sonoma health official recommends the cdc's schedule. in the newsroom for i-team,i-te, news. >>> menlo park's guild theater is closing this thursday. one of the last single screen theaters on the peninsula. when it opened in 1925, showed silent films accompanied by a live organist. plans to demis it and rebuild as music venue. >>> we have a lot of weather to talk about. >> especially the heat. >> autumn is here, here comes the heat. strong winds tomorrow in the hills, elevated fire danger and take it easy, heat illness is possible. couple of cities and difference between areas on the warm side or hot side. daly city at 9:00 a.m., 68 degrees. concord at 73 by lunch hour, uncomfortable in concord, not in daly city but warm. 80s, 90s, concord up io the triple digits. stunning live picture from san francisco, visibility is terrific because skies are clear, nothing on live doppler 7 in terms of rain or clouds. temperatures from the 50s to 70s. it was warmer today. tomorrow temperatures are going to soar and air quality is going to decline. sp

the sonoma mountain national monument, nobody is noticing much rain there. however, if we look at the details little more closely, diego bay, we have got a good little cell, right overhead now, and this fits the description perfectly, most of us won't see much rain. but these isolated showers, if you happen to get one, right over you, like what diego bay has got kindest mainly over the water at this point. that is a good little bit of rain. maybe even some thunder, mixed in with that could we see those isolated like that, we know the storm has the potential to produce some fairly strong cells. just not a threat of severe weather for that. but a bit of a downpour. look at how large the storm is, we are waiting for this last little southern edge to move through, so was we put it into the future cast, the real focus for the rest of tonight, into sierra. that gets us into this evening. i'm going to talk much more about the winter weather advisory on the map, coming up in a bit. but first, let's make sure we cover, back here at home, and we will see the scatted e

>>red flag warning will be in effect in sonoma county tonight.e department. e wathing it will be one of many agencies across sonoma county that will have extra staffing in place for critical fire weather. >>the warning last. santa rosa right now where he has some details on the hot conditions and how precautions are being taken care. >>teresa really i've been here in santa rosa for the last couple of hours talking with folks in victims of the tubbs fire back in 2017 getting thoughts on how these folks feel about some of the pg e power shut off. that we've seen in some of the sierra foothills tonight and that we could see even in sonoma county over thet

it's still in this part of sonoma county.noma, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> let's hope it remains quiet and safe. thank you, bob. >>> 6:35 right now >>> amid the high fire danger, a massive fire broke out yesterday in fresno county. it's been very hot as well. the hay fire burning near the city of kerman yesterday afternoon that destroyed some 1100 tons of hay and farm equipment before it was put out. no one was injured and the cause is under investigation. >>> breaking news the ceo of san francisco-based juul is stepping down immediately. >> kris sanchez, what could this mean for the vaping industry? >> the most obvious change an average person will see isn't whose name is on the ceo's door. it's a full stop of all advertising. kevin burns stepped down amid heavy criticism of the vaping industry and of juul in particular, which is accused of marketing its ecigarettes to young people with the sleek designs and the sweet flavorings. he will be replaced by an executive from the third largest tobacco producer in the world,

sonoma county were added to the list.the list of mandatory shutdowns, not put in place, that could come later this morning as pg&e and weather experts monitor the weather situation, this comes after the national weather service issued red flag fire weather warnings across the north bay and parts of east bay hills. dry north winds, low humidity and increasingly high winds tuesday morning and high daytime temperatures creating most of the concerns. it would affect 33,500 customers here in sonoma county, nearly 13,000 in lake county and 10,500 customers in napa county. no definite shutoffs have been announced yet but pg&e expects the risk to increase, beginning around 8:00 tonight as the wind gusts start to pick up and the company says it's closely monitoring the weather forecast before making a final decision on mandatory shutoffs. no mandatory shut yourselves but pg&e could make the decisions on mandatory shutoffs as early as late this morning, if they do go into effect they probably will not go into effect until late in t

>>they'll be additional resources available sonoma county. strike team which is 5 fire engines and a leader. an additional water tender initial dispatcher dispatch center this funding through callow yes there's going to be a second strike team which is 5 engines and a leader this paid for through sonoma county. and so will be through just local government that's likely arc our partners they'll be. 11 extra pieces of equipment on the road extra dispatchers and especially or next rover had available. >>getting back to that power shut off issue again those 3 north bay county's lake sonoma napa no shut off tonight, but the possibility of a shut off tomorrow night depending on the weather. now we can tell you specifically that what is most important to remember here is that once the power is shut off. it's not a matter of flipping a switch to get it back on what has to happen first is pg e has to do an inspection of every power line even if it's done by the air but they have to inspect every power line. that was shut off before they turn it back o

