Wildfires. Now at 10 oclock the bay area and Northern California just hours away from seeing potential Hurricane Force winds. The threat now causing extreme fire danger. And another round of power shut offs from pg and e thats where we begin this saturday night at 10 oclock here on kron 4 news. Thanks so much for joining us. Im Jonathan Mccall and im justine waldman. It is dry, theres very low humidity and the winds are going to whip that adding even more fuel to an already historic fire season. We have Team Coverage tonight on the fire danger and the power shut offs will start with meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez whos standing by with the latest on the fire danger this weekend. Yeah thats right just cnn jonathan all eyes will be not just on our hills but also our valleys and coast. Everyone in the bay area will be impacted by this upcoming wind storm and we do have a wind advisory going into effect sunday afternoon through monday morning most of us will see sustained winds at 20 to 35 Miles Per Hour. But we could see gusts for most of our coasts and valleys. Upwards of 55 Miles Per Hour less Even Stronger wind gusts are our highest peaks in the north bay mountains and east bay hills, including the diablo range you could see gusts upwards of 70 Miles Per Hour less dropping relative humidity in the highest peaks and our driest inland valleys into the Single Digits, including most of the north bay, not just the valleys, but also elevations above 1000 feet could easily see wind gusts upwards of 70 Miles Per Hour or less so this is the peak of our high fire danger season, and Golden Gate Bridge out there right now tracking a lot of moisture and were going to notice relative humidity in the 80s or 90s for most of tonight even through your sunday morning. But then look at how quickly it just dries out specifically for those of you in the valleys in the north bay and also in the east bay valleys near Single Digits a little to no moisture thats why were going to have a red flag warning go into effect for our valleys and also for the highest peaks even though were not tracking any record breaking heat, its still going to be extremely windy and dry out their First Arriving in the north bay sunday morning east bay by sunday afternoon. Everyone else in the bay area sunday night peaking during the overnight hours and cooler temperatures for the 2nd half of the weekend until we warm up by this upcoming week more my full forecast in just a few minutes jonathon just seen that number so thank you in order to prevent any more fires from sparking this weekend the je ne now warning folks to get ready for yet another round of Public Safety power shutoffs is issuing warnings for more than 386,000 customers in Northern California, this includes nearly 100,000. Here in the bay area here is a look now at county by county breakdown about who could be impacted. This includes more than 39,000 customers in Alameda County in Contra Costa County more than 20,000 customers ring county more than 19,000 customers in napa county just under 16,000 customers could be impacted santa clara has just under 4800 Solano County more than 1600 Sonoma County over 38,000 and in San Mateo County just under 4500. The city of berkeley is warning everyone who lives in the hills to think about evacuating until the threat of wildfires is gone the danger and the potential for those Power Outages have been primarily focused in areas east of claremont on the panorama kill. However, as kron fours dan thorn found out folks across the bay area are getting ready. Just in case they too are in the dark. The threat of fire and no power ahead of a major wind event has people across the east bay getting ready dry vegetation along high elevations is sparking concerns we have go backs. People turned out bags with maybe theyre important couple important and you need extra classes, you met him over there for Berkeley Hills resident mary and fred been remembers the 1991 firestorm. She hopes sundays weather doesnt get out of control city officials are asking people in the hills to consider evacuating warning of potential wild fires and blocked roads we want folks to be prepared. We know that the hills. Is challenging train to evacuate in in so early preparation is the best preparation, some residents are more concerned and frustrated about losing power over the potential fire danger, the idea of evacuating seems a little premature. Maybe im reading at the wrong way i hope i dont regret it area Hardware Stores like ace in walnut creek reported seeing customers stocking up before the power possibly goes out there picking up extra batteries, picking up extra its kind of funny other thing people think about debbies kind of when emergencies when events the heightened fire risk leaving people on edge, were just hoping against hope if the predictions are. Im not going to happen. Reporting in berkeley, dan thorn kron 4 news some parts of the east bay will be closed on sunday because of the expected high winds. The east Bay Regional Park District says 11 parks will be closed on sunday and monday. Officials say those high winds can cause trees and branches to fall possibly injuring folks who visit. You can find a complete which parks will be closed at kron 4 dot com. Our Team Coverage continues right now with the north bay where 10s of thousands will likely be impacted by the power shots because of the high winds that are expected. Kron fours gayle ong reports from sonoma. The strong wind event