>>in implementinthese planned blackouts and stead pg e has chosen. >>to use a sledgehammer pg any ceo facing frustrated lawmakers and monday senate october's power shut-offs ceo bill johnson maintaining the company's decision to cut down power millions of people for up to 5 days extme weather that prompted east to shut off was a one in 30 year events several tes throughout the hearing senators reminded utility leaders the power, the government has to take control. >>of and any response that seves the needs st of the people of northern california. now i do work for the shareholrs at the moment. so et's not get ourselves about that. >>and i actually think can keeping pg e is an integrated fferentompany is the best way to serve. >>lamakers also analyzed how the state's otheinvestor owned utilities more successfully handled smaller scale shut off by using section allies systems for microgrids pg leaders say they are workg towards sexualizing part of its gri to limit the sizof is shut offs. but still noting it will take time, lawmakers still left with que

contra costa fire officials say pg any equipment also started a fire in oakley that same morning. >>the assets that are involved. you know we file that form through our. we don't really speculate on causation are. and then our focus is really cooperating with the agency or as lead on the investigation. we support. and then we just focus on operational type of issues so too soon to tell. >>p also under investigation for 2 lafayette fires over the weekend. and the can kade fire of course that st ll burning pg e says it is still working on restoring power as we heard for everybody affected by the shut-offs. >>a live look outside now as we get our first look at the 4 zone forecast with meteorologist dave's far beautiful shot of the city. >>the freeze warning day for a tell us about that. >>yeah that's affecting up in the north bay there and it's particularly in some of those valleys because that's where you get so called cold air drainage happening. we have dry air in place and the winds actually are not the lack of them are actually not our friends anymore because we get that radiati

we continue our coverage on the pg e power shut off. >>as some customers are scrambling to prepare only to find out they will not lose power after all. we'll have to react reaction after the break plus more delay, it is related to bart why officials say the opening of the extension to san jose asked to wait a little bit longer. also after the break we'll have the latest on a veranda as the da determines no charges will be filed against the 5 suspects connected to the halloween party shooting. a little peek outside of 92 traffic looking good just a little crowded making your way over to the peninsula but no reports of any hot spots will check more bridges and more drive times after the break. introducing in-garage delivery, just in time for the holidays! ♪ beep, beep wwrrrr ♪ ♪ beep, beep ssshhhh ♪ ♪ beep, beep ♪ ♪ errrrr ba-ding ♪ shlrrrp ♪ bark, bark ♪ ♪ beep, beep ♪ ♪ sshhh shrrrp ♪ ♪ ding crrrnch, ♪ ♪ crrrnch beep ♪ ♪ boop errrr ♪ hey! get free in-garage delivery from key by amazon when you con

now today's maet cap of pg&e is $3.2 billion. that's purchasable if you want to go and purchase their stock and the huge question is it politically possible? and will the cielected polis do the right thing here. and that i woaud apmayor lccardo answering about that questi and for california and not what's best fopg&e. >> all right, political mind fields. >> yes, think governor newsom says there is no secret that they would have broader ambitions for northern california and this really is an issue, obviously attracting national attention. if they could fix it, it a is huge win. if they can't, it could be the end of the political career. >> and that is who you would work for. now tell them a little bit about that. i'm sorry to bring thatup in the end. >> a cautionary tale. >> exactly. >> all right, thank you both >> thank you. >>> who owns silicon valley? that's the question asked by a team of reporters om kqed, the mercury news, and several other bay area ws outlets. the year-long collaboration investigated top la. owners of the r

pg&e says it's working to restore power to about 6700 customers who are part of the last two pg&e blackouts. that includes customers in marin, napa, and sonoma counties. >> pg&e expects power to be flly restored by the end of the day. now the i-team's dan noyes was at the news conference pg&e held just about an hour ago. he asked ceo bill johnson to address families who have had to throw out food because of the flouts. >> johnson says at least pg&e has given them a chance to have a home instead of it burning down was his response. >> wildfires and power outages are threatening southern flames there. two new fires ignited overnight following days of destructive fires fueled by historically strong reporter marci gonzalez is in one of the impacted communities in san bernardino. >> a terrifying wake-up call for hundreds of people in wildfire weary southern california. new infernos erupting early this morning. there was flames tearing towards homes. >> he was beaten on our walls, you know. i mean, on our door, get out, get out, there is a fire. there is a fire. >> when i came into the family roo

third strike for pg&e. strike one was the san bernardino gas explosion they tried to cover up and they lied about it. strike to where the 2017 and 2018 wildfires. strike three is the inadequate response to these power shutoffs. >> why the increase in psp events? because the increase of fire has increased dramatically. >> reporter: bill johnson dependent the decision to shut power off multiple times to millions of people, saying it mitigated fire risk viewed by climate change. he said the company is now spending billions to improve infrastructure to limit the use of ps ps. >> i want to assure you of this, we do not expect an annual repeat of what we went through this october and what we put our customers and others through, that cannot happen again. >> reporter: senators on the committee were critical of pg&e's communication, their resource centers and help for the most vulnerable people. lawmakers want to see clearer steps toward improving what they call a decrepit system and soon. >> you say is going to ta

