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JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's
other news: High winds fueled
new fire dangers and new power

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blackouts in California.

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Stephanie Sy has our report.

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STEPHANIE SY: The winds across
Northern California are picking
up, and, with them, fears that

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the fires will only get worse.

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Sonoma County Sheriff
Mark Essick told evacuees
today not to go home yet.

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MARK ESSICK, Sonoma County,
California, Sheriff:
With the winds, we're
going to get a lot of

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questions about repopulation,
how people can get back to their
homes, with a lot of anxiety

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and anxiousness there.

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STEPHANIE SY: Communities
across Northern California are
also facing more blackouts.

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The new high wind advisory
prompted Pacific Gas & Electric
to begin cutting off power

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for the fourth time this month.

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It's aimed at preventing downed
lines from sparking new fires.

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But the frequency of the
widespread outages are adding to
frayed nerves and frustrations.

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More than 1.5 million people
are affected, on top of 2.5
million who lost power over

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the weekend.

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Then there are the many
people living in evacuation
shelters, anxiously
waiting for the all-clear.

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DAVE ASHMORE, Wildfire Evacuee:
It's quite frustrating.

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I mean, all the resources and
everything that's going on is
great, but it's very frustrating

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not knowing.

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STEPHANIE SY: And to the
south, in Los Angeles,
daylight revealed damaged
homes and scorched

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hillsides from a fire near
the famed Getty arts complex.

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L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti warned
that smoke clearing doesn't
mean the area is completely

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safe.

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ERIC GARCETTI (D), Mayor of
Los Angeles: I'm sure we all
have gotten phone calls saying

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and had conversations with
people saying, well, there's
not a lot of smoke, it should

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be fine to go home.

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I want to continue to
tell people, listen
to the professionals
and the firefighters

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who are asking you to
stay away and mandating
that you stay away.

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STEPHANIE SY: Wind speeds are
expected to peak with gusts up
to 80 miles per hour overnight

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on both ends of California.

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For the "PBS NewsHour,"
I'm Stephanie Sy.