Meet the paviers from nottingham. Look at the camera. Say, cheese no, henry. Henry. Claudine is an infant school teacher. Alex installs commercial laundries. Ten year old zack is into rugby and football, and seven year old henry volunteers for the council picking up litter. Happy birthday, daddy. Happy birthday, dad whoop whoop the paviers have agreed to be our guinea pigs and, for the next two weeks, will try to reduce their Carbon Footprint. And. Action earlier this year, the government pledged to reduce the uks Greenhouse Gas emissions to almost zero by 2050. And for any left over, well have to find ways of capturing and storing Carbon Dioxide. So, the result is net zero. Weve already managed to make big cuts to our emissions 42 since 1990. Most of the savings have come because energy is getting cleaner and were manufacturing less here. This has all happened without us having to do much. But that has got to change. Reaching net zero is going to require a lot more effort from us all,
To minimize that impact. Day one has been a challenge. That was the pg e Vice President essentially acknowledging the inconvenience. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Pg es big concern has been the red flag fire conditions and potential for high winds later tonight. The first phase of the Power Outages started in parts of sonoma, napa, and marin counties for this morning. That is the red on the map that included some 2000 pg e customers. Phase two involves the east bay and south bay, and another 169,000 homes and businesses. It was supposed to start at noon, then it was pushed back to 8 00 tonight, then it was pushed back again until right now at 10 00. Jana katsuyama live from downtown orinda where the power can go out at any moment. Jana, is there any sign of wind out there tonight . Reporter not very matchup here, frank and julie, and weve been throughout the county. You can see there are still some businesses open that have lights on, but it has been
Good containment numbers until the sun comes up. He did estimate 60 contained. The power is out in the area. Shot off as part of the pg e shut off. He said be careful in the area. The traffic lights are out and he was talking about the wind with us. The good news is its 1020. He said they werent particularly as concerned about ambers flying which is good news. That can change on a dime. As a mentioned. I drive across the richmondsan rafael bridge and it felt it. There are good gusts up there. Not at the fire but not far away. I realize many of you did not have any breeze but there are some that are rolling. 70 Miles Per Hour gust. Mount st. Helena, 77. Mount diablo, 75. About the caldecott, 38 Miles Per Hour. 3040 for many. Santa cruz mountains. The most ive seen is 2325. Thats airflow at the surface. It is offshore for everyone from lynn to seagoing northeast. It will turn more easily. The wind advisory will go into 3 00 today. It may start to tail off north to south but will play in
Reporter good morning. There is no power at this church where evacuees have been told to go. You can see people are gathered around candles and have flashlights. The red cross is here providing blankets, food and coffee. With me i have one of the evacuees, eric, you said your family was asleep and he woke up you live in this neighborhood that had to be evacuated. What happened . We were fast asleep. We went to sleep early because of the blackout. There was really nothing much to do besides go to sleep. My mom who lives next door came banging on the door and she has a key so she came in and said wake up. Weve got to go. There is a fire. We have to evacuate. So we got dressed in a little bit of a panic. We werent sure what to take and in the end we just left. Reporter did you see the fire or smell the smoke . Smell the smoke when we went outside. Could not smell it from inside. Could not see the fire. It was on the other side of the neighborhood. Reporter described her was the neighborho
About the pg e power shut off in the south bay and we will bring it to you live. The time is 7 01 and lets get to breaking news weve been telling about all morning with a wildfire in moraga forcing evacuations overnight. Its called the barrel fire and appears to be knocked down. The all clear was issued for the Sanders Ranch neighborhood of moraga, great news and the fire started just before 1 00 this morning and burned 40 acres. It was burning near merrills star colonel north and sanders road south of st. Marys college and Moraga Police originally ordered evacuations for those along Sanders Ranch road, merrill drive and harrington road and now they say about 70 households out of the 140 evacuated are allowed to go back home. The people who live above merrill circle, you are still being evacuated. They are told to meet and gather at Saint Monica Church and there is another gathering area for evacuees, the safeway supermarket on moraga way. Officials with the Fire District there are clo