Off. s make a bad combination in place tonight, excessive heat, driver dictation and now diablo wind. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. I am julie haener. To try to prevent fires, theyre taking a protective step to the first time this year and shutting off power. They confirmed the shutdowns are already underway, they are scheduled to happen between 9 00 and midnight. A total of 100 they confirmed the shutdowns are already underway, they are scheduled to happen between 9 00 and midnight. A total of 172,000 customers in 22 Northern California counties are affected, that includes the east side of santa rosa and Sonoma County and the calistoga area in napa county. Power is expected to be restored no later than wednesday evening. We have Live Team Coverage on the weather conditions, greg shows us how people are coping with the recordbreaking heat. Deborah gives us a look at how people in the north they are bracing for the power shut off but first lets go to our chief meteorologist bill martin with a red flag warning that just went into effect. Reporter right, it is not a surprise come you will see in a minute that red flag warning, why theyre cutting off power in parts of the north day, we get to that but record heat today, again, second day in a row, look at these numbers, talk about setting up a fire concern, red flag warning, two days in a row, of above 110 degrees readings in places like napa and livermore. 112, that breaks the old record that was set in 1904, so these are some really old record. Im going to keep this up a little bit. You notice what is happening. Called off a bunch. Some fog sure to get in. Thats not going to last. I want you to watch up here. Can you see those arrows . What happens when i click through time here. That is the wind field. Using colors that we do isotherms. In the you are, this northbay, right in here. North bay area singh the strongest winds by far, around, down around the Santa Cruz Mountains, you get the feel like there in the morning, northbay, strongest wind, up to 35 miles an hour, shortlived event, see how quickly goes away by tomorrow afternoon so that is the hope. Mainly up in the north hills above 1000 feet. Will be wednesday night before to have the power back on again. Deborah is here with who is going dark and why. With 100,000 customers on the sierra foothills, the Second Largest Group includes napa, sonoma and lake counties in the north bay. The blackout is a last resort, utility says, but of course customers have been through this before. There we go. There we are. Reporter and olivers market, shoppers stock up on ice, bracing for the first Public Safety power shut off of the year. I do have a freezer full of food that i lost in a last power outage, so im trying to save it, what little i have. We are always monitoring the weather and we will change with the weather. Reporter after midnight, most likely around 3 am, it will start pulling the plug on 22,000 customers in napa and sonoma counties. Expecting gusty winds by morning, not rivaling the 2017 firestorm but if we have these critically dry, the outage is almost entirely in city limits. Ridge rides make sure people have a plan that theyre ready for the show off. This is not santa rosas first go around at this. Reporter they were subjected to six outages last year. Busy have a 12 traffic accidents with the nose out, but unlike past outages, more families are homebound for school and work. Restoration is not inspected until wednesday evening. They have had a rough time the last several months, and certainly it adds to the challenges. Reporter northbay spent weeks in the state of emergency the with lightning lit fires, choking smoke, now firefighters go on alert again, a 10 inch Task Force Ready for a new place. It is neighborhoods need to be evacuated . The goal is to get residents to move to a large typically open parking lot, where we can correlate with them and determine where it is best to move them from that point. It is very important for us to patrol and put eyes on their equipment. Reporter they said have improved the System Design so they can get helicopters up wednesday morning to and packed for damage, when addressing should occur within 12 hours of the all clear. Now we have an opportunity to begin earlier because weather conditions improve earlier in one of these areas, that is exactly what we will do. Reporter so the prospect of an outage in a heat wave has people weary. I hated, i hated, i have sleep apnea, i have a machine i need to use that night, im so sick of this, i could scream. No doubt, she speaks for a lot of people. In Sonoma County, 17,000 customers are going dark for frank come of that is actually some city to xt thousand residents because most homes have more than one person living in them. The statewide flex alert spread 9 00 tonight in the push to conserve energy appears to have worked. Cal eisele says the demand on the power grid was manageable tonight, they want customers of the possibility of rolling blackouts tonight, if Energy Demand exceeded supply. The implemented rolling blackouts two days last month, as hot weather caused a demand for power to overwhelm the grades capacity. s temperatures hit triple digits and much of the bay area people went looking for ways to try to cope with the heat. One of the hottest spots in the bay area . Contra costa county. Greg liggins joins us live with how people there are trying to stay cool. Deal with triple digit heat during normal times is not easy and these times are certainly not normal, so in and around areas like walnut creek, people are simply managing the best way that they can. At 5 45 the temperature was 106 in walnut creek, a few degrees off todays high. City park normally bustling with people had only a few with the elevated temperature likely keeping crowds away. Even though it is hotter here, this might decide to head inland from marin. We came to escape from the smoke and the heat