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Pg e is the phrase that the high winds could cause power lines to fall and spark a fire. This isnt just a Public Safety issue, its a business issue. Within minutes of the blackout, Stores Closed and intersections got dicey. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez is in santa rosa with the latest details. Jodi. Reporter when we got here at about 2 45 this afternoon, all of these businesses were open. But just a few minutes after we got here, the lights went out forcing the businesses to close. Without power, they cant operate. Many businesses in santa rosa had to close early this afternoon as pg e turned off the power for the second time this month. The manager of this pool shop says hes thankful he started powering down the stores computers early. I shut everything down at 2 44. It was off at 2 45. That was the end of the day. The po ....
The numbers in the north bay. Napa county00. ,5 in eight towns. The hardest hit county by far is sonoma. 28,000 are on the cut list in a dozen towns. People say this time they are better prepared. But are they excited about this or worried . Nobody is excited. We have been talking to people who have been heading to their local store stocking up on supplies. Due to the previous power outage we learned you have to stock up on ice and propane. For the second time in two weeks. He is preparing for pg e to turn off his power. To try and prevent wild fire. He says he can adjust at home. But it creates chaos on the road. A nightmare. You come to every light its stop and go. Off the freeway its backed up. 40 to 60 cars. Everything stacks up around town. It will decide wednesday morning if it will cut power to 189,000 customers in this foothills. North bay and peninsula. It could begin 2 00 p. M. Tuesday. An effort to begin power would start thursday afternoon after winds down die. They are wor ....
Hour, were not necessarily seeing winds. Look at the skies. This is all because of the smoke. It makes for a beautiful sight. But keep in mind that that air quality is very unhealthy right now, and it will continue to be that way as the smoke continues to drift from the nearby fires and with the change in the wind coming in tonight, that is also going to impact the air quality as well. 55 degrees right now, in san jose. And into the next couple of hours, it will be a cooler afternoon, for the temperatures cooler than yesterday, but the thing that were monitoring the most, is going to be, here goes the air quality, north bay, all the way down to the south bay, so you look at the color key there, that index lets you know that the orange falls in the range of 101 to 150, it is unhealthy air quality range. And it will that way all weekend long. The spare the air alert was extended through today. And the red flag warning when it comes to the wind kicks in tonight at 8 00 p. M. I will take y ....
Thes no estimated time of reopening. We will send it over to mike. Its going to be a real tough morning. We are having problems, over a mile of backup northbound 101. This is a tragic situation with the loss of one persons life, obviously, but as far as the commute, its already a tough commute as well. This crash is just shy of highway 85, right where they are making the split, lanes are adding up there. We have only the slow lane that is open, and over here, thats the only option you have to exit the freeway. In addition to the backup early, chp does say, as bob said, it will take hours to clear that up, and there was a fire that all has to be investigated and cleared up, and folks from san martin and morgan hill, that will build into the commute, and we will see that as it ripples around the south bay or south county. So far we are tracking the deadly crash there and the backup for about a mile approaching the 101 and 85 split. If you a no surprises approaching the bay bridge. As you ....
Theyre also pulling their money out of banks, worried about their futures. They send 30,000 to mexico just to make sure everything was not behind. Mexico got the most money last june from people from united states. Reporter over at this restaurant on Willow Street business is off by half and those who are here no longer talk about soccer while eating dinner. They Start Talking about everything else. They talk about the i. C. E. Its getting so bad for the community. Everybodys scared about it. Reporter the owner says even the sidewalks arent as full as they used to be just a few weeks ago. No one is talking about closing their doors. Not yet. But everyone is looking for the magic message that will convince customers its okay to come out of hiding. The owner says that the items he sells are luxury for shoppers, items theyd love to have but items they dont really need, and they ha ....