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Theyre working to get prepared but its iced today because, for the shutoffs by helping others. Kari, i just couldnt even fathom the thought of drinking hot coffee. We have so many elderly people in here that we have to well, its still going to be hot throughout today, and well look after because a lot of them also have a gusty wind. Dont drive. They dont get out of their we are going to have some houses. We have to help them. Slightly cooler tthe forecast. Lets talk about this red flg warning that we have in effect for all of our bay area hills. Reporter pg e expecting nearly 23,000 customers ...

Cspan. Next Senate Energy hearing on impact of wildfires on the electric grid. Lawmakers are looking at wildfire mitigation technology. Power management and system reliability. Were here to discuss wildfire and grids. In recent years, devastating and related electricity blackouts in california have drawn national maintaining grid resiliency in the face of stream conditions. Tragically we remember last years camp fire. Deadliest and destructive fire in california history which killed 85 people. The fire was caused about power linesyearold during so called fire weather. Winds, lowstrong humidity...

Now if we take a look at the impact of wildfires on the u. S. Electric grid, mitigation technology, Forest Management and power system reliability. Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. Last hearing of the year here. Theres a lot going on this morning so i think we will have people popping in and out but we do have a pretty hard to stop at 11 00 oclock this morning. A series of votes that are beginning at 11 00 a. M. And we are going to observe an actual ten minute clock, we are told. It will be the first time in Senate History but that is the goal. We want to be able to hea...

Lafayette le there are preparing for quite a bit of time without power. Reporter consider this, this whole thing , all these shutoffs may not be over yet because second largest fire infire, occurred in december of 2017. The shutoffs are forecasted to impact 22 counties which affects 264,000 customers. The intent of any power safety shut off is to prevent a catastrophic wildfire. Reporter a good increase from the county count and subject to change according to the ever changing weather. We are looking at the weather models every hour and making decisions real time. Reporter six of the nine coun...

People. The reaction, not again. A survey in several businesses. I am stumped. Reporter no appetite for a new power outage. Not good. Not happy. Reporter they barely rebounded from last time. But Fire Agencies ask look at the big picture. The Bigger Picture being that we have a fire Weather Window that is opening up here and be prepared for a refinery. Reporter fire that could be started or accelerated by live equipment. Sometimes we get the early rains in october. This year we havent had them yet. Reporter at least the looming power outage is about a quarter the size of the last. Still for so...