The holy spirit. A police palo alto man is caught on camera spray painting over youth art posters saying black lives matter and calling for social justice patriot facing taking place on University Avenue saturday morning is unfortunate to see that happening here so close to home. And such a place where its like you expect them to just be more progressive jeremy saw the unidentified man doing this as he shouted about chinese concentration camps and how the artwork is divisive reservar shooting where is your right to it every matchup where shes trying to i guess conca promote anti racist police by being thats what thats what were seeing among the things tagged on to the posters include maggot referring to black people do more crime or show you tonight to destruction of the artwork was disappointing, but not surprising for palo alto resident my a despondent at the center of white gentrification and all of these of that light is on the youth group behind the arc protests as the defacing sh
And san jose did a bit earlier and highs only in the 50s today and pattern for us and highs have struggled to get out in the mid and upper 50s with possible thunderstorms and keep an eye on things for later today and coldest air yet to arrive and later tonight and tomorrow and bit of rain shower abilityivity mainly north of the golden gate after that its 50s and scattered showers, thundershowers look to be on the old weather menu with temperatures struggling to get up in the 50s and quite a weather pattern today. Several cars crashed just before 3 00 this afternoon and all southbound lanes were blocked to traffic as chp investigated. Officers have yet to say what led to the crash. 7 02 and number of bay area cases of the coronavirus keeps going way up. Right now theres 886 cases including 17 deaths. This map youre looking at shows the latest numbers county by county and Santa Clara County has 321 cases and 13 people have died. San mateo and San Francisco and alameda counties each have
To get to a point where its ratcheted down significantly. I think it will be better every year. I think everybody gets better every year and every event. We learn a lot from each other but the risk is significant. Reporter a tenyear plan so more blackouts to come. The ceo and other officials apologized but defended them saying there were no catastrophic wildfires started. They work swiftly to cover wires in high fire threat areas, to underground wires, to trim back trees and strengthen the website to handle the immense traffic these blackouts brought. The website went down several times. They also addressed that lavish party last week, pg e holding a party for its gas customers. Two days of wine tasting. It was on the anniversary of the north bay fires in 2017 that killed so many people and destroyed so many homes. Pg e said that wont happen again and ratepayers will not pay the bill for that party. Coming up at 11 00, i took a closer look at how we got to the blackouts and whats being
Into our Service Territory around wednesday and thursday, mainly in the sierra foothills and northbay. Operation center is not just a bunch of computers. Actually have a lot of people in the field. 26 crews that practice the 3ss. Safety, including suppression of fires, switching, between sparks can happen and they are on standby to put those out if they happen, and finally, seeing, reporting back the actual conditions on the grounds of these folks here, who then alerts the Emergency Operations center. Reporter it is here that the decisions are made where and when to have shutdowns. Check this out, cal fires history of fires in the last quarter of the year, seven of californias worst fires occurred in the last quarter. 14 of the 20 deadliest fires also came in the last quarter, and 17 of the most destructive wildfires also came in the last quarter. So, whether the last shutdown was poorly handled, the risk is all too real. We learned a lot from the last Public Safety power shut off and
8 00 tonight in oaklands jack london square. Right next to the ktvu studios here on embarcadero. We have developing news tonight. Reporter we could actually see and smell the fire from the parking lot of our studios. I want to move out of the way so that you can see exactly where this happened. They are still up there trying to make sure that there is no fire in the walls in between the unit. Fortunately no one was injured, but it was quite a scare for the residents here tonight. The fire crews say they got the call about 7 58 this evening, and when they arrived, they saw flames coming from a second floor unit, and then spreading up to the third floor. There are two levels of the same residence here, they said. The chief called for a second alarm. The crews we havent inside to try to stop it from spreading inside, and also they put on lad inventory try to knock it off from above. Outside, we just saw residents lined any long the sidewalk and the parking lot. Some said at first when the