You will have to remember your drivers ed course training and come up to a big intersection and give it a fourway stop. The lights may not be flashing. It is one of those days that reminds me of being in the News Business when there is big news going on and people will be tuning in for updates on a lot of things. There is also a lot of debate going on right now on whether what pg e is doing on these power shutoffs is really the right thing to do. Some people say yes based on what we have experienced over the last couple of years in the bay area. And some people say no its not worth it. 95 of most wildfires start because of a human, throwing out a cigarette or whatever it is. That debate will continue. Right now we do know that 186,000 pg e customers have no power in the bay area. Just after midnight the utility started shutting off power to customers as part of its Public Safety power shut off program during red flag warnings. The first took place near the oregon border as well as in marin county , sonoma and napa counties. More arc expected around noontime today. There showing the impacted areas across the bay area and they will roll south and east across the bay area as the day progresses. Pg es phase 2 will start around noon today. San francisco is the only bay county were no outages are expected. Around noon pg e will shut off power in alameda and contra costa counties. It will have a big impact on 29 pumping stations that use power. They are wanting customers to do their part as well. What we are going to be doing , is asking people to conserve water, minimize their water use, shut off their outdoor irrigations. East bay requires power to move water throughout the system so we can operate it and get water to the people we serve. East bay mud says its main concern is making sure they have water if there is a fire and fire crews need to connect a hydrant. We have Team Coverage of the shut off across the bay area and whats to come. Lets start in Sonoma County, but first or meteorologist updating the windy and dry conditions pumping these outages not everyone is seeing yet. Not yet, but it is picking up a teeny bit for some. This is more likely later, not sooner. Later this afternoon and early thursday. North of santa rosa, Miles Per Hour, call last hour, napa airport is gone. After that there is not much. Higher elevations, atlas peak north at 12. Right above the cold cut northwest at six. It is 53 degrees, 47 humidity, but officer Black Diamond above clayton at 1600 feet, thats northeast and north above the oaklands. So the trend is to take it a little more northerly here. Its not that strong yet, but i like it to pick up later on. Thats why there has been a wind advisory issue that started at 6 am and it goes until 3 pm tomorrow. It doesnt mean its happening all at once. It will probably pick up later on. Some of the forecast models again really start to crank things up around seven or 8 oclock tonight. Red flag is just about everybody. This is the forecast map, this is just one, it doesnt mean its exactly what is going to be, but watch as it picks things up by later tonight. Maybe racine 3841 Miles Per Hour. Fairfield, napa, 34 concord, 35 pleasant San Francisco. This may be an evening event overnight enter early come early thursday. 43 at napa, 36 38 San Francisco. While we dont have that gust now come in tomorrow morning at this time i think it will be a whole different story. Even the Climate Prediction Center has issued an extreme fire for us today and thats very rare to get that for the north bay and parts of Northern California. By thursday afternoon and should start to decrease. The good news is temps should not be hot. Its wind and low humidity and also the soils are so dry. We havent d any rain and a loti. Phase 1 of the shut off is underway, power is offer thousands in the north bay. We are in santa rosa with that part of the story. Reporter pg es Community Resource center in santa rosa is open. It opened at 8 oclock this morning and will close at about 6 oclock tonight. We have been here since it opened and we have seen a handful of people come in here and check it out so far. Now this is a place where you have the ability to come and get information. There are representatives to answer questions. Their offering water, a place to charge devices and r conditioning. The north bay was part of the first phase of pg es Public Safety should power shut off. They have been hit hard, more than 66,000 pg e customers are in the dark. Pg e has Resource Centers set up all across affected areas to help out. The one in santa rosa is it too busy yet, but we did catch up with a dad and his fouryear old son who say they lost power at about 2 am. I got so many alerts, but they were late at the end of the day and im already at work and i cant leave work. For the time i got home my local Grocery Store, all the water and simple Food Supplies were sold out. There was nothing left for me or well so i said dont worry we will figure it out. Reporter the Community Resource center is in the parking lot of the santa rosa Veterans Memorial building, 1351 maple avenue in santa rosa. Like i said, this is a place you can come. There are 22 are presented is here. If you have questions, they will do their best to answer them. And there are Water