is expected to happen in the overnight hours and that is what firefighters and Law Enforcement are worried about. They want to make sure everyone has an evacuation plan. The weather was quite in the Sonoma Valley saturday, but this crisp fall day is not what it seems cooler should not for you they keep the fire season is here and it is really typically this time of year that we actually experience our was damaging wildfires. Despite those cooler temperatures conditions are at their driest and this is the time period where we see the strongest of the winds and it may be the worst wind event weve seen in the entire season, strong and gusty offshore winds are anticipated sunday night into monday morning, the National Weather service issued red flag warnings and wind advisories for the entire bay area cal fire remind people to be ready around the home you should be preparing to evacuate identify your Important Documents your valuables sent them all in one location put them in your car even suggest that you back your car and take it out of the garage in case you lose electricity that way you have quick access to your vehicle and you can evacuate quickly the critical fire weather has prompted possible power shut off in Sonoma County more than 39,000 pg customers are expected to be in the dark beginning sunday this year i will not purchase generator, i got so im all ready to go just an event that it does happen james nolan lives in sonoma and learned from last years jet off cooler set if you can get some dry ice has some dry ice set up. Just be prepared just knew that i have been able lanterns and everything that i need to to in case it does happen cal fire staff to cruise across the region added more resources ready to respond if a fire breaks out. Here in sonoma gayle ong kron 4 news. You can track the weather near neighborhood anytime with the kron 4 app youll get full forecast interactive radar and weather alerts sent straight to your smart device. Download the kron 4 app for free right now at the app store and google play tonight traffic once again flowing on a stretch of i 80 in richmond after a big crash sent a gas tanker up in flames. The crash shut down traffic for hours and even prompted some folks to evacuate their homes. Tonight the investigation is underway into how this scene went down. They could have been very catastrophic caught on camera a well the flames surrounding the front part of this oil tanker. The scene playing out on the west lanes of interstate 80 near Hilltop Drive just before 11 oclock saturday morning. The flames, the aftermath of a crash between that oil tanker in a motorcycle it appears that the accident occurred several 100 yards behind where the tanker ended up and that the motorcycle was under the cap. And the tanker truck so something caused spark and something breached the forward of the 2 tanks on the tanker truck so we had gas on the ground and we had a source of ignition and thats how the fire started richmond fire battalion chief know a brownlow says the tanker carrying some 8,000 gallons of fuel at the time. Nearly 3 dozen firefighters from 3 agencies helped to battle the flames with limited resources and no fire hydrants along the busy freeway. Crews had to get creative with keeping the tank school to make sure they didnt explode they had a deal complicated pows led to a hydrant jason neighborhood. We special called bomb from. Its 66. Phillips 66 responded with an engine and that specialized bond that we need was there on scene were able to extinguish the fire. The normally busy i 80 turning into a parking lot for drivers for hours in both directions. Evacuation orders were given for some folks living close to that scene chp not trying to piece together exactly what happened. But despite the scene both drivers walked away with no injuries but with quite a story to tell. Pretty miraculous that neither one of them was hurt nobody else got hurt. But again all evacuation and shelter in place orders have been lifted the allclear has been given. And now to the for an update on a story we first brought you last week Fairfield Police are asking for help in identifying a car believed to be connected to a deadly shooting. This happened last thursday october 15th, just before midnight at the lot on her eyes and drive west of Travis Air Force base. Police have now released this image of the suspects vehicle from the night of the shooting. It is a dark green fourdoor sedan Police Believe that the driver fired several shots into a group of people striking and killing 20 yearold jose court s anyone who sees a recognizes the scar or has any information about the shooting is asked to contact Fairfield Police tonight weve learned that 2 advisors in Vice President mike pences inner circle have now tested positive for covid19. Pences chief of staff marc short testing positive today, his adviser marty opes testing positive earlier this week both often travel with the Vice President pence and his wife karen. Did test negative for covid today in a statement, the Vice President s office says he will continue campaigning. Pence is the head of the White House Coronavirus task force. These positive tests are once again raising some questions about concerns of covid safety protocols at the white house. Still to come tonight here on kron 4 news at 10 oclock today early voting day encouraging everyone to cast their ballots as early as possible. We show you where folks here in the bay area brush to make their voices heard. And President