From the stronger gusts. Mount st. Helena, a wind win was out in the north bay hills. Mount diablo 57, and 53, and healdsburg hills 52. Even a wind of 20 Miles Per Hour could cause problems. That was the case in terms of the wind speeds. Oakland hills 38 high fire dang continues, that northerly flow ramping up. This continues, all of the areas in red, north bay towards the delta and east bay valleys and hills. This in plays until 11 00 tomorrow morning. 23 more hours, gusts could be approaching 30 Miles Per Hour and across the higher peaks, maybe approaching 45 Miles Per Hour, once again, the strongest wind event was last night, early this morning. Its incredibly dry out there. Take a look at the sampled sites. Temperatures are in the 70s and 80s. Relative humidity. We look at that to guffaws idea how much moisture is in the air. Look at atlas peak, down from 12 tomount st. Helena, and mount st. The winds have backed up and theyre completely calm especially in the higher terrain. Heres a live camera looking at San Francisco this afternoon. Theyre still in the clear, fog free skies and San Francisco on track to reach the 80s this afternoon. As far as the heat, the heat advisory started at 11 00 this morning, this in place at 9 00 friday. Forecast highs, 80s, 90s and could be flirting 100 degrees, in fact, well look at some of the sites right now. These are the 12 00 numbers. Concord 81, concord 87 and the coast in the upper 70s, its interesting, Half Moon Bay an hour ago in the 80s, probably in response to a strong offshore wind, a moderately strong offshore wind. Still temperatures in the mid to upper 70s, now, records to beat today, a few samples, we could and will have a few records report today. Probably for oakland and livermore in the san jose area later on today. Heat is a factor today and heat is a factor tomorrow. This weekend will bring in changes and well have more on the weekend outlook coming up in a little bit. Mark, thank you, we learn today the number of americans seeking Unemployment Benefits rose last week. The latest report shows 898,000 americans followed for first time job less benefits last week. This comes as more and more cities decide to backtrack on their reopening plans due to a number of cases of covid19. Were 10. 7 million short of recovering the 22 million jobs lost when the pandemic struck in march. 9million californians have sought benefits since the middle of wall street. The dow jones has recovered from from the huge drop at the opening bay. Its fighting its back to sea level. Its almost there right now. This pattern isich is down still almost a quarter of a per cent. Nasdaq is losing almost two thirds of 1 now. Theyre talking about the status of reopening schools right here in california. Just this morning, tony thursday tony thuman was talking about in person instruction. He says each School District happens its own priorities and that there is no one size fits all plan for reopening schools. Dozens of alameda child care workers rallies in oakland today to bring attention to the current child care crisis. The group gathered at and home child care base that theres new state pay cuts and decreased funding. Theyre facing increased cost as they try to support Distance Learning for children who dont have the technology at their homes or apartments. One third of child care providers have been forced to close because of the pandemic. This is part of a statewide day of action including other rallies taking place in san diego as well as los angeles. People across our state dropped, covered and held on during this mornings Great American california shake out drill. This is the coming ups largest earthquake drill and its an annual reminder on what we need to do with the big earthquake when it hits. My little boys did it as part of the classroom studies at the dining room table. The california earthquake authorities gave is takes place area 31 years ago. The Earthquake Authority says the Good Opportunity is to make sure rooms around your home is around the hazards. People are seeing whether your home can structural withstand an earthquake. Thats a good reminder here as we live here in earthquake country. President ial nominee Kamala Harris cancels travel plans throughout the weekend. What we are learning about people who have tested positive for the coronavirus. And the Supreme Court judge Amy Coney Barrett, its not barrett testifying today. Its those for and against her who spoke about the judge. People across the bay area are dealing with elevated fire danger today and there are thousands of people who had electricity cut off by pg e and about withstanding the Late Afternoon your friday. The winds, theyre not as strong as last night, but there is still a bit of a breeze. Fire danger, we have concerns, if you think about it weve been looking at the dry hillsides around june. Whenever we have a red flag fire warning in the month of october, we have to take it seriously. Thats a fact that we have today into friday. Im showing you the graphics, the red flag warning until 11 00 on friday. The key elements we dont like to see this time of the year the 80s and 90s, its not too bad. The winds are around 35, 40 Miles Per Hour, the wind are very dry, on the order of around 10. May be Single Digits in a few spots. The winds thankfully backing off a bit. Youll notice there is one more impulse moving