leslie brinkley tweeted out that health officials are telling food establishments in lafayette and the east bay they have to shut down. ower wl il raised.here in what's thelatest? >> reporter: ye tell you residents in this area are bracing for the getting creative. others are in a >> they make every day fresh. >> reporter: hot donuts are the specialty at the lafayette landmark. they visited johnny's donuts and they would have to cease operations. >> what does this mean for your business? >> i'm losing money. >> reporter: several local grocery stores have invested in backup generators and to stay up shutdown. they were calling up patients and canceling appointments. >> once we were woinrkg, root c. it's not fair for everybody. >> you're canceling appointments? >> we have to. without power we can't do a darn thing. >> we feel like we'll be able to hold school pre-21st century, the 21st century way without technology. >> reporter: lights will be out, flashlights will be placed inside >> serving lunch becomes a little challenging bute have w vendors with whom o schools work andur food is a

abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley has the story. >> reporter: at 8:56, the 911 call came in. a student shot in front of the school. by 9:12 a.m., santa rosa high school, santa rosa junior college and ridgway high school were all in lockdown mode. >> officers learned that the shooter had hande the gun to another individual and that individual left the school campus with that firearm. the shooter actually returned to a classroom there on the ridgway high school campus. >> reporter: the cops came in and had their guns pointing at us. >>eporter: little did sophi ferguson know that the boy sitting next to her for the two-hour lockdown was the suspected gunman, until he was actually arrested. >> probably like 20 cops, or 14 cops had their guns and searched us and tolds to put our hands up. yeah, it was scary. >> we all kind of just ducked under the table and tried to stay calm as much as we could. >> some people were calling their parents. others would call their friends just to checkup on them and see if they were okay. >> i was terrified. i panick >> reporte b 11:30 it was over.

i'm leslie brinkley, afc 7 news. >> all changing and up in the air. abc 7 news reporter vick lee is in san mateo county where crews have been busy. abc 7 news has also learned that ca cal trans will close double slide at 12 noon wednesday to thursday afternoon because of the power outage. we'll have a live report from vick coming up on abc 7 news at 5. 45 minutes from now. >> as david louie tweeted, the city of san jose plans to close some lanes to make driving safer if the power does go out. b.a.r.t. says any pg&e should not affect service. b.a.r.t. says the trains will continue to operate even if there's an outage. while it connects to pg&e, its own power distribution system can send electricity where it's needed to run the train. >>> health care facilities all around the region are keeping very close watch on what pg&e will be doing. >> chris win continues our team coverage with that part of the story live from san jose. chris? >> reporter: hi. county officials say their medical facilities are ready to handle any extra patients. we are live at vall

reporting live in vallejo, i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> leslie, thank you so much. it's a good point whether or not people were impacted by the actual explosion, if there were workers on the scene or people who are sensitive to unhealthy air. if they may be starting to feel any effects of it. >> yeah. all right. i want to take you back to this live picture of sky 7 over the two tanks. see how one tank seems like it's burned itself out and is now just sitting there. the other one still has the thick, black smoke coming out. this makes sense in the light of the information that we just learned that one contained ethan ethanol, that would be the one with the thick, black smoke still coming and the one that is empty. the one that has burned itself out. because ethanol molecules contain oxygen. and that will help burn, a lot. in fact, that is one reason why we add ethanol to our gasoline, to help it burn better. but this is going to be fueling that, if that's ethanol, which the fire official did not confirm. he said they were still investigating, but separately we confir

live in vallejo, leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> we'll check back in shortly. >>> abc 7 news met a resident in pinole that heard the explosion as they were about to have family dinner in the back yard. >> a huge sound, super echoed. it almost sounded like someone shot a missile, a cannon. it was pretty cloud. >> it was loud and they also felt the shaking. abc 7 news reporter luz pena was on i-80. >> she's taking side roads trying to make her way to pinole. where are you now luz? >> reporter: it's a mat house. we're on 4th avenue, 0.5 miles away from basically the area from where the fire is still burning. as you can see, everyone is trying to take the side roads. i don't know if you can see the people around me. everybody is in bumper-to-bumper traffic. we're getting out to ask people if they heard the explosion, if they're smelling anything in the air. many people i spoke to told me they didn't even know there was an explosion and a customer came inside the booth and said, hey, there's a fire burning right behind the gas station. the lady inside had no idea. some people didn't hear it. som

leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> thank you. stay with abc 7 news for continuing coverage on the pg&e power shutoff. coming up later this hour, what your insurance might and might not cover. and the issues that some people with disabilities faced during this week's outage. >>> fleet week kicked into high gear as the first of three air shows thrilled spectators. check that out. the blue angels got the most oohs and ahs. if you missed the action today, you have all weekend to take it in. sky 7 caught up with a parade of ships this morning as it headed toward the golden gate bridge. that's majestic in itself. abc 7 news anchor mark thomas joins us live along the embarcadero. eric? >> reporter: along the embarcadero if you were here long enough you'd see sailors and marines walking by taking self oys with people who pay their salaries. and maybe you'd even see the occasional navy ship like the one here behind me. but everybody knows what they were really waiting for down here. that was a look at the blue angels. and there they are.

. >> leslie brinkley live in lafayette joining us with both perspectives on this, leslie? >> reporter: well, there's a big swath of the east bay that's likely tomorrow and into the weekend to experience a power outage. there's still a lot of confusion, and people feel a little disconcerted. they really don't know what to expect. n shede he was warned known. 1:00 p.m. the power will go off in lafayette. the county seemed to indicate it might be more in the evening. pg and e indicated it may be around 3:00 in the afternoon. a lot ofunknowns, but this power outage is going to be bigger than the last one and have other repercussions. >> super heroes, and i hope the super heroes do not take the power out. >> reporter: businesses define the week before halloween, and a haunted film fest could vget interrupted and more. >> i hope we have power. because sunday we have an event here. and it's, you know, it's the kids expecting to halloween parade, and we're ready for the customers, also, get coloring books. >> this time, with poor air quality and hot weather, many people are not go

. >> abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley is live from downtown lafayette also with an update on a fire early thursday morning. leslie? >> reporter: that's right. i just confirmed with police a short while ago they've not ruled out arson in that fire. it's still part of their investigation. they verified that a witness did report to them that they saw a man videotaping a fire as it started at 1:00 a.m. and that they later saw that same man in sanders ranch area which was evacuated. again, all just part of their investigation. as for small businesses, they called the outage a trauma, a hardship. >> we all know the websites were down. i think that communication with our communities is vital. >> communication we got from them was tentative. very iffy. and it really didn't -- we didn't know what will happen until it actually happened. >> 9:30 a.m., the lights came on in downtown orinda theater square. 11:00 a.m., power restored to this shopping center in lafayette. but this dry cleaners didn't have staff as they tried to reopen and the credit card reader wouldn't work so they let pople pick

leslie brinkley was on her way to a story in the east bay, but then the quake hit that part of the bay bridge that collapsed. >> it's been a frightening scene here. as you can see just below me in bridge occurred. a 50-foot section. you see down there below the two cars, two cars that were on the upper deck when the bridge collapsed. they fell below. >> leslie had just crossed the bridge and ended up being the first reporter on the scene of that collapsed portion. >> she is here to talk than. leslie, we were talking earlier. we were all a little more reckless 30 years ago. ltht do that but instinct kicked in. we were there and we went up right to the edge. >> do your job. >> yes. >> still very precarious. >> very much. so. >> walk us through some of your memories. >> as you said up there, i was driving to a story in oakland. we were on the lower deck of the bay bridge, almost in oakland when the shaking started. i was with the news crew at the time. >> you felt it on the bridge? >> oh, absolutely. it was like the truck was on a trampoline. it was jumping around, bouncing around. we wer

. >> leslie brinkley has the story from american canyon. >> people are living from paycheck to paycheckorter: lulu constantine explained about having to pay out-of-pock out-of-pocket. he recognized her today and promised change was coming. >> i love you, thank you. you literally inspired our efforts. >> reporter: governor gavin newsom tuned into their concerns about pg&e and what many seniors say were unnecessary outages. >> this is not the new normal. this cannot take ten years to resolve. we will hold them accountable. >> this wasll itt jammed with steaks. >> reporter: 73-year-old evelyn manspeaker was devastated as all the food she had to throw out but little things help. >> hi. i'm here to clean out your refrigerator. >> lost probably $300 worth, close to it. >> i'm so sorry you're going through that. we have food for you today. >> reporter: meals or wheels cleaned out refrigerators here in american canyon. seniors couldn't use their electrical medical devices like her sleep apnea monitor for four days. >> it was really challenging. i was cold even under the extra covers. >> reporte

