Areas were anywhere from 106 degrees to 112 degrees at this hour. So weve had quite a cooldown in part because of the lingering smoke and haze and the more vigorous marine layer than was anticipated. Yet we have high fire dangers 8 00 tomorrow morning for all the hills and mountains of the bay area. And with very low humidity and strong gusty winds. Wind gusts right now in the higher elevations. The wind advisory will be in effect until 11 00 for the north bay hills and mountains. There is a possible there of downed trees and power lines and maybe even power outages. Ill have a closer look a little later. All right. Thank you. More than 170,000 pg e customers in 22 counties had their power turned off today. Well show you a maam where the out outages are in the bay area. The upside down magenta triangles, well try to get the map for you but it is impacting napa and sonoma counties. Another round of frustrating shutoffs. Reporter heres the latest. Highway 12 has been on the unincorporated Sonoma County and behind me, a backup. People trying to get home from work. The traffic lights are not working because they dont have power. Theres that going on and a lot of other stuff. In Sonoma County, despite the hum of portable generators, the power is out and intersections are operating on the honor system. It is deja vu all over again. I would say it is a little sooner than i would have expected. Im. Just blaming pg e. Ill blaming our government and our local leaders. Pg es latest Public Safety power shutoff to prevent wildfires has left people in the dark since 3 00 a. M. It may last until tomorrow. This may be the first of many. This is interrupting peoples lives. Power was needed for his wifes oxygen machine. It could be fatal. This is life saving. That. We did find some good news, a man limited only by the length of his extensions cords. Why you . Because i can. Bill obrian, the patron saint, he has an rv with a generator and it does travel, feeding power to neighbors. Im a single woman and it is nice to have somebody that thinks outside his box. We would expect nothing less from a decorated and retired new york paramedic. Could you clone yourself . I would love to because then i could have someone who would do that stuff for me. Reporter as we come back live to highway 12, one thing we definitely learned. Today Everybody Needs a neighbor like bill obrian. As we said, pg e hopes to restore power here by tomorrow. That feels like a very long time for the residents living here. That would be a twoday outage. They remember last year when they had more than a week of days like this. Live in Sonoma County. Thank you. In addition to the power shut off, there is a red flag warning in effect for the east bay hills overnightful Leslie Brinkley looked into the preparations in Contra Costa County for the wind event. The fire danger high. Reporter fire crews on high alert. Last year the inconceivable happened as the fire braexd highway 24 and 680. Since then a giant swath of land has been created with dozers and brush clearing through east bay hills from martinez and pleasant hill, lafayette and san pablo road and el so brande. It creates a fuel break and a first break for any fires that may begin to the north and be driven by the diablo winds as early as this evening. The winds out of the north, pushing south. It protects lafayette and the communities to the west. Reporter for the danger that lies ahead tom, a 12person hand crew is on stand by. Theyve also stepped up two extra engine companies. And the state has given the okay to reposition them. A water truck is standing by further east. Our area that were most concerned about is the marsh creek area. It is running alongside. Technology is helping with the Alert Wildfire Camera Network that allows fire crews to assess situations remotely and direct will have resources in and out of a growing fire zone. Here we go again. Once we get through tomorrow, it looks like the temperatures should be going back down. The wind should be dying back down. Reporter in the east bay hills, im Leslie Brinkley. Abc7 news. Mt. Diablo state park is closed due to the fire danger. It applies to all visitors including hikers, equestrians, campers and vehicles. The park will reopen when conditions improve. Developing news out of monterey county. There is a fire that has been burning the last three weeks in the Los Padres National park. It just exploded in size overnight. The dolan fire added 50,000 to 60,000 acres due to High Pressure and winds. The bulldozer operators were hurt this morning. Head to key employ an emergency shelter. They were flown out to a hospital in fresno. The rest of the group moved to our helibase. And i just talked to they will. Theyre moving themselves into king city where they can be in air conditioned and be a bit of a debrief and start working on when he well go next. Air conditioning probably sounds pretty good. Officials say the fire was started by arson. On august 18th, a man has been arrested