Defense strategic advic advisort zest likovich. Your initial thoughts on this and the fact that they reportedly have a new leader in place this morning. The fact they have a new leader is nothing that wouldnt be expected. Isis is like a business, so they know exactly who is going to take over. In my opinion, who cares l. The number two, as far as im concerned, hes already dead. We signed his death warrant when he took over that position. He is now enemy number one. What is prove from the operation to kill Abu Bakr Albaghdadi shows the u. S. Military can reach into any place it wants to to hunt terrorists down and theyll be hunting the number two, number three, for the next Going Forward. Maria are you expecting any retaliation here from isis . Retaliation in terms of domestically in the u. S. Or something in syria. Maria getting the u. S. Back for taking down its leader, yeah. No, i dont think so. I think if isis wanted to hit us that, would. Theyre always looking for targets of opport
Governor newsom saying he is more than frustrated. He is demanding they do a better job in the round of shutoffs. The utility is holding a News Conference in 30 minutes, said that they have improved the website and that people are in the dark for two days max. The governor wants them to give 100 to those that lost power and 250 for those that lost business. S that live look in the north bay. What are you seeing . This is upgraded to a red fire warning. This threat is for the Higher Elevations of the peninsula. Notice the contrast in the wind. Theres no change to the forecast for the Higher Elevation gusts of 3055 miles an hour to be. That is wednesday night in to thursday morning and notice, lower elevation of 20. I wanted to drill down and focus in on this. What you are looking at is a fire index rating. This is expected on the speed and humidity. If you see the orange to red. Those are the highest danger. Once again, the north bay under the highest critical fire danger as we hit wedn
Commissioner constant didn ande are excused. We have a quorum. Welcome to the dbi. Youll see a strong tone of earthquake awareness and readiness in my comments today. Tomorrow, as most of you know marks the 30th anniversary of the leoma skwaeurb earthquake ae city is hosting numerous events at the marina, as well as holding a tabletop exercise at the department of emergency management, include within of ie Structural Engineers seok and brop is the terminology for that and the annual duck and cover exercise held at citywide. Thats actually an earthquake event. While much has been accomplished over the past three decades to strengthen buildings seismically. Seismically, we must prepare for earthquakes around the world. With our Retrofitting Program in its final phase, we are at 98 compliance in terms of filed permits and thats quite an achievements. So welldone and 65 completion and that could be stronger but well get there. Private Property Owners have invested approximately 250 million
Bit. We expect metering lights to be on in about 20 minutes or so. Moving over to the san mateo bridge, you can see we have some brake lights showing, but were seeing the same story across the bay area. Thats good news, excluding the altamont pass, thats our usual problem spot. The richmondsan rafael bridge, six minutes. San mateo bridge, 13 minutes. Dumbarton bridge, 8 minutes. 34,000 pg e customers are preparing to be in the dark today and tomorrow. Pg e could cut the power to parts of three bay area counties because of the high fire danger. The shutoffs could happen in san mateo, sonoma and napa counties. Were told pg e will make that decision between 11 00 and 1 00 today. Lauren martinez is live in napa county with how people are preparing this morning. Lauren . Reporter businesses and homes could be without power starting at 3 00 this afternoon. 7 stshg 7,500 drenresidents could be affected by this. Thats less than two weeks ago. Heres a list of areas pg e says could experience sh
Hardware store that ran out of essentials so many raced to buy. Reporter thats right, kristen. This morning this Hardware Store had 22 generators. Now check out how many they have. Zero. We spoke to many sonoma residents who told us theyre not looking forward to the shutoff, but they are ready. Yes, its only tuesday, but these might be the last burgers coming out of west hand made burgers in sonoma for the week. What we do is buy a half or quarter cow. Then i bring it in here and butcher everything. Reporter and thats not happening today. He opened up his restaurant six months ago. During the last power shutoff, he lost over 8,000 in produce. The last time i threw out all three of these fridges. All of them. Oh, insurance takes care of it. Insurance doesnt take care of any of that. You know, were not going to put in a claim for it. Our insurance will go up. Well have to pay a huge deductible on it. Its just a loss, like straight across the board. Reporter during the early october power