JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's
other news: High winds fueled
new fire dangers and new power
blackouts in California.
Stephanie Sy has our report.
STEPHANIE SY: The winds across
Northern California are picking
up, and, with them, fears that
the fires will only get worse.
Sonoma County Sheriff
Mark Essick told evacuees
today not to go home yet.
MARK ESSICK, Sonoma County,
California, Sheriff:
With the winds, we're
going to get a lot of
questions about repopulation,
how people can get back to their
homes, with a lot of anxiety
and anxiousness there.
STEPHANIE SY: Communities
across Northern California are
also facing more blackouts.
The new high wind advisory
prompted Pacific Gas & Electric
to begin cutting off power
for the fourth time this month.
It's aimed at preventing downed
lines from sparking new fires.
But the frequency of the
widespread outages are adding to
frayed nerves and frustrations.
More than 1.5 million people
are affected, on top of 2.5
million who lost power over
the weekend.
Then there are the many
people living in evacuation
shelters, anxiously
waiting for the all-clear.
DAVE ASHMORE, Wildfire Evacuee:
It's quite frustrating.
I mean, all the resources and
everything that's going on is
great, but it's very frustrating
not knowing.
STEPHANIE SY: And to the
south, in Los Angeles,
daylight revealed damaged
homes and scorched
hillsides from a fire near
the famed Getty arts complex.
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti warned
that smoke clearing doesn't
mean the area is completely
safe.
ERIC GARCETTI (D), Mayor of
Los Angeles: I'm sure we all
have gotten phone calls saying
and had conversations with
people saying, well, there's
not a lot of smoke, it should
be fine to go home.
I want to continue to
tell people, listen
to the professionals
and the firefighters
who are asking you to
stay away and mandating
that you stay away.
STEPHANIE SY: Wind speeds are
expected to peak with gusts up
to 80 miles per hour overnight
on both ends of California.
For the "PBS NewsHour,"
I'm Stephanie Sy.