Many are frustrated that thsame thcould happen again. It is unsettling. It is kind of scary. Reporter an emergency meeting in San Francisco did not help to ease the mind of pg e customers concerned about another possible Public Safety power shut off. It is hard to believe they expect us to have sympathy for them. They make too many mistakes. Reporter the ceo bill johnson was grilled about the ps ps. And what the Company Plans to do to mitigate fire danger. Unacceptable situation that should never be repeated. Reporter the National Weather service is watching for potential fire weather in the bay area next week. No plans to shut off the power as of tonight. That might become an option. The longterm solution to cover the wires and increase Vegetation Management is years away. What is the timeline you see for that . Better every year. Probably a 10 year timeline. They are clearly trying to put a bandaid on the wound. I dont know if they put the right bandaid on to solve the problem. Repor
Service is watching for potential fire weather in the bay area next week. No plans to shut off the power as of tonight. That might become an option. The longterm solution to cover the wires and increase Vegetation Management is years away. What is the timeline you see for that . Better every year. Probably a 10 year timeline. They are clearly trying to put a bandaid on the wound. I dont know if they put the right bandaid on to solve the problem. Reporter aaron was left in the dark last week he feels the Corporation Like pg e should of had a better plan in place years ago to reduce reduce the risk of fire danger. They shouldve been investing for the last 10 years and doing rate increases accordingly to properly invest in infrastructure. Reporter pg e is asking for a rate increase which will kick in in january. An average customer will see an increase of about nine dollars per month. That is if the puc approves the rate hike. The governor just created a new job meant to keep an eye on ut
Studios this is kpix 5 news. The man dubbed the Hollywood Ripper learns his fate. The Oakland Hills fire. How the bay area is marking the solemn anniversary today. Possible fire werther in the coming days could mean lights out again and parts of the bay area. Good morning. I have your forecast for you today. We are waking up with cloudy skies out there. We are taking a live look out of our sales force camera. Stick around until the evening hours and there are more changes are ahead. 55, concorde. 48, livermore. 43, santa rosa. Your breakfast forecast depending on where you are. At the coast, cloudy and the same thing around the bay. We will be in the midto low 60s along the water. We will get to the low 70s but not much warmer than 75 at the most for your forecast today. Something to remember for your headlines. We have a mild and cloudy start that will break up in the afternoon hours. Breezy conditions moving in this afternoon, and then a really big warm up next week. I temperatures w
Actually call thd high speed rail early investment program. That is a advanced signal system and lect fiication projenth. That is environmental cleared and do have it defined. What we have been asked to do is make a decision on the electric trains so it will not proclude a future common platform with high speed rail so we are trying not to proclude a future that is not yet defined. What staff is recommending is that we choose the car with more doors thaz option. There are challenges with that option. There is a seat loss when you have both sets of doors open and some passenjure circulation issues. As you saw if you are a bike passenger you would board but need to transition down steps internalally so there are chlgs there but think there are Short Term Solutions we cimp lment. First wie ask the car builders to design the car with 2 sets of doors. We keep the high doors sealed and only use the low doors initially. It would be similar to what the emus would look like and feel we original
Cal state east bay thank you for joining us. Im pam moore. And im steve aveson. This all started with a shooting at an apartment complex thats where we find kron4s jr stone. He joins us live now from hayward. Jr do we know how this all unfolded. steve tonight. The political world is buzzing. After some of president trumps tax return info is released. And now the white house is lashing out. Grant lodes has the new numbers. grant the white house learned that msnbc host Rachel Maddow was planning to reveal Tax Information on her show earlier tonight. And the Trump Administration preemptively put out the relevant numbers. In 2005. President trump earned more than a 1 hundred50 Million Dollars in income. That year he paid 38 Million Dollars in taxes. The white house also said in a statement. You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago. During his campaign. Mister trump had promised to re