in that case. Heres a look at the damage done by the creek fire which erupted in size. Nearly 144,000 acres now. No containment on this fire which started friday evening. At least 60 homes have been destroyed as well as 20 other structures. The fire started near towns of shaver lake, big creek is that Huntington Lake but it has spread. Hundreds needed help getting out of the area. Some had to be rescued by helicopters. The san jose father and son were escorted out of the area with flames on both sides of the road. So scary. Abc7 News Reporter chris reyes has their story. Reporter this was the abrupt end of what was supposed to be a fun fishing weekend for father and son. Their car is still wreaking of smoke after driving hours out of fire zone, burning this fresno, ma daria. It is burning 143,000 acres in size. Just beyond the lake is where we saw the burned out areas. You can see smoke coming off the trees, flames, stumps still on first. Reporter this scene at fresno yosemite airport is one of a number of dramatic operations by the California National guard this weekend. This group, 46 people and four dogs were rescued by helicopter. It was very heroic for them to get to the evacuees who really needed to get out of area quick. The Mass Evacuation is an event that quite honestly, we havent seen us involved with something in this magnitude in reason years. Reporter theyre regular campers. Theyve also never been through anything like this ride in their life. It took 14 hours to get home. I was more worried about waiting in the parking lot. You could see the names across from us and you could see little spots starting to glow. One California National guard pilot. Even combat doesnt compare to what he saw over the weekend. The pilot was very, very open to saying, ive never seen anything like this. With what is happening or what they went through on saturday with the flame, the smoke. He said it was a scary experience. Something he had never experienced before. Reporter cal fires officials dont expect to have the creek fire contained until least october 15. Abc7 news. In mend cino county,county, fire says firefighters are working in steam and rugged terrain and are challenged by high heat and low humidity. Evacuation orders are in effect. There are more than 200 firefighters working on the incident. The other local fires include the massive complexes. The lnu complex in the north bay is 91 contained. It has burned more than 375,000 acres. The scu complex is 94 contained at 396,000 acres. Containment on the czu complex has increased to 81 . 86,000 acres have burned. You can find the latest with our tracker. 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This movement is a reflection of the fact that here in our county, were doing a bit better relative to many other parts of the state in come batting covid. Reporter personal Care Services like watching and nail sal onlies as well as tattoo parlors are allowed to reopen with modifications. Zoos can open at 25 capacity. Gyms and Fitness Centers can open indoors at 10 capacity. Shopping malls are allowed to open at 50 capacity, up from 25 previously. If Santa Clara County remains in the red tier for 14 days, k12 schools can reopen. I am door dining, movie theaters and gatherings remain prohibited under the Risk Reduction order. Ma ridge county was expected to be changed from purple to red but the state opted to hold off and moderate the trends for another week. The last thing we want to do is see a county move for one week and only to see the potential for a backward movement. Very soon. Changes to the map will be announced weekly. Melanie woodrow, abc7 news. And as melanie mentioned in the north bay, some businesses were prepared to reopen today but the state said no. The county cant move out of the purple tier yet. The state department of Public Health notified the county of the decision late last night and that angered some Business Owners who made preparations to open today. I have a bunch of employees coming in today. I dont know what to tell them. They thought they had their job back. We hired new people. You have this ridiculous rules and you keep changing the goalposts. Right . You said we could reopen. And in the 11th hour, you completely changed the rules. A final determination of marin countys tier standing is expected before the end of the week. Meanwhile, astrazeneca has put a hold to vaccine trials as it investigate as patient who had a serious side effect. This as nine ceos pledged safety for any virus vaccine. Theyve vowed not to release any vaccine until it has been proven to be safe and effective. Few of us thought remote work would be in its sixth month. A tech company is trying to make remote work more pleasant. A look at how theyre working the build a better bay area. Shes one of 120 Remote Workers at redwood citys work board. She was surprised six months ago to receive these flowers. Even posting a photo of them on social media. It was a day where i really needed