. >> abc7's wayne friedman is checking in with businesses to see how they're coping there. wayne? >> reporter: they're coping, sure they're coping. we're at mend cena avenue and bicentennial way. one of the people said, wayne, you're doing the news, i can't watch it at home. i told him we're doing it anyway. this is the most dangerous intersection since the shutdown. if you'll notice, the lights are on here again finally. not that traffic seems to be any more organized. there have been two accidents here since the power went off at midnight yesterday morning. a lot of people trying to get home. i don't know -- they've got to find when they get there. here's one story. you're entering a home that looks and feels like an alternate universe -- or maybe just a black hole. with the power cut off since midnight yesterday morning, frank woodward in sonoma county sees expiration dates moving fast forward. if he had one, he'd be past you do. >> we don't know when it's going to come back on. >> reporter: can't be soon enough. >> well, now would be good. >> reporter: everybody seems to be in

abc7's wayne friedman is live in santa rosa with the story. wayne? >> reporter: good afternoon. as power comes back slowly, so does norm am see. we've been at the corn of mendocino and bicente in staosa nniarl w mosayt of th day. earlier, just stop signs, traffic going through, people trusting other people, no light lights came on. now if you look over my shoulder, you can see we have full traffic lights again. we have reds, we have yellows, greens. a lot more safety on tfran kly. that's some good news after all of this ordeal. everybody in the north bay seems to be in a hurry. not as much of a hurry as this time-lapse video indicates, but at rush hour tonight, they want to go home. should they live in a blacked out area like this, they may be going home to black holes. for frank woodward, any credibility that pg&e used to have is him. the theorizing has pbeguson.na training day for pg&e. >> reporter: what do you mean? >> well, they're going to have to shut off the power if there's another fire. they're going to have to have people in place to know how to do that, to do it. i fi

abc7 reporter wayne friedman has more. >> reporter: valley of the moon, a small community of 27,000 people, tucked away not far from sonoma. it's normally quiet. but the general manager of their water district is quite the opposite. >> i will not be the guy who said he didn't do everything he could to get water for his people. >> reporter: alan gardner, 30 years after loma prieta, he has discovered an earthquake danger here that could be devastating. >> no water to my residence after 24 hours, period. >> reporter: gardner blames the state of california that closed the development center and home in august. in the process, california also turned off a water treatment plant on the property that has served as valley of the moon's emergency backup since 1982. >> it put us in a position where we had no time to drill additional wells or money. >> reporter: which leaves valley of the moon at the mercy of a 16-inch aqueduct pipe beneath the bridge above sonoma creek. this section of aqueduct pipeline feeds water via the sonoma county water agency. there's a problem, the agency described this secti

wayne friedman has just arrived in windsor. >> what are you seeing and hearing there? >> reporter: we're seeing good stuff tonight. what a difference a couple of days can make. behind me you have remembers of the fire department here on foothill road. they were in the heart of this fight saturday, receiving thank yous and congratulations from residents here. they saved their homes. these are the people, you may have seen the video yesterday, of going door to door to save neighborhoods and get people out. that was then and this is now. so it's a really nice thing to have them here at this point. earlier today we had another visit to the region by governor gavin newsom. >> thanks for sticking in n cor governor gavin newsom met with fire evacuees at a food bank in santa rosa this morning, there were two words he said more than any others. >> i'm sorry. >> yeah, thank you. >> sorry. >> reporter: as you walked through the crowd you apologized a lot. >> yeah. >> reporter: what were you apologizing for? >> people shouldn't have to live it like this. >> reporter: and live it o