and we came out here because we found a hotel with air conditioning. Reporter they have more than a halfdozen cooling centers to help citizens find relief. At this one in martinez, mark discovered a sanctuary away from his home, which has no ac. But when i walked in i thought the coolness and the welcome here and it is just, unbelievable. There were a few people here earlier and they are coming and going and it was a nice dealing to have resources like this during the heat and all the fires. People were greeted air conditioning, free wifi, bottled water in the mask if needed. Despite scorching temperatures, demand was more of a trickle than a flood. Much the surprise of the center supervisor. Im a little bit taken aback that maybe people do not feel like they wanted to come out and, or i guess they are just surviving with white they have at home with their own means right now. With covid restrictions, many have had to alter what they normally do to escape the heat at home. He probably would have gone to some Amusement Park come you know, something where we could escape the heat, or a movie. May be a miniature golf course. Reporter typical indoor spots, all offlimits, making beating the heat a little more challenging than usual. So for some keeping it humble is the best they can do. We are going to grab dinner, grab ice cream, and we are going to go back and sleep and airconditioning. Reporter that sounds like a pretty good plan to me, given the circumstances. Not even though the temperatures will be dropping in just a bit in coming days, people will still have at least another day or two to figure out how to stay cool. The covid challenge makes it even trickier. Thank you. Developing news for Mendocino County very fast moving wildfires evacuations and the ocean of highway 101 at willard. The oak fire was reported about 1215 this afternoon, it has burned an estimated 700 acres so far, and as of tonight, it is 0 contained. At least one structure has been destroyed. Highway 101 is shut down north of willis. Firefighters the flames jumped the highway and burned roughly 30 acres along the northbound lanes. Evacuation orders are in effect in the communities near willis, and cobelow. Willis high school in Grove Middle School are now open as evacuation centers. This is no doubt one of the states worst wildfire seasons. The driedup vegetation made worse by this weekend heatwave has set the fires up and down the state. The two dozen wildfires burned across california this past weekend, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes. Even more alarming . The critical months of the fire season are still to come. To fires that are getting a lot of attention tonight are the creek fire, northeast of fresno, and the el dorado fire near ukiah but in San Bernardino county. Christina coleman has the latest now on these fires. Reporter to that packers frantically escape the fast moving creek fire driving to the flames as they ripped of the Sierra National forest. The fires scorched tens of thousands of acres since friday, and trapped Holiday Weekend campers. There were total of two aircraft. One black hawk in the and the other was a chinnock. Reporter the air with a 207 people to safety saturday night, and into sunday morning. At least 20 people were hospitalized, a few were critically injured, some had burns, others work in bones. All the individuals of a rescued were greeting the crewmembers with hugs, as they were boarding onto the helicopter and then again after getting off the helicopter, a lot of highfives. Reporter we do know what started the el dorado fire in San Bernardino county. Cal fire Officials Say a pyrotechnic device from a general real party sparked the flames that has not burned more than 7000 acres. Or the 20 major wildfires are burning in california, prompting evacuations and threatening thousands of structures. This is been a nightmare, just watch our families ranch go up and burst into flame. It is horrible. I moved my 103yearold mom down to redlands today two days ago because i feel like this would be hard. Temperatures soaring in some spots to more than 120 degrees. The u. S. For service is temporarily due to the ongoing dangerous fire conditions. That way there should not be anyone hiking, camping or doing anything that could possibly spark fires in the forest right now. More than 2 million acres have burned in california, just this year alone, setting a new record and it is not even the peak of fire season yet. Now to the three big fires in the bay area that was sparked by lightning three weeks ago, cal fire says the cz you complex of the Santa Cruz Mountains has burned 86,000 acres and is now 80 contained. The largest fire the as you complex and the east bay and the south bay have burned 396,000 acres, it is now 94 contained, full contentment is expected sometime this week. And the lm you complex and the northbay has burned 300 and the lm you complex and the northbay has burned 375,000 acres, it is now 91 contained. Kamala harris makes the First Campaign appearance as the democratic Vice President ial candidate, why she and her public and rival were both in wisconsin today. And east bay music venue where green day and other famous acts have performed at 10, 30, why oaklands uptown is closing its doors for good. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. President trump and joe biden spent this labor day criticizing each others credentials when it comes to the economy and the understanding of the american worker. Peter ducey is with the harris team and milwaukee, with more on the race for the white house. For the First Time Since she was named to the ticket almost a month ago, swing state voters got a look today at kamala harris. And milwaukee, she tore a Training Facility for members of electrical workers even following a private meeting with jacob blakes family, where she spoke by phone with blake still recovering after being shot in the back by a police officer. Really wonderful, i mean, they are an incredible family. What they have entered and, they do it with such dignity and grace, and you know, they carry the weight on their shoulders. Reporter they joined a roundtable, on the other side of the badger state the man harris wilshire a debate stage with later this fall, Vice President mike pence, made his case against her. I heard that the running mate is in milwaukee today. Dairy farmers in wisconsin deserve to know that sen. Kamala harris is one of only 10 senators to vote against the u. S. Mca. Reporter President Trump is keeping tabs on her trip as well. I have to be careful because of him used to say that about me so you have to be a little bit careful. Reporter he spent his labor day and pennsylvania, zeroing in on President Trumps response to covid19. He has been spending too much time in his golf courses and the sand traps. Reporter if a vaccine comes up between now and election day, he says he would want full transparency to prove that it was not rushed by Trump Administration officials but is scientist sign off, he would roll up his sleeves. Think god we have it, if i could get the vaccine tomorrow, i would do it. If it would cost me the election, i would do it. We need a vaccine and we need it now. We have to listen to the scientists. Reporter they will keep the focus this week on trying to flip states trump one last time. He will be in michigan, has been florida after making her debut as running mate today in wisconsin, three weeks to the day from when the democrats were supposed to have started the convention right here before relocating to delaware. In milwaukee, wisconsin, fox news. Shooting victim jacob blake also spoke with oakley today from his hospital bed, showing messages of both suffering and hope. Please, im telling you, change your life out there, stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people out here, because it is so much time that has been wasted. It award for his arrest when police are trying to arrest him last month for violating a restraining order. Police say he was reaching into his suv, when he was shot seven times in the back. The incident has left him paralyzed from the waist down, but not without faith. The group wall of many black lives matter had planned to form a wall on the bridge. The chp stop them at the entrance and pedestrian walkway. They say they were forced to close traffic lanes when some of the protesters jumped onto the roadway. The Police Presence and emergency vehicles also blocked the lane, causing traffic delays for several hours until about 3 00 this afternoon. Wildfire smoke continues to pollute the bay area, this is what mount diablo looks like today, the bay area air quality district has extended its spare the air alert through wednesday, that will mark 23 consecutive spare the air days, a record for our region. For more now on the air quality and the heat, lets check in with our chief neurologist bill martin. I cannot member at times and probably you either, when it was this much heat for this long, and so smoky. No, i cant. I have not seen anything like this, and you and i have been around for a long time and me longer than you, certainly but it is hot, it is dry, now we have this red flag warning that goes into effect. These are the high temperatures from today, not as hot as yesterday come you see little cooler around the coast, 91 in San Francisco, not 100. But these inland spots still cooking. 104 in san jose, 106 in morgan hill, numerous records can we show you those off the top, there is a big highpressure dome and that is setting us up with this wind that will start clocking offshore and that sets up late tonight, and early tomorrow morning, so what does that mean . Basically, we will see temperatures in the next few hours continue to cool, like cd screens . Theres a bit of the sea breeze right now, phil significant sea breeze, with how much cooler it is tonight than it was last night. 10 degrees cooler in napa, 30 degrees cooler in oakland, so good sea breeze. But late night, early tomorrow morning, the wind will clock around it will get into that red flag warning late tonight, mainly in the northbay, hills about 1000 feet, wind gust 25 to 35 miles an hour, maybe a little more, not, it is not the highend red flag warning by any means, but it is a red flag warning, it is not like it will be around all day tomorrow, it looks like it will be run the Morning Hours and then kind of tapering off by lunchtime. In the northbay, everybody else who may not even notice the and especially if you are below 1000 feet. I will see back here with the fiveday forecast. Police scatter at the sound of gunfire, the investigation into a sideshow incident is go, and three people who got shot. Drivers are taking advantage of empty highways and the chp is taking note. The dangerous trend they are seeing on the roadways. It was just a get together with friends. No big deal. Everybody felt fine. But now im super sick. Everyone is sick. I just wish we had been more careful. It would have been easier than this. So wear a mask. Do what you can outside. Stay six feet apart. Because some things you just cant take back. Do your part to lower the risk. My only job is to take great care of my patients. . Im empowered to do whats right for you. Our digital records mean your medical history is in one place, so i can give you great care. Your primary care doctor, your specialists. Its great we all Work Together as one team. Our integrated approach to health care helps my patients live longer, healthier lives. I dont just practice here, im a patient, too. I wouldnt trust my familys health care to anyone else. vo i have the best job in the world. I get to remind people of their grandmothers conchitas. Give the little kids cookies. And celebrate birthdays with all our neighbors. Hopefully, well be part of this community for many, many more years. 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