Counties across northern and Central California will have their electricity shut off as a precaution starting just after midnight. Nearly 800,000 customers will be affected overall. Pg e is warning the people who arent in the shut off phone could still lose power because of the windy conditions. Lets take a look at the planned power shut off by numbers. As you can see the most affected area is Sonoma County with more than 66,000 being told they will lose power. The number of outages in marin county has not yet been announced. It is important to remember that not every customer in each county will experience a blackout. Henry lee begins our coverage and he is live with more on what the city and residents are doing to prepare for this. Reporter thousands of residents here could have their power cut off as early as midnight. Many here are getting ready and city officials are warning people that this power outage could last for days. Power will likely be shut off for thousands in Alameda C
Solicitor during the george h. W. Bush administration. He was asked about safety, the minimum wage and protections for lgbtq workers among other topics. Good morning. Good morning. Should. Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia to serve as United States secretary of of labor. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome secretary chao, secretary, good to see you, and we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. There are so many of them i will the scalias are especially productive family, apparently, so it wont come any of your allotted time for your statement, and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings are a not necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself more
This is the measure of last resort and given the extreme nature of what is being forecasted we think this is the appropriate approach from a Risk Reduction perspective to again ensure the continued safety of our customers and our communities. Were now just 2 hours away from the beginning of a massive power shut off across the bay area. Pg e is set to turn off the power to about 800,000 customers the earliest shut down set to begin at midnight and continue in phases. Thanks for joining us at 10, im can one and im pam moore, the power shut off coms as the bay area remains in extreme fire danger right now. Firefighters are at the scene of a vegetation fire mill valley, the Mill Valley Fire Department tweeted out this photograph uh what is being called the firm fire. This fire is burning at the top of fernwood and in and firefighters say that it has been highly visible from highway one oh one the good news at this hour. Fire crews say full what progress has been stopped no evacuation order
Out to the delta. Konocti at 19 out of the west. And early breeson santa rosa 12. Atlas peaks west, southwest. 46 humidity. Notice how this picks up by this evening. Not so much at noon but by 4 00 at 5 00 thats when things start. Picking up. 31 in napa. Then they really crank up overnight wednesday into thursday. Fairfield, 43 Miles Per Hour. Napa, 44. Santa rosa, 44. Combine that with humidity maybe in the single digits. Thats why theyre shutting off the power. Anticipation of something of this sort if isand the forecast model say it will. Its not bad now. Altimont pass at gusts right now. There will be a tremendous difference in the pressure gradient. High pressure does not like the low and this is a big low. As the low settles in the high will go to the north and that will create the difference. 40s and 50s and 60s on the temperatures. East bay temperatures in for so 60s for others. El cerrito, 51. A big snow producer for some. Intermountain reason and the great basin but not for u
The context of this visit is that theres been an increase of u. S. Sanctions against iran as an increase of tensions in the region and theres a military buildup but also side uribe has accused iran of being behind the attack on the Oil Facilities for president rouhani said this morning that the United States has cheerier motives. Are massively. Regarding the issues in the region they are exaggerating what has happened to iran cause what is the reason for that the reason is that americans want to keep control of the whole region now they say they want to bring Patriot Defense systems into the region its clear they want to keep control of saudi arabias oil that comes from the eastern part this conflict is not about us it is about the american competition with chinese and others they are taking advantage of this opportunity president rouhani is also expected to present an alternative peace plan thats in the face of the u. S. Naval coalition that theyve put together what the u. S. Says is