You have some information about when wearing it might be beneficial. And when it is best to stay indoors. With a layer of choking smoke blanketing hazy hillsides of the east bay west Contra Costa County Unified School District counsel class at noon. Sending 30,000 students home. Concerns about air quality hung over the community. The air is supposed to be normal. There is fire. It feels different. He and his brother wore the mask the parents had given them to protect them from the smoke. Officials warn most masks dont fit children securely enough to be effective. If we dont have any mask benefit children of the can seal if you have facial hair. If it is well sealed and you dont feel short of breath you might get more benefit from wearing a mask. Reporter the best advice is to stay indoors if you can. Officials with west contra costa schools close in part because many of the classrooms dont have air conditioning or Filtration Systems that would remove particles from the air students bre
Well. It is a level of anxiety that unless you experience it, it is hard to explain. That is the reason why we do ps ps to make sure that the opportunity for catastrophic wildfires to start associated with service is not something that is acceptable. When we go to the numbers, when we think of 970,000 customer accounts that were deenergized, it is also important to note that those 970,000 accounts were connected to over 20,000 miles of electrified infrastructure thats the infrastructure that was taken down because it was viewed as being to our analysis either where they were located in very high risk areas, the abundance of fuel, the wind condition, that any debris flying into those energized lines created the potential for admission. Thats why we do ps ps did as mark said, so far we noticed 50 incidents of damage. You can say well, millions of people impacted 450 instances of damage . The thing that we have to keep in mind if any one incident could be at travis fact catastrophic wildf
Melanie woodrow joins us with more on this. Dion and dan, the documents were just filed with the California Public Utilities Corporation today. They outlined how the two fires that happened in lafayette could be tied again to pg power lines. The fires started blocks from where power had been turned off. Flames threaten homes and destroy the Lafayette Tennis Club when a grassfire roared through dry brush found by high wind. It sent smoke over highway 24. Pg e reported to the cpuc that there were two incidents regarding the energized power lines yesterday. One was at Pleasant Hill where pg e reported a lashing wire and open wire as a potential ignition source. The other in lafayette attica minnow el diablo road. They found this downed power pole and transformer. You can see what it looked like in april of this year. Trees were close to power lines. The exact scenario pg e has been concerned about. The reason, it says, it is cutting power to millions of customers when high winds pick up.
Today. With the winds coming down fire crews have up containment to 15 . The flames have destroyed even more structures. A total of 123. 57 of those are homes. Over 90,000 structures are also threatened. Governor newsom visited the fire crews a cal fires base camp in santa rosa. He commended them frakes thing wishing 330 fires across the state. In just 24 hours. He said fires like these should not be the new normal. But the community is resilient. The sense of spirit and pride of this community is palpable. It is demonstrable. The ice of the volunteers. And the people being served. And our children. Our seniors that are being taken care of. The most vulnerable. In the last hour cal fire has expanded an evacuation warning for parts of lake county. People in western Sonoma County people who live in the blue area are now being allowed to go home. They are still under an evacuation warning. For other people they dont even know how long they will be out of their homes. Andrea is live at an
A very good morning from inside the palace of westminster, where the queen will arrive in a short while to open a new session of parliament. But this is no routine event yes, well be able to enjoy all the usual colour and pagea ntry of the state opening, but it takes place at a time of great political and constitutional uncertainty where even the role of the crown in our National Affairs is being questioned. We were last here two years ago when theresa may was Prime Minister since when the Political Landscape has been turned upside down by the turbulent Brexit Process. Its Boris Johnsons first queens speech as Prime Minister he has no majority in the house of commons so there will inevitably be questions about his ability to deliver the pledges in the queens speech. We could indeed be back again before christmas. But lets deal with todays events first im joined by our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg. Good money, laura. Good morning, hew. It would be an understatement to say despite