And here comes our wind advisory tomorrow afternoon, at 4 00 for the lower elevations, lasting through monday, 11 00, in the red, indicating a red flag warning, 11 00 in the hills, and looking at 20 to 40 mile an hour wind gusts, gusts to 50. And we could see some of those gusts over 70 miles an hour, over the ridges, so the relative humidity drops anywhere from 5 to 15 and this could allow fires to ignite and spread rapidly. Right now were at 49 in mountain view, 54 in the los altos hills. 44 in napa. 24hour temperature thing, anywhere from two to five degrees colder this morning. Certainly feeling like fall and the fog has spread from napa to novato at a quarter mile visibility, three quarters of a mile in santa rosa. Partly cloudy around the bay, along the coast, sunny inland. Low 70s there. Bayside, upper 60s around fremont, only in the 50s at the coast and then things change rapidly by tomorrow. Ill be back with the timeline of the winds and the dry air in a few minutes. Liz . Lisa, thank you. This morning we are bracing for extreme fire danger with the strongest winds of the year so far, as lisa just mentioned. Starting tomorrow night the entire bay area will be under the red flag warning and because of the dangerous conditions pg e says nearly half a million customers will likely lose power in planned fire safety shutoffs tomorrow. Now, nearly a third of those, about 144,000 homes and businesses in eight bay area counties could be impacted, only San Francisco will not see outages. And the city of berkeley is out with a stark warning showing just how serious this situation is. In a tweet the city is urging anyone who lives in the Berkeley Hills to consider leaving before sunday afternoon. At least make sure you have your go bag ready. At least 1,500 berkeley homeowners around claremont and Panoramic Hill could lose power in the planned shutoff. In east bay the outage will affect 64,000 customers, in alameda and contra costa countys. Starting at 4 00 p. M. Tomorrow, lights will go out from el cerrito to union city and fremont and across 680 to include dublin, pleasanton and livermore, expected restoration is tuesday night at 10 00. In the north bay shutoffs are scheduled in napa and sonoma counties. You can see so much orange there on the screen in sonoma, stretching along both sides of 101 from petaluma to clear lake, starting at 4 00 tomorrow afternoon and an estimated 16,000 customers in napa county then will also lose power along with more than 38,000 in Sonoma County. Pg e hopes to have the lights back on for these counties by 10 00 p. M. On tuesday. Also in marin county, people will be impacted. At least 19,000 customers there could lose power. The outage will start between 6 00 and 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow night, it will stretch north of the Golden Gate Bridge up to novato, sausalito, kempfield, fair faction and several other cities. Expected restoration is monday night at 10 00. And parts of the peninsula in south bay will have the lights turned out at 10 00 tomorrow night. More than 9,000 customers will be in the dark in san mateo, in santa clara counties, including half moon bay, and alum rock in san jose. Pg e plans to restore power there by noon on tuesday. Cal fire kept crews overnight at the scene of a brush fire. In napa county. The pope fire broke out just yesterday afternoon near lower chilies valley road and pope valley road. It has burned 67 acres and it is 50 contained. Cal fire says because of the dry brush and the steep terrain where the fire is burning crews are keeping an eye out for flareups. Firefighters across the north bay are on high alert this morning. Its not just them. Abc 7 News Reporter lose pen with a is in sonoma where residents and businesses are racing to prepare for the potential power shutoffs. Reporter its projected to be the strongest wind event of the year, bringing flashbacks of how some of the worst fires in our state began. This level, the last one we had was the kincade fire in 19 and the wine country fires in 2017. Reporter santa rosa firefighters began staging in areas, their biggest concern, sunday afternoon. They will be out patrolling those upper elevations. Those areas that were going to pay more special close attention to are primarily the wild land. Reporter here in Sonoma County over 38,000 pg e customers could lose power. This owner of this bar and grill says hes coming to terms with that possibility. Either order really light or use my own home or basically have to give everything away, or take a complete loss, in a sense. Reporter their goal is to keep this fridge closed as long as possible. Were trying to stay positive and make sure the freezer stays at a good temperature. Reporter next door theyre also staying hopeful. I only have one little generator so i can keep one freezer full. Other than that, ill lose it. Id rather support and help people out and give away to the community. Reporter in Sonoma County, luz pena, abc 7 news. Our coverage continues in the east bay where large parts of alameda and contra costa counties will be impacted as we mentioned and as abc 7 News Reporter matt boone reports it means many east bay parks will also be closed. Reporter beth black and her dog osa walk around the Oakland Hills several times a week. She says shes not working forward to the closure. I think its especially right now with covid, getting outside is important. Reporter starting sunday sibley park along with ten other popular east bay parks will be shut down. Its hard to live anxious, all the time and i think sometimes youre like whens the power going to go out. Reporter the dry hills and overgrown vegetation on everybodys minds. Its cool so its kind of deceptive now. But its you know, were on alert. Reporter in Alameda County pg e says 39,000 customers could lose power starting