jumper on one of our transmission towers. an investigation into what sparked both fires in northern and southern california continues. thanks to natalie romero for that update. i want to go to cnn s ivan cabrera now. as i understand, this is an event that s going to last at least until monday. it s going to last until monday. good to see you, christi and martin. notice the theme, worsts ever, never seen anything like it. these are people who have worked with them every year. er every year it seems to be getting worse. the diablo winds. the fuels are there as far as the dryness. the winds are going to exceed at times 70-mile-an-hour gusts, and we re going to continue to see that spread as we head through today, tonight, and heading into
pg&e says damage to one of their transmission towers may have sparked the fire and today the utility said it may cut off power preemptively to over 850,000 customers across california as they issue a very dire warning about the dangers still ahead. i have been in this business for more than 40 years, and i have worked all over the world, and i have never seen overall conditions like the one we are seeing and forecasting for this weekend. now, in southern california, the tick fires burned more than 4,000 acres thus far, and some residents in los angeles county are being allowed to go back home, but firefighters are keeping an eye on some hot spots that could certainly spark up again. reporter: the tick fire in southern california, engulfing homes, evacuations mounting. this is the largest evacuation that we ve had in santa clarita. reporter: a similar situation at the kincade fire in northern
undergrounding their transmission lines. they simply did not do their job. it took us decades to get here, but we will get out of this mess. reporter: now, to remind our viewers, pg&e was held responsible or found responsible for the devastating and catastrophic fires that took place last november in northern california, the deadliest fires in the state s history. now there s some speculation that pg&e s transmission towers could have been to blame. they found a faulty power line very close to the area where the kinkaid fire erupted. of course, that s going to be the subject of a long investigation. right now the focus is on saving lives and preventing more fire more structures, pardon me, from burning down. wow. our hearts go out to the people in that area tonight. lucy, thank you for that reporting. up next, attorneys for freshman congresswoman katie hill have sent a cease and desist letter to the daily
transmission towers. tomorrow with the winds picking up again and possibly even worse than what we ve seen already earlier this week, we can certainly have more shutoffs, and the idea is to prevent another such fire. you re seeing pg and e officials now. public information officer for this current psps event. thank you for being here tonight. we ve already covered safety in the room. so thank you. additionally, i would just remind us, we re in earthquake country as well as wildfire country. we ve seen that. make sure you take care of yourself, duck, cover and hold for earthquakes and also good resources at wildfire safety.pge.com. to help be prepared for psps events as well as wildfires. i m going to introduce our lineup and talk about the upcoming weekend event. so we have our first presenter
rapidly scorchede sterday. before the fire, pg&e proactively pulled the power plug on homes and businesses today, power restored. but questions remain about the cause of the fire after pg&e says there was a problem with one of its high voltage transmission towers around the time the fire started now the region is bracing for more windy weather this weekend the utility says preemptive blackouts could impact 850,000 customers. we do think it will be the strongest offshore wind event this season by a large margin reporter: the danger tonight remains largely in southern california were the tick fire is nowhere near extinguished. the governor has now declared states of emergency for counties impacted by these major fires and evacuation orders are in place for tens of thousands here in southern california which is going to impact shelters that are at capacity already heading into the weekend, lester.is fire