5 mile on the coast as well as novato and green indicates good air quality. Upper levels wind out of the north are expected to transport some smoke in to the north bay to our inland east bay for poor air quality. As we look at the rest of the day 60s skies will get slightly hazier as we move into your afternoon especially to our north bay, into the east bay. Our warmest inland valleys, well talk about it and talk about when the air clears in just a few liz . We continue now with the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg. Ginsberg was 87 and had been battling pan crealtic cancer. She leaves behind two children and several grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband marty. Heres a live look at washington, d. C. This morning where its 9 01 there. Flags are flying at half staffer atitol and Supreme Court to honor ginsberg. She served on the court for decades, a pioneer there on the court. Abc News Reporter Karen Travers has more on the justices legacy. Repo
Swh she was first appointed on the december circuit she may not have been a household name, but for those of us who were law students at the time it was a significant appointment. Reporter miller has met ginsberg. She was riveting. Reporter and calls her a role model. She was a leading attorney at a time when there werent that many women attorneys. That established the whole panoply of womens rights and gender equality. Reporter uc professor david levine spent a week in italy with ginsberg teaching law students. The problem was she didnt like seat belts so im driving these narrow two lane italian reads that im not familiar with and thinking, oh, the fate of the country is in my hands. Reporter they survive the drive of course and ginsberg went onto effect nation shaping decisions on the Supreme Court. In terms of moving civil rights in the 20th century its Thurgood Marshal for africanamericans. Its Ruth Bader Ginsberg for women. All right, lisa, wow, big friday night news. Looking at s
Reporting on the fiasco at the Employment Development department, fraud, benefits department and nobody answering the phones. Well, now a reset to a new system. The reset started this weekend. I didnt want to wait another day. And that reset means the state is halts new claims for two weeks with 600,000 people still awaiting benefits. Michael finny has the latest developments. I have been waiting since august, august 1st. Reporter one of the 600,000 workers who still have no benefits months after losing their jobs. You cant get through. Michael hurley has been waiting since june. No faith in the system, not at all. Reporter the edd blocks benefits for both workers saying they need to prove they are who they say they are. Like thousands of others they mailed in paper documents verifying their identity and heard nothing back. I think now im in another kuwaiting for whatever. Thats frustrating. Im so discouraged. Reporter kim was told to wait eight weeks. I was really upset because how wo
Afternoon until 9 at night theyre asking all of us to conserve energy the genie keeping a close eye on the weather conditions tonight according to its website. There is a Public Safety power shutoff watch for tuesday. And wednesday, according to cal iso some good news tonight. The power grid right now staying at stage 2 emergency. No outages being reported as of yet. According to pg and e the forecast indicates some windy and gusty conditions combined with a heightened fire risk that could be necessary to turn the power off. Once again we do want to show you map right now of pg and es Power Outages right now the shows those reported outages in the bay you can seen some being reported mainly. In the south bay, most of all a lot outages being reported there in the south bay area but once again according to cal iso any outages being reported not impacted as a result of those rolling blackouts from stage 2 emergency now being issued so here is how you can conserve some energy set your ther
Here in the bay area by this power safety public shut off. Thats just coming from pg e because of the high fire danger thats coming our way this week. Cities impacted include ag win calistoga deer park. Pope valley saint helene and also unincorporated parts of napa county. The estimated shut off time is anywhere on the 7th which would be monday between 10 00pm and 02 00am with power not being turned back on. I assume this means the earliest on the 9th which would be 2 days later at 07 00pm this will impact about 2700 customers that just for napa Sonoma County only has about 3 customers are saying impacted in cloverdale were still working on getting all the information about this a p s p s people who are impacted should be getting an alert at some point tonight that this is coming. Meanwhile earlier this evening cal iso the state Energy Monitoring agency declaring a stage 2 emergency. Which meant rotating Power Outages were possible. But once again that flex alert that we were under end