when all the mud is moved by caltran, pg&e will replace this. caltran will send someone to check for more cracks on the hillside. if there are cracks they may have to remove the trees at the top to stabilize all of the mud. of course this is taking place in the santa cruz mountains where mudslides are not that uncommon. boulders and debris end up in the car's path with wind and rain. >> there is nothing you can do. now we are saturated. we are getting decent rain this career. it is finally coming back. we might be on a if year. >> mudslide is okay here or there. >> part of living in the mountains. >> the road should be hopefully opened tonight. until that time, use highway 17 as the detour. >>> a neighborhood in vallejo is going on the 14th hour without power after winds brought down the power pole. people living near baxter heard a loud explosion around 9:00 last night and say the noise was splitting a power pole. there was so much wind they feared for their safety. there was wind so intense i thought it was bling in the back door and there was

able to beat that unless they go to a really anticompetitive posture which will be very challenged by pg & e and not be able to get away with it. this idea that we have to wait until pg & e sets it's rate, they are trying to set it up so we wait for them to do that so we don't start our program and we wait until after the election and there is not enough political will to get this off the ground. i have to say this talk to wait until the end of the year to set our basic light green rate which is the rate that will establish the entire program, again the hundred percent green we are going to offer is just a separate and small thing. we can set the rate and start the program now and in nine 9 months we can get this done in september and pass. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, next speaker, please. >> hi san francisco resident and ratepayer. we are waiting for pg & e's rates. i'm not aware this is a general business practice that you wait for a competitor's product to set their prices to make your pricing. the other part of the question because i don't know the details of these proceedi

i also want to echo the concern about having a token project run by pg & e and having dealt with that company and the pollution for so many years. people do want to see clean projects alternative energy, solar, wind, we don't want to give more money to pg & e, we are trying to steer off having them monopolize us. but also we don't want to give them the spotlight of being able to say, yeah, we are agreeing, etc when in fact they are just ripping us off and raising rates. so as a community resident i do support this program, however this could be done right and sometimes things are going too fast and they are not done right. i just want to emphasize that as a community member. thank you. >> public speaker: i have a speaker card here. i'm a conservation manager for the bay chapter of the sierra club. i want to say about lots of folks coming here to speak on -- to oun -- on this very important issue. john anderson, kelly >> i also wanted to speak for the youth. i'm 27 and i'm going to live a long time and climate is going to affect my life. i wanted to read a speech that my 17-year-old in

one thing that i am very fearful of i don't want to see cleanpowersf to be a trojan horse supported by pg & e. that is a very real fear that i have and a very real fear that many of our advocates have. i look forward to working with you and i think it's very exciting and those who are making it a priority and making it very clear. what i said to president breed is we need to make sure to expand the level of engagement throughout all of san francisco when it comes to community choice local aggregation and that includes the diverse community and community of color. that will make this effort work. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you, commissioner campos. commissioner breed? >>supervisor london breed: thank you. i think after more than a decade we have almost won the unwinnable fight in moving cleanpowersf forward in san francisco. this is a huge step and huge accomplishment and as we all know cleanpowersf is one of the things we can do and it has been one of my highest priorities as supervisors. i was told that clean power was dead and we wouldn't be able to get it done. we didn't stop adre

a situation involving pg&e and a vote that comes up before puc is there a conflict so i guess i'm asking a number of questions and i can, you know, probably go through them one by one, but more specifically can you start with the relationship between the academy of sciences and its contributor pg&e. >> uh-huh, yes. >> one of its contributors, pg&e. >> thank you, that's a wonderful question. all right, is there a conflict of interest with pg&e? the answer is no. as you pointed out, we are grateful for the folks that support our work at the academy. pg&e is one of them. specifically about pg&e, they are a charitable contributor to the academy of sciences. the contributions represent less than 1 percent of charitable donations and a mere fraction of a percent of the overall budget. corporate giving for the academy is less than 5 percent of our overall budget. of that, pg&e is approximately.007 percent. furthermore, i am not involved at all in soliciting, receiving, approving or using the moneys donated by pg&e. it does not impact my salary nor does it impact my benefits. with reference to my conversation with the city attorney, there is no conflict of interest. if