Bottles, he came and grabbed a couple Water Bottles for him and his son so they have something to last them for the next few hours. San jose city officials are closely watching pg es Public Safety power shut off. They are confirming the power in fact will be shut off i noon. We are in san jose with a look at the people in the south bay and how they are preparing. Reporter city officials in san jose are warning residents the power will go off at noon today. I got that information from pg e confirmed. Its unclear what parts of the city will go dark first, but we know People Living in the eastern foothills and those in south san jose could be affected here. Just be prepared for your power to go off at noon and be courteous and aware of your neighbors as well. Take the time, as you prepare yourself, to reach out across the street to that elderly neighbor next door and check in on her and see how she is doing and if she understands. And if she needs assistance, help her reach out to her family. Reporter across the bay area, not just here in san jose, people are packing Grocery Store trying to buy lastminute items. Many portable battery charges and anything else that can charge electronics are selling fast. A lot of stores have been inundated with requests for generators, mostly sold out of those. Dont be surprised if businesses shut their doors of the power is out in the area. Pick keep in mind some places that may stay open in the dark may only take cash. The city really frustrated with this. We want people to make investments in their infrastructure to make it safe and reliable so they dont have to shut down any weather event. We are talking with them and making that available. That is known to them at every level. Reporter san jose opened three Community Resource centers this morning at macer, camden and southside. People can also go to a via stadium. People can get information, water, air conditioning and access to charging stations. The Alameda School district says classes are canceled today and tomorrow. San jose unified will stay open, even if some schools lose power. And if you are driving, remember that traffic signals, or traffic lights can be out in certain parts of the city. If you come to one of those intersections where the lights are out, treated as a fourway stop so everyone can stay safe. This will roughly affect 38,000 customers in the south bay. Pg e says even after the winds died down it could take days to fully restore power. Crews have to inspect all the lines for damage and repair any damage before the lines can be reenergized. This is video from last month when power was shut down in price of the sierra foothills and then northbay. Pg e says it will be a time consuming process for crews on the ground and in the air because they have to inspect such a large area. There is damage. Identify the location of the damage, what that is, bringing qualified personnel to be able to safely do the repairs, and then continue with the restoration process. Pg e says because the utilities have to turn off entire distribution and transmission lines the outages may affect customs who are not in fire prone areas. 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Even though pg e is shutting off power that does not eliminate the risk of a wildfire. Cal fire says 95 of fire are caused by people. That includes sparks from vehicles or someone tossing a cigarette to the ground. With wendy, dry weather cal fire says they are increasing staffing, bringing in more equipment and repositioning firefighters in the high fire risk areas. Cal fire says everyone is to be prepared. That includes opening your garage door, making sure you have a vehicle you can get out, parking backwards, having a full tank of gas. Have your pets and papers to take with you. All units across the state are located in areas impacted by the red flag warning. This morning we are speaking with the American Red Cross about disaster preparedness, specifically what not to do in the event of a power outage at your home. Joining us right now cynthia shaw from the American Red Cross. Good morning. In the wintertime we have experienced a number of outages and there are times where i have caught myself with one or two flashlights. We did like candles, i thought that was okay, but reading up on it you say no do not like candles. Do not like candles if at all possible. The likelihood of someone accidentally knocking the candle and starting a house fire with the wind, the fire gets picked up to other houses, its not worth the risk. We do encourage people to use flashlights and get lots of extra batteries. You can play games, read, do whatever you need to to keep yourself entertained. Smacked three bullet points i want to emphasize to our viewers. One of them, keep the refrigerator closed at all times, as well as your freezer. Unplugged all unnecessary Electrical Equipment and never use a generator or propane inside the house. But keeping the fridge door and freezer close, thats important, right . Thats critically important, because your perishables are only safe to eat if they keep the temperature of 40 degrees or less. So you want to first use what you have in your refrigerator, keep the freezer closed and then you want to go through what you have in your freezer as quickly as possible