We understand its a difficult situation for our hav frustrated customers. Reporter while customer discontent continues and we move toward a pat of power shutoffs, talking points are getting plenty of use with very few specifics. Pg es lack of preparation constitutes an emergency on the customers behalf. The safety of our customers is our highest priority. Reporter why are these barricades up . The safety of our employees and customers is our top priority. The safety of our employees is our number one priority as we move forward with the safety shut off. Reporter that has become a familiar answer we have gotten for a variety of different questions. You can see the barricades and they are big and blue and rolled out at noon today. I did ask why and they said is for the safety and security of their employees. They did not say whether they have received any threats but sierra foolsthe chp said a pg e worker was shot out and i 5. He is unharmed but he was in a marked pg e truck. It seems that perhaps they are not taking any risks. Kpix 5. Breaking news right now in Solano County were crews are on a fastmoving grass fire. The flames have jumped the highway and it is burning on both sides of the road near the junction of highway 12 and highway 113. You can barely make out the Wind Turbines spinning through the hazy plumes of all of that smoke. The fire has burned about 50 acres but given the dry weather conditions it to groto t believ any structures in that area. And officers are on scene directing traffic and we will keep an eye on it. The winds are starting to pick up as we move into the evening hours. Lets learn the latest conditions. The first thing i want to do with zero in on those flames. That fire is well within the range of the red flag warning and look at the conditions over my shoulder. We are seeing wind gusts well into the 20s and humidity levels down to 11 . Those are the conditions we dont want us three when a grass fire starts. This is grizzly peak. On grizzly peak at just about 1800 feet in the Berkeley Hills this is also in the red flag warnings and. Right now it is not all that wendy here. You will probably recognize that road if youve got up there to go camping. Let me show you where we will be by 5 00 a. M. Look at grizzly peak. Those are 32 mileperhour wind gusts. This gets us right into the heart of the timeframe for when the strongest of the winds will be happening. If you look at oakland theres a four mileperhour winds. Those of us in the cities from we get into the overnight hours and the strongest winds of this event, most of us will think its not that bad but these winds will be focused on the mountains. Grizzly peak at 32 and look at mount diablo. A 50 mileperhour wind gusts. That is an important aspect of the winds coming our way and just to repeat the timing on this, it will get going overnight tonight from 10 00 to 9 00 tomorrow morning. And there is the info on the red flag warning. It expires tomorrow afternoon at 5 00 p. M. I will be back with more but guys back over to you. One city in Santa Clara County is taking extreme measures to reduce the opportunity for crime during the power shut off. Were live in morgan hill where officials have been forced an eye pedestrian curfew west of highway 101. We are live at the corner of monterey and done on the southern edge of the forecasted power shut off area. It just a few hours it seems that if this power shut off happens, it will be everything behind me and Morgan Hill Police do not want anyone Walking Around in it. Reporter the area issues encompassing one third of the entire city including all of downtown and much of the Industrial Zones to the north which is about four square miles. Every available officer has been called in to enforce this pedestrian curfew. We want to keep our communities safe and we dont want people loitering around businesses that are close that have no business being around them. Reporter the curfew is an effect only in power shut off areas. No pedestrians will be allowed on the street. Checking on neighbors is okay. The curfew will end at 6 30 a man. This is like the book of eli. Neighbors were not enthusiastic. Do you think its overkill . I think it is. You never know whats going to happen. Reporter better safe than sorry. Reporter mary jo things a whole situation is silly to begin with. Reporter youre saying the curfew was right . It is adding insult to injury. People should be able to walk. We have a safe downtown and if people want to walk their dog they shouldnt be locked in the house because we dont have power. Reporter Sergeant Norman says everyone has a right to their own opinion. Were trying to do the right thing for the most good in our community. Reporter the curfew only goes into effect in the power shut off area if or when it actually happens and it will only take place at night. It expires at 6 30 in the morning. Morgan hill is expecting the power to go out around it a clock p. M. Tonight. Kpix 5. A declaration of a local emergency in response to the shut off. They are urging residents to be patient when power is likely shut off three hours from now. Reporter as high wind conditions