Urging people to avoid standing underneath trees when winds are blowing like they did overnight and late today. Check out this trampoline that toppled over a fence in fremont. Police tweeting the picture to remind everybody, make sure that your items are secured, tied down during heavy winds. Its all part of the Public Safety power shutoffs. Hundreds of thousands of californians are affected, authorities trying to prevent their equipment sparking wildfires in extreme winds. Take a look from pg e. You can see exactly where power is out right now across the bay area. All the dots there in purple. You can see thousands of people are still affected in the bay area. Although the situation is getting better. We have Team Coverage today on the Power Outages and the winds. Abc 7 News Reporters Laura Anthony and Wayne Friedman are checking in on customers affected in the east bay and north bay. Lets begin with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma and the forecast. The red flag warning still on. Yeah,
Phone lines to be open to see if there is a Public Comment . Chair borden yep and is there you have chair borden how many . You have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion . Secretary boomer, please call roll . Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Madame chair, the minutes are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. Chair borden as many of you have learned, our heart was broken this weekend with the untimely passing of one of our own. Antonio, a muni operator with the Transportation Agency for 19 years, was known for being deeply committed to his job and well known by the people on his buses and in many communities. He was born and raised in the Richmond District and leaves behind wife jennifer, three children and grandchildren. Well have this meeting adjourned in his memory, but im devastated. I want to thank his family to loaning him to us. He did die in s
Chair borden no, not on just that item, temporary versus permanent changes in ceqa. Yes, there is also an exemption for a Pilot Program and then there is the statutory exemption for emergency projects. Chair borden great. Thank you for clarifying that. Directors, are there other questions for the directors report, or comments . Great. With that, we can move on to the next item. I can say im personally excited about the extension of the 30 bus line. Madame chair, there was a request by a member of the public for the board to rescind the minutes based on the comments made and reapprove it and i would assume that i dont know if you want to consider that. Chair borden yes. Lets reconsider the minutes. Madame chair, you would have to ask for a motion to rescind the vote on the minutes and then to reapprove. Chair borden great. Wonderful. So that means just fort publics knowledge, were going back to item number 2, potentially. Is there a motion among the board to rescind the approval of the
You have chair borden how many . You have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion . Secretary boomer, please call roll . Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Madame chair, the minutes are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. Chair borden as many of you have learned, our heart was broken this weekend with the untimely passing of one of our own. Antonio, a muni operator with the Transportation Agency for 19 years, was known for being deeply committed to his job and well known by the people on his buses and in many communities. He was born and raised in the Richmond District and leaves behind wife jennifer, three children and grandchildren. Well have this meeting adjourned in his memory, but im devastated. I want to thank his family to loaning him to us. He did die in service. If we could just take a moment of silence. [moment of silence observed] chair borde
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San Francisco International Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The only place that we saw some changes was right along the coastline. You see the 70s very comfortable in Half Moon Bay and instead of triple digit heat in San Francisco. It was 91 degrees but everywhere else was certainly very very hot