Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, governor Gavin Newsome and mayor breed have lifted restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held virtually with all members and staff participating via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of sfers board, sfers staff, and members of the public. While this allows us to hold meetings via teleconference, it may not be as seamless as it normally would be. A reminder to the public to mute your microphones to minimize background noise. Madam secretary, roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we do have a quorum. President bridges . Thank you, madam secretary. At this time, the board will be going into closed session. The board will begin with general Public Comment, but no earlier than 2 00 p. M. Well take Public Comment ongoing into closed session at this time. Madam secretary, please open the phone lines. Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comm
If youre wondering what that is, so are we. And just now, ceo and president bill johnson explained what that is. He says that the jumper is a piece of wire that basically jumps the conductor over the insulator. We know that it was broken. We also know according to johnson that this is a 43yearold tower that had been inspected four times. Now as you said, this transmission line was not deenergized, and johnson explained why not. Transmission lines in the area remained energized during the wind event consistent with our established protocols and procedures. In other words, they did not meet the conditions that we forecast for transmission level outages. We didnt see the wind speeds in the forecast that we typically would see for transmission outage. And so we relied on the protocol, and we still at this point do not know exactly what happened. The utility turned off power in the area at 9 48 last night, nearly half an hour after the fire started. Pg e is working closely with cal fire to
Unincorporated parts of the county. Pg es website shows where the power is currently out. The purple icons indicate those are the power shutoffs which are under way in the north bay and along the sierra foothills. Pg e said it would start turning off the power at 3 00 p. M. Today although some people told us it started earlier than that. Outages will begin in San Mateo County around 1 00 in the morning. Pg e hopes to restore power by the weekend. A total of about 35,000 pg e customers in the bay area are affected by these Power Outages and that is why we have Live Team Coverage tonight. David louie will join us in a moment and we have Team Coverage in the north bay as well, which will bear the biggest impact. Before we go to Laura Anthony, lets hear from liz kreutz who is life in santa rosa. Liz. Reporter good evening. Roughly 27,000 customers are without power right now in sonoma county. Many of them here in santa rosa. Now, i want to show you where we are. We are inside the citys Eme
Which, sota suggests, can be used to jam communications or for special communications. And passports will be checked at the entrance. The website of dox, which was recently declared an undesirable organization in russia, says that plainclothes policemen will be on duty at the funeral. The document about this was allegedly in the possession of the editors of the publication. I will remind you that opposition politician Oleksiy Navalny died in a russian colony on february 16. Official cause of death from the russian authorities. Natural, staterun Russian Media reported that, allegedly because of a blood clot, navalnys associate maria pevchyk stated that navalny was killed just during negotiations about his exchange. Navalny was in a colony in the village of kherp in northern russia, he was detained and sentenced after his return to russia in 2021, first for alleged fraud and then for so called extremist activities for more than 20 years in the colony. Ilya ponomariv, russian political sc
The un peace resolution, who is for who is against, how to return security to the paneurasian home , position of belarus dialogue for peace, details of the big conference tonight, from small to large companies, as well as social topics, the forum in moscow brought together hundreds of business women from russia and belarus. The already tense situation has sharply escalated. The situation in the middle east, the israeli situation the night before. The army reported an expansion of hostilities in the gas sector. Armored vehicles moved towards the palestinian authority, and at night massive strikes were carried out simultaneously from the air, land and sea. In just a few hours , more than a hundred civilians were killed. Now the enclave is cut off from the outside world, the internet and Cellular Communications do not work, there is no electricity. On the fate of the Un General Assembly resolution calling for a truce and a new wave of largescale demonstrations. Details. Coil escalations,