Wayne friedman has just arrived in windsor. What are you seeing and hearing there . Reporter were 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 its 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. Im sorry. Yeah, thank you. Sorry. Reporter as you walked through the crowd you apologized a lot. Yeah. Reporter what were you apologizing for . People shouldnt have to live it like this. Reporter and live it over and over. But as skies cleared and power returned slowly, they still are. Whats been the hardest part for you . Not knowing if my family is okay and being evacuated, not having water, electricity. Its been rough. I got an 11monthold baby right now and its just its just really tough out here. Reporter midafternoon inform santa rosa and still many Stores Remain closed. What did you want to buy in there. Protein powder. Reporter or more gas. For generators, fuel. Reporter they dont expect power back at their house until friday maybe. Whats this been like for you . Its been chaotic. Reporter it is certainly not domestic. Not even with all the rvs parke. Gbe abramson from windsor bought this fifth wheel after the fires of 2017usn case. Did you ever think youd be using it for this that fast . Not that fast, no. Reporter who would . Back live, talking about trying to get home, Rincon Valley guys have been working 26 hours straight. They left to get some sleep. As for gabe, he went home this afternoon too, so its beginning to look better in the north bay. Wayne freedman, abc 7 news. Take a look now, sky 7 live over Sonoma County looking at some of the fire damage there. Sky 7 sky map 7 technology showing the specific roads were talking about. This is just outside healdsburg. You see some structures still remain, but there is some fire damage as well, as you can see from sky 7. Look at all the burnedout areas there as the helicopter pans down. With people able to go home, businesses, stores and hospitals are also going to be able to open up. Eric thomas continues our Live Team Coverage from santa rosa. Eric. Reporter ama, were waiting for cal fire to give us an update at 6 30. We were north of where wayne was in healdsburg and weve also been here in santa rosa where some people are being allowed to go back home and have gone and some businesses, in fact one hospital we visited was trying to open up. While police and National Guard troops were turning most people away as they exited 101 and tried to turn onto dry creek road, one group was getting through. Kaiser is closed, simultaneouser is closed, were closed. Reporter he and his crew were allowed back five days after the kincade fire forced them to evacuate. The sooner we get started, the sooner we get there. Reporter theyll check for damage and then it gets tedious. So we did wipedowns of all surfaces in all departments. Check to see that were clean. Once that starts, theres a long process of recertification for the hospital. Reporter partial reopening in a week they hope. Full restoration in three weeks. I put basically a little portable sprinkler. Reporter curtis and his family have been back in their santa rosa home about a half hour after a frantic evacuation over the weekend. The hose from the sprinklers he placed on the roof still dangling. I left about 2 30 in the morning on sunday. I could see the glow, the fire over the hills. Reporter the family also had evacuate during the north bay fires of 2017. Both were scary. But this time was different. This time we had more time, which was nice. I just wish there was a way they could stop the fire earlier. Reporter a lot of people do wish there were a way they could stop the fire earlier. By the way, many of his neighbors did not heed the evacuation order. They stayed right there on sussex. It seems they were afraid of looting this time because apparently they suffered through that in the 2017 fire. Once again in santa rosa waiting for the cal fire update that starts at 6 30. Of course well bring that to you live as it happens. Eric thomas, abc 7 news. The public is going out of its way to say thank you to the firefighters and First Responders battling the kincade fire. This morning peets coffee pulled up its popup truck to the base camp at the Sonoma County fairgrounds, pouring free coffee for firefighters. Locals say theres a lot of gratitude being shared around the north bay. Just in starbucks you see firefighters from all over. People are like let me buy their coffee. Theyre like, no, no, we have it. Just the gratitude people have for outsiders coming into their community to help save their environment. And the red cross reminds you that the best way to help disaster victims is with a financial donation. Text the word red cross to 90999 or go to redcross. Org. So much of what weve been through has been depending eent the weather, especially the winds. Im happy to report the winds are getting lower and lower dramatically. I want to show you some of the peak gusts the last 24 hours. Above 1,000 feet, 61 Miles Per Hour at healdsburg hills. Mt. Diablo 57. Above 1,000 right now gusts range only from about 6, 7 or 8 miles an hour to 10, 12, 15 miles an hour. That is really significant. Down at the surface, we can hardly even measure some of the wind in some locations. Theyre in the single digits, so thats all good news. Whats not good news is relative humidity remains dangerously low, only in the teens. Overnight its going to get really cold in the north bay valleys. We have a freeze warning in effect for the valleys of marin, sonoma and napa. Low temperatures expected to drop into the 20s in some locations. A closer look at that in a few minutes. Pg e is giving an update right now on the situation regarding the power shutoffs. Well have the very latest from the utility next. Plus the iteams dan noyes digs plus the iteams dan noyes digs into the documents where pg e shouldnt they go to prison for as long as the law allows . 