there are 430 hops and businesses in the dark on the peninsula and 350 in the south by. pgays almost 157,000 customers have been affected at some points since friday. power has been restored to 98 percent. you can see what is on doppler with the weather app free on apple app and google play. we also have more information at abc7news.com/apps. >> staying with the weather be glad you are not in best. check out the snowy conditions, video if a few hours ago, snowplows out in full force and best's mayor said 600 pieces of snow removal equipment are deployed. the latest storm could bring 2' of new snow if some areas posing a problem for homeowners. all the snow could cause roofs to collapse. >>> an 18-year-old driver will appear in court to answer charges he killed a woman during a street race in san jose. >> the police believe two men were racing on yerba buena island road and they collided on january 26 and a store tore through a guard rail and hit 24-year-old jogger. the arraignment is taking place for one of the suspects, gabriel esparza today. >> suge knight is back if cour

it's a voluntary safety project by pg&e. >>> bart riders won't be allowed to use e-cigarettes. while the ban stars immediately, it won't be enforced until new signs are posted saying no ex-cigarettes allowed. fines will eventually range between $100 and $500. >>> the fight over bicycle access to mt. diablo state park is heating up this morning. in the past three weeks 230 people have signed a petition. that are opposing a plan to restrict cyclists from get into the park by cutting through the diablo community. thousands of cyclists go through that community every year. some people in the community want to put warning signs up. new gates and even speed bumps. they say the cyclists are posing a safety hazard for drivers as well as pedestrians because of blind koshers in the s-shaped turns. >>> 6:26 is the time. it's already made a lot of money. it is set to be a big hit at the box office but not everyone is happy with 50 shades of gray. the reason some are urging movie goers to boycott the film and donate to a cause instead. >> all right it's just day away. the valentines day rus

workers hired by pg&e chopped down three 70 foot monterrey pines that wrapped their branches around distribution lines. more than 200,000 customers were affected by blackouts during last month's storm. >> everybody's getting ready, what do we expect to see tonight? >> spencer christian is live with an accuweather update. >> it's on its way hours away here's live doppler 7 hd. you can see we have lots of clouds increasing in the area. the rain is yet to arrive, it's on its way, and will likely arrive tonight in the north bay and spread to the rest of the bay tomorrow. here's the abrooching storm, a different view bringing with it a high risk of urban flooding, meaning flooding of low lying areas and poor drainage areas. rock slides, wind damage. only a slight risk of river flooding, we expect up to 10 inches of rain from the storm. a flash flood watch is issued for the north bay. 10:00 tonight to 6:00 saturday morning. potential for rock slides, mudslides as i mentioned earlier, a wind advisory is in effect for the entire bay area. from 4:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. saturday. there's the potential for d

most of the outages are expected to be restored by later this morning. pgoregon, washington, and arizona are helping with all of the outages from this storm. as far as this particular incident in vallejo, we understand that this power pole won't be back up and electricity will not be restored until at least 4:00 this evening. live from vallejo, i'm tara moriarty, back to you. >> thank you, care tara. >>> two of the state's largest reservoirs saw a bump over the weekend. shasta lake near redding jumped to 47% capacity. folsom lake inched up from 46 to 47%. here in the bay area, levels at lexington along highway 17 in santa clara county increased from 32% to 39% and those levels will likely rise even more when measurements are taken again today. >> every little bit helps. >> it does. >>> public works crews are also cleaning up a lot of debris left behind after a lot of bay area roads flooded over the weekend. now, cars splashed through these flooded areas, including pacheco boulevard in martinez and highway 1 in sonoma county. at times, drivers were slamming

followed by the peninsula with 300. and pg&e has 2,000 crews working. >> well a section of highway 9 in the sanlt cruise mountains remains closed after a mud slide. >> the mud came down around 3:40 this morning just west of highway 9/highway 35 junction. >> reporter: you can't say you weren't warned. sign ossen 280 and highway 9 tell you this stretched is blocked off at the gap. about 3 meals miles away on the santa cruz side you can see why. the weekend rain wuss too much for this hill size. >> we're not going to make it to big basin this way. got to take a long detour. >> a power poll was swallowed up by the earth. pg&e will residentreplace it whuns the mud is removed. >> reporter: if there are crookacks they may have to remove some trees at the top to stabilize all the mud. >> of course in the mountains mud slides aren't all that common. bolders and debris end up in your path whenever the wind and rain rolls through. and sometimes you have to just find a way around. >> nothing you can do about it that. and we're saturated a

