Fewer outages. Well begin with luz pena with a look at who could be affected this week, this time. Luz . Thats right, dan a ke to several Business Owners here in Sonoma County who said that the last power shutoff affected them drastically. They lost thousands of dollars in business. Now this business right here, the jade room did not make it to this psps that were approaching. We spoke to a supervisor here in Sonoma County who said at least six restaurants on this strip did not survive the last psps and had to close. So this time were planning accordingly, and were really not going to order. So as you see, normally today is a day where we bring in a lot of our product to start prepping for next week. And this week we have very, very little in there. Having less food in the fridge means losing less money during the last power shutoff daniel and his wife lost 50,000. They were close ordd for five d and now the thought of another power shauft has them on edge. How would it affect your business this time around . I mean, i dont even i dont even want to think about it, because it makes me want to cry, because its so detrimental to us. I mean, its very emotional. Tears of uncertainty according to pg e, more than 260,000 customers in Northern California could be impacted by another round of power shutoffs. We are just so tired of these. Its been such a huge hit to our local economy here in Sonoma County. Weve seen unfortunately about a half dozen businesses in downtown santa rosa close, and more local businesses are trying to take out loans. Reporter this morning, the Utility Company began its 48hour advanced notifications to customers in portions of 22 counties. Dry conditions and expected high winds are threatening this area. Sonoma county supervisor Linda Hopkins says they understand the reason behind the potential psps, but want pg e to do better. I would love to see a Regional Power entity. Im a board member of sonoma clean power and were actively investigating the possibility of municipalization of pg e. Now six of nine bay area counties will be potentially impacted. Sonoma county here where were at right now is where the biggest impact of potential psps will take place. In santa rosa, luz pena, abc7 news. Thank you, luz. This is the first potential power shutoff since october 29th. Last month pg e cut power four times because of high fire danger. On october 8th, 738,000 customers were affected. Power was cut off three times within a week. 179,000 consider affected on october 23. 940,000 on october 26th. And october 29th 597,000 customers were affected. This latest shutoff is expected to impact around 264,000 customers. Were finding people are not waiting to find out whether their power will go out, theyre getting prepared now, which is a wise thing to do. Amy hollyfield explains generators are at the top of the list. Here is my lights. Being in the dark last month made an impression. It sounds like residents are ready this time around. So ive got a generator now. And were powering the house up. Keith green does not want to be in the dark anymore when pg e decides to turn off the power. I have a 97yearold father in my house. And i was without power for four days. They turned it on the fifth day. See not alone. Just about everyone you talk to in napa can keep their refrigerators cold and their phones charged. We got a generator. We bought a generator. So were good. I think most people i know have generators and are prepared for it. Generators. Its all about generators nowadays, if youre going to have your power turned off. Its rough. And some people dont have the resources to have generators, and they have meds that need to be taken care of. So its rough for everybody. Try to help your neighbors if you can. Napa county, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Help your neighbor and do the best you possibly can. What are the conditions really going to be like . Since the last rounds of power outages, we have remained essentially dry with only some drizzle falling here in the bay area. We are still dry. The entire bay area, as you can see on the Drought Monitor is considered dry, though were not at the moment in any official level of drought. But that may not be far way if we dont get some rain soon. Here is what we can expect. The area of low pressure will drop down from our northwest, giving us a dry gusty offshore flow by wednesday. That pattern will continue into thursday. And as a result, combining the dry conditions with the gusty wind, well have a red flag warning for high fire danger in effect for the north bay mountains, east bay hills and the diablo range from 4 00 a. M. To 7 00 a. M. Ursd wind gus or the hills could exceed 45, 55 Miles Per Hour at times. And under those conditions, fires can easily spread. A closer look at our weather for the week ahead in just a few minutes. Dan and ama . Thanks, spencer, very much. Pg e is testing a new power solution. Its a program modeled after a program in australia. Laura anthony has more about the program and what it would mean. She is reporting live for us. Laura . Well, hi, dan. Im in lafayette. Once again faced with the prospects of having vast portions of the town in the dark starting on wednesday morning, but pg e is testing some new technology that could reduce the need for future shutoffs. Borrowing from another Power Company a half a world away. Pg e is Testing Technology already being piloted in australia that would deenergize a power line that falls and comes into contact with a tree limb or the ground. The project seeks to demonstrate the benefits of whats called rapid earth fault current limiter technology. The goal, to