Pg e cuts the power, so when a Business Owner tries to do the right thing by turning on his generator, coming up, the cautionary tale that ends with a bigger loss. Crews in Solano County monitoring the fire situation after hundreds of acres went up in flames. Ill show you what it looked like. Fire danger remains elevated. The holidays are on the horizon and food bandank banks desperate. 345,000 pg e customers had their power cut as the utility tried to prevent wildfires, but we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to the fire danger, because the red flag warning has now been extended. Well begin our coverage with meteorologist sandhya patel. Critically dry conditions continue. Take a look at the wind gusts right now. The diablo winds still going, not as strong as they were 24 hours ago. 22 at knoxville creek. So were still watching very dry conditions, antioch, fairfield, 15 in napa. That red flag warning for the east bay hills and Solano County. Gust 5060 Miles Per Hour not out
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
Ricketts brief reporters on the States Coronavirus response monday. He gave an update current case numbers and on the more than 975 hospitalizations. This runs just under an hour. Gov. Ricketts good morning, everybody. Thanks for joining us on the states response to the pandemic. As usual, we will start off by reminding people that with the virus still in our commute, we need everybody to please continue to practice all the tools we gave you, follow our rules to be able to slower slow the spread of the virus. That means we need to keep that six foot of distance between you and other people when we wax you you are in public, and other people when you are in public. Secondsr hands for 20 at a time to kill the virus. Stay home when you are sick. Thats a big deal. I note nebraskans love to work and they want to get back at it. But if youve got any symptoms, you need to stayathome. Please go get tested, but dont go into work if youve got any symptoms. Of course that should be true even if y
So, lets jump right in to weather. Let me take it from here. We have some issues out there as kumasi talked about. You can see it over my shoulder. The red flag warning in effect for the diablo range and east bay hills and also the north bay mountains and this goes through 5 00 this evening as winds could still gust 50 to 60. That is looking less likely but still possible but extremely dry out there. 8 to 18 relative humidity. We could have extreme fire behavior because of that. Winds are still running anywhere from 35 to about 41 in knoxville. So, that is still pretty critical as far as fire starting and fire spreading. Look at this. 8 in the Oakland Hills to about 10 , 11 relativi relative ty ty rest of us. For the rest of us extremely dry air and temperatures in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Away from the coast in the mid 70s. Okay, mike. Thank you. Oakland police are investigating an incident along mcarthur boulevard. One person is dead and we have reached out to investigators for more i
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