This is an interactive map on pg es website website showing exactly where those shut offs are happening. You can Lake Berryessa there to the right to to the east and all of these areas along highway one o one in the of napa and sonoma counties this is where thousands and thousands of customers have lost their power in Sonoma County more than 17,000 customers have been affected in napa county its more than 5,000 customers without power. The utility says power for some customers may not be restored until tomorrow night. 9 oclock wednesday night most of these bay area customers have seen it all before and while its no less they are no less frustrated. They are a bit more prepared this time kron fours dan kerman live for us tonight in santa rosa with the latest from there. Dan. Well good morning or good evening. I should say ken and pam, especifically many people now have generators that they did not have before theyve done most of their shopping they have their flashlights theyve been through this. All before you can see here is just a typical intersection in the eastern part of santa rosa. Lights are out cars having to stop instead, its just one of the many frustrations that these people have been through before and are expecting to go through again. We woke up this morning to almost stereophonics generators around our neighborhood generators like this one are powering homes and businesses inside and outside Santa Rosa City limits. Now that pacific gas and electric has shut off power due to fears weather conditions could knock down a line and start a fire very frustrating because they turned off the power. Because of safety issues but there is almost no wind here at all. That type of frustration with pacific gas and electric is common here we have to have our power off to get generators, do whatever. A throwaway need you know that may be in the freezer. And he to me i think still has not taking care of. Those who live in this area are finding streetlights out atm is not functioning and coffee shops closed and for some its a future they dont plan to be a part of because now theyre planning to move. And trying to establish a place i can raise a family and if i dont know if my house is going to catch on fire. Theres going to be a power outage like in my specific home area with that you know i doubt that doesnt make sense. Is it gas and electric says this is not like before they say they have now employ technology which they did not have in previous years, this allows them to narrow down in target areas that colleges need to take place this they say resulted fewer people being out they also say it will also speed up the restoration process we shall see about that because power could be restored as early as tomorrow night live in santa rosa Dan Kerman Kron 4 news. All right dan thank you for that report will this time to check on the weather, the red flag warning is still in effect tonight, our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here with the very latest, its windy its smoky and its hot yeah, you know some folks i can understand why they are a little bit upset, theyre looking at some of the winds and some of the neighborhoods really not that much you look at places like up in petaluma right now some 5 mile an hour winds. You have 5 mile an hour winds and paul weve got 11 mile an hour winds of little certainly youre thinking why are they shut off the power, but its those power lines they go over the tops of the mountains. Were expecting some of the strongest winds and thats what weve been seeing some of these gusty winds. Shes winds over 20 the number of 30 Miles Per Hour across some of the mountain peaks there and certainly thats a concern as we could see stronger gust may be over 40 Miles Per Hour even higher than that overnight tonight and its tomorrow morning thats the red flag warnings now looks like tonight maybe not quite as windy in spots, but still continuing above a 1000 feet into the Santa Cruz Mountains youve got the red flag warning also the east bay, the oakland hills, the diablo range could see some gusts still tonight of 3045 Miles Per Hour very windy day across much of slama county. Those Winds Continuing there that will likely do so 25 to 40 mile an hour winds and the north bay expecting some strong gusty winds there may be a 35 to 45 Miles Per Hour across some of the peaks like selena you could see gusts in excess of 50 miles an hour. Thank you laura as well as weve been saying the poor air quality is continuing to plague the bay area again today look at this this is what it looked like in downtown San Francisco early this morning you can barely see any of the building well as see how its right now this is the view from suture tower right now slightly better but not much to mean it is really bad out there you can see maybe you can make out the bank of america building there to the left the dark building on the high rise, you cant even really see the sales force tower. The tallest building in the city shrouded in smoke. The previous record for spare the air alerts was 14 days here in the bay area that happened during the camp fire just 2 years ago 2018 and now air district officials tell kron 4 says it met you in the weather conditions from this years wildfires are setting a new record for unhealthy air quality. 