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treatments. with prolonged storm related power outages throughout the bay area, how can we preserve our food in the fridge and ensure safety? we'll get best practices from an expert and. as power outages remain with more storms in the forecast, just how fragile is our electric grid and are our frequent struggles with keeping the lights on normal? you're watching getting answers. i'm kristen sze thanks for joining us. we start with a look at the battering from our latest round of storms. strong winds brought down a tree on a home in boulder creek, sadly killing a 45 year old man. he was just identified as robert brainard, the third downed trees, flooding and power outages are the major headlines across the bay area right now in the north bay, there's widespread road and vineyard flooding in forestville. work is underway in san mateo to remove a fallen eucalyptus tree outside peninsula temple, bethel and bright horizons preschool daycare. arborists say the tree

crushed a heavy duty front gate and took down other trees, but did not damage any buildings. the damage is causing power outages across the region at this hour. p-g-and-e's reporting more than 162,000 customers are without power and some could remain in the dark for days. we're going to take a deeper dive into the power problems in just a few minutes. but first, let's bring in weather anchor spencer christian with the latest. hey, spencer. >> hey, kristen. let's take a look at live doppler seven right now. but i'm going to switch and go back a little bit and show you some of the peak wind gusts we had from yesterday. store storm, which was, as you know, a very powerful storm. uh palpable point marin county, 102mph. loma prieta, 98 mile per hour winds. now here's what's unusual about the los gatos wind gusts of 87mph. that's down at the surface. you know, we're used to the higher peaks, higher elevations, getting these powerful gusts. but down at the surface, at 87 mile per hour, wind gust is really remarkable. and in the course, 61 to 62mph

in san francisco, half moon bay and oakland hills. now let's move along and take a look at how common it is right now. we have wind speeds under 20mph. what a difference a day makes. and of course you can see the rainfall totals from the last 24 hours exceeding two inches in many locations. now back to live doppler seven. we have some showers still moving through the bay area, especially down in the santa cruz mountains up into the san jose area. so that's been our most active area today with the showers remaining from, well, i shouldn't say remaining still triggered by the same storm system, but we just don't have the widespread showers. we had yesterday. a few little showers moving through san francisco right now through the golden gate over into the hayward san leandro area. and this is the pattern as we pull back, you can see there still a few showers developing offshore that are likely to move onshore in the evening hours. so into this evening we still have a level one storm on the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale with scattered showers still a possibility of some isolated thunderstorms. much lighter winds obviously, and we should watch for debris on the

roadways. here's that forecast animation taking us into the late afternoon and evening hours. notice. the storm is just going to wind down and after about 10:00 tonight, we probably won't see any significant precipitation at all. so it's a level one storm for now. but it won't even get a ranking later in the evening because the storm is winding down. we have no more wind alerts or flood watches, with the exception of a flood warning still in effect for the next hour. up in parts of the north bay and parts of sonoma, napa and marin counties and moving along, you see, we still have a winter storm warning in effect for a large area of the sierra where the snow continues to pile up. and here is our accuweather seven day forecast. we have a dry day coming tomorrow. a couple of periods of lightrillionain on wednesday, and thursday, but then dry and milder through the weekend, which i would think is welcome news to everyone watching. christine. >> oh, we can't wait. spencer. thank you so, so much. all right. so the strong storm knocked power out to hundreds of

thousands of p-g-and-e's customers in the bay area. even now, as we mentioned, about 162,000 are still without with some reporting restoration times of not today, not tomorrow, but get this wednesday. that means for some it will be over three days without electricity. we wanted to explore whether this is normal or if our power grid is especially vulnerable. joining us live now is mark tony , executive director of turn the utility reform network, a consumer advocacy organization based in san francisco. mark, thanks for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> look, so the national weather service says sunday's was the strongest storm here in 14 years. those winds were howling. and p-g-and-e's says 230 poles and over 100 ■transformers were damaged in their service area. can you really hold them responsible for the outages? given that situation? >> i think the 3000 workers hours of p-g-and-e's that have been out in the streets in the

