Just a bit. We definitely have a diminished fire threat. No red flag warning. No fire weather watch. Nothing like that today. We can breathe easily today and enjoy some really comfortable weather. Not only today but for the next several days. As you look from our roof camera, it is clear and kind of chilly. Wait until i show you those temperatures in the next hit. Heres what to expect this afternoon. 66 at half moon bay. Low to mid 70s around the bay and upper 70s to a few low 80s inland. Well have that accuweather sevenday forecast into november coming up. Reggie . Thanks. Pg e does expect everyone to get their power restored later today. This is the map showing the areas still in the dark. A lot fewer of those purple triangles this morning compared to last morning. About 10,000 customers. Electricity has been restored to 335 toush 335,000 customers. We are still at risk of fires even if the red flag warning is over. A small wildfire broke out before 8 00 last night. This is in napa and sonoma counties. Crews were able to get that under control. In orange county, its quite a different story. The race to contain two fastmoving wildfires being pushed by the santa ana winds, nearly 70,000 people are under a mandatory evacuation this morning. Jobina is following the firefighters progress this morning. New questions about how at least one of these fires started. Yes. Good morning. The firefighters there say they could see a break later today when the winds start to die down. The fires started on monday. So far the silverado fire in the hills above irvine burne acres. The blue ridge fire is about 15 miles away. It burned 15,000 acres with no containment. All of a sudden i could smell smoke. Im like, gosh, this is so strong. Where is this coming from . I look out, the valley was nothing but pure black. We lost a son 20 years ago, so this is not that suck you in the gut where you cant breathe feeling. You know whats important is here. Ten homes have burned in the blue ridge fire. This morning new questions about what sparked the silverado fire. Southern california edison is investigating if power lines are to blame for all of this. The utility is defending the decision to turn off power for just 30 customers monday morning. All right. Thank you. This morning dozens of employees and patients at a Ucsf Medical Center are under quarantine after several patients and Health Care Workers tested positive for coronavirus. Julian glover is live with more on this. Good morning. Good morning. The San Francisco chronicle reporting at least five people, talking about two patients, three Health Care Workers at Ucsf Helen DillerMedical Center tested positive for covid in the last week leaving 40 other people connected to the hospital either quarantining or isolating out of caution. Abc7 news reached out to ucsf this morning. We have not confirmed the details in the chronicle article which said that two patients who shared a room tested negative for the virus when they arrived at the hospital. When one of the patients was set to be discharged, they then tested positive. That triggered Contact Tracing which turned up the second patient sharing the room with the first identified case then testing positive as well along with three workers who cared for those two patients. As a result, 28 additional employees were quarantined and 15 additional patients were placed in precautionary isolation. So far all of the additional employees and patients have tested negative for the virus. All five of the positive cases were identified in a threeday span in one unit of the hospital. We are currently working to confirm the details of this story. As soon as we hear back from ucsf well let you know. Reporting live, Julian Glover, abc7 news. In the north bay, Sonoma CountyHealth Officials say a dozen workers at Healdsburg District Hospital tested positive for covid19 in the past ten days. They say Contact Tracing shows that the 12 workers were exposed to the virus outside of the hospital and no patients have been infected. Were expecting to get an update from the Santa Clara CountyHealth Department today. They will hold a briefing about covid19 at 10 00 this morning. You can stream it live at abc7news. Com and on our abc7 news app. Multiple bay area counties are now in the orange tier. So this means that contra costa, san mateo and marin counties are allowed to expand their reopenings. That includes nonessential offices, outdoor stadiums at 20 capacity and indoor gyms. Theme parks, indoor bowling and card rooms at 25 capacity. Washington, oregon and nevada are joining california in planning how vaccines will be prioritized. Experts will help independently review and determine guidelines for allocating supplies. Governor newsom does stress that this will not cause any delays. All of us are preparing for the distribution of these vaccines and Building Trust with you in making sure that theyre done not just expeditiously, at least made available, but done safely. If youre hoping to travel to new york, new jersey, connecticut, will you have to selfquarantine for two weeks. California was just added back to the tristate travel advisory after being removed in september. You can track the county where you live to see what tier its in, what businesses are allowed to reopen. Were constantly updating this map as we get new information from the state. Head to abc7news. Com. Less than a week to go before the voting season ends and early voting is breaking records. Today the candidates are heading to key battleground states. The president and democratic vp candidate Kamala Harris both head to arizona. Vice president mike pence visits washington and michigan. And joe biden delivers remarks on covid19 virtually. Heres elizabeth schulze. Reporter good morning. The United States election project says more than 71 million americans have already cast