hi there. welcome to our daily program called "getting answers" we're getting answers for you in real time. coming up. food safety. thousands of people are without power, so what to do with their food, how to keep it safe. plus, a recent spike in cases here in california. what really caused it. we're working to connect with a spokesperson from pg&e. first let's get an update on the latest conditions.

drew, still windy? >> yeah. breezy out there. the strongest winds have subsided. but man, was it windy last night. look at these peak wind gusts.gt later at night the winds race down our hillsides. oakland airport reported a gust of 58 miles an hour. in the oakland hills, we had winds in excess of 50 miles an hour. very windy in the east conqu conqu conquered. right now, the winds have backed off in a lot of spots. still some isolated that you can see in napa and fairfield. 23 and 30 miles an hour respectively. but much of the area has winds about 10 miles an hour.

we're nomp near where we were this morning. wind gusts in excess of 70 miles miles. it's not only the wind we were concerned about. it's the bone dry air. you hook at the dew points and think what is a dew point. the best way i like to shape it to people. see the numbers on the screen where we have negative seven in santa rosa. zero in napa. what you would do is you would have to cool the air temperature down to minus seven in santa rosa. minus seven for going to form. that is how dry the overhead mass is. the very desert dry area, we have with us. the red flag warning, along the coast and in many of our urban areas, it will expire at 5:00 p.m. today. however, in our traditional areas like the east bay hills,

we'll still have gusty winds lasting till 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. later on today, you notice it turns breezy but not nearly as strong as last night. keep our eye on those winds. but expect them to be about 35 miles an hour in the hills in the next 24 hours. >> i always wondered what dew point means. thank you for that explanation. we have the fast winds the super dry air and also the super dry vegetation, right, as a result of the drought, drew. >> right. lot of people are asking why is this red flag warning continuing for the next 24 hours? well the dry air, that's not going anywhere. that dry air really raced in today. it's hard to get rid of. it's very dense. it's going to take a couple of days before we can get our humidity levels back to a

comfortable zone where our vegetation isn't as dry and the winds may calm down. know we're still watching that dry air in our record dry vegetation for that red flag warning still. >> glad things are calming but but as you said, not out of the woods yet. we're going to talk to a pg&e personal. drew, thank you very much. now, with the latest update joining us is spokesman deanna careras. thank you for calling. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. i want to get the number of outages right now. at last check it was some 300,000 statewide and over a hundred thousand here in the bay area. is that still true? >> we've received the weather all clear in some portions. you should see some numbers

changing. right now is about 92,000 -- in the bay area. we got the green light to get safety inspections, make sure there isn't any other types of damage on the line, in parts of little areas of west knowna county and lake county and a few other areas in the bay area. >> explain the metrics you use to call the all clear. the red flag warning was extended. depending on where you are in the bay area, it could foam to 5:00 p.m. before they're able to. why? >> red flag warnings is just one of the things we look at not only the humidity levels and the dry content. in lots of occasions, wind

speeds 25 miles per hour and wind gusts to 45 miles per hour. the binds just aren't there. last night the weather station and meteorologist recorded up to 89-mile-per-hour wind gulss in sonoma county and 82 in napa coup last night. >> yeah. it was really something. i have to ask you, you got the all clear, you don't expect any new shut awes at this point? >> that's correct. we haven't gotten the all clear for all the areas just yet. just a few areas. we are not anticipating another safety power shutoff for the next seven to 10 days. >> i know it's a process to turn the power back on. there's an inspection component. what would you tell people if they're asking, hey, how long might it take for me? >> well, not everybody is going

to come back on at the same time. you should utilize the address lookup tool that we have where it's specific for your area. if you're not getting any notices, you should be getting notices of an estimated tremendous storiation time. you can look up a friend of loved one's address to get a better idea of when power in your area will be restored because there could be damage further down the line. you have a tree or something that needs to be removed, maybe the neighbor across the street may have power and you may not. depending on how the power grid in your area works. your neighbor on the other end of the street could not have power just because of the way the lines are. >> some people say a communication has gotten better during these multiple power shutoffs. some even this time are saying they didn't get a notice before

their power if you did not get notified and your power went out, please call us right away. you should have got anne 48-hour notice and 24-hour notice by text or by phone calm. so please call us if you do not have one and your power went out. some customers received a cancellation notice. that was up check. they were mistakenly identified that they were not be in scope for the event. we know there's a lot of work that we'll do in regard to these notifications, so the message have been sent in that instance and we apologize for that. we're looking at how to o improve the process for the future. >> some viewers say they didn't get fast ones in their area,

they bond every, well, why did my power go out? >> can you explain that process to people? >> sure. so we were expecting high winds and strong winds in the higher elevations and it kind of just depends on where you are on the pipeli power line. we're doing our belles to make things shorter in terms of breaking the grid down. there's technology on these lines that will help us isolate, ok