the body was found off the side of erode in sonoma county. defense attorneys say the prosecution is ignoring evidence that someone else did it. >> the prosecution is prosecuting the case, they have got the wrong people and trial. >> defense attorneys sah friend of ayotte was the one who kidnapped and murdered the victim, that man was expected to be prosecutors star witness, but he was arrested for alleged witness tampering before the trial. >>> the scrutiny on e-cigarette maker juul has reached a new level, the latest investigation into the san francisco bay, he. >>> caltrans sounding the alarm about his tripp county in san mateo county, the emergency. project about to get underway. >>> tracking breaking news, always completely shut down on 82 to crash involving a tanker truck, ["white rabbit" by jefferson airplane] ♪ one pill makes you larger ♪ and one pill makes you smaller ♪ ♪ and the ones that mother gives you ♪ ♪ don't do anything at all ♪ remember what the dormouse said ♪ welcome aboard. ♪ feed your head the juul record. they took $12.8

over and sonoma county, the tinley recreation complex will be open. as today's high fire danger continues, kpix5 has you care covered on air and online at kpix.com. >>> this just in, a little over an hour ago, the ceo of juul announced he is stepping down. the resignation of this man, kevin burns, is effective immediately. and autry executive is replacing him. the san francisco bay company is the biggest player in e- cigarettes, the announcement follows the wall street journal report that jobs could be eliminated over slower sales do two bands and negative press. >>> new this morning, the united nations shocking to report on climate change is out. in part, ice in the arctic and antarctic is looking much more quickly than previously thought. some of the most severe consequences can only be avoided. among the biggest concerns, rising sea levels. cbs this morning's jonathan bickley @troubled the california coast from -- to see some of the potential seras effects firsthand. good morning, jonathan. >> reporter: good morning, when the nation things about cl

we're in sonoma right now. there are red flag fire weather warnings across northern california, and parts of the north bay and east bay hills, warnings start at 9:00 tonight and lasting through 5:00 wednesday morning across the north bay and the east bay hills. dry north winds, low humidity and increasingly high winds tuesday morning creating a lot of concern in the area. trying to mitigate fire dangers, pg&e has specifically put out warnings to nine counties, where they anticipate there could be troubles, mostly in the sierra foothills and also lake county, they put out warnings earlier, but pg&e now added napa and sonoma counties to the list. about 10,500 customers could be affected in napa county and 33,500 customers here in sonoma county could get their power shut off. no definite shutoffs again have been announced but pg&e says it is closely monitoring its most vulnerable electrical equipment and the weather around it. >> gusty winds and dry conditions combined with the heightened fire risk threaten a port

sonoma county has declared a state of emergency. out of an abundance of caution. >>> team coverage on the fire danger. we begin with paul who has been tracking the hotspots. >>> the whole bay area will be a hotspot the next couple days. we get those in september and october. it is the end of september. this will be our first one. widespread heat. strong winds from the north and northeast. it is a dry wind. humidity drops. it is a hot wind. it will be a strong wind. 40 miles per hour. all of those things come together to take fire danger from high to extreme. the north and east bay hills and the diablo range. under a red flag warning from this evening it begins at 9 pm and will last through the day on tuesday until wednesday morning. it is going to get hot outside. 80 at the coast. close to 90 san francisco. the majority of the bay area under a heat advisory tomorrow afternoon and wednesday afternoon. today began to warm up. it will be 10 or 15 degrees hotter tomorrow. 88 concorde. 71 san francisco. 92 santa rosa. plan on triple digi

and destroying an event venue in sonoma. i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm brian hackney. the fire started near highway 116 and state route 121 in the tiny community of shellville. about 10 acres burned. kpix5's maria medina is at what is left of that event center where fire officials said it was a close call. >> reporter: the fire began in a ditch and quickly spread by the strong winds. people were in the event center celebrating a birthday one moment, the very next, running from fast moving flames. >> everybody was engulfed. >> reporter: rick eichler could see the smoke from a mile away. by the time he got to highway 121, the flames were tearing through the property. >> a structure fire. all this was all lit up. >> reporter: 45 miles an hour winds fueled the flames, pushing it onto dry grass. spreading it quickly to a victorian building where about 50 people were celebrating a birthday. >> it created havoc as people tried to escape. the fire was running underneath the car. >> reporter: two weddings came to a halt. as the flames threatened the building of corner stone win

>>now here in sonoma county more than 700 customers will lose electricity. those customers are located off of border creek road. in the mark west community. in santa rosa j r stone kron 4 news. >>another big story that we're following for you this morning. speaker of the house nancy pelosi is launching an official appeal to an inquiry into president trump. this comes after a whistleblower complaint claiming that president trump incur and she cranes president to investigate former vice president biden and his son kron four's taylor sacking has the latest. the house is now launching an official impeachment inquiry into president trump. >>the actions of the trump presidency revealed. this article fat the president's betrayal of his of office. the kumail of our national security and the trial of the integrity of our elections. therefore today announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. speaker of the house nancy pelosi. >>made the announcement after details of a whistleblower report surfaced claiming president tru

