With a power shut off. They say it was all planned, but still not easy to deal with or fun. Fortunately the power is back on in this danville neighborhood, but for 4 hours the electricity and internet we so heavily rely on was off line for 220,000 customers. Despite shelter in place, they have to get things done. To be sequestered, thank goodness its not fire season so the power is off. Guess what, the power is off. Their workday looked different with a longer lunch break walk than usual. My daughter had to go to a friends house because she couldnt do her zoom. They to make adjustments they are already familiar with. We dealt with this so much during the fires we are experts on this. We had it taken down multiple times last year. Leave the refrigerator closed, dont open it. Pgne being tone deaf. They had their power all day, but empathize with the people who lost theirs and pgne. Its disappointing, but i see the logic of trying to protect this from the danger. They say its part of thei
And run their business. This weighs heavily on all of us including those of us at pg e. This is not how we want to serve you, and this is now how we want to run our business. Were actually in the business of providing power, not taking power away. So, we feel the impact of the decision, and i understand how it alters, how it disrupts the normal flow of life and the normal flow of community. But theres another part of the reality that were in. With winds like the last 24 hours or so and the conditions of the vegetation, we could not run parts of this system given the risk to Public Safety. We struggle with the decision as we do with any decision to turn off power. We weigh the level of acceptable risk given the circumstances, the wind and the vegetation, and we determine that we must have zero risk of a spark. So, what exactly was the risk . Well, we know from history that wind speed, the wind speeds at which our lines can be affected and cause a fire. Wind speeds at about 45milesperhou
St test test test. This is a test. This sophomore a captioning test. California are looking at Carbon Pricing. Many as you heard over 30 have their own gas taxes. Some are going to tolling. So there are a lot of different ways we can raise revenues without focusing only on eds, which states are thinking about right now. I like to say there are no silver bullet, we need to learn from the states and see which work. We now have our chair and Ranking Member from our transportation infrastructure subcommittee. I want to salute them and their stats and leadership they are providing as we go through this process. Thank you. Senator boseman. Thank you, senator braun. Mr. Braceras, arkansas, it was significant, record breaking floods both in height and just the force of the water. Tremendous damage, lots of damage to the infrastructure, the good news is, like utah, arkansas is working very hard, theyre going to recover, great leadership in our state and all of those kind of things. I guess what
51, 52, thats cold water right there. When you get the on shore wind, that will do it out to vacaville. There is a delta breeze. Temperatures take a drop for some, looks like the pattern is changing. Monday was probably the hottest day. 60s, 70s, 80s, few low 90s. Im making sure when you catch me looking, im making sure the short time i looked away, nothing new happened. We are off to a good start, steve. Some of the problems are getting better. We have slow traffic here on the livermore commute which is not unusual. You will see low traffic on the commutes. You can see the time from the carquinez to the macarthur maze is up. Earlier crash at 80, if you 15 the bay hour now. Metering lights are on. Things are beginning to get more crowded the usual spots. Federal investigators will be at hayward after a deadly Helicopter Crash there yesterday. Allie rasmus is out there right now. A Flight Instructor was killed, his student was hurt. Reporter those two pem people were on board at the tim
To about 90 degrees for some of the warmest spot in the and. We talk about is temperatures continue to climb, which you can expect. If you need the extra cup of coffee giving yourself the extra time. Looking at the main travel times, they are all in the green. That is good news for those of you hitting the roadways. Especially for super commuters. There is an accident and it is in the opposite of the commute direction. That should not be slowing you down at all. It is a 24 minute ride. 40 minutes on eastshore freeway at a 25 minute ride highway for to get there. It is still looking good out of the south bay. The Golden Gate Bridge a fog advisory in effect as a result of the fog. Make sure that you take it slow and you are safely crossing the golden gate for the bay bridge meeting lights are not yet on in the san mateo bridge is starting to get busy on the other side. 101 there is an accident you have to navigate past. Im kate nielsen at the live news desk. Part of the thousand seeing t