See on the map, those indicate the outages. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan is live in sonoma with more on this. Good morning, kumasi. This neighborhood in sonoma is without power. If you look up, you can see the power lines and trees are part of the reason why pg e is so concerned about neighborhoods like this one. The Utility Company cut power throughout the state due to the threat of wildfires. In the north bay, close to 7,000 customers have been left in the dark. Though the strongest winds of the week have passed, temperatures are expected to reechl treach the upper 90s today. The north bay still faces dangerous fire weather conditions. Many are trying to coast the best way they can. If it prevents fires, anything will help. Were still not in a safe zone yet at all. We have not been getting rains, its still hot. The winds are high. Its still a risk, if they shut off the power to prevent fires, i guess i would wait another day or two if it gets us out of the red zone. Pg e says the crews will be out later today to inspect power lines across the bay area. If all goes well, they will begin to turn the power back on to those neighborhoods as soon as possible. Now, in the meantime, pg e is asking those of you who still have power to conserve power throughout the rest of the day. Anser hassan, abc7 news. Thank you. We will be keeping a close eye on this today. Right now on our website, we have an entire section dedicated to the Public Safety power shutoff including tips on how you can prepare for the next one. This is all on abc7news. Com. Were just 18 days until election day. Today the president has three Campaign Events in florida and georgia. Joe biden will campaign in the battleground state of michigan. Last night undecided voters got a chance to grill both of them in competing prime time events in pen and florida. Here is elizabeth schulze. Reporter President Trump and joe biden were supposed to be on stage together, instead they had dueling town hall events. The president ial candidates offering starkly differing views on the defining issue of the election, the coronavirus pandemic. Were in a situation where we have 210,000 people dead. What is he doing . Nothing. We have done an amazing job. Its rounding the corner. We have the vaccines coming. Reporter President Trump saying in the nbc news town hall he cant remember if he was tested for coronavirus on the day of the first president ial debate. He tested positive two days later. You dont know if you took a test the day of the debate . Possibly i did. Possibly i didnt. Reporter the president not denying his personal record to voters in miami, joe biden tried to present a pragmatic approach to his own policies. He left the door open to increasing justices on the Supreme Court. It depends on how this turns out. Youll come out with a clear position before election day . Yes, depending on how they handle this. Reporter voters will get one more chance to see biden and trump debate together in nashville. With both of those town halls happening at the same time there was a lot going on. The Fact Checkers were hard at work trying to figure out what was true, what was false. You can find out which of those claims hold up on our website, abc7news. Com. More than 1 million californians have turned in their mailin ballots more than two weeks ahead of election day. The state says this is the most ballots collected by mail at this point in any state election. The flood of ballots represents a fraction of the 21 million ballots sent to voters under a new state mandate. Experts believe this could make counting the votes more complicated and delay the outcome of a close race. Scientists with the cdc are accusing the Trump Administration of installing two political operatives within the agency to try to control information. They were assigned to the cdcs atlanta headquarters in june despite having no Public Health background. Both were tasked with watching dr. Robert redfield, the agencys director and other scientists there. The Associated Press, which is investigating this story says congress is now investigating the pair. Numerous examples of the administrations attempts to shelve scientific guidance coming out of the cdc or to change or gain editorial control over scientific publications. A number of Administration Officials corroborated the story with the Associated Press on the condition they remain anonymous. President trump is denying californias request for wildfire assistance. Coming up how Governor Newsom plans to move forward. Plus the reason why dozens of San Francisco schools are reportedly considering a name change. You might be surprised at some of the current names considered inappropriate. And we have a recurring theme this morning, many areas are cooler than San Francisco right now. 