Reporter matt boon in oakland, matt . Reporter liz, its been warm and windy out here all day. Those gusts causing issues overnight behind me they toppled over part of a tree into power lines causing additional Power Outages for people here in mt. Claire. As crews clear the fallen branch, pg e says its working to restore power to the 800 or so customers that have been affected. But just down the road in mt. Claire village, the stoplights are off and signs like this dot many of the businesses. We did find julia, owner of this store in the dark. Her world upside down. The power is out but youre here working. What are you doing . Im working on my taxes. Reporter the old faxed way. The Old Fashioned way. Reporter while the shut offs may impact her business, she understands the importance thinking back to the oakland fire of 19 91. It best not having business for one or two days than not having business for almost a year. Reporter up in the hills, resident richard fills up the gas generator for the second time today. I can go about three hours on a tank. Reporter its not just for his home. Lets give it a little choke. Reporter hes let his neighbors plug in, as well. I can run two of our own refrigerators and each of our two neighbors. Reporter the makeshift extension cord grid necessary not just to keep food from going bad but help his wife working for home. The router needs power. Reporter as the wind gusts with the power off, he says it will be a long night. Ah. I just think about it. It does make you a little anxious, you know, the next couple days will be a little on edge until the temperature comes back down. Reporter now pg e says this outage here with the tree affected about 140 ocho 0 customers. They resupplied power to 30 or 400. 800 affected by that. The psps will continue as long as the weather remains as it is. Reporting live in mt. Claire, matt boon. An abc 7 News Reporter wayne freedm freedman. They have been through a lot these past few weeks. Reporter they have been through everything. Over and over everybody we talked to wants to tell us what theyve been through. Theyve been through fires and covid and evacuations. Theyve been through smoke and now some of them are here at a Community Resource center. This has been put up by pg e. They have electrical power here. They have internet here and people with good listening skills here because people were affected by this psps want to talk a lot. Here is some of what they went through today. A fence in one Sonoma County neighborhood divides those who have electricity with those who dont. Strange is the word. Reporter this morning, neither side on different grids provided a perfect world. Internet right about here. Reporter rhonda burger on Victoria Court with power she and her neighbors had no comcast internet. Were operate income a vac m vacuum. Reporter that meant their daughter couldnt go to school on zoom. You want to be in school and cant . Well, it kind of depends what classes it is. Reporter as of midday today, pg e says 1800 meters in Sonoma County were impacted in neighborhoods very much like this. 1800 might not sound like a big number compared with other shutdowns but if youre impacted, a different story. Its to the point where you dont feel like you can run your own life. Reporter nancy lives on the other side of the fence. Her refrigerator still packed with ice from the last shutdown. Do you see any wind . There is no wind. Reporter yes, a day without electricity can kp e exasbiration. He spent thousands on a beery system that failed to kick in. We asked his level of frustration on a one to 12. 12. 12,000 is what i paid to have this installed. Reporter here is plan b, ben spent much of today working at one of pg es Community Resource centers. First world problems, sure, but after many reputations this has begun to feel like a third world routine. That is just what one neighborhood has been going through. We only talked about Sonoma County. Down the road napa county 5,000 customers impacted. This will go on for at least another 24 hours. Live in sonoma, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. Wow. We feel for them. Thank you. If you want to see if youre on the list of possible power shut offs, we have a helpful tool to plug in your address to find out and tips how you can prepare all there on abc7news. Com. Soaring temperatures have prompted a statewide flex alert until 10 00 p. M. Youre asked to help conserve energy by setting air conditioners to 78 degrees, turn off lights, avoid the use of major appliances. If there is too much strain on the power grid, the dcalifornia grid, they could order rolling blockouts. Lets get to Spencer Christian for the latest on conditions. One woman said there is no wind at all in the north bay where she is. Whats going on . That was surprising to me, larry, because were showing gusty wind in many locations above 1,000 feet. Maybe she was down at the surface where the winds are a little lighter. Here is a look at current gusts across the region. The north bay gusts at 37, 21 hawk eye and only 19 at mt. Hood. On we go to the heat. We have lots of heat, of course the bay area today is 101, 100 napa and 9 oakland and 90 San Francisco and 86 on the coast at Half Moon Bay and we have a red flag warning in effect until 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow for virtually all of the bay area hills and mountains and valleys with the north bay and east bay and Santa Cruz Mountains