Urging people to avoid standing underneath trees when winds are blowing like they did overnight and late today. Check out this trampoline that toppled over a fence in fremont. Police tweeting the picture to remind everybody, make sure that your items are secured, tied down during heavy winds. Its all part of the Public Safety power shutoffs. Hundreds of thousands of californians are affected, authorities trying to prevent their equipment sparking wildfires in extreme winds. Take a look from pg e. You can see exactly where power is out right now across the bay area. All the dots there in purple. You can see thousands of people are still affected in the bay area. Although the situation is getting better. We have Team Coverage today on the Power Outages and the winds. Abc 7 News ReportersLaura Anthony and Wayne Friedman are checking in on customers affected in the east bay and north bay. Lets begin with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma and the forecast. The red flag warning still on. Yeah, thats right, kristen. Frequently gusting over 50 miles per hour. Still some isolated gusts out there right now. You can see fairfield, tracking that fire, winds gusting to 30 miles per hour. 24 the current wind gust in santa rosa. Elsewhere, the winds not as strong. In our hills right fierce as they were earlier this morning, but still of concern. You can see winds gusting 15 to 35 miles per hour. Not only the wind, bonedry air. Look at relative humidity in the Single Digits across much of the bay area. So we have that red flag warning that will continue along the coast and the lower elevations until 5 00 p. M. , for the next hour. However, it will be extended until 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow for the north bay mountains and the east bay hills. Kristen, were going to hour by hour show you those winds over the next 24 hours in the accuweather forecast in a few minutes. All right. Thank you, drew. Now to the north bay and abc 7 News ReporterWayne Friedman live in sebastopol with the latest. Wayne . Reporter been an interesting day out here. Combat poll in downtown one of the areas in Sonoma County oddly enough they did not cut the power. All around us they did, 23,000 peopleplus in Sonoma County lost their power. Only some are getting the all clear. In portions of dernville. It has. A challenging day. When you live in a twostop light town and neither works because pg e cuts the power, traffic jams become inevitable and weve only just gun. In guerneville, population 5,000. Most of the people here out of power and running low on patience. Weve had floods. Weve had everything thrown at us. I dont know whatever the lord wants to throw at us, but he expects us to handle it. Reporter were reaching the point we hear the letters psps and no one flinches at this thirdworld problem in a firstworld nation. Whats that tell you . Somebodys not doing their job, i suspect. Reporter down the road near forest hill there is a run on ice to i cant count on normal days week to week, at least since last august. Like, what will happen next . Reporter those are the small stories. This is where the Administration Building was. At Cardinal Newman high school in santa rosa, theyre still recovering from the tubbs fire of 2017 which burned half the place. If there are climate lessons all around us, consider those trying to teach in the midst of this. Face to face on computers. Because of those fires in 2017, Cardinal Newman is no stranger to online learning. To a degree, they had a head start. Today, of 600 students only 24 were unreachable. Is that a win . Yeah. Reporter and thats graham rutherford, dean of student life at Cardinal Newman high school. We asked him straight up, so how difficult is this for you . Its about like a rainy day. Theyve had so much experience, everybody has dealt with this, even the students who wouldnt have connections today knew automatically to call in advance to get their home work or go to the house of another student who did have the internet and they worked together. Live in sebastopol, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. Wayne, thank you. Now to the east bay. More than 32,000 people are without power there. Abc 7 us in reporter Laura Anthony is live with the latest on conditions. Laura . Reporter hi, larry. Im in Contracosta County here. About 15,000 of those customers without power are in Contracosta County. This is one of two Customer Resource Centers theyve set up here in the la marinda community. The vast majority of 14,000 customers without power reside right here in this community. A strong magnet on the bottom and a clip. So you can go like this. Reporter for those who live and work in the three communities, its all about making the best of a difficult and increasingly familiar situation. At this hardware store, that means being even better prepared to serve their customers this time. After last years one, we restocked and held stock on things like generators and cords for generators, oil for generators, gas cans and had held much more stock than we would have normally in years past. Reporter from downtown, it seems the vast majority of businesses and people are without pg es power, but not necessarily powerless. Well, i turn on the generator. Reporter dry cleaner chong kim managed to keep his business open. Rather than closing up shop like so many of his neighbors. Turn on the conveyer and the sign and the computer and the inside light. We have wifi no for those without generators, pg e has set up two community Resource Centers with electricity and beefed up cell service to help residents get at least something done as they pass the time. Indeed here its one giant waiting game. First for the dangerous winds to die down and then for pg es widely scattered crews to restore people. I think