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Nearly a quarter million customers in the north bay are impacted at about 25,000 more could be in the dark later tonight south of the golden gate. Lets go back to the life chopper5 pictures. These aerial pictures really tell the story of this massive firefight. The kincaid fire has grown to 74,000 acres plus. They say its one of a few square miles. That is much bigger than the city of San Francisco. It is 80 contained. The it had to evacuate 156,000 people. We are looking at life pictures here. You see helicopters and planes flying high over the ridge is doing water drops as you can see right there. Chopper5 has been flying over the slight plumes of smoke coming up the ridge line. It is rising from the acres and acres of burning brush. Also finstg ilthny wimaacti oveh quite the area of assault. It is hard to imagine the terrain. How those ground crews are making progress, but they have been on the ground. Ground and pound is what they call it. They have been doing a heckuva job hurricane there are more than 3000 firefighters helping with cal fire. That got people out to the evacuation centers. At this point i know there are two firefighters who have suffered injuries. Other than that, no lives have been lost. That is a vast difference from the fires we saw last year. And certainly two years ago when they came through santa rosa and sonoma county. You can see there at the bottom of the screen, a structure that has been destroyed. About 124 structures at this point have been damaged or destroyed. Or 23 rather with about 90,000 structures remaining in the path of the fire. We want to bring in darren. He has been watching the winds and of course the problem with weather conditions tonight are the winds that are expected to strengthen. They are also shifting. What is important to remember when we look at life images like this, and there was another drop right now they are really strategically hitting spots at this point. A couple of good things that you see from these pictures. We are not seen there are some pretty tall trees here. We are not seen lots of cramming. That is where the fire really takes off an utterly engulfed the vegetation. You see lots are not seeing lots of flames. That is good news. The other thing about the winds is the shift that you just mentioned. It has actually already happened. We are already under that northeast wind regime. Anytime you hear a direction put in front of wind, that is selling you the direction it is coming from. These wins are coming out of the northeast. As we look at the images, you can now orient yourself. That smoke is going to the south and west. If the wind is coming the northeast, everything is going to get blown to the southwest. The smoke, but obviously most important, any embers. That is the way it was happening on sunday. It was blowing to the southwest. We can clearly see in santa rosa how it was pushing that direction and then when i did shift and die down a little bit, they changed the assault tactics. Is the trying to contain it, they tried to get out in front so that could not get as aggressive when the winds shifted. You see small patch of land there. They have clearly already been doing some really good work. In fact, just as we mentioned the patch, they are right on top of it. The good news here is really, for the most part, we are just seeing snow. Lets not leave that out. We are not really seen a whole lot of flames in the images. That has got to be taken, for now isur not, you can see what plans. That looks like a bigger spot fire the got out in front. The good news is that earlier in the last forecast, you are mentioning that temperatures are expected to drop overnight which im going to guess is going to help the firefight. You know how that would help, there is no humidity. That is what the whole point to that is. If you can keep the temperatures low, that would be a help if we had healthy levels of relative humidity. No moisture. The corner that is get, then humidity is able to it condenses the or more. That would help with the fire down. This is now the third significant offshore wind event weve had. Each one of those has tried out Northern Californias landscape aggressively more. That is the other part of this. It is not just this one dry wind event tonight. You have to remember, the groundwork has been laid by the three systems they came thr ber humidity levels are incredibly low. That is a really good assumption , that cold temperatures would help because under normal circumstances they would. For the folks are not in the path of the fire, because theyre obviously saying how does this affect me . It does, because that is where the Power Outages can. Pg e could say that if the winds are not going to pick up the we can get power down. That affects millions of people. Youre saying, the tonight it will be dry and windy. Is also going to be cold. Correct. The biggest factor for cold is that it is really mainly in the north bay, bundle up because we are going to get down into the low 30s. That is not help people who dont have power. Especially when electricity is out, even the gas furnace cannot work because the blower does not work. Everybody is going to have to use a fireplace if they have it. That is not help with smoke in the air. Lets go live to pg e headquarters in San Francisco. We are getting an update now on the latest round of power shut off. With gusty winds developing first in the shasta region, then moving down into the sacrament a valley which is typical of these events. We first observed wind speeds are 50 Miles Per Hour near lake shasta. That was earlier today. And