but pg&e is monitoring conditions in napa, sonoma and lake counties. sonoma has 3000 people in the potential shut off zone and local emergency declarations to inform people that a power shut off could happen. preparations are under way at fire stations with crews from different agencies working together to form one strike thw the next one so we prepare in case it happen again. >> fire watch cameras are giving officials an instand look to remote places. >>> thousands of people in the sierra foothills have no power this morning. pg&e turned off the power to more than 21,000 customers last night in nevada and yuba county trying to prevent wildfires in the dry weather. the outages could continue up to 48 hours. business owners in nevada county say there's not much they can do but wait for the lights to come back on. >>> i just don't think it is right that they do that to us. we have no recourse against them and at the turn it off. >>> some businesses like pen true valley hardware store are running on batteries and peopling running into buy anything they ne

these folks are watching the hills of the sonoma hills. >>> kpix 5 news at 7:00 starts now with the patriots releasing antonio brown. good evening i am ken bastida. >> and i am veronica de la cruz. it is hard to forget all of the drama that he cause the raiders. >> he was immediately signed with the patriots. but it lasted 13 days. brown this afternoon cut. by his third nfl team that has given up on him in the last six months. this is its own investigation, he is accused of sexual assault and misconduct by a former trainer . on wednesday, that artist displayed threatening text messages allegedly from brown. here's a seemingly fed up bill belichick. >> i think i have already addressed the so -- i would be happy to answer any football questions. so, yeah. yeah. thank you. >> so bill belichick walked out of the press conference. the team later released a statement. "we appreciate the hard work of many people over the past 11 days, but we feel it is best to move in a different direction at this time." he will not play for another team the rest of the season. i don't want to say that his career i

will be gradually through the day a look at future cast shows that by 06:00am portions of northern sonoma county are looking at a few light showers drifting further southward gradually to the course your morning this is nearing 08:00am right here, starting to see him in northern marine county portions of napa county very light. but we will have some isolated moderate showers imbedded in their specially for the north bay in napa and sonoma counties by the time we work towards 9.15. all right around the marine had winds, you're looking at some more possibility of just a couple of drops on the peninsula and then further south from there into 10:30am. that's when you'll start to see just some light brief rainfall on parts of the peninsula, the east bay searching up into solano county. after that continuing to push further southward by noontime today. alameda contra costa. and even portions of san mateo and santa clara county starting to get in the mix of some rain after they work their way through the south bay the really going to start to fizzle nothing more than just a couple of drops by th

our most significant rainfall today will be seen up in sonoma county with lying areas of moderate rainfall very brief pushing on through through these northern by 10:15am starting to see some showers further southward on into san francisco, contra costa and alameda counties. these areas will be looking at light brief rainfall rolling on through by 11:30am right around lunchtime little bit further southward and then activity really it makes its way through the south bay after which point you've got sunshine making its return across the bay area. right now temperatures are mild a lot of that cloud cover that we're looking at helping to keep us on the more mild side. oakland 66 right now san francisco at 62 well conquered in pittsburgh. each at 64 degrees currently letter the part of the day today after the showers clear out the will bring some partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies and highs on the comfortable side in the 70's. more your forecast to come. robert. thank you john much heavier traffic now rolling into san francisco, the back of this growing. >>it's spilling all the way back beyond

let you know soon as we hear from pg e for now live in sonoma county sarah stinson kron 4 news. >>we're following a fire as well that spring there 6 fires actually all the same time. us one of the reservoir fire 70% contained. that's a 120 northeast of milpitas off of calaveras road. nearly 300 firefighters are helping that one trying to get that out calibers road is going to remain closed until tomorrow. homeless after a fiat fire at a san jose home care facility. this one was at the care facility which is called the keen care facility on massachusetts drive. but nobody was hurt. everybody got out safely. >>and breaking news overnight, a driver has been arrested after driving the wrong way on the entire span of the bay bridge happened shortly after 3 this morning officers received calls about a tesla model 3 driving eastbound in the westbound direction chp says the driver went through the toll plaza on 2 northbound 8.80 a spike strip had to be used to stop that driver after 5th avenue in oakland, the driver is in custy, right now the chp is investigating why he was on the wrong

right near napa and sonoma, 80s tomorrow. by friday morning, don't forget that friday morning we have fog coming back. morning drizzle, 67 in san francisco, and 60s as we head throughout next week. inland valleys. you get fog back, also spotty drizzle. look at the afternoon high, 77 degrees. what about rain chances? three systems the next two weeks. by the time the third one gets here on october 7th, we could see showers, be close to the bay area. that's what we're looking at right now. i think overall getting this cooler weather in here, it's going to make everybody very happy. let's just say that. >> i like the warm weather. >> oh, okay. >> real. >> i i, it's time to go. >>> coming up, calling off a pursuit, but not for the reason you might think. why an officer driving a tesla had to suddenly stop following a suspect. ["white rabbit" by jefferson airplane] ♪ one pill makes you larger ♪ and one pill makes you smaller ♪ ♪ and the ones that mother gives you ♪ ♪ don't do anything at all ♪ remember what the dormouse said ♪ welc

