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Around los angeles, malibu, winds 50 to 70 miles per hour. that's later tomorrow night to tomorrow morning. humidity is supposed to drop below 10%. that's explosive fire weather across this region, that will allow conditions to grow over the next several days. the temperatures want to warm up with the offshore winds in store, as high as the middle 80s across southern california. we have fronts on the horizon. heavy rainfall across the gulf coast states but some midwestern snow to be had. the forecast across chicago, snowshowers, and highs at 36 degrees. a gradual warming trend into friday. a c...

Embers pick them up. although today is not terribly windy. so firefighters were trying to build containment lines before the winds pick up tomorrow. but however, they are still at 5%. >> one thing that was technically noteworthy. you hear 2.5 million people possib possible could be without power this weekend. and there are 850,000 customers affected. they equate a customer with a household, and typically, there's three people in a household. you do the math, you can get up to 2.5 million people impacted by this. we haven't seen anything like this with voluntary shutoffs of power because of the...

Miles per hour with this event. again, these are dry, offshore winds, gusting to 45-60 miles per hour. so a dangerous situation. and we are, and national weather service is forecasting peak gusts of 85 miles per hour in some of the more exposed, elevated terrain throughout our territory. northern operations predictive services, the other federal forecast agency that we closely coordinate with on any high-risk wind event is also looking at a high risk event. they're forecasting this event to potentially exceed the 99th percentile, said another way, an extreme event. the meteorological and data ...

Transmission towers. tomorrow with the winds picking up again and possibly even worse than what we've seen already earlier this week, we can certainly have more shutoffs, and the idea is to prevent another such fire. >> you're seeing pg and e officials now. >> public information officer for this current psps event. thank you for being here tonight. we've already covered safety in the room. so thank you. additionally, i would just remind us, we're in earthquake country as well as wildfire country. we've seen that. make sure you take care of yourself, duck, cover and hold for earthquakes and als...

Pattern that does produce offshore winds unfortunately. we do not see any rain in the forecast for the next seven to ten days. believe you me i'd much rather be forecasting rain and snow at this point in time, but unfortunately, it is another forecast with offshore winds of i am starting to sound like a broken record, but forecast models show another diablo wind event on the horizon will develop over northern california, starting tomorrow nght, saturday night through sunday and will be lingering into monday. this will not be an event that we've seen in recent memory, however. forecast models c...