Northnortheast winds gusting in excess perhaps of 45 miles an hour. So even at the surface by the delta, winds are gusting to 33 miles an hour, red flag warning with us until 9 00 tomorrow, and this entire area from the north bay to the east bay upper and lower elevations as well as the bay shore now is under a heat advisory. So this is the heat advisory area through the day tom re. You can see well expect a lot of dry heat today. Look at the camera there. It is shaking and looking at not only the spare the air alert today for poor air quality but it looks like temperatures already are in the 60s. So gusty winds gust beginning, liz, another burst will be with us throughout the day tomorrow but they will be subsiding throughout the afternoon today. Thank you, lisa. Were already feeling the impact of the winds. Back to breaking news in the north bay, again, following this brand new mandatory Evacuation Order in the st. Helena and calistoga area west of the silverado trail by Crystal Springs road, exactly where it s the area of deer park road to Crystal Springs to north fork Crystal Springs are all being told to leave right now. Evacuations are under way as we speak. So far this vegetation fire is 20 acres but has a dangerous rate of spread. Well be closely monitoring all of this, this morning and bringing you updates as soon as we get them. So please, follow your nixel alerts if youre in the area and be on standby because there is a mandatory evacuations under way for a vegetation fire in napa county in the calistoga st. Helena area surrounded by several wineries, if youre familiar with the area. Because of the fire danger were deekeeping an eye on pg e outage map as it planned power safety shutoffs never night. Parts of the north bay could lose power any time after 4 00 p. M. Today. Customers in napa, sonoma and lake counties could be affected. The power would remain off until weather conditions deem it safe to reenergize lines. They will have crews and helicopters waiting for the all clear. Unless we have that all clear, we immediately then begin to patrol and to restore our electric system. Pg e will open 28 Community Resource centers near the ought original areas to allow people to Power Medical devices and recharge electronic gadgets like cell phones. The fire danger is forcing many people to prepare early. Cornell barnard found a few people to see how theyre getting ready for this. Reporter temperatures will sizzle sunday and monday, bringing red flag fire danger, high winds, low humidity. Fire crews getting ready. Any time we see red flag conditions it raises our awareness and concerns. Mandatory evacuation zone. Grab your belongings and leave the area. Reporter the red flag fire warning comes weeks after Mass Evacuations in Sonoma County as the wall bridge fire forced thousands from their home. Firefighters are urging everyone to be careful. Limit Outdoor Activities that could potentially spark a wildfire locally. Reporter Officials Say a landscaping crew may have accidentally sparked this 12acre grass fire in north santa rosa thursday. Cal fire stopped it in less than an hour. Good to test it out. Reporter dave barcado isnt taking chances. He has the generator ready to power his oakmont Village Market in case pg e shuts the power off. He lost power in Early September during a planned power shutoff. The stress has been terrible. Weve had three years of constant fire danger, fire danger, power outages, and now youre throwing in the virus. Reporter calistoga is impacted by power shutoffs almost a dozen in the last two years. If it happens again the town is ready with a plan b to keep the lights on to most of downtown. This microgrid was installed weeks ago, paid for by pg e, diesel powered generator also keep lights on to 60 of the town if the power goes off. They dont look very sexy, but we love them because they do exactly what we need them to do when we need it the most. Reporter heat and fire danger, bay area life in early fall. Were ready to go just in case. We have to be. Reporter in Sonoma County, cornell barnard, abc 7 news. President trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court yesterday. The senate will look to hold confirmation hearings the week of october 12th. Abc News ReporterKristine Sloan has the reaction this morning. Reporter hours after nominating federal judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, President Trump touting his pick before a packed crowd in pennsylvania. Judge barrett is a brilliant legal mind and extraordinary scholar. You know that. Number one in her class. You know, the professor, one of the most respected people, he said the greatest student hes ever had. Thats pretty good. Reporter if confirmed the 48yearold who would fill the seat of the lace justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died earlier this month amid a bitter election battle. During saturdays ceremony judge barrett, antiabortion and pro Second Amendment vowing to adhere to the constitution. Judges are not policymakers and they must be resolute in setting aside any policy views they might hold. Reporter a former law clerk to justice antonin scalia, shes the president s third pick to the nations highest court. Democrats are united in opposing her candidacy. A vote for Amy Coney Barrett is a dagger aimed at the hear of the Health Care Protections americans so desperately need and want. Reporter democratic president ial nominee joe biden also urging the senate to not act until after the election. Sources tell abc Senate Hearings are expected to begin october 12th, and if confirmed, judge barrett could be