Morning. And there are also School Closures this morning. Those will be listed at the bomb of the screen and abc7news. Com. Lets check in with mik nio. The r fg warning is for all of us except for the santa cruz mountains, that begins at 5 00 this evening. Now the wind event just begins. Just now at 6 00, the wind advisory went into affect for those north to northeast winds of 35 to 55 Miles Per Hour. That could down some trees, power lines, that could help spark and spread fires if they do develop. Heres a look at some of the winds in the higher elevations. Still very manageable. The fastest is mount diablo, 3,800 feet at 36 Miles Per Hour. Lets look at the humidity. Still manageable. Just in the initial infant stages of this fire threat. Were doing well there. Let me tell that you things will get worse especially tonight. But during the day today if youre going to be out and eoy temperatures. Mainly in the 60s at noon. 60s at the coast. Mid 70s for the rest of us at 4 00. Not as warm as yesterday. Ill pinpoint the areas and the exact time when i think the fire threat will be the greatest comingup. Here is frances. We know about the Power Outages in the north bay. So treat some of those street lights that are out as four way stops especially along highway 29 and highway 12. Word of a new crash now in the Mountain View area. Westbound 237 near 101. You can see its slow as you make your way towards the intersection. Heres a live shot of the oakland maze. What youll notice is the carpool lanes are backed up heading to the bay bridge toll plaza, which is backed up now into the maze. There was an earlier accident on the upper deck and an accident in the backup. Ive been monitoring the w. They are supposed to have a map that shows us where all the customers are affected. Earlier this morning it was working, which was an improvement over yesterday. So many people had gone to this website that it continues to crash. I never got it yesterday afternoon. Some of you finally made it on. This morning, though, as i go on it at 6 03 this morning, they are showing no Power Outages, which i know not to be the case. We do know because weve been in contact with them over the phone, that about 180,000 people are without power. Most of that is in the north bay. Thats what you will find if you try and refresh the page. Actually that just happened. So, now i cant see anything. This is very frustrating for me. Im sure if you are trying at home to look to see if your neighborhood or where in your neighborhood the power might be off or on, that youre also experiencing that frustration. All i can say is i wish they would have been more prepared for this. It appears theyre not. Ive been trying to contact them on social media to see when theyll get this back up. So far no response. Ill continue looking at this. Rt b bearing the brunt of the pg e outages this morning. Amy hollyfield county with more on that. What are you seeing out there . Its dark here in Sonoma County. Let me flip the camera so you can see the road as were driving along. Very dark. No lights here. The power is out n. Sonoma county. This is as far north as weve gotten. We did start our day in sausalito. I want to show you an area there as well where lights have been turned off. Power outages in marin county. Different sections the lights would be out. At the Marin Gateway Shopping Center, no lights there. That includes a target, cvs, a ross e. A section did have lights, a few intersections down did not. A gas station there, no power. The Marin County Sheriffs Department put out a tweet warning people that some traffic lights are out and you need to treat them as fourway stops. So, to be aware, if you come across one, dont just plow through it. You need to stop, look both ways and proceed cautiously through the intersection. Were pulling through downtown sonoma. No lights here. Power outage in effect up here in Sonoma County. Amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you for that update. It appears despite the blackout its business as usual at one bakery today. They baked their bread before the power outage. This morning their delivery trucks loaded up their baked goods. Caltrans tweeted last night that drivers can expect the caldecott and devil slide tunnels to remain open during the power shutdown. Caltrans has installed four Power Generators for the caldecott. A similar fix is in place for the tom lantos tunnel. Officials initially said the cold the cocould clo caldecott could close for five days. B. A. R. T. Trains will continue to operate thanks to b. A. R. T. s Power Distribution system. If any b. A. R. T. Station loses power, there are generators. The escalators may stop working but lights should still be on. Out outages doesnt think their Light Rail Service will be impacted because of the power disruption. Heres a list of schools that are closed today because of this power disruption. All the schools in Alum Rock School district and all san leandro schools are closed. Napa valley says they will close today and tomorrow. Also closed is skyline high school, uc berkeley, Mills College and sonoma state university. The oakland unified School District says 12 schools will likely close. The list includes six elementary schools, also on the list to close, bay tech charter, brett harte, elmhurst united. If you go to our webpage, it is filled with all the information that you need to know. You can see maps of the potential power outage zones. You can see School Closures and find resources if you do lose power and you need help. Its all onabnews. Com morning as tens of thousands of people deal with a major power outage. Were updating the situation as it changes by the minute. