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around the bay area over the pg&e power shut off. some areas getting electricity restored right now, others wondering when they get the lights back on and for how long. good evening, thanks for joining us. >> i michelle griego. of the 1 million customers affected by the outages, about 400,000 are still in the dark this afternoon. things are looking good in the east bay, the south bay and the peninsula. most of the power back on bare. there's a lot of work to be done in the north bay, just 11 % of customers had their power back in sonoma county where the kincade fire is burning. jackie ward tells us more outages could be in store this evening. >> reporter: pockets of these parks have not had power since saturday while others are losing it today. some people i spoke to said this is getting expensive. for carl hamilton, today is his family's fourth day without power. >> it's been hard on us, we are making it through. >> reporter: he is spending

more money than usual just to keep his family fed by going to a lot of fast food restaurants. carl also needs a cpap machine to sleep which means he needs a generator. he spent $1000 on the last one at the store. >> i know out here gassing up now, just to keep the generator going, try not to take anymore losses. >> reporter: while the expenses keep growing, he is also out of a job as long as the working conditions remain hazardous and unhealthy in windsor. >> it really sucks. they should think about people. >> reporter: it is a similar situation for tisha, she has not had power since saturday. >> i lost all my food, i don't have service on my food. my mom is out of state, i cannot even get in contact with her. it has been really hard. >> reporter: it is not enough to make her consider moving. >> no, absolutely not. i was born and raised in san francisco. i am a california native and

that is what i'm going to continue to be. >> reporter: pg&e expects to get the weather all clear sometime tomorrow, which means hopefully they can start turning the power back on wednesday afternoon. jackie ward with kpix 5. schools affected by this too, it is not under immediate threat from fires. sonoma state university is closed for the remainder of the week in part because of the latest round of power shut off. we are posting updates on school closures on our website, go to kpix.com. the air quality management district usually discourages people from using fireplaces, these circumstances are exceptional. if a fireplace is your only source of heat, go ahead and use it. taking a live look outside from the exclusive camera looking north, you can see the smoke over alcatraz. meteorologist, mary lee with more on the winds and red flag warning for the bay area. >> we are watching the winds

pick up this afternoon and they will continue to increase, especially as we head through tonight. right now, some of the strongest wind gusts, hillsboro kills 40 miles an hour wind gusts, pine flat road, elevation of 3300 at 45 mile an hour wind gusts. the oakland hills 41, mount diablo 38 mile an hour wind gusts and clear lake 36. for the kincade fire, firefighters are up against north northeasterly when's at 28 miles an hour, sustained gust up to 45 and relative humidity values down to 20 %. the northbay mountains above 1000 feet under a wind advisory not until 11 am on wednesday, due to gusts up to 65 miles an hour. red flag warning now in effect for the northbay, east bay hills and valley, the coast, santa cruz mountains. gusts up to 65 for the mountains, the valleys up to 35. extreme fire danger, we talk about when we see the peak wind

gusts taking hour by hour on future cast coming up. thank you. kpix 5 is your survival guide for the emergency power shut offs , find the latest timelines and information from pg&e on the blackouts and restoration process and what to do if your home is under the shut off warning, all of that is on kpix.com. a trio of small earthquakes rumbled through the hollister area this morning, the largest one, 3.8 that struck around 8 am this morning, that followed an earlier 3.5 and 3.2. that is the same area where 4.7 magnitude quake struck on october 15. a life picture from copper mountain, you can see the kincade fire burning into lake county this afternoon, look at all that smoke. copper mountain sits at an elevation of 740 feet, that is where the winds are gusting. the blaze spanning 75,000 acres from sonoma county into lake county and 15 % containment.

the fire destroyed 123 buildings including 57 homes and more than 90,000 buildings at risk. thousands remain evacuated in the northbay and kpix 5's anne makovec has the latest. >> reporter: i met one of many red cross shelters where evacuees have been staying, six days after the fire began. >> we had to evacuate saturday morning. >> reporter: glenn lives on a farm in windsor. he got a chance to go back sunday to find it standing but -- >> it looked like a bomb went off. there's a redwood tree down, it looked really bad. >> reporter: the fire burned an area more than twice the size of san francisco and destroyed 124 buildings, half of them homes. some of the 4500 firefighters working this fire got a pep talk this morning at a cal fire briefing. >> the chief out side yesterday turned themselves inside out to