23 consecutive spare the air alerts to record breaking street that continues here in the bay area consecutive days is is very. Alarming to us to have that many days in a row worse not impacting us. Charlie can owner and manages the Meteorology Department at the bay area air Quality Management district. He talked about the mix of record breaking temperatures over the Labor Day Weekend combining with lingering smoke from wildfires triggering the extended alert. As a result we have to call a spare the air alert for smog which is which is really a mixture usually its couples to come off of the tailpipe exhaust and that combined with he generates what we call ozone and we for research that of smaug the other thing we have going for us this past weekend is the massive amount of smoke thats been in the atmosphere in the past several weeks and those emissions from wildfires to impact smog. So we also have to consider that Bay Area HealthOfficials Say during spare the air alert. It is important for residents to protect their health by avoiding exposure if possible stay inside with windows and doors closed until smoke levels subside this is the way we talk to one another these extended spare the air alerts are happening during the covid19 pandemic that is why ucsf Family Medicine doctor Katherine Forrest says if you just have to go outside in these conditions, the best protection would be. This type of mask. This n 95 masks will protect the person wearing it from incoming snow but themselves still lets your breath out with covid19 virus you can still infect someone else if youre talking breathing sneezing, so you need to wear your cost mask over that officials with the bay area air Quality Management district say the spare the air alert is now extended to wednesday september 1920 20 has it made you kron 4 news. Our coverage of the heat the wildfires in the subsequent Power Outages continues right kron 4 dot com there you can find the latest on the Power Outages, the latest weather warnings and the locations for cooling centers around the bay area its all there at kron 4 dot com. Well as weve been telling you california is having a record wildfire season with more than 2 million acres burned already our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains how state leaders are bracing for the months ahead. With still months left in whats considered californias traditional fire season in the fire fight is far from over so far this year 2. 3 million acres burned for more than 7500 fires compared to 118,000 acres burned by this time last year its rather the challenge that we faced again so far this season, the governor said there are 900 active wildfires, 25 of the major including the second 3rd and 4th largest wildfires in the states modern history, 8 people have died now more than 42,000 people have been forced from their homes while this record fire season. Rages on in september in the last few years some of the states most destructive fires happened in october and november and i say this. Lovingly not as an ideologue but as someone prides himself on being open to argument interested in evidence but i quite literally have no patients for Climate Change deniers with wildfires record heat and the pandemic the governor was asked what the state is prioritizing addressing the immediate needs relates to those who have been evacuated those that are potentially impacted by these wildfires. The governor says with wild fires also burning in other parts of the west coast. He still confident resources will remain available at the state and federal level in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Another big story were following tonight 5 california counties are now listed in the second reopening tier 3 bay area counties are now the. Socalled substantial risk level thats indicated there in red San Francisco napa were already in tier 2 Santa Clara County was just added to the reds here along with Santa Cruz County under the red tier more business sectors can reopen. Santa clara county will now allow personal Care Services to reopen indoors that includes nail salons gyms capacity, shopping malls as well, but at 50 and if the county stays in the red here for 14 days k through 12 schools can also reopen. Meanwhile in the north bay, a setback from marin county. The county had announced his plan to move from tier one to tier 2 but last night the state delayed that move keeping Warren County the most restrictive status. Today state officials explained why. When we did the official romney yesterday with the marine county data as we did with all 58 counties. The anticipated move to read is really being held back in and they met threshold for her both the last thing we want to do is see a county move. One week. And only to see the potential for backward movement again very soon. Moran is in the purple category that is the most restrictive the state said it made the decision after re analyzing data. But the state says its considering data as it comes in, and well adjust marin county status if necessary. Meantime students and for team irvin county schools return for in classroom learning today, the class sizes were more limited and some students had class outdoors originally the countys Health Department approved a waiver for 15 schools but last week, one teachers covid19 tested Bayside Martin luther king Junior