The Santa Clara CountyDistrict Attorney has yet to say if charges will be filed against the driver. Two more bay area counties will soon begin loosening up more restrictions. We learned the state announce Santa Clara County in Alameda County are now in the orange tear allowing more businesses to reopen. Places of worship and businesses such as movie theaters can reopen for indoors service. 25 capacity or a maximum of 100 people. Santa clara county leaders plan to discuss the revisions coming up at a new conference set for 1 00 this afternoon. California is easy is restrictions to allow multi household gatherings outdoors. Three households can now socialize as long as they were masks and follow safety guidelines. State Health Officials had discouraged gatherings outside of of a single hassle. The state set the limit out of concern that people will be tempted to have a large indoor activities as we approach hallowing, thanksgiving and christmas. We are about two and half weeks from hallowing. We have details from the cdc about the best practices family should follow as we get closer to october 31st. Hallowing is one of many holidays that will look different this year because of the pandemic. Some families we talked to say they are trying to make the best of it. The ortiz lynch family is what they are dressing up as for halloween. They decided we will be the family that died in the olympics. Reporter they still dont know how they will celebrate. What is the word on trickor treating . I am assuming that it will be a reporter the holiday will be the same. The cdc says traditional halloween activities increase your chance of getting covid 19. Bay area families are trying thanks. We are looking at doing Something Like a candy hunt around my house. Permit the cdc program hallowing activities by risk level. Low risk includes carving pumpkins and trickortreating at home. Moderate risk includes a small outdoor costume parade or visiting a pumpkin patch. And high risk includes traditional halloween activities. We are going to carve some pumpkins. We have been to some pumpkin patches. Reporter while some stick to low risk fund, when mom says she is okay with going to a Haunted House as long as it is safe. If we aware our mass, that is something where people give me six feet away from each other and they beat for people or one family go in at a time. Reporter even though it is not the hallowing we are used to, it gives family a chance to be creative. We are stepping up the decorations. Now to the weather. Pg e is warning some 50,000 customers21 california counties of a possible power outage due to high fire danger. Area beginning tomorrow. Lets get more from dweek. Boosting fire risk in the hills east of piedmont and propping pg e to potentially pull the plug on thousands of customers. From wednesday night into at least a thursday night. Montclair merchants appreciate the warnings. But hope it doesnt happen. Shutdowns are costly. This will again affect us drastically. As a business owner, working in the community, it affects everyone. Reporter the risk to the bay. Pockets east of mt. Diablo and south into the Santa Cruz Mountains. The danger is very real. It is something we are extremely concerned about as firefighters. Reporter oakland fire points to two weeks of devastation only now mopped up. The north bay, glass fire, destroyed 800 homes. This late in the season with vegetation so dry, any spot can set disaster emotion. Fire officials warn everyone is vulnerable. Not just the residence of the outage designs. Fire is not picky. It doesnt judge. It goes where it wants to go. It will go with the way the weather. It will go with the fuel loads that are present. Reporter if power is pulled is expected be thursday before the all clear. Then pg e expects lines for damage and debris in daylight and only then reenergizes. That could push the outage into friday for some. Frustrating for customers who wonder why there is still so much untrimmed visitation among power equipment. There is no go decision on how to handle it. Pg e needs to take care of their systems. Their powerlines. That is why we are payment. Reporter with covid keeping people home for school and work, outages are not as easy to navigate. Previously, i can go into the office and work. Now i dont know what i would do. I will probably have to go to someones house. It doesnt sound right during a global pandemic. Pg e has an interactive mac of the areas that could be impacted. We post the link on our website, ktvu. Com. Supreme Court NomineeAmy Coney Barrett has been answering questions from members of the Senate Judiciary committee for a good six hours, including from california senator Dianne Feinstein. This is day two of the hearing. Allie rasmus joins us live with what has been going on so far and six hours and probably another six hours to go. That is just for today. Is a pretty intense lineup. Each of the 23 senators on the Senate Judiciary committee get 30 minutes to ask questions or speak about anything that would like regarding the topic during the hearing. Is started around 6 00 our time and they took a quick break for lunch and you can see the hearing is still going. They have not gotten halfway through the 22 senators. Right now on the left is democratic senator of connecticut. He has been asking barrett about the Affordable Care act. Is one of the issues and topics of questioning that democrats have focused on. Barrett wrote an academic essay criticizing the scampering