As far as cal fire is telling us zero containment. There are more than 500 firefighters working to put this thing out. We also know there are some structures destroyed. We dont know exactly how many. But we also know so far there are no deaths or any injuries. Andrea arrived in the fire zone soon after we learned about it. Talk to a woman who saw the fire break out. You were up there when this fire started. Explain what you saw. I was just driving with my friends. We see this giant red blob i guess in the sky. First thing that comes to mind is fire. We start driving. We start driving towards the fires. Once we realized it was coming from the geysers we did follow the road that we know leads to there. When we were driving. There was a lot of ash hitting our car. We realized we were in fact driving towards the fire. There was a point where we got up there that we did see red on not only our right side but our left side. That was when we realized we needed to turn around. Reporting on the kincaid fire. This get you to john ramose in marin county with a Quick Response from fire crews battling the muir fire. Reporter the fire broke out about 10 40 am. The hot dry winds were howling. Mother nature actually help the firefighters. It began on the stretch of highway one between the towns of Stinson Beach and muir beach. 4 to 5 acres burning on both sides of the road. Reporter if there is such a thing as a good place to have a fire this was it. It grew to a total of 58 acres. Because the wind was blowing down from the top of the hill it actually cut the fire in check. Mother nature did as a favor. The fire was backing into the wind. The wind actually helped keep the fire from advancing. Reporter with the winds blowing out to see when the fire hit the coast it had nowhere else to go. Stinson beach is less than two miles of road. Nestled between the ocean and steep wooded hills. Residents say it was unnerving to see the firefighters roll through town. My house is up there. The wind started to blow in the middle of the night. You get very you get on high alert. We are nestled in here. The resources came quickly. We dont have a ton of resources. Reporter they did today. Extra fire crews had been pre deployed in the area. Crews from the surrounding towns and even mount tam joined in the effort. 130 firefighters. 30 engines. A bulldozer and 2 helicopters contain the blaze in three hours. And of course they had some help from the coastline. Is a Great Barrier at the pacific ocean. Reporter it turns out in marin county the same is true for fires is real estate. What matters is location location location. We want to get to that press conference going on in downtown San Francisco. Pg e talking about the power shut off. Maybe we will get information about the report of a power line down in the geysers area. Lets listen. For that footprint of the event. In kern county tehachapi near noon tomorrow. With that i will leave it for this is the event. I will be back to discuss the stronger events on the horizon. Good afternoon everyone. I am the Incident Commander for this october 23 Public Safety power shut off event. Im here to provide an operational update. And a status report on restoration efforts. As of last night at this very press conference we had just completed the shutdown event in the sierra foothill region of our Service Territory as well as the north bay. At 0100 hrs. This morning the 24th we began thutdown for the remaining counties that were in scope. San mateo and kern counties. That activity was completed at approximately zero 200 consistent with plan. In total there were approximately 179,000 customer shutdown across portions of 17 counties. All clears were forecasted to be at noon today for all of those impacted customers. While we were in the the energized state we were constantly monitoring weather conditions. We were fortunate that weather conditions had actually improved. A little earlier than anticipated. So we were able to issue the all clear for portions of that shutdown event. Earlier than noon. Approximately 9 45 am. That was for san mateo county. And the southern portion of the sierra foothills. We immediately began patrolling and restoring our customers at that time. The remaining areas of the north bay and the northern part of the sierra foothills remain out of service until weather conditions improve at noon which was consistent with forecasts. As of noon shortly after all counties with the exception of kern were declared all clear. We have been restoring customers ever since. I will say that kern county itself the all clear for kern is actually projected to occur at noon tomorrow. We are going to file the same cadence and monitor weather conditions. If there is an opportunity to pull that in if winds decrease earlier than forecasted we will begin that restoration sequence as well. We restored approximately 100 to 125,000 customers. Since these all clears have been issued. We have roughly 56,000 customers out of service still. The numbers are dropping fast. Our crews are making great progress. That is possible due to the amount of resources we have out there. We have over 40 helicopters. And approximately 6000 yield resources that are conducting the work. We are very pleased with our progress. We are working as hard as we can to get everybody back in lights. I wanted to transition quickly to the kincaid fire. That fire broke out last night. As you know. We are coordinating pg e is coordinating with cal fire on that event. We have an Incident Management Team that has formed stood up and on the scene. Integrated into cal fires response. They own the response work coordinating efforts with cal fire. Important for us to understand where the fire perimeter is and where the Fire Fighting efforts are happening. There is temporary flight restrictions which could have impacts on our ability to patrol and restore from ps ps. We are confident we are tied together well. We are leveraging our Agency Partners that are in our eoc. We have a representative from hellfire today. As well as the cpuc. We are leveraging that relationship to be successful in this response. With that before i handed back over to bill. I just