pg&e's potential power shutoff just got a lot bigger. the utility now says 300,000 customers could be cut off when the winds pick up wednesday. two more bay area counties were just added to that list, san mateo and santa clarita, but the biggest bay area impact will likely be in sonoma where kpix5's joe vazquez is tonight. >> reporter: not tonight, not tomorrow, but wednesday, that's when pg&e is saying they may cut out the lights again. that would make it the fourth power shutoff in two months. fire conditions are on the way. on wednesday offshore winds will be gusty, low humidity, dry vegetation. that's why pg&e says they may shut off power again, an expensive inconvenience. >> i threw probably like 3, $400 worth of food away. i'm afraid to buy food anymore. >> reporter: here we go again. >> yup. when will it stop? >> no one wants to go through another fire, but we're tired. we're just exhausted. >> reporter: when we talked to sonoma county supervisor susie gorin two months ago during the first power shutoff, she was frustrated because

pg&e has been blasted gavin newsom. for not stopping the wildfires, that are triggered by the power lines, your take? >> i think 30 years, california was the envy of the nation, it now a ticking time bomb under governor gavin newsom. he has gone from blaming climate change to blaming capitalism, and he takes 700,000 dollars over two decade political career from pg&e. and therefore claiming now they are to blame, but every time he holds them up in court, and regulates them, they cannot update their electric infrastructure, the simple way to fix or mitigate california wildfires would have to more pragmatic forest management and put power lines under ground, very above ground. louground. elizabeth: why didn't pg&e spend i think 50 billion do bury the power lines, how come everyone in california is not onboard with this? where is hollywood, where are democrats, and gavin newsom, get the power lines buried and stop with the green revelation and letting forest half of the forest there is a federal government, i am darn sure t

or even on different distribution circuits within pg&e's territory. >> now pg&e plans to take their testing from that lab in san ramon out to the field some time next year. installing some of this technology at their substation in calistoga. if that is successful, they hope to expand its use to their distribution lines throughout their system in the coming years. in lafayette, laura anthony, abc7 news. >> thank you. for the latest information on the planned power shutoffs, download the abc7 news app. download push alerts so you know if the lights are going to go out where you live. >>> let's move to fresno and the manhunt under way for at least two gunmen accused of opening fire at party filled with more than two dozen family members watching football. four people were killed and at least half a dozen injured. abc7 news reporter ramina puga has the latest. >> it was supposed to be a peaceful sunday family gathering to enjoy a football game. instead, it turned to chaos. >> all units responding. >> units advised, they may be having multiple victims. >> we need ems out to the back. >> police s

>>investigate pg e's power shut off state senator scott wiener of san francisco. he wants to make p g a publicly owned utility. so winters proposal comes as several local governments across northern california to purchase and take control of pg e's equipment wynter says that he's still working out the details of the bill. but he also says said pg e's assets could stay together or be broken up into several different small public utilities across the state. when there is a member of a committee calling regulators and pg leaders to the capitol next week for an investigative hearing. news you may have to take it slow on some streets in san francisco. why the city is looking to reduce the speed limits. before we go hopefully you're doing the speed limit out there right now we're checking in on the embarcadero right here in san francisco, this is one of my favorite shots, it's pretty the bay bridge. we have the lights on there the back and it's always just a nice of you especially when you're driving and so if you're about to head out right now you're waking up to tempe

third strike for pg&e. strike one was in san bruno gas explosion that they try to cover up and they lied about strike two for the 2017 and 2018 wildfires. strike three is the inadequate response to these power shutoffs. >> by the increase in psp events? because the risk of fire has increased dramatically. >> reporter: ceo bill johnson defended the decision to power off multiple times to millions of people saying it mitigated power risk by climate change. he says the company is now spending billions to improve infrastructure to limit the use of ps ps. >> i want to assure you of this, we do not expect an annual repeat of what we went through this october and what we put our customers and others through, that just cannot happen again. >> is on the committee work article of pg&e's communication. their resource centers, and hope for the most horrible people, lawmakers want to see clear steps toward improving what they call a decrepit system and some. >> you say it is going to take 10 years, is that satisfactory