weather, restoring power, really deserve a lot of credit. i will say that we're looking at 1 million, over 1 million households out of 5 million lost power. that's a very large number. and so the question as to whether whether this was justified or not really needs to be decided by the california public utilities commission when they investigate the storm response after the fact. >> all right. that's fair. we want to dive into that. a little bit later as well. in terms of the culpability. but right now, i just want to take a look at the numbers a little bit and the restoration time. right. because one question is how many people lose power? and then the other question is the 3000 workers hard at work trying to get them restored? so we check restoration times. some say today, some say tomorrow. but guess what? montara on the san mateo county coast is looking at wednesday at 6 p.m. so a

coworker who lives there and says power went out yesterday, so it will be more than three days without out power. even worse, we found a town near sacramento where power restoration is expected three days from now. on february eighth. so is this aspect of p-g-and-e's operations. normal? um, you know, compared to other areas run by other utility. it's always hard to tell at the time whether it's reasonable or not. >> what we're looking at is that pg and e did restore half a million uh- at least at uh- of homes already. but the question of how long it's going to take for the different areas, that's why it needs to be investigated by a third party. and they can say, is the 33% increase that pg and e customers had last year is p-g-and-e's putting it to its

best use? that's a question we don't have the answer for right now. and somebody needs to look into it. >> yeah, i mean, while this is happening, right. the more frequent outages and then the longer outages we do have that huge price increase. a friend was just telling me that she paid $800 last, last month. and so a lot of people are wondering, you know, where is their money going? why is this getting more expensive and why are they being hit with presumably a rate hike soon? on to, i guess to underground the lines and make this less likely. but a lot of people are wondering, can they trust pge with that money? what do you think? >> p-g-and-e's what i do know about pg and e is that they have over spent on on fixing the wires on wildfire mitigation, and it's unclear whether the money has been well spent. the california public utilities commission keeps approving rate

increases without looking at the underlying causes, without looking and inspecting the work that pg and e has done. so part of the problem is that there's a lack of accountability right now. so it's hard to tell whether pg and e is doing the right thing with your hard earned money. >> so it doesn't sound like you think they're wholly response. all right. i mean, they're just one they're responsible for. i guess they own the lines. the transmission and distribution lines. but you have the federal regulatory ferc, you have cpuc, the state, and then you know, so you have many layers and some of which pg and e doesn't get to decide on its own, right, what to maintain, own what to do. so how do we begin to unravel that? >> okay. so let's be clear. we cannot blame pg and e for major storms, okay? that is not got to be blamed. what we can hold them accountable to is making sure

that they are are maintaining their equipment properly to make sure that when storms are coming, they pre-position their crews to make sure that they are investing right payer money in a fashion in that makes sense. that's getting the most value. and what i'm saying is that we don't know that because the public utilities commission has not been holding pg and e accountable, and we need more people need to complain to the cpuc, to their elected senators and legislators and say, we're paying too much and getting too little right? >> you're talking about the preparation, right? and the response. but let me just ask you, like a lot of people have pointed to the fact that we are getting more severe storms as a

result of climate change. how much does that play into it? >> we're definitely seeing the impact of climate volatility hotter summers, rainier winters. oh, absolutely. the question is what are we going to do to make sure that the monop poly utility company is prepared for it is doing the right things ahead of time and then when the storm hits that they are responding as effectively as possible. we only know that if there's a third party like the public utilities commission that investigates and issues a report and says, here's where pg and e did really well, here are the shortcomings and this is what needs to be done to prevent next time from being as bad, to prevent people from being out of power for as long as they are. >> yeah, there are real health

and, you know, consequences when that happens. so we'll see. we'll wait for that report card. mark tony with turn. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up, a health drama worsens for the royals. the world learned today that britain's king charles the third has been diagnosed with cancer. ahead, what we know about his di are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor

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chin-hong, thanks for coming on the show today. >> my pleasure, christine, thanks for having me on. well always great to have you on. >> we should mention, though, that you have no insider information. just the same information we have. the statement from buckingham palace, but what kind of cancer could it possibly be if it was discovered? because he went in for the prostate issue a few weeks ago? >> well, i think the most likely diagnosis is probably going to be bladder cancer. of course, this is speculative, but about 80,000 people in the us uh- are diagnosed with bladder cancer every year, and some of the same symptoms you can have with early bladder cancer. you can have with an enlarged prostate. specifically, um, you know, pain when you urinate. uh, a lot of frequent urination often. um, and you know, that feeling of incomplete emptying because the bladder is connected? uh, you know, the prostate can press on the bladder. so those symptoms as if there was a mass or an obstruction of the bladder neck can also cause very similar

symptoms. >> got it. explain what his original issue was that benign prostate enlargement. yeah >> so benign prostatic, uh, high atrophy or bph or enlargement is something that's very common in older men in particular. and what you have is a prostate which sits next to the bladder, uh, can get very big and either press on the bladder or on the urethra, which is a tube that the urine flows through before going outside. and that can make you feel, uh, like you're needing to go to the bathroom all the time or that you're not really completely emptying or hesitation, which is you stand there for a long time before you actually begin the urinary stream. so everybody thought, and of course, probably because the prostate enlarges with age when you do an ultrasound or you feel it, it feels large, but that, um, you know, when they went in, uh, it was not, uh, probably the only reason that was causing these symptoms.

>> i'm just wondering if he got really lucky or, you know, what kinds of screenings are typically done pre any surgery and whether you often do catch other ailments as part of that. >> i think he got very lucky. um, i think most people you know, people can certainly go in with these symptoms. um you know, that i described like incomplete emptying. but most people get, uh, diagnosed with advanced, uh, you know, bladder cancer. if it's bladder cancer. and this is speculation, of course, with blood in the urine and, uh, or, you know, weight loss, uh, other systemic symptoms, which he didn't have, um, described. so, you know, it's not very common to see bladder cancer. of course, it's not one of the big three cancers in the us. the big three being, uh, uh, you know, uh, lung, breast and colon cancer, uh, it's rarer. uh, so it's also rare that you'd find that when you're looking for, uh, another cause of these urinary symptoms.

>> okay. without knowing precisely what kind of cancer or what stage, can you explain what cancer treatment which he has begun, typically looks like? >> so another clue with king charles the third is that he's being treated as an outpatient. most uh, bladder cancer treatment is in the outpatient setting right now. uh, either for the very, uh, you know, by nine cases, meaning not as locally advanced or the most serious cases meaning that there's no other surgical procedure that can help him. my gut feeling is that is, in the more benign setting or less advanced because he doesn't look, uh, clinically that ill to me. he had no symptoms. he was otherwise very healthy. the outpatient regimen typically is a local installation of chemotherapy. so not through the veins like people are used to with other kinds of cancer. but you actually just instill the chemotherapy in the bladder and have it sit for a while and

then, uh, have it flush out the most common, uh, agent is actually an infection. it's, uh, microbe bacterium bovis related to tb. and the reason why that has worked is that, um, it it results in an immune activation. so the immune cells get like super active and also fight the cancer at the same time. uh, and that, of course, is once a week for six weeks. all right. >> so with the treatment, the buckingham palace has said that they're advising him or at least doctors are advising him to take it easy and postpone public facing duties, all part of that. but i want to ask you, given this is, you know, raising awareness to talk about his situation, does this suggest that we all need to be taking certain screenings more seriously? who would you advise? you know, what do they need to do at a certain ages? well the biggest risk factor for cancer right now is age. >> uh, you know, he is, uh, 75 years old, so it's about the time when you would start seeing