courts decision to uphold the Affordable Care act order obamacare. Democrats are concerned that if she is in front of the Supreme Court, that could be under threat. Is one of several topics that we have discussed so far and processing for barretts nomination to the Supreme Court. Appellate judge Amy Coney Barrett subscribes herself as a region lesion or strict or literal interpretation of the constitution as it was written more than 200 years ago. Meeting that had. Doesnt ch it is not up to me to update it. She has said her philosophy and her views were in line to the middle. The late Antonin Scalia who she clerked for earlier in his career. He asked. How it would influence her decision on abortion rights. The you agree with Justice Cooley is viewed that roe v wade was wrongly decided . I completely understand what you are asking the question. But, again, i cant recommit or say yes, i am going in with some agenda because im not. I dont have any agenda. I dont have an agenda to overrule. I have aged agenda to stick to the rule of law and decide cases as they will come. Reporter barrett was noncommittal on the subject and other topics like guns and the cares that. Democratic senator Patrick Leahy asked her what she would do it President Donald Trump contested the Election Results in seats Supreme Court had to decide the outcome. Would you commit to recuse yourself of any dispute that arises out of the 2020 president ial election . I have had no conversation with the president , or any other staff, on how i might rule in that case. It will be a gross violation of Judicial Independence for me to make any such commitment or for me to be asked about the case and how i would rule. Reporter back live at the hearing room, the democratic senator and his 30 minute allotment of questions for Amy Coney Barrett. Republican senators bottom line have the votes to confirm barrett. To the Supreme Court. They are expecting the full senate to vote and confirm or no later than october 27th. The week before election day. Reporting live, allie rasmus. We will see if that timeline holds. Thank you. Still to come, taking a closer look at pipeline safety. The hearing to take a look at what regulators have learned 10 years after the deadly san bruno explosion. If you have already voted, you are not alone. A Record Number of voters are heading to the polls early for the 2020 election. I have the details, coming up. It is a warm sunny day here in the bay area. The oakland estuary has never looked prettier. It will be even warmer tomorrow. Rosemary orozco has the full forecast coming up. You have the power to know before you go when you wake up with mornings on 2. You have the power to know everywhere you go when you download the ktvu fox 2 app. I didnt choose this job because it was easy. But i cant say i expected this. To fight these fires, we need funding plain and simple. For this crisis, and for the next one. Prop 15 closes tax loopholes so rich corporations pay their fair share of taxes. So firefighters like me, have what we need to do the job, and to do it right. The big corporations want to keep their tax loopholes. Its what they do. Well, i do what i do. If yould like to help, join me and vote yes on prop 15. About the covid19 virus. Its real. Its dangerous. And we do know how to keep you and your loved ones safe. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Stay six feet apart. We can do this. If we do it together. Election day 2020 is another three weeks away and already millions and millions of americans are voting early. They are standing in long lines and a number of cities across the country. Reporter it is impressed attended. Three weeks before election date in more than 9 million votes have been cast. Americans are voting early at record levels. There have been some hiccups. In georgia, voting got underway on monday. Thousands of folks heading to the polls with long wait times reported throughout the state. In marietta, some voters were in line for more than 10 hours. They say, it was worth the wait. I think it is important. Whether you do it now or later. Get out and vote. Reporter on tuesday, early voting started in tulsa. Local officials are editing a record turnout and they are advising voters to head to the polls on off days to avoid long lines. Usually in the middle of the week, when you are talking about wednesday and thursday. Tuesday, wednesday and thursday. Reporter in california the state Republican Party working to boost gop turnout by installing unofficial ballot drop boxes throughout the state. Californias attorney general has issued a cease and desist order but republicans that they are not breaking the law. President donald trump weighing in on tuesday, tweeting no weight republicans get a fair shake. Lawyers get started. California is in big trouble. Some experts say the partisan fighting could backfire on both parties. It will suppress voter turnout. It could make people feel unsure about whether or not they can trust the voting system. Reporter experts are predicting the highest turnout in over a century with up to 150 Million People expected to vote in this election. Voting is underway in the south bay as Election Officials are ensuring the public that it is safe to cast a ballot for the november election. Santa clara county displayed the countys new voting equipment. It includes the official ballots and drop boxes at various locations around the county. People will vote in person at Voting Centers. There