until 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Strong gusty wind, dry fuels elevating the fire danger and heat advisory until 9 00 tomorrow night with the risk of illness from exposure to this intense heat. Ill show you when things will get cooler a little bit later. Liz . Were looking forward to that, spencer, thank you. A texas billionaire appeared in federal court in San Francisco today charged in whats been called the largest federal tax fraud case ever against one person. The u. S. Attorneys office announced that a grand jury indicted software tycoon Robert Brockman on money laundering, conspiracy, wire fraud and tax evasion. Prosecutors say the 79yearold ran two complex schemes, one involving investor fraud. The other tax fraud. Until the tax fraud scream, brockman is charged with hiding approximately 2 billion in income from the irs over a period of 20 years. In the investor fraud scream, brockman is charged with manipulating Debt Securities by his company to defraud investors. Brockman is the ceo of reynolds one of the largest software to manage dealerships worldwide. Today is the final full day to fill out the census. The deadline is technically 2 59 a. M. , that would be tomorrow. You can do it by phone or online. Many cities across the bay area scrambling to get as many people counted as possible. San francisco and san jose census volunteers will be working and pushing until the last hour. We have the story. Reporter the clock is ticking and regardless of language, youve probably heard. [speaking foreign language]. Its dire. Every bit counts. Every person that does the census is about 2,000 of resources that they hold. Reporter across the bay area, advocates are highly concerned about minorities. What are those challenges youre facing specifically here in the Mission District . Right now, you know, a lot of misconception is that people if theyre not citizens they cant participate in the u. S. Census and thats absolutely not true. What were of course super disappointed but not surprised that the Supreme Court allowed Trump Administration to send the sen su census early. Reporter the City Projects around 150,000 households have not been counted yet. That translates to approximately 8 billion lost in funding in the next ten years. Theres a lot of reasons for that. Of course, the big one being covid19, a lot of people moved out of the city. Reporter san jose is feeling pretty confident. At 77 of response, which is which put us at the highest number one is all cities with 300,000 residents and above. Reporter their main push is with the homeless population. Today alone we counted about 30. Reporter if you havent filled out the census yet, you have three weeks. Online by phone or by mail but keep in mind you need todays stamp. The process is about five minutes and we all have five minutes. Have you done your census . Reporter in San Francisco, luz pena. A major twitter issue appears to have just been resolved. New tweets have started showing up as users had previously been getting error messages. San francisco based twitter says there is no evidence that this outage was caused by a Security Breach or a hack. Survival story, a mom struggling with her son that were living in a car. Well tell you how abc 7 viewers stepped in to help. Turning point, why the youth vote could decide the upcoming election and tourist its rising. The pain is coming. In business you have to be then do it all over again. Comcast business gives you fast, reliable internet on the nations largest gigspeed network. And now for a limited time, you can also get fast shipping with amazon business prime essentials. So no matter what comes next, youll always be ready to bounce forward. Get started with powerful internet and voice for 64. 90 a month, and ask how you can get one free year of amazon busines prime essentials on us. Call or go online today. Comcast business. The california Supreme Court ordered a reexamininge of scotto peterson. A trial judge says a juror potentially committed misconduct by failing to disclose that she was previously involved in other Legal Proceedings after being the victim of a crime. San mateo countys superior court will decide whether to grant peterson a new trial. Joining me live from the abc 7 newsroom to discuss this case is jim hammer. Thanks for coming in today. How likely is it peterson will get a new trial . I can just tell you this to start with for the prosecution, this is the worst, worst nightmare. Once you won a case a tough case, you put it to bed, the worst thing that could happen is to have a trial court go inside that jury, get into the deliberations and see what happened. It going to turn on the facts. What the Supreme Court has done is said go back to the trial court, it will be a different judge and walk through all the facts affecting this juror, the fact she was a victim in another crime. Did that impact the deliberations. There is a big impact in the case, she was a holdout. She was holding out from convicting Scott Peterson and only gave in at the end. From a defense perspective, if she was a victim of a similar crime they would argue, that would predispose her to vote for the prosecution. Bad day for the prosecution. Theres a real risk it could be overturned. All right. So how much responsibility, if any, do the attorneys in this case have when theyre going through the jury Selection Process to research the backgrounds of every potential juror . Thats a great question. You