Of potential outages right now. Amy hollyfield live in danville with more on this. Amy . Hi, yes. We are in a highrisk area. This is stone valley and green valley road. This neighborhood has been alerted that the lights may be getting turned off as early as tomorrow night. So, this is the section of Contra Costa County that is under the warning. Other county sections of these counties have been alerted by pg e. Alameda, napa, santa clara and sonoma. Residents in marin county are dealing with the closure of fairfax. Residents there tell us they will deal with road closures and outages if that is what needs to be done to keep people safe. It can be a busy road with people going through to the beach here but its never terrible. Its not like the road to stenson. Its a back way. But definitely less traffic when the gate is closed. People who live on this road or any open space area, were all thinking about it every day. So, we appreciate the red flag warnings. Definitely disappointed this is going into place but totally understand that having people up here is increasing the risk that they want to take the right precautions. Reporter pg e is warning it might shut the power off to keep its equipment from possibly sparking a fire in the windy, hot, dry conditions that are expected. It has already been a deadly destructive fire season and this windy weather is expected for at least another week. Residents are getting pretty good at preparing for these shutoffs telling us they have filled their freezer with ice and keeping their phones charged and embrace the outdoors. Reporting live in danville, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you, amy. Pg e does call for these power shutoff an easy way to find out if youll be affected. We have a tool where you can put in your address and we have some information about what you should be doing right now before the power goes out. You can find all of that on our website, abc7news. Com. Today californias health and Human Services secretary will provide an update on the states response to the pandemic. Dr. Mark ghaly is expected to reveal new guidelines for the reopening of theme parks and resuming team sports. Dr. Ghaly will speak at noon today. California is adding an extra layer of protection to its covid19 vaccine approval process and announcing a group of 11 scientists will independently review the safety of any vaccine that receives fda approval before it is distributed in california. We will do our own independently reviewed process with our world class experts that just happened to live here in the state of california treasuretrove of experts. The committee includes doctors from San Franciscos department of public health, ucsf and uc berkeley and stanford. One ucsf epidemiologist we talked to knows many of the experts on that committee. Enough distrust of the vaccine going around as it is that if this, if a Committee Like this takes an extra week and that encourages a greater proportion of people to get vaccinated, then its hugely important. Even if vaccines get fda emergency use authorization this year, we have been hearing about that. Governor newsom says people should not expect widespread s distribution until 2021. Santa clara county will vote on a program to provide lowinterest loans to small businesses. One supervisor said it is rare to have relief funding from the county level. Its become clearer and clearer that if we wait for the state and federal governments to step up, we could be waiting a very long time with great hardshhard ship for small businesses. If approved at todays board of supervisors meeting, we do expect to learn more about the program next month. Negotiations between House Speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin are coming down to the wire. The deadline to reach a Coronavirus Relief deal is today. And even if an agreement is reached, the measure will still face some stiff opposition in the senate. House democrats want to pass a 1. 8 trillion spending proposal but members of the gop led senate are wary of our budget deficit. They are backing that proposal that cost 500 billion. The commission on president s debates promised more structure after a chaotic first debate between President Trump and joe biden. Changes to ensure a more orderly discussion during thursdays debate meani fewer interruptions. Jobina is at the live desk with details on the big change. Good morning, jobina. Good morning, julian. That big change is a mute button. Each candidate will have two minutes uninterrupted at the start of each segment. Also here to ensure that the other candidates microphone will be muted and then both will be unmuted for followup discussions. President trump is expected to make the final debate about Foreign Policy while the pandemic still dameinatominates conversation. Unloaded on scientists and dr. Anthony fauci. People are tired of hearing fauci and all these idiots, these people. These people that have gotten it wrong. Hes a nice guy. Hes been here for 500 years. This man had an opportunity to deal with but denied fact, denied science and lied to the american people. We know we need a change. And a change is coming. On fox news this morning, the president said he does not support the changes, but he plans to attend the debate anyway. Abc7 news will air the second and final president ial debate this thursday night. Coverage begins at 6 00 right here on abc7. Kumasi and julian. Air travel trends in the age of covid19. What airports are seeing go through those security gates. Plus, a new study on sick covid19 patients. Why it may actually be better to have a worse case for just this one reason. And another fire threat looms in our forecast. This one starts wednesday night and goes through friday morning. Right now were under a watch which means get prepared for a cool fire conditions because when that red flag warning is issued, that means they are here. All right. Welcome back. 6 10 on a tuesday. Lets take a look at some neighborhood temperatures. You need to grabt a jacket. 