You may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. Director tsen. Unmute, director tsen. Yes. Present. Clerk director dunlop. Present. Clerk director richardson. Present. Clerk director kwon. Here. Clerk director shiffrin. Here. Clerk supervisor haney. We do have a quorum. Okay. Thank you. Im sorry were still meeting remotely. But anyways welcome to the public at large and thank you for being here on a beautiful, very hot San Francisco day. But at least its clear. It means we all have found out how important clear air is to all of us. But welcome. Well go to the first item, please, kate. Clerk item number 2, general Public Comment. This item so to allow the members of the public to address the board within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and do not appear on todays agenda. In addition to general Public Comment, Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Members of the the public may address the boa
Public safety power shutoffs right now. More than 50,000 Northern California customers are impacted here in the bay area about 22,000 pg e customers are expected to lose power in seven counties. The utility hopes to restore service by 10 00 p. M. Friday. Pg e is stressing this power shutoff is shorter than last years when some customers were in the dark for about a week. That was a tough time for people. Yes. Thank you. The outages are having a big impact on people all across the bay area. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan is live in walnut creek with more. Good morning. Walnut creek had power shutoff last night. No street lights, no homes with lights on. The light you see is from our news van. Pg e has been informing residents since monday that power may be shut off due to the threat of wildfires. Here in the east bay, the psps event will affect over 6,000 customers, mostly in walnut creek, danville, oakland. Pg e opened 40 Community Resource centers. These are places people can go to i
The bay itself and fire danger has increased due to that especially across the north bay and for inland east bay areas, were winds overnight have been gusting consistently on up to a range of 45 Miles Per Hour at times winds this morning in calistoga snowman vacaville have regularly beget been gusting into that 30 mile per hour range. Fairfield in danville also quite on the breezy side so these are windiest of areas as of right now as we work our way through the day youll continue to see strong winds on through the morning, a bit of a calmer afternoon and then wind speeds picking back up again into evening hours tonight with the vacaville atlas peak calistoga in sonoma. All seeing yet another breezy evening from thursday night into friday morning friday midday winds begin to back off and after that we are in for a much less higher fire risk weekend. And still a toasty one but not as high of that fire danger for sure. Now right now temperatures are mostly in the 60s to 70s, although a c
Until 11 00 this morning. Its been a noisy evening because of the trees rustling. High fire danger continues until 11 00 tomorrow. Moderate risk of heat illness starts at 11 00 today through 00 tomorrow. Tonight will be warmer than this morning. Temperatures 90s everywhere except for the coast. Thank you. Extreme fire conditions forced pg e to cut the power to thousands of people across the bay area. They could be in the dark for the next two days. Jobina fortson is at the live desk with more this morning. Good morning. Pg e is hoping to prevent fires from sparking from damaged power lines or power lines knocked down by high winds. The utilitys website shows who is affected right now. Heres a look at that map. More than 50,000 Northern California customers are impacted. In the bay area, about 22,000 pg e customers are expected to lose power in seven counties. The cruelyoul utility hopes to power by friday. Pg e is stressing this power shutoff is shorter than last years when some custom
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