People. The reaction, not again. A survey in several businesses. I am stumped. Reporter no appetite for a new power outage. Not good. Not happy. Reporter they barely rebounded from last time. But Fire Agencies ask look at the big picture. The Bigger Picture being that we have a fire Weather Window that is opening up here and be prepared for a refinery. Reporter fire that could be started or accelerated by live equipment. Sometimes we get the early rains in october. This year we havent had them yet. Reporter at least the looming power outage is about a quarter the size of the last. Still for some it may mean ruined foods. We have to close for two days. Lost a lot of product here. And employees, we no make money. Reporter they will try to move inventory out. Add in lost business, it is a lot of dough. It is frustrating to say the least. Okay. Lets have a plan but there is nothing we can do. Reporter customers do know what to expect now and some dont mind pg e blackouts. Others cut them n
Another system. 6268 tomorrow and we will be focused on the red flag warning. Highs today in the 60s. What would you like to start with . People are getting through now after that earlier crash on the east shore. They moved it so its slower on the eastshore freeway. You will see just a little bit of slowing here but for the most part the traffic is okay. I do see the traffic on 880 is looking good through downtown oakland. No major issues on the san mateo. A little windy on the spans. No problems on the peninsula. We have slowing on the southbound on 280. You can see it here because theres something that slowing traffic just beyond bird. If youre driving in san jose it will be slow. To the south bay where police have one person in custody after a very long standoff at a home at san jose state. They were called on south eighth street before 6 00 last night. Neighbor say a man with the gun broke into a house. A Police Helicopter and s. W. A. T. Team and canine unit were called to the sce
Looking day in the bay area as we look at a live picture of the bay bridge and San Francisco bay. I tell you what, business is booming now. I would say mike and gossia, backup generators right. Are probably flying off the shelves, because we might have power shut off this week. We havent taken that step. We have a number of shut offs at our house. We have flashlights at the ready, charging our batteries, filling up the gas tank, buying the ice after work. We were knowledge the hundreds of thousands we knew it was going to be extended. We had 48 hours the last time around last month. Its going into a 3rd day. This time around its not expected to be that long. Im not getting the generator. I do have friends who say, no way. Were going to get them. Well, they are flying off the store shelves, because there might be another majored planned power shut off coming. The National Weather service has issued a red flag warning for several parts of the bay area. It begins early tomorrow morning. B
Never trumpers. You testified in our deposition that you did not know the whistle blower. Tense moments from the third day of the impeachment hearings point in timement from the infamous july 25th call with to protect the whistle blowers identity. What agency was this individual from . If i could interject here we dont want to use these proceedings. Its our time. But we need to protect the whistle blower. Focusing on Lieutenant Colonel vinman and advisor to mike pence who were both on the call between President Trump and ukrainian president vladimir zolinski. And a political opponent. I found the july 25th phone call unusual in contrast to other phone calls i had observed it appeared to be a domestic political matter. Vindman reported concerns about the call. And ukrainian officials to the nfc lawyer. Williams informed to investigate know and hunter biden with bipartisan outrage over the aid and it was eventually released in september. Republicans questioned vindmans loyalty and judgme
Have a better idea once we see the data. If i hurt you right you said youre going to contact affected customers directly. Is that new from the last event and if so can you elaborate what if there are people who have cell phones or outdated numbers . We do try to contact every affected customer by phone email or text. I think we have a very high hit rate on that. It is the same as we have been doing. We had a couple hundred thousand people who updated their Contact Information. We want people to do that several times a year. If you have a new cell phone update your Contact Information so we can reach you. Those 48 ur notices have gone out for the. San mateo county. We are not at the 48 hour mark yet. Any other questions . Thank you. Plan for the same time tomorrow. You are listening into the pg e press conference where they are answering questions. About the communication and how residents will be alerted if there is a power shut off. Lets break it down for the bay area. Parts of sonoma