know, i was there during this trial every single day. A lot of the identities of the jurors were kept secret to protect their privacy but almost all of them went public later. There is only so much you can get from your research. You depend upon people under oath answering truthfully and so what this juror did according to the Supreme Court is hid, gave false information to the court and in the process put at risk this entire trial. So again, if it were to be overturned, think about it, lacey petersons family would have this live this whole thing over again. Its really, really a potentially super bad day for the victims family and prosecution. So walk me through this. If the San Mateo County superior court rules in favor of peters peterson, what are the next legal steps for the prosecution . Do they have the right to appeal or decide about going straight to another trial . There could be another appeal but what the Supreme Court has done is they will have a chieltd judge that will hold a hearing. He or she will put on witnesses and ask questions. If that judge determines that it was prejudice and denied him a fair trial, my prediction would be that would stand. Nobody will return that. It a fact based decision. If that were to happen, think about this, all over again a brandnew jury would have to be selected, hundreds of people. We would have to go through the process again trying to find 12 unbias people who had an open mind about the case. So you can imagine the nightmare that would be, and again, think about it for a second. The victims family and i watched them through the entire trial, would have to sit through the same darn thing all over again because this juror hit super Important Information and wasnt truthful. It outrageous what she did. Yeah, so what would happen to the juror in the case with her committing this conduct apparently . Would she face charges now . She can certainly be held in contempt of the court. If i were the judge and someone paroled this, i would want to haul her in and punish her in someway. Thats on the table for sure. Shes going to be asked very tough questions under oath. She better get her own lawyer before she goes into that courtroom. Its going to be high, high stakes when that hearing starts. For sure. And for everybody involved. Jim hammer, really appreciate your insight. Thanks so much. Former prosecutor jim hammer with us. All right. Thank you, jim. All right. The San Francisco zoo is now offering a 2100 reward for information leading to the safe recovery of it missing lemur named maki. Maki is still missing. Thats 100 for each year of makis life. The ring tailed lemur was discovered missing yesterday. Police are investigating it as a burglary after finding evidence of a forced break in. The zoo says maki is an older animal that requires special care. Not only is it hot today, you may have notice there had is almost no breeze coming off San Francisco bay. Youre seeing how the bay looked from the port of oakland here, gorgeous towards San Francisco a few hours ago. The water appeared to be very calm. Pelicans there drifted with the tide. And no wind spencer, seems to be a good thing. Maybe. That is a good thing. Thats the condition at the surface right now, the surface, the bay level and sea level areas have light winds at the moment but the wind is gusty in the Higher Elevations which is why we have a red flag warning for high fire danger. Here is a look at gusts. 35 Miles Per Hour. 52 over the east bay and mount diablo 21 Miles Per Hour. Were lucky at the surface not to get the gusts. It hot across the bay area looking over San Francisco, 90 in the city and mid90s Mountain View and 89 gilroy and 73 at Half Moon Bay looking toward mt. Diablo and 98 santa rosa and 100 at napa. Pretty warm. 95 at fairfield. 92 concord. 89 livermore and looking toward the golden gate from emeryville, this is a look at the forecast features fire danger and excessive heat will be with us again tomorrow. Coastal cooling starts on saturday but there will be much more area wide beginning. Here is another look at the red flag warning important to keep in mind in effect until 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow including not only Higher Elevations but the north bay and east bay and Santa Cruz Mountains strong, gusty wind, gust may hit 50 or higher during the late night hours. Very low relative humidity and dry fuels. Fires can start and spread rapidly. Heat advisory in effect. Heat illness is a possibility if you expose yourselves too long to this kind of heat and there are things we can do ourselves. Update emergency kits and prepare evacuation routes in case thats needed and review insurance policies. During the overnight conditions, during the overnight hours i should say, conditions will be these. Clear skies, windy in the hills and it will be warm with low temperatures in the low to mid 60s across most of the bay area. Highs tomorrow upper 80s near the coast, mid90s around the bay shoreline and upper 90s. Here is the accrue weather sevenday forecast. A couple locations top out at 100 tomorrow with basically we can expect upper 90s inland and Coastal Cooling on saturday and areas will be cooler on sunday going into next week, it will be relatively warm for this time of the year but much more comfortable than what were experiencing now. Larry and liz . All right. Thankfully. All right, spencer, appreciate it. 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