Will be without power at noon in the north bay thats where were seeing phase one happening right now these areas we see the pink and purple polygon to those are work. Pg hasnt actually shut off power so no customers are receiving electricity in these areas and you can see is fairly widespread in and around napa and especially along a highway 1, 1, you head up towards santa rosa from sausalito so thats where the power again is cut off at the moment, but later today around noontime the east bay and the south bay will also have the power shut switch flipped off in fact, lets go to san jose right now where theyre talking about their plans. In a moment, well hear from city officials we will hear from council excuse me vice mayor Chappie Jones as well as city manager dave sykes deputy city manager park this on pg a scheduled for today saw turn it over to vice mayor jones thank you. In close communication with p g on the plan Public Safety power set off. Late last night that they do not expect to perform instead offs and sell they at midnight. Early this morning. They did in the cold that they planned to do a set off. How are sent off. Verse weathers supposed to be as strong as our area. From 05 00pm tonight. To tomorrow morning. Is important. Our community. Your Electronic Devices and cell phones. Devices that need to be powered make sure theyre powered up. Doctor gas tanks. Look at all possible. A lot of these signaling Traffic Signals will be out. Obviously a brief intersections if you can avoid driving. Several Community CentersResource Centers open. One can swanson thats going to be open thats provided by pg its going to be acting. Via stadium. 1145 coleman avenue and that will be open today. During the duration of this event. Access to information. Charging stations. And air conditioning. 3 city Resource Centers open. These Community Centers will provide drinking water. Snacks charging stations for your Electronic Devices. And other. And also including medical devices where you can not possibly charge your devices need it. The city resources will be open. Again today. The city will continue to provide police and fire services. Call 911 only. Police will continue to monitor the situation and make sure that they ensure Public Safety. Also be fully staffed and well have additional personnel deployed. In anticipation of any wildfires by the high winds. According with partners such as cal fire. Sewer systems and Wastewater Treatment are anticipated to be unaffected by this event. And recycling collection is affected areas expected. Im sorry guys image and recycling collection in affected areas is expected to continue as usual. With some possible delays due to signaling outages. So you facilities. Sep city of cells 8. And that genie. The number 4 really so thats genie. Facebook next door or visit. Www dot cia that. Www genie. Im now going introduce our city manager dave sykes to provide Additional Information for this. Apparently some of the media was kron 4 was there on time. The latest actually that was a lot of good information saying that those centers. The hours that theyre going to be open 86 and the other that center that could serve you know seniors in that type of thing is really the clock at night which is good because a lot of people might be at work or not able to get their absolutely and you see in the larger window, there weve got that map provided by pg e where shows the. Expected area of intentional Power Outages later on today and as you just heard the vice mayor say its around noon time that they expect the part to be shut off however the highest most dangerous winds arent expected until 05 00pm tonight for at least that part of the bay and thats the story these winds are picking up and becoming dangerous at different times of day which is why we have certain sections of the bay area like the north bay turned off. In phase, one the power shut off last night but then the east and the south bay what happened to later on in the afternoon. Ok lets listen in. And close case repeating me and they informed us that they did not anticipate saying up any powerlast night or early this morning. But they do plan on possibly paying off the power. At noon. First weather is supposed to be strong as area. Important for me to be prepared. Make sure you power all your work, Electronic Devices and cell phones. Have flashlights. Batteries and Battery Powered radio is on hand. Up your gas tank. Understand that the Traffic Signals will be out. So try to avoid drive to ever possible also make sure that you stay in close contact with friends and family. So that if you in the event that help and assistance. You can get that support. Welcoming centers open. Mean resources or open an avaya stadium and that will be open today from 08 00am the 06 00pm. The duration of the event. Access to information. Water charging stations and youre conditioning. They can also access. Several city Resource Centers. What it may fare. When a camp in and what it south side Community Centers. They will provide drinking water. And charging stations for Electronic Devices. These centers will be open from 08 00am today to 08 00pm. The city will continue provide police and fire services. Please call 911 polling. If you have an emergency. Not to get information. Police will continue to march of this situation ensure that we have and maintain a Public Safety. And have additional personnel to deploy into the face to wild fires caused by high winds. According with our partners at cal fire. Wastewater treatment participate to be affected at this time. Rich recycling collection affected areas expected to continue as usual. With some delays due to traffic signal out. City facilities in unaffected areas. Well