by the storm. we just found out pg&e is making progress getting the lights back on? >> yes. they had actually left for awhile and then they just came back. i don't know if they had to get more supplies. this tree actually fell right on top of the power poles snagging the lines here. nearly 400 homes in this neighborhood are without power. since friday more than 150 people have been impacted by outages. as of 4:00 this morning 2300 without power. >> i was bagging and then the power went out. there was a few people in here. and we pretty much just closed after that. >> reporter: most of the outages are expected to be restored by later this morning. pg&e brought in crews from oregon, washington, and arizona to help assist with all of the outages from this storm. we have been told that it won't be until 4:00 later today that this situation is resolved. you can see that it will take quite some time in order to repair everything that has been damaged. live in vallejo i'm it'll testimony back to you. >> steve paulson will keep watching the wind and rain. you can get updates from th

. >> reporter: by the time this is over it will be more than 24 hours without power. pg&e is saying midnight before they solve this problem. they are making progress. they called in the reinforcements. that is the new pole in place. yet to string the line. but 370 people customers, as they call them in vallejo, remain without power at this hour. >> this is good stuff. >> the good humor lady of vallejo. but not today. as she gave away all the ice cream in her freezer. >> i'm going to eat a lot of ice cream today. that's for sure. >> better than let it go to waste as what would have been 12 hours after high winds trop ald tree brought down three power poles and knocked out electricity to 370 pg&e customers. by time the 12 hours had become 18. >> we don't want to go through another night. >> so said alberto as he checked the status of groceries in his freezer. a few doors away. same from this woman who work t at home are on a computer but not today. >> i can't eat, cook or anything. >> outages last night stretched crews to the limits. still residents lamented how much time

>>darya: recall of pg&e customers still have no power more than zero hundred 20,000 people in the entire bay area were affected by&e said they have restored hours 218,000 thousand customers are affected this morning on the peninsula's six under and an update six london south bank this is a resin is cleaning up from the storm there as well strong wind gusts and heavy rain credits and dams in the area in the oakland hills in the two trees came down. >>mark: the homeowners are were read another streak to be knocked down that publicity would something. >>: they're all the treated these we take about and what it goes has once said all this stuff out and it will go completely across both claims. >>mark: the whole-injured when the tree fell down residence in the area rely on sandbags tried you are or their homes if you will see your pitches from the storms and the timber aquino's at kron 4.com and go to our facebook phase and will be sharing across the morning. >>darya: the man arrested and then released in the investigation into a dismembered body found in a suitcase in san francisco has died that man they brought in f

. >> that hole was made by a rocket propelled grenade orr pg. >> jon: oh. but in 2013 on letterman it became. >> two of our four helicopters were hit. by ground fire including the one i was in. >> no kidding. >> rp g&a k-47s. >> jon: no kidding. so in 2015 as he returned the story to a news format on his show he stuck with the more, we say interesting workshop version. >> the story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an rpg. >> jon: see, i see the problem. you have to infotainment confusion syndrome t occurs when the celebrity quartet get their wires crossed with the medulla anchor dala. you see when it happens. see in 2003 he is looking straight in the camera. the med you willa anchor dalla regulating a news story but in 2013 his head is turned, a 45 degree activating the celeb-- known as the brain's applause center. once that engages, there is no going back. you're in full blown anecdote mode. the truth of what a reporter thing is

pg&e or a contractor it chooses in direct competition with companies like campbell-based chargepoint. that doesn't sit well with its president and ceo pasqual romano. >> if you create too-controlled a program by a regulated monopoly that can't move quickly and adapt to the way that users really want to use this stuff, you will slow it down. you have to let the market evolve. >> reporter: all of pg&e's stations are what's called level 2, providing a car with 20 to 25 miles of range on a one-hour charge. some will be fast chargers similar to tesla's supercharger. auto dealers think

