Pick. What does she say about joe biden . Kamala harris unified the democrats for expose weaknesses . Here to break down the numbers, mark. Welcome. Doug told me last week, she was the best choice. Do you agree . I urge you agree. I also thought she would be the choice and she was the logical choice given the facts and circumstances of the campaign. I wonder why it took a couple of weeks to take the choice. Paul shes a coastal california progressive. I guess the issue is, is she going to play in wisconsin, pennsylvania, the swing states where middleclass voters are there to be had . The question is whether she will play. The real question is whether joe biden will play. I dont think she will be a major factor in that one right or the other. Shes a major factor in unifying the party, creating historic moments but whether or not those swing states are going to swing to joe biden will hit be his job. Paul the other claim, as a minority woman, she is going to energize minority voters in a
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Containment with it over the weekend we have been told by officials that is not a huge cause for worry firefighters right now have an important window of time in which the wind has died down dramatically. We have an update on the number of structures that have burned, how much land has burned. This has been an intense firefight. You can already feel some of the smoke affect us. Ive gotten a lot of tweets asked about the quality last time. There is a marsh fire as well and some of that smoke is coming down here as well. You can almost see in the newsroom this morning when you came in. As for the king fire it is still racing across north bay. It is expanding so fast as mentioned only five containment and has burned almost 85 square miles thus far. 94 buildings including more than 30 homes have been destroyed and almost 80,000 buildings are in danger. A News Conference will be held shortly and we will bring that update to you coming up in just a matter of minutes. So far 200,000 people ha
Well. It is a level of anxiety that unless you experience it, it is hard to explain. That is the reason why we do ps ps to make sure that the opportunity for catastrophic wildfires to start associated with service is not something that is acceptable. When we go to the numbers, when we think of 970,000 customer accounts that were deenergized, it is also important to note that those 970,000 accounts were connected to over 20,000 miles of electrified infrastructure thats the infrastructure that was taken down because it was viewed as being to our analysis either where they were located in very high risk areas, the abundance of fuel, the wind condition, that any debris flying into those energized lines created the potential for admission. Thats why we do ps ps did as mark said, so far we noticed 50 incidents of damage. You can say well, millions of people impacted 450 instances of damage . The thing that we have to keep in mind if any one incident could be at travis fact catastrophic wildf
Melanie woodrow joins us with more on this. Dion and dan, the documents were just filed with the California Public Utilities Corporation today. They outlined how the two fires that happened in lafayette could be tied again to pg power lines. The fires started blocks from where power had been turned off. Flames threaten homes and destroy the Lafayette Tennis Club when a grassfire roared through dry brush found by high wind. It sent smoke over highway 24. Pg e reported to the cpuc that there were two incidents regarding the energized power lines yesterday. One was at Pleasant Hill where pg e reported a lashing wire and open wire as a potential ignition source. The other in lafayette attica minnow el diablo road. They found this downed power pole and transformer. You can see what it looked like in april of this year. Trees were close to power lines. The exact scenario pg e has been concerned about. The reason, it says, it is cutting power to millions of customers when high winds pick up.