continue to operate as normal. City of ever pga me. The number 4 me says p g for me you can follow them on twitter. Facebook and nextdoor or you can visit. Www san jose ca dot gov. Www dot com. I would not over to bay side lived just thereps no information. Good morning thanks for being here. I just want to emphasize really 2 points. One is around preparedness in one is around communication. So for the last 4 months that weve known that these power shut off could be a possibility. Our city staff have been working to develop a powerful ability plan. We have now activated that plan. We as we have also activated our Emergency Operations center. And we are prepared to deal with. I think the second thing to emphasize is communication. We will be communicating as much as possible with our residents and with the media. This includes daily press conferences. The issues with pg es website are well known. We are doing our best to replicate that information you can see a map behind me our web site that shows the areas that are projected to be impacted. As i said well be doing everything we can to communicate with our residents and the media. You can also find on our social media pages our city website. Next im going to ask kept harkness deputy city manager kay partners to come out and provide some more operational information. Departments deputy city manager as was indicated due to the National WeatherService Forecast genie has informed us that they will be shutting down power starting in noon today in areas that are affected by the potential wildfire threat and so thats primarily the east side of san jose along the edge of the diablo range and well into the neighborhoods and a south san jose along the Santa Cruz Mountains the Almaden Valley area. Well know more about the specific areas that will be taken out of the power. As the day goes on, but we expect those shutdowns to begin at noon and continue as long as the weather conditions exist so as long as those high winds are there power will be out. Pg e will not begin restoring power and tell those wind conditions that are down and then at that point and they can take up to 5 days for the last customer to be restored. We will be working with them to increase the velocity of that restoration and restore as quickly as possible, but it is in their hands and their infrastructure. So it was indicated, we have activated our Emergency Operations center i service the director of that Emergency Operations center for this event and we will be able to monitor and scale. It has the event goes on the key focus of our work today and i think the key as we have the community is really thinking about our most vulnerable. We need to be compassion in action and make sure that our seniors. Those with medical devices and others are taking care of. And so take the time as you prepared yourself to to reach out across the street to that elderly, a neighbor next door and check in on her and see how shes doing and she understands and she needs assistance help her reach out to her family and friends. As my supporters to reach out to the medical providers and see if they can provide support and if thats not possible and you have a medical emergency. Then it is time to call 911. But we need the primary response to be compassionate action on part of. Reach will focus on those communities today and making sure that the centers such as Senior Centers assisted living facilities. Skilled nursing facilities. Additional pieces we said we expect normal City Services to continue garbage and recycling if youre in the affected area. It may take us a little while to get your garbage or recycling cart no need to call us we will be getting to it and well be making sure that garbage and recycling happens. Immediately scale of the response. As according to our plan. So thats all of the information i have at this time, im happy to take any questions that you might have as well as a vice mayor and city manager. This is a so the question was what is what our thoughts on being in the situation and having to do this as a result of the the genie shut down. Its very frustrating on our part to have to be up to not know exactly whats going on for a large swath or city and to have their their power are taken away. So we would like to see continue make investments in structure they need to this is not something that they have to do with the win are fired. And we sympathize and empathize with disruption this will cause for a thousands and thousands of residents, especially in terms of traffic and medical devices. So question is how would i describe the condition with the geneva communique from pg has got much better. They i believe are really grappling with that state wide scale of this event their calls have been regular an increasingly informative. Individual contacts have got better at. Theyre still working out a lot and we still would like. And only recently that they have made that a little bit easier for us to get access to the mix exact locations. We need so theres still a lot to do to improve those. But we see that theyve been learning as they go. Right if you have a medical emergency its 911. If theres a nonemergency crime it is still 3, 1, 1, in our city and then in terms of power website. Its san jose ca dot gov. And we have an alert right there that has all of the information right on the home page. That you can find the information that you need for pg e its www dot p g any dot com forward slash p s p s. Well first of all they should assume that they are going to be affected if theyre in the general air of the map they can find that information on our website. They are unable find out whether theyre specifically in that area. They should prepare for power. And