by 2020. that's huge increase and we can be part of the market. >>reporter: pg&e want the rate payers to pay for the project. cost not relessed. the idea of regulated public utility going in to competition went entrepreneur concern executives that that charge point at camp bell. it has anyone,000 charging stations in california. >> why fought let that evolve. why not let california do washington california does best. innovate create new company that go after the great businesses and let that flourish because i think what you will get is you will get the lowest prisons and best. >>reporter: pg&e proposal charging station in many of the same places where charge point and other company already operate. parking garages retail stores and large businesses. the idea competes auto dealers though who think it will remove a hurdle for electric vehicle shoppers. be people were to recharming the car if they don't work where company have them. >> we are glad that company are providing charge to employee. that is great but it's pg&e provide it it's perfect. perfect. >> all of

. >> reporter: most of the outages are expected to be restored by later this morning. pgrought in people from oregon, washington, and arizona to help with all of these outages from the storm. we saw crews bringing in the new poles to replace the broken one but we are told it won't be fixed until 4:00 tonight. we are live in vallejo tara moriarty back to you. >> okay, thank you. >>> time is 6:35. public work crews they are also cleaning up a lot of debris left behind after a lot of bay area roads flooded over the weekend. cars were splashing through flooded areasen drivers were slamming on breaks to avoid crashes but not everyone was lucky. >> i really worry about that. because one time i got home after the raining. my car actually spin. so after that i just carefully drive. >> tow truck driver out there say they saw 2-3 accidents per hour. the chp says the reason so many people were spinning out is because they were going too fast and plus the roads were slick since we haven't had rain in more than a month. >>> the high winds caused many flights to be canceled in and out

by a fallen tree branch. trees have fallen several bay area communities, some have knocked out power. pg says more than 150,000 customers have been affected by outages since friday. >>> our storm is unwinding right now but not before it scatters some more showers with brief moderate-to-heavy rain and some gusty winds for the morning commute. we will talk how much longer this will last and the spring warmth that is coming up in the seven-day forecast. >> three, that is how many bridges are under a wind advisory and from emeryville to the eastern span of the bay bridge it is gusty and bouncy into san francisco. keep both hands on the wheel. we had a major accident in tracy cleared. details are straight ahead. >> four the "person of interest" in the case of a dismembered body found in san francisco has died. mark andrus last san francisco county jail on tuesday after being released for lack of evidence and his death appeared to be from drug-related cause >> in boston, it could be one for the record books. they have received 62" of snow and another 10" could fall today. most nights in and ou

but it was really on another helicopt their was not hit by an r pg.g of his memory really, using the word fog like the fog of war. the fog of his memory. and repeatedly watching video of himself inspecting the damaged aircraft, for the mix-up. really? >> that's something you don't lie about, being in battle. >> yes. >> and i think a lot of people are talking about it, too, because one of the veterans who saved him or he said saved him, people were on there, they went to a game together, did a local story about, on t went to see rangers game. so -- >> it was in 2003. >> yes, the incident happened in 2003, yes. so 12 years aglee doesn't even remember -- wasn't hit by rpg. >> twelve years ago. >> oh, come on, seriously? 8:08. but there are number one in the ratings right? so nothing is going to happen. don't throw those lucky numbers away just yet. you have another chance to win the powerball. no body won it last night. >> so the jackpot stands at estimated $360 million. the next drawing will be on saturday, will it go up again? >> it might. >> might nee

by the end of the year. and also strengthened the pg&e conduits and duct banks and cleared block 5, which is of the gas and primary electrical services. now the workforce itself, 160 construction workers on-site on average every day. that is growing and i will show that in the detail of the p & l quarterly. 375,000 construction relate trade hours, bringing us 1.3 million total and have surpused 8400 jobs in 20 states that have been completed because of this project. this graphic happens to be through the end of november and it shows the various locations throughout the country that we are and will continue to add states as more trade packages come online. and there has -- through the whole year there were no work stoppages or labor shortages at all encountered. the outreach to veterans has been very rememberust and working with web core and we have about 90 veterans that are poised through vary suppliers and vendors for the transit center and anvil builders a dbe company received their second contract with the transit center for $15 million. that was their second one. very much a success story for dbe and our coll

