Tonight generators across the state are on full blast as at least half a Million People are without electricity due to the fire danger. Smoky skies and high fire danger. Ill let you know when you can expect a change coming up. A possible setback in the race for a vaccine. The astrazeneca trials are on hold after a volunteer became ill. What this means for the bay area trials which were about to begin. South bay Business Owners find ways to reopen indoors, but they know that opportunity could slam shut again. Abc 7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Tonight across the tales of harrowing escapes from ravaging wildfires. Skies darken. Thousands face another night without electricity. Power shut off to prevent park sparking any new fires. More than 167,000 pg e customers in fact in 21 counties are still without power. This map shows the current Public Safety power shutoffs. Theyre indicated by upside down purple triangles. An
Know. J. R. Stone is in calistoga where entire neighborhoods are still in the dark tonight. Reporter complete darkness along these neighborhood streets on the western id of calistoga, a city where 40 of the people are without electricity and that includes tv. Tough for youngsters. Its hard, really hard. Reporter taylor may only be 6 but this is not the first time her family has lost power due to fire dangers. Now, though, they have a small generator that powers only the most essential items. I can only watch stuff on my ipad if its charged. If its charged. Have you been charging it . No. Because our charger doesnt work. Reporter across the state at least half a Million People are in the same situation. Dealing with Public Safety power shutoffs over fears of power lines falling and sparking a fire. You realize how much you depend on electricity when this happens. Reporter in calistoga you can hear the hum of generateors in neighborhoods. Winds are expected to pick up. Calistoga mayor ch
Texas. Mr. Caro is the author of a four volume biography of the 36th president. Here is the 2003 tour of the lbj library. First time i came here, i was looking for the papers and came around the corner like this. This is what i saw. The only moment in my life, the moment in my life when i felt my quitting. I was really overwhelmed. What you are looking at here the papers of Lyndon Baines johnson, the 36th president of the United States. Pulitzer prize winning author robert caro has been sifting through the millions of papers of Lyndon Johnson for 26 years. Recently booktv joined mr. Caro to learn how he conducts research for his multivolume biography, the years of Lyndon Johnson. During our visit robert caro also spoke at the lbj library for the first time. Over the next two hours youll see parts of thats beach interspersed with abof that speech interspersed with a id be happy to take questions if anybody has a question they would like to ask. Keto is how you came to write about Lyndon
Showdown with the mayor continuing to speak as the crowd shouted them down for over 30 minutes. We have a terrible housing crisis here in california and we see the results every single day [ chanting ] reporter this was supposed to be about senate bill 50, that would create more housing around transit hubs but anger over affordability bubbled over the crowd which blocked news cameras and surrounded the mayor, demanding she take action. You the mayor. Its like were talking to a wall, a brick wall, and its hurtful to look at someone who was born and raised here and she doesnt feel the same as we feel. Reporter a half hour later in the quiet of her office, the mayor respond. What you see is such intense passion, anger, and an explosion around just how dysfunctional our housing system is right now reporter shes backing ways that adopt new ways for housing that fits in locally. We need more subsidized housing but we need more market rate housing to try to bring down price force the middle c
Bay. Henry lee is in the east bay. Parts of both of those areas are set to lose power tonight. Tracking the critical fire weather conditions. We want to start with tom vacar joining us live from sonoma, where parts of that city have been without power since early this morning. How are those folks coping . Reporter pretty much all the city is out right now. Very few things have power. But thats what this story is really about. The expected winds that weve been expecting have yet to show up. Sonoma business folks are making very, very sure that local folks here who dont have power are served, and served well. Sonoma, a wine country tourist town of 11,000 finds itself without power, even though there was scarcely a breeze today. That does not go down well with a lot of people here. Right now, its so calm here. For us, its like, could it have waited until the winds come up . Reporter pg and e, says although it may not be windy, winds are expected to be high. Eye ray taylor lives up in the