Companies. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg is in fredericksburg right now. Jeff, this was some storm. It was quick but it did a lot of damage in that short period of time. It sure did. In fact, right now were feeling heavy winds pick up again in the last five mints or so outside of this home in fredericksburg where you can see the power of the storm. The top of the tree sliced right off. The top of this tree sliced off as well. Thankfully, neither of them went into a home. The tree is Still Standing just a few miles from where we are standing right now. More signs of the storm. The storm came through fast and the cleanup started right after. Strong winds sending aluminum flying. Some of it into trees. From this storming facility on nelm circle in southern stafford county. Trees also toppled over from the wind. Just north along route 1, dominion virginia crews hard at work restoring power after winds knocked down transmission lines cutting off power to thousands across in t
Scattered showers and the sunday after evening is a activity activity do that early. There is a system a couple systems one bloke called out to we have the low clouds the next attempt on the way wont be here until later this afternoon will see the system within a lot of drizzle there doesnt show up on the radar otherwise i will show 250, temperatures du jour suddenly breeze and that will pick up tonight into tomorrow greater being something over the top so its hard to say but its there was a drizzle in the morning some partly sunny with the customer attending and in a good front and cold air 50s and 60s on attempts. 431 things to quite i hope . Compared yesterday at this time it was very quiet that will be more on my toes today with the weather we always have some spinel crashes and things of that nature definitely take it easy of driving out there. Lets take a look at the north they having westbound a good drive to hercules taking a look is that highway 4 the construction looks good a
Eletrical equiptment was making it hard to put out so they brought in a Carbon Dioxide truck. It suffocates the fire and removes the oxygen and cools it downafter several hours the fire was finally put out and pge could tell us the cause of both that. And the massive power outage that effected such a large swath of the city. We had a Circuit Breaker fail it created a fire around the breaker the insulation around the breaker burned and thats what created the situationpge says exactly why the breaker failed is still being looked into. But its age relatedits simply old equiptment. They are in the process of spending 100 Million Dollars to upgrade that substation. Which is scheduled to be done at the sometime next year. maureen live no one was injured in that fireand so far theres been no reports of any injuries or traffic accidents related to this widespread outage. Maureen kelly kron4 news vicki the massive outage also took a toll on people and traffic in San Franciscos financial distric
Vicki liviakis is tracking the impact of the outage. pam but first kron4s Charles Clifford joins us live with what we know tonight about the cause pam grant the good news tonight is that pg e says that all power has been restored here in San Francisco and even though this outage was almost city wide, there were apparently no major injuries or accidents. According to pg e, around 919 friday morning there was fire at the larken street substation in San Francisco. The fire appears to have been started when a Circuit Breaker failed. Sotin all, 88 thousand customers in the northern and central parts of San Francisco lost power. 21 schools lost power, 300 Traffic Signals went dark, and muni and bart experienced Power Outages at the montgomery station. Several hospitals also lost power but were able to keep the lights on using backup generators. Sot when it became obvious that the problem city wide problem, city officials activated the Emergency Operations center on turk street. The fire depa
45 year old Richard James wasso is in county jail tonight. A minor says wasson molested her and then tried to kill her. Some people we talked to recognized him. Johnny santos resident hes a local that hangs out in front of the market once in a while, tells everybody to get to work when he sees them. Thank god the police did their job. I mean that guy doesnt belong out here. They also said wasson is part of a larger issue in Bethel Island. That the small town of only a few thousand people has a disproprtionate amount of sex offenders. Our search revealed at least 15 sex offenders on the island. Kelly burns resident the county sends the child molesters out to Bethel Island and im not sure why. Its very isolated and theres a lot of drug use out here and they get more into drugs. So i dont think its a very good idea. It doesnt help them in the least. Residents say. Drug use is so bad here. That some call it methel island. After methamphetamines. Rodger baldwin resident well its nick name i