nine counties including sonoma, napa, lake and butte counties could be affected. contingency plans are now in place for when and if the power is turned off. >> reporter: sonoma county officials from various organizations just finished up a meeting here to figure out what they would do if, in fact, pg&e decides to shut off the power. pg&e is going to the new normal, lessening fire danger by contentious continuously shutting off power to avoid fire. dave has lived here many years and remains unscathed the key is all for pg&e taking these measures but only where it makes sense . >> if that's the case, it would be a little drastic. >> reporter: in case the power is shut off, john kendrick was on the hunt for dry ice for his medical practice where patients a ages range from 1 to 100 . >> they don't have to be frozen but we have to maintain temperatures running upwards of 100 degrmas.unty opened and will stay that way as long as needed. county officials are ready to help whoever may need it. specific logistics are up in the air as the weather remains closely monitor . >

our first year stone following the story for us he joins us now live from sonoma county chair you just talk with emergency crews there. what are they tell you. >>well vicki they say that overnight in napa and sonoma counties more than 14 100 households will lose electricity. i talk with those officials within the hour or so about this. this is what they had to say. >>years impact that are going to be mark west and porter creek road near the border in but it's our jupiter's the king. the dean is trying to restart power within the 12 hour mark and we are hoping that that is the case for them however we've been messaging and we're at in asking the community to be prepared for an extended those of power and we're hoping that folks in those areas are ready to. >>been. >>today i was in one of the founder of neighborhoods in santa rosa, a number of homes here were lost during the 2017 fires, some of those homes een rebuilt and others are under construction. those that i talked with said the hot weather is concerning. but the worries don't come for them until they feel the wind that is what th

. >> now at 6:00, breaking news out of sonoma county. a brush fire is burning structures and forcing evacuations. >> that site is highly contaminated. a developer is proposing to put 4,000 homes on top of that. >> no. i wouldn't live here for all the money in the world. >>> a pleasanton based home security start-up donates a security system to a local family. this, after a terrifying burglary attempt a few weeks ago. >> thanks for joining us, i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm brian hackney. a brush fire has burned about 10 to 15 acres. this in the community of shellville near highway 116 and state route 121. ttle bit south of sonoma. we are told areas within a one- mile radius. flames so far three buildings have been destroyed. firefighters say others are threatened at this hour. and lanes near the 116 at this hour are closed at this time. it's not clear when they will open back up. >>> meteorologist darren peck is tracking the conditions. >> you get flames that big, they can oftentimes start to drive their own winds. the winds in that part

some low 10 100 sonoma, 100 fairfield. 103 vacaville. this is not unusual at all. what happens this time of year. be aware of that and know we will see four or five more red flag warnings before we get through the fire season. this one does not seem to be based on the winds we are seeing now. they are all dangerous. but some could be more dangerous than others. this is not forecasting winds of 70 miles per hour, 35 to 40 miles an hour. there is the 5-day forecast. red flag warnings stays in effect through wednesday morning. >>> sports is coming up next with a big game for a former raider. khalil mack put in another prime time performance tonight on monday night tomorrow. mark has the highlights coming up next in sports. the juul record. they took $12.8 billion from big tobacco. juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. five million kids now using e-cigarettes. the fda said juul ignored the law with misleading health claims. now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn san francisco's e-cigarette protections. say no to juul, no to big to

this is northbound 680 on the sonoma grade. near vargas road, just coming up from fremont into pleasanton. you do not want to get on the freeway because the crash happened earlier this morning. the truck jackknifed and had a fuel spill northbound 680. traffic is going to be at a standstill. southbound, traffic is getting through. we don't have a lot of rubberneckers just yet. if this were my commute i would be wary of that a northbound 680, coming up through the area because there is going to be rubberneckers action. try and get yourself away from using northbound 680 at all because it is going to be a tough commute. we are also looking at other commutes, this is the bay bridge westbound traffic already a little bit slow but we arty have kind of a bigger backup. people may be getting on the road early because of a little of that wet weather? >>> that is correct, it is raining north but the roads, lot oil on the roads, drizzle around the bay. >> it was raining when i came in. >> it's over alameda and san francisco. rain just mad