. >> and another massive power outage possible with pg&e. frustration is already building. >> be like pioneer ifs s for a few days. >> i'm tired of this crap. >> every victim deserves justice, and in this case it's really rewarding because it's so old. >> how an ice cream spoon cracked the case of decades old sexual assaults in the bay area. >> and a south bay prosecutor in hot water for allegedly using his daughter as bait to catch a suspected sexual predator. >> who does this? the prosecutor in my view crossed line. >>> breaking news right now. on the kpix 5 news at 7:00, we learned the 5 suspects accused in the shooting at the halloween party in orinda have not been charged. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> and i'm veronica de la cruz. it's possible they could be released as early as tonight. they were arrested thursday in a series of raids. they can only be held for 72 hours before they're either charged or released. they are accused of killing 5 people at the party throw an as airbnb rental home. police believe the shooting was gang re

at 7:31 am, let's go back to the desk. >>> pg&e's public safety power shutoff has renewed calls for pg&e to be restructured to be more accountable to ratepayers. they have until the end of june to settle its bankruptcy case and the mayor of more than 20 cities and a certain amount of county supervisors won state regulators to consider making pg&e a customer owned utility company. supporters of publicly owned utilities essay revenue can be used to reinvest in the electric grid. >> it comes down to the local decision-making providing the services that are of utmost importance to the community rather than having the need to provide resources such as money to stockholders. >> pg&e says it is open to considering breaking up its assets and the ceo pg&e says he believes keeping the company together as an integrated company is the best way to go. >>> communications companies are being accused of putting lives in danger by not following their own preparedness plans during last months pg&e power safety shut off. the commission says wireless equipment sites do not have backup power and customers

throughout pg&e's territory. almost 18,000 customers lost power in napa, sonoma and solano counties. and there were more outages in the sierra foothills. almost 4-dozen helicopters and 5500 employees are checking the power lines to make sure it's safe to turn the power back on time. >>> another impeachment hearing is under way. right now these are live pictures. two more witnesses are testifying this morning. fiona hill is a top national security. >> u.s. embassy official in ukraine. yesterday, eu embassador gordon sondland testified that the white house meeting ukraine's president asked for depended on announcing investigations into former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. embassador sondland said he believed the orders came from president trump through his lawyer rudy giuliani. >> was there a quid pro quo? >> as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. yes. >> gordon sondland now also testified that everyone was in the loop a

>>and i'm vicki liviakis governor gavin newsome today hosted a meeting with pg e executives and attorneys all in an attempt to get the company out of bankruptcy sooner that meeting comes as some state and local officials want a government takeover of the company's equipment that we have team coverage tonight kron four's rob fladeboe has. >>more on all those mayors who are trying to restructure pgad but first kron four's capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala joins us live from sacramento and ashley today you spoke with pg e seo. >>yeah the king grand i did pg e seo bill johnson along with other company executives and attorneys representing several wildfire victims all came together this morning at the state capitol inside the governor's office, the leader of the embattled utility responding to a government takeover. pg e executives tuesday walked into governor gavin newsom's office just days after the governor urged all parties in the company's bankruptcy to speed up the process. >>governor hoping to broker a deal between the groups major changes can't happen for fiji any until it's out of

pg&e is saying they think we are probably through with asthe . there is potential for high wind monday. even so, it don't look likea fire danger. >> there is rain forecast as well. >> it hasn't rained in most of the bay area or northern california in many months. neos week is supped to break the dry spell. we could get an inch or two of rain and a lot snow inthe sierra nevada. maybe we will be done with this crazy period of losing power. >> pg&e has been under pressure to do a better b of communicating when and where the safety shutoffs will occur. how did they do this time around. you are in one of these areas that is being shut off. the communication is a t more direct if you are in tho areas. the only way to really know for sure if you will be turned off or not, is if you actually went online and looked up your address. as we were saying, this is a it was hard to tell from the outside looking in, where they would turn off power and when. that said, the website stayed up which it dn't do inearly october. i think people would age that they didn'

hundreds of thousands of customers tonight pg e says it has restored power to most customers, fewer than 3,000 now i still don't have power. but half of them are within the footprint of the can kade fire as they put it. first however, second was at the news conference earlier, we're p g and he defended the shut offs and she joins us live in san francisco. so taylor, we know they talked about thing. shut offs are they saying anything about the fires. >>they're saying very little now of course they filed incident reports for all 5 of those fires this past week and we now know at least 5 or at least 2 of them are caused by pg after the contra costa fire officials released information yesterday. >>to preemptive power shut-offs by pg need this past week and one point affecting nearly 1 million customers over the weekend despite the shut offs. >>the california public utilities commission is now investigating. as a cause of at least 5 bay area fires over a one-week period. we asked to and president bill johnson about those incidents. >>how would you respond to these customers frustrated that we

pg&e is on our radar. they lost more than $1 billion in the last quarter because of liabilities from the wired fires the cost for inspecting the lines and now dealing with the aftermath of the power outages. that's another ipo ringing the bell. we'll talk about that in today's dollars and cents. >>> good morning and thank you for joining us on mornings on 2. friday, november 8. i'm dave clark. >> i'm pam cook. thank you for joining us. >> my hands are cold. i went outside. it's cold. but steve told me it would be. it's foggy. >> ipos are good, right? sign of a healthy market. >> absolutely. >> we all have foggy conditions for most. maybe out where you are if you're in the back 40 but for many there's a lot of low clouds. little change for the weeken no rain for the next 7-10 days. probably even longer than that but it will get here as i sent out on twitter. the first rain last november arrived on the too much negativity. 55 was the high-end half moon bay yesterday. san francisco was only 60. second day in

