it simply overwhelmed her. a kiss from her mother, nikitia. and then, they try again. dad calls her name. q ela. reporter: her hands on her head. she then moves her head to the side. hey, you hear it? i know it. reporter: and then the moment she reaches out to them. yeah, you heard it? reporter: q ela s father says she can hear all of their voices now. she s still learning. even starting to recognize sounds from nature. and he hopes other families tonight are helped, too, in their effort to end the silence. that moment q ela reaches out. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow. re tomorrow. good night. pg&e s latest power shutoff
is under way. if your lights are still on now, they might not be for much longer. we are about to enter a critical 12-hour window in the north bay fire fight as the win this pick up speed once again. we are live near the front lines. don t breathe a sigh of relief. we have another spare the air alert coming tomorrow. good evening, thank you for joining us. i m ama daetz. i m dan ashley. the fastest winds are about to arrive in the bay area, ushering in a critical time for fighters battling the kincade fire in sonoma county. pg&e starts another sweeping round of power shutoffs throughout the bay area. let s start with the numbers of how many people are without power right now due to the preemptive power shutoff, the psps. pg&e told us they ve restored power to about 67% of the people affected by saturday s shutoff, the outage numbers were cut in half with 61,000 customers
is planning the next power outage, which could start tomorrow. good evening. i m dan ashley. i m dion lim. with so much going on, let s get to what we know now and the newest information. the company is preparing for yet another power shutoff tomorrow. it would affect 605,000 customers. pg&e has restored power to more than 375,000 customers. however, some customers may not have their power restored before the next power shutoff begins. pg&e is holding a news conference right now. meioned, is was just announced t motimes. wit. transitions to offshore northeasterly wind. the winds start in the north valley, upper end of the north valley near redding early in the
it was the right decision, still remain it is right decision, when the fire decides to make a run and the winds are pushing it, you can t win. the governor has declared a statewide state of emergency and all of this comes in widespread cover outage impacting more than 2 million people, move design today reduce risk of catastrophic wild fires caused by downed or damaged power lines, the unprecedented winds are expected to die down later today but we are not out of the woods just yet, strong winds expect today pick up again tomorrow night and into wednesday, even as gas and electric begins to start restoring power to some parts of northern california, the utility company is now warning of yet another public safety power shutoff again later this week, it would be the fourth one this month and heather as for the full, full containment now not expected before november 7th, back to you.
reporter: in northern california the sonoma county sheriff s office issued a mandatory evacuation order for the kinkade fire. it could affect 50,000 people. they are ordered to evacuate by 4:00 this afternoon. governor gavin newsom announced $75 million to mitigate the impact of the power shutoff. here is what he had to say on twitter. these blackouts, the impact to that is unacceptable. we have to hold them accountable and do our best to get through these high-wind events and work through saturday, sunday into monday. get these lights back on. reporter: a transmission power line mal mall functioned just