16,000 acres in only 5 contained. Fire continues to rage on. Inside the Evacuation Center where residents are preparing. Get ready for round three. Pg e warning of more power shut offs this weekend around the bay area. The fire in Northern County has exploepded to 16,000 acres. All in less than 24 hours. 49 structures have been destroyed and how this fire may have started. Pg e ceo says tonight a transmission line failed at about at the same time the fire started. It appears to have been excellent condition. Recent recently inspected. We have to wait for the results of our investigation and cal fire. The extreme weather conditions will continue into the weekend increasing the fire threat and widespread power outages. Mandatory Evacuation Orders currently. 1,300 firefighters are on the front lines and more on the way. We begin the Team Coverage live from geysers and red wine road. Were here on guiders road two houses have both burned to the ground. Take a look behind me. You can see thi
Pg e blackouts. Electricity is slowly being restored to customers who had their electricity turned off as part of the planned outages. Were learning about the death of a man found unresponsive 12 minutes after one of those planned outages. The victim reportedly relied on several electronically powered machines that providd oxygen. Abc 7 news iteam reporter dan noyes questioned them about what it would take to end the blackouts. What is the answer to end these . Whats the value of human life would be my response. As i said when i concluded, thats why im here to try and make this better. Now we can work, and we need to work. We cannot live in a society where this happens frequently. Pg e has scheduled a 6 00 p. M. Media availability to answer more questions from reporters and we will be there. Meantime, heres the latest on how power restoration is going. 74 of customers impacted by the planned outages have had their service restored. That means fewer than 195,000 customers still need to
Pg e said these outages could affect as many as 189,000 customers in northern california. The utility opened its Emergency Operations center this weekend and people heading to the website for information or getting error messages again this morning. Officials say the site is back up and running. Rob roth joining us from santa rosa where he talks to Business Owners and the city about some preparations that are being made. Reporter nothing has been set in stone about Power Outages at least not yet. We have been told that the city of santa rosa is planning for blackouts beginning in about 24 hours, Late Afternoon tomorrow. That could change. Meanwhile businesses are preparing such as this restaurant which could go dark for the second time this month. For the owners of bettys fish and chips on sonoma highway, preparing for power shut off is a little like groundhog day and they are not happy with pg e. I feel like they are slacking off and they expect us to take the loss. Im pretty upset. R
We return with First Lady Melania Trump ringing the opening bell at the new york she was joined by ten elementary schoolchildren from the United Nations International School as part of her be best initiative. This morning, there are new developments after two 6yearold kids were arrested at their school in orlando. The officer who made the arrest has been fired and the police chief said what happened to the children shocked him and made him sick to his stomach. I can only imagine how traumatic this was for everyone involved. Reporter the Orlando Police chief taking swift action after the controversial arrest of two 6yearold children, firing the officer involved and apologizing to the children and their families. We were all appalled. We can not fathom the idea of a 6yearold being put in the back of a police car. Reporter last week the two kids, a boy and a girl, both 6, were arrested at school. Their hands bound with zip ties. This grandmother saying she was told her granddaughter was a
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