between the governor and pg&e. >> years of wild fire. and then this years blackouts led to this meeting at 10:00 a.m. this morning. in the capitol. top executve ts walked into the governors office to sit down with the attorneys representing both the utility. and wild fire victims along with the governor himself. >> 45 minutes later a contingent of 30 people walked across the street to continue meeting in the basement conference room. at the state department of finance. according to the governor office, governor newsom reiterated his frustration with pg&e. and pushed for a resolution that results in a transformed utility. pg&e ceo defended last months black out as preventing more catastrophic fire. >> ten years we'll be done. it will be fewer every year. we'll get out of it. we'll do things to sectionalize the system and build micro grids. >> the governor spokesperson said the governor spelled out in vivid detail what the blackouts and pg&e long term neglect of safety investments cost the people of the state. stake holders work as swiftly

a fresh look at the future of pg&e. in the next half hour the proposed take over of pg&e and possible break up options. >> and up next the wide range of topics covered in last night's debate. >>> welcome back to mornings on 2. six major democratic candidates are set to appear on stage next month in los angeles. 10 candidates shared the stage in last night's debate in atlanta and as ktvu political reporter greg lee explains impeachment dominated the conversation. >> we have a criminal living in the white house. l. >> we are absolutely going to confront this president for his wrong doing. >> right out of the gate the democratic debate putting the impeachment inquiry and president trump at center stage. every one of the 10 candidates invoking the president's name on multiple topics including form subsidies. >> i don't think this president cares one bit about farmers. he keeps asking them to take one for the team. >> foreign affairs. >> donald trump got punk 'ed. since day 1 born out of a commander in chief when he stands e

i appreciate there are folks within pg and he -- pg&e that would like things to stay the way they are but frankly, the stus quo iot acceptable and the cost of doing nothing is far greater than the cost of taking a hard look at how we can transform this company into one that would be both responsive and responsible. william: mayor from san jose, california, thank you very much. ♪ judy: one of the biggest issues in the 2020 presidential campaign is about expanding health coverage or not. aliens of americans are at that time of yearhen they have to decide whether to get their coverage through the marketplace is created during the obama years. looks at this more closely.waz amna: the increases backed up by census bureau data. ex numbers are rising.the we will look at that question ysd this enrollment season. president trump e remains committed to killing the affordable care act and has backed a state lawsuit to do so but at the same time, it is the law of the land. the president wants er people with an alternative. ewhe has not offered anylan yet. for more on this,go moins us now. she r

pg&e could cut the power in just days. >>> dear fremont, we're living. amanda del castillo, city leaders talk building a better bay area in fremont. >>> no, i'm not ready for another round. i'd like to take a vacation. >> just in tonight, pg&e has added three more counties, santa clara, santa cruz and san mateo that could be affected by power outages. >> nine counties could lose electricity. only san francisco is not expected to lose power. >> more than 303,000 customers could be affected. we have team coverage tonight. >> cornell barnard. >> but first sandhya patel. >> critical fire weather conditions. we have a very dry bay area, drought monitor here. combined with area of low pressure dropping into california, be winds behind the low out of the north-northeast and dry out the air mass even more. red flag warning wednesday to thursday morning. north bay mountains, east bay hills and diablo range. over possibility of overhere. ury hour. 5:00 a.m., 26. notice it's over 30-mile-an-hour winds in of what's to come. back with a complete look at forecast comi

and see if we can get the latest. >> the ceo and president of pg&e. he's going to describe the current scope of the event and what we've been doing in regards to improving our processes. the senior director of emergency preparedness and response is going to provide operational updates. i'd like to invite up >> thanks. so pg&e meteorologist as well as other forecast agencies do continue to monitor a very dynamic weather pattern that is now transpiring over california and will continue to transpire through thursday. the weather system we're tracking is now dropping south through california and is producing a variety of weather, which does include some hit or miss cloud cover and hit or miss showers in the higher elevations of the sierra, primarily south of tahoe. right behind this system we will have high pressure building in north of california and this will produce a period of strong north to northeast winds. they'll start to develop tonight, but really get going tomorrow morning and they'll last through the evening wednesday night and we expect if we

&e takeover. >> reporter: taking pg&e out of the hands of investors, and putting it in public control, one of the ideas batted around here at the cinema valley veterans hall, which just a few days ago was listed as an emergency center. >> we are all here because pg&e has stolen our peace of mind. >> reporter: people had a lot to vent with the latest pg&e shut off still fresh. >> the status quo, and pg&e, is unacceptable. >> reporter: senator bill dodd told this audience the company must change, for oversight and climate change, the crowd had  questions. >> what the plans are, to actually fix the problem. a lot of blame going around. >> reporter: and worry. >> concerned about what goes on as far as wildfires in our community. >> reporter: in october, a fire burn in sonoma, casting smoke and fear into the cities plaza, this year, a different disaster, the unitization. >> retreat power shutoffs as a safety hazard. we see it as a continuum, flood, fire, earthquake. >> reporter: impacts go well beyond traffic lights, and with fixed events this season, sonoma county now acts fast. >> as s

