Some of the damage we had. I dont know how to advance my own slides, sorry. So this is the kind of thing i am talking about. This is a tree branch that has blown into the line. If that line is energized you would have a spark and a potential ignition of a wildfire. This is another example of the same thing. A wire down based on a tree flowing over. Ive a few more pictures and we can tell you a little more about this. Each of these is the potential to cause a significant fire. As i said last night it was an extremely difficult decision for us to make. We know it would and did cause hardship for many of the people we are privileged to serve and it continues to cause hardship for some of those people who are still without power tonight. 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. We have been able to get the lights back on
Will get a call, a text message and email. Pg e is promising to narrow down the outage zone so not as many people are affected. Right now most people have the power back on, but not everyone. In the bay area 99 of the homes and businesses that lost power are restored. Around the state 21,000 are waiting for the lights to come back on. Our coverage begins live at pg e headquarters in San Francisco. Pg e has come under fire from the customers and elected officials who say the haling of the power sudden down are unacceptable and why the Power Outages had to be so widespread. In the face of public outrage pg e president and ceo bill johnson standing by the decision for a Public Safety power shut off. He shows photos where the inspectors found the high winds blue tree branches into the wires. Thankfully the lines were not energized. The addition came to a high cost to customers it added up to half a million there. Critics questioned why the outages were necessary. I asked to do a complete a
Edetermined location. These images show him leaving thousands of dollars for a source in exchange for an sd card filled with information, he then flew to china to drop off that card. Finally arrested friday at his home in hayward, i stopped by to see if hi family had anything to say but they did not comment. The next door neighbor said he never would have suspected this. The few times we have talked to them have been pleasant. I would never have thought what was going on is really happening. What he did not know was that the source was a double agent uble agent reporter when he was in his native china. Clearly as officials found out working with the double agent. They know the officers have tried to reach out to other chinese people. They are not ruling anything out at this points. Thank you allison. Now to the latest in washington on the impeachment inquiry. They have announced subpoenas for President Trumps personal, private attorney Rudy Giuliani. They are tied to his efforts to hav
Weekend. These are just the latest in the slew of restaurants closing here in the bay area as the industry is force today adjust to changing times. New at 10 00, Jana Katsuyama is at dosas in the city where customers were having one last meal. Jana . Reporter thats right, there were a lot of sad people who didnt want to see this leave, but they plan to keep the other locations open. They just couldnt make the numbers work here with the changing times in the mission district. The line was out the door at dosas if valencia. Patrons wanted to say goodbye. The owner says the price of doing business here was too high. Labor costs have increased for higher minimum wage, health care, and other benefits that also ate into his bottom line. The big thing is labor at 30 , 32 . Labor costs is an alltime high. And then we just got to the point where there were so many restaurants and so much competition that with all those compounding things, people are living in this industry. Reporter at jack lon
President trump have a number of oneonone meetings including with the United Kingdom new Prime Minister boris johnson. Im Kelly Odonnell traveling with the president at the g7. There is a big vote before the summer meeting of the dnc wrapped up in San Francisco in afternoon. Has to do with Climate Change and the decision is something that many there have been waiting for. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith joins us live to explain. Christie. Well the vote happened today was certainly disappointing to people who had been here and pushing for a debate to happen in the framework of addressing Climate Change. We believe as the chairman described. Democratic National Committee members had a chance to weigh in in San Francisco. For us to elevate one critical issue we are not ignoring Climate Change but that we are want to include as part of every other problem. They voted saying no to a resolution that seemed to conflict with the parties position on not allowing president ial candidates to partici