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already. and we are back talking with pg&e spokesperson. in some areas they're starting to get the power turned back on. it's a process. but the numbers of people in the dark are lower now than they were just this morning. climate change is contributing to the wildfire risk. you've had decades to fire proof your sbrur, putting utilities underground, if taken would make them shut off less necessary. a lot of people are wondering why pg

>> fires are becoming larger and spreading faster. we all know that. we have upgraded our inspection process when it comes to our equipment and we are implementing as part of our community wildfire safety program targeted undergrounding because of climate change, because we are looking at all this, our inspections and undergrounding, all these things through the lens of the catastrophic wildfires,000 we've seen the last several years. the wildfires are devastating. we want to help our customers rebuild. we're taking a look at all of these things through the wildfire lens and preventing wildfires. that's the sole purpose of a public shut off is to prevent a catastrophic wildfire. >> yes, yes. and thankfully it seems like from this past weekend, we be all right and it did its job. i know you've opened up some 100

community resource centers for people to go to if they lost power in their homes. tell me about those, how are they run and are they being utilized? >> yeah. thanks for asking. we have over a hundred community centers to take advantage of for power needs, charging their phone, medical devices, that sort of thing. they have snacks and water. it's a place to go to if they're being impacted. we have seven in lake county alone. go to the website for the locations. most of them are outdoors due to covid-19 and we want to be sensitive to that. some of them are indoors but some of them are outside. you'll see a at the present time and see signs, but yes, please take advantage. they'll be open until 10:00 tonight and then open again

tomorrow morning. >> real quickly before we go, i want to tell folks that you mentioned it is unlikely there will be additional shutoffs if your power has not been shut off up to this point, you're probably fine. and your meteorologists, what they're saying, when do you think the next time the possible psps off? >> we've got it on our website. right now we do not anticipate a psps for the next seven to ten days. >> one more. is covid affecting how quickly you can get power back on for people? >> no. we're definitely taking the precautions necessary for health, the health and safety of our crews and our community members of course. these crews are in the communities, inspecting the lines, is our top priority. all the crews ready to get the

all clear where we haven't seen the weather all clear so we can restore power. the goal is to restore power within 12 daylight hours. we'll have clomts in the line patrolling the line, boots on the ground, vehicles on the ground to turn the lines back on and energize the line. >> thank you so much for spending the time to tell us the latest about the power situation and more and more are being turned back on. it's going to take some time, though. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> we're going to take a short break on the air. coming

joining me now as we pivot to covid-19, infectious diseasee specialist dr. hong. by the way, a regular viewer put

on facebook, yay, it's dr. hong. people are happy to see you. >> i'm happy to see everyone, too. i love this audience. >> it's a great audience. i thank them every day. this is not such great news. tell us whether we should be fearful or not. we went from 3,000 new day and it drop down but now it's back up. we heard there was a testing backlog. >> the testing backlog, instead of concentrated in the state and in gem, it was concentrated in one main county, l.a. county, to give you some perspective, on one day, on thursday, they reported 3600 cases and of those 3600 new cases, 2,000 were from old case that is they hadn't counted until thursday. so it looks like there were 3600

but actually, when you do the math, it's less than 2,000. nevertheless, l.a. is still in the most restricti chair, which is purple. >> given that, can we talk about whether we have reason to worry, statewide? when you take the l.a. numbers out, california had a 5% increase in the daily new cases. we're seeing an uptick. how would you assess california right now overall. >> the way i think about it is we are walking on egg shells. we're kind of this really precarious stage right now. we can't sit on our laurels. it's like memorial day all of again. we're reopening really slowly, so that's good, but the main thing is we have quarters and the rest of the country is

