Flag warning in effect until 11 00 a. M. Friday for the areas highlighted in red, the north bay mountains, east bay mountains, inland valleys and Santa Cruz Mountains all under that red flag warning. Gusts as high as 55 as we head through the next few days. Also, low relative humidity values. Critical fire weather conditions watching this closely for you. Talking about the high temperatures. We are talking about 83 for a high. 87 oakland. 92 in san jose. 95 for concord. 13 to 17 degrees above average for this time of year. It gets hotter as we look to the rest of the week. We will show you future cast and when we will see the peak winds with this off shore wind event coming up lets check in with traffic. Traffic is starting to stack up. They just turned the metering light its on. Its slow from the 880 overpass. It stays sluggish. Give yourself some time to go over. The east shore commute getting busy. We have first arts of an accident right at san p ablo. Vehicle and a pickup truck tangled there. One lane is blocked. That left lane. Traffic slow as you head through there and with the brake lights starting to make a busy commute. In the red zone now for that pass ride. Breaking news. Nbc news will host a town hall with the president tomorrow night. The former Vice President will be taking part in a town hall on abc. Tomorrow night was supposed to be their second debate but it was canceled due to mr. Trumps coronavirus diagnosis. He then refused to make it a virtual debate. A live look at capitol hill where amy coney bare set back in front of senators. Day three of their hearings. They questioned her for over 11 hours on tuesday. She declined to say how she may rule on cases involving abortion rights, Affordable Care act and couldnt commit to recusing herself in cases involving the election. We will keep a close eye on the hearings all morning long. Stay with us. We will have another update at 6 30. Because of high hire danger thousands of pg e customers in seven bay area count yips at risk of losing power. Lets go live to emily turner. A community too familiar with the situation. We have been up here several time just this year. For the folk who live they could all go dark as soon as that. Pockets of these barry counties at risk of losing power. There are several. The only counties not on the watch list are San Francisco and ma riin. Fire danger. Many residents just returned here to their homes after evacuating due to the glass fire. Pg e will be using temporary generators to provide power to nearly 1500 customers though that doesnt include everything who gets should the down. It has a similar grid in other areas. Some say theres a feeling ever here we go again. I just want to live a normal life. I just cant. So much chaos. Its the new normal. And the new normal is the new normal. Hopefully everything will remain calm but it depends on the fire weather. That red flag warning went into effect at five this morningw. Rein it now. I can tell you down here everything seems to be calm though that doesnt mean itll stay that way for the rest of the day. They have set up a base camp where they are staining folks in order to respond to whatever happens. We will of course have more throughout the morning. For now we are live. Kpix5. Thank you. Happening today ten parks in the east Bay Regional Parks district are closed because of that high fire danger. The closures started at 5 00 a. M. About an hour ago the Fire Department will staff several park fire stations along with cal fire. In all goes well parks are set to reopen friday morning at 11. San jose where today city leaders and fire officials will be leading a webinar on wildfire safety in times of climate change. It starts at 6 00 p. M. Happening today more Santa Clara County business wills start to operate with a lot fewer restrictions. They moved in to the orange tier of the tracking map yesterday. Capacity limits will be lifted on malls and retail stores. Outdoor gathers of up to 200 people will be allowed and indoor gatherings and dining may resume at 25 capacity. That is half of what the state allows at the orange level. The county is also banning music restaurants inside restaurants because it may prompt visitors to raise their voices. Alameda isnt planning any major changes. Sonoma is the only county in the most restricted purple tier. Happening today the napa county sheriff plans to release more details about last weeks officer involved shooting that left a man dead. The deputy has been put on leave. He was wearing a body camera at the time of the incident. And new details on a fire in the north bay we first told you about yesterday. Crews now say that the blaze that burned two sainta rosa homes caused 500,000 in damage. Fortunate of all six People Living in both homes made it out safely. No word on what started the fire. Developing this morning a marin County Church is trying to died what to do with a statue that was defaced and knocked down by protestors. That broken statue is hidden in a private space inside mission san rafael. Five people have been arrest. The group sprayed red paint on it before pulling it down on monday. The catholic saint has been accused of exploiting native americans. Update out of san jose. One person has died. Another is still in Critical Condition after an suv hit a crowd of outdoor diners. The 69yearold driver may have suffered some sort of medical emergency before the crash. A family friend said that the driver and his wife are heartbroken. When i talk