sunday. Bracing for the shutoffs, this home in oakland had a solar system with a battery installed in august. This version of it is a tesla power wall. Reporter ann hoskins works with the Company Called sun run. Their demand has doubled in Northern California since last october. Really, over the last two months, i think customers are all questioning how are they going to have a reliable source of electricity. Reporter she says sun run can install a system in a single day the demand for these systems faces other hurdles. Even though this battery was installed in august, its still not fully functional, the homeowner is waiting on permitting approval from pg e and local agencies. We really need to all work Better Together on that to streamline that process. Reporter in oakland, matt boone, abc 7 news. Firefighters in the east bay will be using a powerful new tool during dangerous fire weather, conair 1 is an air bus helicopter that can drop water and fire retardant. It has room to transport medical patients if needed and it will be staffed with a nurse in flight. The choppers debut has been a year in the making. Contra costa county fire crews started training in it last september. Right now you can use our interactive tool to see if your home is within pg es outage zone, head to our website and enter your address. From there its right up there at abc7news. Com. Stay with abc 7 news and the abc 7 news app for the latest updates on the dangerous wind. Well have a special Early Edition of abc 7 news starting monday morning at 4 30 a. M. Today is National Prescription drug takeback day and Officials Say its important as Drug Overdose deaths have increased during the pandemic. California attorney general Xavier Becerra says that expired or unused medications have become a greater problem than in previous years as families spend more time at home, forego care and struggle with stress. San Francisco Police chief bill scott joined becerra. To talk about it. We know medicine makes our lives better. When its used properly it makes our lives more comfortable. Oftentimes its that misuse of that medicine and particularly when it gets in the wrong hands that endangers lives. There are Collection Sites all around the bay area and state and they will be open from 10 00 to 2 00 today, last year more than 56,000 pounds were collected. All right, lisa, we kept busy next few days for us, for sure. Yes, the fire parameters getting off the charts for your sunday afternoon into early next week but right now its quiet. Live look outside. Where temperatures are in the 40s and 50s. So even colder than yesterday morning, definitely feeling like fall. Very dry air getting dryer and checking out where all the advisories and warnings are in just a few minutes. Also ahead, new pressure from San Francisco leaders for Public Schools to reopen. Details on the demand and the districts response. More trick than treat, covid19 impacting candy collection in the south bay this halloween. Im its rising. The pain is coming. But i cant say i expected this. Because it was easy. To fight these fires, we need funding plain and simple. For this crisis, and for the next one. Prop 15 closes tax loopholes so rich corporations pay their fair share of taxes. So firefighters like me, have what we need to do the job, and to do it right. The big corporations want to keep their tax loopholes. Its what they do. Well, i do what i do. If yould like to help, join me and vote yes on prop 15. New developments with the Scott Peterson case, he could face the Death Penalty a second time. Peterson appeared in a modesto courtroom remotely from san quentin. The District Attorneys Office plans to retry the penalty phase of his trial. Peterson has been convicted of killing his pregnancy wife lacy and their unborn son connor. This summer the California Supreme Court overturned petersons death sentence because of questions about the jury selection process. The conviction itself could also be thrown out in a separate challenge. And now to covid19. California saw its coronavirus cases spike in one day with more than 6,100 reported yesterday, well above the daily average. Over the past two weeks about 3,400 new diagnosed cases have been reported every day. The 14day Positivity Rate also rose slightly. It is at 2. 8 now. It had been at 2. 5 . As we all work through this pandemic, education is just one of the handful of ways that abc 7 news is committed to working to build a better bay area. This morning theres now new pressure from San Francisco county leaders from sfusd to reopen its schools. According to the examiner several county supervisors, some sfusd parents demanded the district set a reopening timeline at a joint meeting last night. Sfusd cites logistical issues and costs for required Safety Measures as barriers to reopening. The district superintendent said tuesday that the district is unlikely to bring students back in 2020. And mayor london breed blasted School Officials last week for not focusing on reopening. And new astrazeneca is working on its vaccine. The drug maker paused its trials back in september after one of their volunteers developed a Serious Health condition. That caused the fda to review their safety precautions and make sure those symptoms werent brought in by the shot. Late stage trials, including some here in the bay area, are expected later this year. Halloween is one week away and because of the pandemic many bay area trick or treating traditions are being put on hold. In the south bay some are cancelling candy collecting all together, others are finding creative ways around it. Abc 7 News Reporter amanda dell castillo shows us whats changing. Reporter feast your eyes on halloween fun from years past. Downtown willow glen in san jose serving ghouls and goblins by the hundreds. This halloween, because of covid19, a