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welcome back. if you missed this story, listen up. scathing accusations against the biggest utility company in the state of california. the wall street journal is reporting that pg&e knew for years that its power lines could fail and spark fires, but did not take the necessary steps to repair them. one of pg&e s failed lines is blamed for starting the huge fire in northern california last november that killed 85 people and completely destroyed the entire town of paradise. the utility company says it disagrees with the report s conclusions. one of the reporters who broke this story for the journal joins me live. good morning to you. catherine blunt is with me. good on you for sdiging, getting
you can see when we compare it to the ten-year average, we are significantly higher in terms of the amount of acreage that has burnt so far this year-to-date. over 2.7 million acres have burned from these active wildfires. the interesting thing to note is compared to the ten-year average, we have less wildfires that have taken place this year so far. but goodness, we still have a high fire threat, especially across northern arizona, where we have critical fire danger through the afternoon today. we have an elevated risk across the four corners and into eastern sections of nebraska. scattered, dry thunderstorms that are in the forecast across parts of utah, into colorado, as well as eidaho. those spark fires easily because the thunderstorms form lightning and the rain evaporates before it reaches the floor or the surface of the earth, and it is unable to put out any blaze or ember that it starts or ignites. here s a look at our severe weather chances today. into the long holiday weekend
coolness for. the is 72 degrees right now. so, cool by their standards. a little bit cooler, although their average this time of year is 75 or 76. but 72, winds not that bad. she said a breeze but actually just between been between seven and nine-miles-an-hour for the last three to four hours. if you had higher winds than that it would cause bigger problems for fighting the fire and potentially disbursing embers in the neighboring areas and spark fires. because the winds were light that was favorable, and helped. that said, within any fire, because you have the heat from the fire itself, that heat rises, and that air that is someplaced has to be filled, and so you do get your own winds atlanta are higher itself. the atmosphere conditions, winds were not a problem. temperatures good.
photograph. the smoke and ash produced by the 200-square-mile blaze prompted san francisco to temporarily shut down hydroelectric stations for fears the city s drinking water could become contaminated. nbc viewed this unrelenting force of nature from 10,000 feet involve. roughly 230 square miles, bigger than the size of the city of chicago. all along the ridges we can see more spark fires. it s certainly quickly on the move. you can see from the fuel load down here, there are just hundreds of thousands of acres that could still burn. we re actually going to make our way down to the south side for better visibility. looks like everything is going up to the north. this fire has been burning a week and half. there s no doubt this fire could burn for weeks longer. all right. let s go. crews may not be able to access so much of this terrain down there. it is very rugged. it is very rocky below. from the air here, you get that