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Pg e expects to restore power to 75 of those affected by tonight. The utilitys chief meteorologist calls the wind gusts of this past weekend a 1 in a 15year storm event. Pg e says it has documented at least 80 cases of damage to its power lines from the wind, some of which could have sparked a fire. If those damages happen, theres typically an arc flash event that occurs as that contact is made with the ground or foreign objects, and thats what causes sparks and arcs. If that happens during a highwind period, it really raises the opportunity and the likelihood that that spark turns into a fire ignition. Pg e says it will continue inspecting distribution lines and expects to have most of the power restored in the shutoff areas by tomorrow. Now, the iteams dan noyes just stepped out of that pg e briefing you were watching to join us live. Dan . Reporter well, dan, the pg e president and ceo, bill johnson, is apologizing to the millions of people affected by the blackouts, but today he talked about further evidence of trees hitting power lines that could have sparked wildfires if not for the blackouts. Hard to prove a negative. Can you prove that we would have had a fire that we didnt but theres every inicia fires would have been caused by these results. Reporter the utility indicated they were not made in alameda sand santa clara counties as they fine tuned their analysis of the windstorm. They hope forecasting will keep improving. In todays court filing, pg e gave dates, times, latitude and longitude with there was damage. 44 instances of vegetation damage, a tree branch laying across a power line that could have arced, sparking a wildfire, and 12 instances of infrastructure damage that appeared to be caused by high wind. But governor gavin newsom says pg e shouldnt have had to call for blackouts in the first place and should have upgraded its system long ago to with stand the conditions. They have spent decades not focusing on you but focusing on themselves. Focusing on shareholders and wall street, not Public Safety. Reporter he accuses pg e of decades of mismanagement, averting management from maintenance to shareholder profits. As a consequence they have hardened their lines, distribution lines as they should. They havent mauodernized their grid. We should have never come to this place. Were at this place now, but whose fault is it . This is not an act of god, its an act of pg e. Reporter ratepayer advocate mark tonies calling for an entirely new Management Team at pg e and increased state oversight. The fact that all these trees have fallen down or branches fell into the lines, it actually shows that pg e has not been doing what they were supposed to be doing all along. Reporter also in that federal court filing, pg e noted more cases of power lines being affected by trees, more damage to power lines but said that would not have kausz ecaused ard led to the wildfires. Take a look at one dramatic video that was mailed to me in just the past hour. Its a pg e transformer on gateway road in bethel island, sending sparks that started a wildfire the size of a new football field. It threatened a Housing Development before crews put it out. More evidence of pg e equipment starting fires. That one luckily was taken care of before it caused any serious damage. Dan, thanks very much. Governor newsom visited napa county today spending time with seniors impacted by the power shutoffs. He told them he understands losing power is not only an inconvenience but its very much for them a real health hazard. Leslie brinkley has the story from american canyon. People are living from paycheck to paycheck. Reporter lulu constantine explained about having to pay outofpock outofpocket. He recognized her today and promised change was coming. I love you, thank you. You literally inspired our efforts. Reporter governor gavin newsom tuned into their concerns about pg e and what many seniors say were unnecessary outages. This is not the new normal. This cannot take ten years to resolve. We will hold them accountable. This wasll itt jammed with steaks. Reporter 73yearold Evelyn Manspeaker was devastated as all the food she had to throw out but Little Things help. Hi. Im here to clean out your refrigerator. Lost probably 300 worth, close to it. Im so sorry youre going through that. We have food for you today. Reporter meals or wheels cleaned out refrigerators here in american canyon. Seniors couldnt use their Electrical Medical devices like her sleep apnea monitor for four days. It was really challenging. I was cold even under the extra covers. Reporter delivery backpack for the next outage gave her hope. Its nice to see the good come out in the community. The napa county food bank brought in all these boxes fresh fruit and vegetables and fresh milk. Trickortreat. We had the trick and now we get the treat. Reporter im leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. Small businesses are urging their neighbors to support local shops and restaurants. They spent the day restocking their shelves and getting ready to serve montclair village. We small operators, its pretty impossible to absorb this forever. This is our second hit. The experts say that this is the last one this season. I hope theyre right. But i dont know many Small Businesses that could afford three of these. Shoppers flocked to supermarkets to buy milk, meat and other items to replace food that spoiled during the latest power outage in the oakland hills. When it comes to food safety, if in doubt, throw it out. We have guidelines about how long perishable food can stay in a power outage. Youll findi the list at abc 7news. Com. Spencer christian is here with a look at our forecast. Things are looking up weatherwise because the wind is dying down. Heres live doppler 7 and weve got mainly clear skies. Its going to be chilly tonight. In fact youll feel the chill actually sunset has occurred already, hasnt it. We are feeling the chill. This is the view from sutro tower. 