California governor Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency for eight counties, including Los Angeles and Santa Barbara; one man killed by falling tree
More than 500,000 households and businesses across California are without power, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks outages across the country.
The outage are concentrated in northern California, and are likely affecting more than one million people. In some counties, nearly half of all residents have lost electricity as powerful winds, some as high as 100mph, knocked down trees and power lines.