Unincorporated parts of the county. Pg es website shows where the power is currently out. The purple icons indicate those are the power shutoffs which are under way in the north bay and along the sierra foothills. Pg e said it would start turning off the power at 3 00 p. M. Today although some people told us it started earlier than that. Outages will begin in San Mateo County around 1 00 in the morning. Pg e hopes to restore power by the weekend. A total of about 35,000 pg e customers in the bay area are affected by these Power Outages and that is why we have Live Team Coverage tonight. David louie will join us in a moment and we have Team Coverage in the north bay as well, which will bear the biggest impact. Before we go to Laura Anthony, lets hear from liz kreutz who is life in santa rosa. Liz. Reporter good evening. Roughly 27,000 customers are without power right now in sonoma county. Many of them here in santa rosa. Now, i want to show you where we are. We are inside the citys Eme
Have their power back on. But that compares to 0 and 2 for alpine, kern and counties. Concern growing for some without power for the Third Straight day. Cornell barnard is live whe the power could be rerestored today. Yes, good news here. Power slowly coming back on to the santa rosa section of the oakmont section of santa rosa. Come on inside. This is a small s gtrroceglryed during the power outage, and they did successfully. One county supervisor has a lot ofarsh words for pg e saying if this happens again, the county needs help. It was disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. Theres oakmont. A retourment community in santa rosa. Theres 5,000 elderly here, and they deserve to be protected. Its been crazy. Just crazy. Reporter dave was restocking pints of ice cream he kept frozen in giant ice chests during the pg e shutdown. He owns oakmont Village Market in santa rosa. The power went out wednesday morning but closing his doors was not an option. We had to stay open for the community. Its
Some of the damage we had. I dont know how to advance my own slides. Sorry. There we go. This is the kind of thing im talking about this is a tree line thats blown into the line. You have a spark and potential ignition of a wildfire. Wildfire this is another example of the same thing. Wire down from a tree blowing over. I have a few more pictures and will tell you a little more about this. So each of these is the potential to cause a significant fire. It was an extremely difficult decision for us to make. We know it would and did cause hardship for many of the people were privileged to serve, and it continues to cause hardship for some of those people who are still not who are still without power tonight. But given the choice we face, the choice between hardship and safety, we chose safety and safety will always be our first choice. As far as where we are tonight, life is returning to normal for many of our customers. Weve been able to get the lights back on for hrundreds of thousands
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