cancers arise, even in, uh, regularly healthy, otherwise healthy people. so that's why screening is really important. um, you know, the w.h.o. is estimated that cancer diagnoses around the world are going to go up by 75% by 2050, which is staggering. um, and that's really results in the risk factors for cancer, which we'll get to what we can do. so, um, all order population, uh, more obesity, uh, or overweight individuals, uh, more smoking. uh, although that's been going on in the us, particularly alcohol use. and then pollution, these are all risk factors for cancer. so if you think about how to prevent it, the main thing is age and screening. so when you think about the big three, uh lung breast and colon lung uh there's now low dose radiation ct scans for those over 50. if you have a, uh, you know, a big smoking history for breast, of course. uh, my programs, particularly those who

are older, 50 or older, for those who are younger than 50, uh, talk to your clinician depending on your risk factors. and colon cancer, of course, dropping from age 50 to 45, given that we are seeing, uh, more younger people with cancer. >> all right. thank you, doctor chin-hong. next time, let's talk about cancer vaccines in the making. um, but for now, appreciate it. talk to you soon. >> bye. >> our recent parade of storms has some people thinking about disaster planning. so is food safety part of your preparation plan? we'll get some guidance from a food safety specialist with the

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>> thank you for inviting me. >> is it common for people to get sick from food that goes bad during an outage? >> it is very common. we often get those type of calls in our meat and poultry hotline. people are always wondering, what can i do to keep my food safe when i have a power outage? um, so what we tell people is to always use appliance thermometers to verify and monitor the temperatures of their fridge and their freezer. >> all right, that is certainly a great tip. i want to give folks some other general guideline. how long is refrigerated food generally safe for? >> of course, after a power outage, you have four hours in your refrigerator that will keep the temperature safe for up to four hours. your freezer is a different story. you can actually keep your food in there for up to 48 hours. if it's cool, or if it's only halfway full. you can only keep the food safe for 24 hours. >> i know those are just generally guidelines, but are

stays safe? >> of course, if you have food that you're not going to consume immediately, that's in your refrigerator, you can always place it in the freezer. that will keep that will keep it longer for a longer time, safe better and will keep your safe. your food safe for longer. >> my husband always tells me, don't open the fridge door so much when the power's out. does that make sense? >> of course, that is another one of our recommendations. keep those doors closed at all time, unless it's very necessary for you to go in there. because once you open those doors, you're letting that temperature, um, out. and so that's that can potentially shorten the four hours or the 48 hours. >> you said to have a thermometer in the fridge and freezer. so what are the numbers

that you're looking for? what number would tell me okay, this is good or this is bad. >> of course for perishable foods you never want to go over 40 degrees after two hours of having those foods over 40 degrees. they're no longer safe to consume. >> okay, i want to ask you about frozen foods. right. um ice crystals. if i start to see them, is that still okay? >> yes. >> as long as you still see those ice crystals when they're in your freezer, you know, some of the foods might begin to thaw out. especially if they're like small packages that are in the front of your freezer. um, but as long as they're there, kept in there and they don't go over those 40 degrees, even if it thaws out completely, it still safe to refreeze those items as long as they don't go over those 40°f. >> is there anything really visible once your food has started to go bad and it's still

safe to refreeze those items as long as they don't go over those 40°f. >> is there anything really visible once your food has started to go bad and, bacteria will reproduce to, uh, high levels of numbers that once you consume that product, even if you try it out for a little bit, it's going to make you sick. >> are okay. if you do have spoiled food, um, is there do you have any tips for how to get rid of the odor afterwards? >> of course, if you have spoiled food, you know some of the most telling signs will be that smell. it might be slimy. um, you know, don't consume those type of products. throw them out. you know, after those two hours, if your food was over 40 degrees, we would recommend not to consume the product. if food goes bad in your refrigerator. we recommend that you take out all the food and you wash with soap and water, let it air out for 15 minutes, and also sanitize we have food safety.gov where people can find information in english and spanish. >> and we also have a hotline

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tonight, the breaking news coming in from london at this hour. king charles has cancer. suspending public duties. here in the u.s., the deadly storms slamming the west. mudslides in california. and there is breaking news, reports coming in of an avalanche in nevada. first tonight, just days after king charles was released from the hospital for treatment of an enlarged prostate, the royal family tonight