. >> just people in the bay area were settling back into their routines and pg&e say another shut off could happen soon. jackie ward is live in san francisco with more on that. jackie. >> reporter: good morning michelle. no one wants to hear this news this monday morning. it is the latest announcement pg&e said nearly a quarter million customers might be affected bay this potential public safety power shut off. customers if they are going to be a fected will start finding out today if they will be getting their power turned off later this weak. pg&e said they can off the power possibly early wednesday morning and it would last into thursday morning. 19 northern counties maybe impacted this time around including morin but for now they dough not expect counties in the south and east bays to lose their power like last time. she says power shutoffs are becoming painfully routine. >> probably $150 lost and then having to buy everything battery-operated was lik50sos ucks bause a single mom. >>> pg&e says these public safety shut offs are, because of gusty winds, dry conditions and warmer te

. >>> pg&e ceo, executives in bankruptcy attorney who met with governor gavin newsom this morning at the state capital. the gathering came in response to the governor's call for all parties to get together to try to speed up pg&e's bankruptcy process. the governor spelled out in vivid detail the blackouts represented people prevented people from refilling lifesaving prescriptions and power breathing machines. afterwards pg&e new ceo said i came to california with one basic purpose, let's make sure we don't kill anybody at our operation. i think we achieved that this year. i understand the hardship and i apologize for it, but for me safety has to come first. sam accardo is leading the charge to have pg&e structured into a customer owned utility. >> we will first be able to align the financial interest of the company with the public interest. and second we will be able to create the company that has access to capital markets that will be critically needed for this utility to get back on its feet. >> a letter was sent out today for leaders representing 5 million californians calling on

we don't want to take over pg&e won't take it over and pg&e will be able to perpetuate itself and we must stop it to stop it from happening because the last thing that we need is pg&e for another hundred years. and the threat is either of berkshire hathway or paul singer and his vulture hedge funds taking over the pg&e system instead of us taking over. and it's an immediate threat and it might even happen before -- might start rolling before your next lafco meeting, but hopefully not. so even the governor came out and said, hey, berkshire hathway and warren buffet, why don't you buy p and e and that's frightening. and they have made maneuvers and supported the ability to take over california's electricity grid. berkshire hathway, if it did that, it would become the largest monopoly electricity utility in the country. and so they'd be like pg&e on steroids. we can't allow pert allow berksy to take over. and they are only interested in making money and they'll probably gut the company or throw it out. so that stuff needs to be on your radar for your next meeting. >> chairperson fewer:

to preemptive power shut-offs by pg need this past week. >>and one point affecting nearly 1 million customers over the weekend despite the shut offs the california public utilities commission is now investigating. as a cause of at least 5 bay area fires over a one-week period. we asked to and president bill johnson about those incidents. >>how would you respond to these customers frustrated that we're still seeing these fires despite shut offs. >>we've shown here damage of over 300 instances of things that could have caused fires and major fires and you saw the pictures behind marcus he was talking. so in a wind event like we had that may have caused some of those fires you referenced i haven't seen the report said. really allocated that you could have a fire in any instance. so i think what we've done is we have mitigated and avoided. numerous the things that could have been catastrophic fire. >>on wednesday. contra costa fire officials said pg e power lines started the bethel island fire on sunday, here you see surveillance video of spark

pg&e says the rest of the area will not be affected because the forecast has improved. most of the bay area outages will occur in sonoma county. we have more now from santa rosa on the operations and some promises from pg&e. >> please, please, please be alert and have a plan. >> reporter: pg&e as president noting blackouts are shrinking, but the danger is not. extra fire crews are coming on duty overnight in the north bay. adding 19 additional engines, a strike team and two task forces for wednesday and thursday. >> didn't think that you're dealing with this in the middle of november. >> andy: emergency operations are activated at a time were the early shift in winter mode, storms and flooding. but it is still fire and outages. >> the first event to take place here caused dozens of traffic accidents. >> reporter: going into a six ps ps much has been learned and preparations have become easier. >> it is becoming a machine we are able to click and efficiently put into motion. >> reporter: are you ready for the outage? >> hopefully once i get a little bit of ice. >> report