prevent the ignition of a wildfire like the kind that have caused so much destruction in Northern California in recent years. We see this as having potential benefits of significantly lowering the energy in single linetoground faults. That means a wire is down event. Reporter pg e provided us with this video showing its engineers testing the rfcl system at its facility in san ramon. If successful, the technology could be deployed throughout pg es system, perhaps reducing the need for expansive Public Safety power shutoffs in future high wind situations. Sasha svanemyr is a professor in the Electrical Engineering department at uc berkeley. One thing that is important about Distribution Systems is theyre all different. Theyre really idiosyncratic. Thats why there has to be a lot of testing on these different technologies in the particular context where theyre going to be deployed, because its not going to be the same in australia or in the u. S. Or even on different distribution circuits within pg es territory. Now pg e plans to take their testing from that lab in san ramon out to the field some time next year. Installing some of this technology at their substation in calistoga. If that is successful, they hope to expand its use to their distribution lines throughout their system in the coming years. In lafayette, laura anthony, abc7 news. Thank you. For the latest information on the planned power shutoffs, download the abc7 news app. Download push alerts so you know if the lights are going to go out where you live. Lets move to fresno and the manhunt under way for at least two gunmen accused of opening fire at party filled with more than two dozen family members watching football. Four people were killed and at least half a dozen injured. Abc7 News Reporter ramina puga has the latest. It was supposed to be a peaceful sunday Family Gathering to enjoy a football game. Instead, it turned to chaos. All units responding. Units advised, they may be having multiple victims. We need ems out to the back. Police say the unknown gunman snuck into the backyard armed with pistols and opened fire. Ten people were shot. All of the victims were asian males. Were going need more ems ambulances out here. Four more are en route. The coroner says the victims range in age from 23 to 40. We will wotirelessly to brin them to justice. Officials are establishing a Gang Task Force in this predominantly hispanic and Southeast Asian community to see if the act was gangrelated. This was not a random act. It appears that this incident was targeted act of violence against this residence. Authorities say some of the people at the party were possibly involved in a disturbance last week and are looking into whether its related. Ramina puga, abc news, los angeles. Urb racial bias through a change in tactics is paying off. The change started in 2017 as the department shifted to a more intelligencebased method of determining who it would pull over. Police say they have numbers to back up the success. Before the change, African Americans were five times more likely to get pulled over. The disparity gap has shrunk. Theyre now twice as likely. Its good that we stop fewer people, but the percentage has to also be more equitable. Were not declaring that weve crossed any kind of a fiish line, but we think this is an exciting beginning and something very, very promising. Oakland implemented the changes after a report by stanford in 2016 that identified dozens of places that could be improved. Chickfila appears to be changing course. Today it announced it will no longer donate to two organizations accused of being antilgbtq. Chickfila contributions have caused controversy. Next year they will no longer donate to the Salvation Army and the fellowship of christian athletes. It will now donate only to organizations that focus on education, homelessness, and hunger. Trail attack. 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The woman is using the name jane doe. She first met epstein during a school trip to new york city and was then invited to his new mexico ranch where she says he assaulted her. Jane doe was later invited to epsteins island, but she declined. I only experienced a glimpse of Jeffrey Epsteins world, but it left me with residual trauma which seriously impacted the trajectory of my life from that moment on. Epstein died in august while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide. The fbi and Justice Department are investigating. The Santa Clara CountyDistrict Attorneys Office has recused itself from a molestation case out of san jose. Thats because a county prosecutor is accused of using his 13yearold daughter as bait to catch the man she says molested her several times on the los alamitos trail. 76yearold ali mohammed lajniri has been arrested. The prosecutor reportedly took his daughter back to the trail to find the suspect and record the interaction on video. The prosecutor could potentially face child endangerment charges. Very strange, interesting and emotionally charged case. Joining me now is child safety adversary marc klaas, who of course came to tragic prominence with the kidnapping and murder of his daughter polly many years ago. Ive known marc for a long, long time. Good to have you here. This is really strange. What do you think about this . I think its terrible. Our job as adults is to protect and nurture children, not to as you just said use them as bait to capture perverts. Now and i dont disagree with you, but what about this idea that look, she was being watched. He was just trying to catch what potentially could be a very terrible guy . Well, you know, from everything i know about