in. Thats tonight, later on tonight, this is 10 00 and early tomorrow morning. The brighter colors do reflect the stronger wind spodes and theyre focused in the fairfield and winters and napa and portions of sonoma county. Friday, thankfully the winds will back off throughout the day. The heat advisory starts at 11 00 this morning and runs until 9 00 p. M. For the entire area. There will be 80s and 90s in a few spots and a few spots could be inching closer to 100 degrees this afternoon. Showing you a few sample spots right here, well show you the temperature and relative humidity, atlas peak, 12 , the winds have been backing off. Theres still a breeze toward mount st. Helena. Out of the northeast, thats wind gust up to 27 Miles Per Hour. That northeast flow wiping out the marine layer, wiping out the fog, clear skies and when that happens, if San Francisco even warms up into the 80s. Right now you can see widespread 80s across a good portion of the bay area. A few 90s is starting to show up as well for the 12 00 hour. At Half Moon Bay its 77 degrees. That seems warm. I was looking over the past few hours. Half moon bay 11 35 this morning, not too long ago, there was a northerly wind in place, that wind moved out of the west it, changed election and 11 55 dropping to 77 degrees. Dropping over 10 degrees just within that short amount of time. Its all in response to a change in the wind direction. Its still hot, though, towards the coast. Records to beat today will be close in santa rosa, oakland, and livermore and san jose will likely break records this afternoon. Why is this pattern happening. We talked about an area of High Pressure out in the pacific. Whats also happening, the jet stream winds here, you can see them, theres a little dip here in the jet stream. Thats a little disturbance that is kind of setting up to our east and that pleasure difference, that area to the east and High Pressure to the west, thats setting up the offshore wind event we were concerned in the last few days and right through friday. Its dry and breezy and high fire danger still in plays. Into the weekend it looks like well begin to cool things off. Its still fairly hot on saturday, but temperatures heading into the cooling direction this weekend and youll notice the change as we head towards sunday. Lots of sunshine this afternoon, lots of 90s, even the 80s, San Francisco downtown in the mid, maybe the upper 80s t santa rosa theres the 98 and widespread upper 90s, well inland. Were not talking about the micro climates, its the forecast for the entire bay area. Well hold on to this weather pattern and friday, and well bring you welcome change. Saturday looks inland and its cooling things off. The one thing i cant add to the fiveday is there are no rain chances at all as we look to the rest of the month. Things will change now and then. As long as we have this dry pattern, fire danger and fire season, were in the middle, the peak of fire season. Appreciate that. Statewide flex alert does begin at 3 00 this afternoon. Cal iso the power grid operator is asking californians to conserve energy to conserve electricity t goes from 3 00 p. M. To 10 00 tonight. Youre encouraged to precool your home if you have air conditioning before 3 00 today. You want to get it cooler and then afterwards leave your thermostat alone into the evening hours. Coming up at noon, more gun violence in the city of oakland. What were learning about a shooting that left two young men dead and how many homicides oakland has seen so far this year compared to all of last year. When was the last time your property tax bill went down . What . Never. Are you kidding me . For years, the residential burden has gone up. While the corporate burden has gone down. Prop 15 reverses that. It closes corporate loopholes and invests in schools, Small Business, and firefighters. And when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. Thats right. A savings of a hundred twentyone dollars a year for the average home. Give homeowners a break. Vote yes on 15. The process for confirming judge Amy Coney Barrett as the next United StatesSupreme Court justice is moving forward. The Senate JudiciaryCommittee Approved next thursday the day that the committee will vote. A vote from the full senate is expected the following week. Allie rasmus joins us live with the story. Reporter judge Amy Coney Barrett did not speak at the hearing today. Her question and answer portion of the hearing process ended yesterday. Instead today democratic and republican senators called witnesses to testify for or against her confirmation as the next u. S. Supreme court justice. Republicans called two members of the American Bar Association who said appellate judge Amy Coney Barrett is qualified to serve supreme just her integrity and temperament met the high standards for her appointment to the Supreme Court. Judge barretts views are far outside of the mainstream. For evidence you can look no further than her own words before this committee this week. She would not say whether voter intimidation was illegal. Democratic senators called citizens and a physician to testify too. She publiclily denied holding up the Affordable Care act. It would spell an end for the Affordable Care act. A mother said how she relies on the aca you, total claims is 1 million for their care. In the first seven years, our combined claims