Yeah, weve got a lot going Something Else you could see, folks with gas cans, preparing on. To head home to get their personal generators going. Thousands in napa and sonoma its only getting hotter when it counties are without power. Comes to those temperatures. For those off the grid, its not even noon and san navigating a day without power francisco is already at 80 means using Electronics Wisely degrees. Its not windy at the lower and finding ways to keep elevations. I want to show you temperatures medications safe. Across the bay area. Weve gone through it so many san jose, 82. Times, its starting to really hayward, 87 degrees. Get old. Especially when we didnt see we are predicting our highs to be anywhere between the 80s and any wind tonight or today. 90s for the bay and coast and and we live on the wrong side of the river, because this part is 90s low triple digits. Red flag warning will be in energized and ours isnt. Effect through 11 00 a. M. You would think they could come up with a system that could take tomorrow. Care of that. Again were talking about northeast winds gusting on and ive been here now four years and i bet its happened 15, 20 off. We saw that start to kick up times. Last night. For the remainder of the day, we will continue to keep a close thankfully, we didnt see any eye on the wind and temperatures fires spread. As far as the wind goes were here in calistoga as both of not in the clear just yet. Those are true indicators of we are expecting that to whether or not there could be continue tonight along with dry any brush fires or any sparks in conditions. Humidity levels are expected to this town as well as a number of drop below the 10 mark. By this afternoon around 3 00, anything less than 30 can be outages. Extremely dangerous especially sierra, thank you very much. When youre pairing hot this morning senator Kamala Harris has postponed all temperatures, gusty winds and Campaign Events this weekend low humidity. Well talk about that fire because people tied her campaign danger index as far as the humidity goes, how long this is with joe biden have tested positive for covid19. Going to last and what areas are expected to see the highest risk the Campaign Says a nonstaff in my full forecast. Chris . Thank you very much. Flight attendant has tested when the red flag goes up, many positive. Peoples electric service goes senator harris was not in close down. Contact with either of the two, today, thousands have no power in an effort to prevent were told. Harris is routinely tested for wildfires. Bob redell is live in danville. Covid and her most recent test whats it like there . On wednesday came back negative. She will return to inperson campaigning on monday. The campaign also said joe biden just tested negative yet again. Tonight, a campaign showdown reporter were on a very rural part of danville in costa on prime time tv. Instead of a debate on all contra county. There are a number of power networks, President Trump and joe biden have scheduled dueling lines behind us. Town hall events tonight on pg e is worried that these dry, different networks. One here on nbc, the other on warm and windy conditions weve been seeing on and off this morning, theres a risk in an abc. Here is Hallie Jackson to set energized line or piece of the two stages. Equipment could fail and start a reporter not facetoface, but still headtohead tonight, wildfire. It has been gusty out here. We got a break from it now. Two candidates, two town halls. This is video from, i would say, former Vice President joe biden set to speak with voters in an hour, hour and a half ago. We felt gusts from 30 to 40 pennsylvania with president miles an hour. Temps are in the high 70s. Donald trump here in south florida, two weeks after testing i assume were going to be positive for the coronavirus. Approaching the 80s the way its the audience will be socially distanced and required to wear feeling right now. This is why the National Weather masks. The dueling events happening service has issued a red flag instead of that president ial debate initially slated for warning until 11 00 tomorrow morning. Tonight. Pg e started shut iting off the scrapped when the president backed out of a virtual debate power last night. After his covid diagnosis. Contra costa county has under in a rally overnight sharing new 1,000 customers without power. Details about his systems and how high his fever got. 101 or 102 and you say, i walnut creek and unincorporated dont love this. Parts of contra costa tomorrow. You havent had a temperature in years and all of a sudden you have it. President trump removing his alameda, over 5,000 customers, most of them in oakland. Tie. That feels so much better. And letting loose on joe oakland, power is expected to be biden. On by 10 00 tonight. Joe biden would terminate our Santa Clara County over 2,200 recovery, delay the vaccine, prolong the pandemic. Customers across the bay, by the way, for those states, peninsula, san mateo county. Open up your states. Open them up. Reporter biden is making his closing argument, too, with the help of a highprofile friend, their power not expected to be back on until tomorrow night. Former president barack obama, liveeople have generators stepping back into the political arena to tout bidens character. He was always the guy in every meeting who asked, how is this helping regular folks . That podcast with president obama, a preview before his inperson campaigning begins soon for his former running mate. As bidens current running mate senator Kamala Harris pledging shes all in for the next debate next week. Do you expect that the president will back out of that one too . He changes his mind every day. Who knows what hes going to say. Joe has been clear. Hes keeping his promise. Reporter wall street journal poll new this morning shows biden