The flames. At one point powerful winds pushed smoke into contracosta county. It took views about two hours to get control of the area. Winds were Strong Enough to take someones backyard trampoline over the fence. Fremont Police Tweeted this picture as a reminder to secure things in your yard. Pg es website shows all the places where the power is out now. And recently released updates from the Utility Company indicate it could stay out longer than originally expected. The purple triangles on this map youre looking at indicate a Public Safety power shutoff. San francisco is the only bay area county not affected. The north bay is bearing the brun of all this. About 25,000 customers are without power in Sonoma County alone. Along with nearly 14,000 in marin county, 11,000 in napa and about 1,500 in Solano County. In the east bay there are roughly 16,000 customers without power in both alameda and contracosta counties. Santa clara county and san mateo counties also have a number of customers in the dark. But certainly the wildfire concern isnt just about the winds. No. Abc 7 news meteorologist drew tuma gives us a bigpicture look at the danger we face. Drew . Yeah. Ama and dan, were not only tracking those winds, but that very dry air that is currently sitting across the entire bay area. It was a windy 24hour period. Frequent wind gusts over 50 Miles Per Hour. Right now where we find the strongest wind gusts in Solano County through the delta and strait. Its relatively light with winds generally less than 10 Miles Per Hour everywhere else. Well take you up into the hills, though, where it is a little bit more active. Not nearly as strong as they were earlier this morning but still concerns with winds anywhere from 15 to 35 Miles Per Hour. Not only tracking those winds, but look at the relative humidity, how dry it is out there. We have relative humidity levels, especially in the north bay, in the single digits. So you combine those two factors, the wind and the humidity, we continue to have that red flag warning. It has been trimmed back. Its now only for the north bay mountains and the east bay hills. This lasting until 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow evening. Now, ama, were going to go hour by hour in the accuweather forecast in just a few minutes. The largest power shutoff in the bay area is in Sonoma County. People there have been through this before, but getting used to it isnt the same as liking it. Abc 7 News ReporterWayne Freedman is live in sebastopol. Wayne . Reporter i dont know if theres ever any really getting used to it, but, yes, people are beginning to deal with it. Downtown combat poll hesebastop spared here. Power out, power out, power out. Parts of downtown guerneville and forestville, fort ross. N when you live in a twostop light town and neither of them works because pg e cut the power, traffic jams become inevitable and weve only just begun. Yes, its a big deal. Reporter were in guerneville. One dot on the map. 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 where we hear the letters psps and nobody flinches at this thirdworld problem in a firstworld nation. Whats that tell you . Somebodys not doing their job, i suspect. Reporter town the road near forestville there is a run on ice at spears market where they have tgenerators on. Like what will happen next . Reporter and 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 bushed 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 that was Graham Rutherford who is the dean of student life here. Its interesting, we expected to see them dealing with the challenge, but it hasnt been a challenge, at least not compared to what we expected because students know the drill. Of those 24 students who didnt get directly contacted, they knew to get in touch with friends. They went to their friends houses and accessed the internet and their classes that way. So theyve been through this before. Sonoma county has been through this before. Now after today, much of the bay area has been through this before. Live from sebastopol, Wayne Freedman, abc 7 news. Wayne, thank you. People living in berkeley received alert messages asking them to voluntarily evacuate overnight. The mayor says it was an unprecedented step. Winds knocked down trees and limbs but not fires were reported in berkeley. He says berkeley may issue more preemptive voluntary evacuations in the future. We wouldnt have taken the step if we didnt think that it was going to be pretty dangerous for our residents. Relieved, once again, that nothing bad happened, but we need to be prepared. The mayor says 750 homes in the Berkeley Hills last power overnight as part of pg es preemptive preventive, rather, power outages. Wildfires are not the only concern today. The strong wind event this morning left behind fallen trees and thousands of dollars in repairs. In the east bay Tree Trimmers have been working nonstop, responding to an increase in emergency calls. Abc 7 News Reporter reporter rer the story. Reporter after their frightening 3 00 a. M. Experience, this is the sound of relief. It was just swaying like that, like a palm tree in the wind. When i got up, i heard cracking, loud cracking and then boom. Reporter david and sandra dont know each other, but Mother Nature chose them and their trees to show off its power. They said about 45 to 50mileperhour winds. So maybe more. To do this, im going to say it was a 50foot palm tree. Reporter david and his wife awoke to their 60foottall tree uprooted and leaning over. Saw the roots coming out of the ground and it turned out i was right to be paranoid. It was a ticking bomb. Reporter this expert believes this tree was within an hour of falling on to the adjacent apartment complex. This is one of multiple emergency calls this Tree Care Company responded to before 9 00 a. M. Today weve been swamped due to the winds of last night. Power outages. People really afraid. Getting another call as we speak. Probably the office. Somebodys in the line waiting for us to help them. Reporter it shows an uptick in three times the number of calls than anticipated. All over the map from livermore down to concord down to berkeley down to richmond. So we have three calls waiting reporter his message to anyone with trees please have your trees inspected. Have them looked at by an arborist. Reporter before its too late. There is another emergency in oakland so i got to head over there now. Reporter in oakland, luz inz pena, abc 7 news. Pg e is giving a live update on shutoffs. We are monitoring. If you want to listen, we are streaming it on abc7news. Com. Youll find instant updates on the potential shutoffs and fire conditions. See the latest outage maps, forecasts and information about how to stay safe. Breaking news now out of washington, d. C. The honorable Amy Coney Barrett is expected to be sworn in tonight as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. This is a live look at the white house where the ceremony will take place. You see President Trump there. The Senate Confirmed barrett just hours ago along party lines, 5248. Barrett will fill the seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg who died on september 18th. All right. Election day is next tuesday. Its just over a week away now, but millions of people arent waiting. Theyve already voted early either by mail or in person, setting records. Abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz joins us live with a look at whos behind all these ballots. Liz . Hi, ama, yes, we are seeing record early turnout voting across the state and the country. Unlike previous elections, there is a divide over who is voting early and who is not. The big unknown, will it make a difference on the outcome of this race. Reporter election day is just over a week away and already 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 1 3 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 past 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. Heres 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 in person on election day or closer to the election. Its something the president himself 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. 