Manslaughter due to a deadly wildfire ignited by their electric grid. She also talks about electric grid capacity and building climate resilient infrastructure. This is hosted by the Stanford Graduate School of business. Business. Applaud. Thank thank you so it cae my pleasure to introduce the person youre actually here too see, who is Patricia Poppe whose last get speak the entire event. So patty is ceo of pacific gas and Electric Company who is a largest Utility Companies in the united states. They have about 20,000 employees. Employees. They supply natural gas and electricity to about 16 Million People in northern and central california. That those of you who are familiar with pge hear a lot of pge in the news. Those of you who are listening with pg e should know that its a publicly traded company that assays a lot of challenges in recent years. In 2010 thatrs was a a gas line explosion in san bruno california. 2017 and 2018 were major fires including the campfire that basically spa
2017. Before we take a look at your weekend weather, heres a live look in allentown this morning, drivers, you have to be where. Right now, and for the rest of the weekend, major disruption if you take the pa turnpike. The northeast extension is closed between Lehigh Valley and carbon counties. Workers trying to replace bridge 40 miles of the highway closed through monday at 4 00 a. M. , a detour is in place. In some drivers it could end up taking you an hours ago long. We had to let you know off the top about that. Your second question is whats weather like . Scott williams has the answer hi, everybody, were talking about temperatures warming you mean. Loot lot of low cloud. High humidity, 93 and as we focus in on the weather headlines, were tracking some of the early drizzle, weekend warmup and also looks like by early next week, the full chill depend, have multiple wardrobe, but it will start to feel a little more like summer overtime next couple of days, ultimate doppler not really
Authority say they spotted jones inside a car on south seventh street. Officers say she was with a man named devon harley. When Law Enforcement moved in, they say harley took off. Hitting a deputy. He later abandoned his car and was arrested. The teenager was not with him at the time. Her mother told cbs3 her family wont rest until her daughter found safe. We have alike search parties out, like crazy looking for my daughter. We believe she was in trenton for a long time. I know she will get in a car with anyone, she will just go off. Police charged devon harl which aggravated assault and related offenses, she set to due appear in court at the end of the month. Injured deputy is expected to be okay. And we in you know the identity of the man killed last night in a double shoot ing in philadelphias tioga section. Authorities say a gunman fired into an s. U. V. Hitting 27 year old brian gravely and another man. Gravely died at the scene. Second victim shot in the back and is in critical c
40. The mogul is out and his brother calls him sick and depraved. Plus nasas project to fly you across the country in just three hours. Only on cbs this morning jeff glor takes off on a jet designed to break the sound bare yore without a winner doughbreaking sonic boom. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. People heard their house shaking. There was a loud explosion. Flames are being seen in the sky. Rescue efforts are under way after an oil rig explodes. The rig burning for hours in lake ponchartrain north of new orleans clearly visible for miles across the huge lake. Were engaging this thing, were taking it by the horns, were going to take it until the job is done. Fire Officials Say they finally feel like theyre getting the upper hand on the wildfires devastating Northern California. Were not out of the woods yet but were making tremendous progress out there. The death toll in somalia rises. Its the singest deadliest attack in somalias history.
Event. Amamy as cataststrophic wildfds in california kill at least 42 people and leave thousands of homes and businesses in ruins, many of the areas undocumented 20,000 immigrants havave had no sananctuary from ththe flame, with some sleeping on beaches in order r to avoid federeral agent shelelters. This comes as far right Media Outlets like breitbart are falsely reporting that an undocumented immigrant was arrested in n connection to thee fires. Police say there is no indication the man had anything to do with the wildfires. We will speak with the deputy county lawyer of Sonoma County and d the head of thehe communiy centerer. Then as g Global Temperatures continueues to rise,e, we will k at the link between fires and Climate Change with dr. Max moritz, Fire Research scientist based at uc santa barbara. And well host roundtable activists on next steps after a summer of extreme weather around the world. What the Movement Needs to do is be strong and unified and fight back on all of th