Urging people to avoid standing underneath trees when winds are blowing like they did overnight and late today. Check out this trampoline that toppled over a fence in fremont. Police tweeting the picture to remind everybody, make sure that your items are secured, tied down during heavy winds. Its all part of the Public Safety power shutoffs. Hundreds of thousands of californians are affected, authorities trying to prevent their equipment sparking wildfires in extreme winds. Take a look from pg e. You can see exactly where power is out right now across the bay area. All the dots there in purple. You can see thousands of people are still affected in the bay area. Although the situation is getting better. We have Team Coverage today on the Power Outages and the winds. Abc 7 News Reporters Laura Anthony and Wayne Friedman are checking in on customers affected in the east bay and north bay. Lets begin with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma and the forecast. The red flag warning still on. Yeah,
At the end of the market street. Should we have an active shooter situation, we want to get out and hide out and take out. So with that, we envision going about 30 or 35 minutes. Our lineup will close on my right whos Vice President of the community wildfires safety program. Well have an update from our meteorologist. Live look at the News Conference. Well be starting there, giving a lineup of what they are expected to talk about during the 30 minutes. Once the News Conference starts well bring it to you. Do you want to go back now . Is it starting no . Well move on for the moment. Pg e says theer outages is the weather. We have a team of weather experts monitoring the conditions including our drew tuma and our spencer christian. Dry gusty winds are intensifying at this hour. Lets go back to the map to give you current wind gusts around the bay area. You can see winds are quite strong. Up to about 20 Miles Per Hour, fairfield 29 Miles Per Hour and santa rosa at 20 at halfmoon bay. Wind
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
The mountains. We want to go to pg e headquarters where they are having an up date on their news conference. We envision going about 35 minutes. Online it will include, we will have an update from our principal meteorologist. And we also have our Senior Vice President and we will get an update about the web. With that i will turn it over to get started. Thank you, keith. Thank you for joining us tonight. Overall i want to reiterate a few points before i turn it over to provide an update in regards to the Weather Forecast. First, id like to reiterate that we understand the impact it has on our customers and our communities. This is not a decision we take lightly. And we think our customers and our communities for your patience. Seconds, i would like to remind our customers and our Community Members as to why we are making this decision. This decision is all about Public Safety which is our most important responsibility. Given the forecast for the severe a widespread wind conditions that
169,000 customers. Any moment now we are expecting an update from pg e. This is a live look inside the utility headquarters in San Francisco as we wait for the briefing to get underway. We understanding they are doing audio sound checks. We need officially gets underway, we will bring it to you live. In the meantime, we have team coverage. Alyana gomez is in nampa were people have been in the dark all day. We begin with Paul Chambers who is been talking to pg e customers in contra costa countys. Many say they are frustrated. They are very angry. About two hours from now, pg e is threatening to cut off the power, which is nearly reporter pg es ever delay in Power Outages has many businesses questioning whether to close or not too close. Within a twoblock radius, some businesses were open it somewhere close. Some owners say the constant back and forth in the Power Company has them on edge. I have no idea whether to open or to close. Are they going to shut it off or not . They say at midn