her children, if russians would start bombing her area. >> reporter: attendees say they're worried americans will

become fatigued from a war half a world away and tune out. >> we live in a country where we wake up, we go get our starbucks, whatever, and you know, we don't have bombs flying over our heads. >> reporter: they believe events like this are small ways to share the spirit of ukrainian culture and to remind us of the human toll of these attacks that are still going on. alissa goord, "today in the bay." hospitals across the united states have seen a major uptick in rsv cases, mostly in kids. rsv looks like a common cold with coughing and a runny nose, but it can be deadly in young kids and older adults. health experts say rsv usually spikes in the winter months, but this year it has come early. they think the spike has something to do with kids being isolated during the pandemic. schools are also seeing a lot of children sick with the flu. doctors tell parents to remind their kids to cough into their

sleeves and to wash their hands. much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, we take you live to washington, d.c. for our weekly interview with chuck todd for a preview of this week's "meet the press."

welcome back, everyone, we are open to our weekly discussion with chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press." good morning, chuck. thanks for joining us, and let's dive right in. we are almost two weeks out from the midterm elections, i want to ask you about the state of the gop. you're speaking with republican congresswoman liz cheney. what new insight is she providing about whether her party will come together or be further divided by the ongoing investigations into former president donald trump? >> well, look, the congresswoman will argue that the divide inside the republican party is