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Spots, which is a real concern. as the winds pick up, especially in the late evening, the worry is that an ember could get caught, carried and all of a sudden start a spot fire which could be quite large. what we saw earlier this morning, apocasm lyptic in a sense. power lines down, trees down, fires on both sides of the highway. very, very dangerous. crews have done an amazing job so far of trying to contain those flames and get people out safely. you mentioned 200,000 people displaced in this event. they all want to get back home and find out what their home looks like at this point. that ca...

Projected wind gusts that they have across the sacramento valley and the foothills. we're talking about the potential for hurricane force gusts. some of what we read a indicates this will be the greatest wind event of the season thus far, creating the most dangerous fire threat for this area. so look out over the next 48 hours. the central and northern half of the state of cannel, this is where we anticipate the worst fire conditions going forward. in fact, we have red flag warnings in place north into redding. that includes the paradise region which was devastated by a fire this time last yea...

Kincade fire. nearly 22,000 acres and still burning. still no cause, but the local utility pg&e has now reported an outage with a high voltage transmission line and the fire broke out near this origin. >> at this point, we don't know what happened. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands had their power shut off in the hopes of preventing breakouts. right now across california, thousands of firefighters still fighting flames, still waiting for the next conflagration. . >> our thanks to nick watt for that update on the situation there. >> ivan cabrera is looking at it now. as i understand it, monda...

Tell what happened to that fire. they plan to cut electricity to as many as 850,000 people to prevent new fires. meteorologist derek van dam is here with us now. the issue, derek, is what are the winds going to do? what's going to happen over the next few hours? >> we're in a bit of a lull. we're not talking about hurricane force gusts right now but we do have the potential to see the strongest wind event of the fire season right into this weekend, saturday night and into sunday morning. something we're monitoring very closely. by the way, if they cut off power to 850,000 customers, that's rou...

I wouldn't be surprised if they did. the predicted winds, more than likely they will be turning things off to prevent further ignitions. we have our hands keeping this fire in check. last thing they want is new start and we have multiple things to deal with. leland: and important thing about new start was where are we in fire season? sometimes it is difficult to keep track of the calendar. >> july, august are the hot months, the fire danger months but primarily october and november is when the big ones happen. that is when you get the wind event. by the end of summer things are real dry, they ...