Impact of the latest planned outage. It now says about 4,200 customers in four bay area counties are expected to have their power cut due to the high fire danger over the next couple of days, beginning at 8 00 tonight. Solano county has been removed from the list altogether. But you know, between the past shutoffs and this looming outage thats coming homeowners in napa county are really reaching the breaking point. Abc 7 News ReporterCornell Barnard has that story. Im not even a whining type, but its gotten to the point where theres nothing else to do but complain. Reporter we found bill fletcher filling up a gas can. Its fuel for a generator. To power his east napa county home. Fletcher just got this alert. His power would likely be shut off. Its not the first time hes been impacted by a psps, or as bill calls it psbs. Thats what i think of. Reporter this napa valley mini mart has lost power twice this season. Managers dont want it to happen again because no power, no freezers. Were tired. No power, no business. Well be out of work. Yeah, its concerning. Reporter pg e says weather conditions are forcing the utility to shut power off again to the region. When we see such dry conditions, the possibility of a power line sparking or getting debris in it could lead to an emergency like a wildfire. Reporter with red flag fire conditions returning, cal fire says its crews are weary but ready after whats been a brutal fire season so far. Theres no solution right now until it starts raining. But what we do need is we need the public, everybody that likes to recreate, to be super vigilant. Reporter in st. Helena the barnard vineyard on alert. Employees helped fight back flames from the glass fire with hoses and a pump from the pool. We still have our fire hose and water pump in our pool lined out just in case ready to go. Reporter bill fletcher is also ready to go far from the bay area. He plans to move in a few months. Its very oppressive to have to live like that in constant fear and constantly in other peoples control. Reporter in napa county Cornell Barnard, abc 7 news. Tough on a lot of people. Once again lets bring in abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel for a look at the timeline on these winds, sandhya. Yeah, dan. Were taking a look at those winds right now first and then well talk about when the stronger winds are expected to come in. It is gusty on mount hood right now, gusting to 17 miles an hour, 17 for hawkeye but this is just breezy. Winds are going to ramp up later tonight. Untilll a. M. Friday. Gusts could be anywhere between 35 to 50 miles an hour. You combine that with dry fuels and low humidity and that spells high fire danger. For the Santa Cruz Mountains, the peninsula coast, that begins at 1 00 a. M. Tomorrow. So there is a risk of wildfires. If they do develop they will rapidly spread. Take a look at our fire danger index. You will notice in the north and east bay it is high. But by the time we head into tomorrow afternoon we start to see some oranges there indicating very high fire danger. Ill be back with an hour by hour look at those winds and let you know exactly when the fire danger will be coming down. Dan and ama . All right, sandhya, thank you so much. A big step forward today for businesses in alameda county. Many can reopen on friday. County officials said today restaurants can serve customers inside at 25 capacity or fewer than 100 people. The same capacity rule also applies to movie theaters and indoor worship services. Indoor stores and malls can increase capacity to 50 . And gyms and Fitness Centers can operate at 25 capacity. The relaxed restrictions come as the county moves up into the orange tier. Sonoma county is the only bay area county still in the purple tier. Residents say the ongoing restrictions are taking a toll on an already devastated area and depressed by wildfires. Abc 7 News ReporterWayne Friedman explains. Reporter Sonoma County. Color it purple. And thats not political. In this era of covid purple might as well be the scarlet letter. Were like living in a cartoon. Reporter with so many other counties moving to less risky tiers, Sonoma County remains an exception. It is still purple. An infection rate of more than 5 and heading in the wrong direction. Among people in this county its taking a toll. How much sleep did you get last night . 30 minutes. Reporter kayla moore of santa rosa raising three kids on her own, keeping them at home every day for Distance Learning and working the graveyard shift every night. Kids deserve to be in school. They need to be in school because its messing with their mental health. Its not okay. My daughters not okay. And im not okay. Reporter since sonomas numbers spiked the county has increased free testing, especially in high risk neighborhoods with 30 gift cards as incentives. If somebody comes up positive the county will pay them to stay at home. If you get covid, we want you to be able to not go to work and not have to drop out into homelessness. Reporter supervisor james gore blames one disaster after another here. Fires, which led to people being forced together in evacuations. Then add smoke damage that ruined the grape crop leaving Agricultural Workers with no income. Our numbers were going in the right way, and then we had the confluence of chaos. Reporter such are the vagaries of the pan dem whik influenced by external factors. Theres only one track to reopening and weve got to lower our case rates right now. Reporter it appears that in purpletiered Sonoma County right now the price for getting healthy comes with more pain. Im like a zombie almost every day. Reporter in santarose rosa Wayne Friedman abc 7 news. A treacherous rescue