some stations in the north bay, recently, they were gusting about 50 Miles Per Hour with one station but he picked out was gusting your 70 Miles Per Hour. That was at 5 pm. Unfortunately, we do have with these north winds, and the air originating from the upper great basin, and not off the water, unfortunately, we do have a very dry air mass filtering into the state of california. If you look at weather observations right now, in the second in a valley and into the north bay, we do have relative humidity readings in the critical teens to Single Digits out there. These are conditions that yield dangerous fire weather and potential for significant fires given that the fuels after the last two events are significantly dry. Right now, the northerly windse the north side seem to be decreasing. We are getting out in the northerly wind component of this event. We are getting into more of the northeast phase of the event where we have northeast winds developing over the city or nevada and elevated terrain in the north bay. The focus of the winds looks like it will be mostly over the north bay, but we do expect some potentially dusty pockets of winds in the east bay and potentially into the south bay. We continue to monitor the latest Weather Forecast and observations to see if those winds materialize. We do also anticipate as the weather system drops south that another santa ana wi wievelopac southern d potentially into halloween. We are expecting that this sin an event will be the strongest of the season so far. Those santa ana winds typically impact the attach a piece for the Pg E Service Area which is in the kern county area. However, the winds down south are going to be very serious. It is a very serious fire danger situation developing across southern california. I am concerned for southern californias down there with those conditions. At this time, we anticipate being able to recommend an all clear for areas across Northern California impacted this weather event. By adm, tomorrow, potentially earlier for some, and near six a. M. Right now, thursday and kern county and that to have to be different but imagine, the team will consent to to monitor the weather overnight and we will monitor new and updated Weather Forecasts, model information both from the global resoteif that all atmode asther clear time comes in earlier or moves out later. In order to make the all clear determination, we must have confirmation from our weather stations out in the field, which we have more than 600 of. We must have confirmation from our field observers out there that conditions are safe and we must have confirmation from Weather Forecast models that we are not expecting conditions to deteriorate. It does look like the wind component of this forecast or this system that we are heading into is verifying to be weaker than the event we just came out. The october 26 ps ps events. However i must originating that the fuels and relative humiditys event are very dry and the fuels component remains very high with this event. That is a factor that we consider with Public Safety power shut off. The amount of moisture that is available in fuels because the lower the fuel moisture, the more easily fuels her ignitable. And potentially more catastrophic the fire spread. We are still very much aligned with federal forecast agencies with this event. The storm Production Center is still forecasting critical and extreme fire danger. That covers 34,000 square miles in california. That is a massive area. As well as covers over21 million californians both the northern and southern california. We also continue to coordinate with our northern operations ins their Predictive Services in interagency cause. The footprint of their high forecast covers 89 pg e customers. The National Weather service has multiple red flag warnings still in effect for this event. That covers a population of about 2 million pg e customers. We will continue to coordinate with our federal forecast partners. That will ensure that we are aligned on the forecast in this event moving forward. The news that ive been able to show the last two briefings appears to be holding. Although we do not anticipate any rain in the forecast, in the nextad offshore wind events at this time. That is some good news. I will definitely take it. With that i will turn it back over to keith. Mark, do you want to give us an Operational Update . Good evening. My name is mark quinlan. I am the Incident Commander for the Public Safety power shut off events for the 26th and 29th of october. I am here to provide an operational briefing this evening. Just to start, we have had approximately 972,000 customers impacted at one time or another. That is due to both of we have been able to successfully restore 650,000 customers as of the beginning of this briefing. That represents approximately 57 of the customers restored. Looking at some of the other outage data that we have, all and as of the start of the briefing, we had about 435,000 customers out of service. That is for all causes. That breaks out into roughly 419,000 theres still psps related outages on the system. Approximately 16,000 customers out of service for causes other than psps. That includes things like just regular weather related trouble due to the high winds on areas of our system that were not part of the psps footprint. It also represents outages her mother causes, not whether related. With the two events, it been an operationally complex day. We have been restoring the system since yesterday. We began receiving weather all clears at the time. Lf million customers being restored. That was encouraging news for us. This