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. >> if you need somewhere to go, to charge your phone, get water, cool down, avia stadium will serve as a xhoocommunity resour center and itil bve day of the outage. also 67 wi within the out stagage zone. i'll v. much more coming up in the next half hour of the show. reporting live from city hall, jobina fortson, abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> governor newsom says we should be outraged about decision to turn off our power. rate payer advocates say the forced outages shows pg&e doesn't have confidence in their own work. >> we had huge rate increases so pg&e can fix their system and i think people are upset it's not done yet. >> we're not a t sulnohave to h 800,000 peoples power turned off for possibly five days. look at the destruction of business operations. look at the devastation of financial resources and those who are medically indigent that are tied to their homes and need that. >> pg&e is defending the outages saying this is a measure of last resort given the extreme nature of the wind events expected. >>> one of the biggest lifelines in a power outage is a cell phone. if you pl

. >> pg&e plans to open a community resource center at avia stadium today as well. reporting live from san jose, jobina fortson, abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> an now w attention to the east bay. >> laura anthony is there in contra costa county where the power outage could start there at noon as well, right? >> yes. they're still saying noon as a possibility here. i'm here just outside of orinda on the east side of the caldecott tunnel. this is a huge concern for folks who live on this side of the bay. at this point signs are up by caltrans saying the tunnel may close at noon. that is despite what we heard from caltrans that they were trying to bring in generators and power systems to try and keep this tunnel up and running. i think people are wondering why you would have to close the tunnel, but there are lights, ventilation systems, fans, emergency systems that need to be operating in order for the tunnel to remain open. just down the road from where i'm standing, of course there is both lafayette and orinda, maraga, all of those areas could lose power at noon today

. >> bottled water, bathrooms, places to charge your devices are being provided, this is avia stadiumn san jose, that will be one location, opens at 8:00 this morning, will stay open until the sun goes down. each county will open at least one community center, all of them including contra costa would be at bishop ranch parking lot in san ramon. we have a scrolling list of resource centers in the ticker at the bottom of your screen and we also have them on our website at nbcbayarea.com. >>> now to decision 2020, coming up on "today in the bay," some of the other news this morning, the presidential race heating up. >> the big endorsement joe biden is getting this morning from one californian and bay area political heavyweight. >>> but first, happening now at 4:54, a turkish intelligence team has arrived at the syrian border, this comes ahead of what some believe will be the invasion of kurdish-held land in syria, it comes following president trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria. the troops will remain in the country but will not confront turkish forces should they launch an

. >> avia stadium will serve as a resource center as well for residents. it will be open every day of the outage. reporting live from san jose, jobina fortson, abc7 news. a cruz todauhe newsroom, the campus could lose power. by the way, we have a full list of school closures at the bottom of your screen and by going to abc7news.com. >>> in san mateo county caltrans is working with pg&e to install generators to keep tom lantos tunnel up. >> caltrans tweeted last night that motorists can expect the devils slide tunnels along highway 1 to be open during the power shutdown. previously caltrans said that tunnel would be closed until thursday afternoon. >> back now live to sky7 in marin county where the power is out for some folks. that is our sky7 image. you can see there is a lot of -- there are a lot of lights out. there the backup is working. >> they do have those red flashing lights. people are treating this -- this is a three-way stop. just being cautious and careful. the power is out. but luckily the backups are working for people and things are moving sm

san jose's avia stadium is one location, it will open at 8:00 this morning and stay open until the sundown. each county will also open at least one community center, including contra costa, that's at the bishop ranch location lot in san ramon. we're scrolling the full list of resource centers in the ticker at the bottom of your screen. visit our website nbcbayarea.com, i'll also try to tweet and put that out on social media this morning to have a quick resource for you. >> i thought kris' point about earthquakes was interesting. if you're ready for an earthquake, you're ready for this as well. >> a lot of people are hoping this is not the new normal in california, but very concerning when we're having these high winds and low humidity. >> low humidity. we're not dealing with extreme heat here. it's actually going to be cooling off today, but it also makes it uncomfortable for the early hours, when we're in the upper 40s in parts of the north bay. as we take a live look in dublin, a lot of people headed out the door and we are going to see the winds increasing, even in some of our valle