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Thats why the red flag warning continues. Tropical stormforce winds, 39mileperhour gusts at Half Moon Bay. Humidity levels in the 20s, 30s and 40s. It is usually the highest elevations, you can see thats where we have the very high to extreme fire conditions. Extreme moves up to the north bay as we head through the morning. Most of us in the high during the afternoon hours, once 6 00 comes and that red flag warning is over, so is the greatest fire danger. Jobina . Thank you, mike. Good morning. Happy friday to you. We will start with a live look showing you the bay bridge toll plaza. Metering lights came on at 5 41 this morning. Its busy there. Its not too jammed up in the maze or through emeryville or anything like that this morning. Moving over to san jose, 280 this morning, very clear in the south bay, no problems to report there. Lastly quickly a commuter alert from ac transit. Ive been talking about this the past couple of days. The Hand Sanitizer stations and protective shields installation is supposed to be completed by today which means fare collection and front door boarding will resume on monday. This was suspended during the pandemic. Back over to you guys. Thank you. Still ahead, oakland has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration and now the department of Homeland Security is responding. The parents were calling and saying this is a lemur out on the playground. If youre looking for a smile on this friday, we have it for you. A big relief for the San Francisco zoo. A 5yearold boy found maki the lemur. Wait until you hear what his reward will be that will last him a lifetime. As we head to break, a live look outside. It is 6 11, a but thats tough to do on a fixed income. Id be hit with a tax penalty for moving to another county, so im voting yes on prop 19. It limits property taxes and lets seniors transfer their homes current tax base to another home thats closer to family or medical care. Being closer to family is important to me. How about you . Voting yes on prop 19. Welcome back. The Trump Administration has rejected californias request for federal money to help with losses as we deal with the worst fire season in state history. Jobina is at the live desk with the Governors Office and what they plan to do next. Reporter the state plans to appeal the decision, the governor was seeking help to cover damages from recent wildfires. Governor newsom estimated the Financial Assistance need at 0 200 million from that fire alone. In total he asked for 346 million to cover all six fires. President trump had previously threatened to withhold wildfire assistance from california saying the state has not done enough to manage its forests, but its worth noting here that the federal government controls 57 of the states forested land. A spokesperson for the Governors Office says the priority is finding other programs to apply for aid. Thank you. Oakland has joined with portland to file a lawsuit alleging the Trump Administration unlawfully deployed federal agents to their cities. The agents were sent in following protests over the killing of george floyd. The Trump Administration said they were protecting federal property. Lawyers for both the city say the agents physically hurt Peaceful Protesters and made local police work more difficult. A department of Homeland Security spokesperson calls the lawsuit meritless. Developing news on the search for a missing lemur from the San Francisco zoo. Maki has been found. So a 5yearold actually spotted this 21yearold lemur outside Hope Lutheran day school. Maki was reported missing on wednesday. Zoo keepers found evidence of forced entry and damage to the enclosure. Police are investigating, but when james spotted him at the school he knew exactly what to do. Call the zookeeper. What did the lemur look like . A lemur. Gray, black and white. I like the way they look. He is the best part of this story. My gosh. So San Francisco zoo has promised james that he can have a lifetime membership when its covidsafe he will have a chance to get up close with the lemurs and give them some treats. Theyll love him for bringing their friend maki back. We love a good happy ending like this. Especially when it involves an adorable kid like james. Right. Right. It looks like a lemurment. The lemur was going to school. He knew a young child would take care of him and find his home for him. The innocence of youth and the humor of youth. Thank you, james. That was awesome. Lets look at sutro tower. 