the case, he had already molested her in some way three separate times, and her father then is putting her back into proximity with the man who has already molested her three times. Think of the psychological damage that might cause to that young girl. Beyond any more physical danger, youre right. Thats a traumatic thing to do. Maybe physical danger. He was keeping in contact with her with ear buds. For goodness sake, dan, there is nothing that goes right in a situation like this. Its an ongoing Law Enforcement investigation. Theyre very welltrained on how to deal with these kinds of things. He never should have done what he did. He should have completely backed off and let the police do their job. Okay. So that just in every respect, just not a wise thing to do. No. There is no greater purpose being served here. It was in your judgment endangering a child and maybe inflicting further psychological. I think so. Lets talk about this larger problem in the state, in the country. The Polly Klaas Foundation that you started after the tragic death of your daughter. What has been happening in terms of efforts to strengthen laws and in terms of catching perpetrators . How common is this crime . Is it more common . Less common . More reported than it used to be certainly . First of all, its the Klaas Kids Foundation not the Polly Klaas Foundation. We didnt even have social media back this the day. It was all about guys like this guy coming out of the bushes and doing whatever he does to children. Weve learned a lot. Weve passed a lot of laws. Law enforcement take these kind of situations far more seriously than they ever did in the past, and were getting many more convictions than we did. I think the trouble lies in the kinds of laws that are being passed in california right now. Theyre doing everything they can to keep people out of jail and to take people out of jail. And i think one of the lessons we learned over the last 20 years is that if a criminal commits a crime, that criminal should be spending time behind bars. And when theyre behind bars, theyre not in a situation or a position to victimize anybody. And from your perspective, it is certainly a deterrent in that that person, that victimizer cant victim anybody else . Oh, it is, yes, sir. And Something Else you mentioned the internet, social media. Its fascinating, because many years ago before the internet took off, problems like child pornography had all but been eliminated. Yeah. Then it exploded again with the internet. The same thing is true. Perpetrators and these vict victimizers have access to children in ways they never had before. The anonymity gives everybody opportunities to be whoever it is they want to be. There is a the case of the 500pound pervert, you know, sitting behind his computer telling some young girl that he is a 14yearold high school athlete. I warn my kids about that when theyre online. You should. It might be a 40yearold man. What one has to do beyond that, and what parents should do is every so often they should going typical ten most social popular social media sites to mow where their kids might be going. Its not only about snapchat and facebook. There are many, many of these websites throughout that do wonderful things, and they give people great opportunities to communicate. But there is also a very dark side that parents have to be aware of, and they have to protect their children from. And these perpetrators are sinister and very clever. Its the anonymity, absolutely. Marc, always good to see you. Thank you. Marc klaas, the klaas family foundation. Great information. Lets turn our attention to the weather. Spencer christian has been tracking whats goinging on. And the dangerous fire conditions coming later this week. You are right. We have critical fire concerns. Lets start with live doppler 7 showing mainly sunny skies right now. Lots of clouds forming offshore and to our north. Generally a nice clear view of sunny skies from sutro tower. Currently 73 degrees in San Francisco. Unusually mild today. Oakland 68. Low to mid70s at redwood city, san jose. 59 degrees at half moon bay. Here is a view of the sun to be setting sun. Looking westward from emeryville. 77 degrees at santa rosa, petaluma. 75 napa. 80 at fairfield. 77 at concord and 73 at livermore. And we have blue sky for now over the golden gate. All that is expected to change during the overnight hours. These are our forecast features. It will be breezy tomorrow. Sharply cooler than today. This dry gusty pattern that weve been talking about will develop wednesday morning into thursday morning. Increasing fire risk, of course. High fire danger midweek, and a red flag warning will be in effect. Overnight look for increasing clouds. High clouds and low clouds. Mainly int the upper 40s to the low 50s. This is our forecast animation starting at 7 00 this evening. Notice how quickly the clouds materialize during the overnight, Early Morning hours bringing the possibility of an isolated sprinkle or two way in the northernmost part of our viewing area first. Later as we get into the morning commute, well see still some passing clouds. Not much of a threat. Not much of a chance of precipitation. Wed like to see some. And then going into the early evening hours, well see maybe a chance of some light sprinkles down over the santa cruz mountains. Thats about it. I talked overnight already. Tomorrows highs will range from about 60 at the coast to mainly low 60s right around the bay shoreline. Generally mid to upper 60s inland. Here is what is going to be happening over the next day or so. This lowpressure system with the attached cold front up to our northwest