Haze. Lets bring in Frank Mallicoat who will talk about the air quality. Here we are, today feels different, not quite normal yet. Not quite normal but were certainly getting there. No bright orange glow, gasia. What a site it was yesterday. Today were back to our old faithful fogfilled sky. Theres plenty of smoke in the sky. That means two thirds of the air quality is poor quality, especially if you live in the east bay or north bay. This bears repeating. What a difference a day looks. Heres a look at oakland, wednesday draped in that bright orange hue and then back to the well take it. This is looking down on highway 24, foggy and gray there and as we go into the Rockbridge Area much of the same area. After fires, extreme heat, blackouts, anything that resembles normalcy in 2020 well take it. Its nice in the moment but scary and sad to think about the environment and think about the fact this will be yet again another new normal. But there was nothing normal about this. Actually had
Our wildfire coverage continues tonight with the deadly north complex fire burning in butte yuba and plumas counties that fire has killed at least 10 people including a 16 yearold boy. Kay recede joins us now from oroville in butte county was the latest k. Its smoking out here but search and rescue crews often face tougher conditions conditions. They train for. As the smoke and flames from the north complex continue to make their way through butte lewis and yuba counties, driving more and more families out the search and rescue team of the Butte County Sheriffs Office are heading in and the hopes of finding the many who remain missing and theyre theyre literally putting themselves in extreme has some of the areas that they were evacuating. Were just minutes away from being overrun by fire. Dennis schmidt is a member of the all volunteer organization. He says theyre all volunteer staff have faced some of the most challenging terrain in this wildfire. The biggest challenge is it just hap
They expect and deserve. That helps them live their lives and run their businesses. And this weighs heavily on everyone, including us at pg e. This is not how we want to serve you. And this is not how we want to run our business. Were actually in the business of providing power, not taking power away. So we feel the impact of the decision, and i understand how it alters, how it disrupts the normal flow of life and the normal flow of community. But theres another part of the reality that were in. With winds like we saw over the last 24 hours or so and the condition of the vegetation, we simply could not continue to run parts of this system given the risk to Public Safety. We struggle with this decision, as we do with any decision to turn off power. We weigh the level of acceptable risk given the circumstances, the wind, and the vegetation, and we determine that we must have zero risk of a spark. So what exactly was the risk . Well, we know from history that wind speeds, the wind speeds
Im julie haener. And im frank somerville. To impeach or not to impeach. The dinner was sponsored by Democratic Party, the theme of the night, heart of resistance. And it lived up to that billing. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is at the Intercontinental Hotel where the fundraising banquet just wrapped up. Jana . Reporter frank and julie, this room at the hotel was packed with top democratic officials and operatives here in San Francisco and also the state. Even the former dnc chairwoman Donna Brazile was here. Speaker pelosi received a standing ovation but there were also protesters inside and outside who showed the party survived. Longtime political power broker speaker of the house nancy pelosi took the stage to receive a Lifetime Achievement award wednesday night. The San Francisco Democratic Party theme was the heart of the resistance. But it quickly became clear resistance exists within the party. Protesters challenged pelosi waving signs and shouting upset she has not moved to impeach Pres
Was shielded her. Oh baby from that should or her family telling us after competing was found underneath the mother unfortunately the mother passed away, but that that baby was alive, she was covered in her blood and the family tonight just so thankful that that baby is alive that theyre saying and there simply add a loss of words they are in shock. We have to get it stopped been going on for years. 2 communities in mourning following a pair of Violent Attacks this weekend that killed nearly 30 people. An overnight attack at a popular nightclub killed at least 9 people and injured more than 20 others. Tragedy that Officials Say could have been much worse. If police hadnt responded so quickly had this individual. Made it through the doorway of with that level of weaponry theyre minute catastrophic injury loss of life. 13 hours earlier and 1600 miles away paso, a 21 yearold suspect is accused of gunning down shoppers at a walmart killing 20 and injuring more than 2 dozen others. Authorit