are going later and lighter that gives us the opportunity to have the evening commute complete before the power shut off begins. We encourage anyone who can get home before 8 00 to do so. If youre not able to get home by then, be patient because it will be a slow commute. Reporter drinking water, sewer and wastewater will not be affected. Residents are asked to turn off outdoor irrigation. In lafayette we met frustrated shoppers who arrested gets groceries and their learning the power will not be shut down until possibly tonight. One shopper we spoke with said pg e is creating more problems by turning off the power. It puts everybody in a bad place as far as safety goes. They are worried about safety but there creating a catastrophe. The city set up some busy intersections. Police have seen a spike in crashes with the power out. Police surthis picture and there have been five injuries and total. If the traffic lights are off, treat that intersection as a four way stop. A similar situation for the evening commute. Lets get to kpix 5 traffic anchor. Its been a frustrating driver this morning. Our biggest problems are on the surface streets. This is south napa and this is pretty much the case on various intersections. You can see traffic is bumper to bumper along the surface streets and traffic lights are out because of the power outage. They are using this as a four way stop so it is a single car passing through these lights. Im going to jump over to our arpsoll you ll seerivach touhis afternoon. Areas mostly affected will be 121, 29 and 221, santa rosa seeing lots old adobe so look out for that. If youre traveling to marin county or your plan to, closures as well in areas of sausalito. There are four way stop set up as well and traffic is slow around those areas. The threat of outages almost close the caldecott tunnel. Kpix 5 done for. Caltrans said if the power were to go out the caldecott tunnel would be closed. And now they have said they resolve the issues in the tunnel will remain open. Three generators are in place and will keep the tunnel running. It was looking like the commuter meltdown when caltrans announced that tunnel may have to close. People were asking why it did not already have a backup generator. We built this tunnel we had redundant power sources. It was coming from the contra costa side and we had a power source coming from the Alameda County side. He signed an emergency directors order for the permanent generator costing 6 million. Having a third redundant system will help us to ensure that the caldecott tunnel remains open at all times. Caltrans explaining is not safe to keep the tunnel open without electricity. You need lights and security and you also have to have ventilation in there. We have a Carbon Monoxide system in their to provide for the safety of the traveling public. We have a Fire Suppression system which are sprinkler systems. These temporary generators will remain in place until the new generator comes online which could be a year. We are your source for the latest information of the pg e power shut off. You can find a complete Survival Guide on our website, www. Kpix. Com. Tomorrow we will be on the air with your morning news earlier a 4 00 a. M. The president calls out steve kerr over the mba spat with china. And joe biden makes a small to recall yet for impeachment. Struck new information about the whistleblower at the center of it all. A government tried to force his way into a synagogue on the holiest day of the jewish year. Contra costa county if you want to know who will be most affected by a prolonged power outage, take a right with us. I will have that story coming up. She has brought us the world. And she has told americas most important stories. And now she brings us truth and understanding right when we need it most. The cbs evening news with norah odonnell. Trust matters. For the first time joe barton his call for President Donald Trump to be impeached. Biden made the remarks while campaigning in new hampshire. Trump is laughing at us. He has no sense of decency. He doesnt care about the wall. He doesnt believe that people and nations to follow the rules are anything other than suckers or fools or losers. We have to prove him wrong. The whistleblower who complained triggered the impeachment inquiry is a registered democrat who had a prior working relationship with the current president ial contender. The whistleblower is a strong democrat and is working with one of my opponents as a democrat that i might end up running against. The whole thing is a scam and to fix. Democrats say its the president whose focused on 2020. The Trump Campaign has spent more than 700,000 on facebook ads this week alone. Us forces have released a the whitussa thewethat region. Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes in northern syria. Turkeys president said the operation is meant to eradicate the threat of terror against his country. In a Statement Today trump said the United States did not endorse this attack and has made it clear to turkey this operation is a bad idea. The military offensive comes days after the Trump Administration abruptly withdrew troops from the region near the syrian border. Republican lawmakers who have blasted the pullout of u. S. Forces worry about the kurdish fighters that have been and ally. I hope that turkey will not slaughter the kurds. I will say this to the president , it will be hard to protect america without allies over there and the kurds have been good allies. A spokesman for curtis let forces says theres huge panic among people and an appeal to protect them from kurdish attacks. A u. S. Official said the u. S. Will defend american troops on the ground but will not interfere with the turquoise operation. Antithe teams are investigating a shooting that left two people dead. The suspect fired several shots in the vicinity of a synagogue. You can see this man and compact care spring bullets from behind the car. One person has been arrested and authorities are stepping up security in their synagogues all over germany. The government posted a video on a livestream platform. It comes months after a mosque shooting streamed on facebook. These widespread outages have a lot of people wondering, can i be compensated . My business is suffering and toss out food. The short answer is no. According to pg e. Pg e will not reimburse you. That is their policy. If they sought out power for safety reasons and they only do payouts for damages directly related to pg e negligence and this is what they say is safety related. Customers will not be charged for electricity during the outage. At least youve got that. We are getting some photos showing people stocking up on supplies. Some stores totally out of ice. Those bins are completely empty. People are trying to salvage the perishables anyway they can. That is the canned food section of a store in eureka. And people are turning to a beloved comfort food. Spam. The store in the open hills people are clearing out practically every single flavor of spam. It could be the thing that gets people through these outages. We want to see your photos of how you are preparing to deal with the power shut offs. You can send them to us on facebook, twitter, or instagram and we will put them on the air. I am at the 11alive news desk, back to you guys. We are keeping an eye on this grass fire burning in Solano County. The flames have jumped highway 12 was of rio vista. The fire is burning on both sides of the road. It has burned about 50 acres and could grow larger. No structures are threatened so far. If you look closely at those pictures you can see the wind drifting off of the screen. Servation. That smoke was almost on the ground. I like to use another wind example. We are going to the Golden Gate Bridge visitor center. Look at the flag. That tells an important story. Obviously you see the bridge and the traffic but you dont see the flag and allow me to point that out. It is right there. That is an on shore breeze and that flag is blowing from the southwest. Will we get into the strong offshore winds were so concerned about it will be pointing this way. It hasnt happened yet here for the city. If we look at the current wind speeds, you can see these west northwest coming from obviously the west northwest. Look at oakland from the west. If you go over the hills were starting to see that shift and that is where that grass fire risk. It is already experience that turn and you can see that when we look at the wider view. Petaluma, eight miles per hour. If you take a look over here, fairfield to sink the north winds pick up and they are at 13. That number will go up as we get into the overnight hours. As far as the rest of our weather is concerned, we are in the full swing of this cool down. 78, concord. Remember when we were doing temperatures that were getting well into the 90s . Let me show you the change from 24 hours ago. The inland locations got the benefit. Livermore is 11 degrees cooler than yesterday. And now we will set her temperature wise. Temperatures will not be at issue over the rest of the 7 day forecast. The wind is a story and i want to use the northbay as my example for where the trouble spots will be. You can see that its windy and the mountains. To the east of napa these are the mountains that separate napa and sonoma. The bright reds are showing where the winds are gusting to 30 or 40. Lets put us into the overnight hours. You will see why we keep making a point of the fact that the strongest winds are coming overnight. That is predawn and is still dark outside and very early morning. This is when the worst of the winds will it picked up across much of the bay area. And it will be breezy in petaluma her santa rosa but you dont even have a wind advisory. If you live in a major metro area through the bay area, no wind advisories. And there are your daytime highs. As we take a look at your daytime forecast, look at the numbers that stay in the low 80s. E headlinis the next 24 hours in terms of this wind event. We will have more coming up later. Disgraced thinker matt lauer breaking his silence about new allegations and why he says he is no longer staying quiet. To the outside world, you look good, but you dont feel good. 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