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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.