their ballots, thats more than half of the total votes in 2016. Just six days to go in the battle for the presidency, the candidates now making a final push in the states that will determine the outcome of the race. Down in the polls and on defense, President Trump on tuesday stumped in michigan, wisconsin and nebraska, states he won in 2016. Now ive got to say, im working my off here. Trump expected to hit nearly a dozen states this week with 11 rallies planned in the final 48 hours before election day. His closing argument, dont worry about the pandemic, despite the u. S. Averaging more tan 73,000 cases a day, the highest weekly average during any sevenday stretch yet. Were rounding that beautiful turn. Its going to be very good. Reporter joe biden with the opposite message. He says its going to go away. Were learning to live with it. I told him were not learning to live with it. Youre asking people to learn to die with it. Its wrong reporter the former Vice President trying to unify voters during a Campaign Stop in georgia, a state no democrat has won since bill clinton in 1992. We win georgia, we win everything. Reporter in another attempt to expand the Electoral College map, biden will visit iowa this week. Also on his agenda, florida, wisconsin and michigan. Biden will keep focus on the pandemic today with a speech on health care and covid19, while trump is set to hold who rallies in arizona. Elizabeth schulze, abc news, washington. You have six days to cast your vote. For resources, head to abc7news. Com election. We posted this interactive map showing all the early voting and drop box locations across the bay area. All right. Lets talk about whats going on with your weather forecast. I want to bring you some good news, some different news. All in one shot. Here we go. Look at these temperatures. They are a bit cooler along the east bay shore. 40s in places like fremont, union city and castro valley. Everyone else is in the low to mid 50s. Alameda will stay a little bit milder, 57 degrees. Look at those temperatures inland, almost in the 30s in santa rosa. 40s, widespread 40s in the north bay, east bay and around mountain view. The rest of us in the 50s this morning. Heres a look at san jose. Its going to be chilly this morning. I know its about 66 degrees in my house, im sure i will hear the complaints. Its cold in here. Too bad. Its going to get warm this afternoon. Well open the windows and enjoy the warmth. Let the kids outside for remote learning. It will be a bright and dry day if youre exercising. I want to show you the wind forecast. Look at this, as we head throughout the day into the evening hours, no more than 10 Miles Per Hour. As we head through thursday, looking at very calm conditions once again. So its just the dry air thats out there that brings us any type of fire threat. When you mix that in with the other factors, look at our fire danger index. Green to blue, which is low to moderate through today, and again as we head through tomorrow. We put that behind us for now. Well talk about the weekend and warmer temperatures for halloween coming up in the accuweather 7day forecast. First lets find out about the morning commute. Lets talk to jobina. How are you . Im doing well, mike, thank you. Dont freeze barbara out like that. Good morning. Were looking at the map. Overall very clear. A slowdown out of tracy, which is our usual spot. Bringing in our live cameras, showing you emeryville first, looking at 80, that is moving smoothly for the most part. Looks like a significant amount of people making their way westbound, but no slowdowns. Lastly, a live look at 680 and walnut creek. No problems to report. Thanks. This morning celebrations in l. A. , the dodgers are the winners of the world series. Its the first time theyve been champs since 1988. Also at the game, a player tested positive for covid19 in the middle of the world series. World series victory. You can see everyone was socially distanced until it came time to hand over the trophy. In the eighth inning, Justin Turner was pulled out of the game. Sources tell espn his covid test from tuesday came back positive in the middle of the game. Turner my goodness returned to the field to celebrate with the team after the win and took his mask off. Im confused. Things got wild in downtown l. A. After the game. Fans flooded into the streets to celebrate, then it got out of hand when a cyclist got hit by a car. The cyclist is okay. Yikes. Somehow the bicyclist walked away, but the car took off. Another scene from a passing airplane above showed the fireworks shooting over l. A. After the dodgers win. Friend, that story was full of everything. How am i supposed to feel about that emotional journey i took you on . They won took off the mask. He has covid. They won how is the result coming back bicyclist hit by a car. Why would the result come back in the middle of the world series . Like, really . Tests dont wait. I dont know. Unhuh. Im done with that whole thing. I didnt even know they were playing last night. Now, friend. Thats how disconnected i am from that situation. Coming up in the hot seat, the accusations that have the ceos of three Big Tech Companies going before congress today. Also an update on those pesky wild pigs in the. All right. Welcome back. About 5 15 this morning. Lets look at whats going on from our east bay hills camera. You can see how significantly slower the winds are. Only four to six Miles Per Hour. Heres a look at your day planner for today. 40s to barely some 50s. Definitely cooler this morning. The air is still bone dry. We rapidly warm into the 60s and near 70s by noon. Upper 60s at the coast. Bay and midland neighborhoods in the 70s. Back to the 50s and 60s by 7 00. A few air quality issues in the San Joaquin Valley. Smoke will be an issue in yosemite today, 62. 