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winds fueled by dry grass and vegetation. it's destroyed at least three homes, threatened others as well as vineyards. a mandatory evacuation order is in effect. 1700 residents have no idea they will be allowed to return. many are at red cross shelters. we don't know what caused the fire, it's exactly what pacific gas and electric was hoping to prevent by shutting off the power for the second time this month. pg&e says in dangerously windy weather pulling the plug reduces the risk of wildfires. force blackouts started yesterday. affecting 180,000 homes and businesses in fire prone areas. preventive power shut off happening in southern california where wildfire north of san bernardino has burned at least 75 acres fueled by strong santa ana winds. some 15,000 utility customers impacted now and that number is likely to climb.
IdeaWindsHomesOthersDry-grassResidentsVineyardsEvacuation-orderVegetationThree1700Powerhigher bonuses, lower healthcare costs. even, you know, utility customers. that we didn't quite grasp the magnitude beyond the personal cut and how the biscuit could come back to individuals. that will be appreciated later in the year. i don't know if that's the case, but i think that is an underappreciated element. what do you think? >> without question. you have a whole slew of companies giving employees bonuses and raises because they are able to thanks to the gop tax cut package. even if your company isn't one of those, for anybody watching, you're still probably taking home more of the money that you earned when you go to work. the gop effectively gave everybody a raise with this tax bill. not a single democrat voted to make that happen. if the republican party reminds voters of that very simple fact every day until mid-term elections in november, it's
BonusesMagnitudeBiscuitHealthcare-costsUtility-customersCutQuestionCaseIndividualsElementSlewRepublicanscommunity. we are hearing the power outages are beginning to pick up. we know you guys are on the east side and the storm moved up the west. but that does not mean your area is out of danger. >> it doesn't. we have 31,000 utility customers without electricity right now. i expect that number to continue to rise. we have had squalls coming insteadly about 8:00 tonight and the winds aren't rain are getting harder as i speak to you on the phone. i was going to say i think it's important, your meteorologist just reported, this storm is 400 miles wide. it's so important for people to not let their guard down. we expect hurricane-force winds on this part of florida.
StormWestAreaGuysEast-sideCommunityIt-doesn-tPower-outagesDangerElectricitySquallsUtility-customersthis morning on "world news now" -- american celebration. the precautions as public fireworks displays entertain the masses on independence day. >> all that despite the dangerous heat and the risk of spreading wildfires. it is thursday, july 5th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good thursday morning. i'm sunny hostin. paula faris is on assignment. >> good morning, i'm rob nelson. hope you had a great fourth of july. and it was the hottest one on record for a lot of folks yesterday. we had that, plus the ongoing misery for hundreds of thousands of people waiting for electricity still. and the relief from the heat as well. are complaints from utility
FireworksPrecautionsDisplaysWorld-news-nowAmerican-celebrationAnnouncerHeatAbc-newsIndependence-dayWildfiresRiskJuly-5thmandatory evacuation. now, right now as we see people enjoying the surf and enjoying the beach we have been watching people going up very close actually and taking pictures next to the crashing waves. not advised. there has been massive flooding along the streets that had waves lapping up against businesses that were boarded up and sandbagged before the storm. a redundant scene up and down long island as trees were splintering like tooth picks, taking down power lines and knocking out power to nearly half of long island's 1.1 million utility customers. the local fire chief here of long beach requested assistance from nassau county. thing ecktive has given him the help he needed to clean out the debris. national guard troops along the way to assist with the cleanout as well. the one good thing we can say about nassau county and the massive waves going on right now is there is going be a big sur of competition scheduled to take place next week. still going to take place next week as far as the event
PeopleArnold-beachFloodingPicturesEvacuationCrashing-wavesSurfAsh-wednesday-stormPeople-dont-all-have-powerTreesStreetsWavesexplosion site, but they did not fix it. and to add instult to injury, pg&e was already getting millions of dollars from utility customers, those millions were meant to be spent doing the work they said they'd do but they didn't. millions from rate payers who some of them, the same people whose homes are now gone. dan simon has more. >> reporter: the line that exploded last week was laid down in 1948. it was so old that for safety reasons, pacific gas and electric made plans to replace a section of it in south san francisco just a couple miles away. in 2007, it got rate increases to do the work. according to a consumer watch dog group, pg&e got $5 million for the project. but the group called t.u.r.n., the utility reform network, says it never happened. >> the money is spent on what they call higher priority work. >> reporter: what was that? >> well, you can't track the
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