Threatened tanks by pouring water on them. In the meantime on the other tanks, two tanks that are burning, theyve been putting they have brought foam material as well and also cooling them down with water. Crews are down there. I know you cant see them from here, but they are down there really attacking this fire very aggressively. Let me just also tell you what theyre also bringing here, firefighters. We are told that the refineries nearby are bringing also experts to monitor this situation and also bring in special equipment. I mean, you know, chemical fires are different and require the expertise of people who know how to deal with them. They are bringing special equipment to help these firefighters here. They have about 200 people on scene from different agencies, but 200 people right now trying to combat that fire. They are combatting it again attacking it with foam and water. Now we had vegetation fires, about 15 acres were burning. That is no longer an issue. They, again, aggres
Declined by request for an interview today, but did address the criticism at a News Conference on saturday. We have to deal with the risk and the systems that we have and one of the tools we have to decrease risks so significantly is turning off power. Reporter johnson said the utility has identified 50 incidents of tree limbs that could have caused a fire if pg e had not turned off the power. With efficiency, they safely inspected 25,000 miles of line and restored service to our neighbors. Reporter our governor wrote i am disappointed in pg es decisions that led to this shutoff event. He is urging pg e to provide effected customers an automatic credit or rebate of 100 and Small Businesses of 250 funded by shareholders. They could not operate the system safely so it had to shut it down. Reporter the Public Policy expert tells me pg e is an easy target, but should not be the only target. There was a failure and where you want that failure to reside within the company itself, with the re
Record temperatures and hate waves in europe the United States and the arctic coincided with a major ice melt in greenland data from scientists at the danish me to a logical institute shows melting on almost 60 percent of greenlands ice sheet that released 197000000000 metric tons of water into the Atlantic Ocean in july we actually now see a. Signal of. Climate change Global Warming the arctic is actually warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world and now theres a very clear signal that is or may is actually driven by too much Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere so as this year 2 increases so should temperatures around the world were going to see more of these type of heat wave. These heat wave events. Behind large wildfires since early june wildfires in the arctic pumped out more than 100000000. 00 tons of Greenhouse Gases thats equivalent to belgiums Carbon Dioxide emissions in a year climate Scientists Say there is still time to limit Global Warming to 1. 5 degrees celsius abo
Oracle challenges of bidding process with the u. S. Defense department. Will it force the process to stop . San francisco is expected to be the first city to ban ecigarettes. They will hold a final vote to ban the distribution and manufacturing of ecigarettes, making them illegal to sell in stores or online. If approved, it will be signed into law. It could pit the city against juul labs. Ands backed by big tobacco brought in more than 500 million in revenue. This with us are our guest. What is the status of this right now . City are waiting for the to vote on whether to take this step. We are expecting it in the next couple of minutes. Become a really controversial company. San francisco doesnt like him. The main reason is kids are using their products. Emily the health risks are largely unknown. You are inhaling heated liquid nicotine. The longterm risks we dont know. Critics argue it is better than traditional cigarettes. The sale of traditional cigarettes and marijuana will still b
What goes up and what should come down. Cyber strikes, iran downs a u. S. Drone and the Trump Administration responds with a cyber attack. But iran has a Cyber Strategy of its own. How they are attacking u. S. Banks online. First, to our top story, the continued back and forth between beijing and washington has put tech squarely in the crosshairs of the trade war, impacting Companies Like apple, huawei, and many more. A new article in Bloomberg Businessweek details how chinas tech sector is mostly insulated from exposure to the u. S. On many fronts, but there is one area where it is still semiconductors. Over the last decade, china has seen a surge in chip imports. Now more than 300 billion. For more on the trade wars ongoing impact on tech in both countries, we spoke to bloomberg our globalking and executive editor brad stone. Esoteric parts like broadcoms switch chip, more common parts like an intel microprocessor or an amd graphics chip, china really cant replicate those yet. They h