With reaction from wildfire victims. Attorneys. Cal fire releasing the cause almost 9 months later in a tyranny for the kincaid wildfire victims says he is not surprised about the cause we knew a year ago. That it was pg es equipment has started the fire. We knew that just like the campfire it was a jumper cable that failed came loose from apg knees i will the transmission line speaking to us shortly after cal fire released the cause of the kincade fire in Sonoma County blaming pg any wildfire victims attorney mike danko says the victims want answers. The victim certainly want to know is why. Theyll ypg not turn off the power. Why is why did we basically get in the situation in pg need learned nothing. The fire broke out the night of 10 23 2019 it burned more than 77 acres almost 400 structures destroyed 4 people hurt police bar on how to watch the flames go up near his geyserville home what he heard at the time of the fire. Theyre looking at. All they have by and they have that was th
City is agreeing to pay out the families of 32 of the victims and one man who survived that fire. 23. 5 million will go specifically to the families of the fire victims who died and 9. 2 Million Dollars for sam maxwell who barely made it out alive, but now has to live with that awful memory and permanent injuries as well as a medical expenses despite the payout oakland city leaders do not agree that the city is liable for the tragic loss that she marry alexander represents the families of some victims and instead said that more could have been done to prevent that deadly fire. Im sorry usually see warm summer months, not the defendant does not liability. But we feel that we proved our case against the city that they knew what they were police know that were in there and saw the People Living there. And one policeman said that when they saw party going on so we dont have a way to put it in one batch. As Police Report nothing was done. The firemen went to a party there. And so the. Turne
No delays. Antioch to hercules, 22 minutes. Highway 4 to the maze, 20 minutes. Highway 85 to the san jose airport, i just missed the drive time. Ill have to come back and let you know what it is. It flew by too quickly. Moving to the mountains here in the south bay, northbound 17 before idylwild road. A threecar crash therend a solo car crash in the backup. One lane is blocked. This will be slow for anyone trying to get in towards san jose. Thanks. One of the main players in the u. S. iran crisis is in the bay area today. Secretary of state mike pompeo will be in San Francisco today and start his day speaking to students at stanford. Anser hassan has more. Good morning. The secretary of state has a busy day ahead of him. The first event will be at stanford. Its a policy discussion. The secretary tweet eed excitedo be in the golden state and looking forward to meeting with some of our nations leading academics and entrepreneurs. At 4 00 p. M. , secretary pompeo will be at the policy clu
Reporter they say gusty winds expected to peak overnight are to blame for the latest round of outages. Utility wants more shutoffs could be coming this weekend. Good evening. Right now about 178,000 customers in 15 different counties are without power. Pg e said the number of customers will be losing power in san mateo and kern counties starting at 1 am. More than 400,000 people across Northern California. Most of them and the sierra foothills. In napa county about 7700 customers are affected. In Sonoma County the number is higher about 26,000 customers. Are without power. We have Team Coverage tonight. Bill martin is monitoring the wind conditions. Allison rodriguez will tell us about how the outages are affecting schools in Sonoma County. Lets go to amber live tonight in santa rosa with more on the impact of the outages to businesses and homeowners in that area. Reporter tonight we visited a home and business to see how people are coping. We are on Fourth Street at rogers way. Where
Something to say about being in a small town and we are in a great one today surrounded by the beautiful Rolling Hills 20,000 strong the gateway to napa valley with phenomenal weather and a Phenomenal Community in the 707 a Little Pocket they call American Canyon alongside Everyone Welcome to American Canyon i was talking to our friend this week, my friend same way going to the grand canyon i said no we are going to American Canyon is like where is that he did not know about it. It is great to be here as we learn more about this wonderful city in the bay area. I have been here 100 times sometimes on the way up to napa and both of us are lucky we each have you older siblings and it can be hard to be in the shadow of a older sibling does everything right with all the good jobs and the good grades in the younger sibling has a hard time shining but American Canyon is shining and had been working very hard making Great Strides in their own high School Several Years ago and one of the produc