set you up for success. let's return the effort with the same effort, we odot to the 180,000 misplaced people right now. >> reporter: with the conditions bone try and the wind about to pick up, a warning from a chp officer that just pulled over a man for throwing a cigarette from his car. >> this is no time to add to the problem. please help us subtract from it, work with us and show the rest of the world how strong sonoma county is. >> reporter: as far as what is next. >> we have to wait and see how the winds behave, how the fire behaves before we talk about repopulation. >> reporter: once they start letting people back into their homes, authorities said they will start in the western part of the county and move their way east and for these evacuees, that will happen not a moment too soon. in santa rosa, anne makovec with kpix 5. incredible video from the san francisco fire department to show you , you're looking at fire crews driving through the kincade fire.

massive flames burning on either side of the road as clouds of smoke filled the air. fire crews from all over the state and out of state have been called in to assist in the firefight. in los angeles, a fire near the getty center is 5 % contained, more than 600 acres have burned there. this fire destroyed eight homes, in some exclusive neighborhoods. several times damage. the getty center itself spared from the flames and remains closed today. governor newsome will survey the damage today. san jose mayor makes a plea to congress for the california clean card emission standards. >> our ability to continue progress critically depends on adoption of technology, particularly in further adoption of zero emission vehicles. sensible environmental regulation helped pry silicon valley breakthroughs in green tag. >> the house oversight hearing examined the health and environmental impacts of president trump's to freeze

corporate average fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards. circuit today, house investigators hear from a what has official on the call between president trump and ukraine's president. alexander penman arrived on capitol hill to testify he raised concerns about the white house lawyers about the trump administration ukraine policies. as the director of european affairs for security counsel, he listened to the july phone call where president trump asked ukraine's president to begin political investigations and according to prepared testimony, he was concerned by the call adding "i did not think it was proper to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen". he went on to say, such an investigation would undermine u.s. national security. the testimony comes as democrats plan to hold their first house about to formalize the impeachment inquiry later this week. >> we will follow the facts, apply the law, we will be guided by the united states constitution.

>> they realize this process is completely unfair, completely partisan and try to spruce it up a little bit. >> republicans, meanwhile, say they expect every gop mumble to vote against the resolution. the pentagon could release videos and photos of the raid that killed the isis leader a sinister. he blew himself up in a syrian compound over the weekend after u.s. forces cornered him. three children with them also died, two adults captured. >> there were two adult males taken off the objective alive in our custody. >> special forces collected cell phones, laptops, and other evidence could help them hunt down the rest of abu bakr al baghdadi's network and punt- out other isis hideouts. president trump confirmed a u.s. drone strike killed a terrorist once considered abu bakr al baghdadi's successor. a powerful earthquake shook

the southern philippines triggering landslides and loosening boulders that killed six people and injured more than 100. the magnitude 6.6 quake since people running from their homes and caused significant structural damage. some victims were crushed under debris including a boy that died when a wall fell in. the region is still reeling from a deadly quake that struck two weeks ago. the boeing ceo on the hot seat again today, answering questions from congress for the first time about the company's 737 max planes. >> we can and must do better. we have been challenged and changed by these accidents. we made mistakes and we got some things wrong. we are improving and we are learning and continuing to learn. >> the hearing comes on the one- year anniversary of the lion air crash in indonesia, one of two deadly accidents involving the max plane in the past year. >> all of your lives move on,

the last six months, my life has not moved an inch. >> this is some extraordinary failure and how the system failed this badly, how did knowing, a great company, failed this badly? >> united airlines, american airlines, and southwest are standing by the plane pending new training requirements and faa approval, they're hoping for return service early next year. the grandfather a toddler who died in a fall from a cruise ship window has been charged with negligent homicide. 18-month-old, chloe died in july when salva tore held her up to what he thought was a wall of glass at the children's play area. it turned out to be an open window, chloe felt 11 stories from his arms. her family does not blame them, they intend to sue royal caribbean for not securing the windows. still had, a new book from the ncaa on whether college athletes can cash in on their thing. relief for pg&e on the

