Dan noyes has been on the pg e beat, and he joins us with the latest developments. Dan . Ama and dion, it took two twt days for pg e to announce another one is probably on this way this week. The reaction to pg es announcement of more blackouts, the second round this month was fast and angry. What pg e is supposed to be doing is taking the billions of dollars we have been giving them and trimming the trees and taking care of their grid so we dont have to have these shutoffs in the first place. Just this past friday, a parade of pg es top executives appeared before the California Public Utilities Commission to defend the blackouts two weeks ago that affected more than 700,000 customers. Pg e president and ceo bill johnson described the longterm outlook for what the Company Calls Public Safety power shutoffs, or pspss. Our goal over the next ten years is to eliminate these kind of psps events. Ten years of blackouts does not sit well with the governor, some lawmakers and state rate payer
Conditions. So peeking today. I am noticing wind gusts around San Francisco as high as 40 miles an hour. Nearby ventura county, 35 miles an hour at this hour. They will intensify later. San diego getting the worst of it today as humidity levels differ. Between 3 a 10 . It is extremely dry. The water vapor imagery gives you a sense of how dry it is. There is no moisture being allowed into the state of california because of the High Pressure ridge being so strong. It is staying put. It is right over us. Over Northern California and nevada. That is putting the wind in a clockwise rotation sending the offshore wind into Southern California and the santa annas. Behind high, we will get some smoke from Southern California up to Northern California. You may smell that in the air. We are have having a spare the air alert. Check out this new video. Any wildfire broke out last night. You can see the flames taking over a mountain. There are dozens of homes nearby. Some of them have been evacuated
We have sunshine for your system. The last system arrives late tonight. Ill time it out coming up next. Lisa, thank you. In the Sierra Nevada mountains, chains are required from baxter to the donner lake interchange on i80. Chains also required on highway 50, nine miles east of placerville to myers in eldorado county. This is castle peak. You can see all that heavy snow in the area. The extra snow is good news for skiers as some resorts opened this holiday weekend. In the south bay the chp said 2 is cars were damaged on i880 in san jose. It happened just after midnight near the brocal road exit. One car hit debris that was blocking the lane. It caused damage to the under carriage. The cars. Because of the rainy conditions drivers really could not see that debris on thefree. The roadways reduced the amount of visibility it is. You cant see things as easy as you can in a normal conditions. It also makes it so that its harder to steer sometimes, especially when theres standing water. What
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Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Tonight the gunmans connen to the bay area. Hostages running for their lives, commandos pour in ending a 16 hour standoff, tonight the gunmans connection to the bay area. Im ken bastida. Im veronica de la cruz. The hostage taker was one of three People Killed in a cafe in downtown acidy, australia. Police sydney, australia. Police say he made demands to have an isis flags delivered to him and threatened to set off bombs. In the end no explosives was found. The man was born in iran but sought asylum in europe. Last year he was charged an accessory in the murder of his exwife. Tonight her godfather told our Christin Ayers he had a bad feeling about the gunman from the very first time they met. Reporter that was just over a decade ago. I spoke to that hayward man earlier and he told me just as you said, he had a bad feeling about the man who would be the sydney shooter. Months later. Monis was accessory. But sp hes scam artist, oh, ye