Without power. At the height of the shutoff, 345,000 customers had their power turned off. Most areas are expected to have their lights turned on today. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live in orinda this morning with how residents are dealing with this and also businesses. Good morning, amy. Hi, jobina. You cant help but feel bad for the businesses and i ammic looilo looking at them in orinda and a second day and morning of not being able to light. Its the same situation in lafayette and also in moraga. Their downtown areas do not have power and, of course, some homes also have had their lights turned out. We have seen Grocery Stores bring in lights to stay in business. Some people are frustrated. You can go on nextdoor and read how hard this is for people as they try to distance learn and work without power. The Hardware Store now say they plan for these. After last years one we restocked and held stock on things like generators and cords for generators, oil for y generators and
They are everywhere but it would not want to see more coming to pleasanton. Plus a new plan to go back to school. We are live with the new timeline for one of the biggest bay area counties. Is adding extra room for gambling the right way to increase revenue . The moral dilemma tonight over one south bay ballot measure. That neglect, Domestic Violence that results. It is going to add millions of dollars to our city budget. Right now on the kpix 5 news at 7 00, streaming on cbsn bay area, a plan tonight to move dozens of Homeless People from oakland to downtown pleasanton. Some neighbors and county officials are saying, not so fast. Good evening. Im ken bastida. And im kate cook. Reporter City Council Members in oakland want to use some open space at the Alameda County fairgrounds for an organized encampment but as you can imagine, the idea is not definitely getting some pushback. Take a quick drive along the side streets near interstate 80 and oak street and there is obviously a problem
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There, that meadow. Empire mine road the prettiest 3 miles in antioch closed for 20 years and would be open to for 4000 houses. Said that and is with safe mount diablo trying to get measure t on the ballot since 2016. It would preserve the growth boundary here. The second thing is it says for urban development out here between kaiser and Black Diamond you have to have a vote of antioch residents. Reporter opponent site traffic in the problems that come when the city doubles in size and 30 years. When we moved in 22 years ago that the was it was a good priority to build a third high school. That has never happened. Reporter pushing back against mr. T the developers who on the land in a statement one of the groups tolds the proposed land use of the project are in compliance with existing city of antioch general planned. They also say downsizing what was previously allowed my run afoul of new state laws designed to increase housing supply. The forces behind mr. T would rather see that gro
For that water to make its way for the inland. That is really what we get concerned about with these types of situations. Of course around the bay area we are talking about a continuation of the high fire danger, and the red flag warning goes into effect tonight. I have one that a few minutes. Warnings are over, if you violate health orders, in San Mateo County, and get caught, you will be fined. Kiet do is in pacifica, with the countys new crackdown. Reporter they say when it comes to violating the covid19 health order, it is no more mr. Nice guy. To the few Business Owners in San Mateo County to continue to violate the health order, these eight men are coming. No one is above the law, no one. Reporter this is the first meeting of the new socalled compliance team, who will follow up on citizen complaints and for the first time impose fines. County supervisor says the county actually proved the fines back in august but has been issuing warnings until now. I had a Business Owner tell me