exploding, the heartland, the northeast is starting to pick up. europe is really going through some tough times right now. so i think what we're seeing happening is again europe, northeast, heartland, california. if we try really hard we can keep that at bay, but i'm worried because i think nevertheless, even if we try hard we're going to see a few cases, the reality of what else is going on in the country, and because we don't have a national strategy. >> right. that leads me to my next question. the president keeps saying we're seeing more cases because of testing. can you clear this up? >> yes. i think there's probably two aspects where i'm worried or concerned about that miss. the first is that the test positivity rate -- we talked about that in the second wave in california, the number you tested was proportionate was

going up. i think it's easy for listeners to realize that doesn't make sense, people who are dying, the hospitals bursting at the scenes in the heartland, is a reality. you can't -- just by testing a rot of people, that doesn't mean they're going to be sick and go to the hospital when you're talking about transferring from one state to the next just because your town or city is up, that's very concerning. >> all right. i'm going to go a little rapid fire with you here. we have so many questions. one is when do you suppose we'll get the vaccine? >> so i know that dr. fauci, last week we had our big infectious disease meeting. in the open session, he was optimistic and -- for a scary reason. optimistic because we're seeing

such an explosion in case. because we're seeing an explosion in cases that means the vaccine will accrue faster. he's thinking data may be available at the end of november, december. that doesn't mean the vaccine itself will be available. i'm still thinking early spring of 2021 for the first roll out and subsequently over the various tiers we'll have them for the rest of the year. >> robert wants to know how can we in san francisco -- we're in yellow -- avoid the mistakes that were made in europe. will people come traveling into our yellow tier area? >> i think, you know, it's just really not -- not assuming that we are in this sort of like paradise of covid. covid is around, it's like lighting a match and all the leaves burst into flames. just because we're not seeing it

means that we're really good in the bay area in particular. i had a friend the other day who was really tempted to go to 50th birthday albert with 12 couples gathering. in morin there's not a lot of cases you be that's the whole point. we can't rest on our laurels. we've seen that before. it's just not trusting that anybody is going to be safe just because they don't have symptoms. >> tree says by the end of the pandemic, do you think everyone will have gotten covid? >> gosh, we hope not? >> hope not. i don't think so, certainly not in bay area. maybe in some areas but i don't city with new york. only about 30% of people, even with a huge surge, it's not everybody will get it.

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and we're back. time now for a doctor's note from dr. patel. he's part of our coronavirus team of experts. today he's talking about the importance of preventing a different virus. >> hey, it's dr. patel. covid hospitalizations are rising in almost 40 states. the flu virus would like nothing more than the team up with coronavirus and ruin our winter. we're not going to let that happen. if you vice president gotten your flu vaccine, this message is for you. pay attention. a quick offender view, think of it like a wanted poster. you get the shot, you build up antibodies and in about two

weeks, you have protection against the flu. the data is crystal clear. the vaccine saves lives. during the 3500 dead. the virus mutates every year. before i get an angry message, with the vaccine, you can still get the flu. but it will prevent you from getting a serious illness, keep you out of the icu or worse. let's debunk some myths. i hear the i'm healthy. i don't need the vaccine. i'm like hold on, tiger. healthy people can be really sick or pass it on to someone who's high risk, like elderly or babies or those with a chronic disease. and then there's the "the flu

shot can cause the flu." the vaccine itself will not give you the disease. oh, then there's "the flu shot has dangerous ingredient." every ingredient has been studied for safety. you have nothing to worry about. but if you do have questions, great. ask your doctor or another reputable source. breaking news: not everything you read online or social is. so get your flu shot. wash your hands, wear a mask. do a little dance. >> i'll see some of you on facebook livesaying you got your flu shots. to good deal. thank you for joining us. we heard from pg & esks. they say power is getting turned

back on but it will take some time. we'll be here every tonight, the race to the finish. president trump and joe biden both in pennsylvania, eight days left. the president tonight again saying we are rounding the corner on the virus, as the nation marks an all-time record for new cases this weekend since this pandemic began. and the new outbreak involving several people close to vice president mike pence, including his bodman and chief of staff. mike pence still out campaigning and not kwaquarantining. the white house saying pence on the campaign trail is an essential worker. joe biden, meanwhile, on the attack tonight, after what the president's chief of staff said about the virus. the record-setting turnout across much of this country. more than 62 million early votes cast so far. people waiting in line for hours, smashing records in battleground states including florida.

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