Drew, still windy . Yeah. Breezy out there. The strongest winds have subsided. But man, was it windy last night. Look at these peak wind gusts. Gt later at night the winds race down our hillsides. Oakland airport reported a gust of 58 miles an hour. In the oakland hills, we had winds in excess of 50 miles an hour. Very windy in the east conqu conqu conquered. Right now, the winds have backed off in a lot of spots. Still some isolated that you can see in napa and fairfield. 23 and 30 miles an hour respectively. But much of the area has winds about 10 miles an hour. Were nomp near where we were this morning. Wind gusts in excess of 70 miles miles. Its not only the wind we were concerned about. Its the bone dry air. You hook at the dew points and think what is a dew point. The best way i like to shape it to people. See the numbers on the screen where we have negative seven in santa rosa. Zero in napa. What you would do is you would have to cool the air temperature down to minus seven in s
Two breaded chicken patties plus fries and a drink for 4. 99. Three patties for 5. 99. Or even four for just 6. 99. Four patties . Well, tickle my elbow no thank you. Try my really big chicken sandwich combos. Starting at 4. 99. Welcome back a and we have liftoff pg any workers take to the air to begin the inspections needed before power lines are re energized. And its happening is a part the bay area are nearing 48 hours of black shoppers took off from the airport in santa rosa and Sonoma County thats where kron fours Maureen Kelly is standing by live. Maureen 44 chopper sounds like a lot but this is a big job. Stood there for a second, but yeah we have 3 of those choppers took off from right here at the Charles Schulz airport in Sonoma County. It looks like one of them just recently landed and re field. And appears to be getting ready to take off for another inspection tour. You can see it behind me right now. You can see behind right now looks like its taking off right here. You kno
They expect and deserve. That helps them live their lives and run their businesses. And this weighs heavily on everyone, including us at pg e. This is not how we want to serve you. And this is not how we want to run our business. Were actually in the business of providing power, not taking power away. So we feel the impact of the decision, and i understand how it alters, how it disrupts the normal flow of life and the normal flow of community. But theres another part of the reality that were in. With winds like we saw over the last 24 hours or so and the condition of the vegetation, we simply could not continue to run parts of this system given the risk to Public Safety. We struggle with this decision, as we do with any decision to turn off power. We weigh the level of acceptable risk given the circumstances, the wind, and the vegetation, and we determine that we must have zero risk of a spark. So what exactly was the risk . Well, we know from history that wind speeds, the wind speeds
Their business. And this weighs heavily on everyone, including those of us at pga. This is not how we want to and this is not how we want to run our business were actually in the business of. Not taking power away. So we feel the impact of the understand. Heres how it just wraps. The normal flow of life and the normal flow of commuters. He that worry us. With winds like we saw over the last 24 hours or so and the condition of the vegetation. We simply could not continue to run parts of this system. Given the risk to Public Safety. We struggle was decision as we do with any decision to turn. We weigh the level of acceptable risk given the circumstances the wind and the vegetation. So what exactly was the rest. Well, we know from history. That wind speeds have the wind speeds at which our lives can be effective and cause a fire. Wind speeds at about 45. Bleacher risk on the distribution line. A little light to go to your house for that same risk appears on the transmission lines which ar
Please duck, cover and hold as best youre able. And if we need to get out, we go out through these door, exit to the left and go out across to beck toll plaza. If thats not safe, we go to Embarcadero Plaza at the end of market street. Should we have an active shooter situation, we want to get out, hide out and take out. So with that, now having covered safety, let me outline what were going to do tonight. We envision going 30, maybe 35 minutes. Our lineup will include to my right who is Vice President of Community Wildfire safety program. Well have an update from scott strefield and our chief Customer Office will give an update about the web. So with that, im going to turn it over to samit to get us started. Thank you, keith. Thank you for joining us again tonight. Overall, i want to iterate a few points before i turn it over to Scott Strenfel to provide an update in regards to the forecast. First, i want to iterate that we understand the impact that turning power has on our customers