want to sincerely appreciate the patients on behalf of our customers and our Agency Partners in our communities. Totally understand the impacts of service interruptions. We understand that. We are working as hard as we can to restore you safely to service. With that i will handed off to bill johnson. Reporter good evening everyone on bill johnson president and ceo of pg e corporation. Let me echo mark and saying how much we appreciate our customers patients. An understanding as we do these shut off events. We understand personally is is a hardship particularly for people who rely on electricity for medical needs. But for schools businesses and our general way of life. None of us wants to be living without power. But we have a single simple and i think important objective at work here. To avoid catastrophic wildfire. And given the conditions we have been seeing high wind speed low humidity and high fuel content these power shutoffs are necessary tool for Public Safety. In addition i also want to express concern we feel at pg e for the people affected by the kincaid fire and Sonoma County. Wildfires terrible if you have ever seen it. We are supporting cal fires efforts on the ground here. We are grateful the damage so far has been limited. We also no evacuations can cause a lot of fear and concern. It is distressing to a lot of people who are customers friends and neighbors. We never want anyone to have to go through with this. Unfortunately many people in california have in recent years. In response of this fire we are working with cal fire and other state and local agencies to help keep everybody safe. I want to acknowledge particularly the First Responder community. The brave people that deal with those things. I appreciate your help. And i know there are questions about what happened in the areas of this fire. Let me address that. This afternoon we filed something called eir. Electric incident report with the cpuc. Related to the kincaid fire. That report notes around 9 20 pm last night we became aware of a transmission level outage. In the area of the fire. When one of our field workers patrolled the area this morning cal fire personnel on the site brought to his attention and our attention to what appears to be a broken jumper on one of our transmission towers. A jumper is simply a piece of wire that jumps the conductor over the insulator. Cal fire had taped off the area around this base of the tower and is investigating the subject. We are continuing to investigate. Filing the eir does not tell us where the fire started. And the fact we filed it and we are investigating does not tell us what caused the fire or where it started. Cal fire the experts in this withdrawal that ultimate conclusion. Reported our findings to the regulator and are sharing it with you out of each sense of transparency. Some people might ask why the transmission line was on. The transmission line was not among the lines we deenergized in Sonoma County. Transmission lines in the area remained energized during the wind event. Consistent with our established protocols and procedures. In other words they did not meet the conditions that we forecast for transmission level outages. We didnt see the wind speeds and the forecasts that we typically would see for transmission outage. And so we relied on the protocol. We still at this point do not know exactly what happened. We did turn off the distribution lines in the area. Because those did meet the wind speed and other criteria. In total in Sonoma County now about 40 of customers have been restored. We will continue to work on that in conjunction with our coordination with cal fire. So beyond our restoration work and this event. And the concern and the First Responders about the kincaid fire. It is important to transition to the weather even ahead. Im going to ask scott to come up to discuss with the latest models are telling us. Unfortunately it does look like the Weather Forecast models are coming into better alignment. In better agreement and our confidence is significantly increasing we will have a second very strong we are bringing you the live News Conference from pg e headquarters. 800 pound gorilla in this room right now is the middle by bill johnson of pg e ceo that there was a broken jumper. A piece of wire on one of their towers. Transmission line in the area of the kincaid fire. That was not deenergized. He claims it did not meet their protocol for wind. They didnt shut the power off. He admits they dont know if that is what started the fire. They want cal fire experts to go in and find out 179,000 customers affected by power outages. Power still out for 35,000 customers. In napa and sonoma counties. Weill stay on top of the wind and weather conditions. Darren peck is in the Weather Center and will have the latest on that. You can always find emergency power shut off survival guides on our website. Kpix. Com. Is not just here in northern calirnia. Multiple brushfires erupting in southern california. The latest that has burned one home. And is threatening several others. There are those who will say that youre too fat. Too skinny. Too hard. Too soft. Too old. Too much. Too unexpected. Too limited. And to them we say too bad. Because at kaiser permanente, we believe that everyone deserves the right to thrive. At the no live news desperate live picture is crucified to knock down the kincaid fire in northern california. We are monitoring the situation that you are looking at in southern california. Firefighters working to keep entire neighborhoods from burning down. Flames erupted this afternoon. You can see the fight to keep that under control right here. It is already burned about 20 acres. At least one home as you can see the flames shooting through the roof. Those claims are now threatening more houses. In that area. Early reports did say this fire was heading toward a high school. We will monitor the situation as we learn more. A small gesture going a long way in the middle of the evacuations. How one Sonoma County business showed its appreciation for the firefighters. Then juul, backed by big arut tobacco, wrote prop c to weaken ecigarette protections. The San Francisco chronicle reports prop c is an audacious overreach, threatening to overturn the ban on flavored products approved by voters. Prop c means more kids vaping. Thats a dangerous idea. