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From the fire. You can see this is vine crest circle in windsor and you can see the black in the area the scorchers there as car heads down the road taking a look and where the. Of destruction was cut, but look theres a home standing so while it scorchers in many instances they have been able to save property change which has been fantastic and thats thanks in large part to people. Observing the evacuation orders and getting out which allows again fire and police to get their equipment in their personnel and and hold those lines and hopefully save more and more homes as thi fire continues progress but heres the situation as it stands with relation to the fire and the evacuations. Evacuation areas have actually grown what has stayed the same is the mandatory should say the evacuation warning that exists from one oh one out to the coast, the degas bay. Jenner those folks are still in just an evacuation warning the mandatory evacuation zone continues to be right there along one o one stre ....
Whos been monitoring. The and the situation that lies ahead. Looking about 15 Miles Per Hour right now im im tracking wind gusts of about 24 Miles Per Hour. So it definitely dropped versus what weve seen yesterday. Its really going to pick up and amp up as we get into tomorrow night, especially across the entire north bay. So high wind watch and a wind warning for the entire bay areas of as a matter of fa t, especially sunday morning. So keep that in mind is the wind speeds are going to start to pick up once again though were seeing its a calmer than what weve seen the last few days. Yeah, okay, thank you for that were trying to get get a handle on exactly what this is its a pretty sizable a plume of smoke and it just seemed to have come out of nowhere. A mine or reporters were taken aback by it. It. Its a little unclear as to what is feeding that fire at this point. We still ....
Live from the cbs bay area studios. This is kpix5 news. Now at noon. Pg es top brass expected to answer to state regulators. They want to know how last weeks mass power shutoff started and more. Im kenny choi. They called for the emergency meeting last night. Kpix 5 jackie ward on the tough questions pg e is about to face. Reporter in less than an hour the top executives will face some tough questions from the states Public Utilities commission. Some are happy about it. I think the Public Utilities commission is just as disgusted with pg e as everyone else is. Reporter she said while she is pleased with the puc calling this meeting, she is skeptical. The Public Utilities commission authorized the program that turned into such an user debacle. Obviously, the commission needs to hold pg e more accountable and impose ....
Because of that website that constantly was crashing for pacific gas electric. They said today the average customer who called in and was on hold on the phone for 21 minutes. Before they finally got any information out of utility. We dont know if that number includes the number of people who simply hung up out of frustration. Coming up tonight at 6 pm hear from the ceo again about how exactly how much of their equipment was damaged during the wind event. At the same time pg e said it needs to raise the electricity rates by more than 7 in january. Utility said in a typical residential customer will see an increase of about nine dollars a month. The average electric bill would be about 130. The latest rate hikes would start in january if the puc signs off. More than 2 increase just took effect on october 1. We are following additional developing news about pg e. This one is out in pleasant hill. They are dealing with another power outage. They are working to get power back on for more th ....
Are threatened thats why theres so many evacuations and 124 structures have been burned to the ground that includes dozens of homes about 60 homes have been burned to the ground because of this fire that continues to advance whipped up by the winds when it started last wednesday, again whipped up by the winds day before yesterday yesterday got though a little break during the day like theyre getting today and thats some good news. Heres new video that shows you yesterday a chopper overhead surveying the area that was bert and you can see both sides of the road there theres fircrews on the ground that retardant you can see the color jones there where theyre dropping retardant were looking for more those air drops today that will be key in stopping the spread of the fire it looks like that home may have been damaged but not completely lost in the flames that surrounded it and many other homes,ot so lucky, they were completely destroyed. We have our crews out there this morning taking a l ....