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. Big get out the vote efforts for sure. Some trends have remained the same this year. So far in california, weve seen the most turnout from suburban areas with affluent homeowners including the suburbs of marin county and orange county. Lower turnout in urban areas with younger voters, such as the middle and east los angeles. Ama . Liz, weve all been told to prepare for a long Election Night or election week. Here in california, our early votes can be processed right away when the registrar gets them. In some states, including key battleground states, early ballots can only begin to be processed when the polls close on Election Night. That means you wont get the full results until potentially days after the election. Unless its a landslide win for one candidate, its unlikely well have the outcome on Election Night, ama. All right. Liz, thank you. The First National coordinated effort to get women of color to vote started right here in the bay area. Im dion lim in San Francisco with how this effort is reaching nearly 1 million women across the country. A nasa team based right here in the bay area makes a breakthrough discovery, water on the moon. And it could be a gamechange im greg, im 68 years old. I do motivational speaking in addition to the substitute teaching. I honestly feel that thats my calling to give back to younger people. I think most adults will start realizing that they dont recall things as quickly as they used to or they dont remember things as vividly as they once did. Ive been taking prevagen for about three years now. People say to me periodically, man, youve got a memory like an elephant. Its really, really helped me tremendously. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Another live look at the swearing in ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett. She will join the Supreme Court tonight after being confirmed by the senate just a few hours ago. President trump is leading the ceremony outside the white house. Justice Clarence Thomas will administer the oath. Were streaming this event live on our website. You can watch it on abc7news. Com. Women of color make up one out of four voters in swing states, so their votes are more critical than ever in the upcoming election. Abc 7 news anchor dion lim takes you you inside an effort that started right here in the bay area that is reaching more than a million women across the country. Were engaging them in a conversation about voting. Reporter in groups like this across the country, women of color are gathering wealth a purpose, to empower other women of color to get excited and engaged about the upcoming election via text. Our target was a million women of color across seven battleground states. Weve already exkeyed exceeded 900,000. Reporter in the first ever coordinated effort, bay area based she the people partnered with democracy for america partnered for text banking events where turnout in the last election for this demographic was low. In a state like arizona, 341,000 women of color were eligible and 91,000 cast a vote. Reporter the message, that women of color have the power to make change for issues that matter to them. Such as the coronavirus pandemic, which disproportionately affects the Latino Community. Go back to reporter or the surge in discrimination toward asian americans. I have two children. Im a mom. Because of my own experiences of people in the Latino Community and coming from a more conservative, traditional background, i didnt have access to education or information about reproductive health. Reporter the momentum among this group voting is gaining strength, increasing nearly 40 from 2014 to the 2018 midterm elections. She the people hopes the momentum continues and pays off this november. In this etra or time when everyone feels they dont have a lot of power and feel sad about stuff, this is something concrete and positive. Women of color reaching women of color that we can do. Its making a big difference. Reporter in San Francisco, dion lim, abc 7 news. A text out the Vote Campaign is targeting georgia and florida this week, two critical states in this election. To learn more about she the people and other voting efforts across the country, tune into nightline tonight right after abc 7 news at 11 00. All right. It is official. The honorable Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in as associate justice of the Supreme Court. Just moments ago. Shes speaking to the audience outside the white house. Lets listen. Thank all of you, especially leader mcconnell and chairman graham for helping me to navigate it. My heartfelt thanks go to the members of the white house staff and department of justice who worked tirelessly to support me through this process. Your stamina is remarkable and i have been the beneficiary of it. Jesse and i are also so grateful to the many people who have supported who have supported our family over these last several weeks. Thruways both tangible and intangible, you have made this day possible. Jesse and i have been truly awe struck by your generosity. I have spent a good amount of time over the last month at the senate. Both in meetings with individual senators and in days of hearings before the Senate Judiciary committee. The confirmation process has made ever clearer to me one of the fundamental differences between the federal judiciary and the United States senate. And perhaps the most acute is the role of policy preferences. It is the job of a senator to pursue her policy preferences. In fact, it would be a dereliction of duty for her to put policy goals aside. By contrast, it is the job of a judge to resist her policy preferences. It would be a dereliction of duty for her to give into them. Federal judges dont stand for election. Thus they have no basis for claiming that their preferences reflect those of the people. This separation of duty from political preference is what makes the judiciary distinct among the three branches of government. A judge declares independence not only from congress and the president but also from the private beliefs that might otherwise move her. The judicial oath captures the essence of the judicial duty, the rule of law must always control. My fellow americans, even though we judges dont face elections, we still work for you. It is your constitution that establishes the rule of law and the Judicial Independence that is so central to it. The oath that i have solemnly taken tonight means at its core that i will do my job without any fear or favor and that i will do so independently of both the political branches and of my own preferences. I love the constitution and the democratic republic that it establishes and i will devote myself to preserving it. Thank you. That is the honorable Amy Coney Barrett just sworn in as the next associate justice of the United States