>>red flag warning will be in effect in sonoma county tonight. this is video from the santa rosa fire department. e wathing it will be one of many agencies across sonoma county that will have extra staffing in place for critical fire weather. >>the warning last. santa rosa right now where he has some details on the hot conditions and how precautions are being taken care. >>teresa really i've been here in santa rosa for the last couple of hours talking with folks in victims of the tubbs fire back in 2017 getting thoughts on how these folks feel about some of the pg e power shut off. that we've seen in some of the sierra foothills tonight and that we could see even in sonoma county over the next couple of days but at this point it is a could now as i talk about this i do want to go to some of the video because this is what some of coffee part looks like today, many of those homes have been rebuilt, i did talk with one woman a little while ago. concerning the pg e power shut off some she said, you know what she's all for the added safety measures as

it would affect 33,500 customers here in sonoma county. nearly 13,000 in lake county and another county. no definite shutoffs have been announced but pg&e expects the risk to increase beginning around 8:00 as the wind gusts start to pick up. that's when power would most likely be shut off. the company notified tens of thousands of customers last night about the anticipated shutoffs and plans to keep them informed as they make a decision some time in the next hour. >> they will be notified again and make a final decision on whether to proceed with the power shutoff late this morning and then we'll contact customers and let them know if it's a goo or no go. >> reporter: pga says it expects to be able to restore power within 24 to 48 hours after the weather improves and it also says that it is asking customers out there to plan for at least 48 hours because these can be prolonged shutoffs if the weather does not improve quickly. tom jensen, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> in the meantime there are great concerns as well weather wise beca

so is the sonoma county fire department. that's welcome news to this grandmother who's been worried about the tinder cry grass. we could see gusts up it 35 miles an hour ipthe east bay hills tomorrow and even higher in napa. that coupled with hot temperatures and low humidity could dramatically increase the risk of fires quickly raging out of control. santa clara county firefighters say during this warning they ask that you not use any equipment that might throw up sparks. also they say this is good time to make sure you have all the emergency supplies necessary on hand in case there is a major fire. >> thank you, marianne. make sure you download the nbc bay area app. and it is free. >>> union city brought to a halt. tonight a major computer virus is impacting city owned computers. city representatives say some buildings won't open until much later tomorrow as tech employees race to fix the problem. nbc bay area tracking this for us and live at the administration building. >> reporter: the computer system had been paralyzed

>>the northern eye edge of sonoma county. but there are a couple of sprinkles now working their way on into some of the coastal ranges guerneville a along the russian river right there santa rosa you've yet to tap into any moisture just yet. but you will be looking at showers rolling in their way your direction come especially the 6 o'clock to 7 o'clock hours that's when you'll see some light and embedded in there just a couple of moderate showers up in the north bay now the system is going to roll further southward and by 10:00am you'll start to see a couple of showers right along the golden gate bridge further south from their towards 11:00am this morning. that's when the peninsula the east bay out to solano county will see a brief rush of just some light showers pushing through system really begins to lose steam as it works its way to the south bay and then dissipates into thin air before it moves even further south after that we've got some clearing skies and you get a look at mostly sunny conditions by the latter part of

green's body was later found off the side of a road in sonoma county. but the defense says that prosecutors ignored evidence that someone else did it. >> the prosecution is prosecuting a case. they've got the wrong people on trial. >> defense attorneys say that a friend of bayate's aliveay odello was the one that kidnapped and murdered keith green. ly an bayat are being tried together. >>> police in san francisco say they have been making a lot of drug busts in the tenderloin with more than 380 suspected dealers arrested so far this year. authorities tweeted a photo after an arrest over the weekend. they say they confiscated 130 packets of fentanyl, meth, cocaine and heroin. >>> it is a $25 million a year problem for bart fare evasion. the agency says that it is a top concern for riders so that they've come up with some new solutions to fight back against cheaters. bart shared these new options for gates up for consideration later this week. the first one is a swing-style gate. it's modern and comparable to the existing one in terms of reliability. the

hundreds of pg&e and customers are without power in napa and sonoma counties.e report just moments away. kari hall is tracking conditions for us >> not only do we have a high fire danger but also a heat advisory in effect. i'll track that along with temperatures and the relief in the forecast. more is coming up after this break. come try my really big chicken two patties for $4.99, or three for $5.99, or four for $6.99. that's an amazing deal, jack! hey, thanks, stanley. ow. ...wait, what's happening? stanley! you're deflating! hold me, jack! only at jack in the box. ♪ are you ready? ♪ are you ready for some fun? ♪ ♪ ♪ are you ready? ♪ we can't stop, we've only just begun. ♪ ♪ ♪ oooooooooo... ♪ i'll show you something ♪ neeeeeewwww. ♪ i'll show you something, i'll show you something... ♪ ♪ neeeeeewwww. ♪ hey, shaq. it's a 30 second tour. no man it's like... now it's 26. welcome aboard. ocean! skyride. mini golf. relax! relax! relax! you take this man to be your husband? i do. married. no time for basketball. pool. carnival. choose fun. two breaded chicken patti