lots of people are digging in and finding out how strong they can be in their core when they need to be and theyre helping everybody else out, which is the best part. Reporter now, you just heard that resident talk about getting stronger, resiliency, flexibility during all of this. I had one person tell me today in that vein that this is not a power outage, its just setting the mood for halloween. Back to you guys. Laura, thank you. People living in berkeley received alert messages asking them to voluntarily evacuate overnight during the dangerous wind event. The mayor says it was an unprecedented step. He says berkeley may issue more preemptive voluntary evacuations in the future. I think a lot of us didnt get much sleep last night. But were fortunate and relieved that something bad did not happen. But we need to be prepared. We need to be vigilant. Winds knocked down trees and limbs, but no fires were reported in berkeley. He says 750 homes in the Berkeley Hills lost power overnight as part of pg es preventive Power Outages. All power has been restored there. The 11 parks in the east bay hills will now remain closed until wednesday morning because of the extended red flag warning. Those parks include claremont canyon, wildcat canyon, tilden and lake shabeau. The Park District also says it responded to a few fires. For updates on the power juttoffs and potential fire conditions, head to abc7news. Com. We are constantly updating our website with the latest outage maps, forecasts and info about how you can stay safe. A fire is burning out of control in the irvine area of orange county. 70,000 people have been evacuated. Two firefighters have been critically injured. Suffering second and thirddegree burns. The fires has burned at least 4,000 acres since it started around 6 45 this morning. Officials say theyre dealing with erratic winds and have had to ground air support. Now to the coronavirus. Deaths on the rise, according to data from john hopkins. Average deaths per day across the country rose 10 over just the past two weeks. Dr. Deborah birx said today that covid19 hot spot bismarck, north dakota has the worst protocols that she has seen and shes toured nearly 40 states. The dow dropped 650 points today as virus cases surge, and nat is the steept oneday point and percentage drop in nearly two months. San Francisco Mayor london breed announced today 2. 5 million in support for entertainment and night life venues, most of which have been shut down, unable to operate during the crisis. About 300 venues will have their regulatory license fees and Business Administration fees waved for two years. Payroll expense taxes for 2020 will also be waved. Street sweepers will soon be back in action on the streets of oakland. City officials announced today that the big machines will resume making their rounds on november 9th. Residents who forget to move their vehicles on the designating cleaning day for their street will receive warning tickets for a short time. Like many areas, oakland stopped street sweeping at the start of the pandemic. Early voting, its under way and actually breaking records. What does that mean for election day . Holiday health from halloween to christmas. How to stay healthy and happy through the holidays. Plus, mooning over water. The discovery that could make a huge need to find the closest official ballot drop box near you . Just visit vote. Ca. Gov to find your nearest location. Then drop off your ballot. Your vote will be secure and counted. There are other ways to vote too. Just return your votebymail ballot at your voting location or mail it back. Or you can vote safely inperson during early voting or on election day. Vote the way youre most comfortable but vote by 8pm on november 3rd. 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. The pain is always around the corner. O a fanfavorite venue ever since they got gigspeed internet. Xfinity gives them the ultimate home field advantage. Its their 12th man. Protector. Hey, amy . Want to grab a seat . Julie, were live. Its game on with gigspeed internet from xfinity. Start him, sit him, trade him. Simple, easy, awesome. Get started with xfinity internet for 19. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, learn about gigspeeds from xfinity. Click, call, or visit a store today. Judicial candidates because they only want qualified judges. All eyes are on capitol hill right now. This is a live picture from the Senate Chambers where a final vote will take place any moment now on the nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett. To the Supreme Court. That is Chuck Schumer speaking right now. The vote is expected to follow along party lines with a republican majority pushing barretts nomination through. Moving the High Court Even further to the right. President trump expected to swear in barrett at the white house in an outdoor ceremony later tonight. And this is all happening with the election day being just a week from tomorrow. But already millions have voted across the country. Abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz joins us now with a look at just whos voting. Liz . Hi, kristen. We are seeing record early turnout voting across the state and the country. Unlike previous elections thesh is a definitely party divide. The big unknown right now is will it make a difference on the outcome of this race. Election day is just over a week away and already at least 61. 