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley is live in downtown walnut creek to explain what the plan is. eslie? >> well, it's all very interesting, dan. the biggest change may be reimagining these sprawling suburban car dealerships in the future. city leaders say they don't want to encroach on open space. instead, they want to condense things in this downtown heart of the city, the prime real estate, changing for the future. and that's what they're working on. the area north of civic drive in walnut creek is being reimagined for the future, with limited land to develop, the city wants to condense car dealerships into an auto row and create art and artisans district. specifically, the 30-year plan incorporates 191 acres north of civic drive and south of parkside bordered by 6780 to the west and the iron horse trail to the east. this area would be condensed into an auto row. >> what we're talking about is consolidating our auto sales and service areas into a more vertical environment where they have two-story showrooms as opposed to using flat surface land for parking, which is not a great

. >> reporter: in american canyon, leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> pg&e gave the all clear to begin restoring area in the bay area. >> finding out when that will be is not easy. most areas near the kinkaid fire had no estimate as to when electricity will be restored. >>> some areas should get their power back on by 8:00 p.m. tomorrow. the same with mill valley. remember, utility crews must perform safety checks before they can restore power. >> in the east bay, businesses affected by the power shut-offs are asking customers to support their neighborhood stores. >> some lost thousands of dollars and are struggling to survive. reporting from oakland with what's next. >> it was a welcoming site. the owner of pearl wine bar in oakland's neighborhood started his day going to the farmer's market after days of not having power, he was back in business. all told, the restaurant took a big hit. >> anywhere from 40 to 48,0 $00 >> you make up for it in doing other days of service. like maybe we open for thanksgiving. >> reporter: outside this safeway store, people followed the advice, when in doubt thro

i'm leslie brinkley, abc news. w >> they are saying treat every intersection as a four-way stop. much of the bay area will be without power tomorrow. >> we are live in petalmua, where the outage is impacting a rancher and he desperately needs water for his live stock. lee an? >> reporter: yeah, well they are concerned, larry, the owner of a horse ranch said please help us, we don't know what to do if pg& cuts off the power, for 3, four, or five days. we took a look. this ranch answered the call of help early on. in the kincade fire. >> we have goats over there too. >> she boards horses. and at 97, she still makes the rounds in a golf cart. when dealing with horses on a property like this one, lesson number one isnowing how a water well operates. >> it takes electricity to use the pump to get the water from our well. >> in other words, without water, the horses would be in a dire situation. we asked june's daughter, where exactly was that well? >> it's way up there in the trees, and see the hill up there? there's a path that is behind the trees and that well is way >> up we went o

leslie brinkley is looking at the plan for some schools. >> reporter: chris win is looking at some ofe effects in the health industr. >> and drew tuma is on the rooftop.

. >> abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley has the story from santa rosa. >> reporter: at 8:56 the 911ll came in. a student shot in front of the school. by 9:12 a.m. santa rosa high school, santa rosa junior college and ridgway high school were all in lockdown mode. >> officers learned that the shooter handed the gun to another individual and that individual left the school camp with us that firearm. the shooter actually returned to a classroom there on the ridgway high school campus. >> the cops came in. >> reporter: little did sophia ferguson know that the boy sitting next to her for the two-hour lockdown was the suspected gunman until he was actually arrested. >> probably at least 20 cops or 14 cops, they had their guns and searched us and told us to put our hands up. yeah, it was scary. we all kind of just ducked under the table and tried to stay calm as much as we could. >> some people were calling their parents, other would call their friends just to checkup on them and see if they were okay. >> i was terrified. i panicked. >> reporter: by 11:30 it was over. two suspects were det

