Trust us. The puc seems to be fine with that approach. Local governments lean j have serious concerns. Mayor sam liccardo referring to the may 30 decision by the California Public Utilities Commission to give pg e full discretion over shutting down power for as long as seven days as a way to prevent wildfires. Liccardo says hes worried the Utility Company might choose to over correct with black outs after causing last years devastating camp fire. The question is ultimately are more people being put in peril because pg e will be protecting its shareholders. Reporter in 2003 the northeast black out that affected new york, philadelphia and ohio lasted two days for some areas, two weeks for others and cost billions of dollars and claimed 100 lives. At least if they gave us a good amount of notice so we can prepare ourselves for it, then i guess i would be okay. What we are worried about in san jose are the many safety risks that a large regional outage would, you know, cause. Reporter pg e
Hall. Robert, what is the Immediate Impact . Reporter no one is saying giving the chief this authority will solve the crisis, but the 101 vote caps a long struggle to come up with a shortterm solution. Andy garcia is using statistics as he pleads to council, but bottom line he doesnt have enough officers on patrol. The chief, flanked by other top cops, asked for a determination of emergency to get around state law and give them the power to assign cops to patrol units, including many detectives and supervisors. Gar see you needs to redeploy 47 cops, not to solve the problem but to make overtime adjustments manageable. To keep my officers safe and reduce, you know, quite frankly some of the fatigue and also keep our community safe, that we needed to do this and needed to do it quickly. Reporter the chief got support from many residents who said they dont feel safe, and a crucial endorsement from san jose poa, the police union. What number of officers does our department have to reach be
Onol line. Meredith we are also following an orlando woman. Summer video released by the state Attorney S Office shows Steven Duxbury walking with a woman he is accused of murdering, which contradicts there is video from the night sasha samsudea n was attacked in her downtown orlando apartment. Together in a parking garage. Building together. This is a big deal because when he was interviewed about the murder last summer, he told them he had not been with her. We are going through a bunch of new material released by the s office. Stewart thank you. Now to your first alert weather. The rain continues to fall but there s no threat of Severe Weather tonight. However, some local cities are close to having the wettest january ever. Meredith we re here now with first alert chief meteorologist tony, we through tomorrow . Tony once we get past tomorrow we will be in better shape. This has led to this. We have had record rainfall across Central Florida. Let me show you the record rainfall for D
A heavy pocket of rain over titusville. Cocoa beach beginning to feel the rainfall. More rain is moving in, but the wide perspective shows it all, the heavy rain sitting across south florida that will be listing norse. North. Two inches of rain first for sanford. More rain is in the forecast. Through the evening, we are bringing down the coverage, but still a lot of rain. Summer thank you. As he mentioned, right now a majority of the state is covered on the radar. Before several people even woke up, we broke the record in several cities for rain on this day in history. Wesh 2 s adrain whitsett is live in Osceola County. Adrian, any flood concerns at this time . Flooding concerns when we see as much rain as we do today. We are getting a little bit of a breeze, and you see no rain falling. This was down pouring for much of the afternoon. We are in the mills creek rv park. They haven t redone this area. It used to be flooded frequently. People would have to walk along the pedestrian bridg
Point. But back to that Surveillance Video. It makes a strong case that he was not resisting. Marion county sheriff chris blair says the video shook him to the core. As in as i saw this video, all five individuals were suspended without pay. I personally felt their actions were egr egious and they should never receive another dime per Marion County taxpayers. Reporter wednesday, former Deputy Jesse Terrell was indicted on civil rights violations, he was fired following the incident. James amidei, trevor fitzgerald, adam crawford, and cody hoppel all resigned. Meredith all five deputies were immediately suspended without pay. The fdle was called in to investigate the Excessive Force complaint. Stewart all westbound lanes of that is an accident at the fairbanks curve. About 10 minutes ago we watched as an analyst left the scene. As you can even a light picture, it has just opened. For more on what caused this set down, state here. Stay here. New tonight, a name that became synonymous wit