National guard strike teams. But what about nursing students . Weve been in touch with the california board of registered nursing whos been in contact with the state with hopes to allow 30,000 nursing students who have just been trained and certified to administer vaccines to help aid the backlog. Have you heard about this and would you consider it . Yeah. In fact, enthusiastically so. Our Fire Agencies and our Nursing Schools will be essential and critical. Reporter another change newsom talked about is loosening the tier phases to ensure covid doses dont go to waste. Thats why we created more flexibility. If theres a dose thats sitting there and theres no one cued up thats in line based on existing tiers we want to be able to move to other priority groups. Reporter this means those in tier 1a like Frontline Health care workers and residents of Nursing Homes will still have priority before teachers, for example, in phase 1b. But mike wasserman, who sits on the states vaccine advisory
This time 48 hours from now. Wednesday night between 5 30 and 6 00, the winds should start picking up. In the areas we are talking about, in sonoma county, 35 to 45 mileperhour wind gusts. In the north bay, the same thing. Then, out in the mountains up high, 55 to 60 mileperhour wind gusts, which means those other kinds of wins that can really start trouble if electrical lines fail, which is why they necessitate these needs for these things. The other things they talked about, they really dont want to shut the power off. They say they only do it for safety. Certainly, the question of their liability rises. You get the sense that this new ceo really understand both working for a publicly owned power agency, the Tennessee Valley authority, the nations biggest, and he ate enterprise. I think he is a utilpast. As a result of that, this guy seems to be good for his word. The problem is, this is a work in progress. They dont really have the ability to harden the system. They cant really trim
Most extreme red flag warning. This is pretty typical for this time of year when the highs build in, the winds go offshore and that is whats happening now but the winds so far have been light compared to what you expect. Perhaps this red flag warning is going to be a little bit, you know, we are not going to see 60 miles per hour. A heat advisory tomorrow. Temperatures are warm now. It will be real warm tomorrow with temperatures in the triple digits. When we back we will look at that and the 5day forecast. People in the sierra foothills are without power tonight to prevent power lines from starting fires. Pg e shut off power to 21,0 customers today. Pg e says the Power Outages could last from 24 to 48 hours. Residents and Business Owners in Nevada County have been without power since 5 00 p. M. I have thousands of dollars of inventory that are go some on gas operated generators. People are coming in for batteries and generators during the power outage. There are no planned Power Outag
Foothills ask the sacramento valley. Pg e has already implemented the Public Safety power shut off. So far there are no planned Power Outages in the bay area but pg e is monitoring the condition in napa, sonoma and lake counties. Live coverage from Debora Villalon in santa rosa where a state of emergency has been declared. Reporter Sonoma County have 33 people inside the possible shut off zone. So when it is power or fire, people are getting ready. We are set up for the power outage. Reporter the johnson live on the fringe of inferno. The fire burned up to but bypassed their home. You look, we are cleared back pretty far. You can see we are clear to the fence. Reporter now the couple is ready to do it themselves. I mean, everybody is on alert. Everybody is watching for it. I think that is comforting. Every time they say the winds will pick up tonight, it is scary. It is scary. Sounds like they are ready to pull power if they need to. Maybe tomorrow. And that is a good thing. We are mon
Course, the whole of the issue of the Oberlin College dispute where the gibsons bakery was awarded 44 million in damages, which was a very exciting thing and people at Oberlin College are beside themselves. I think one of charles cousin went to oberlin and totally turned her into a marxist communist. Im not a big fan of oberlin. So Steve Hayward is the senior resident fellow at the institute of Governmental Affairs at uc berkeley and a visiting lecturer at Uc Berkeley Law School and, of course, a senior fellow at pri. And heard steve back in december 1991, our second hire, steve has been affiliated with us for a very long time. He was a Ronald Reagan distinguished professor at pepperdine and the first conservative professor in a special program at university of colorado boulder 20132014. I think the most exciting thing about steve is hes one of the people behind power line. If you dont read power line every day, you should. And the best thing on saturday morning is the weekend pictures