Outside of San Francisco right now from seizure tower. No fog or cloud cover whatsoever and we have plenty of sunshine just around the corner today will be yet another relatively calm one before winds pick up tonight. You see into the evening tonight right along the coastline that some of our winds become very breezy spreading to the north bay and eventually into the east bay come tomorrow and thursday are 2 windiest days of this forecast and the stew over days that are going to offer up some of our highest a fire danger after that friday does begin to come down at a much calmer and cooler weekend just around the corner. Right now were in the 50s and 60s a cool start to this day with a low 60s and pittsburgh hayward and San Francisco upper 50s right now in oakland, san mateo and livermore later on today it will be 80s and 90s for inland areas with 70s and warm 70s at that right along the coastline. Rob. All right. Thank you john, lets update your morning commute now for the early birds that are about to roll into San Francisco looking good right now at the bay bridge toll plaza, no hot spots, no crashes so all is well coming in it will be an easy trip of 8 minutes off to fremont street were checking in on some drive times and east bay freeways check out the east shore 15 minutes from crockett to oakland, 24 is wide open if you take 5. 80 its under 15 minutes from to 38 lead in Castro Valley to downtown oakland and the nimitz trouble free 10 minutes here 8. 80 north and to 38 to 9. 80 will check more drive times and freeways coming up in just a bit back to you thanks a lot rob and the big story right now people are bracing for power shut off this week pg and e is releasing more details about which areas could be impacting at kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in Sonoma County now with the latest on the story sarah. Yeah thats right pg and e says that the power could be shut off as soon as tomorrow afternoon and its going to be affecting a lot of the bay area over 22,000 pg e customers could be without power as soon as tomorrow afternoon take a look at your screen erode out which counties are going to be impacted if this power shut off does go in place and its a lot of the bay area a little less than 2000 customers just crime that here in Sonoma County this again is due to the hot and dry conditions paired with the expected. High wind gusts which causes major wildfire danger. Take a look at what bexar countys worst were talking about here alameda contra costa santa clara, san mateo napa sonoma and solano counties you can see the total number of customers affected in each county on your screen. The highest probability areas are the north bay mountains near mount saint small pockets near the east bay area near mount diablo the Oakland Hills east of piedmont portions of the Santa Cruz Mountains this is how you can prepare make sure to have gallons of water available with nonperishable food flashlights extra batteries, those portable phone chargers that are really helpful if you have a generator practice using it before the Power Outages to make sure using it correctly thats key and of course, a first aid kit a go bag Emergency Preparedness kit. I talked with pg e yesterday about these outages and how they work and who gets specifically affected take a listen. So right now we are multiple areas that have the potential for impact, although please no we would not be impacting entire regions it would just be pockets of areas. And thats important to note this when you hear Solano County near napa or Sonoma County think the whole entire county will be without power and its just pockets in areas and you should have already been notified about this potential power shut off which could occur again as soon as tomorrow afternoon, im sure youll get another alert this afternoon as they continue to monitor weather conditions and our meteorologist john troubles also looking at this to make sure were aware of this wildfire danger for now im reporting live in Sonoma CountySarah Stinson kron 4 news all right very good. Thank you sarah. The glass fire is now close to full containment. The fire is currently 96 contained, its burned more than 67,000 acres. In napa and Sonoma County is destroyed about 800 homes and other structures. In a south bay, a man suffered serious injuries in an explosion in gilroy that happened yesterday afternoon in the 1700 block of montas ellie drive on telly drive right on telly between ran to hills drive and leonard way is closed off. As officials are investigating what happened and it could be closed for several days. They say. Well after months of preparations in Person Learning will resume today for some students in Alameda County, the Child Unique Montessori School is among 20 private schools have been given the green light from Alameda County to reopen at montessori classes will be limited to 11 students only temperatures of students and staff will be checked 4 times a day and dividers will help keep kids from gathering in a single location. In addition to the state and federal protocols staff reached out to leaders in taiwan for advice. Because taiwan her record that was not elevating the way that it has been elevating in the United States and so i wanted to know what they did so we started back in march. Interviewing them asking people for feedback and then starting to generate a planned so literally no child touches something twice with that being disinfected and south as opposed to disinfecting at the end of the day which we do anyway where disinfecting every minute. County education