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That fire in the southland as well and is this one here in geyersville continued to burn out of control. on top of all that, of another major wind event is in the forecast for this weekend, prompting another force blackouts, but the third one this month. people dont like it but them and these red flag conditions, with low humidity, high temperatures and of course a very strong winds, pg&e says pulling the plug is a necessary fire prevention tool. >> dana: claudia cowan, be safe. thank you. comin...

Time this month. pacific gas & electric says pulling the plug reduces the risk of wildfires started by the companys equipment. the black-outs began yesterday afternoon in the sierra nevada foothills. moved south to the bay area. in all pg&e cut power to parts of 17 counties affecting 450,000 people in fire prone areas can including geyserville. fires still happen and now this fire has scorched 15 square miles. forecasters say the winds should start dying down later in afternoon. pg&e hopes to re...

Placed strategically out in the field in order to determine and recommend an all-clear so that our crews can begin to restore power for northern california. across the south it does look like the winds are going to taper off friday from about 10:00 to noon. thats had we expect to issue the all-clear, about noon on friday. looking ahead, unfortunately, for all of us we do appear to be stuck in a weather pattern that is conducive to these offshore wind patterns. and we are looking at and continuin...

Predictive services across vast portions of northern california and into southern california. so this wind event does look like its a california-wide phenomenon. this is expected to transition across the south, half of the state later tonight thursday into friday. ou utility to the south, so cal edison, according to their website, is considering a psps event for about 300,000 customers as well. so it is a california-wide phnomenon and a risk of significant fires across vast portions of californi...

On after the wind event is over, sometime midday tomorrow, they dont just flip a switch and turn the power back on, they have to go out and physically inspect all of those lines to make sure >> if a limb has come down on one of those lines, they ve clear that, make sure everything is okay. they started turning off power in the sierra foothills around 2:00 this afternoon. places like the peninsula, they could be impacted. overnight stly. but as you said, it takes time to get it back up and runnin...

The governor in his letter today said he would put support from the state agencies at our disposal to help with these events and that certainly has happened already today. as mark said, we had cal fire and cal oes with us and the chp air resources are an example of that, so we appreciate that. a final point before we get to your questions, beyond the potential psps immediately in front of us, were monitoring an additional dry and strong wind event that could impact our service area as early as t...

Well be able to leverage that and patrol some of our infrastructure at night. what that does, that frees up the helicopter assets to patrol more of the distribution system, so were looking forward to those results. so to close, i want to reiterate that we appreciate our customers patience during this wind event and the time it takes for us to do those inspections, fully understand the impact of not having electric service. we fully understand how disruptive that is to all of you. but i can assur...

Conducted with some success and now we want to test that out at night because thats what we believe is the opportunity. so were conducting that test this evening in the auburn area, and were going to fly one of our high voltage transmission lines and just see how much we can see. we are optimistic that we will be able to see evidence of debris in our facilities or conductors down. we dont anticipate finding any of that, those conditions this evening because were not in a wind event. the key is t...

Weather forecast models as they arrive and well monitor the wind event as it unfolds and monitor our more than 600 weather stations to issue a potential all-clear for the north half of california about noon on thursday and for the footprint i mentioned near noon on friday. so thats my update and ill turn it back to you, keith. >> bill, well go ahead and hear from you, please. >> well, good afternoon, everyone. im bill johnson, ceo and president of pg&e corporation. this is our second operational...

Is lower than the estimate that we provided yesterday. we began notifying all of those customers yesterday 48 hours in advance of the shutoff time. we notified them again today 24 hours out. and that notification was performed either by phone, email or text message. we will continue to monitor the forecasted wind event and update our customers and communities accordingly. if we do call for a public safety power shutoff, that decision will be made in consultation with our state agency partners, m...