News station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. At 9 it is mid october and the bay area has seen another day of record high temperatures good evening. Everybody, im pam moore and im grant lotus in for ken wayne tonight, lets get straight to it. Several cities across the bay broke or tied daily record high temperatures today. A red flag warning was slated to expire this morning but has been extended for some locations until tomorrow morning of course were also tracking power shut offs and outages across the bay area pg and e says it aims to have the power back on for all customers affected by the Public Safety power shutoff by 10 oclock tonight. Kron fours Ella Sogomonian is live in our newsroom right now with the latest efforts on that l a. Thats right nearly 50,000 customers earlier this week were warned that they could have their electricity cut off by the Utility Company and today we learned that was true for about 41,000 customers thats because some neighborhoods were spared due to the fire danger weather having cleared up and theres areas so lets take a closer look at the parts of did have their power restored already these are the p g d maps of the outages there up on our website kron 4 dot com. Pink triangles no longer present here. Those are the areas that have the power shutoffs and you can see theyre just about 3 one in napa county one in San Mateo County and another further south. So you can just enter your address here to make sure if your home has had its power back on the process has been trailing behind mostly in the north bay up in the napa valley area because of the weather there and for some of the shut offs actually lasted about 48 hours tonight, everyone impacted by the psps event in alameda contra costa santa cruz counties have their electricity up and running again thats up to a 100 . There a couple of counties that are near up in the upper 90 percentage points. But as mentioned at the county at 50 and San Mateo County 83 at last check. 1000 p police have actually been on the ground inspecting 3400 lines for any damages. Again the goal here is to have the lights back on in the next hour live in the newsroom. Ella sogomonian kron 4 news. Thank u l a. All right the power restoration wasnt a smooth process for everyone today kron fours gayle ong is live in downtown calistoga tonight where pg e crews ran into a pickup you could say that affected thousands of people. Gayle what happened. A grand downtown calistoga is back open for business tonight. They did have their power out without warning and that was not related to the psps. Well the je ne crews work to restore power friday afternoon downtown calistoga experienced a power interruption for about 2 hours the areas covered by the citys microgrid generators that send power right into downtown and east of the napa river but even that wasnt enough in a statement a pg spokesperson says quote the microgrid pge created in calistoga has been working at its Maximum Capacity to keep the power on for 1500 homes and businesses for the past 2 nights successfully during the psp as we know the line re closer opened up or disrupted the power flow doing what it was supposed to do because it detected a fault pg says crews are fanned out across the area investigating what the fault was and the great in the area has been strained from damage infrastructure from the glass fire and the hot weather created demand on the lines. It is shocking to see how close the fire came to the town. Meanwhile betsy in jul barred still one on their wine country getaway visiting from cambridge massachusetts, but they did tell us maybe when we checked in. That that there might be a power outage but never noticed, but they did notice a smaller crowd this or just sent from merchants, its just. Choir and the stores. Restaurants obviously are doing as well as easier. A pg e says essentially all customers who can receive electric service are now restored. So that means customers impacted here in napa county should be seen and i am seeing a lot of pg e crews as if down here on lincoln avenue in downtown calistoga as well as many out of towners grant and pam people from the lake county over by tahoe, so theyre quite you said these psps reporting live in calistoga gayle ong kron 4 news all right gail thank you well, a frightening afternoon for People Living in South San Francisco, a fire that burned along the citys famous sign hill force residents to leave their homes today and then just a short time later another fire broke out at an Industrial Park sending huge plumes of smoke into the air. Kron fours and or live in South San Francisco tonight and he joins us with more on what was a very busy day for fire crews, an unnerving day for the people who live there dance. Thats right grant up and this was just a wild day for fire crews here in south city 2 big fires breaking out within hours of each other thankfully, no injuries to report tonight, but now the investigation is an end is underway into what caused them. South San Franciscos iconic sign hill on fire flames breaking out and tearing through the historic industrial lettering while damaging some homes along Mountain Road you could have been worse because the fire was big and they look like the whole neighborhood with gun and claims lindy seasons house was slightly scorched, but was saved by firefighters and his count thankfully made it out alive, im so glad that she fire crews on the ground and from the air worked quickly to put out the flames. The diamond fire burning 10 acres before it was under control in fear of any embers floating around john cord arrow. So the exterior of his house with water. This is pretty scary pretty close the workforce out city firefighters wasnt over friday afternoon as thick black smoke was seen billowing from a nearby bakery several