And a very good morning to you, thanks so much for joining us, im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Mike keeping an eye on our commute for us and start with kerry hall with a look at the forecast. In the studio when you know its humid or hot outside its warmer in here and im already hot. Well, its going to be another really warm day. Were going to see more weather like we had yesterday and a few spots it will be a couple degrees but not by much. As we check out san jose and what were headed for this morning. Were starting out for some upper 50s and at noon already at 80 degrees which is our normal High Temperature and were going above that as we check out all the microclimates in the High Temperatures. Expected to reach 87 in the south bay and low to mid 90s in the inland east bay as well as the north bay. Well talk about whats ahead with a cooler and windy weekend ahead. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Mike, you have been watching the roads. How is it looking right now . Pretty ca
Four. Pg e has turned the power back onto about three quarters of its customers. 543,000 customers have their electricity back on. About 195 customers are still waiting for their power to be restored. Meantime authorities are investigating the death of a man in pines in El Dorado County which could be linked to these outages. Officials say the man in his 60s died shortly after his homeless power. He was dependent on an oxygen machine. There is an ongoing effort to restore power to all the customers who were affected. That could be some time. Tom vacar joins us from marin county where work continues there to try to get power back up and running. Reporter systemwide and overall, just under 200,000 people are awaiting their power. That is far better than the 740,000 without power the peak of the windstorm. With Power Equipment still undergoing inspections and repairs in the area, a flashing sign high up on panoramic highway advertise the fact that the road was closed. It was put there to
Some of the damage we had. I dont know how to advance my own slides, sorry. So this is the kind of thing i am talking about. This is a tree branch that has blown into the line. If that line is energized you would have a spark and a potential ignition of a wildfire. This is another example of the same thing. A wire down based on a tree flowing over. Ive a few more pictures and we can tell you a little more about this. Each of these is the potential to cause a significant fire. As i said last night it was an extremely difficult decision for us to make. We know it would and did cause hardship for many of the people we are privileged to serve and it continues to cause hardship for some of those people who are still without power tonight. Given the choice we face, the choice between hardship and safety, we chose safety and safety will always be our first choice. As far as where we are tonight, life is returning to normal for many of our customers. We have been able to get the lights back on
Will get a call, a text message and email. Pg e is promising to narrow down the outage zone so not as many people are affected. Right now most people have the power back on, but not everyone. In the bay area 99 of the homes and businesses that lost power are restored. Around the state 21,000 are waiting for the lights to come back on. Our coverage begins live at pg e headquarters in San Francisco. Pg e has come under fire from the customers and elected officials who say the haling of the power sudden down are unacceptable and why the Power Outages had to be so widespread. In the face of public outrage pg e president and ceo bill johnson standing by the decision for a Public Safety power shut off. He shows photos where the inspectors found the high winds blue tree branches into the wires. Thankfully the lines were not energized. The addition came to a high cost to customers it added up to half a million there. Critics questioned why the outages were necessary. I asked to do a complete a
Edetermined location. These images show him leaving thousands of dollars for a source in exchange for an sd card filled with information, he then flew to china to drop off that card. Finally arrested friday at his home in hayward, i stopped by to see if hi family had anything to say but they did not comment. The next door neighbor said he never would have suspected this. The few times we have talked to them have been pleasant. I would never have thought what was going on is really happening. What he did not know was that the source was a double agent uble agent reporter when he was in his native china. Clearly as officials found out working with the double agent. They know the officers have tried to reach out to other chinese people. They are not ruling anything out at this points. Thank you allison. Now to the latest in washington on the impeachment inquiry. They have announced subpoenas for President Trumps personal, private attorney Rudy Giuliani. They are tied to his efforts to hav