&e blackouts and another massive fire prompted by pg&e equipment. so join us for "fire, power, wind, what now," that's tonight on abc7 news at 6:00. >>> google is buying fitbit. we have all the details of the deal at the live desk. >>> and you're taking a live look at the big board at the new york stock exchange. starting up a little bit this morning. we'll have another update on the markets next. >>> it's time -- >> the numbfunniest thing of th morning. mariah is ready, but are you? apparently the christmas sale season starts right now. >> ready for mariah. >> i'm calling today merry mariah day. because, mike, that time, you know, the video she posted, she goes to bake in her halloween costume and wakes up in her christmas pajamas, playing her own song, of course. >> of course. i thought that would be us sunday morning when we get that extra hour of sleep. >> that will be us. >> i can't sing like that, though. the cool spot in san francisco, 55 in lake merced, those are the milder spots. freezing cold temperatures in petaluma, healdsburg and americ

a shame pg knee in 2. >>and are shutting down if the equipment can't work safely then you don't want it operating license as customers need to adjust their behavior and expectations accordingly. >>when it comes to fire season and know that at this point there's simply no quick fix for what we're facing. m not suggesting that we should b happy enough to settle. but what i am saying is. >>this is a this is the hand we've been dealt right now question is how do we want to accommodate our comfort in our safety in the meantime the utility reform network is urging pg e customers t file >>for their losses with the company. however, weissman doesn't feel that a large number of these claims is going to push pga need to work any faster to make those improvements to avoid these types of shut-offs in san francisco, no al bello kron 4 news. we have continuing coverage on the latest round of possible power shut-offs coming up tonight at 1030 how. >>some ppg customers scrambled ths morning to prepare for the outage only

por el apagÓn preventivo de pg&e. es como se sienten algunos ta la limpieza de un campamento de desamparados. ♪ locutor: y ahora, noticias univisiÓn 14 solo a las 11:00 p.m.. tu gente, tu voz. paola: buenas noches, soy paola virrueta. ramÓn: y ramón adame, gracias por la fineza su compaÑÍa. paola: comenzamos con la informaciÓn. iniciamos hablando sobre el apagÓn preventivo de pg&e. casi 50,000 clientes se quedaron sin luz durante la primera fase del corte de energÍa elÉctrica. ramÓn: los residentes estÁn en 10 condados, incluyendo sonoma, solano y napa. la compaÑÍa de gas y electricidad dijo que gracias a la mejora de las condiciones climÁticas en gran parte de la regiÓn, menos clientes resultaron afectados. paola: pasamos con carla farÍas, quien estÁ en una de las zonas afectadas. carla: ramÓn y paola, continuamos desde santa rosa, una de las zonas afectadas por los cortes preventivos de pg&e que se realizarÍa en dos fases. la primera a las 6:00 a.m., la segunda a las 4:00 p.m. mÁs temprano conv

it's not the only fire that may have been started by pg&e equipment. take a look at this map showing fires where pg&e said its equipment may have had a role in starting. it includes five others that broke out on sunday, that gusty day, including two in lafayette, one on bethel island and another in oakley, and a fire in milpitas that burned one home and damaged three others. >>> the lights are back on for most pg&e customers who lost power. utility proactively cutting fire as janelle mentioned. right now, 98% of customers have their power back on. parts of napa and sonoma county are still in the dark. small percentage. when are the lights finally going to go back on? pg&e hopes to restore power for customers by 4:00, originally, now they're saying it pea may b closer to 9:00 p.m. this evening. power should be restored hopefully by 10:00 tonight. >>> okay. it's time to trick-or-treat. many kids already heading out. this is the cambrian neighborhood in san jose right near 85 and 17, one of the most popular places to trick-or-treat. one of the main reinas

this afternoon pg e said more than 36,000 customers don't have power. those customers are mostly in moran napa and sonoma counties says you can tell by this map all the purple mean though those locations still don't have power and we have just learned that power will be fully restored in marin county between 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock tonight pg e says it's holding a news conference at 5.30 coming up in about 15 minutes with an update will carry that live as soon as it gets under way say leaders are taking a look at the effect the power shut off so had on schools. they're also trying to figure out how some of those schools managed to stay open. our capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala explains. >>the lights are back on a blue oak elementary school in the sierra foothills governor gavin newsome visiting one of many schools trying to make the most of it situation after multiple power shut off this month without power, we would not have fire alarms. so we plan to bring in. >>individuals who would a service a fire watch. >>despite the blackout the school stay

this community went off with two pg&e shut offs. it's working with police to better prepare. >> i'm cornell barnard in the east bay. there are no restrictions on airbnb rentals and everybody wants to know why. >> a bay area father loses his third son to gun violence and he's angry at police. i'm in orinda where the airbnb halloween shooting party continues. abc7 news starts right now. >> announcer: now news to build a better bay area from abc7. >> new developments tonight. the chronicle reports police are looking into whether the orinda shooting was in retaliation for a quadruple killing in san francisco's hayes valley in 2015. >> abc7 news has learned investigators are checking the backgrounds of the orinda victims to see if they can help pinpoint a suspect. some of the victims had ties to francisco as residents. >> a source tells abc7 news no arrests have been made and no suspects have been identified. abc7 news reporter kate larson is live from orinda where, kate, police are being criticized for their response time. >> reporter:

pg&e says it could happen this wednesday. officials say that they would do it to reduce the risk of wildfires. one napa resident told us this morning he is ready to roll with it. >> i have no problems with it. i would rather lose some milk than my house, but i think pg&e needs to be more transparent and open on what they're doing. >> reporter: this possible outage could impact 250,000 customers in the sierra foothills, in the north valley and in the north bay. that would include sonoma, napa and solano counties in the bay area. pg&e hopes to let people know this morning if their power will be going out on wednesday so they have time to prepare. reporting live from napa, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> abc7 news is tracking all of the new developments on the pg&e power shutoffs. you can get the latest right to your phone.stownld our abc7 new. >>> in san francisco, a park ranger is expected to be okay if he was stabbed while drying in help an angry driver. police say the ranger followed a man's car on interstate 80 after seeing