Academy came back inconclusive and even though the Health Department says that school could have reopened the principal made the decision to push the reopening for in Person Learning to next week. So incredibly disappointed. Teachers are and staff are clearly feeling just really kind of disjointed and uncertain. The 40 marin county schools which did reopen for in classroom, learning today are some of the first in the bay area to do so. The San Francisco district supervisors urging the citys District Attorney to investigate their burning man gathering that took place this weekend on ocean beach. Catherine stefani wants chase a building to enforce all potential civil liabilities and criminal penalties against the promoters of the large gathering more than a 1000 people gathered there on saturday and a statement stephanie says it is manifestly unfair to require that our Small Businesses shoulder, the burden of this pandemic when the actions of a few careless individuals are exacerbating it. Coming up our news continues with a fastmoving creek fire burning near fresno we will have a live report from the front lines coming up. A Coronavirus Vaccine is in the works what new pledge manufacturers made today that could affect when were going to see a tenant overnight flareup prompts the massive creek fire in Fresno County in the foothills of the sierra has burned more than a 145,000 acres. More than 5,000 structures continue to be threatened blackened trees in white ash cover both sides of highway one 68. Just a few miles from the very popular resort area of shaver lake that is where we find order mud arrows bad. She is at the command center matt barrows we know theres a little delay in our exchange here. But youve been in the area all day give us a sense of what the scene is like. All around a 1000 firefighters and 7 helicopters really trying to get a handle on this blazing inferno that has really gotten out of control in the past couple of days, its doubled every single day up until now and as of this morning, it was around a 145,000 acres i took a drive out near shaver lake in its really just sad to see all of the trees that have been burned theyre totally black and ash there several stores that have been destroyed and for locals say its really quite heartbreaking. They will talk about the helicopter rescues because governor nasa news to mention that today, he said that the those pilots flew into some very dangerous condition. Conditions and that nobody would have blamed them had they not gone in because theyre putting their lives on the line to try to rescue people who are trapped back there what can you tell us about that. Well it really was quite the operation they did it all last night and into this morning today, the Fresno Sheriffs Office is sending some photos of the risk of a rescue there were around a 100 and a 40 hikers and campers that were stuck in several areas, including Florence Lake at us in lake mano hot springs as well as a 10 officers that were also stacked they were able to transport them they did giant transport stay went in there and tried to get them out it took them quite the time they did it several times over the night and then a couple into the morning but as of 10 00am today they were able to get all of them to the Fresno International airport safe with no injuries. The daryls of describe the weather conditions tonight the winds of course are a big they are up here as well the winds as well as the heat. Yes and yesterday they said that there were wind speeds up to around 30 miles an hour that were coming through it really took out a couple of the buildings in the area shaver lake crest mens was one of the locals favorites in to see that was quite sad. They said theres a number of obstacles with this fire including the terrain and just the amount of dead in dry trees due to the drought as well as the beetle kill thats been happening in this area and so what they say is when the wind does. And then its really hard for firefighters to get a control on and thats exactly what it says 0 containment and theyre going to be working around the clock theyre very tired, but theyre really trying to do as much as they can for the locals because this is such a treasured area arrows babur reporting for us live at shaver youre right. It is beautiful country up there a lot of vacation homes. A beautiful place to be the right now a terrible place and we for. Lets check in now with our chief meteorologist lawrence about those weather conditions out there lawrence well weve got one thing going our way is finally the heat wave is snapped and ironically we cooled somewhat not just because low clouds and fog with some of the small from some of the fires in far Northern California following the circulation right here that normally when coming down and that smoke actually a block out the sunlight that help to cool down the temperatures now the winds. Their big concern overnight tonight and i think that would be the case at least through noon tomorrow well show you why you see here on the latest forecast been blustery in spots, especially through Solano County over the tops of some of the north bay mountains weve been seeing some gusty winds over 30 Miles Per Hour. Now another round of some strong gusty winds expected to come through somewhere right around midnight you