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Bay area, from abc7. >> californias biggest utility company is in a deep hole and it keeps getting deeper. good evening. im dan ashley. >> and im dion lim. there is not much good news coming out these days around pg&e, and today is no exception to the numbers. >> pg&e revealed today it lost more than $1.6 billion in just three months between july and september. keep in mind last year it made a half billion profit in that same time period. >> the credit that pg&e will give customers for one of th...

Again to prevent any new fires caused by down power lines. more than a million customers never got their power restored after the last blackout over the weekend, and could be without power for several more days. many californians are skeptical of pg&es motives, wondering if these intentional shutoffs are really a fire prevention tool or perhaps a way for the embattled utility, already in bankruptcy, to avoid further liability. state regulators are looking into that, while cal fire investigates w...

Are on it. still not known what sparked the fire. pacific gas & electric says minutes before it started there was an equipment malfunction. officials called it a broken jumper on one of its transmission towers near the fires origin that wasnt turned off during the public safety power outage. the utility was fired an electrical incident report with state regulators about this but notes cal fire investigators will ultimately determine the cause. crews busy in southern california where fires have b...

Years including the campfire last november that killed 86 people and swept through areas of northern california like paradise and chico, at least one hundred thousand californians are eligible for payments for the damages they suffered. >> if someone, a person went and burned down your house, youd be there filing a claim, youd be there holding them responsible and this should be no different, pg&e burned down our houses. >> butt attorneys argue fire victims need more time to file the claims appa...

Time to file claims. apparently, theres a lot of confusion. some people thought they couldnt file a claim because they already received money from their insurance company. other victims may have received information but thought it was all a scam. and some victims who might be traumatized from the fires might not be aware of their rights to file a claim at all. and just this friday state regulators grilled the energy companys execs about their preemptive power shutdowns ahead of the fires from th...

Head towards parts of alabama, georgia, and northern florida and could reach the carolinas and virginia heading up north tomorrow. molly: ceo bill johnson saying friday that the company could need up to ten years to modernize its grid and the californians could be subject to more manufactured power outages during that time. this comes as senior officials from the company testified about last weeks power outage that had left more than 2 million california residents in the dark. state regulators c...

Could force preemptive power outages in california for the next decade. pg&e telling state regulators thats how long it will take to upgrade the equipment. more than 2 million people were left in the dark last week over fears that high winds could knock down power lines, sparking wildfires. the utility company has been blamed for a series of wildfires in recent years. and check out this picture going viral this morning. thats dwayne the rock johnson at 15 years old. he shared the picture on in...

Regulators how much they are polluting. >> when they flare that gas, when they burn that off it releases a lot of sulfur dioxide. its a dangerous pollutant weve got this massive air quality problem. and the state of texas and the epa are just not monitoring out there. the reason theyre not monitoring is because their formulas are dependent on population >> reporter: the permian basin is 86,000 square miles, extending from texas into new mexico, bigger than the state of kansas. theresing on one f...

But this is texas, a state where the energy companies tell the regulators how much they are polluting. >> when they flare that gas, when they burn that off it releases a lot of sulfur gas, they burn that off, it releases a lot of sulfur dioxide, a dangerous pollutant. weve got this massive air quality problem in the permian basin and the state of texas and the epa are just not monitoring out there. the reason theyre not monitoring is because their formulas are dependent on population >> the perm...