. >>> one year later we investigate pg&e's role as the cause of the devastating fire in boout county. my parents never taught me anything about managing money. the amount of student loan debt i have, i'm embarrassed to even say. we just decided we didn't want debt any longer. ♪ i didn't realize how easy investing could be. i'm picking companies that i believe in. ♪ i think sofi money is amazing. ♪ thank you sofi. sofi thank you, we love you. ♪ >>> right now at 6:30, new testimony and a no-show. the impeachment investigation ramps up on capitol hill a week before the showdown goes public. the first televised hearing starts next wednesday, but today house democrats released new transcripts of what they've heard behind closed doors. >> also behind closed doors testimony from a new witness, that witness not on president trump's team, but the vice president's team. janelle wang joins us with the latest. >> the public hearings don't start until next week but house democrats continue to call witnesses now to build their case for impeachment. one of the vice president's top advisers t

blackouts that pg&e insists were necessary to prevent its lines from sparking wildfires. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >>> i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. more than a million customers were impacted. we went through four rounds last month adding up to ten days total. that's about a third of october. >> abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow was at the cpcu meeting. she's in the newsroom with the latest. >> dan and kristen, the vote followed a series of public comments in which residents and local leaders conveyed the challenges they're facing in the wake of the shutoffs. they may consider taking action if they find pg&e committed violations. >> commissioner cher ohm a -- >> the california public utilities commission voting to formally investigating the pg&e power shutoffs. the the investigation will assess whether pg&e properly balanced the need to provide safe and reliable services when planning and executig the shutoffs. something residents impacted want to know as well. >> many californians are debating whether california is still safe. >> the first phase of the i

pg&e power shutoffs and another massive fire possibly connected to pg&e equipment. >> we talked to a "new york times" opinion columnist and mountain view resident who wrote a piece saying it's the end of california as we know it. >> you say i'm starting to feel, suspect we are over. why do you say that? >> i mean, just look around us? it's the fires, it's the fact to put the fires out, we have to put the power out. the housing affordability, homelessness, traffic, all connected to this larger problem which is we have a lot of people here and we're not very sustainable in how we arrange those people. >> you can watch our bay area coverage, fire, power, wind, what now in its entirety on abc7news.com and the abc 7 news app. >>> we have a sad update to report. we've just learned a fifth victim has died in that shooting. >> officials identified her as 19-year-old. >> we continue to keep on top of that situation but we do want to get to our weather. >> it is going to be quiet weather for the upcoming weekend. i want to show you sunset from our emeriville camera. sun going down alt 6:11 ton

>>> they warned 300,000 customers about power shutoffs, now, pg&e says lights will likef baarea. so what has changed? >> i don't believe them but that would be nice. >>> can a vaccine prevent the most common cause of death in dogs? a local vet hospital in her own backyard hopes to find out. >> for us, it was just in the name of science. >>> we have some breaking news right now on the the kpix5 news at 7 and streaming on cbsn bay area. bart's general manager making some big changes just hours after a deadly train stabbing. good evening i am ken bastida. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. to lessen an argot. he says effectively medially bart is increasing police officers throughout the system and there will be extra community service officers and fare inspectors on patrol to keep riders safe. it started on a warm springs train about 1:30 the victim was found dead at the south tabor station. the suspect was caught after causing chaos nearby. devon feely breaks it all down. >> reporter: just a short time ago park police moved to the victim's body and bags of evidence from the south hayward

pg&e announced that this time marin county would not lose power. scotty's market is relieved, but the senior meat department manager is still getting ready. we just lea few moments ago that marin would be spared. >> i was standing next to you and you said we're safe, and i just looked at you. >> reporter: you're not convinced? >> no, not my any means. >> reporter: he says it's too late to cancel the order for the large generators. last time the store last tens of thousands of dollars of inventory. he said not this time. >> i'm not canceling the order. we need the insurance. we need to have something on hand. we're not able to take a chance. >> reporter: even when it's good news, folks are still skeptical of pg&e. pg&e says they're not going to turn the power off in marin now. >> i don't believe them, but that would be nice if they don't. >> reporter: how come you don't believe them? >> they're not very organized i guess. >> reporter: this wholesale produce salesman came by scotty's, and he says storms all across marin and sonoma were hit hard last

