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and you might know this. violence at trump events is growing. it s a growing concern for this presidential candidate. earlier today, trump rallies in st. louis were interrupted by protesters. the st. louis post dispatch says the candidate taunted protesters from the stage and more than 30 people were arrested. all right. back to our top story, our microclimate weather alert. gray and gloomy from san francisco to the south bay. with heavy showers drenching the area. and tonight a continuing threat of thunderstorms and a flash flood advisory. now rain and wind brought down trees and power lines. right now about 4,000 customers are without electricity around the bay area. the biggest outage in east oakland which is now impacting some 1100 homes and businesses. we have team coverage of this storm. let s begin with our chief meteorologist jeff rainieri. jeff, what s next for us in these next 48 hours? we should say that the very worst of today s activity is over. what ....
week and no more than three days a week and the dose ans run the program itself and i can speak to all that they provide and the operation of it and we can t do it without the volunteers and our staff trains them to be part of the family and manage the ridge strail as part of the plan and we want to build the extension and change the management so if you re hiking on the ridge trail itself you don t have to go from a dose an program and to the south and open without restrictions or worth and get to this section and open dawn to dusk and then get to the deatd and it s dosen lead and the plan is do it seven days a week from dawn to dusk and an permit system and that trail users are aware of the responsibilities and accessing the trail in a responsible measure and provide use for us. this is something that a lot of monitoring on the [inaudible] trail system and not impact on the trail system when it was opened 11 years ago. so that would be the annual permit but withou ....
andreas connection and we support puc management in this proposal. we do think there are opportunities for reasonable access and making sure that we re providing the connectivity to public open space. thank you. thank you very much. and mr. lef itd thank you. i think we have supervisor pine up next if mr. pine is here. supervisor pine welcome. thank you. good afternoon supervisor. my name is dave pine. i m the supervisor representing district 1 which includes many communities that abut the sf puc lands and supervisor wiener i am no longer the president. we have a rotation system in san mateo county so i am back to a secondary seat. i have lived in san mateo county for 30 years now and my first exposure to this watershed lands was a few years ago when my son went on a cub scout tour in this area and somehow ranged special permission and it is spectacular. i urge you to get out there if you haven t. it s an incredible resource and one that i strongly believe that the ....
the roads and this is the great interest to the people and the puc and we want to do our part to make that happen. so is there a way to cobble together a sing trail out of the roads and trails or is there a lot of work to build part of the trail to link the land together. i think from our perspective and i think this is shared from others as well we don t need to build anything. this is a management responsibility for fire control and these are fire roads that have been there for a long time and before the puc bought the property. great. and this involves environmental review. do you know what level that would be at? i can t speak to everybody else and on our side because it s on our property we have to provide an update to the plan and it s a seeky document. it s ceqa and one document analyzes everyone s impacts and talks about mitigation measures for anyone that is part of the connection. would that be a full eir or some other ceqa document? we haven t t ....
make sure it was something that was forward looking but going to be consistent with our efforts as well and we re excited about that proposal and we will talk about that as well. everything in red is also in the watershed management plan to some extent but not open due to various reasons and that is consistent with the san mateo county plan for master trails and we re working on the county trail system, specifically crystal springs to close the gaps and there is a connection on the properties. i will talk about these in terms of updates and in the planning quickly. so on the ridge trails itself highway 92 south. this is about 6-miles of gap in the bay area ridge trail and as most folks know the ridge trail around the bay area is a long plan, very big effort with all of the open space districts in the bay area and we re happy to be moving forward on this. we have been working on it as long as i have been with the puc, tennessee 10 years now and we hope to build it in 2 ....