Trump cast his ballot today as both he and democratic nominee joe biden are on the campaign trail. It must be nice to play by a different set of rules. In california, were the only state where wealthy trust fund heirs get their own tax loophole. These tax cheats avoid millions in taxes on vacation homes and coastal mansions depriving our schools. Prop 19 closes this unfair loophole thats been exploited by an elite few and helps our schools, firefighters, and seniors. Vote yes on prop 19. Tell them [record scratch] the partys over. Kron 4 is your local election headquarters this election season and we are 10 days away from the november, 3rd election. But for millions of americans that will not mean heading to the polls as many as 52 million have already cast their ballot including President Trump who cast his vote in person in palm beach florida. This morning. Im looking for a guy named trump. After voting the president told reporters that he cast his ballot in what he thought was the safest way possible. It was a big day of campaigning for the president he attended 3 separate rallies in North Carolina ohio, and wisconsin. Meanwhile democratic president ial candidate joe biden visiting his home state of pennsylvania today which is also a key battleground state. He had some star power on hand rockstar bon jovi giving a small concert during a drive in raleigh, performing 3 songs while also praising bidens response to coronavirus indeed whole shake with our sister station in pennsylvania has more. Joe biden knows full. Well the victory here in the keystone state could pave the way for him to win the white house and i asked mister biden questions on a wide range of topics the first involved his position on fracking what you want americans, especially those who are connected to the Natural Gas Industry and fossil fuel industry. What can expect under a Biden Administration should be elected. I would do not i will not ban fracking i said no fracking on federal land i will not ban fracking number one number 2. The cole an issue new Natural Gas Industry and oil is not going to be fundamentally changed. Theyre already in transition, what im saying is that we will not continue to subsidize give tax breaks to the Oil Companies which are amount to 40 billion dollars. They will not get that and that money will be put into research and development to figure out how to Carbon Capture which coming off of gas and and what about his plan to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Look. Follows what the scientists are saying if we just were these mask we can save a 100,000 lives. I laid out a detailed plan. How we can open up businesses and how we can open up schools safely i asked the former Vice President about his son hunter biden and questions about his overseas business dealings. Questions and controversy continues to say about 100 bide your sons there is no controversy about his green is all right, its a flat lie because the president has nothing else to run on. If you notice and while American People are talking about whats happening their families. He has no plan to debate is no plan everything from the wall street journal of every other major out of this said what hes saying is simply not true about my son, but its its classic trump and biden tells me hes not read too much into polls. I asked him about pulling in 2016 at about the same time prior to the election in which Hillary Clinton was leading then candidate donald trump on feeling good about where we are lets put this in perspective. Every poll that were involved with is that has us in the lead and im not counting on and try to earn every single vote has this well beyond where Hillary Clinton was and every poll has be lower because so far the president has and said what hes going to do in his next 4 years that will change anything. That was also reporting for us tonight. Bidens Staff Members say they are confident they will be able to turn pennsylvania blue on Election Night. Voters in Cleveland Ohio got a surprise visit today when senator Kamala Harris stopped by a Polling Center on her way to an event, ohio kicked off early voting this weekend with some waiting in line for hours. This was harriss first appearance in ohio as a Vice President ial candidate. The senator was originally scheduled to be in town last week but that trip was postponed after a staff member tested positive for covid19. Now to the very latest on our 4 zone forecast at 4 meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is tracking the dangerous winds that are coming on sunday, yeah, dangerous winds not only will we have a wind advisory in effect for most of your sunday in addition to that red flag warnings going into effect as well. Today though we did notice a slightly cooler forecast, thanks to the return of that marine layer bringing us some much needed moisture out there right now downtown San Francisco warming up to 66 degrees about 5 degrees below average santa rosa degree cooler than that 65 degrees nearly 10 degrees below normal most of the north bay seeing more clouds and sun as did most of the coast of the bay area which is why we notice those cooler temperatures today but we will have a wind advisory going into effect starting sunday afternoon all the way through monday morning for all of the bay area so this isnt just going to be a wind storm impacting our highest peaks in the north bay mountains and east bay hills even our coasts and valleys will be included in this thats what were going to