the flowers and a mood boost. It was really nice. Reporter every week every work board team mental gets flowers delivered to their home as a thank you from the ceo. It is a miss the way to bring us together. No gift card is attached. Tom had some fun and didnt tell his family who was sending them. I really want to take credit but when they start showing up on week two, week three, week four. They knew it wasnt me. His wife appreciates the flowers, to. Hey, tom . Im going to take these to my classroom. My wife keeps them. They only cost about 10 per person. The ceo recognizes it is not easy to work weeks on end in ice haitian devoid of inperson interaction. If i can make a small contribution to a little bit of delight to offset whatever drama is going on in our world right now. Its an easy move. A really easy move. Abc7 news. All right. So finally, it is a little cooler. Lets check in with Spencer Christian on the air quality. Weve had a sharp cooldown since yesterday. The air quality is not good so let me set my maps in motion and give you a look right now. Weve got temperature readings of, lets see. 64 in San Francisco. Im going with this. I think a couple of these items, a couple of these locations are not reported properly. 64 at San Francisco. 75 in oakland. Weve got 80s and 90s this time year. We had temperatures well into the 100s. Red flag warnings until 8 00. Hills and mountains because of high fire danger, low humidity, and im going to make one more little change if you just bear with me. I want to give you the most up to date readings we have. Well stay on that graphic for just a second while i make a change and ill bounce back over in just a second. So the winds will be gusting rather heavily in the hills above 1,000 feet between the overnight hours. And that will bring us some dry, warm air coming down, rushing down the slopes. And that of course elevates the concerns for fire. We have a wind advisory in effect for that same period of time going into tomorrow morning. Now, this is big story. The 24hour temperature change. Check this out. 24 degrees cooler in San Francisco right now than it was this hour yesterday. 23 degrees cooler in santa rosa and weve got 10 to 15 to 18 degrees cooler in all other locations. Once again, wind gusts in the higher elevations. 18mileperhour at atlas creek. You can see why we have the fire danger with winds so strong out of north. Flowing offshore, drying winds as they come down those slopes so that adds to the concerns for fire. This is how kirty our air is. Check the view from sutro tower. These temperature readings are inaccurate. Im going to speed through those and give you a look at our air quality. Another spare the air day. Overnight well see a marine layer developing much like last night. It wont push very far across the bay. Weve already had a cooling effect from last night. Overnight, the low to mid 70s. Still pretty mild for overnight readings. Upper 60s at the coast. Low 80s along the bay shoreline. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. This cooling will continue on thursday and right into the weekend. With what we had the last couple days, even with the dirty air, we should welcome the cooling. We all do indeed. Fires and smoke bringing bad air to the bay area and what you can expect. Plus, you can soon know what a ca my only job is to take great care of my patients. . Im empowered to do whats right for you. 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You can see the sun was eerie ee reddish orange all over the sky. From oakland you can see how hazy it was across the bay. And heres that sun again. Oh, boy, these conditions are no good at all. Lets check if with drew tuma live on the roof with a look at conditions. You probably woke up and you thought you were on a completely different planet. The sky had a yellowish orange hugh to it with the smoke and the way the sun light is scattered. And again at were going to have that yellow, orangish hue. Where is it coming from . Heres satellite today. The august complex has flared up because of the juror shore winds had that developed over the last 12 hours. Well put the winds on for you. The offshore winds are running right over the august complex fire and into the bay area setting all that smoke from the wildfire right into our neighborhood. That wont change. It didnt smell smoky near the surface. The winds are gusting close to 40mileperhour. The strong winds which have commented the red flag warning are keeping the smoke alofted and not near the surface and thats why it doesnt feel so smoky as it should when you go outside. The air quality, we have issues. Were talking about moderate to poor across the entire bay area. And once those winds calm down, larry and kristin, we will find more of that smoke going to the surface and our air quality decline. Well keep our eyes on it. Thank you. Its like half eclipse. Were going b to get some images from outer crews of the actihave taken the photos, the largest ever tak