Now, kira. We have got 30s on the map. A little frosty to start off this morning. A live look over san jose. You can see the sunrise there and this is what i mean when i talk about how cold the temperatures are. Were in the 30s in san jose. 39, morgan hill. It will get even colder probably within the next hour or so, but heres a look at your microclimate highs for the afternoon. In the 60s and a lot of people were asking me about the rain. Do we have any rain, good news, it is expected to remain dry at least for this weekend and of course people have questions about thanksgiving, whether youre going to be, you know, inside or outside. Likely inside, eating. It looks like we have a pretty decent weather pattern setting up and that will set us up for the lovely start. Heres a closer look at the headlines that ill take a look at during my full forecast. Kira . All right. See you in about 15 minutes. Thanks. At 10 00 tonight, the curfew for the majority of california goes in to effect beca
Good evening. Weve got a lot to get to tonight. An hour from now most of the state goes backward to the most restrictive tier. And jessica, heres why. This graph shows the average number of cases in the bay area not quite as high as july, but you can see covid cases are spiking. The far right of your screen is the recent number. Lets begin our Team Coverage with nbc bay areas ian cull with what this means and whats changing. Reporter today Governor Newsom says hes pulling the emergency brake to slow the spread of covid19. In the last two weeks hospitalizations are up 30 . The number of cases has doubled. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Reporter 41 of the states 51 counties including most of the bay area are pushed back into the most restrictive purple tier. San francisco, san mateo and marin fell to red. Most like santa clara jumping back two full tiers. We have done this before. We can do it again. We really need every Sing
At ross. Yes for less. We owe it to our constituents to act. There ceo of pg e sent his own letter to the cpuc, the state regulators, saying he understands the hardship but folks should, quote, keep in mind the statistic that matters the most,er hugeincial incentive to go bigger than they need to. We want them to be surgical. Reporter state senator scott wiener also wants pg e to be more competent and accountable. Pg e is so used to getting its way. Theyre completely tone deaf here. Their ceo continues to just blanket the scale of the blackout affecting millions of people. Theyre not selfaware of how impactful in a negative way their actions far. The cpuc has called for emergency hearings that begin at 1 00 tomorrow. Joe vazquez, kpix 5. Fire watch. Ye a fire that broke n video juste newsroom. Its about 10 acres. Part of highway 29 remains closed at this hour. Some people in the area told to evacuate but those orders have now been lifted. Right now theres a high surf advisory. It does
We owe it to our constituents to act. There ceo of pg e sent his own letter to the cpuc, the state regulators, saying he understands the hardship but folks should, quote, keep in mind the statistic that matters the most, there were no catastrophic wildfires. Theres a huge financial incentive to go bigger than they need to. We want them to be surgical. Reporter state senator scott wiener also wants pg e to be more competent and accountable. Pg e is so used to getting its way. Theyre completely tone deaf here. Their ceo continues to just blanket the scale of the blackout affecting millions of people. Theyre not selfaware of how impactful in a negative way their actions far. The cpuc has called for emergency hearings that begin at 1 00 tomorrow. Joe vazquez, kpix 5. Fire watch. Right now were keeping an eye on a fire that broke out around 8 00 tonight. This is new video just into the newsroom. Its about 10 acres. Part of highway 29 remains closed at this hour. Some people in the area told
Live from the cbs bay area studios. This is kpix5 news. Now at noon. Pg es top brass expected to answer to state regulators. They want to know how last weeks mass power shutoff started and more. Im kenny choi. They called for the emergency meeting last night. Kpix 5 jackie ward on the tough questions pg e is about to face. Reporter in less than an hour the top executives will face some tough questions from the states Public Utilities commission. Some are happy about it. I think the Public Utilities commission is just as disgusted with pg e as everyone else is. Reporter she said while she is pleased with the puc calling this meeting, she is skeptical. The Public Utilities commission authorized the program that turned into such an user debacle. Obviously, the commission needs to hold pg e more accountable and impose stricker standards on the company. Reporter they called the power shut off an unacceptable situation that never should be repeated. It forced businesses and schools to close.