67 in the city, 65 at oakland. Redwood city 68, san jose 65, gilroy 59. Heres mt. Tam looking down on the bay. Current temperture readings in the mid60s at santa rosa, petaluma, napa. 62 at livermore. A nice view looking northward from the golden gate. It will be clear and gold inland with temperatures dropping well below freezing in many locations. Dry with light winds for halloween good, for trickortreaters. We have a sunny and mild pattern that will be with us for the next seven days. Overnight up in the north bay valleys, bundle up because low temperatures will drop below freezing in the mid to upper 20s in some spots. 27 the expected low at santa rosa, low of 31 at napa. Even in the inland east bay it will be chilly with lows in the upper 30s. Right along the coast well see lows in the low to mid40s. So a freeze warning is in effect for much of the north bay for the valleys of napa, sonoma and marin. How can i forget marin . I used to live there. Tomorrow morning between 2 00 a. M. And 9 00 a. M. Low temperatures will drop between 25 and 32 degrees. Highs tomorrow will bounce back up to basically what we had today, generally low to mid70s around the bay, mid70s inland. But the air quality tomorrow will not be great for most of the bay area. Its another spare the air day. The poorest air quality will be in the north bay. But looking ahead to the evening hours or Late Afternoon when many kids are out trickortreating and the weather looks pretty good. Well have clear skies all the way through the evening hours. It wont get chilly until after 8 00 p. M. Look for temperatures in the upper 60s between 6 00 and 7 00 p. M. Low to mid60s and so if you dont like the cold do your trickortreating early. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. We have seven sunny days ahead of us and probably more. Its going to be a rather steady pattern of high temperatures inland in the mid to upper 70s, low to mid70s around the bay. Mid60s on the coast. Dont forget saturday night or sunday morning if you prefer to set your clocks back an hour as we fall back to standard time. I prefer to do it saturday night to get an extra hour of sleep just because it feels good. I like that approach a lot. Well, pg e says its going to be giving customers money back because of one of the power shutoffs. 7 on your side has details, next. Annoepidemic fueled by juul use with their kidfriendly flavors. San francisco voters stopped the sale of flavored ecigarettes. But then juul, backed by big tobacco, wrote prop c to weaken ecigarette protections. The San Francisco chronicle reports prop c is an audacious overreach, threatening to overturn the ban on flavored products approved by voters. Prop c means more kids vaping. Thats a dangerous idea. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. The Federal Reserve cut Interest Rates for the third time in a row, which bumped stocks a little bit before the closing bell. The dow gained more than 100 points. The nasdaq added 27 and the s p 500 eked out an alltime closing record today of 3,046. Pg es stock continued to rebound. They closed at 6. 14 gain 22 . Thats a 67 jump from when it sunk to 3. 77. Pg e over the weekend said its equipment malfunctioned in the area of the kincade fire. The price plummetted to just over 6 in midjanuary following the announcement pg e would file for bankruptcy. A year ago the stock traded just over 46. From the utility to its customers, it may be small comfort, but pg e has agreed to give rebates to thousands of customers who lost power earlier this month. Maybe you. Michael finney is off but the 7 on your side team has learned pg e will issue credits for homes and businesses caught up in the first planned outage, not the subsequent outaging. Pg e admits it failed to give customers adequate notice before shutting off electricity on october 9th. The pg e website kept crashing, phone lines were jammed and folks had trouble finding out if their power was going off or not. Pg e initially refused to compensate anyone for losses. Now its agreed to provide 100 rebates for residents and 250 rebates for businesses. The governor says its a small but important concession. I know thats called comfort for those that have lost hundreds if not thousands in terms of Business Interruption or personal losses. But at least they are acknowledging that and are making a down payment. The rebates only apply to the first shutdown because of the communication problems they had at that time. The 7 on your side hotline is open monday through friday from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. The number is 4159548151. Michael finney and his team would be delighted to hear from you. You can also reach Michael Finney on facebook through abc7news. Com. A grass fire threatened the Ronald Reagan president ial library today. Firefighters raced to protect the library which sits at the top of a hill in simi valley. The easy fire broke out early this morning and quickly spread to almost 150