in San Francisco had swimmers braving fierce waves to reach a man stranded on a rock. Rescue crews arrived at the presidio near marshals beach around 1 30 this morning. It took them nearly three hours to locate the man and figure out how to reach him because the area was so rugged and rough. A rescue boat, helicopters and crews with ropes responded. Two swimmers were able to reach him. He was treated for hypothermia and released from the hospital. Firefighters are not sure how he made his way to that rock. But again, hes safe. Dramatic body cam video shows a Police Officer pulling a woman out of a burning car. Anna giles spoke with the hero officer who risked his life to save hers at a crash site northeast of vacaville along i80. Whos in there . Reporter vicious flames and panicked bystanders. Officer pang lee rushes in and discovers a woman trapped. Come out this way. Come out i am. Im coming. Hurry up reporter at this moment officer lee knows the seconds matter. The fire is spreading fast through the car and the dry grass. The woman is not moving. I could feel the heat of the fire on the right side of my face. Reporter officer lee drags her back the wrists to safety. Unsure if the car might blow up. Is anybody else in the car . No. No . It was really at that moment that i realized her life was dependent upon my actions the next 30 to 60 seconds. Reporter officer lee was closest to the scene when the call came in about a burning car off of i80 in solano county. He had no idea hed be a trapped womans last hope. I realized that the Good Samaritans werent going to go in because of how dangerous and volatile the situation was. And i understand that. Lets get away from the car, guys. I dont want it to blow up. Reporter backup didnt come for another three minutes. Three minutes that could have changed a persons life forever. And i told myself that i was not going to fail this woman but i was going to get her out of that car no matter what. Reporter and he did. Decades of training and discipline on the job came through. Officers dont know exactly what led up to the fiery crash, but they said the female driving was arrested for dui. Im very lucky that im okay, im alive, and so is she. Very lucky indeed. A very close call. That was anna giles reporting. Thank goodness it turned out okay. Today pope francis called for the creation of Civil Union Laws for samesex couples. The remarks are a break from official church teaching. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen has reaction from the south bay. Reporter tonight the Catholic Community is reacting to pope francis, who became the first pontiff to endorse samesex civil unions in an interview he gave for francesco, a documentary that premiered at the rome film festival. Professor julie rubio of the Santa Clara UniversityJesuit School of theology says while the popes comments are significant theyre not all that surprising. Throughout the seven years that he has been pope he has used language that is more inclusive, more welcoming of gay and lesbian persons. Reporter in the documentary the pope says in spanish, homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They are children of god and have a right to a family. What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered. Father james martin, editor at large at america magazine, says its a monumental Statement Given that the pope serves as the leader of 1. 2 billion catholics worldwide. What he says influences not only how catholics see things but how the world sees things. And its one of his many sort of ways of reaching out to the lgbtq community. Reporter Catholic Community members who we spoke to were glad to hear about the potential shift in stance at the highest levels of the church. Its great to be able to hear someone acknowledge and affirm that you are president and that you are seen and that your identities do matter. Reporter and while civil unions are different from marriages, some are hopeful this is simply just the start of more changes to come. Being able to have a marriage with the same rights, the same e your siblings went through. And i believe in time i will be able to have that wedding. Reporter in san jose chris nguyen, abc 7 news. And still ahead here, breaking news about the november election. The fbi has just wrapped up a news conference. The agency says russia is trying to influence the outcome again. Thats next. Plus, making a political statement during a run through San Francisco. One athlete raises the stakes over her voice and her vote. And later, well look at a unique time in american history. How this portal became a beacon for traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. Thats why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. Which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. To keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. And measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. Relieve traffic. Reduce pollution. Rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. Breaking election news. Federal investigators have concluded iran and russia are working to influence the president ial election. Representatives of several Government Departments including the fbi and Homeland Security made the announcement just in the past hour. They say both iran and russia have obtained Voter Registration information. Investigators say iran has sent spoof emails to some voters designed to intimidate, incite unrest and damage President Trump. They add iran has also been circulating a video suggesting fraudulent ballots can be cast from overseas. Investigators say russia has not performed similar actions but there is evidence the nation has obtained some voter information. These actions are desperate attempts by desperate adversaries. Even if the adversaries pursue further attempts to intimidate or attempt to undermine voter confidence, know that our election systems are resilient and you can be confident your votes are secure. The agencies didnt elaborate on how the voter information was obtained. A San Francisco runner is taking her commitment to getting out the vote pretty seriously. In fact, as abc 7 News Reporter mellie woodrow explains, her message caught the attention of local marathon organizers. Reporter most runners will tell you half the fun is getting lost on a long run, not thinking about anything. But when emily hu recently ran a virtual marathon around San Francisco she was carefully calculating every turn. Making sure over and over again that it did hit the 26. 