74 degrees, easily our worst morning for sleeping in San Francisco. Tomorrow morning its going to be a much more comfortable and especially sunday morning. All right. Record warmth again today. The high fire danger will linger longer. If youre just joining us, it was extended to 6 00 this evening. The warm hills, thats where well have more comfort, and as we look at the wind forecast it is easily offshore. Thats why we have 80 in alameda right now. 81 in Half Moon Bay. Tropical form force winds of 39 Miles Per Hour at Half Moon Bay. It starts to become more northerly as we head towards noon. Northwesterly winds will bring some immediate comfort to the coast this evening. Thats what will jump start the easing of the heat as those onshore winds start to chase it to the east over the weekend. Until then, asterisk means record High Temperature like that 96 in san jose. On the peninsula, millbrae and redwood city. 92 and 94. The 90 at Half Moon Bay. Should be close as is that 90 in San Francisco. In the north bay, 97 in napa. 96 in san rafael. Richmond, 92. Oakland, 94. Hayward, 95. Heading into the valleys, concord and livermore at 98 and 97. Notice more 50s and 60s tonight. Less yellow and orange, which are 70s and 80s. The hills will cool a bit but not as drastically as near the coast. All right. So we drop about 4 to 10 degrees from inland to the coast. Almost a 20 degree drop by sunday at the coast. 10 inland. Then 60s, 70s, 80s but still warmer than average for next week. All right. Thank you. Good morning america is coming up at 7 00 on abc7. Ginger zee has a look at whats ahead. Good morning. Nice to be with both of you this morning. Coming up on a friday edition of gma, the state of the race for the white house. I know youve been talking about it through the morning, well get into those dueling town halls with former Vice President joe biden taking questions from voters with george last night and President Trump talking with voters. Well break it down just 18 days, if you can believe it, until the election. Also the third surge. The new alarming warning about the pandemic. Many hospitals are again starting to feel that strain. The administrations testing czar has a warning for you before you start getting together or thinking about getting together for the holidays with your family. And an abc news exclusive with former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie. And we go oneonone with washington quarterback alex smith after that severe leg injury that almost cost him his life. Inside his emotional journey to get back into the game and the moment his family was there for his triumph. And the sharks joining us live talking about their new season. So much to get to. We hope you join us right here on gma. Still lots more here on abc7 news. The hit game show returning this weekend and one of the first contestants is from right here in the bay area. And as we get our day started. Lets take a live look outside and see what it looks like on a fries friday morning. It will be a warm taking california for a ride. Companies like uber, lyft, doordash. Breaking state employment laws for years. Now these multibilliondollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. To deny drivers the rights they deserve. No sick leave. No workers comp. No unemployment benefits. Vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22. One ride california doesnt want to take. Heart monitors that let your doctor watch over you, just like you watch over your best friend. Another lifechanging technology from abbott, so you dont wait for life. You live it. You want to see some relief . Look at what happens at the coast tomorrow and parts of the bay as the onshore breeze brings 70s to the coast after 90s today. Takes away some 90s around oakland and richmond. Look at that by sunday, the sea breeze and look at the marine layer clouds bringing 60s to the coast, 70s and 80s around the bay. Monday looks to be even cooler than sunday. One more day, maybe tomorrow, too, inland, then its over. Julian . Thank you. Nearly a third of San Francisco schools are considering a name change. The chronicle is reporting 44 schools are working on new names including george washington, Abraham Lincoln and Dianne Feinstein schools. Theres concern the names might have links to slavery, oppression and gentrification. Some parents are upset that district officials are focusing on school names when students are struggling with pandemic and Distance Learning. You will soon have fewer options if youre planning to fly out of the north bay. According to the press democrat United Airlines plans to temporarily suspend service at the Sonoma County airport by the end of this month. United is trying to save money as it deals with weak travel demand during the pandemic. This sunday a hit 90s game show is making a comeback on abc. A cupertino woman is one of the contestants on supermarket sweep. The new host and executive director is leslie jones. She and a friend auditioned for the game show in the 90s, but they didnt get to compete. Now shes calling the shots and offering sound advice to the shoppers on this updated version. Make sure you have a meat. If you have meat, you can eat anything. You can get a head of lettuce and have some tomatoes. As long as you have meat, you have a meal. Okay. So she says she loves watching people put their Grocery Shopping skills to the test to win big money. Abc7 mornings anchor reggie aqui spoke to leslie jones about the show and more, check that out at abc7news. Com. You can see th