morning we began deenergizing the System Associated with the october 29 events. That was complex because you are restoring certain sections of the system and at the same time your deenergizing other areas of the system. A little challenging, but well coordinated and done safely without any grid disturbances to the state or the western interconnection. That is good the restoration efforts were really to the credit of the field resources that weve had. All completed by over 6000 field resources and a sizable air attack on the order of 50 two 60 helicopters. Most of them in the fleet hours and some of them obtained during mutual assistance efforts and so that enabled us to make some Good Progress today. I want to cover the event from today, october 29. We did in this event, we sexualized or split up the distribution and Transmission System up and geographic zones to better pinpoint timing. I have talked a few times at these conferences about our intent to never interrupt customers until it is absolutely necessary to do so d the Weather Forecasts that we receive for meteorology. We do not want to interrupt people earlier the necessary. We always want to restore people as soon as we can as weather conditions improve. In order to do that, we have to split our system of into geographic zones. It allows us to be able to have more flexibility from an operational perspective. We did that approximately and . 11. The first one to be shut off to say was ebony north valley early in the morning. Was about 4 am. We had a few others in the sierra foothills and the humbled coast that were deenergized around 7 am or 8 am. Our latest dinner jason took place at around 4 pm. This was in the stockton and yosemite area of the service territory. That has been the extent of the dinner jason activities on this operational period so far. While we were doing that, we have been restoring customers from the previous event. Weve been making some Good Progress on that. Just to provide an update, right before this is conference, we did receive an all clear for that first area i spoke to this morning up in north valley that all clear was supposed to come in. We ive it atright omorrow around. Before this press conference. It went through our doublet protocol to confirm conditions were safe in the field using our field observers, monitoring the weather stations, and then made the decision to go ahead and start our patrolling and restoration process. That is a pretty involved process. It involves patrols, from the ground, on foot as well as via helicopter. This is the latest on the round of Public Safety power shut us. We are expecting some Severe Weather tonight. Y r windy nigh in the north bay with critically low humidity levels. Just as pg e was restoring power to some areas as you just heard, it was already cutting power to others. There are talking about the son. A few others in the sierra foothills. The humbled coast. The latest today took place around 4 pm around stockton and yosemite. In north bay have been out since saturday. We are going to see what the high winds prima and will hopefully have an all clear tomorrow. Here is the bottom line. Pg e is in just been given the all clear at 8 am tomorrow. In the morning, i hope to give the all clear, but it might come earlier than that. The problem is, that does not mean your power is going to come back on. Pg e as you see in the video, has to get out and inspect every single inch of the power lines. That has to happen before they can get the power back on to your neighborhood. As we were saying, those winds are expected to die down throughout the night. Hopefully, everybody in the bay area will get their power back on by midday tomorrow night. Here is a look at longford street. There is heavy traffic going both directions. Mostly going out to the mouth of the Golden Gate Bridge. Traffic is backed up at this time. Did wave of people they are fleeing Power Outages. They are coming into the city because the power is on. They want groceries, run errands, they are clogging up the streets even more. Here is a live look at the traffic map. If youre going north, it is quite slow going going out of the city. Not only lombard clogged up, but also presidio parkway leading to the Golden Gate Bridge. It is pretty much just stop and go gridlock onto the Golden Gate Bridge to get into marin county. Lilook at ru overnig the plan promise people falls far short of what they need. Reporter that is read. San joses i will program used to hope in multiple locations. Only during periods of extreme cold or extreme wet weather. Only a couple of times a year. The new plan is to open two centers. One of them is the Roosevelt Community center here near downtown san jose. But keep them open every night from now until april. Ms. Jones is been living in this tent in san jose and says the last few nights have been tough. It is been so cold. I slept with my feet frozen. My dog was laying beside my legs, but i was cold all night. I had the blankets over my head and still i was freezing. Reporter she is bracing for even Colder Weather to set it. It could end up killing some people and streets. It is got to the point where we just accept the dead. We shouldnt have to. Reporter san jose is planning to open two overnight warming locations at the roosevelt unity center every night from now until april. Homeless people can come in off the streets and sleep on bedding on the floors of the Dance Studios which are located right next to the restrooms and showers. Joyce brennan state and an owl center last winter. That would bring food and coffee. They bring mats and blankets. They work hard to help people. Reporter bu