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Live from the cbs bay area studios. This is kpix5 news. Now at noon. Pg es top brass expected to answer to state regulators. They want to know how last weeks mass power shutoff started and more. Im kenny choi. They called for the emergency meeting last night. Kpix 5 jackie ward on the tough questions pg e is about to face. Reporter in less than an hour the top executives will face some tough questions from the states Public Utilities commission. Some are happy about it. I think the Public Utilities commission is just as disgusted with pg e as everyone else is. Reporter she said while she is pleased with the puc calling this meeting, she is skeptical. The Public Utilities commission authorized the program that turned into such an user debacle. Obviously, the commission needs to hold pg e more accountable and impose ....
Reporter the city of san ramon is offering an amazing housing opportunity. To get it you have to be low on income and high on luck. An army of builders are hard at work creating a Housing Development the preserve. Perched on the hills above san ramon these homes will sell in the high 800,000s. But not all of them. It is rare the Ownership Opportunities that come online for a low income residents. Especially in our community. Reporter 27 three bedroom townhomes will be sold to buyers who would never qualify for them. Have the units will go to very low income people who make from 40 70,000 a year. The other half to people making up to 114,000. Which is still considered low income. Here is the catch. The 27 lucky first time home owners will be chosen by lottery. Can they be anywhere in the bay area . Anywhere in the bay area. Reporter how many applications do you t ....
Territories. The state elevated fire 50 of our nation apply to 15 territory has that designation. Reporter it spoke very little about decades of neglect, deferred maintenance and profiteering at the expense of rate payers. Im not pointing a finger at anybody other than us. Reporter the California Public utility commissioners themselves appeared timid and somewhat embarrassed at having gone along with p jennys shut off system. And taking no real aggressive, probing or confrontational stance except for this. You said we need to get there. You need to get there now. Reporter the problems are so large and so many that it is unlikely serious improvements can be made until next year. The best thing for ratepayers to do is pray for rain and no more red flag whether. With that, we may just get through this. Reporting live, tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. Thank you for that live report. 4 ktvu obtained a letter from pete yanity ceo and pres ....
Furniture. Reporter he does have hope for more financial assistance. I went to an attorney and we filed a claim against pg e. I believe there will be 28 billion available in bankruptcy court. Reporter includes a fund for Northern California wildfire victims. It applies to a wide range of people. Not just those who lost their homes. Who were not able to stay in the apartment for weeks on end. If they had to hire hotel stays. It wasnt compensated by fema. Reporter an attorney with legal aid of Sonoma County is encouraging anyone who thinks they might have a claim filed by mondays 5 pm deadline. There is no cost or downside to doing so. If you like to hire an attorney we would encourage you. It is not required to have an attorney. I hope to be in in march. Reporter it would be okay without any help from the pg e bankruptcy fun. He is just looking forward to getting back home ....
Nearly 30 Miles Per Hours. Throughout the day we will lose the clouds as sun and clouds mix throughout the afternoon. Temperatures in the upper 70s by later on in the day inland, low 70s around the bay. We will talk about the rest of your weekend and the warming trend coming up in the week ahead. Jobina. Thank you, lisa. Happening today, sfos busiest runway will shut down for nearly three weeks. This is a live look at the airport right now. The shutdown is part of a 16 million maintenance project. Abc 7 News Reporter liz kreutz has the details. Reporter friday night at sfo flights were on the time but starting saturday it likely wont be the case. One of our runways, runway 28 left will be closed due to necessary construction. We can expect delays averaging 20 to 30 minutes. Reporter here is what you need to know. For the next 20 days sfos busiest runway will be out of commissi ....