departments rushed to the building on starlite street as fire could be seen shooting out from the roof. The flames were kept at bay. Have great job and that number has been heard today. People living near sign hill have been able to go back to their homes tonight, the sign itself seems to be okay and weve been told by the South San Francisco city manager that these 2 fires were a coincidence and they are unrelated reporting live in South San Francisco, dan thorn kron 4 news. Thank you dan well, it was a very hot day across the bay today looking out over the San Francisco bay area tonight is a clear chris knight and out a bit of fog in this live shot as we go to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow for. What we can expect for the weekend hopefully we get a little relief here for fire danger were going to see yeah were going to see ease up a little bit with the fires is up with the temperatures but today just another amazing day record temperatures san jose 95 degrees 95 a record in oakland, San Francisco 92 degrees 92 in Half Moon Bay right out of the coastal edge, their map of china recorded 97 and that record 95 enrichment but all around the bay area simply amazing and these 2 numbers are really fascinated me. It was as hot in Half Moon Bay today as it was in livermore war you never really see that very often in fact during much of summertime means much as 50 degrees cooler along the coastline. But what a day it was today hot temperatures everywhere you go red flag warnings are still up have been extended until 8 oclock tomorrow morning. But only of the hills so are only about the hills above a 1000 feet or so as were expecting strong gusty winds there maybe 2030 miles an hour not the 5060 mile an hour winds weve seen last couple of nights, but its so dry humidity 10 to 15 . So certainly dangerous fire conditions continuing outside just because it is so dry out there right now the winds likely pick up a little bit overnight tonight, but right now theyre fairly calm out there combing the San Francisco, Coleman Oakland common the hayward its over the mountain tops that were seeing these winds in fact those winds likely to ramp up overnight tonight just a little bit just see the colors begin to move in you start to see some spots of the yellows orange was going to be winds gusting over 2030 miles an hour by late tonight tomorrow morning and then as we head throughout the day tomorrow things are going to change impact red flag warning coming down at 08 00am and by the afternoon. Now we not have a normally when we begin to see a bit of a sea breeze start to creep in that means were going to see a big change in the weather coming our way so tomorrow should be a warm day again kind of tricky to forecast these temperatures along the coastline. If that sea breeze kicks in a little bit earlier these temperatures are going to be cooler right now, im looking at about 84 degrees in San Francisco. You may cool down earlier in the afternoon 70s instead of 90s in the Half Moon Bay and still some hot 80s and 90s as you head well in my guys back to you. And well we continue to track the coronavirus numbers across california and the bay area the state has recorded more than 861,000 cases and more than 16,000 deaths from covid19 and the bay area now more than 107,000 reported more than 107,000 reported cases and more than 160 deaths and in fact one gilroy nursing home reports a dozen residents have died in recent months as a result of the virus was rob fladeboe reports now the facility has been accepting covid19 patients from area hospitals. Health care and Rehabilitation Center has confirmed that 12 residents have died from covid19 another 75 residents have tested positive. The facility has been caring for covid positive patients transferred from hospitals, according to advocates for nursing home reform attorney mike dark is that hospitals will send people with covid. Into nursing facilities to be cared often negative covid and some of the consequences as as you can just expect or catastrophic. Another 54 Staff Members have tested positive as visitors residents staff are now being routinely screened and tested. Transfers were quarantine in a special recovery unit. The facility says all of the transferred patients recovered insisting the virus was not introduced by the transfers and that a resident had tested positive here back in june. We should be able to do much better we should be able to do better than thousands of people dying in these facilities throughout the state and part of the problem problem is that this is really just kind of the halfway were entering now a period when were going to be seeing both flu and there are still restrictions on visitation so families cant get into these facilities see how people are doing make sure that they are safe. And so we will have other gilroys happening throughout the state for the next 2 months in a statement the facility said quote we have and will continue to purposefully augment our systems with new ways to operate. That will enhance protection and prevent the spread of the virus to both staff and residents by doing the following screen staff and essential personnel prior to entry and follow cdc guidelines provide ppe based on staff rules and assignments. Observation unit created for newly admitted patients for the purpose of quarantine and for care of covid19 positive patients designated separate rulings of the facility since the pandemic broke out Nursing Homes have become known hotbeds from covid19. The 4500 people who died in them so confort 27 of all deaths in gilroy rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Needles and syringes are in high demand as people rushed to a local pharmacies and elsewhere for flu shots, but some people actually being turned away because some facilities are running out forcefully