The Oakland Fire Department says two structures and a brush caught fire. Crews from hayward fire, Alameda County fire and fremont fire were all called to the scene. Eight people were displaced by the fire for people in the montclair hills have been hit by the pg e Public Safety power shutoff. Lets bring in meteorologist Rosemary Orozco as the intense winds that sparked the power shutoffs have passed. There is still a red flag warning in effect. Where do you start . The red flag warning in the far east bay hills that includes montclair and over the north bay hills. Not because it is incredibly dry out there. And still a little bit breezy. Giving you a look at the conditions you have a northeast wind that continues to keep dry conditions. We are seeing some improvement but in any event, we are looking at the red flag warning with relative humidity reporting 16 in some areas. And we are looking at this to continue until 5 00 this afternoon. More on this in the conditions you can expect coming up in just a little bit. At this moment, Governor Newsom is speaking live. Lets listen in. Those are hurricane level winds. And in kirkwood. 140 mileperhour wind gusts. 96 mileperhour wind gusts around the San Gabriel Mountains and of course, those of you in Orange County no wealthy extraordinary dusts that you are experiencing and of the ongoing winds. 88 Miles Per Hour was recorded. We have the red flag warnings. The red flag warnings we anticipate and today in Northern California, we believe and anticipate by 5 00 today for substantial portions of Northern California, the red flag warnings will end. In Southern California later into the evening around 11 00 p. M. Broadly, we will experience a reduction in the winds between now and thursday. The most extreme wind events we believe will present themselves later today in the evening and most hopefully they are behind us. Red flag warnings. Today, Northern California earlier than in Southern California and substantial reductions in the way across the state by thursday. As it relates to the challenges induced by the winds in the wildfires that we have experience. 42 initial stores in the last 24 hours meaning 42 wildfires had ignited in the last 40 or rather 24 hours. Is an extraordinary testament to cal fire that you dont know about most of those. They suppressed the vast majority and i will highlight a few that were struggling and i might baseball world series being played, so often as the case. Cal fire doesnt get credit for saves. They deserve credit for saves. The work they do every day that doesnt generate headlines. And i want to acknowledge that outfront. With the winds to suppress 42 initial starts is remarkable. I want to applaud their leadership and our mutual aid system up and down the state of california. Still, because of popular larger fires which i will get to in a moment, we had a peak of about 100,000 people evacuated in Southern California. Currently about 90,710 are currently evacuated in the state. Most of the evacuations are renowned congregants shelters pursuant to covid19 protocols. Most of them are in settings that allow people to isolate and focus on their health and not just their safety in hotels and motels. I will remind people this season. 4. 2 million acres of burnt. 3. 2 million just since august. We are currently battling 14 major fires and complexes still have 5 thousand firefighters working the lines up and down the state of california. Tragically, as a reminder, 31 fatalities so far this fire season. And 9358 structures have been completely destroyed. Many times more have been damaged. Was to 10,000 as you can see structures have been destroyed in this historic wildfire season. Two fires that have generated underpin understandable stress and generated a lot of attention, particularly in Southern California. Both in Orange County. This is in Orange County and around irvine. The silverado fire has taken a little over 11,000 acres and that is a few hours ago. I imagine the number is higher at this moment. I want to thank fema and the federal government for support and secures the capacity for us to get 75 reimbursement for suppression related activity. It was done in a timely way and we are incredibly hateful and appreciative. The blue ridge fire also in Orange County, it is 0 contained. 7000 acres also part of that that we received from the federal government. Those are the two active wildfires. Primarily grass fires and some structure losses in the fires. Not as significant as some may have anticipated particularly with the wind gusts over 80 Miles Per Hour and around the area. And testament to the extraordinary work that has been done by local firefighters, not just our state firefighting force. Let me extend a point of consideration and appreciation and a somber point. There are two chronic critical conditions out of Orange County and our hearts and prayers go out to their families and at their speedy recovery. Shows the extraordinary heroism of the men and women that go on the front lines and that quite literally put their lives on the line to protect your property and protect your lives. Again, hearts go out and we are giving them all the best wishes and the best care we possibly can and to all of our firefighters up and down the state. I know how impactful it is when one of their own is injured. Again, stay safe and continue to do extraordinary work that you have been doing in this historic wildfire year. Just to put in perspective, we talk in historic times. Quick update on the largest wildfire in recorded history in the state of california. I will remind you that six of the top 20 wildfires in our States History have occurred in 2026 of the top 20 in 2020. The largest being the august complex over 1 million acres and last week we updated 22 contained. Making progress is stubborn. In complex with the u. S. Forest service. You can see they have been able to hold the line even with the ways in keeping this around 1 million acres. The creek fire, we have some issues with the winds, and we had a fairly strong on the line. The creek fire got a lot of attention. This is again in and around the area where we lost substantial number of trees to the drought. You have extreme conditions and you add the way over late the last 48 hours. 