. >> abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley was the first reporter on the scene when the section of the bay bridge collapsed. she was headed towards the cypress freeway when it hit. >> she's here to talk about her experience. leslie, that is frightening to even see. we were talking upstairs. i was saying, weren't you scared of an aftershock coming. you didn't grow up here. that's not like top of mind? >> i had moved here a little over a year before that. i had never experienced an earthquake. our intuition was to go to the break in the bridge and the rest is us standing there and showing the rest of the world what had happened here. that broken bay bridge 'em bollized, i think how hurt the bay area was by that quake. >> how close was your vehicle to the part of the bridge that collapsed? >> we were actually on the lower deck, larry, heading towards the oakland side when the shaking started. it felt like the van, our news van was on a tram poe line shaking around up and down back an forth. we were probably 30 seconds, if we had been a little -- running a little later, we might have been w

. >> abc7 news reporter, leslie brinkley has been in contra costa county. and people are preparing for the potential power shutoff there. >> reporter: this is weeks after they went through the ordeal already. everyone here is complaining here we go again. they suffered through an outage a couple of weeks ago like you said and now, they are braced for another outage, pg&e are indicating it's 10:00 p.m. saturday night. i just had a man stop by and show me his cell phone, he got a text alert from lafayette police saying the power outage will start at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. a lot of uncertainty, businesses in the area, are upset. pg&e is indicating that the power may be out all day sunday, most of the day monday, that outage.t longer than the last affecting more people than last time and complicating it will be poor air quality. >> we got lucky last time. but not so much this time. >> reporter: this -- athletic store is not happy about the prospect of no electricity on sunday and monday. they said, they will still try to stay open by flashlight, swiping credit car

i know leslie brinkley was on the bridge and, hence, was right there when that section collapsed on the bay bridge. amazing work that our team did. >> i was 19 floors up in the st. francis hotel. i was here on -- world series assignment for "good morning america," and my assignment quickly turned into a reporting assignment on the earthquake. >> you must have felt that on the 19th floor -- >> my gosh. i thought the building was going to collapse, and i was going to die right there. the building was swaying and bouncing. unbelievable, i can't describe it except terrifying. >> i bet. hopefully -- i was in the caldecott tunnel. it didn't move an inch. i had no idea there was a earthquake. i was the only one who didn't know there was a quake. what are the odds? >> we all remember like it was yesterday. crazy. >>> let's get to weather. clouds are increasing. >> will it be nice? >> well, we might get showers overnight. i think that's pretty nice. you can see on live doppler 7 lots of clouds gathering now. it's quite a bit cooler in most bay area locations, quite a bit. and yesterday at this h

in santa rosa, i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >>> at 5:30 tonight we are expecting to hear from pg&e as it continues to look at whether to turn off power to 200,000 customers in northern california. we will carry that news conference live for you here on abc 7. now, in the bay area parts of napa, san mateo and sonoma counties could be part of that shut jo shutoff. in sonoma county pg&e says more than 28,000 customers could be affected in parts of these questions. annapolis, boyes hot springs, cloverdale, fulton, geyserville, glen ellyn, guerneville, healdsburg, kenwood, lockerfield, santa rosa, sonoma and windsor. in napa county, 7500 people could lose power in the cities of angina win, calistoga, deer park, lake berryessa, napa, oakville, hope valley, rutherford, st. helena. in san mateo county the cities of emerald hills, half moon bay, la honda, loma mar, pescadero, portola valley, redwood city, san greg gore yo and wood side. the school district has not decided to cancel classes if the power goes out because of what happened last time ir. >> reporter: we all know t

in vallejo, leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >>> want to show you some aerial views because this is obviously going to be seen from a variety of areas. this is our east bay hills camera. officials have closed both directions of interstate 80, so traffic in that area is going to be very challenging for people trying to get home. >> they've extended it, highway 4 all the way to 780 and the carquinez bridge. >> huge plumes of smoke. it doesn't appear -- you've got the mt. tam camera on the left-hand side. it doesn't appear it will be out any time soon. they have to approach it with an abundance of caution. we know, based on what we've just been told, and krit ten zee reported earlier that it was ethanol and the statement from nustar indicates that yet the fire department said, well, it would burn blue if it was just ethanol. so we've got to get this all sorted -- whatever it is -- >> part of tanks, the pipes, looking at all that. it's interesting because nustar said two tanks. the fire department had been saying that there were actually three large tanks burning. we're getting more information a