are new accessible boxes, ballot scanners and other equipment to verify the identity of voters. Now, we have a poll pad where we can look up a voter. We can check the registration and we can tell if they have already voted or not. The registrar said, Voting Centers will have plexiglas dividers and social distancing. Masks are required and will vot it. I wish we could be sitting here talking about the first round of rain coming our way. But you stay we are talking about another round of strong gusty winds, low humidity and hot temperatures coming our way debbie you are right. At this time of year we are looking for that big brain. I just check. Dont see much going on over the next seven or 10 days. Some models are even showing pretty dry pattern through the end of the month. We are typically enjoying the final days of summer and we may have another couple of weeks ago. Here is a look at what is happening over sfo. Blue sky. Upper 70s to report at this time. 84 in santa rosa. 80 in livermore and san jose at 77. Temperatures as warm as yesterday. As we look around the bay, cooler in oakland and ore. Cooler over areas of half moon bay. Here is that the of the winds. Generally light and variable. That will remain as we roll through the next few days. Here is a look at the flow. That is what we are more concerned about. Is coming from that direction. The northnortheast flow is a dry way. A dry flow and by tomorrow, the wind is expected to pick up. That will bring heightened fire danger. Not for today. Lets take a look at what is going on right now. We have good air quality over the north by. Moderate reporting over the central bay including San Francisco, oakland and livermore endeavor san jose, we have moderate air quality. Afternoon highs for today well above the average. 92 expected for santa rosa. 82 in San Francisco. 84 four oakland. 90 in livermore. San jose 85 expected for you there. Into the afternoon highs around the region. 87 for novato. The coastline will enjoy 74. The inner e spate 90 degrees for antioch and for the south bay, warm in morgan hill at 89. A warm 84 for santa cruz. The extended forecast. We expect to warm getting into wednesday. Thursday, friday. A near repeat on the heat and he is a hot one inland. Midto upper 90s for some of the inland cities. Low 90s around the bay. 80s expected him on the coastline. For the weekend, we have cooler weather. It will drop on saturday and even cooler sunday. 70s around the bay. Low 80s expected inland. Again, the heightened fire danger and the fire weather watch to talk about is coming up in the next half hour. Still to come at noon. Apple Just Announced its latest round of new products. I cant believe it. What . That our new house is haunted by casper the friendly ghost . Hey jill hey kurt movies . Ill get snacks no, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on our Car Insurance with geico. I got snacks ohhh, i got popcorn, i got caramel corn, i got kettle corn. Am i chewing too loud . Believe it geico could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. Oh. Oh, darn wha let me help. Lift and push and push there. Its up there. Hey joshie. Wrinkles send the wrong message. Help prevent them before they start with downy wrinkleguard. 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Apple has revealed his new iphone series which boasts better processing and 5g capabilities. In the virtual event, the ceo and others unveiled a homepod mini in addition to the 12 series. The new iphones include a dual camera system. A new protective ceramic shield. A magnetic feature for accessories and what apple is calling the fastest smartphone chip ever. That will pro and 12 promax come with advanced photography and ar capabilities. The new 12 many has all the features of the 12 but with a 5. 4 inch display. We have come so far with a device that is so important to our daily lives. This marks the start of a new era for iphone. The iphone 12 and 12 pro are available for preorder this friday. It will launch on the 23rd. The 12 promax can be preordered on november 6. Base prices range from 699 to 1099. Apple stock was down by about 1 3 4 of a percent. Stocks overall are drifting lower on wall street taking a pause after a fourday winning streak. You can see the dow jones is down by about 100 points, losing more than one 3rd of 1 . Is a similar percentage on the s p. The nasdaq is the only major index above water. The nasdaq is up by about one 3rd of 1 . A group of parents and students rallied in lafayette just this morning. Urging School Officials to reopen classrooms in several districts. Demonstrator say they are frustrated that there is not a clear plan to bring students back to the classroom despite Meeting Health requirements metrics by the county health officer. There are countless studies that show that this is detrimental to our kids. They are social beings they have to have their interaction. Depression is up. Teen suicide is up. In the classroom is an integral part of the years and what they and they have been denied that for 91 days. Organizers are demanding that officials in lafayette, morocco, orinda and Union High School district start working on realistic plans to get students who are ready for in Person Learning to the classroom sooner, rather than later. Still to come, we are getting an update on californias response to the covid19 pandemic work the top dr. Shows where we stand now and the two bay area counties that are moving to lose restrictions.