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Here is mike. Because of this unusual situation, we have to act a little differently than we normally do. 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For yucaipa, santa rosa, fairfield, Mountain View, mid to upper 40s. Oakland, 49. Low to mid 50s in some other neighborhoods. 60 in brentwood. Lets look at the winds at the surface. Still variable. The cold front has pushed through. The fastest winds and the coolest and driest air is lagging behind by a couple hundred miles. Our fastest wind at sfo, 14 Miles Per Hour. Our driest air around vacaville and brentwood. Its at 26 and 42 . The rest of us waking up to a normal autumn morning. Yard wiork, still have time to get that Defensible Space built. Small craft well pinpoint by hour when the highest fire danger will hit and what neighborhoods are coming up next. We have problems at the bay bridge toll plaza. There are technical issues impacting the carpool lanes. It is backing lanes which normally fly through. There was an accident on the upper deck and one on the lower deck. Here is the san mateo bridge, slowing in the westbound direction. And delays through napa with traffic lights out. You will need to treat some of those intersections as fourway stops. Right now the caldecott is open, but signs are saying it might close at noon. A new crash on northbound 101 phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this state program. Visit right now or call during business hours. Aaddiction. How juuline hooked kids and ignited an Public Health crisis. Other news outlets report juul took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Markets ecigarettes with kid friendly flavors and uses nicotine to addict them. 5 million kids use ecigarettes. Juul is following big tobaccos playbook. And now, juul is pushing prop c to overturn ecigarette protections. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. And accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. Like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. phone ringing get details on this state Program Visit right now or call during business hours. Its 6 15. A live picture from sky7 and our guy up there on the camera is greg. Hes live with an update on whats happening in mill valley. What are you seeing up there, greg . Yeah, reggie. Were looking at mill valley at the moment. As you can see, most of it still has power. As i pan left, you can see that this is 101 that youre looking at here. Those are the ribbon of cars going through. To the top, and to the west of 101, its completely dark. Normally you can see lights from houses and from street lights, but, yes, as you can tell the power outage definitely affecting this area going into sausalito and panning more to the left well take you to sausalito and there you can see that one gap right there, that is the one major area of sus being aft sausalito being affected by this power outage. Im trying to see how many people are out in sausalito, and thats tough do this morning because their residential map is not working. It looks like the Small Business map is working. Im seeing at least hundreds of Small Businesses are out. We know many more people are out of power in the residential area. It look like it can change quickly from area to area areas down here, then just a few streets over, people are totally in the dark. Look how it goes from light to dark right there. Thats the line in sausalito this morning. Please be careful when driving. Treat those lights that are out as fourway stops. Look out this morning. Greg, we thank you. It is lights out in the north bay as weve seen. But this is cordelia village in fairfield where the 7eleven Convenience Store and gas station is in the dark. That entire area does not have power. The photographer who took this video said there is no gas west of fairfield. All 24 hour stations are in the dark. This is a popular stop for people who are going from the bay area east to sacramento. That outage is also impacting traffic lights including this one near the interstate 80 freeway entrance. Weve been telling you all morning, treat this one as a fourway stop as well as lights out that you may find. More than power could be affected by these outages. East bay mud is asking customers to be ready to reduce water use. You can check out their website to see if you are in a zone where water pressure could be affected. People are rushing to stock up on supplies as you can imagine. Check out this. This is last night at a costco in san jose. There is not much bottled water left. Workers do expect a new shipment today. And in pleasant hills, shoppers loaded up on bottled water in target. Most of the regularsized bottles of water were gone. As of last night large gallons of water and minisized bottles of water were still there. I have a feeling that wont last long. We are talking about it happening now, we dont know how long the outages will last. Thats the thing. Thats a good point. We have to reiterate that the best Case Scenario is some will be without jouout power for a d. Some could take 24 hours, 48 hours. They have to visually examine every power line in person, and they cant do it at