There. Cars are backedup in those areas. Those icons are where accidents have been reported. Reporter we have seen a number of close calls today as we took a ride with california Highway Patrol. We joined them from spinout to spinout. We are likely to see more as the bay area prepares for more wet weather in the days ahead. We have responded to three different accidents all related to speed which was worsened by the rain. The first was in an area california Highway Patrol calls the catchers mitt, california Highway Patrol said its an area that has constant accidents when the roads are wet. We also found a dangerous spot around the berkeley curve. Moment after this crash, a california Highway Patrol officer was rushing to the scene of another spinout but this car was smoking and was stuck in the last lane of i 80. California Highway Patrol said between the rain and the oil on the roadways, it makes for a dangerous combination. You have vehicles leaking fluids on the roadways and that is
Out, a nice rainbow over sleepy hollow. Things are calming down in the santa cruz mountain. A breeze will pickup over the sierras tonight into tomorrow. 40s, 50s and almost 60 degrees for some. Tomorrow we bring in more rain. 50s for a few, 60s for many, sal . Fourth and howard, there is a water main break. Is an area that is busy with visitors. This area will be closed for the whole morning. I think that there is going to be a lot of traffic problems. Reporter yes, as you can imagine, this will cause a lot of traffic problems. We have the california Highway Patrol here. You guys have seen the water main, how much damage has been done . We are able to restore water to the surrounding businesses. Construction will begin later this morning. The age of the main that broke dates back to 1895. Age is the likely factor for the main break. We are going to make repairs and replace it and put it back into service. Reporter a lot of the water came out out of the main, any idea how much damage wa
Commissioner moran mentioned. The other thing that bag says is they need togiven cra is projected to continue to grow that the investor in the utilities need to be cautious in their acquiring of assets that they know in likelihood might become stranded. Yes. Along those lines pacific gas and leckric when they applied to retire deoblow canyon rsh they think it is wise to retire is because the expansion of Community Choice aggregation and wont need the output of that plant to serve bundled utility cusmers. Thank you. I have one other item that is the rates item to address if i may. Please. So, i have been filling you in that pg e was making filings at the california pu c to modify their rates. When i last mentioned this at our december 10th update where we talked about projections of what those rate changes would be. Pg e said they would increase rates. You may have seen in the news they did on january 1, so pg e increased the rates and expect the impact to the hetch hetchy customers to