>>pg e crews restore the power in sonoma county at about 4 o'clock a this afternoon. i just about an hour ago fire crews remain in the areas looking for any problems there. you can track the weather in your neighborhood anytime with the kron 4 app there you will find ful forecast interactive radar and get weather alerts straight to your device. download the kron 4 app today and developing news tonight, the white house has released what they classify as a not verbatim transcript of the july 25th phone call between president trump and his ukrainian counterpart. >>people took notice a summary of the call during that call the notes indicate that president trump asked ukrainian president zelensky to investigate former vice president joe biden and that is what prompted the house to launch that impeachment investigation against president trump. >>washington correspondent alexander limo has details now of the memo and reaction from lawmakers on capitol hill. >>the notes of the call reflect a conversation far more damning than i or many others had imagined. >>the white house r

we have isolated showers, mainly focused in sonoma and marin. it won't necessarily have to stay there entirely. we could see a few showers at any location throughout the bay area today. really, the more likely location for us to see this today is in the north bay. they will be isolated most of the day. for most places it doesn't rain today. if you get one of those over you, son, in the form of an isolated thunderstorm. he did a brief downpour that doesn't last long. there is the rest of the seven day forecast coming our way. i just mentioned in this forecast affect it will snow in the sierra again today. stick aroundnelf homore s this afternoon. >>> there has been another tragedy of the santa anita racetrack. this is the 32nd horse death since december. santa anita track officials say a 3-year-old colt was running down the stretch during the eighth race yesterday when he suddenly broke both front legs and crashed to the ground. he was later euthanized. before the race, animal protesters and counter protesters lined up on opposite sides of the ma

so i talked to some people who live here in sonoma county asking them if you know say your power's out for a couple days is this worthwhile to know that it would keep you safer. and everyone i talked to said, yeah of course because it just reminds them of the fires that sparked up 2 years ago take a listen. >>coming through here like that and so if shutting off the power prevent safety to be done. but if they have to do it they have to do it just people need to be prepared. especially people with health issues that a real big concern if they have to quit. backup generators for all their equipment and the >>pg is going to release of they're going to do this shut off. this sometime this morning so stay tuned as we wait to hear from them about whether they plan to do the power shut off or not however if they do decide to then that's going to be some time this late afternoon slash. later tonight, so we'll keep an eye stay tuned to kron 4 kron 4 dot com our app and will you know what they decide for now i'm live in sonoma county sarah stinson kron 4 news thanks. a lot sarah and a reminder t

his body was found on may 11th of that year in sonoma county. prosecutors say they arranged his murder because we was worried about a custody battle. attorneys for early and bayat says their clients are innocent. plea has been on house arrest after their family posted $35 billion bill. airbnb two is still in custody. he is happy she stayed put. wagstaff says the trial is expected to wrap up by mid- november. we will have inside and bring you all the details from what is happening inside the courtroom at noon. >>> pg&e is advising thousands of its customers that it is possible that it may shut off power in several california counties later today and that would be to reduce the possibility of a welfare. this warning is going out to people who live in the north bay and this area stretches all the way up to lake tahoe. we live in sonoma. what are the cities that could be impacted? >> reporter: these outages could start later tonight, if that happens, all of these restaurants and businesses that surround sonoma plaza would lose power. along with thou

>>lawrence thank you well within the last couple of hours power in sonoma county has been restored. that's after pg any cut our to reduce the risk of wildfires earlier today. the utility switched off the power to more than 1400 customers in sonoma and napa counties, the conducts these power shut off in order to reduce the threat of gusty winds. >>knocking down live power lines and sparking wildfires. >>the power was cut off early this morning in effect of scores of residents and local businesses. however, one man who lives in calistoga told us that he doesn't mind if the power is off for a while in order to keep his family say. >>i have animals i have a 3 cats 2 dogs and i want them to be safe. my daughter comes to visit me i wanted to be safe. so i'd rather my power shut up to my power than than the possible have a possibility of in sonoma county. at about 4 o'clock this afternoon. the officials say that they will restore the power in napa county sometime tonight. the time the fire crews will remain in those areas looking for anything tensile problems. >>you can track the weather i

here's more from sonoma county. >> reporter: we talked about this quiet fire season and the idea that the potential hazard has been squeezed back into the calendar. that gave sonoma county some time to work on their neighborhood watch system >> it really helps us during high fire danger situations when we get a reap port of smoke we can get eyes on it and see how bad it is. >> reporter: sonoma county has been building a camera system. two dozen cameras that can be used to triangulate the exact location of remote fires. >> we can locate exactly where in the mountains that incident is. and send resources to that location the first time without having to set splatters they're looking for that exact location. >> reporter: the cameras offer 360 degrees views and they can be directed to whatever needs to be looked at. getting real-time situation awareness inside the command center was a difficult task. it was hard to know exactly where the fire was. this camera system allows us us to see the fire clearly and night. and the responders can view this on their way to the incident in real time.