before it gets too warm. Once it gets above 40 degrees its no longer safe to eat. Actually lost power in our neighborhood last week for about 14 hours, it had nothing to do with the weather. We pulled out the ice chest, put in our milk, but as we did i noticed we didnt have any bottled water in the house and i noticed some of our reporting yesterday said so many people are going to the stores to get bottled water. How much water should you have when we are talking about the possibility of 23 days with no power . You want three gallons per person per day and then you want a gallon permit side pet every two days. So yeah, this is just focusing on drinking water, not washing or any of the other items. This is what you need for just drinking. Thats drinking water, what about when it comes to actual meals . Do we need to have readytoeat meals . Correct, once the refrigerator and freezer have reached, become too warm, you need to have nonperishable meat and food that require little or no water, little or no heat to cook to meet the needs of your household. Again, we are asking everybody to prepare for seven days. For seven days. One more for you cynthia, what do you think is really the biggest mistake people make at times like this when they do not have power . Really just be planning, not planning. Knowing you could be out of power for several days, dont use all your food, water and extra batteries for your phone and the first day. Really think about conserving what you have the you can go several days. Have you had any calls so far today or this morning from different counties in the bay area requesting your assistance because of the Power Outages going on . We have been in touch with all of our counties. We are in touch with them, in their Emergency Operation centers. We are able to provide assistance if needed. Red cross is always there, we appreciate your time this morning cynthia shaw with the red cross. Have a great rest of the day here. Thank you. We do have more information about how you can prepare for the shut off on our website, ktvu. Com. Also, when or if your home will be affected. Phase 1 right now, phase 2 coming up in a few hours. I think we will be hit by phase 2, my husband is getting ice, we cleaned out the fridge, i bought the expensive gas to make sure my tank was full. My cell phone is being charged as we speak. Doing what i can come get advice from the red cross. Formal impeachment inquiry was made. Whether white house is now using to cooperate in the House Democrats impeachment inquiry. Hundreds of long injuries related to vape related his illnesses. The new study that points to what ecigarettes could be to blame. Where treatment keeping an eye on the traffic conditions this morning at caldecott, you do see some slowing there. But if the tunnel does indeed shut down later and caltrans says they plan not to shut it down, caltrans is bringing in generators to keep the power and ventilation system open inside the tunnel. The problem is, it does not have generators on site, they had to bring them in. Im sure after this they may consider having them on site all the time. If the Power Outages roll through the area before those generators get up, the tunnel may indeed close, but what im seeing as they will get those generators up as soon as possible on highway 24. Also by the way, the tom lantos tunnel south of pacifica will stay open as well. Caltrans is saying they are working hard to get those generators in place. The fda approved a new medication called the over, an injection for the treatment of Macular Degeneration and eye disease, the leading cause of blindness in the u. S. The medication is made by a Swiss Pharmaceutical Company and Current Treatment is injections once a month, patients with this only have to get it 2 to 3 months. More than 1000 people have been second by a fitbit related illness nationwide and 23 people have died as a result of the illness. Research into the causes vape related illnesses as in the early stages. The mayo clinic published a study into what may be causing these long injuries. We welcome doctor Karen Swanson from the mayo clinic. Thanks for being with us. Thank you for allowing me to be here to represent what our study and go over what we found. Our study was the opportunity to have lung biopsies from 17 patients with Vaping Associated lung injury. Really what we found, looking at the lung tissue, as this is an airway centered chemical pneumonitis, which means inflammation, and inflammatory process in their lives and lung tissue itself directly caused by inhaling toxic substances. This is not being caused by inhaling water vape, but rather toxic substances. Lets talk about what people are vaping. A recent cdc study found 87 of people with vaping related illnesses said they vape thc. Whats the difference between vaping nicotine compared to thc . Thats a really good question. More than 80 of juul associated lung injury have been related to vaping thc. Although, not all. There for about 20 related to nicotine. What we think part of the problem is the liquid, the solution that is actually made that then becomes inhaled into the lungs. With thc you have the actual marijuana, then that has to be converted to a solution. So you need a vehicle to do that in the vehicles used are typically