Rotating outages began getting underway. Most people have their power back on. While there will be no more rotating outages tonight, we are told, pg e is and ruling out the possibility that it might happen this weekend. Its why they are asking customers to cut back and conserve energy. We would also encourage customers, if they are able to delay in later in the evening household chores like running the washing machine or their dishwasher, or even vacuuming. Just by avoiding those types of things, it will help us have the necessary supply to meet the demand. Californians came accustomed , so to speak, to rolling outages in 2001 when great managers imposed repeated blackouts to deal with an electricity crisis then. This map from pg es website shows a snapshot of the situation around 8 00 tonight. The red dots represent outages of 5000 or more. The orange dots are 500 or more pg e customers. Not easy dealing with this kind of power outage when its so hot. You need air conditioning. But it
Muchneeded rain well away from us. Heres a look at some of those low clouds as we look back from the east bay hills camera. Lets talk about how this earth day camera is going to break out. A few high clouds join all of our neighborhoods today. 60s at the coast you can see. Near 70 at noon for our bay and inland neighborhoods and mid to upper 70s by 4 00 and a wonderful evening on tap. Upper 60s at 7 00. All right, lets get back to reggie for the news of the day. Mike, thank you. Governor newsom is expected to give an update today on when california can reopen its economy and begin to ease our she shelterinplace rules. Discuss testing and Contact Tracing. One of the things that experts say is needed to reopen comes from the white house guidelines. States can begin if there is decrease in covid19 cases in 14 days. That has not happened yet. Nearly 36 thoub people tested positive for kcoronavirus in california. Make sure you have the Face Coverings in today. Contra costa, san mateo and so
This time of year. We will let you know how much warmer we will get coming up. Well ship you a selfinstall kit that makes setup quick, safe and easy. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic. No tech visit required. Good morning. And our simple Digital Tools not bad out there on the roads. Will help you manage your account online. At xfinity, were committed to keeping you connected. Caltrans has been working on find great offers and value, today, at xfinity. Com this accident on southbound 680 and koopman offramp. The number three lane of 680 is blocked and the offramp. That will be there for quite some time. A tanker truck vo. As far as delays, im not seeing a lot of brake lights. Its early through there. There is roadwork on the northbound side and we see a few brake lights. Looking at the san mateo bridge, a broken down big rig blocking the slow lane westbound past the toll plaza. I am anne makovec. Lets look at the white house right now. President trump just tweeted he is go
Couple of 40s. Santa rosa has ended their dry stretch at the airport. It looks like it will hold together. Lets hope it does give us some light rain. We can get through this probably after about 37, 38 days. So look for clouds, temperatures coming down. Upper 50s and low 60s on the temperatures after a couple of days of upper 70s and the 80s. Sal is here now. Still friday light or something new . The benicia bridge is bucking the trend, southbound 680 slow across to concord almost because of a crash thats been there for a while. And at first, it didnt cause a big backup because of light volume. But its there and traffic is slow. Now things are waking upon the commute. Highway 4 is slow in bay point to concord. Bay bridge has developed a backup. There is a backup of about 10 to 15 minutes. 880, though, still looks good in oakland. 7 01. Back to the desk. New this morning, one man is arrested after leading the chp on a highspeed freeway chase in the east bay. The cameras were rolling ove
More Live Team Coverage from d. C. To the bay area. Lets start with bob redell live for us. We are learning potentially thousands were exposed to the virus, now some tsa agents are under quarantine. Reporter they have tested positive for covid19. Unfortunately the statement doesnt answer a lot of the questions i think a lot of us want to know the answer to, namely, which security checkpoint were they working at, the one here in terminal b, at terminal a, at both of them . We dont know. How long were they contagious before they became aware they had the virus . Dont know that. Were they working behind the scenes or interacting and screening passengers . Again, not a question answered by the tsa. They confirm they are receiving medical care and all employees they came in contact with over the past 14 days are quarantined at home. The agency says it is working with the cdc, the California Department of health. As you can imagine this kind of news has made some passengers uneasy. I still n