ttle bit south of sonoma. we are told areas within a one- mile radius. flames so far three buildings have been destroyed. firefighters say others are threatened at this hour. and lanes near the 116 at this hour are closed at this time. it's not clear when they will open back up. >>> meteorologist darren peck is tracking the conditions. >> you get flames that big, they can oftentimes start to drive their own winds. the winds in that part of sonoma county while they are really bad in the mountains are not that bad in the bottom of the valley. let me show you where this is first of all. we'll go from the wide view to the southern most end where we find this fire burning about 10 to 12 miles south of sonoma. of the town proper. we can be thankful this fire burning down here in the rural flat lands is only looking at about 15 miles an hour gusts. in fact, there's the lay of the land. you can see the wind speeds over there at 15. and there's good news going forward from here, in terms of the wind's ability to drive us, we have seen the worst of the winds for t

the sonoma county. >>strike team which is 5 fire engines and a leader. an additional water tender initial dispatcher dispatch center this funding through callow yes there's going to be a second strike team which is 5 engines and a leader this paid for through sonoma county. and so will be through just local government that's likely arc of our partners they'll be 11 extra pieces of equipment on the road extra dispatchers the dispatch center next rover had available. >>now if power shut off in the north bay on tuesday night turning it back on is not a matter of flipping a switch in fact pg must do an inspection of each power line that is turned off. the ford is turned back on that can be done in person it can also be done by the air. but that's why turning the power on could take 24 hours 48 hours or even possibly more than 72 hours. at the bee gees service center in santa rosa dan kerman kron 4 news. >>construction will continue for the homeless navigation center near the embarcadero in san francisco today, a superior court judge denied a community groups

in napa county and sinnott sonoma counties. >> reporter: in sonoma county the shut off area is sneerorest porter creek road. they are preparing the exotic animal park for the power outage. >> this is the area where the fires blasted over the mountain ridge. it pretty much extinguish all of the homes up there. >> reporter: pg&e's decision was announced around 7:30 pm. the company says this is the new normal, following the huge wildfires in recent years. and the losses that have threatened to destroy the pgd, itself. it is doing preemptive like us. some local officials said that they needed to do a better job of making decisions. >> i am beyond frustration. we have had a couple hundred thousand people and multiple government agencies preparing for a potential setup. we are still in the same holding pattern, trying to be prepared. trying to be the gould soldiers and not knowing exactly what is going to happen and when. >> reporter: so the power is going to be shut off around 4:30 am. but officials say they are not sure when they will stop that process. they say that weather conditions w

green's body was found along a dirt road in sonoma county back in 20-16... nearly two weeks after he had been last seen meeting with li at a restaurant... to discuss custody of their children. prosecutors say she feared losing custody of her children and directed her boyfriend to kill green.(grant) li's wealthy family, who made millions operating chinese construction projects, helped her post the multi million dollar bail, she being charged she has been allowed h er mansion. bayat ody. (topvo ) (pam) a social gathering of people on a balcony ... ends dangerously on the ground at a condominium complex in the south bay kron4's haaziq madyun talks to a downstairs neighbor who says, she feels lucky to be alive a one story (pam) a live look at san francisco international airport... where we are seeing more flight delays and cancellations again .... that's as the work continues to repair one of the airport's main runways. but, some good news, the airport says, the repair work is running ahead of schedule. today, officials announced they are running about 48- hours

today she was up in sonoma and then in fremont.course raising funds for her husband's 2020 presidential campaign. >> not taking any chances. that's what organizers at a popular pumpkin patch in the south bay are doing. they are adding extra gilroy garlic festival. it was opening day at the pumpkin park in san martin. you will see extra uniformed deputies on the ground. that request was initially declined by the santa clara county sheriff's department. they don't allow deputies to work extra paid jobs in uniform, but today a department spokesperson said it just took time to make it happen. the general manager of the pumpkin festival says she wants everyone to feel safe. >> we have always had a security team out here with armed guards. but with everything that happened at the garlic festival, we wanted that presence here, to give people a sense of security. >> the farms is expected more than 150,000 visitors over the next month. >> more developments in that street fight in san francisco involving boulders. overnight, some of the rock

.>>> and sonoma county authorities are opening cooling centers for people who need to escape this heat. the finley community center on college avenue in santa rosa is open until 7 pm today and tomorrow. the petaluma community center on mcdowell boulevard is also open today and tomorrow until 8 pm and the windsor senior center on foxwood drive is open until 6 pm. you can keep up with the latest conditions by downloading the ktvu weather app, it has hourly updates, the 7 day forecast, and information on the red flag warnings. the ktvu weather app is free to download for your smart phone or tablet. >>> burglars making themselves at home, one made a sandwich and a smoked pot, another even took a shower inside a stranger's home. several times over the past week intruders have come face- to-face with residents in their own homes. ktvu crime reporter henry lee joining is now live after speaking with victims today, and henry, you have more on what's going on here.>> reporter: with all the hot weather we've had lately, a lot of these victims kept their doors open. that's how the bad guys got in