with an 11point lead over President Trump nationally, 53 to 42 with six in ten voters believing the country is on the wrong track. That was Hallie Jackson reporting. Live and socially distant town hall event with President Trump starts tonight at 8 00. You can watch it here on nbc bay area. Tonights town hall is at the same location where lester holt moderated a town hall with joe biden last week. The network offered President Trump the same opportunity and he accepted. Nbc news issued this statement saying, quote, we share in the frustration that our event will initially air alongside the first half of abcs broadcast with Vice President biden. Our decision is motivated only by fairness, not business considerations. The statement continues, quote, we aired a town hall with Vice President biden on october 5th at 8 00 p. M. If we were to move our town hall with President Trump to a later timeslot, we would be violating our commitment to offer both campaigns access to the same audience and the same forum. We hope voters will watch both discussions. Ours will be available at any time, free and on demand, youtube, peacock and all our digital news platforms, end quote. With 19 days left until election day, one National Coalition is mobilizing women of color to get involved and vote. Its called she the people. The founder is amy allison from oakland. Marcus washington spoke with her during our race in America Special last night. She explains why she started the group. After 2016s election, it was clear that women of color, black, latina, indigenous, and asianamerican had a very Important Role in organizing and going to the ballot box and unprecedented, high numbers werent being acknowledged for our key role. She the people was organized to bring together women of color across the country under common values of racial, economic and gender justice. If you missed last nights episode, it is posted to our website. Go to nbcbayarea. Com and click race in america there on the left. The confirmation hearing fo but she is not there. This is a live during that comm meeting. The Senate Judiciary committee is hearing from outside witnesses after republicans blocked an effort by democrats to delay action on the confirmation. We have learned that the first confirmation vote has been scheduled for one week from today. The full senate would vote a few days later, as soon as october 26th. That is eight days before election day. Democrats have acknowledged they do not have enough votes to stop or delay judge barretts nomination. Coming up, a light earthquake on the very day the state is hosting the great shakeout. Well share what you can do to prepare for the next big one. And aloha paradise. Adios quarantine. Helping travelers skip covid19 quarantine in hawaii. Get you to the beach faster. Well explain how. Welcome back. Did you feel it . 2. 5 quake shook around gilroy. 2. 8 near the same area yesterday afternoon. Coincidental timing here. Today is the annual great california shakeout. A reminder to prepare for an earthquake on the third thursday of each october, people are advised to practice how to respond during a real quick. So as youre working from from practice how to drop, cover and hold on. Californias office of Emergency Services also recommends using the my shake app, testing out early warnings that an earthquake is coming. You might have gotten a warning about a 4. 5 quake in berkeley. That was a test. Jetting to pa paradise is a little bit easier. For months a trip to hawaii meant quarantine upon arrival in the islands. Not anymore. Kris sanchez is at sfo with a thank you procedure that puts people on the sandy shores a little bit faster. Reporter starting today, you can head to hawaii without having to quarantine for two weeks once you get there, so long as you test negative for covid19 before you go. You can get a rapid test right here at sfo or at oakland international, and thats because hawaiis department of health approved the airports and the airlines as socalled trusted partners. Travelers who are not headed to hawaii like that idea for travelers. Its a great idea. Any time you can save travelers time getting to their destination. If testing is done in a clear way that they know is effective and they can determine whether travelers are carrying the virus or not its a great idea. Guidelines in california are working to slow the spread of covid19. If you look at that blue line on the graph, on your screen, that is the rate at which people are testing positive. Here in california, the Positivity Rate went from 40 to 2. 6 . This is a time when other states are suffering with big surges. New york saw the highest rate of hospitalizations since june. While things are looking up here in california,s it been a tough road getting here. More than 855,000 californians have tested positive for covid19 since the pandemic began. Nearly 17,000 did not survive. Kris sanchez, nbc bay news. The 49er faithful are mourning a legend from the teams heyday has reportedly died. Krchd said to be the culprit. Defensive lineman and hall of famer fred dean was a mainstay in the early 80s when the niners won their first two super bowls. Dwight hicks tweeted out news of deans death. He was recently hospitalized. He was 65. [ bell tolls ] theres the bell on wall street. News that might be driving the markets today. 898,000 people applied for unemployment benefits. Unemployment rate dropped to 7. 