to her she crews a lot and said hopefully nobody dead. Thats one of the major things we look at thats an element of a lot of crimes. Did you intend to do this . Right now as i understand it, none of them intended to cause these collisions. The District Attorneys Office is now in the process of deciding whether or not to file charges. New details on a deadly marine accident in Southern California. The commander of the Camp Pendleton battalion involved in it has been fired. In a statement they said it was because of a lot of trust and confidence in the commanders ability to do his job. Nine Service Members lost their lives in the july accident. They were traveling on an assault vehicle that took on water and sank. The investigation into the accident is ongoing. Happening today in san jose, registered nurses will hold a public action to demand a change in management at the Womens Services program. They say that since the current director took over the Work Environment has turned hostile. In a statement they explained that there has been a steady rise in punitive and harassing activity on the part of management and a refusal to listen to nurses concerns about the dangerously low staffing. Todays actions starts at 3 30 this afternoon and we reach out to the hospital for comment and have yet to hear back. Private jets becoming the preferred way of traveling for some with extra cash. Up next, the company who seeing a real up tick in sales. A red flag warning now in effect for the areas highlighted in red. Its in effect now until friday, 11 00 a. M. We will talk about the extreme fire danger coming up. And we are getting first reports of an accident in the south bay along 101 i didnt choose this job because it was easy. But i cant say i expected this. 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. 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A Southern California couple is fighting to get their 20,000 deposit back after the pandemic forced them to cancel their wedding. They booked their wedding for halloween this year on the queen mary. They havent been reimbursed though they canceled in july. They had more of our money than we have of our money. We just want to replenish our wedding fund with our money. In order to get the money back they have to go through the ships former operator but they said their accounts are currently frozen. The couple said they will take their fight to the city as a last resort. Quarter after back to school. English learners planning to attend Sf City College have the chance to register in person. The found that esl students were having a hard time enrolling remotely because of a language barrier and lack of digital access. The final day is tomorrow from nine to two. The pandemic has stalled commercial air travel and more people are getting on board with private jets. Companies like sentie nt are seeing a rising demand. The price for safety and peace of mind starts at 5,000 per hour. They have bringing in up to 40 million with flight hours per month whereas the typical month would only behalf of that. I think private jets are usually something that people think about as a lifestyle or production tool. It really turned in to ayew tilt. They said that new clients make up about 50 of sales. Cant say i related to the private jet community but it looks cool. It does. Kyrie late for that desire to travel. 5,000 an hour. Ly probably take commercial. Its a busy ride on that east shore freeway commute. Westbound 80. We have a trouble spot. Chp on scene and crews one lane is blocked. This is westbound 80 right at san pablo. You can see all the red now popping up on the mapping system. On the sensors here. Backing newspaper to if you are headed past that point toward the bay bridge traffic is backed up otherrer as well. From the foot of the maze at this point. We are seeing brake lights for that westbound commute into San Francisco it. Stays slow up the incline and then a few brake lights just off the skyway in to the city. Talking the travel times. Westbound east shore. Highway 4 to the maze. Thats 25 minutes. Slow through there and we are still seeing some pretty steep travel times through the pass. No crashes but westbound 580, 205 to 680. About a50 minute commute. Look at all that red. The bulk of the delays out of tracy and it extended well beyond north flynn. Also a look at photograph nick the south bay. We have a crash northbound 101. The lowest lane is blocked but traffic is doing okay for the most part. Just a slight delays. You can always use 680 or 280. Temperatures heating up today which means a high fire danger. And dangerous fire weather conditions. A big concern as we head through the next few days. Here is a live look. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s. Looking at 62 in concord as well as for San Francisco. 59 livermore and looking at 64 degrees for santa rosa. Checking wind gusts already seeing the return of off shore winds and watching those winds starting to pick up. Especially up in the Higher Elevations, wind gusts so far. Mount diablo, 41 miles an hour. Nevado, 26 and the Oakland Hills gusts up to 22 miles an hour so far this morning. We will continue to watch those winds ramp up as we head through the next few days. With those northeasterly winds we have that extreme fire danger which is why that red flag warning is in now in effect for the north bay and east bay mountains as well as for inland valleys and for the Santa Cruz Mountains now until 11 00 a. M. On friday. The reason why this wrong ridge of High Pressure bringing the heat. This low pressure system is so close to us. We have a tight Pressure Gradient and the packed isobars and we are going to see gusty conditions with this off shore wind event. I think the peak of our winds and the strongest winds will be tonight into tomorrow morning. Really watching the Higher Elevations as we go through tonight into tomorrow morning. Again, peak of this off shore wind event. We will see relative humidity values plummet through the next few days. That will be the reason we are talking about critical fire conditions. 