to go reports. Doctor really bergen is a pediatrician and the lead for Kaiser Permanente in Northern California is flu vaccine program. Were ready and to to to the members. He says his Health System ordered more than 2 million doses of the flu vaccine in anticipation of high demand and says in just the past month more than 1 million members have received their shot and he does not anticipate running out of the vaccine or supplies on a macro level the supply is fine. But but but on micro levels that there may be issues that includes local pharmacies like cvs and walgreens some stores are struggling to keep up with demand but not to worry. The centers for Disease Control and prevention says manufacturers have projected they will supply up to 198 million doses of influenza vaccine. For the flu season. The cdc says well no significant delays have been reported in some places robust demand for vaccines and supplies like needles or syringes may mean some providers may run out of shots and supplies before their next shipment has arrived, but more will be ordered and eventually the supply will be expected to catch up to them and over 16,000 patients had their flu shot Online CenterBay Medical Foundation say their clinics are well equipped to vaccinate people through the flu season not to panic coming. We we will have supplies, its best to get vaccinated now before the height of the flu season december through february. After the shot it takes 2 weeks to build up immunity from the virus. Phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. Not oakland kliemans high school is said to be safe for students in back open after it had to close for months because of that toxic chemical found in ground water on the campus you may remember the school first closed back in february that happened in fact just weeks before the classroom instruction was stopped because of covid19 School Officials say the campus has gone through rounds of testing and air purifiers have been installed to make the high school safe for students to return, according to the district official today, the chemical tce or try clore ethylene was first discovered in february. Maki the missing lemur is back home tonight after being stolen from his enclosure at the San Francisco zoo, this is new video tonight the zoo shared shows blocky back last night right after he was rescued. He apparently was hungry, good appetite. Thats good news said to be in good health and certainly where he belong scott force justine waltman tells us how he was found and has the bizarre new details about the person who police have arrested for his abduction. The families who spotted maki the missing lever stop in their tracks when they see the wild animal wandering around the parking lot of the Hope Lutheran church in daly city at first they thought it was a raccoon jumped over the gate and they went on once inside the preschool playground, Daly City Police and animal control safely captured maki who was almost 22 years old. Enticed him out of the playhouse with grapes and bananas and he did come up at the zoo, they are relieved to have their aging and rarely more back. Where he can get the special care that he needs while hes back here we still are determined to hydrate and Hungary Police credit tips for leading to the suspect and have arrested 30 yearold cory mcgill away from los angeles. It was sandra fell police who pulled over a stolen marine sanitation truck on thursday night that they say was driven by mcgill away and on his phone they saw pictures of maki which they found odd after questioning he was arrested and charged with multiple felonies including burglary and grand theft. But police did not release a motive. It really comey dont know if its kind of unbelievable this time. Can understand with all the sharp eyed kids will not forget this day. And cannot wait to see maki again at the zoo. The zoo will donate the reward money to the church and then gift the little boy who first spotted maki a family membership to the zoo. In the newsroom. Im Justine Waldman kron 4 news. The wealthy donors loveless and special interests who got rich leading america, dry and by the way i could call these guys every one of them would give me millions of president i caused heads of wall street firms i say hey do me a favor could you give me 5 billion every single. I cant do that though because you know what if i do that. I got to do things for them. President trump saying he quote could be the worlds greatest fundraiser, but he doesnt want to put in the work or have to do things in return for his donors, the president spoke during his rally in macon georgia today after his campaign released some new numbers his campaign raised 251 Million Dollars last month joe bidens campaign raised 432 million joe biden took his campaign to detroit today where he warned voters that the president wants to strip Health Insurance from 10s of millions of americans with preexisting conditions they also took aim at President Trump for suggesting in yesterdays town hall that the u. S. Says quote turn the corner in the fight against covid. He still live a dream world. He gives to all the key keeps telling us that this virus. Is going to disappear like america and experts have said and the bench saying last month and a half. That nearly another 200,000 lives. I like to be lost like last of the coming months between now the first of the year. We continue to refuse. To follow science. As of tonight more than 218,000 americans have died from covid19. Tonight the Investigation Continues into the states gop unauthorized ballot boxes which were marked official even though they were not the state attorney general and the secretary of state say subpoenas had been issued and discussions are ongoing with the Republican Party in the state. Earlier this week. Both of those state