can see some of the areas in purple here look up to our scale. Those winds gusting over 40 Miles Per Hour certainly thats a concern that will continue overnight tonight and then as we head through the day tomorrow looks like those winds will begin to subside after about 6 oclock in the morning and by noon were done with it so that is the good news. The downside very dry out there right now in fact humidity youre talking about 5 right now and you out the 5 in fairfield 20 30 in napa sonoma get the idea over the mountain tops even drier than that looks like though by tomorrow evening, more of a sea breeze finally kicking in love the humidity begin to pop up around a good part of the bay area thats good news for us and good news to bring in and hopefully to some of the fires. Thank you lawrence despite a growing containment on these wildfires flare ups are still happening. This is timelapse video from last night of the walbridge fire part of the lnu complex of fires. This flareup did prompted an Evacuation Order last night just outside of healdsburg as of this morning that order has been lifted for most of the area except some property south of mill creek road north of sweet water springs road west of wet side road and east of palmer creek road. This is all north of the Russian River and heres a live camera from out jackson pointed west at that fire and just like you can see in San Francisco. Its covered in smoke and you can make out to some of the ridge lines there but past that it all disappears into the haze yeah well more from the north bay now the inverness and silver hills communities are still under evacuation warnings due to the woodward fire in marine county, but. Residents there are hoping those warnings will soon be lifted the woodward fire has been burning in west marin county for 3 weeks in the Point Reyes National seashore its about 95 contained. Forcefully to go reports from Inverness Park where people are trying to get back to normal the Inverness Park. Attempting to get back on track. Daring to evacuate. Well the woodward fire has burned along the point raze National Seashore people had to be evacuated thats pretty scary for people i think the flames isolated to Rural Regions along the coast, but the smoke has engulfed the area for weeks keeping our go bad. And with camping we have to be a bit cooler nearly 5,000 acres of land have burned lots of timber. And thompson has paid close attention. He owns the Inverness Park market. Thompson believes the worst is behind him, i think hes sort of being transferred to the rest of the state, you know that also getting really huge fires because this this was not really threatening. Property at this time theyve got a good team in a remote area. The afternoon was smoking a deal with them for several weeks maybe even a. Im really fortunate at this point firefighters are focusing on mopping up and suppressing spot fires in inverness phillipe djegal all kron 4 other news tonight, President Trump campaigned in 2 battleground states today looking for votes and the latest on covid19 and the search for a vaccine 9 Drug Companies have signed a letter pledging to completely finished testing on any vaccine before seeking federal approval to put the vaccine on the market. This comes as President Trump continues to bring up the possibility of having a vaccine before election day. The president s comments have had some doctors concerned that the white house could put pressure on the fda to approve a vaccine before it is fully tested in order to verify that it is safe and effective. The companies that signed the pledge include Astrazeneca Moderna pfizer Johnson Johnson and biontech. The ceo of biotech cut by on tech rather is confident its vaccine could be ready for approval as early as the middle of october in fact in an interview this morning, the ceo called his companys vaccine. Near perfect. Does an excellent qualified and i consider this vaccine as a as a as a vaccine that just meopathic reaches a new path full time. We have done done they can collect specimens the showing that this vaccine is able to put tech and the most common from infection in the knee cap challenge experiments and they have cost much motte testing done we have poppy sometimes and this poll asked a lot of confidence. Im combinations understanding of the Market Action in combination of the safety data coming in from the running high. Yes, we believe that we have a safe port act and the belief that it would be able to show if you can see. There are dozens of covid19 vaccines in trials around the world and in the past hour were learning latestage studies of astrazenecas covid19 vaccine are on temporary hold while the company investigates reports of whether or not patients serious side effect is links to the vaccine in a Statement Issued tonight, the company said its standard review process triggered a pause to vaccination to allow review of safety data. Coming up next and gyms are finally able to reopen outdoors in San Francisco. But now those businesses face a new challenge will explain. Im Trevor Shirley in washington after a busy travel weekend. The tsa continues to roll out new Screening Technology ive got that story coming up. Flood here in the Santa Cruz Mountains where a firefighting helicopter is helping to repair a p fire damaged Water Pipeline in