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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, we're monitoring an additional dry and strong wind event that could impact our service area as early as this weekend into next week. the potential size, scope and timing of this event is being worked on n...

We'll 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 we're 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 assure you this, if we decide to move forward with this event, we're going to work as quickly and as s...

Conducted with some success and now we want to test that out at night because that's what we believe is the opportunity. so we're conducting that test this evening in the auburn area, and we're 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 don't anticipate finding any of that, those conditions this evening because we're not in a wind event. the key is to see what we can see at night from a high elevation out of the wired environment a mile away f...

Weather forecast models as they arrive and we'll 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 that's my update and i'll turn it back to you, keith. >> bill, we'll go ahead and hear from you, please. >> well, good afternoon, everyone. i'm bill johnson, ceo and president of pg&e corporation. this is our second operational update regarding the planning for a potential psps this week. a few comments before we get to ...

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, many of whom are working alongside us in our emergency operations center. we have representatives fro...