have surpassed 4 million. Without the protections of the Affordable Care act, my daughters would have hit their lifetime caps and now be rendered uninsurable. Republicans called character witnesses to testify on barretts police. One of her former law students explained how the notre dame law professor helped her get the technology need to get her study. Everyone who has interacted with her she is a woman of her word and she means what she says and she says what she means. Theyre unclear on her views on legal and political matters. Barrett was noncommittal about topics of apportion and deciding the outcome of this president ial election. I believe shell open a new chapter of conservatism activism like we havent seen for decades. I want every american to think long and hard who would you like to be on the court. Knowing the difference between the party preferences. That to me is more important today than its ever been. And republicans say they have the votes to confirm barrett as the next Supreme Court justice and they intend to do that before the president ial election day november 3rd. All right. Thank you. The california Supreme Court has sent the Scott Peterson murder case back to the San Mateo County court for a new trial. The decision follows revelation that is a juror in the case failed to disclose that she obtain a restraining order for harassing a woman while pregnant. They overturned his death sentence august after the trial judge dismissed jurors who opposed the death penalty. Police are investigating a shooting in east oakland that killed two young men and injured one more. Officers say they think a confrontation in the street is what led to several shots being fired at 12 45 yesterday afternoon at 84th avenue near birch street. The attacker hasnt been identified. The total number of deaths is to 78 which is three more than oakland saw in all of last year. About every night or so, every other night, you know, you sit in there and watch tv and we hear gunshots. We dont react to it. Its not acceptable in the middle of the day for shots to be fired in our community. 60 shots fired were recorded after yesterdays deadly shooting happened. There is no indication that the two cases are related. And theres a search for a homicide suspect has ended. 35yearold kevin mit was wanted for the death of his girlfriend. The officers found the mother of two with gunshot wounds at the Hilton Garden Inn in the parking lot saturday night. And they released body cam video for a sheriff who shot a man at a traffic stop. They pulled this man over for not driving with his headlines. He threw his cell phone and he walked towards the sergeant with one hand behind and he drew his away but he kept walking towards the sergeant even faster. Stop. [ shooting ] for receiving a deadly threat. He fired six shots at mr. Garcia, all six shots struck him. After reviewing that, we have determined that the deputy acted according to policy, and also according to his training. Garcia died the next day from his injuries and it was confirmed that he was not armed. He had a history of dui arrests and he had a blood alcohol of. 33 al 8 that night. The Sheriffs Department and the napa police are investigating the accident. Still to come at noon, no power for thousands of homes and businesses across northern california. The Public Safety power shut off and the effect were seeing in the bay area. Plus. 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Pg e started to intentionally turn off power last night to areas where there is currently extreme fire danger, warm temperatures, strong gusty winds and we have more on how people are dealing with what could be here a couple of days without electricity. Its windy. The trees are swaying, i live up in the hills. Oakland hills residents julie and Adam Bernstein had to drive down the hill to get power. The electricity was shut off last night. For the Public Safety power shutter off. This includes 28,000 in the bay area. I went Grocery Shopping yesterday. I forgot they were turning the power off. Everything is melting and getting warm. The event taking place today is absolutely necessary and its not a decision we take lightly. Todays weather event creates a safety issue. Strong winds and heat and low humidity are a recipe for wildfires. They deactivated lines like the Oakland Hills where there is extreme fire danger. Winds how old in livermore this morning. In neighborhood along johnston road in the dark. They set up Resource Centers impacted by Power Outages and this one in danville. Community Resource Centers are a place where customers can go if theyre affected by a psps and take care of essentials that they would do at home. Like charging phones if they need access to wifi. They expect to restore power by 10 00 p. M. Friday. Lets get to our meteorologist for the Current Conditions here. We noticed this morning that it wasnt too windy in our neighborhoods, but i remember yesterday you talked about two phases. The second phase is still coming . Yeah two pulses mooching through the bay area, mike and gasia, the first one last night and this morning, the second one wont be as strong. Its tonight and tomorrow morning. If you think about it, though, its not going to be as strong, today is hotter, its actually very dry outside. Everything is really receptive. If the fire has to burn unfortunately. Thats why