61 contained last week. 63 contained this week. You can see about 24,000 additional acres that have burned. In partnership with the u. S. Forest service and the joint command with cal fire. We continue to keep you updated on the two complexes. 14 active up and down the state of california. For the ones in Orange County. And 5000 firefighters continue to do extraordinary work in these extraordinary conditions in our state. Speaking of extraordinary, i want to applaud the leadership of the states of oregon, states of washington and nevada. We had a call as we do with our western states coalition. The collaborative we put together in the beginning of the pandemic. Our chiefs of staff connected on a consistent basis. Governors connected on a consistent basis as well. Just had a wonderful conversation with Governor Brown on issues related to vaccine safety and wildfires and some issues and some dams we share in the state. We had conversations that led to consideration to join our efforts in the state of california to review vaccines, their efficacy and safety. We announced last week a vaccine safety workgroup focusing on equity and transparency are focusing on Building Trust so we are not playing politics with the distribution of vaccines. Not playing with peoples lives or the emotion around the vaccines and when they will be safely available. We want to make sure it is done in a sober and thoughtful way. Objective and scientific way. We have the best and brightest and we are so proud of the country in terms of the Human Resources that we have the Research Institutions and institutions of higher learning. We work with the governors and they are joining formerly, our Safety Commission and we will be adding some of their experts as well and building out more broadly our workgroup. We are proud of that and proud of the partnership. Proud of the governors and the work that they are doing in this very difficult time and again, all of us are preparing for the distribution of the vaccines and Building Trust with you. In making sure they are done, not just expeditiously, but done safely. Accordingly, and i will just remind you this slide, the biostatistics, the experts in biostatistics and epidemiology in the pediatric Infectious Diseases and Health Equity and others that are part of the work group that are monitoring the vaccine trials. Just to give you a sense of the resumes of some of the folks of ucla, stanford, berkeley and many other extraordinary institutions that are already deeply engaged with the federal government on the vaccine protocols. Now more formally working with the other states. We are adding a new group today. 16 members of the new group. Is called a drafting guidelines workgroup. This is a focus on the ethics of distribution. Should be prioritized. How do we allocate the supplies . How do we not only do so safely, the scientific review committee, but do so with a sense of urgency and prioritization in the most vulnerable related to key concerns of the transmission of this disease that have comorbidities or congregant settings or under Skilled Nursing facilities or Residential Care facilities that are based on age and other modalities. Those are the guidelines that we are putting out to prioritization of the cohorts in the groups, we want to be guided again by experts and we will be guided by experts in immunization but also geriatrics which is foundational ethics. Epidemiology and Health Equity and pharmacy practice. 60 members of the workgroup. We put out their names. Put out a press release. You can go to our covid19 website. To learn more about the individuals that are part of this drafting guidelines workgroup. Dr. Galli will come up in a moment and talk more about this group in contrast to the safety group as he updates you on the movement between tiers. Now the eight weeks since we put out the tiered, the color coded tears status and talk about the movement and also be updating on some of the more specifics related to the purpose of the creation of the workgroup and what he is hoping comes out of the workgroup. What i want to update you on first. Numbers you are very familiar with. Numbers that have been trending slightly up with the case numbers in the state of california. In the last 24 hour period. We recorded 3188 total number of new positive covid19 cases in the state. The 14 day average , slightly higher than that at 3699 and i should note that if you look at the seven day average, the seven day average is higher at 4303. And i say that because i look at the 7 day. Not just the 14 day average. It is starting to trend up slightly. Take a look at this slide. You will see the 14 day Positivity Rate. That is the total number of tests that we conduct in the percent of individuals tested positive. We are never ashamed of testing for people. We are not ashamed of identifying those that have been tested positive as the purpose of testing is around taking care of peoples needs related to their isolation of quarantine or medical needs. That is the purpose of testing. Nothing to be ashamed of. We wont to increase the number of tests in the state of california but we want to keep the Positivity Rate down. Even as the total number of cases go up. Which generates headlines. The real headline for us in terms of alarm bells and red flags is that Positivity Rate. The positive you Positivity Rate over 14 day period is trending down. And we are starting to see it go slightly back up but still below 3 . Is at 3. 