We owe it to our constituents to act. There ceo of pg e sent his own letter to the cpuc, the state regulators, saying he understands the hardship but folks should, quote, keep in mind the statistic that matters the most, there were no catastrophic wildfires. Theres a huge financial incentive to go bigger than they need to. We want them to be surgical. Reporter state senator scott wiener also wants pg e to be more competent and accountable. Pg e is so used to getting its way. Theyre completely tone deaf here. Their ceo continues to just blanket the scale of the blackout affecting millions of people. Theyre not selfaware of how impactful in a negative way their actions far. The cpuc has called for emergency hearings that begin at 1 00 tomorrow. Joe vazquez, kpix 5. Fire watch. Right now were keeping an eye on a fire that broke out around 8 00 tonight. This is new video just into the newsroom. Its about 10 acres. Part of highway 29 remains closed at this hour. Some people in the area told
Bay commute. A little lighter than usual on some of these drives which we expect on a friday. This is a look at the westbound Richmond Bridge and traffic is moderate. If you are driving on the east shore freeway heading down to the bay bridge you will see that traffic is doing well and when you get there those not much of a delay. Its 6 00 and not much of a delay at the bay bridge which is nice. This is a look at interstate 880 and traffic is busy on westbound 92. Traffic here is also doing okay. We have a little bit of a better star. Hopefully this will last throughout the morning commute but it the sour is starting well. Lets go back to the desk. A reportlays out the chaos that firefighters based on tuesday in crockett during the explosions and fires at the Nustar Petroleum storage facility. Elissa harrington is outside that plant now with more information. Good morning. Reporter good morning. A report in the San Francisco chronicle said that one First Responders arrived on tuesday t
How many times have you seen frozen . Do you have daughters . I saul it sought a lot. Welcome to the 9. We have wonderful food. It smells good. It smells delicious. We will be reviewing the Food Festival happening in San Francisco. We will have the experts here to help. I want you to Say Something for me. Shish kebab. I can say a lot more. Heres your weekend weather. Do you have a specialty or go to death . My boys love shish kebab but we love hummus and baklava and all that good stuff. We will have to force her to bring some in. I will get to it here. There is a lot of high clouds with cooler than average temps. Tomorrow it will warm up. Bodega bay down to socal around 60 to 70. And then lots of mid 80s for inland. Was the locations will stay the 60s or low 70s, including San Francisco. Local week on the high side for the city. Last saturday, they were 77. There are weak systems coming to the north and there is some cup, cloud cover as well. Some of that will filter and giving us part
It can give you some pretty valuable seconds to get to safety. Earthquake. Drop cover, hold on. Shaking expected. Reporter this is what the app, that will be released tomorrow will look and sound like in the event of a quake. Familiarize users with the my shake app. This is best described as a rapid detection system and rapid dissemination of earthquake information. Reporter the way this Early Detection system should work was illustrated in real time earlier this summer during a News Conference following a series of quakes in southern california. Oh oh 5. 7. Okay. So we have an earthquake thats already begun. Reporter dr. Lucy jones was at caltech describing tremors from the ridgecrest quake when instruments detected an aftershock. Early warning sys waiting to roll out the network of seismic detectors like this one that was recently installed in the bay area. More centers means better chances at detecting and sending out reliable warnings. In earthquake country every second counts. If
Ashley . Hi. Were waiting for okay. Great. I want to thank you, commissioners, for having us . My name is ashley scarborough, and im working in primary care central . Its my pleasure to represent a large and Interdisciplinary Group and working to include lgbt in the group, so thank you . For this initiative, its really more than Data Collection . It offers an opportunity for staff to align with our values and moving towards True North Equity creating culture change and ultimately providing more inclusive care for the lgbtq population. I want to recognize the longer term efforts in the department for gender equity Data Collection . And just the staff advocating for this data and advocating for this community so aligning with that over the last few years has also been structural policy incentives and mandates that have been elevating the priority of Data Collection, including local ordinances authored by scott wiener, state legislative bills, and payforperformance dollars, part of the pr