Power our phone, so were informed. Reporter pg and e has done a heck of a lot to clean up its pollution. With all of these generators going off, and many more to come, a lot of that progress will get wiped off during shutoffs. Necessity became the mother of invention. I have just a 12volt inverter that i attached to my nissan leaf. We just powered the refrigerator, the tv, the directv, because cable went out also. Reporter while we were here, a crew from Telecom Giant at t was hooking up, and chain locking down generators at various of their power boxes to keep the Internet Service going in blacked out neighborhoods. Its a horrible inconvenience. I know that. Its a Financial Impact to many people throughout the county. We certainly cannot continue this in this vein long term. Reporter some folks consider the extremely dangerous alternative of seeing what the winds will bring. I think the power shutoffs are a great thing. I think somebody said youre doing it with a sledgehammer instead
Be aljazeera. Youre watching aljazeera life from london still ahead 25 year old is charged with manslaughter in the u. K. After 39 people were found dead in the back of his container truck and medical professionals join hong kongs protest movement accusing police of brutality and Excessive Force. And a few more showers in your forecast of the southeast of australia the cat has been coming into the last year as thats where were seeing the showers and thats where we may well see a few more as we go through sunday so much is a little bit about the average for this time of year 16 cells is a melbourne the same across into hobart and feeling better in sydney not as warm as it was at the end of the week 23. 00 degrees very warm in perth these temperatures about 10 degrees above the average but by monday theres a massive drop down to 26. 00 and a fair amount of cloud although itll be cloud with some nice sunshine warming up as well once that system falls into the southeast so 23. In melbourne
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Welcome to the mornings on at nine. It is good to be back in the good actually have some cooler temperatures out there playing a role in the firefighter there in the county. Really some good news for a change when it comes to the contained fire which fire crews are making significant progress the fires go just one square mile overnight to 120 square miles the real positive news is that containment has doubled from 15, to 30 now while severe wind gusts remain a concern high wind advisor was canceled overnight because wind was not as strong as predicted. They estimate that this fire will be fully contained by a week from tomorrow. It was and we want to update you on a breaking news story that was first brought you a little bit earlier here firefighters have knocked out flames of a new fire burning near the lake. This fire picked up around 730 this morning on rockwell road. Skye fox overhead so that the fire was not too big it did burn a small area of brush and there is no major damage. N
Keeping us uptodate with information for further evacuations. Give us a sense of what those evacuations have been like this morning. Were hearing there is some residence who were not leaving their homes. We went to the locations that were affected by the fire. We use them to notify them. County fire sent out a alert. That we are going doortodoor contacting people. He said this is not a game for homeowners who want to stay. Talk about the seriousness of these evacuations. They are mandatory. That they do not want to leave we will not force them to leave. We just told him it would be very hard to get the help they needed. I hope youre still on the line. Pg e had shut off power to a lot of people in that area. With them going on, as it makes it more difficult to execute those evacuation orders . The fear the cell phone lines will not be working. I really do not have that information right now. That is what we sent out different alerts. We have deputies and officers going and knocking on d