by the rain. this was actually wind driven. we had heavy gusts. >> those gusts caused multiple downed power lines. pg&e is working to restore power to thousands tonight and they are asking people to have an emergency kit with the flashlight ready. >> we will see outages with the storm and we want for our customers to be as prepared as we feel we are. >> at the same time, matt jensen with elite tree service says crews are anticipating work while cleaning up from a storm in december. >> considering we're not expected to see winds that high, i think we could see a lot, but it can happen. >> as the rain rolled in, many were doing last minute preps. >> most of our neighbors getting sandbags to get ready for the storm and, you know, have to be prepared. >> nothing could have prepared william. >> they are pretty, but not the safest. >> for the tree that is now sprawled across his front yard. >> this is just the beginning. that was the first gust that we've had of the incoming storm. i don't know what we can anticipate. >> one thing pg&e says you can anticipate are more downed power lines. if you are around

northern california snapping 43 day dry strichblingt pushed through by wind that reached 70 miles an hour. >> trees fell on roads. cars. pg&e lines knocking out power. 9,000 people are still without electricity tonight. >> and look at this. storm even proud some lightning in the central valley. this video from the affiliate in sacramento this afternoon. >> in the sierra chains a must for drivers heading up to the mountains. good evening. let's start with 7 news meteorologist drew and live doppler 7hd hi drew. >> hi. we are in the end of our first storm right now but still some active weather. about we show you much of the regis dealing with just some light showers at this hour. but one location especially in the inland east bay still has some moderate rain activity right now around vallejo and around fairfield. do notice yell with moderate rainfall at this hour pushing off to the north and east near sacramento push a bit farther to the south san francisco right now just on the edge of some dryer weather san m te'o mountain view and san jose light showers at this hour. wider view put this into motion we show you the back e

but the overwhelm pg majoritying majority is conducted by u.s. air forces. do you think that ratio changes in the the next few months. obviously you don't have a crystal ball. >> i don't. the simple reason is the united states is going to be picking up the bulk of the military operations. the bottom line is no coalition without the united states. that's why the united states needed the coalition to have the, unni arab countries. i don't think -- certainly maybe not publicly. but militarily the numbers speak for themselves ls the lion's share of air strikes and the big part of the operation, it's certainly because of the united states and the technical and military capabilities. so i don't see that changing. we need to ask how long this will continue. if nst not achieving the stated objectives, right. and the pentagon said this is not going to be a military solution alone. how they are going to be implemented on the ground. zblf let me ask you before we go. the president has criticism from folks in the right wing for not denouncing isis as a radical islamic t

. >> solve a crime in hours a new rapid dna test by a bay area co >>> high voltage and high danger in a high stakes mission for pg&e. kpix 5's don ford takes us to the sky for this very unusual project new at 6:00. >> reporter: pg&e is flying low across fields and neighborhoods with a small squadron of helicopters. they are delivering supplies, tools and workers to the tops of a major bay area electrical transmission line. a really old transmission line. >> the stuff has been in the air now has been in the air for 50-plus years. >> wow. >> so obviously, we have outdone its life expectancy. >> reporter: the line is huge 27 miles of cable carrying 230 kill volts of energy from oakley to moraga. there are 126 towers often in remote but crowded locations. >> the advantage of the helicopter for environmental reasons, we can be very much less of an impact to the customers and also the environment. >> reporter: pg&e says without the helicopters, the work would have to be done with a fleet of trucks moving through neighborhoods and across open land. not anymore. >> we can do this job in half of the time in the old days.

p pg&e is saying they'll try to get the power on by 6:00 a.m. you can blame yesterday's wind and rain for the outages here and other outages throughout the bay area. lots of trees came down during the storm, including one in hillsborough, which kept the timberline tree service very busy. they tell us they respond to 22 yesterday alone, dealing with these couldn't hold their own against mother nature. >> there was a lot of saturation in the soil. it probably had a slight lean to it over the driveway. that was enough to have the roots fail and what happened it crashed down on the gates here. it's been a very, very busy day for us. it didn't start until 10:30, 11:00. that's when we saw the front move in and a lot of wind follow. >>> power restore. and in redwood city where we're at now. and hundreds of customers in the bay area. reporting live, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much. >>> slippery roads, ponding water is stranding drivers in the bay area. this is the scene yesterday. just before noon, southbound lanes flooded creatin