>>in implementing these planned blackouts and instead pg e has chosen. >>to use a sledgehammer pg any ceo facing frustrated lawmakers and monday sete october'power shut-offs ceo bill johnson maintaining the company's decision o cut down power to millions of people for upo 5 days extreme weather that prpted east to shut off was a one in 30 year events several times throughout the hearing senators reminded utility leaders e power, the government has to take control. >>of and any response that serves the needs best of the table northern california. now i do work for the shareholders at the moment, so let's not t ourselves about that. >>and i actually ink can keeping pg e is an integrated different company. >>ishe best way to serve lawmaks also analyzed how the state's other investor owned utilities more suessfully handled smaller scale shut off by using section allies systems or microgrids pg leaders say they are working toward sexualizing part of its grid to limit the size of its shut offs. but still noting it will take time lawmakers are still left with q

last 30 minutes pg&e widen its scope for the upcoming potential power shut off. more than 22 counties may now be affected this time around. it could affect homes and businesses in napa, solano, contra costa, and alameda county. inactive it is that pg&e headquarters where they are keeping an eye on conditions. >> reporter: it is about the windy and dry weather if pg&e decides to shut off power would happen wednesday morning at the people effect would start to getting notices today. >> we know it impacts them greatly when they do not have power and this is something we are considering doing for safety. >> reporter: that is after the pg&e agreement has been blamed for causing several deadly wildfires in california over the past two years. the policy this fire season shut down the lines before they had the chance to start a catastrophe. >> reporter: have a learned anything from the prior power safety shutoffs that may make it easier. >> we added more resources to the call centers. we shored up our website and we also enhanced our notification systems. >> reporter: pg

there's the vehicle and flipped and hit a pg e power our poll ich then sparked the small fire pg any cut the lines before that got any worse put ou the fire. they arrested e vehicle and the driver. >>to san francco now where family and friends held a prayervigil for a man and a woman who went missing 11 days ago, justiwinfrey and kayla rodriguez flew a small plane upo mendocino county on ocber 24th. but they haven't been heard from since. winfrey was the pilot and now friends and family are hoping that they'll be found. >>she's very funnand what i know about her because like to take adventures. she travels a loand wokep with a broken heart like i just he s such a nice guy. very kind considerate of others everybody, i know that landslide withim said he was a tax on pot which was my experience as well. once as far as we're concerned. we just got to get to one. >>winfrey and rodriguez were last seen ound shelter cove and according to the mendocino county sheriff's office radar last detected their plane between rockport and wheeler. >>parents in los anges after what could have been a chi

pg&e, was the target of much of that ire. the company's maintenance of its infrastructure, or often, the lack of it, has contributed to and sparked at least five previous wildfires, with deadly consequences. now, as william brangham tells us, political leaders in northern and ceral california are saying it's time to push pg&e aside for a different lution. >> brangham: that's right judy. pg&e is the lgest investor owned utility in any one state; they serve 15 million customers. last year, pg&e filed for bankruptcy protection because it's $30 billion in debt because of liabilities for last years fires. becasef the company's poor record, mayors of more than a dozen cities and towns in california are calling for a buyout of pg&e. they want to turn it into a customer-owned cooperative instead. this coalition of mayor representing a third of all of state's utility commission to consider their proposal before approving any bankruptcy plan. how this all would work is the subject of many questions. san jose mayor sam liccardo is the m

pg&e power shutoffs. so tomorrow we are excited to take you inside some of the regions world class wineries and restaurants. we'll introduce you as well to some of the brave volunteer firefighters who defended their own communities. >> so this was the first one that raced into town with such we've just got to realize this could happen again and we've got to be prepared. >> this is going to be a great hour and it's meant to remind everyone what sonoma county has to offer. join us tomorrow morning on the 9. you'll see it here on ktvu fox 2. we're also of course streaming it live on ktvu.com. you and i are going to be there in the middle of heelsburg plaza. if you find yourself up in sonoma county stop by and say hello. >>> science fiction now science backed. how scientists have developed a suspended animation to give doctors time to perform life- saving operations. >>> all right. raider fans keeping a close eye on tonight's football game in houston. desean watson and the texans host the indianapolis colts o

pg&e public safety power outages. unanimously approved an ordinance yesterday allowing generator use during blackouts. the new policy allows building permits for build-in generators that would otherwise violate a noise orlando nans. >>> an incident involving a bart passenger who was handcuffed for eating a sandwich on a platform. the incident was reported by the victim's girlfriend. bart has signs posted throughout every station saying that eating and drinking is prohibited beyond the fair gates. bart gm bob powers says he was disappointed. the officer was doing his job but context is key. we have to read each situation and allow people to get to where they're going on time and safely. in a statement the president of the police officer's association says we talk to people 100 times a day about not eating on the platform of the train and the vast majority of the time they're understanding and simply stop what they're doing. this person apparently had an ax to grind with police. >>> happening today the jury in the murde