leaders say theyre expecting to see some reopening plans from some smaller Public School districts in the coming weeks. A Covid Vaccine trials are on hold at johnson and johnson because a volunteer in their study got sick. Johnson and johnson didnt say what the with the first person was suffering. But that has following guidelines what they do is they review the illness investigate and see if its connected to the vaccine or not. The illness. Put this on hold and its not the first time this has happened in a vaccine trial number astrazeneca they had to stop their vaccine trial twice in september maxine participants becoming ill were tracking the coronavirus numbers across the the state and the bay area and as you can see were getting close to 860,000 people testing positive in our state with a 106,000 plus bay area residents having covid and more than 1600 people dying in the bay area. Governor newsome gave an update on californias covid19 status krons noelle bellow has more now on why state Officials SayContact Tracing is so important. A lot of work has been put in this place not as much attention perhaps is deserved governor Gavin Newsome used mondays press conference to tout the nearly 11,000 person Contact Tracing army. The state has built over the last 7 months all dedicated to making sure one positive test doesnt turn into 10 or 20 i talked to you many weeks ago about the need to get our case rate down. In our infrastructure of Contact Tracing and disease investigation up weve done that with these 10,000 plus train staff doctor mark galli says as the state continues to see thousands of positive test result today, its critical to figure out who else may be at risk. Right now 90 of covid19 tests are coming back within a 24 to 48 hour period, meaning local Health Departments are able to act more quickly. 97 of them are reporting theyre now able to reach out to potentially exposed contacts on the same day that a positive result was received newsman galley say testing will remain critical and what follows a positive test is just as important. We want to make sure that the testing leads to something in order to box this virus in order mitigate the spread of this virus quarantine and isolation become essential there is still an average of 69 deaths a day due to covid19 in california. So officials are urging the public to continue mask wearing and social distancing as we head into the holidays, the state has released some updated gathering guidelines. And on tuesday halloween guidelines will be announced as well in the newsroom noelle bellow kron 4 news. A pair of bay area cities are among those topping the list for business closures during the pandemic according to a study from yelp San Francisco claim second place with nearly 22 closures for every 1000 businesses, san jose ranked 5th with 20 closures per 1000 businesses. Yelp says restaurants have been hit hardest followed closely by shopping and Retail Stores as well. Happening today is day 2 of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee judge Amy Coney Barrett this morning. Judge barrett will take questions from members of the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Democrats are expected to ask her about her position on health care. What she thinks of same marriage and abortion. Well have more on what you can expect in todays hearings coming up in a live report about 20 minutes at 5. 30. Well take a quick break here 5. 10 coming up on the kron 4 morning news, an Armed Robbery caught on camera when somebody confronted 2 men that were trying to steal a catalytic converter off of catalytic converter off of their car. Were going to show yoga studio under fire for violating Health Guidelines during the pandemic plus after the break alcohol and Substance Abuse is on the rise during this pandemic and now one reformed addict is using his experiences to help others. And today will be another warm one daytime highs back into the 90s for a few areas like San Jose Mountain view in napa ive got more on your forecast ahead. Im tracking your morning commute around the bay area and were off to a very quiet start doing just fine here on 92 a live look at the 70 oh bridge where 12 minutes and growing to make it to the peninsula on the complete traffi and we are back time now 5. 13 in our local first story oakland mayor libby schaff unveiled new ark and planter boxes as part of the latest oakland show a slow streets project. This is the latest installation by Community Artist jonathan up from felt. Well youll see it along clinton street in oakland. That street is closed to traffic right now to create space for people to walk and play safely while maintaining physical distance. This one of Silver Linings of covid red covid has made a slow down covid has made us try some things that we wont try under normal time. And this is the can slow Streets Program started back in april some Community Members are wanting it to continue even after the shelterinplace orders are lifted because theyre enjoying it so much. All right, lets take a look at the weather today. I think were waiting for the heat to come on, i dont know if thats going to happen today another couple that i yeah, you know today will be a warm one, but i would say the heat not really kicked up to full gear just yet today were going to be saving that for tomorrow thursday and friday are 3 hottest days and also or 3 days with the highest a fire danger too today actually going to be a lot like yesterday with Crystal Clear skies and yet again conditions on the calmer side before a pickup in wind speeds