Territories. The state elevated fire 50 of our nation apply to 15 territory has that designation. Reporter it spoke very little about decades of neglect, deferred maintenance and profiteering at the expense of rate payers. Im not pointing a finger at anybody other than us. Reporter the California Public utility commissioners themselves appeared timid and somewhat embarrassed at having gone along with p jennys shut off system. And taking no real aggressive, probing or confrontational stance except for this. You said we need to get there. You need to get there now. Reporter the problems are so large and so many that it is unlikely serious improvements can be made until next year. The best thing for ratepayers to do is pray for rain and no more red flag whether. With that, we may just get through this. Reporting live, tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. Thank you for that live report. 4 ktvu obtained a letter from pete yanity ceo and president that he sent to governor newsom. William johnson reit
Why he has a plate in his leg and pins in his arm and why he cant walk. Like he is going physical therapy. Reporter the unwarranted attack did not happen vikings. It did not happen by thugs. It did not happen by a hate group. It occurred at the hands of those who are paid to protect and serve. Reporter spires was not arrested. This was essentially a beating that has been completely unjustified. Reporter spires is an uber driver who worked as a peer counselor helping to de escalate tensions between police and youth. San Francisco Police said the sf pd and the Attorneys Office are conducting independent investigations into the incident. By policy they do not comment on open investigations. Reporter they are trying to get body camera video and they tell me they plan to file a federal civil rights lawsuit. Ktvu fox 2 news. Activists are calling for more oversight of the county Sheriffs Office that would include a new citizens oversight board. This follows the death of a man one year ago wa
Month, creating a large economic dent for residents and businesses. The historic swiss hotel has been in hank mariones family for decades, but he cant seem to recall anything like this happening in years past. For the second time this month his business could lose power. Youre talking about thousands of dollars a day. During the first Public Safety power shutoff, he had to throw out meat, fish and poultry. Marione lost his home in the tubbs fire two years ago. He says he gets it, but questions why pg e officials shut off power as broadly as they did. I dont really have a problem with them shutting down up in the hills where the winds were 40, 50 miles an hour. But in town i dont believe there is a lot that can burn. Pg e has said its transmission grid is so complicated, it cant isolate smaller areas. Sonoma county First District supervisor susan goren. They should have been on this from decades ago, undergrounding lines, setting the transition grid as they have been doing in Southern C
Looks like a nice day. Itll be similar to yesterday. Temperature running a little cool for this time of year but no complaints. Nice weather coming our way. Cool to mild around the bay area. A little the fog and cloud cover. Are going to catch the tail end of that. We may even squeeze out a sprinkle or two. I will say that in a mome lets take a look at the numbers this morning. Santa rosa 44, San Francisco 54, livermore and san jose right about 50. Most of us a little cooler. Half moon bay down by 13 so a lot cooler for you. Down by seven in novato. Meanwhile the east bay, livermore, concorde, and fairfield always temperatures up from yesterday. Low, mid and highlevel clouds which come from that system right there. Bring you some rain to washington, oregon, and Northern California. As we roll through today will get some of that cloud cover. Here is a look at what you can expect by lunchtime. A few showers over lake county, edging into Sonoma County. Chance for a few sprinkles. Then thi
Showing. And another huge column of black smoke entering the bay area skies at this point. Whats different from earlier, there are actually fire engines down there. The fire was simply burning too hot. We have more information from con fire Ceo Steve Hill for you right now. As the fire progresses, we have a number of tanks that also contain flammable tomorrows. So were concerned that the flame, of course, not spread to those. Were fighting t with a combination of water and Fire Fighting foam. And were using water to cool thea, jaysent, the adjacent tanks. We have had a number of vegetation fire which is have started result of the main fire in the facility. And weve been attacking them from the air and the ground. S good news at this point, they are all contained. Reporter you are watching an active fire fight from engines on the ground. Putting water and foam on the fire at the nustar facility out here in crockett right now. This fire we are told has affected three tanks. We saw earlie