The plan, but others say that they question its feasibility. At San Jose City hall, mayor sam liccardo shares his vision for a customer takeover of pg e, the proposal now endorse bad coalition of elected oefficials from 58 cities and ten counties across california. I think the reality we all have to accept is that as rate payers, as customers were all on the hook for this. And if were going to be on the hook, we better own it. Pg e filed for bankruptcy in january as it faced billions of dollars in liability claims for fires started by its equipment. Next year, a federal judge is expected to consider two competing reorganization plans. One put forth by shareholders, the other from bondholders. But the California Public Utilities Commission has final say, which is why liccardo has been pushing his proposal as an alternative. We need to let good of the delusion that someone else is going to pay for the neglect of pg e. While many agree that pg es infrastructure and governance needs a chan
If youre wondering what that is, so are we. And just now, ceo and president bill johnson explained what that is. He says that the jumper is a piece of wire that basically jumps the conductor over the insulator. We know that it was broken. We also know according to johnson that this is a 43yearold tower that had been inspected four times. Now as you said, this transmission line was not deenergized, and johnson explained why not. Transmission lines in the area remained energized during the wind event consistent with our established protocols and procedures. In other words, they did not meet the conditions that we forecast for transmission level outages. We didnt see the wind speeds in the forecast that we typically would see for transmission outage. And so we relied on the protocol, and we still at this point do not know exactly what happened. The utility turned off power in the area at 9 48 last night, nearly half an hour after the fire started. Pg e is working closely with cal fire to
Near windsor. Tim . Well, life is returning to normal here in towns like windsor, with the winds down, containment on the fire lines is up. Neighborhoods are opening up again. Now earlier today, we did find some folks who had never left the fire zone. Well before Evacuation Orders had been lifted, windsor area wineries were busy with workers. Theyve been given temporary passes that allowed them to check and prep their facilities. For all the damage dunavin yards, somehow seem immune to the flames, and there is an explanation. The violence are so moist, and with the surrounding ground not cluttered with leaves, well, fires tend to run out of here. It works as a great firebreak. If you look at the divisions hit by the fire front, you see one, two rows that just dried out and near re stopped right there. Windsor told to leave followed through with those instructions. The blaseys, who grow 15 acres of chardonnay grapes were ready to leave if they had to, but they stayed. All of our vineyar
Tmobile and sprint and they said i would hurt the consumers spcial for those in local income and minorities. It would cut the weless providers from four to three and meanwhile, the number of antitrust inves against google, facebook and apple and amazon areg. Grow here to discuss are law professor kathlyn sandoval and tech editor and San Francisco bureau chief, jeremy owens. Nice to have both of you. Thanks for having me. On the proposed me ger of sprint and tmobile there are ten states led by new york and california filing suit to block it. Professor sandoval, youre a former commissioner of the lifornia Public Utilities commission. What are your concerns about the proposed mergernd how would it affect consumers . Right. Im not thankou so much for the invitation. Im an antitrust law professor. Sboth as a former regulator and as an antitrust professor, a couple of tngs jumped out at me. First of all, the complaint eleges that tmob and sprint already have over half of the market share in
Tmobile and sprint and they said it would hurt the consumers special for tose in local income and minorities. It would cut the wireless providers from four to three and meanwhile, the number of antitrust invests against google, facebook and apple and amazon are growing. Here to discuss are law professor kathlynal sandand tech editor and San Francisco bureau chief, jeremy owens. Nice to have both of you. Thanks for having me. On the proposed mergerr of t and tmobile there are ten states led byor newand california filing suit to block it. Professor sandoval, youre a former commissioner of the ic california pu utilities commission. What are your concerns about the proposed merger and how would it affectum cos . Right. Im not thank you so much for the invitation. Im an antitrusw professor. So both as a former regulator and as an antitrust professor, a couple of thingsou jumped at me. First of all, the complaint alleges that tmobile and sprint already have over half of the market share in b