9 . Thats better but not good. Its still more than double prepandemic levels. Lawmakers and the white house have not yet agreed on a new round of stimulus for workers and their thats something good. Theres a good reason why. Here is laura garcia to explain. So you may have noticed that all of us are wearing some shade of purple today. Its all for a very good cause. Today is actually spirit day, a day where we stand against bullying in the lgbtq community. All of us here at nbc bay area are wearing our purple to share support to the lgbtq youth. Bullying of any kind is not tolerated. Im lauragarcia nbc bay area or Marcus Washington nbc bay area with the spirit day. Were also on instagram as well. Hoda kotb is stopping by the ank Kelly Clarkson show today and is dishing on the latest things that have been happening in her life. Her new book is out now. Weve been talking about this. Its called this just speaks to me words to live by every day. She says how during the pandemic having less of everything can be a good thing. All these things we thought in our lives was a necessity, including a wedding that you were working you dont really you kind of get the simple thing of life. I actually feel stronger and better in a weird way since i stopped doing all the stuff that i thought we should do. That is so true. Just being with people, the most important thing. Hoda has talked about how the pandemic has put off her plans to get married. You can catch it all on the Kelly Clarkson show here on nbc bay area. Its today at 3 00, followed by ellen and, of course, our news. Back to you. Lets get back to this red flag warning and vianey. How is it going . Weve seen the gusty conditions. A lot of people might be thinking it doesnt seem windy outside. Why are we under a red flag warning . We have seen gusty winds but its been in the Higher Elevation areas. Depending where you live, you may not be seeing any wind at all. Mt. Diablo, st. Helena, were talking about 90mileanhour peak gusts this morning. We cant complain about sunshine, no clouds in sight. However our temperatures already at 90 degrees. Can you believe it . Its not even noon yet. San jose, 84. San francisco expected to be in those 80s which is why the National Weather service has a twoday heat advisory that will be in effect until tomorrow night. We already saw a tied record temperature in napa with a high of 97. Near record heat again today. Watch out for those heatrelateed illnesses and all of that. Remember, there are three components that go into a red flag warning and one of those is how dried up conditions are, the humidity, how gusty it is and also is it hot outside. Those are the perfect mix for potential to start or quickly spread a wildfire. So far, as i mentioned, weve seen gusty winds in the Higher Elevations. Sustained winds are continuous, 10 to 20 miles an hour. That period where it blows everything off the table, thats a gusty wind. Humidity levels, lets talk about that. That will be the number one risk, especially heading into this afternoon. Were not in the clear just yet. Well also be in the mountains near napa. Here is the reason why. Take a look at these numbers. Less than 10 when it comes to that humidity. Extremely dry. Napa at 9 right around 3 00. As far as that air quality forecast, were expecting moderate conditions. However, we will be seeing an hour bybyhour look on this. If something changes, a shift in the wind. Daytime highs this will be in the 90s and 80s and 90s for the bay and coast. Not much relief even around the coastline. Hopefully you have a fan. Most people who live along the coast dont even have ac. Youre going to need it today. Ukiah, 99. Well be keeping this heat through tomorrow because of this High Pressure thats drying us out and these offshore winds, extremely dry heading into tomorrow. Now as far as when well see relief, great question. 90s on saturday. At least the winds will back off. Well see a shift from offshore to onshore winds heading into saturday. Look what happens on sunday and monday. We drop down by as much as 10, 15 degrees in our temperatures. A little more seasonable, especially areas like san francisco. Typically see around 60s and 70s, dropping to around 70 degrees on sunday and eventually 60s by the start of next week. We have relief from the heat but we need rain. Thats not something were seeing any time soon throughout the bay area. Well continue to monitor the situation. Keep you updated at nbc. Touching moments of last nights Billboard Music awards. A song that brought tears to many peoples eyes. Happening now, amazon strikes a deal with the nfl to stroo stream a playoff game this season. They already stream 11 thursday night games per season and has been looking to carry more games on its Amazon Prime Video platform. It renewed the thursday night contract earlier this year for three more seasons, for a reported 75 million per year. Just a reminder, you can watch the 49ers play the rams this sunday right here on nbc bay area. Well be back after the break. Taking california for a ride. Companies like uber, lyft, doordash. For years. Wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. To deny drivers the rights they deserve. No sick leave. No workers comp. No unemployment benefits. Vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22. One ride california doesnt want to take. Superstar john legend performs at the Billboard Music wards. Chrissy miscarried two weeks ago and have been very open about the emotional pain. Also honored last night, guitar legend Eddie Van Halen who died last week of cancer. Lets check in one more time with vianey and our red flag warning. Make sure that everybody stays safe out there. Remember, we are under a heat advisory in addition to that red flag warning. Even if you dont think youre in an area where youre seeing gusty winds, keep in mind they are still there, up in the Higher Elevations. 90 for interior valleys. Take care of your neighbors, take care of your pets. Bring them inside. It will be way too hot. Our next newscast is this afternoon at 5 00. Get latest information all day at nbcbayarea. Com. Have a great day. 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. It clo 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.