be ready to respond to that as half. The biggest thing again wed advise if youre likely to be in the area minimize driving if you can. Weve learned that the Alum Rock School district will be closed that will impact a lot of families today so make to minimize the amount of travel as you have to take care of your kids and families. Weve been in communication with all School Districts in the likely affected areas alum rock is the only one that weve heard that will be closing on wednesday and thursday sounds a unified his list know that they will remain open and plan remain open and i believe the others will remain open as well that each of those decisions are the decisions of the individual School Districts. So this is expected to start at noon and will be of power and black out and so the main impacts will be of obviously to the individual households and to the Traffic Signals system. So the biggest impact we expect is when people come back home, starting in the Late Afternoon and evening, especially at night. The big reminder is that you wont see blinking red you will see nothing so that means its a fourway stop and thats where i think compassion is also going to be needed this does too. Teacher commute back home very compassionately those will be the biggest impacts that we expect to see and we expect the others to continue likely into thursday as late thursday night until they can begin restoration activities. Our First Responders are extremely capable and ready both fire and police are part of the Response Plan well aware fires preposition additional apparatus and is communication with the overall Fire Community to coordinating the response given the size of our Fire Department we often serve mutilate other Fire Departments and other smaller. So in addition to serving residents were ready to support needs of others. The police and fire have left all of their members know that this is going on and theyre available for call in a needed heart. The Fire Department has increased number of apparatus available and the number. So we dont show the operational plans and police and police have this well under control and our with us monitoring the situation and will scale up needed. Yeah that we will continue to have those intersections function as fourway stops to take over Traffic Control requires about 60 people to do that well and once under California Law taking control of that intersection you own it so given the indefinite nature of the response. The outage we want to make sure that we have those personnel available for response for crimes or other issues not the control of the intersections. If theres if theres a need in an intersection as always we can take control of it and we we can manage it, but we were going to leave those 4 stops so we have a greater amount of personnel available to respond. The biggest thing that you can do. Its prepare yourself prepare your family and help neighbors and that means making sure your phones are completely charged. Keeping your refrigerator close to during the event dont spoil food if you can im having batteries and lighting system at night and a radio its Battery Powered or some other way to get information. Food and water course water will continue to flow so you dont to worry about that that much of this that in this instance and then keeping a gas tank. Full if you can because many gas stations, their pumps will not work if they do not have electricity. Number and range of concerns probably many of the same ones that you are hearing the biggest concerns are people with medical devices and vulnerable populations and also making sure that everybody appreciate everything the media is doing to get the word out that people are still learning about this. Were concerned with traffic we are going to decline at some of the intersections signage to help people remember there quiz from a when they were teenagers and its a fourway stop so number of the keys, key intersections that are affected. Well have visible signage that reminds people that its a fourway stop. So traffic, the medical issues and making sure that people are aware, especially the most vulnerable populations of key ones weve been hearing and then a filling up gas tax. Thats unknown intel. We have a sense of where the actual outages will happen. The maps that are provided by pg e r actually often there but larger than the areas that are likely to be fully affected. Estimate that as many as 200,000 people in san jose could be affected. One of the things that is important understand p talks in terms of customer house, a customer count can be an entire complex are some cases entire municipality that own electricity. Transmission a system. While theyre only 30,000 accounts that are expected to be affected in Santa Clara County, many of those are apartment buildings and with and we expect a large number of residents to potentially be affected. The 200,000 members of the high end and then again until we know where the actual outages occur. We will have an exact number of people affected. Yes, they will keep me intentional power engine tell the end of the wind event in the storm event which the National Weather service is forecasting will likely go intel thursday night at about 9. And so if that forecast is correct pg e will begin inspecting the lines to reenergize and at that point or theyre out. The rapid processor that can take a long time if theres been damage or theyre complex issues with the lines or theres a statewide event that is causing them not to have resources they we dont know we are anticipating both areas to go about the same time, but we dont have that exact information we have a call with this morning that we hope to get a lot more detailed informati