later on this forecast. Good air quality remains for the vast majority of the bay a pocket of moderate air quality right around san jose to kick things off this morning. So the big picture set up showing us this highpressure ridge sitting in place pushing in cooler air chance of rainfall out of the region and resulting in yet again another offshore flow. These increased winds into this evening tonight and then lasting through tomorrow and into thursday will be the problematic thing when you factor in low humidity. The high temperatures and then of course the strong winds out of the north and northeast. High fire danger does exist, especially for the north bay in the east bay hills resulting in the potential of Power Outages. This is thursday at 04 15am right here. Sonoma, glen allen calistoga among area seeing winds gusting well in excess of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour regularly peak, wind gusts at times as high as 50 Miles Per Hour as for today, not the wind is just yet but we are starting to see warmer conditions. 70s and 80s for coastal and a bayside cities with millbrae 80 degrees burlingame at 83, seeing a few 90s popping up on the south into the peninsula, Mountain View right at 90 degrees while san jose today at 92 east bay daytime highs in the 80s to 90s a little bit warmer than yesterday for a few spots oakland and san leandro in the mid 80s today while near 90 degrees in danville walnut creek and concord san ramon in pittsburgh right at 90 today. Napa right there with you at 90 degrees. Well santa rosa through center fell in the upper 80s tomorrow temperatures will be just a touch warmer with noticeably warmer conditions even the into thursday and friday with 90s even right alongside the bay or windiest of days will be wednesday into thursday and thats our highest fire danger on those same days. Good news for the weekend temperatures begin to cool down and guess what winds coming down to so much better to be getting outside. Robin. Thank you john were off to the richmond sandra fell. Checking out the traffic thats heading to the north bay right now on westbound 5. 18 its looking good. No problems no crashes an easy 7 minutes here from the tolls off highway one o one 92 is our busiest bridge folks are packing up rolling out heading to the peninsula. But no problems just yet were 12 minutes to make it off to one oh one here at the bay bridge not much of a backup and its getting busy but we dont have any problems 8 minutes off to fremont street and the traffic tracker just shows more good news, especially for taking south 6. 80. This morning through the east bay, the don barden bridge, a nice transition to the peninsula livermore to dublin 5. 80 west is wide open and no problems on one oh one north from the peninsula heading to San Francisco will check more freeways coming up in a bit back to us. Thanks a lot rob and 5. 17 and palo alto a massage therapist is charged with assault. 27 yearold alberto, mel gar works at the spine and therapy center. And a woman in her 40s accuses him of sexually assaulting her. Police have not said if she any physical injuries mild ares being held at the Santa Clara County main jail. In the east bay a catalytic converter thief up the in an Armed RobberyAlameda Police releasing video of what happened friday night near the intersection of and subtle avenue and court street. 2 men were trying to steal a catalytic converter when the cars owner walked up one of the thieves pulled out a gun. And the owner says that they did make off with the converter and they didnt end up shooting at him. Well the numbers of drug related deaths since the pandemic took hold continues to rise one former addict is helping others and their struggles during this difficult time lonnie wong has the story. This month means a lot to me job and has been sober for 14 years recovering from Substance Abuse that started with alcohol and graduated to prescription drugs oxi got and. Perkins said darpa set and i was one of these what they call highfunctioning alcoholics and addicts i never even knew i had a problem. Health experts are alarmed at the nearly 27 increase in offside alcohol sales since the spring, the number of suicides are also up of the same time last year add to that that 40 states are now reporting that there have been an increase in opioid related the same time last year. Adam is echoing with other Health Experts are saying. Between worry. Anxiety boredom, confusion be stuck in there who doesnt want a little relief the fear is that the problem will continue even after the pandemic subsides when the pandemic over its not like everyone gets their job back the signs of addiction are visible even on zoom calls weight loss. Puffiness in the face redness of the skin. Changes irritability exhaustion or. Euphoria. Too much. Experts say Substance Abuse or sometimes turn their zoom cameras off to hide facts. Adam couldnt kick his habit by himself often to take Substance Abuse counselors along with intervention from friends and loved ones without being confrontational person that youre worried about should be told how much you miss that. How much you care for them. How would anyone drinking and drugging or doing this behavior how much you enjoy their company. Far easier said than done, but is proof that it can be done i learned how to. How to. Live a beautiful beautiful life. One day at the time. Well i was lonnie wong reporting jablon is now a life coach, a speaker and an awardwinning author who wrote about his struggles with Substance Abuse. Its 5. 20 and coming up on the kron