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. But you dont feel good. With polycythemia vera, pv, symptoms can change so slowly over time you might not notice. But new or changing symptoms can mean your pv is changing. Lets change the way we see pv. You track and discuss blood counts with your doctor. But its just as vital to discuss changing symptoms as well. Take notice and take action. Discuss counts and symptoms with your doctor. Visit takeactionpv. Com darren peck is standing by in the Weather Center. There is another wind event on the horizon. Sunday will be the primary focus in this forecast. Im going to get to that in a moment. What we look like from space right now. Just to show you what is perhaps a small positive aspect of an offshore wind. Take a look at california from the satellite. It looks like clouds. Some of that is clouds. Most of it is smoke off the coast. You are seeing the smoke from the kincaid fire. Getting caught up in these offshore winds. That is why we call them that. They blow offshore. On a day like today there is a small positive. It takes the smoke and blows it away. We had an excellent forecast at the top of the newscast showing how tomorrow the winds are going to ship. Depending on how much smoke is coming off the fire some of it could drift our way. We will see how that plays out. The offshore winds taking the smoke and moving it away. They are warming is up in oakland broke a record today. This is al kammer from the airport looking at the city. 89 today for the record. The only location ive got the did it. The reason why it would be likely oakland will be the one that did it. You are at the bottom of the east bay hills. The winds were going offshore. Sinking down into oakland and sinking air is warm you up. Oakland congratulations. This talk about sundays went. If we look at the wind pattern for the med levels of the atmosphere. This is what sears the wind events. You need to look up around the 18,000 foot level which is what the streamlines are showing us to see how the wind is going to behave. A weak area of high pressure. Nothing big. Stronger winds over here now. If you take a look at how this changes going into sunday. Now we see a telltale sign. We started to pick up another surge of strong northeasterly winds. Thanks to a weak area of low pressure that will park itself right over the great basin. Just in the right location. It starts pulling all the air back into it self. We get caught in the middle of it. That is typically how the strongest offshore wind events happen. Watch what happens. These are the wind gust. The brighter the color the stronger the wind. The deep purple to comes down. That gets us into sunday. The highlight for the winds here. It does look like a sunday morning wind event. I just played the future cast to step sunday morning at 5 am. We saw a strong surge of the purple show up. Now we have numbers on it. Instead of showing the numbers in the mountains. This is showing the numbers in the city. This will be a different wind event on sunday. This will have the ability to bring winds down to the towns. Santa rosa potentially 40 mile perhour. By the time we get to sunday. Will Start Talking about the possibility for a widespread wind event. Maybe breaks branches and neighborhoods. We have an experience that yet. The bigger concern with this is going to be what does it do in the mountains. For your comparison the last two events that have come through it look like they had the potential to eat hit 60 mileperhour gus. Not only did that. They hit 70. The one coming in on sunday looks like it has potential to hit perhaps 80 and those isolated dusts. If there is any good news on sunday is that the humidity levels may not drop is low. When youve got 80 mileper hour gust over the mountains over in california in late october. It is a problem. That is going to be the forecast into sunday. Weve got another fire weather watch in place by the time we get into friday through sunday. They have extended it through sunday. Saturday night is really going to be the focus for when we experience the strongest of those wins. There is your cooldown. We get back down to the middle 70s by the time we get into early next week. Tesla ceo promising big things by the end of the year. The news rallying stocks. In the middle of destructive fires sciences with the Newest Technology to fight wildfires. Our teams monitoring the developing situation right now and Sonoma County. The kincaid fire raging strong at this hour. We will have the latest details for you coming up next. Wit looks like jill heading offe on an adventure. 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And sandwiches if they need anything. Luckily the guys the owner bought a generator yesterday. Good for them. News is 6 pm begins right now. A fastmoving fire raging in Sonoma County. Residents evacuated. Several homes burned to the ground. Pg e warning of another wind event this weekend. With possibly more power outages. Golden state warriors first regularseason game at shea center. The team warming up. We have the excitement from inside the arena. At shea center. The wildfire that is still raging out of control instant Sonoma County. For north bay residents frightening dij vu. These images of the flames haunting. The wildfire burning near geyserville called the kincaid fire. As you can see the past destroyed buildings. Ill crews in the field counted at least half a dozen structures destroyed. The blaze is that 10,000 acres. It is still currently at 0 containment. Thousands of residents had to run for safety. It started last night northeast of geyserville. And moved so quickly the entire town was ordered to evacuate at dawn. Flying over the fire right now. You can see thick smoke covering the entire area. These ally pictures. Watching the active section of this fire move across the dry hillsides. This evening we have late word from pg e about trouble with one of its high
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