on the court by election day. Kristine sloan, abc news, new york. And not just reaction coming in from d. C. This morning, but really across the country, and here in the bay area, too. Abc 7 News ReporterLauren Martinez spoke with local experts and politicos to hear what they think. Its the nightmare scenario everyone that believes in progress hoped wouldnt happen. Reporter manny runs a politicallyminded space in San Francisco where people mail letters to voters in swing states. Saturday he said was their biggest turnout yet after President Trump announced judge amy barrett a nominee for Supreme Court. On capitol hill politicians reacted. Senator diane fine tyn state judge barrett clearly passes the president s conservative lit tus tests or he wouldnt have nominated her. Judge barrett is an outstanding choice for the Supreme Court vacancy. Reporter barrett is a highly qualified judge, even if you dont agree with her politically. Justice kagan was nominated and confirmed, conservatives came to her defense and said she really is a very highly qualified person even if you dont agree with her politically. So that would really be the appropriate thing to do in this case, to look at her credentiallecredentials in this case. Reporter her track record is conservative, brad june depth, professor of law at Santa Clara University said its difficult to know how someone is going to behave once they become a justice. Chief Justice Roberts has voted in a more liberal way than many people thought. If you go a little further back, justice stephens, justify suitor voted much more liberal. You never know for sure until someone puts on that robe and sits in that chair exactly how theyll behave when deciding, theyre the final decider on these huge issues for the country. Reporter . San francisco, Lauren Martinez, abc 7 news. We sent out this breaking abc 7 news push alert as we livestreamed President Trumps announcement yesterday afternoon. If you want alerts in the future the abc 7 news app is free to counsel load in your app store. Lisa, we are following breaking news about a vegetation fire in napa county. Of course, that comes as we have this red flag warning across the bay area. Yes, liz, winds on top of mt. Diablo gusting over 50 miles an hour. They will mix down to the surface as the sun comes you the and subside throughout the afternoon but were not done with them. Theyll be back tonight. A live look outside where temperatures right now in the city are in the 60s. Its going to be hotter today by as much as 15 degrees across the bay. Ill have your accuweather sevenday forecast next. Neighbors near San Franciscos twin peaks say they and the veterans that never quit on their team. When being a fan gets tough, and stretching your budget gets even tougher. Our agents put in the time and legwork for you,. So saving on Auto Insurance is easy. Because saving a little extra goes a long way. Usaa. What youre made of, were made for. Back to our breaking news that were following closely this morning. A mandatory Evacuation Order for residents in st. Helena because of a vegetation fire. This is one of pg es cameras over the area, you can see some of the flames there that sparked about an hour ago. Theyre calling it the glass incident. Right now Police Say Residents and businesses in the area of deer park road to Crystal Springs road should leave right away. This is just east of silverado trail. Cal fire says the fire is 20 acres and has a dangerous rate of spread. Well continue to monitor this and bring you any updates as soon as they become available. For months, San Franciscos twin peaks has been closed to traffic to promote social distancing during the pandemic. This morning, neighbors say this is a reason behind car breakins and parties. Luz pena is following the story. Reporter at least for a moment having this as your view could take any worry away. Once residents step outside, reality hits hard. Car breakins have been like a plague. Reporter gary russ says the closure of the lookout is to blame. Shattered glass can be seen down the hill, brazen thieves can drive up to the parking area cant anymore so theyre casing cars parked along the hillside of the avenue and jumping right in. Weve never had this much theft. Reporter march 28th the city closed the street for cars to drive up to the lookout, hoping to promote social distancing and reduce crowds. Fast forward six months later, over 200 residents signed this petition asking the city to reopen the gates. If they open that gate up, everything that is happening in our neighborhood will go back to where it came from. Reporter but it doesnt necessarily get solved. Well they can solve it up there. They shouldnt be solving it in a neighborhood. Some neighbors dont want the gates to reopen. While were in the pandemic, to have a place that i can walk to is really appreciated. Reporter supervisor Rafael Mandelman represents this district. For now, he says theyre trying to please both sides, by reopening the portolae side from 6 00 p. M. To midnight. Stepped up police presence, going by more frequently, the captain is aware of this. Reporter the president of the board of supervisors gave us a candid response. In hindsight it probably wasnt the best thing to do. Reporter their plan is to reassess the closure of these gates in the next two weeks, but in the meantime one of the things police need to do in response to that is go there and target ticketing and maybe towing those cars away. Reporter . San francisco, luz pena, abc 7 news. In ourert to build the better area includes the changing economy. Two black sisters made history in