2 miles that i needed it to hit. Reporter hu took up racing a few years ago p her first marathon, right here in San Francisco in 2018. I think it kind of got me addicted to running races in general. Reporter most recently she planned to run the chicago marathon. Racing is not something that you can do with social distancing in place. Reporter given the option of completing the race virtually, hu had an idea. I wanted to do something cool with the route that i ran. Reporter she estimates she spent three hours mapping her course to spell out vote 2020. I thought that vote is a very good message that applies to everyone, no matter what your political preference is. Reporter hu finished in four hours 10 minutes and 39 seconds. I think the most exciting thing was actually hitting save on my garmin watch and seeing that image pop up on tha t very cool to see that that had i done the turns correctly and it actually turned out okay. Reporter hu shared her story with neighbors on next door. And a lot of people responded and said yes, you ran by my house right at this corner or right at this block. Some people said man, i wish you were doing in the day of, i would have come out and given you water or given you food. Reporter a writeup in the Chicago Sun Times got San FranciscoMarathon DirectorMelissa Faulkner as tension. The fact she decided to spell out and then run vote 2020 this year was so impactful and inspiring. Reporter faulkner asked if she could use her exact route as a suggested route for sf marathons sister series virtual 365. Runners have until election day to complete the run to vote to save the United States postal service. 10 of every registration will be used to purchase usps stamps. Hundreds of people have already signed up, hopefully inspiring many more to run to get their ballots in. Driving home the point is for people to go out and vote. Reporter melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. Incredible effort. All right. All right. When we come the unfair money bail system. He, accused of rape. While he, accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Voting yes on prop 25 ends this failed system, replacing it with one based on public safety. Because the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. When was the last time your property tax bill went down . What . Never. Are you kidding me . For years, the residential burden has gone up. While the corporate burden has gone down. Prop 15 reverses that. It closes corporate loopholes and invests in schools, small business, and firefighters. And when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. Thats right. A savings of a hundred twentyone dollars a year for the average home. Give homeowners a break. Vote yes on 15. 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. We are watching the weather very closely because of increased fire danger. Meteorologist sandhya patel is keeping close track of it for us. Sandhya . Yeah, dan and ama. And the concern are the winds and the dry conditions that are in place. Want to show you a live picture from our santa cruz camera. Winds are pretty light. Beautiful day. Lots of blue sky out there as you take a look from our Golden Gate Bridge camera. The flag barely swaying there. San francisco 71 degrees. 76 in oakland. San jose, Mountain View in the low to mid 80s along with gilroy. A live rook look from our emeryville camera and it is absolutely gorgeous as we look back toward San Francisco. Mid 80s from napa to santa rosa. Got up into the mid 90s for the hot spots like fairfield. 88 degrees right now in livermore. A live look from our east bay hills camera and you can see just how good the air quality is right now. Winds increasing late tonight. Elevated fire danger through friday. And were looking at a cooler pattern going into the weekend. I do want to show you live doppler 7. Theres one little sliver of fog and thats it. Fire danger unfortunately will be increasing. So as we take an hourbyhour look going into tomorrow morning you will notice the north and the east bay and parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains going under the fire danger detectiindex goo the high to very high category. That is going to continue off and on into friday morning before we start to see the fire danger decreasing. Winds hour by hour as part of the factor here. 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow, 24mileanhour winds in fairfield. 20 discovery bay. You will notice over 20mileanhour winds at the lower elevations. 8 00 a. M. And then the winds subside tomorrow afternoon only to pick up again as we head into tomorrow night a little bit. So the humidity will be dropping. Down to 10 in fairfield. 12 in antioch. And you combine that with critically dry fuels and thats where the fire danger comes in. Its the downsloping wind around this time of year that raises our fire danger