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This is east owindsorer. Strong winds forcing the kin dade fire closer and closer to homes. Containment was 10 11 . Now down to 5 . 94 buildings have been can destroyed. Another 80,000 are threatened by the flames. Heres a look at all the evacuation zones. Nearly 180,000 were forced from Sonoma County because of of this fire. And a new ominous look at the flames with the Golden Gate Bridge with the flames in the forground. There it is in the distance. Lets get started with nbc bay areas live in ...

Winds forcing the kin dade fire closer and closer to homes. Containment was 10 11 . Now down to 5 . 94 buildings have been can destroyed. Another 80,000 are threatened by the flames. Heres a look at all the evacuation zones. Nearly 180,000 were forced from Sonoma County because of of this fire. And a new ominous look at the flames with the Golden Gate Bridge with the flames in the forground. There it is in the distance. Lets get started with nbc bay areas live in windsor. Whuts rr the scene . We...

169,000 customers. Any moment now we are expecting an update from pg e. This is a live look inside the utility headquarters in San Francisco as we wait for the briefing to get underway. We understanding they are doing audio sound checks. We need officially gets underway, we will bring it to you live. In the meantime, we have team coverage. Alyana gomez is in nampa were people have been in the dark all day. We begin with Paul Chambers who is been talking to pg e customers in contra costa countys....

Some of the damage we had. I dont know how to advance my own slides. Sorry. There we go. This is the kind of thing im talking about this is a tree line thats blown into the line. You have a spark and potential ignition of a wildfire. Wildfire this is another example of the same thing. Wire down from a tree blowing over. I have a few more pictures and will tell you a little more about this. So each of these is the potential to cause a significant fire. It was an extremely difficult decision for u...

Some of the damage we had. I dont know how to advance my own slides, sorry. So this is the kind of thing i am talking about. This is a tree branch that has blown into the line. If that line is energized you would have a spark and a potential ignition of a wildfire. This is another example of the same thing. A wire down based on a tree flowing over. Ive a few more pictures and we can tell you a little more about this. Each of these is the potential to cause a significant fire. As i said last nigh...

Looking at doing a change to the program, youre investigating to do work in which shell buys the hydro power. Im guessing thats going to impact the potential or potential not of rate setting next week. Or is that something youre going to have answered to the satisfaction of the commissioners at the sfpuc . I dont expect that we will have any kind of confirmation from shell about specific resources by then. What i can say is that our goal is to have a portfolio with shell where every resource fro...

Know where is it the stuff that really excited us sitting here today. And thinking back, i guess one of the big reveals youre looking at doing a change to the program, youre investigating to do work in which shell buys the hydro power. Im guessing thats going to impact the potential or potential not of rate setting next week. Or is that something youre going to have answered to the satisfaction of the commissioners at the sfpuc . I dont expect that we will have any kind of confirmation from shel...

Of the big reveals youre looking at doing a change to the program, youre investigating to do work in which shell buys the hydro power. Im guessing thats going to impact the potential or potential not of rate setting next week. Or is that something youre going to have answered to the satisfaction of the commissioners at the sfpuc . I dont expect that we will have any kind of confirmation from shell about specific resources by then. What i can say is that our goal is to have a portfolio with shell...

Commission, we look to this program to accomplish a lot of goals. Maybe the frame your presentation to where what is the status of certain of the goals. We wanted a green Power Purchasing Program and we wanted this program because of the ideas around Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions to the citys Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction goals and the 100 Renewable Energy goals that by the city and county and that were charged with giving life to. But really what it was about was the local generation. ...

Are you about would you say halfway through or do you want us to wait until your conclusion . Its fine with me. Im halfway through. Okay. Commissioner josefowitz has a question. So, when you say the sfpuc is buying power itself, could you maybe explain a bit more what that means and how it relates to the shell contract and all that stuff . Because im not entirely clear how that would work. Sure. The way the shell contract was originally envisioned by the staff was that shell would basically buy,...