92 in santa clara. For campbell, 94 for morgan hill. For the east bay. Looking at 95 for concord and for pleasant hill. Looking at 98 in brentwood. The tri valley in the mid90s and as we look to right around 87 in oakland and for the north bay low to mid90s this afternoon. 94 santa rosa and 96 sonoma and napa. Here is the extended forecast as we are looking at temperatures heating up more for thursday and friday. The hottest days of the week, still warm to had the on saturday. We start to cool it down sunday into next week with the return of that ocean breeze. Thank you. Happening today since San Francisco county has remained in the orange tier city playgrounds are set to reopen today. Here are the official rules. Playground visits will be limited to 30 minutes when other people are present. Social distancing is required and everybody overage 2 must wear a mask. Firefighting of the future. Meet the robot givenning california crews a run for their money. Next on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. And taking a like look outside from our camera on top the Sales Force Tower looking west at the city of San Francisco. Its 6 21. Oscar the grouch here to tell you, yeah, you, to wear a mask out in public around other people. Sure itll keep you healthy. But more importantly, i wont have to see your happy smiling face. Ugh. And if you dont want to wear a mask, ive just got one thing to tell you. Scram, go away. Ugh. Caring for each other because we are all in this together. So wear a mask and have a rotten day, will ya . Ugh. Woman 1 get your woman 2 you can stay healthy and fill it out from the safety of home. Surfer or you can fill it out anywhere. Man 1 its easy to mail it back. You dont even need a stamp. Man 2 or you can use an official drop box. Woman 3 you can even drop it off at the polls. Man 3 then, track it to confirm your county got it. See . They got it woman 4 mail ballots are the simple, safe, and secure way to ensure that your vote is counted. The countrys first firefighting robot was put to the test a little earlier than expected. It happened when a fire broke out hours before the big reveal in los angeles. It was scheduled to make its public debut at a News Conference but got to work a few hours early to assist crews battling a fire. Its capable of spraying 2500 gallons a minute with a stream that can reach as high as 150 feet. The large fires sometimes cause us to back out our forts because we are concerned about the potential for a building collapse. The lafd Fire Foundation said donations cover the robots price tag. Itll be housed at a fire station in downtown la. That is really cool. We need more of those around. If you are worried about ballot security we are taking the inside look at how one Election Officials making sure every vote counts. Thats up next. Him emily turnerw. Reabout an hour and a half into red flag warning weather. We are not feeling it yet but people will. Right now on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area the bay area getting ready for possible blackoutsw. Relieve with the fire Weather Companies fueling concerns. Another lengthy questioning session underway for the Supreme Court nominee. We are live on capitol hill with the questions asked, answered and avoided. And the president passing on a virtual debate but taking on a town hall. What we are just learning about tomorrows events for both candidates. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Its wednesday, october 14th. A lot to get to this morning. Lets start with gianna and what you need to know before you hit the road. Its along the east shore freeway as you work toward san pablo road. It is been cleared out of lanes but traffic is still slow as you work through there. Give yourself a few extra minutes. With things over to the right it should be improving. As you take the bay toll plaza traffic is backed up over that 880 overpass. Checkingyour travel timesw. Rein the red which means very slow conditions. On thest sheer freeway, highway 4 to the maze and westbound 580. Temperatures heating up today which means a high fire danger. Here is mary. And im tracking the heat and our extreme fire danger. This is a big concern for us as we third base you will the next few days. That red flag warning new into effect through 11 00 a. M. Friday. The north bay and east bay mountain, inland valleys and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Already tracking wind gusts up in the Higher Elevations. Up to 30 to 40 miles an hour and this is just the start. We will continue to watch the winds ramble up in to the next few days. Low relative humidity values. Critical weather and check out the high temperatures. Many of us in to the 80s and 90s and gets hotter for tomorrow as well as for friday. Now lets go live to emily turner with more on the potential power shut offs. Downtown could look a lot different in fewe