the south bay. Nirvana soul inside the westin, san joses first black owned coffee shop. The coowners are san jose natives and already drawing in customers. Its kind of showing solidarity, community support, two hardworking africanamerican women just really setting a great example in the community and we want to support positivity. Its beautiful. Reporter nirvana souls walls are decorated with work from local artists as a nod to the nationwide movement for social justice. Lisa, red flag warning started late last night and well be tracking those winds today. Yes, liz, theyre in the upper elevations right now and when you see my maps, they havent mixed down to the surface but we are the examining them to mix down to the surface. Breezy winds, hot and dry weather from 10 to 15 degrees above where we were yesterday, so we are really going to gain on the heat, and the atmosphere continues to dry out. Here is a look at the live doppler 7, where were not showing any fog. I was going to say the lack of the marine layer is gone and as we look at what will happen the next several days well build on the heat. Up to where the fire is, temperature right now is 74 degrees. Relative humidity is low at 35 , wind northnortheast at 6 gusting to 16 miles an hour. Elsewhere numbers are cooler, mainly in the 60s except out by the delta. Winds are out of the north and gusting to 27 miles an hour here around fairfield. It is 58 in santa rosa. So cool there. Elsewhere were looking at temperatures warmer as much as 17 degrees warmer throughout and thats all due to that northerly wind, which is up a couple thousand feet. So the wind gusts at 33 by vacaville, calm at the surface and then as we look at the winds at a thousand feet, you notice mt. Diablo at 53 miles han hour. Up in the north bay generally 20 to 30 miles an hour so this mixes down to the surface. It continues to dry our atmosphere out. It will drag some of the smoke from the north down into the bay area. Here is the look at the air quality right now, where it does look good but as we go through the day today notice the oranges and pinks indicate more hazy conditions, not like what we experienced when we first got into all that smoke, but if there isnt an more fires well continue to see just the haze but have to add in that smoke if we do see more fires in the north bay. So as we get through the afternoon, 2 00, surface winds 15 to 25 miles an hour and they continue to advance. Overnight tonight another gust of offshore winds bringing the surface winds anywhere to 25 to 35 miles an hour. Lets skip ahead to tomorrow, where it should be the warmest day that were experiencing, 104 in fairfield, 101 livermore and concord. 09 in richmond. So not a lot of change from today to tomorrow except for the fact a couple degrees of warming and a sea breeze aening lot coast but not in time to help mitigate the effects of the heat well get on your monday. Tuesday still look at inland numbers, 80s around the bay so a little cooler around the bay and that will be the trend as we get into the middle of the week but what happens wednesday . Were hotter as we get into imland valleys. Today 91 in palo alto. 100 in santa rosa. Hazy conditions with mid90s in morgan hill. 89 San Francisco. Mid70s Half Moon Bay and the accuweather sevenday forecast our spare the air alert, hazy conditions. Hot weather continues tomorrow. Notice the ridge of High Pressure is locked in place for our east bay valleys on through thursday. After that, you should get some cooling, but we will begin to see some cooling late tomorrow but liz, the winds are going to be up throughout the next 24 hours to 30 hours for sure. Were seeing the vegetation fire burning in napa county so well be monitoring it, thank you. Were starting to see the smoky side effects in wine country as well. Kind of an ashy flavor to it. Reporter you cant fix that . No. Just ahead, how fire season this september is affecting our grapes longterm an the one type of wine you wont back to our breaking news were closely following this morning. A mandatory Evacuation Order for residents in st. Helena because of a vegetation fire. This is one of pg es cameras over the area right now. This fire sparked a little more than an hour ago. Cal fire is calling it the glass incident so far. Right now Police Say Residents and businesses in this area of deer park road to Crystal Springs road and north fork Crystal Springs road, this is just east of the silverado trail should leave right away and these evacuations are under way right now. Cal fire says the fire is 20 acres, it has a dangerous rate of spread. Well continue to monitor this and bring you any updates as soon as they become available. We put a push alert on our website and apps so well continue to update that as well as we get more information. Into Northern California wines mark down 20 as being a question mark. Blame the smoke from fires earlier this month and more smoke on the way. Youve heard about smoke taint with wines, well now wine makers are talking about a lost vintage. Abc News ReporterWayne Friedman explains. Reporter fall should be the best time of year in sonomas wine country, so what is wrong with these pictures . Sonoma empty and in the tasting room, nary a soul except for the staff and the owner. Have you ever seen a year like this . No. Reporter steve lettson, fifth generation of the family that first planted grapes dealing with a fall season hed rather forget but needs to remember. He and other growers are dealing with the aftermath of our smoky september. You have to be prepared for the worst. You cant run this business on it a yeart