• A four-alarm wildfire on Mare Island has now grown to seven acres and was reportedly sparked when two people tried to saw down a power pole. The people may have been attempting to steal copper wire to sell it. [ABC 7]
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly told President Trump Tuesday morning that he had "come into [her] wheelhouse" with regard to the whistleblower complaint against him. Having served on the House Intelligence Committee for ten years, Pelosi has an intimate knowledge of the intelligence community. [New York Times]
  • The Giants-Rockies game last night set a Major League record for the number of pitchers used by both teams: 25. The game went to 16 innings, and the Giants lost, but Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner both hit home runs as a farewell "gift" to Bruce Bochy. [Chronicle]
  • PG&E cut the power to a small area along the Sonoma-Napa county line around 4 a.m. today. About 1,500 customers affected around northeast Santa Rosa and Calistoga. [ABC 7]
  • Another 48,000 PG&E customers are without power across Butte, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, and Yuba counties. [Chronicle]
  • Among the 26 recipients of this year's "genius" grants from the MacArthur Foundation are Bay Area landscape architect Walter Hood and Berkeley attorney sujatha baliga (lowercase hers), who works in the field of restorative justice. [Chronicle]
  • The cast and crew of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why were out shooting in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park on Tuesday despite the high fire danger there. [CBS SF]