night. One day equals possibly two to three days. Its important you stock up on the food and the water and everything you need. And you keep your refrigerators and freezers closed. They can survive a couple days without electricity because theyre that well built. If you open it, you lose 25 of the cooling every time you open the door. So just opening it once time could be detrimental. Make sure you have your food somewhere where you can get to it. The water also. Once you lose power, so much of our lives goes out the door. 6 20 this morning. San rafael, we have power looking south on 101. About about 53 degrees. High fire danger peaking tonight. It will be warm without the danger on friday and saturday. The front end of the sevenday forecast is wherell the activity is. Lets get the temperatures out of the way. 80 in santa rosa for the warm spot. Most of us in the mid to upper 70s. Upper 60s Half Moon Bay into San Francisco. Some parts of San Francisco will warm into the low 70s. Tonight, low to mid 50s. In the deepest valleys, the north bay, low to mid 40s. Up in the hills and mountains, upper 50s to mid 60s. As promised, the fire index, were already high at 7 00 this morning near napa, atlas and fairfield. Look what happens as we head towards noon. It hits, it pegs our extreme, our highest napa and fairfield. It doesnt stay there. Look as we head towards midnight. Lake, mendocino and sonoma counties. It stays red. The Altamont Pass and the diablo range will be high. That will continue through the morning. Notice as the winds start to move towards the north bay at 4 00 tomorrow, thats where the extreme fire danger will linger. By 5 00 it will be over. The difference between the pressure, the High Pressure and low pressure and how close they are to each other, thats why were getting such a rush of wind coming down from the north. Now, tomorrow, couple of degrees warmer. Warmest friday and saturday, still dry air lingering. Everything is back to fall,t n carpoanes if youre heading to the bay bridge toll plaza. Apparently theres some electrical issues at the toll plaza not related to the power outage, but it has the carpool lanes at red. So theres flashing red lights there. Thats why the carpool lanes are more backed up than the regular lanes and the fastrak lanes. We had an earlier crash on the upper deck and an accident in the backup. Heres a live shot of 101 in san rafael, southbound traffic on the righthand side. It looks good here. Making your way towards the Robin Williams tunnel lights are out due to the power outage. No accidents so far reported there. Lots of delays through napa with the traffic lights out. Youll need to treat the intersections as a fourway stop. It is impacting highway 29 and 12. Were keeping an eye on the caldecott tunnel. Right now its open. There are signs saying it might close at noon. Sunnyvale, westbound 237, a crash blocking the connector ramp. Another new injury crash north 101 from the 5am wakers. This is us. To the 6am sleepers. Everyone uses their phone differently and in different places. Thats why Xfinity Mobile created a Wireless Network that auto connects you to millions of secure wifi hot spots. And the best lte everywhere else. Xfinity mobile is a different kind of Wireless Network designed to save you money. Switch and save hundreds a year on your wireless bill. Plus get 250 back when you buy an eligible phone. Call, click, or visit a store today. 6 25 this morning. As we head towards 7 00, middleton up towards calistoga, fairfield, Discovery Bay getting windy. Its quiet through the noon hour. Look what happens at 8 00 and during the overnight hours while were sleeping. Thats when the winds could reach 45 to 55 Miles Per Hour. Thanks. Pg e has set up Resource Centers across the bay area to help people who do not have power. One of them is located at merit college in oakland at parking lot b. People can go through to use the portapotties to charge phones, charge anything that you need and to fill up on water. The Resource Center will open in about an hour and a half. At 8 00 this morning. We have a full list of Resource Centers in every bay area county posted on abc7news. Com. One of the biggest lifelines in a power outage can be your cell phone. If you plan ahead you can store up electricity while you still have it. First thing do is charge your cell phone to the max while you can. Also charge up your laptops and tablets. Get external batteries for your phone and charge those fully as well. Also you can charge up old laptops and use them as extra charge for your cell phone. And dont forget to turn down the brightness on your cell phone because that will help to extend the battery life. If you have an electric car, dont forget to power that up now while you can. The four major phone carriers, at t, sprint, tmobile and verizon say they have backup generators that will kick in if the power goes out to their cell phone towers. And heres another important tip, unplug your Electronic Devices or have a surge protector because if the power suddenly turns back on they can get ruined. Our Live Team Coverage of the Power Outages impacting thousands this morning at 6 30. Were across the bay area with the impact. And sky7 is flying over areas impacted by the outage showing us where the lights are. Sky7 live this morning as thousands of bay area residents tens of thousands are in the dark. Many more could be without power in hours. We have Live Team Coverage.