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amanda decastillo live at san jose where residents are getting prepared tomorrow. >> reporter: residents should wake up with power to prepare for that shutoff by noon. professionally paranoid, one a deringheir aroach to the looming power shutoffs. 38,000 pg&e customers across santa clara county could impacted. >> we should be prepared as soon as midnight tonight for the power shutoffs in the area to take place. >> reporter: but how to prepare is the big question. >> i don't even know what to expect because i've never experienced anything like this before. so we'll see how it goes. >> reporter: residents rushed to an area under the potential zone. at one point much of its water cleared from its shelve, bags of ice and ramen. >> i have no idea whether we have enough or not. >> reporter: on the road the city of transportation estimates there are nearly 100 intersections that could lose signal in the shutoff. san jose sees more than 30,000 vehicles a day, meaning any shutoff could make for dangerous travel. pg&e plans to open a communicate resource centerrrrr >> in some level this is just a

>>> i'm amanda decastillo ipsan jose. pg&e gives its workers the green light to restore power across the south bay. >> power is still out in much of the area. pg&e crews are working to restore it. >> the ceo of pg&e apologized tonight. i'm kate larson in oakland where many businesses are still closed and the lights just starting to come back on. so will the utility's customers forgive them? abc 7 news starts right now. >>> and that breaking news is a wildfire being driven by powerful winds in los angeles. it is burning near homes and evacuations are under way. >> so far flames have charred about 20 acres insomar, at the northern end of l.a.'s san fernando valley and forcing the freeway to be closed in the area. fires broke out just before 10:00 this morning and crews have rushed in from other parts of l.a. in order to fight it. >> we face a choice here between hardship on everyone or safety, and we chose safety. >> tonight governor newsom blasts pg&e saying greed and mismanagement led to the widespread power outages. >> w