5 million votes have been cast across the country. The record turnout happening here in california, too. More than 7 million votes making up a third of all ballots will have been cast in the state by the end of the day. Thats more than all of the early votes cast in 2016. So who is it exactly thats already voted . According to paul mitchell, the Vice President of Political Data inc. , which tracks ballots and voter trends, the script has slightly flipped from last elections where republicans have historically been the ones to get their ballots in early. This time its democrats. Democrats have essentially been virtue signaling that look at me, im voting early, here is my picture on instagram of me at the ballot box, and republicans have been doing the opposite. Reporter nationwide of the ballots returned so far, roughly 49 are democrats. 41 are republicans and 10 are unaffiliated. The lower turnout among republicans isnt a sign republicans wont vote. Rather, theyre likely holding off to vote inperson on election day or closer to the election, something the president has been encouraging as he raises concerns about vote by mail and a rigged election. It was a very secure vote. Much more secure than when you send in a ballot. This messaging has moved voters into these two partisan camps. Its almost like in our culture we have this thing where, like, you cant go buy a chicken sandwich without it being a political statement. Reporter so what does this mean . Does more early turnout among democrats say anything about who will win . The simple answer is no. An early vote doesnt count any more than a vote cast on election day, and according to mitchell, many of the people who voted so far are considered likely voters, but it could ultimately put republicans at a disadvantage for this reason. Republicans have put themselves in a situation of having a lot more of their own voters kind of still yet to engage and to go out and make sure that they return their ballots. Its going to be a big job for them. So get out the vote efforts for republicans are going to be huge in this coming week and on election day. Now, some trends have remained the same. So far in california, we have seen the most turnout from suburban areas with affluent homeowners, including the suburbs of marin county and orange county. Weve seen lower turnout in urban areas with Younger Voters such as the middle of and east los angeles. Thank you very much. Santa clara county Officials Say so far so good with one week before the election. They havent received any reports of fake ballot boxes are efforts our voter intimidation or suppression. While they dont expect any problems, voters need to be aware of their rights. No one is always to intimidate you while youre voting. Either at a vote dropoff box or at a voter center. No one is allowed to assemble uniformed or armed people in the vicinity of a vote center. In california its a crime to do these things. And they will not be tolerated. They say intimidation efforts should be reported immediately to a poll worker or you can call 911. Still plenty of time to vote. Go to abc 7 news. Com. We posted an interactive map showing you all the early voting and ballot dropoff locations across the bay area. An iconic San Francisco sign is in the process of being taken down and destroyed. Its the neon cocacola billboard at fifth and bryant streets. The sign was put up in 1957. No official word why its being removed. T reports cocacola is paying 100,000 to do so. All right. Time to check in with drew again on the weather. Still in the red flag warning but the winds are getting spottier. Yeah, they are. Well see those winds kind of turn briefly stronger in our hills overnight as that red flag warning continues for the north bay mountains and the east bay hills through 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Live look from sutro tower showing you nothing but sunshine. Look at these peak wind gusts we had over the past 12 hours and early this morning. Mount saint helena gusting to 89 miles per hour. Mount diablo gusting to 74. Even the Oakland Airport late last night had a wind gust of 58. The Oakland Hills had wind gusts of 51 miles per hour. Napa, 53. Concord, 40 miles per hour. So it was a very windy night, hence the red flag warning across all of the bay area. Now, winds currently, you can see theyre just gusty in isolated area. Fairfield is currently gusting to 25 miles per hour. 24 the current wind gust in santa rosa. Most spots from San Francisco, oakland, points to the south, winds are relatively light. Less than about 10 miles per hour. So temperatures when you get the strong winds, it tends to create pretty uniform temperatures. Were in the 70s if not close to 80 degrees right now. Currently 80 in oakland. 72 in the city. 76 in san jose and 79 in santa rosa. Tracking very dry air. Look at the dew point numbers. It does not get much dryer than what youre seeing on the board. And dew points, the way i like to explain it. Take santa rosa, for example. You see a dew point of minus11. We would have to cool the air temperature to 11 degrees below zero in santa rosa right now for any sort of fog to form. So that is some dry air. Extremely desertlike. And its going to sit over much of the bay area for the next 24 hours. So well track those winds for you. Early tomorrow morning. This is 1 00 a. M. On tuesday. You do notice they turn gusty in spots. Not nearly as wide spread or strong as they were last night. Right before sunrise, expect strong winds in the north bay mountains and then the winds will begin to subside throughout the Morning Hours and as we head into the early afternoon, that red flag warning will be allowed to expire. One more night of gusty winds. Overnight tonight, some chilly spots, especially in the north bay. 30s to low 40s in the north bay. Well see mid50s in a couple of spots. Otherwise, on the other side of 50 degrees for most of us. Now, tomorrow, pretty similar temperature wise. Its breezy with sunshine. Temperatures mainly in the 70s to low 80s. Accuweather sevenday forecast. It is windy in our hills tomorrow. That red flag warning expires at 5 00 p. M. On tuesday. Well welcome those light winds mi