The best thing our customers can do to help prevent going into that stage iii category is to conserve as much energy as possible. You heard it right there, conserve energy. That is going to be the motto during this heatwave we are all dealing with across the bay area. Tonights power emergency is over for now after a series of rolling outages around Northern California this evening that helped stabilize the grid. This started around 6 30 with an order from kauai so. The independent system operator manages the states power grid and it told utilities, like pg e, to shed powerlines because of unusually high demand. Pg e explained in a tweet saying there was strain on the power grid due to excess heat. Pg e began rotating Power Outages at the direction of the state grid operator. 200 to 250,000 customers were affected for about an hour each. This map is from pg es web shot. It shows a snapshot of the situation at 8 00 tonight. The red dots represent outages of 5000 or more, the orange dots
President after an historic election victory in mississippi legislators prepare for a final vote on whether to remove a confederate battle emblem from the states flag. Hello thank you for joining us it began as an unknown virus among a few dozen patients in china at the end of last year now 6 months later the coronavirus pandemic is fast approaching another tragic milestone almost half a 1000000 people are known to have died and the virus is still spreading across the planet more than 10000000. 00 people are now confirmed to have been infected thats a 900 percent increase in less than 3 months a quarter of all those infections and deaths are in the United States by far the worst hit country with over 2 and a half 1000000 cases and the 125000 fatalities but the true toll is likely to be much higher a recent survey by the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention found many more americans that antibodies for the virus suggesting the real case count may be up to 10 times higher tha
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The destruction of infrastructure has already started to go mostly those of the electric. Roads and went off trees so that or it will take a while for the administration to gold with this situation and to this day after the land for happens because theyre already dealing with all know why this crisis well neighboring bangladesh is attempting to get 2200000 people to safety the country is on its highest level of the land 1200000 range refugees and cultures bizarre have also been asked to stay inside until the site turned passes our correspondent tundra choudary is in the capital dhaka he says the pandemic is making a major task even more difficult. We know that 1400000 people have been evacuated and put into shelter theres accommodation for at least 5000000 people there as the medical team and rescue Operation Team got a navy have been put on a large standby in the coastal areas even the Prime Minister is monitoring the situation this would be one of the biggest since 2007. So theyre ta
It will be a pretty wet day. Good morning. Good morning. Yes, sitting here looking outside, it doesnt look bad but the rain is coming. I know we are watching that. Also anchoring at home this morning with a look at the forecast, good morning rosemary. Good morning. Youre right, the rain is on the way. Its actually moving into areas of the north bay as we speak. We have a look at whats going on outside at this time. We have rain moving in and its not going to go away. A live look over oakland where its a mostly cloudy start. Many locations are still not seeing the rain just yet. We are showing you where its beginning to move in, areas over the bay and the north bay coastline, seeing this all the way down to the inverness area. Santarosa, just the north edge of you, and farther to the east, we have some there. Getting into your bay area saturday and sunday, it will be breezy, cool and cloudy and its going to be rainy. We are looking at anywhere from a half inch to an inch for most urban