Governor brown everybody ready . Good afternoon. Im here to give another update and egons fire situation, im joined on the phone by the forestry, rtment of ire chief degrass, oregons fire state fire marshal. Of emergency anagement director andrew fell ps and Environmental Public Health section manager. Im joined in person by chris struckler, director of the Oregon Department of transportation. I just want to start by saying storm teams tell me a event coming in today will bring moisture. Both along the coast and along both the west and east slopes of cascades. This is a good sign. With are always challenges a storm like this, such as winds and lightning strikes. Firefighting teams tell me that we are very grateful for the rain. My teams also tell me that were making significant progress on fires ing some of these and fire chief doug grass will peak more to that in just a moment. Since my last briefing, ive seen up and close what these done to our communities, to our land, to our oregon
Reporter we spoke with retailers who say it took time to prepare to have customers. They understand Public Health comes first but they hope people take precautions so this doesnt last a long time. Its going to hurt. Reporter stefan jordan runs a store and is concerned about not being able to have customers walk through the door after he reopened with precautions. Were a retail store. The money is what we do here so thats the devastating angle. Reporter after a rise in covid19 hospitalizations San Francisco was placed on the states watch list. Indoor malls will have to shut down and that affects Japan Center Malls in japantown. Retail indoor is closing currently. What were trying to assess if we can apply for Curbside Pickup and keep the restaurants open. Reporter theyve already had a few businesses cease operations. Maybe the good ones are at 40 and the low at 10 . You cant pay your rent and you cant live in San Francisco on that type of revenue. Reporter people can order online at jor
Wind gusts in excess of 45 miles per hour. Very low humidity levels as well as low moisture in live vegetation and graham materials. Direct observations by the wild fire Safety Operation Center and field crews. Specific locations and conditions including temperature , terrain, and local climate. How does pg e intend to reduce the number of psps events by one third compared to last year . It will help us more precisely shut off the power to just the high fire threat areas, the areas where the fire threat is. Reporter they will have installed 600 of these Smart Devices and high fire danger areas that will reroute power and greatly reduce the size of areas to be shut off. Pg e will install small generators is 63 substations so they will bypass those areas that might have been shut up before. To keep the lights on when it is safe to do so. How will they shorten the link of the psps event which can take days to inspect and re energize the lines . Our goal is to restore power after an event
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State response to athe pandemic and taking his aNews Conference on the road today in napa acounty. Last thursday they improved the Health Care Report the county is letting more businesses reopening a county officials a seeking approvala to move into the net phase including opening upa restaurants for dining and service we awill bring you the governors News Conference aonce it gets underwy. a the first part of phase two out aof four of governor chasm newsomsa effort to reopen started afor four bay area counties. Alameda, marin, san amateo and santa aclara counties in the city of berkeley will move into phase two aand read have a new clarence cnter anone has details. a the counties in the city of berkely entering athe next astage of reopening economies. This first part of Governor Newsoms roadmap to recovery allows the lower risk opening slick retail for acurbside pickup. a we have to stop Service Report and we take you love to anapa county work governor newsm ais live. Also, to make som