very clear message, a treasured tradition is cancelled. Unfortunately we will not be able to have the trick or treat event on lincoln avenue this year. Reporter people are getting behind a joint statement by Bay Area Health officers calling trick or treating a high risk activity but many say the impacts dont have to be more trick than treat. In their guidance about halloween they were able to give us some, you know, alternate activity ideas. Reporter near downtown san jose an idea easy to see. 400 holiday hoops of lights signal one way they plan to celebrate. I started posting on our Neighborhood Group about the hoops of light and it went a little berzerk. Reporter she rallied 300 of her neighbors to purchase or denate the hoops. Leaving kids with what she hopes is a lasting memory of this less than normal halloween. Theyll tell their kids stories about that halloween when we didnt get candy but, you know what, there were these magical arches of light everywhere and there were houses decorated and we came out to the street and talked to each other and laughed. Thats what i love to see. Reporter in san jose, im amanda del castillo, abc 7 news. A Pumpkin Patch is now open in San Franciscos fort mason. The guardsman Pumpkin Patch is all outdoors. Organizers promise that theres plenty of room for social distancing. Proceeds raise money for programs for at risk youth in the bay area. And the patch is open today and tomorrow from 9 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. It took us a while to figure out halloween is a week from today. Well have to get our costumes ready. I hope to get trick or treaters. But we always buy so much candy and eat it ourselves. It is going to be very cool through the overnight hours, were feeling that already. The falllike conditions. But unfortunately the atmosphere getting much, much dryer. As a very powerful offshore wind event gets going. The next 24 to 48 hours. So you thought we were already dry with a very paltry lastseason rainfall, which was about half of what we should get and then the dry fuels with the very hot august and september and then on top of that, very dry offshore winds, blowing fast, not only in the upper elevations but at the surface beginning about 11 00, upper elevations tomorrow. As we look at live doppler 7 right now. Here is the fog. Its mainly in the north bay. A little bit along the coast. Its 54 in arin da. 58 in hayward. That doesnt sound too bad but 40s up in the north bay, napa, santa rosa with the fog, 50 in novato. Pacifica is at 53 and a live look outside, you can see the clouds here in San Francisco. And temperatures will be seasonal throughout the bay area today, but the winds getting stronger. By tomorrow afternoon theyll be getting quite gusty. Were going to have two bursts of offshore winds as we get into tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening and then again monday afternoon so we could even extend the red flag warning. And looking at the cold mornings throughout next week and warmer afternoons with 80degree temperatures returning. Heres a look at that fog. As we go through the rest of your saturday, there it is along the marin county coast, a little bit the san mateo coast, in the afternoon well have a lot of sun in the east bay valleys and partly cloudy skies, closer to san mateo, redwood city, up in the north bay, point rays, looking at partly cloudy conditions. Theres fog at the coast, thats important because of relative humidity thats higher there. Well bring in the wind, come 1 00 tomorrow, starts in the upper elevations of the north bay, it spreads here to the diablo range and then across the entire bay, 11 00 sunday night into early monday, look at the winds, purples here into 6 00 theyll ease and then another burst of wind. You saw the winds there. Relative humidity at 5 00 tomorrow, anywhere from 20 to 60 to 90 along the coast. Were already dry in our inland valleys and the winds sweep across the bay area and even more dry air comes into play here with very little no recovery at all, overnight sunday into monday, about 8 , napa, fairfield, gets even lower. Look at this, petaluma, 9 , 18 by the bay in hayward. Its going to stay that way, theres our other burst of wind monday afternoon, fire danger index exemplifies the fire risk in colors here, starting in the north bay again, and in through the afternoon, it gets stronger through the diablo range, and right even into the Santa Cruz Mountains so really even San Francisco the city will get some very gusty winds, 20 to 40 mile an hour winds later sunday. Its a strong wind event. Youve heard the statistics, watching it kafl carefully, no rain through next week into next weekend and even looks like through about november 8th or 9th, still staying dry. 71 in fremont today. 70 san rafael. 64 San Francisco, 60 along the coast so it will feel very falllike today. The accuweather sevenday forecast, dry and gusty winds throughout tomorrow in the upper elevations early, about 11 00. And then developing maybe 4 00 in the afternoon. I think the strongest winds are getting going 6 00, 7 00 on sunday afternoon, lasting until about 11 00 at night and then theyll ease up and then the second burst of wind, liz, and so the fires from 2017 and 2019, a lot of those started midnight, sunday night. So this is going to be hopefully not when people are sleeping, so well have a chance to not only prepare. Yes. But be advised when those winds get going, be alert at that time. Absolutely, preparation is so key. Thank you, lisa. Just ahead, some bay area musicians are making sure the pandemic doesnt silence their music. Welcome back, californias Unemployment Agency has been battling a wave of unemployment fraud by cutting payments to suspected scammers. However, legitimate claims are now getting swept into the crackdown. Many people are co