Updates as they come into our newsroom. 2. 5 billion, thats how much money San Francisco is offering to pay pg e for its electrical equipment. Even though pg e is in bankruptcy so far the company doesnt seem too excited about the offer. Reporter city hall has been crunching the numbers for paying for pg es equipment ever since the power giant announced it was filing for bankruptcy protection earlier this year. In a statement they write in part the city of San Francisco has taken an important step towards energy and independence by submitting a official letter to pacific gas and Electric Company pg e for 2. 5 billion for the acquisition of the asset that serves San Francisco. Imy pleased San Francisco is making the offer and now is the time to do it. Certainly they could use the money. Ive often said since the san bruno explosion pg e may be too big to succeed. And i think this may bring them down to a size that may be more manageable. Reporter its been headquartered here for almost 115
Good morning on this thursday, august 15th. Already sweating a little bit. Youre never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. Meteorologist mike nicco, we blame you. But i also thank you because you got our air conditioning back on in the studio. Thank you. I tried. Who doesnt have their air conditioninger on the they have one today . Moderate to high heat. Theres parts around brentwood and livermore, very high. The highest category of heat illness risk, 95 to 107, except for the bayshore. Parts of the bayshore will be mid to upper 90s. Not sure why the National Weather service kept the bayshore out of this heat advisory. It should be in there, also. Weve got lake county and Solano County hotter, 100plus until 10 00 tomorrow. Records will fall once again. Sue . Looking at your roadways on this thursday morning. Not too shabby if youre out and about at 5 01. Here is a look at the Golden Gate Bridge. You already have four lanes in the southbound direction, two in the
Theyre also pulling their money out of banks, worried about their futures. They send 30,000 to mexico just to make sure everything was not behind. Mexico got the most money last june from people from united states. Reporter over at this restaurant on Willow Street business is off by half and those who are here no longer talk about soccer while eating dinner. They Start Talking about everything else. They talk about the i. C. E. Its getting so bad for the community. Everybodys scared about it. Reporter the owner says even the sidewalks arent as full as they used to be just a few weeks ago. No one is talking about closing their doors. Not yet. But everyone is looking for the magic message that will convince customers its okay to come out of hiding. The owner says that the items he sells are luxury for shoppers, items theyd love to have but items they dont really need, and they have sold zero items today. Were live in san jose. Im damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. . Thank you so much, d
Closure that is continuing over here, buchanan just off contra loma there, and theres a couple gas stations in the area for those of you familiar with the area. There should not be a problem in that portion of antioch as the on and offramps are clear. And then mild slowing into concord. The bay bridge toll plaza metering lights are on, and not appe a lot of build. It looks nice out there as you get ready to head out the door. With our mostly clear skies to start we will start to see a few clouds mixing in at willow glen and going from the low 60s to low 80s by this afternoon. Overall, temperatures slightly cooler. We will talk about that ahead go into the weekend. In the meantime, breaking news in japan. 33 people now confirmed or presumed dead in an attack at an an mission studio. Authorities say a man broke into the studio with gasoline and set it on fire. At least 36 people were injured. Authorities say the suspect survived and they caught him, hes in custody. It happened early thur
By. Im james fletcher. Thank you for joining on this first day. Back to school. We should find out what the kids should be some cases theyll be sweltering morning, john. Its that summer attire. The shorts, the tshirts doesnt feel like back to School Weather for sure. Maybe the rest of the week will feel more appropriate. Because today is the last day of this heat that weve been seeing over the weekend. Were going to cool things off after today, looking outside at the mount tam camera perfectly crystal clear, were not really talking much marine layer having an impact on the bay area. So temperatures are going to rise pretty quickly right now. Most of us are in the 60s to even 70s brentwood, pittsburgh, as well as cloverdale and low to mid 70s right now. Berkeley, San Francisco on the cooler side hanging out in the 50s skies clear, as we noted and we stay that way all day long today. Today is going to be very similar to yesterday and saturday as well with those 80s and 90s for bayshore i