Underway. You can see the lights are on directly behind me. Then you walk across the street and you can see total darkness. Destructive fires, evacuations and now power outages. Those living in the Santa Cruz Mountains they say cant catch a break. Damages you offshore winds have forecast tonight, which prompted a red flag warning. The hunt for a missing lemur at the San Francisco zoo, why police think the animal was taken from its enclosure and what we can all do to help. Abc 7 news starts right now. Now from abc 7 live breaking news. I know it has to be done because of the fires and everything, but we dont have any wind or anything right now. I dont see what the big deal is. Our breaking news is the extreme fire conditions that have forced pg e to cut power to thousands of people across the bay area tonight. This map f pg es website shows you exactly whos affected by the Public Safety shutoffs right now. Expected to lose power in 7 bay area counties. The utility hopes to restore power
Dont touch the doorknob if its too hot. This could be quite a mess. There are already long lines. Voting is under way in several states, including california, where not only are people casting their ballots, theyre also cleaning them. Sacramento county officials are asking people to stop disinfecting their mailin ballots. The registrar of voters says they have received at least 100 ballots damaged by disinfecting alcohol spray. In one case the registrar says someone microwaved their ballot. Jimmy well. That makes sense. What set doing you use to microwave a ballot . Potato . I have to say, if youre purelling and microwaving your mailin ballot, im okay with you sitting this one out votewise. There are brazen attempts to steal this election going on already. After months of trump yammering about how the vote is rigged, the vote is rigged, the vote is rigged, the California Republican party stands accused of setting up illegal ballot boxes to collect votes. More than 50 unofficial ballot