Stop at 11 00 am this morning, weve got a series of votes, ant we are going to observe an actual ten minute clock. Its the first time in senate history, but thats the goal this morning. So we want to be able to hear from everyone this morning, ande have an opportunity for the very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here today to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric grid and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase grid resiliency. In recent years, devastating wildfires and related electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the challenge of maintaining grid resiliency in the face of extreme conditions. Tragically, we remember last years camp fire, the deadliest and most destructive fire inou california history, which incinerated the town of paradise, killed 85 people. Ve state investigators determined that the fire was caused by degraded, 97year old power lines during socalled fire weather, strong wind
Not everybody in the bay area san jose just a few hundreds of an inch. Center portion of the bay and up to the north day. Tactfully were not taking talking about extreme amounts. Santa rosa over the past 24 hours. 70 in San Francisco about a cover part of an inch and san jose picking up up much on our a few hundred of an ancient there. If you can active weather part patterns and clouds and green indicating the rain showers in Northern California the bay area. There are no reels of fine storms but the pattern that going to give us cloud cover and instability that leads to shower activity. Not all this green is reached the ground. From san mateo to fremont to san jose, and outdoors the los gatos area. More rain on the way. Pattern will continue to thursday and friday and also saturday. Heaviest downpour will let you know as we get a break in our fiveday forecast. Thats coming up in a moment. Two Democratic Candidates are in the bay area today billionaires time stier and michael bloomberg
Going to be down right brutal outside. Gusty winds are going to make it feel even colder. Good evening, im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. Lets get right over to meteorologist kate bilo. She has more now on the dangerous cold gripping the region. Kate. Jessica and ukee, we have a few more hours before those winds really start to pick up. So if you go outside now the winds not all that bad. Theyre coming in as a result of this next arctic cold front which is bringing snow showers and snow squalls really to the entire northeastern united states. We saw that little bit earlier tonight right around 6 30, 6 00 oclock tonight. We had snow showers move through philadelphia. Those are now offshore. You can see a few showers right around the d. C. Area at the moment and a few more snow squalls cannot be rule out through the overnight hours tonight. But as we head through the weekend, the winds pick up and the temperatures continue to drop. 23 right now in philadelphia. 20 in allentown. 20 in
Philadelphia. Those are now offshore. You can see a few showers right around the d. C. Area at the moment and a few more snow squalls cannot be rule out through the overnight hours tonight. But as we head through the weekend, the winds pick up and the temperatures continue to drop. 23 right now in philadelphia. 20 in allentown. 20 in millville. Winds again not as strong as theyre going to be the squalls come through during tomorrow morning then they will phase out well see sunshine tomorrow but watch what happens to the winds. You wake up tomorrow morning at 7am winds are already gusting over 30 miles an hour and through the day this will be the case we could see winds gust perhaps isolated spots over 45 or even 50 miles an hour making our highs in the 20s feel not much better than near zero coming up ill tell when you the worst of the wind chills will hit and about a storm that will bring snow and rain after the cold outbreak thats coming up in a few minutes. Jessica. Kate, thanks so
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