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new at noon, the ncaa taking the first step toward allowing athletes to cash in on their fame. the people voted unanimously to clear the way for amateur athletes to benefit from the use of their name, image, and likeness. this comes after the governor signed a law define the previous ruling against it but takes effect in 2023. new at noon, actor and wrestler, john cena using his recent role as a firefighter as inspiration. >> california city continue to burn, he is calling on his company to chip in and help first responders. >> right now, california is in dire straits it is burning. i want to do them a favor, have them pick a charity that aids our first responders as soon as possible and on behalf of

playing with fire and out of respect to the people i truly believe our heroes, my response will be to immediately donate half $1 million to this cause. >> the los angeles fire department and hellfire will split the $500,000 donation from the actor and as fate would have it, john cena is playing a firefighter in his new movie, playing with fire, and wants to help real-life first responders. in the wake of fires and power shutoffs, positive news from pg&e, the stock up 30 %, that amounts to $1.17 a share, the stock is down 80 % year-to- date and started today at a 52 week low. with the big board right now and see how the rest of the stock market is doing. the dow down 19 points. a fight between rent control tenants and san francisco's largest landlord reached a truce. all your, we told you how tenants on fixed incomes have been paying off their landlords mortgage. after substantial public pressure, veritas decided to

stop. >> is that veritas admitting it made a mistake and should not have passed these on in the first place? >> no, we have always followed the law is the city required us to do, we are more than willing to play our part. this is a step of us showing we are committed to san francisco and our residents. >> landlords can pass on capital improvement costs that can raise rent by as much as 10 %. supervisors are calling for a public hearing on that later this year. the red board commission expected to make a decision on pass-throughs on november 4. you can send your ideas and housing stories and problems to project home at kpix.com and see all of our original project home reports on our website. let's check in with mary to talk about the wind, high fire risk because of the wind. >> that's right, looking at the

dry air, low relative humidity values and gusty offshore winds, extreme fire danger as we head through tonight into tomorrow morning, which is why we have this red flag warning and wind advisory, especially in the northbay mountains where we see the strongest wind gusts. here is the live look with the cam, you can see the smoky skies as we look north, we are also looking at temperatures in the upper 50s to low to mid 60s at this hour. we are continuing to watch the winds increase and dealing with unhealthy air quality. unhealthy air in napa, and sensitive groups for santa rosa, san raphael, san jose, oakland, concord and vacaville. we are dealing with hazy smoky skies, that will likely be the case through thursday until we get onshore flow to kick out the smoke. in the meantime, we are watching those northeasterly winds develop, the offshore flow,

incredibly dry air, you can really see in the northbay mountains, we start to get those winds picking up, right now in fairfield, 21 miles an hour winds out of the north. here is the reason why, we had this low-pressure system across the great basin, that is ushering that ridge of high pressure, offshore winds. timing it out for you as we head through our afternoon, we will see the winds continue to increase and the winds are tonight, purple and red colors indicating winds gusting up to 50 to 65 miles an hour, especially in the mountains and even through the overnight hours, strong gusty winds in higher elevations. as we go through tomorrow and the afternoon, the winds ease up, still looking at very low relative humidity values, that is why we have critical fire

weather conditions. sun set 6:14 pm, sunday 7:32 am. daytime high seasonable this time of year, low 70s in concord, san jose, oakland upper 60s, san francisco. there we go with the strong winds as we go through tonight and the higher elevations, the wind will ease up tomorrow, hazy smoky skies wednesday and thursday. better air quality by the end of the week. we will be right back.

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coming up tonight at 5:00, in northern california town devastated by fire four years ago, now on notice for the kincaid fire. how middletown residents are coping with another potential evacuation. a life pg&e update on the latest power shut off. >> of course, the winds picking up, that will be dangerous for firefighters out there, hopefully they get a handle on the kincade fire, especially tonight with the peak winds which will be a concern. last check, 15 % containment, that number can fluctuate. will keep an eye on that. >> we will see you back here at 5.

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♪ >> brooke: honey, you don't have to worry about me. you should be down there with liam and beth. >> hope: beth is asleep, and i will be with them soon enough. >> brooke: this whole night seems like a nightmare, the way ridge and thomas barged in here and dragged douglas out of here, a nice, loving, warm home that you and liam provided for him. >> hope: it's heartbreaking to think that i won't be able to tuck him in tonight and to read him his favorite bedtime story, to listen to him say his prayers. it just... it feels wrong. >> brooke: i know. it's terrible.