At morning and thank you all for being here today. Todays hearing comes at a perilous time for the 2020 census. Last month they were traveling press reports indicating career officials at the Census Bureau warned the trumpmp administratin about significant that will delay the delivery of census data until late january or early february. After these reports became public the director of the census issued a Public Statement nfirming the problems were found but he provided no details. These developments were particularly troubling because they were not reported to ournt committee. We have. About them in the press before the census charger made his Public Statement. Nobody from the Trump Administration informed us about any of these problems or delays. For these reasons the committee wrote a letter on november 19. They asked for documents that career officials prepare describing these data problems and the resulting delays. They also requested documents that were prepared for the departmen
The flames. At one point powerful winds pushed smoke into contracosta county. It took views about two hours to get control of the area. Winds were Strong Enough to take someones backyard trampoline over the fence. Fremont Police Tweeted this picture as a reminder to secure things in your yard. Pg es website shows all the places where the power is out now. And recently released updates from the Utility Company indicate it could stay out longer than originally expected. The purple triangles on this map youre looking at indicate a Public Safety power shutoff. San francisco is the only bay area county not affected. The north bay is bearing the brun of all this. About 25,000 customers are without power in Sonoma County alone. Along with nearly 14,000 in marin county, 11,000 in napa and about 1,500 in Solano County. In the east bay there are roughly 16,000 customers without power in both alameda and contracosta counties. Santa clara county and san mateo counties also have a number of custome
Others are returning back to some more strict restrictions. Health Officials Say we are very likely now seeing the beginning of a winter surge. As california joined texas as the first states with 1 million covid cases, bay area counties are tightening restrictions. The owner of delta ball decided to shut down. He says it is tough when elsewhere in the country policies allow bowling. The policies that the state is using for bowling are just way too restrictive. I think there should be a framework and that the community should be able to modify it to whats going on in the community. Weve seen substantial day over day increases in our reported cases of covid19. Alameda county is also pushing pause as the covid case numbers rise. We are not islands, we are connected to the rest of the country and the rest of the world. If there are cases circulating, our borders are not closed. People can come and go. Nationwide states are adding stricter policies, chicagos mayor has ordered a stayat home
Thank you for joining us. This map highlights where people are likely to be affected by the Public Safety power shut off. In total 22,000 local pg e customers could lose power. The shut offs are starting now in the north bay and three counties, napa, sonoma. It a fresh round for residents who lived through fires, smoke and other Power Outages. Lets go to abc 7 news Cornell Bernard live in st. Helena. Reporter dan and ama, if folks havent been through enough, thousands could lose power again. Its in the name of safety but the timing is really tough. Im stocked up on batteries, flashlights, i have more flashlights, lanterns. Reporter she has what napa needs. Im here to service the community. Reporter shes assistant manager at Outdoor Supply hardware with a possible pg e shut off hours away, most of the portable generators have sold out. This could do a refrigerator, couple lights. Reporter john was buying extra flashlight batteries and not happy about it. There is a general sense of disi
Red flag warning has been issued as high winds and warm temperatures cause increased fire danger putting the bay area on high alert. Thank you for joining us at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the genie is also ready to shut off power to try to prevent a major wildfire. The utility says the potential power shut off could happen as early as tomorrow afternoon affecting more than 22,000 customers take a look at what bay area counties could be affected by the power shut off. Those counties are alameda contra costa santa clara and san mateo napa sonoma and solano counties, the highest probability areas or the north bay mountains near mount saint helene small pockets in the east bay near mount diablo the Oakland Hills east of piedmont and portions of the santa cruz area. And the power shutoffs do need to happen in your area you will be notified in advance via text call or email. Again thanks for joining us here at kron 4 news weve got Maureen Kelly shes joining us live from napa high morning. Thats why