70s just about everywhere, until you get to palm springs at 84. Reggie . Thank you. Three tech giants go before congress today. Republicans accuse facebook, twitter and google of anticonservative bias and election interference. All three ceos will be appearing remotely. Theyre expected to argue against repealing a key internet law called section 230 which protects online businesses from being punished for content users create. The Senate CommerceCommittee Hearing gets under way at 7 00 this morning. In the south bay, this group of pigs terrorizing neighborhoods will not be hunted with bows and arrows. Residents are frustrated and they were hopeful about a new plan to take out the animals. Yesterday the city decided against bows and arrows, instead theyll get the county involved. I hope the county can restart their program, which was successful in maintaining the population for many years. Now its gotten out of control. I open my front door, i confronted some of them. One of them was kind of aggressive. Oh, no. Theyre big. Hum. Theyre like say something. Currently licensed trappers are able to catch and kill the wild pigs within city limits. All right. In the north bay a Daring Rescue caught on camera. A man pulled to safety after falling off a cliff and into the ocean near ft. Ross. The Sonoma CountySheriffs Office says the man got caught on fishing line and was stuck in the water for 30 minutes. A helicopter flew in with a rescue paramedic attached by a cable. The paramedic was flown into the water and was able to cut the man free and get him back to shore and despite going through all of that, he is expected to be okay. Happening today in San Francisco, the legion of honor will reopen for members only. Its been closed since midmarch because of the pandemic. Members will be able to get their first look at alexander singhs a gothic tale which will run through november 6th. The museum opens to everyone on friday. And golden state park will transform into this winter wonderland. This display full of sculptured light trees and illuminated meadows is called entwined. A San Franciscobased artist designed this. Its part of the parks 150th anniversary celebration. You can check it out december 1st through february 28th. Though theres been talk that its going to be expanded beyond that. Its nice, right . Can i get up in there like she did . Where is her mask . Oh. That was obviously precovid art. I have a feeling the answer is no, kumasi. Look at these two. Thats precovid. Unhuh. Listen, they have so much going on for this anniversary between this and the ferris wheel. I just yeah. Im ready. The museums are back open now. Thats cool. You cant have pda or be a little girl pretending like youre going to fly into that thing. I can if i have on a mask. Mmhmm. Dont steal my joy. Are you going to get in trouble doing it for the gram . Doing too much for the gram. Dont do it. Can you imagine how beautiful that would look from the top of the ferris wheel . Now youre talking. That could be cool. I dont want to see you get in trouble. I want to see that. Lets look at whats going on from sutro tower. Its 56 as we look across clear conditions. Lets go with the accuweather highlights. An outdoor day. Calmer, sunny, warm conditions. Tonight it will be clear and cool once again with a few clouds trying to near the coast as the marine layer tries to come back. A new month this weekend and even warmer temperatures. Were supposed to be getting cooler, not warmer. Heres the upper level pattern. You can see that area of high pressure, and notice the flow around it. It makes a greek letter omega, we call that an omega block high. Its a stubborn high that will not move for days. Thats why we dont have any real rain in the forecast until possibly i say possibly next tuesday on election day. Ill show you that in the next weather coming up. 75 to 81 down in the south bay today. 74 to 77 on the peninsula. About 66 to 68 along the peninsula coast with low to mid 70s downtown, sausalito. 77 to 82 through most of the north bay valleys. 72 to 76 along the east bay shore. As you head into the east bay valleys, about 78 to about 80 degrees there. Tonight look at those temperatures. 30s in the deepest valleys. Most of us in the 40s once again, except around San Francisco, san mateo and oakland around 50. Pretty steady through halloween. When they set the clocks back, flip the calendar to november sunday, it gets warmer before a chance of increasing clouds and cooler weather tuesday. All right. Thank you. Coming up next, the 7 things to know this morning. Also testing trouble in paradise. Were hearing from a couple who went to hawaii and then had if youre just joining us, heres the 7 things to know this morning. Number one, this morning San Mateo County joins contra costa and marin counties in moving into the orange tier. This means restaurants can reopen indoor dining. Nonessential offices, indoor gyms and bowling alleys can reopen. Two north bay counties could go into more restrictive tiers. Theyre going the opposite way because of surging covid19 cases. Red for napa, purple for solano. Number three, a second night of protests in philadelphia after mondays Deadly Police shooting of Walter Wallace. His family says he was bipolar and having a Mental Health crisis during his confrontation with police officers. Number four, winds will ease up today to help firefighters battling two wildfires in orange county. The Southern California edison utility tells state regulators one of its power lines may have sparked the silverado fire. Number five, its going to be a warm autumn afternoon with temperatures anywhere from 3 to 8 degrees above average. In the 70s and 80s. Number six, great news on the traffic front. No blocking issues, no major crashes, hardly any Road Construction as we look outside right now showing off the san mateo bridge. Number seven, san jose will