53 in union city to about 57 in alameda and head up in the hills a little warmer. Heres a look at temperatures else where from 46 at santa rosa to 58 in san jose. For your activity planner today, going to be another warmer than average and sunny day with moderate amounts of tree pollen lurking outside. You can see as we head from this morning into the afternoon hours, our threat decreases just a little bit and then during the day and the afternoon, it remains pretty moderate. But today, again, the fire danger increases across the north bay. Lets get a check of the morning commute, heres jobina. Thank you, mike. Good morning, everyone. Were going to start off with a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. The chp has still not given us an update whether the metering lights are on but the build up continuing to build there. Moving over to the Golden Gate Bridge now where we have a fog advisory issued by the chp, so be aware of that low visibility as you move in and out of the north bay as youre comingqn a going from San Francisco. Checking out the map, i should say, i just want to bring in this update to the crash that we were following in oakland on 880 at im voting yes on prop 19. Nineteen limits taxes on seniors. It limits property tax on people like me. Nineteen limits taxes on wildfire victims. It says so right here. If 19 passes, seniors can move closer to family or medical care. I looked at moving but i cant afford the taxes. Will you help californias most vulnerable . Vote yes on prop 19. If i could, baby id how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. And we do have some breaking news this morning. The Justice Department is getting red a eto file a major lawsuit against google making it the significant tech challenge. Jobina at the live desk with the new details. Yes, julian. Unfortunately, im not able to pull this up because i lost my script but we have this breaking news from google and i want to send it back to you for more on that. Well take it over from fro google has an illegal monopoly on search and search advertising and well get back to more information on that. Right now, i want to tell you about a celebration of life for a fallen San Francisco firefighter. A private memorial for jason cortez took place last night. Police and firefighters escorted his body to st. Ignatius church. Cortez was killed in a training accident earlier this month. The private celebration for the 42yearold starts at 11 00 this morning in oracle park. Doctors have been treating covid19 patients with antibodies taken from covid19 survivors. Blood from the sickest patients are the most effective, is the most effective because those antibodies produce a stronger response. According to researchers at john hopkins, age and gender can also play a role in this. Specifically older men who have been hospitalized for covid19 are among the strongest candidates for plasma donation. A wildfire that has been burning in colorado for more than two months is now the largest in state history. The cameron peak fire has 2004 acres. Firefighters are battling the flames through intense winds of up to 50 miles an hour that whip up dust there. We want to check in with meteorologist mike nicco with a look at the conditions today. They are at least isolated for us here. That is widespread with what theyre dealing with in colorado but dealing with the same kind of drought that we have been dealing with seems like forever and now starting to experience some of the side effects that weve been dealing with as this drought spreads throughout the inner mountain west. Back here at home, how about the exploratorium. How about some of the stars you can see. Beautiful shot from pier 15 back towards the Salesforce Tower on the other side of the embarcadero center. Dry breezes. Thats why we have the red flag warning and warmer also with those offshore breezes. The fire threat will continue through friday and possibly returning saturday night and sunday and i hope not because im really looking forward to those seasonal 60s and 70s for highs this weekend. Two areas of High Pressure still dominating the storm track and still steering everything well away from us. The result low to mid 80s through most of the south bay until you get to los gatos and morgan hill and gilroy. Peninsula today most of us in the low to mid 80s. Near 70 along the coast with mid 70s in downtown, south San Francisco and sausalito. Near 70 along the north bay coast with more sunshine than yesterday and look at the mid to upper 80s through most of your valleys there. Even some 90s north of cloverdale. Well have a mix of upper 70s to low 80s. 77 to 82 along the east bay shore and 87 to 92 in our east bay valleys. You can open the windows tonight. Temperatures back in the 50s and most neighborhoods up in the hills especially the north bay, a little bit warmer. 60s and 70s because of those breezes. You can see our warmest days are today and tomorrow. We start the cooling trend thursday and friday. We have a fire weather watch then also and then those 60s and 70s as we head through the weekend. A refreshing change eventually. Have a good one. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Now, were checking in with ginger for a look at what is ahead on gma. Goodern moi morning. Hey, kumasi and julian. Nice to be with everyone this morning. We are officially two weeks away from the election. Two days away from the final debate. And the commission has announced those new rules about muting candidates mics for the full two minutes theyre speaking. More on that and the state of the race as early voting has reached new levels. Also this morning the latest on jeff Bridges Health after the oscar winner announced he has been diagnosed with lymphoma. Dr. Ashton will discuss. And then the new Holiday Shopping alert because Record Online shopping has already started and experts are now saying that you might need to order really early to get the packages you want in time for the holidays. I would just say shop local, if you can. It helps, too. Plus, get ready. The king of country kicking off the terrific tuesday we have ahead for you. He also has some new music. We hope youll join us here on gma. See you at 7 00. Marine researchers in Southern California say they have found more sharks hanging off the so cal coast than ever before. The shark lab at cal state long beach said they tagged 38 sharks when they went out last week that is more than triple the number tagged last year. Researchers are trying to figure out why. They say the sharks are normally migrating south to warmer waters but this year they seem to be sticking around. When we return, well return to the breaking news this morning. Jobina back at the live desk following that major new lawsuit against google. Could you ever go on a cruise to no where . What one company is proposing for people to escape covid19 coming up and the types o were back now with the breaking news. The Justice Department getting ready to file a major lawsuit against google making it the most significant legal challenge to a tech company in a generation. Jobina fortson at the live desk with these details. Yes, julian. The department of accusing google of violating an antitrust laws. It claims that google has an illegal monopoly on search and search advertising. Googles power is so vast that no competitors can make end roads with users. They are expected to file that long anticipated lawsuit today. Google which is set in Mountain View an aggressive legal challenge to the companys dominance in the tech sector and could impact other Big Name Companies like amazon and apple. Big story well be watching there. Dozens of bay area flight attendants will hold a demonstration outside of congresswomans office in oakland. Theyre calling for immediate action to pass a covid19 relief package to help struggling furloughed workers. It comes as air travel is starting to climb for the holidays. It screened the most passengers since the pandemic started. On sunday more than 1 Million People through Airport Security checkpoints. Still down 60 compared to last year. The cdc is also now strongly recommending masks on Public Transportation for all travelers 2 years and older. Cruise vacations are pretty much canceled because of covid19. But if you still want to head out to sea, a panamabased company is turning a cruise ship into a living and office space for remote tech workers. According to the telegraph a Company NamedOcean Builders is buying a carnvilival cruise shi and converting it. It is advertising to digital nomads, influencers and other like people. Building on cabins bidding . You can start moving in in january. Look, i dont want to work out. Let me see, what else can you do . I can do this. Look at the ocean. Im thinking about all the things of cruises and people fixing you meals nonstop and always stuff to do if you want to go play bingo. Plenty of bars there. But youre still stuck on that cruise ship for all that time. I dont know. But the cruise is to get away from work. And go somewhere else. The destination. Thats the best part of the cruise, at least for me. Okay. Maybe somebody will sign up. You do you. Next at 6 30. Pg e is warning of power shutoffs, again. Well tell you where, coming up. The bay areas hot, hot housing market. The pandemic not putting any home buying on pause. Wait until you hear how fast homes are selling now. Covid19 forcing changes on tahoes slopes. What youre going to notice a garage door opening it is his passionlove. It is his fault he didnt lock the garage. Dont even think about it been there, done that. With liftmaster® powered by myq®, know whats happening in your garage from anywhere. You can take a day off fromy worrying about your packages. Ohhh yeahhh just connect your myq® app to key. Ohhh yeahhh get free ingarage delivery with myq® and key by amazon. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. If it helps prevent more fires like what is going on in santa rosa and what is happening right now, im all for it. Going dark all over again. New possible blackouts for several thousand bay area customers. Our live report from one local neighborhood on when and where they might get hit by those blackouts. They are higher in all 50 states, but how does the bay area stack up . Were breaking down the numbers. The timeline for a viable vaccine. As Governor Newsom now says team will, with the Company Moving closer to market and what stands in the way. Plus im here on business, i need your help. Ive been quested to bring this one back to its kind. The major mandalorian trailer this morning. Dropping some season two secrets on disney plus. A sneak peek of what is in store. Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, october 20th. Before we get to all those stories, though. We know you are watching the forecast with this high fire danger in some areas, mike. That is correct, kumasi. Good morning to you. Julian, jobina. Red flag warning. This is the most pressing need and in the north bay mountains and go through 8 00 tomorrow morning and then weve got the northerly winds gusting up around 30, 35 Miles Per Hour right now. The air is pretty dry around 20 to 30 . We have those critical fire weather conditions. Its also going to add up to warmer temperatures this afternoon. Near 70 at the coast and mid to upper 70s around San Francisco and oakland, richmond. 80s else where until you get to ukiah and east port. Thank you, mike. Pg e is warning of another possible round of Fire Prevention shutoffs as early as tomorrow night. Here in the bay area, nearly 7,000 homes and businesses in six counties you see on this map could be affected. The mountains in the north bay and the areas near mt. Diablo are most impacted by this. Amy hollyfield live for us in danville this morning. Good morning, amy. Good morning. Pg e has warned people in highrisk areas like this neighborhood here in danvil