All, lets start off with one big news, piece of news for the bay area. Three ucsf doctors have been named to president elect bidens Advisory Council for covid pandemic policies. There are hundreds of jobs that the president elect will need to fill, but the Trump Administration said today that they are not ready to acknowledge him as the winner. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris go straight to work with the transition team. They met by videoconference with the transition covid19 advisory board. Focusing on a key campaign promise. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we are sworn in on january 20. Reporter the bay area doctors from ucsf are part of the board. Dr. David kessler, an epidemiologist and former fda commissioner is one of the cochairs. Dr. Robert you guess, are also board members. Typically, they were closely with Outgoing Administration according to eric schindler, codirector of uc berkeleys institute of governmental studies
They say the majority of power is expected to be restored by this evening. Thats the good news. Heres a look at pg es current Public Safety power outage map and see all this purple areas, those are spots where the electricity is currently turned off. Far fewer of them than this time last night but still a lot of outages in the north bay. Now we go live to calistoga where many of those customers remain in the dark red cross for is dan kerman is there live with us dan we heard from that gentleman. Its been windy for many many years said all the sudden the past couple years people lose their power preemptively theyre not happy. Well, ill tell you something really interesting and thats the fact that when i talk to people in marine yesterday, they were a little less willing to go with the power shut off but here in calistoga where youve seen lots of fires, they are more willing role with the tide. Now pacific gas and electric has been crisscrossing napa county today tried to restoring power
With pacific gas and electric have been crisscrossing napa county repairing and inspecting power lines and poles. Before turning the power back on its getting kind of old yeah as usual residents who live west of the river in calistoga have been without power. This time since sunday afternoon. Some have been through it so many times that they bought a generator to make life a little easier. Ieeping one tv going. A light in my bedroom. Light in the kitchen. Wi fi. And the refrigerator. And its not just homes west of the river that have been without power. But weiner east to like castello di amorosa still after wine tasting continues, we had a generator. That is able to any. A gift card that whole castle not only is this winery had to deal with power shut offs but its warehouse and 10,000 cases of wine were destroyed by the glass fire at the end of last month. Still they keep pushing ahead because were so used having files for the last 4 years including the whole bay area. People are now
Modifications well forced to joins us tonight from lafayette in Contra Costa County where many are breathing a sigh of relief thanks to the reopening measures, theresa well pam as you mentioned it is certainly positive news were here in lafayette to Contra Costa County i was speaking to the owner of social bird behind me and she says you know of course of business is called social bird was supposed to be social but then the pandemic it and she said that its been certainly very tough but now. That weve got that move into this new terror. She says shes extremely grateful. From here there nothing. It was heart wrenching that chef and owner snd carrion who owns social bird in lafayette and 2 other restaurants in Contra Costa County she and her husband had just bought renovated. And held a grand opening of social bird. Then the pandemic hit. In a cap and he had to learn how to the takeout business that we doing to farm. It was learning process and learning process. She showed me the transfo
Balan muchas warns that the county has to get its act together unfortunate reality is that we are seeing case numbers that are higher than they should be for us to remain in red and unfortunately that puts us at risk of going back in the purple. You know the cause of it is obviously people getting together with family and friends and letting their guard down so that disease spreads and we had several weeks ago several large as ants that we believe accounted for that spike that theyre not just says the spike could be temporary at least hes hoping thats the case he points to several recent events as examples of behavior that is detrimental to the countys progression in reopening involving 300 people with no social distanced staying lee and its a wedding at a home with 40 people no social distancing no and then there was some type of the news sent invitation only event was a large number of people again no social distancing and we had dozens of cases from these events doctor much as says