. >> si se decide cortar la energÍa elÉctrica en el condado de sonoma, miles de personas podrÍan ser que tendrÍamos en el condado de sonoma. >> esta mujer dejarÍa de hacer varias actividades. >> cocinar, mirar televisiÓn, usar telÉfonos. >> tengo una clase en la noche. reportera: la empresa busca restablecer la energÍa que cortÓ ser para personas de tres condados. sometidos 1000 personas las que se quedaron sin electricidad y todavÍa siguen trabajando para que vuelvan a tener servicio lec rico. por lo pronto la recomendaciÓn es que se mantenga fresco. ramÓn: si quiere mantenerse informado y recibir alertas recuerde descargar nuestra aplicaciÓn, aparece como univisiÓn Área de la bahÍa. vamos a hablar de otras cuestiones porque el servicio de transporte no quiere que mÁs gente pierda la vida cuando tratan de cruzar las vÍas. se informÓ que la medidas de seguridad estÁn vigentes y parece que no son respetados. miguel gÓmez nos acompaÑa con informaciÓn. reportera: otra persona perdiÓ la vida luego de ser impactada por este tren. lo cruzan y a veces sin ver. este es el enfoque que se tien

that includes hundred 24 customers and counties like sonoma butte and plaster. they are monitoring the weather and fire conditions extra closely in case they need to preemptively turn the fire -- power off. if a fire were to start it would likely spread quickly. they are still traumatized by the wine country wildfires are up to their communities two years ago. >> a lot of people have mixed feelings about the three-day window. it is a three-day window. >> i think the new power lines underground will keep the fires from happening. i don't think shutting power off to all the people with roaming blackouts is the way to go. >> with multiple lawsuits now the utility says turning off power has turned into the new normal to prevent another catastrophe. they say the shut off for her business and i don't see what is going on right now. and the diablo range through wednesday as well. kpix five. >>> off to the fire watch this morning. the reservoir fire burning on calaveras road is now 70% contained. the fire has been burning since saturday afternoon. it is now holding stea

there could be power shut offs for parts of napa, sonoma and lake counties. these are designed to prevent wildfire. >> how long are these wind gusts going to last? >> i think we're good for them to last maybe the next 12 to 16 hours. here's a look at what we've had so far today. mt. diablo getting up to 46 miles per hour. sonoma hills, 33, atlas peek, 22 peak 25. it was isolated to highest elevations. a lot of lower elevations 10 to 15 miles per it's in effect till 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. with these isolated gusts, 20-40, sustained winds, 10-20 and low humidity. what about tomorrow morning and the heat? check it out. we're still starting off very warm. widespread 80s at 9:00 in the morning, san francisco even at 78. but here is the good news that i know a lot of you are anxious for the cooling trend. we're going to talk about not one, not two, but three different systems and how long we could see cooling weather last for in about 15 minutes. >> fall is coming our way. >>> the possibility of losing power tonight makes things really tricky for a lot of peo

a close eye has been kept on neighborhoods in napa sonoma and lake counties. they could face power shutoffs as early as tomorrow if the weather changes. one person we talked to said he is all for pg&e taking preemptive measures. only where it makes sense. >>> if that is the case that would be drastic. they can't shut it off in certain where they think it would be dangerous.>>> this schools in santa rosa are on the watch stage for possible power outages tomorrow. hidden valley elementary school. ren con valley middle school and maria correio high school. paul joining me now. it is always hot this time of year. that is not the real concern. the real concern is the high winds. >>> the red flag warning doesn't mean fires are going to start. if they were to start which happens all summer long they have a high risk of spreading quickly. it is because of the wind and the decreased humidity. it is going to be really hot the next couple days. offshore winds. northbay and east bay mounds under a red flag warning starting this evening when the winds ramp up to the day tu

>>pg e will shut off power to more than 1400 customers in napa and sonoma counties. it's likely that ross electricity will stay on. but he is closely watching things. >>mark tomorrow should be the end of it. hopefully. >>officials expect power to be out for some time. >>is trying to restart power within the 12 hour mark and we are hoping that that is the case for them however we've been messaging and we're at in asking the community to be prepared for an extended those of power and we're hoping that folks in those areas are ready to most of the day without power. >>now here in sonoma county, those at the emergency operations center are closely monitoring the situation in these overnight hours they tell me that those who will lose electricity here in sonoma county. our off of border creek road that is where they live in the mark west community and here in sonoma county more than 700 customers will lose electricity. early tomorrow morning. reporting live in santa rosa j r stone kron 4 news a long night for them, thank you j r. >>and i know lawrence you try to get the g

. >>> in the north bay a fire in sonoma county is under control after forcing some evacuations. flames sparked just before 3:00 yesterday afternoon. you can see on the map along highway 121 near schellville. it ripped through an event center that also has some residences. abc 7 news reporter lisa amin gulezian has more on the fire that did destroy some buildings but did spare lives. >> this is where i used to live. now i'm looking for a new home. >> reporter: marc foley spoke out of fear as he watched the fast-moving fire whip across garden pavilion event center. he lives in the victorian house which ended up being spared. >> a good quarter of the property or more is gone. >> reporter: cal fire dumped water on the blaze which forced 100 people to evacuate and shut down two weddings at cornerstone gardens and a 70th birthday party at the pavilion. you can see party hats, wine, food, left behind as guests ran. >> they set up tables. that's completely gone. all these barns all in the front are completely gone. all the vehicles are completely gone. and the shed building is completel