The best thing our customers can do to help prevent going into that stage iii category is to conserve as much energy as possible. You heard it right there, conserve energy. That is going to be the motto during this heatwave we are all dealing with across the bay area. Tonights power emergency is over for now after a series of rolling outages around Northern California this evening that helped stabilize the grid. This started around 6 30 with an order from kauai so. The independent system operator manages the states power grid and it told utilities, like pg e, to shed powerlines because of unusually high demand. Pg e explained in a tweet saying there was strain on the power grid due to excess heat. Pg e began rotating Power Outages at the direction of the state grid operator. 200 to 250,000 customers were affected for about an hour each. This map is from pg es web shot. It shows a snapshot of the situation at 8 00 tonight. The red dots represent outages of 5000 or more, the orange dots
Announced today some extra resources to help with that. The extra resources will go to eight counties in californias central valley. Thats where theres been a surge in coronavirus cases. The governor delivered todays update from a Diamond Foods sto. While positivity numbers are stabilizing statewide, eight counties are seeing increased infections in the central valley. How deadly this disease continues to be. Reporter he announced a 52 Million Investment for those counties specifically, used to improve isolation and testing protocols, as well as to provide more support and personnel to health care workers. The money is part of a 499 cdc grant to california. These dollars, we think are timely. These dollars are critical. And important. And they will buld off local infrastructure already in place. Reporter strike teams will be deployed to support the essential workforce. We have a great deal of work to do to get transmission rates down here in the central valley. Reporter the governor to
For us to have a sack you reports neighbors want to know why police did not step in sooner and stop this. I heard a very loud screeching this. Murray just lots of screeching and uh yeah pretty much knew what i was neighbors near 30th avenue in gary boulevard woken up by this scene early sunday morning for over 10 minutes, this isnt going there are police a block away and then on stopping i woke up and i was shocked thats happening. And i saw just so many here and they cheer and i the kai chase, neighbor sharon comes from he says. It started around 03 30am and went on for about 40 minutes called my my mom and they told me there are so many and police around my but they cannot control because of number of people that was also shocking to me San Francisco police confirming they responded to this side show early sunday morning as well as several others and marketing played in streets 23th, and the boys streets and ministry im certain of is that the police tolerate it this last night and th
Leaders making the announcement late this evening. They say the decision was a unanimous one between the mayor and the members of the Police Commission was made during a closed door session kron fours gayle ong was there when that announcement was made she joins us live from oakland with more gayle. And this all went down about 2 hours ago here at city hall and mayor libby schaaf said she called and kirkpatrick after the vote. Thursday night, the city of oaklands top cop is out of the job the oakland Police Commission voted unanimously to join air shaft. In terminating the chief of police about cost the announcement the citys Police Commission chair Regina Jackson lasted about 2 minutes after meeting with mayor libby shaft and other commissioners at city hall for hours details on what led to Ann Kirkpatrick firing were not disclosed other than this was a no cause termination a Personnel Matter there wasnt enough. Leadership. And so that we needed new leadership can i do not regret choo
Treatment because of heatrelated problems. Speaking of the heat, hi mike nicco. Hi everybody. Good news. It starts at the coast. We look for the winds in the sign of change. In fairfield, 14mileperhour wind heading to the east. That means a little sea breeze developing. Right now it hasnt drawn any clouds. It las cooled the temperatures a little bit. East bay hills 79, 74. You can see the hottest part of the air mass is moving away from us. Still going to be really warm to hot today. Mid 50s to 60s at 7 00. At the coast, mainly in the silkts today. We hit the low 80s to mid 90s at noon. Week0s to near norecords anotw ntil you see the dramatic drop in temperatures. Lets get back to sue. The eastshore freeway. Lets say hercules, highway 4 down towards the bay bridge. Looking at about a 25minute drive. Not bad at all. Lots of gaps between those headlines. So youre moving at the limit through emeryville and into the macarthur maze. Problem spot for you this morning, if youre traveling nort