Differently this time. The district will remain open. It canceled classes two weeks ago. Officials say not having school is disruptive and nothing can replace a teacher in front of the class. Pg e is saying the outage website will be ready to handle the load this time around. The site went down during the last shutoff. The company says it has an alternate address ready for the expected increase in traffic. They mistakenly gave out the wrong web address yesterday afternoon but veeventually corrected that mistake. Lets get an update on the weather and traffic with drew. Red flag warning later today. First beginning at noon in the north bay, then at 3 00 p. M. It will expand to include the inland east bay. Later on in the evening, it will include the Santa Cruz Mountains. Winds gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour. The peak times for this will be later tonight into early thursday morning. Well look at the warm temperatures in a few minutes. A debris fire in the transbay tube is apparently to bl
Bit. We expect metering lights to be on in about 20 minutes or so. Moving over to the san mateo bridge, you can see we have some brake lights showing, but were seeing the same story across the bay area. Thats good news, excluding the altamont pass, thats our usual problem spot. The richmondsan rafael bridge, six minutes. San mateo bridge, 13 minutes. Dumbarton bridge, 8 minutes. 34,000 pg e customers are preparing to be in the dark today and tomorrow. Pg e could cut the power to parts of three bay area counties because of the high fire danger. The shutoffs could happen in san mateo, sonoma and napa counties. Were told pg e will make that decision between 11 00 and 1 00 today. Lauren martinez is live in napa county with how people are preparing this morning. Lauren . Reporter businesses and homes could be without power starting at 3 00 this afternoon. 7 stshg 7,500 drenresidents could be affected by this. Thats less than two weeks ago. Heres a list of areas pg e says could experience sh
Along with public trust. The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Without objection, the judge is authorized to declare recesses at any time. We welcome everyone to the oversight hearing on Police Practices. Before we begin, i want to briefly recognize susan jensen whose last day on the committee after 20 mores of service is tomorrow. Susan is highly respected on both sides of the aisle, is one of the preeminent experts on bankruptcy Administrative Law and the federal court system. It is a testament to her knowledge and fairness that she worked as counsel and later senior counsel for both republican and democratic chairs of this committee. First hired by former chair henry hyde for her expertise in bankruptcy law, susan later moved to the democratic staff under former chair and Ranking Member john conners where she expanded her portfolio to include Administrative Law and ethics issues. When i was elected to serve as chair, i also asked susan to serve as the community pa
Have stuck around because they know its a new day. We have some amazing current priorities and staffing, some hiring plans and what is on their desk. And what we can expect in the year in two years to come. Let me get right to introductions. To my right is mary beth murphy, commissioner of Small Business and selfemployed division of paris based in washington d. C. To my left come immediate left is don fort chief criminal Investigation Division ira sent to my far left is nina olson tax tier National Taxpayer advocate. Their bios or on line and if you want to review them they are amazing. They have done tremendous work on behalf of the taxpayers of this country and its going to be really great evening. Let me start by having each of them talk a little bit about the state of the irs and their divisions and then we are going to go into some q a and certainly opened up to the audience for any questions that you might have. Marybeth, can you kick us off . I want to thank the ada for inviting
Ensure thould stop the water leak. Water from two leaks in the drainage system began pouring through the muni station and into the heart station below. This is an and convenience. I just dont know how people are reacting to that. Getting off over there with the water is pouring down. Writers encounter the wet mass once they stepped off the trains. It is very inconvenient because there are delays and i didnt find out anything until i got here and if i knew it i could plan better. There is always something going on with muni or bart. Reporter bart staffers were on hand to make sure passenger had safety. Muni scrambled to clamp the two pipes and pump water out of the station in time for the evening commute. Because of the drainage system malfunction, it impacted the morning commute and a lot of people some depend on the subway system to get home. Thats why we are working so hard to get this done as quickly as possible. Make even though there is just a little bit of water, passengers are w