Hours. Corporate rentals take away from rentcontrolled units that should go to people like myself. Our original series project home investigates the loophole allowing landlords to flip Affordable Housing into corporate rentals. A 49er takes a knee and proposes to his longtime girlfriend on the field. Did she say yes . Good evening. We begin with some breaking news. Almost all of napa county and the towns of Moraga Orinda and lafayette in Contra Costa County will lose power beginning wednesday morning for at least 24 hours and possibly for days. Our Team Coverage in napa. Hope it is not just rural areas bracing for pg e to shut their power off. Hustling downtown areas like the stretch of napa. The restaurants and wine bars of downtown napa lit up tonight. Come wednesday they could be plunged into darkness. It will affect the economy locally. Reporter tourists whose plans revolve around restaurants said the outages could have longtime impacts. Words will get around that it is not a good
Where grassfed cows produce rich, creamy milk for a truly delicious taste. Kerrygold. The taste that takes you there. Announcer now from abc7, live breaking news. Were playing both offense and defense right now on two different sides of the fire. Making progress. Fire crews race to gain ground against the exploding kincade fire as another windstorm looms. Thats the reason we were made vigilant. Thats the reason we take nothing for granted. As pg e hurries to restore power, hundreds of thousands prepare for another massive blackout in just a few hours. Right now we are just hours away from the next planned power shutoff. Pg e warns 605,000 customers in 29 counties will be affected, and the utility has already started alerting customers. Heres a look at the areas pg e is warning of further blackouts. Some customers may not have their power restored before the next power shutoff begins. Abc7 News Reporter ancer hassan begins our Team Coverage on the uncertainty hanging over customers toni
The south bay, so ill have more on this and well talk about the fire danger coming up, and mike, youve got a lot of work going on overnight. Thats typical. No surprises. We have a little slowing, blips 680 north, vargas and fremont and along the peninsula. Tuesday also brings more traffic usually as far as the volume goes around the bay, a lot of companies ive ever worked for have the big business meetings on tuesday. I think folks come into town on monday if they happen to be traveling. If youre traveling through the north bay, a smooth, easy drive around the bay. You saw all the green sensors. No problems here through san rafael but sometimes we get breezy conditions and i think thats part of our big story. Guys, back to you. Thats right, it is developing this morning, mike, preparation and planning across the bay area for possible rolling Power Outages, and pg e warns it could mean days without electricity. It is possible hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses could be affect
Month, creating a large economic dent for residents and businesses. The historic swiss hotel has been in hank mariones family for decades, but he cant seem to recall anything like this happening in years past. For the second time this month his business could lose power. Youre talking about thousands of dollars a day. During the first Public Safety power shutoff, he had to throw out meat, fish and poultry. Marione lost his home in the tubbs fire two years ago. He says he gets it, but questions why pg e officials shut off power as broadly as they did. I dont really have a problem with them shutting down up in the hills where the winds were 40, 50 miles an hour. But in town i dont believe there is a lot that can burn. Pg e has said its transmission grid is so complicated, it cant isolate smaller areas. Sonoma county First District supervisor susan goren. They should have been on this from decades ago, undergrounding lines, setting the transition grid as they have been doing in Southern C
Dan noyes has been on the pg e beat, and he joins us with the latest developments. Dan . Ama and dion, it took two twt days for pg e to announce another one is probably on this way this week. The reaction to pg es announcement of more blackouts, the second round this month was fast and angry. What pg e is supposed to be doing is taking the billions of dollars we have been giving them and trimming the trees and taking care of their grid so we dont have to have these shutoffs in the first place. Just this past friday, a parade of pg es top executives appeared before the California Public Utilities Commission to defend the blackouts two weeks ago that affected more than 700,000 customers. Pg e president and ceo bill johnson described the longterm outlook for what the Company Calls Public Safety power shutoffs, or pspss. Our goal over the next ten years is to eliminate these kind of psps events. Ten years of blackouts does not sit well with the governor, some lawmakers and state rate payer