2 on the 7 day. 14 day, a little bit more stability. Seven days starting to see modest increases. 133,000. Just shy of 134,000 average number of daily tests. 144,000 yesterday. We got just shot of 200,000 tests. Over the weekend. Over a 24 hour period. We are sink the test numbers go up and we will be announcing later this week efforts to substantially increase the total number of tests with our new lab facility in valencia that will highlight this friday. But the Positivity Rate is still below 3 . Starting to trend modestly backup. Lets take a look at hospitalizations and icus. Hospitalizations are beginning to trend is slightly back up. 4. 7 increase over the last 14 days in new hospitalizations as well as an increase of 5. 9 icu admissions over a 14 day period. The good news is overall statewide, we are steel trending below where we have been trending for quite some time in icus and hospitals. So, Capacity Remains ample. Nonetheless, we saw weeks and weeks, candidly months or months of declines. Doubledigit declines. Pretty consistently over the 14 day advance. Doubt you are sink modest increases as you reverse that. We are seeing plateauing and stabilization. A slight increase over the last 14 days. We are monitoring this and watching this closely. Dr. Galli will come up in a moment and tell you what he has been seeing at the local level. Parts of Southern California. Imperial county in a region with for referred to as 1 near st. Louis it is spoke and we are monitoring modest increases as of late. We are working closely with the counties and their Health Officers and continuing to prepare for our winter months. Where more people start mixing holidays. Will more people start coming over. And enjoying the holidays. Outside of their core household core who cohorts. We are concerned about the prospects of seeing these admissions go up and seeing the hospitalization rates go up. What we are seeing and i will just briefly preview, with last weeks tiered status is continuing momentum out of the most restrictive tier. 12 counties last week and the most restrictive tier this week, you will see seven counties. Dr. Galli will layout the seven counties that are moving through tiers. None have fallen back this week which is encouraging. Seven counties moving through either into red, into orange or now even into yellow. The least restrictive tier. With that, here is dr. Gallis update on the tiered status and an update as well on the workgroup that we announced today. Thank you as always, governor. Before we get into the tears, i want to spend a minute on the exciting progress announced on vaccines. Last week, we talked about one of the first pillars of our vaccine strategy and i will remind you we submitted like allstate, a comprehensive plan noted to be one of the most comprehensive plant in the nation about being prepared for distribution of the vaccine when he is ready. To the cdc and federal partners. Just over a week ago. Today, we are announcing the second pillar of our three pillar strategy. One that Scientific Safety Review Committee made up of experts in california now joined by experts from four other surrounding states that we will look at the evidence. All of the data and ensure that it is complete and that we are transparent. Not in any way to delay Vaccine Distribution but to reinforce and support what we have the federal government will share with us which is a strong bit of evidence about the safety and all of the rigor that goes into getting a vaccine prepared for distribution to people. Today, the drafting guidelines subcommittee or committee coming together to really talk about the hard questions about when we only have handfuls of doses. Who should get them . While supporting our frontline healthcare workers as the governor alluded to. Those who are most vulnerable. Those in congregant facilities, Skilled Nursing facilities and other places and really looking at the first group of californians eligible to get the vaccine and then, later, as we get more vexing but not enough for everyone, how do we roll it out and how do we have the two pop groups working together that in my view, will prepare california to be ready when we get the vaccine. We are in no way delaying distribution, but preparing ourselves like few other states will be able to. We look forward to that work and i look forward to hearing the advice of those committees as we guide and work with our county partners. I will remind you the experts are not just from our esteemed academic universities around the state, but also practical individuals at the county level working in pharmacies, nurses who work with patients. Lots of different experts so that we have a rich set of input from across california. Today as the governor mentioned, normally we update the tier status by zoom. I had the privilege of doing it alongside the governor. Last week we had 12 counties go to purple. We solved that was two counties to actually move back from red tier to the purple tier. 23 counties in red last week. 13 in orange and nine in yellow. Today we have nine counties in purple. Three counties moving forward. Actually two counties moving forward in shasta who we work closely with to look at their most recent data. And worked with the county and maintain them in the red tier. We have 22 counties in red. 17 in orange and 10 in yellow. If we go back to the beginning of the tier system, we had 38 counties in purple. Quite a bit of movement. Only two counties in yellow. Now 10. We have seen as we talked to you about the slow and stringent approach