for i-team, dan noyes, abc7 news. >>> tough night for the oakland a's to be sure. >> certainly was. they lost tonight's american league wild card game against tampa bay in front of a sellout crowd in the coliseum. >> cornell barnard was there. >> let's go oakland! >> reporter: playoff hopes sky high, wild card wednesday, a's versus tampa bay. >> i'm so excited. >> reporter: a virtual sellout, 54,000 fans filling almost every seat. >> first time in long time the upper deck is open. fans are on top of the world. >> i can see everything from here. talk to that umpire, not getting it right. >> reporter: fans went wild when the a's scored in third inning but in the end the team was no match for the rays. not the game the hernandez family from berkeley hoped for. >> we came in having a lot of faith, yeah. it's okay, we know we'll come back twice as stronger next year. >> what happened tonight? >> looks like pitching gave up. hitting wasn't there. >> reporter: tampa bay winning 5-1. >> next year, definitely next year. >> reporter: cornell barnard, abc7 news. >>> i'm amanda del castillo, co

it's probably a bon dan noyes has been looking on the pressure to build a safe power system and what the future looks like. >> reporter: state senator jerry hill sent this letter to the public california utilities commission calling for better oversight of pg&e with these forced blackouts and asking why is pg&e alone in making this desion? >> ty n't have a track record that we can trust. they have a track record that has shown they're a safe utility and they can guarantee what they're doing is the best course of action. >> reporter: hill told me forced power outages are supposed to be a last resort and this week's blackout should not have been so widespread. >> it seems as though this is really a broad blackout covering so many people in so many counties. do you think this should have been targeted more closely to the high-risk areas? >> absolutely. this is supposed to be a surgical approach. it's supposed to be surgically applied to those situations that are warranted. >> reporter: hill called on the puc to perform a root cause analysis of the decisionmaking that went into the black

. >> dan noyes has been on the pg&e beat, and he joins us with the latest developments. dan? >> ama and dion, it took two twt days for pg&e to announce another one is probably on this way this week. the reaction to pg&e's announcement of more blackouts, the second round this month was fast and angry. >> what pg&e is supposed to be doing is taking the billions of dollars we have been giving them and trimming the trees and taking care of their grid so we don't have to have these shutoffs in the first place. >> just this past friday, a parade of pg&e's top executives appeared before the california public utilities commission to defend the blackouts two weeks ago that affected more than 700,000 customers. pg&e president and ceo bill johnson described the long-term outlook for what the company calls public safety power shutoffs, or pspss. >> our goal over the next ten years is to eliminate these kind of psps events. >> ten years of blackouts does not sit well with the governor, some lawmakers and state rate payers. right now pg&e tells me these two men make the decision in collabo

plus the i-team's dan noyes digs plus the i-team's dan noyes digs into the documents where pg&e shouldn't they go to prison for as long as the law allows? chesa boudin said he wouldn't seek maximum sentences as district attorney, even for murder. we are a progressive city, but letting violent criminals off early endangers everyone. ad paid for by san francisco police officers association. not authorized by a candidate or committee controlled by a candidate. disclosures at sfethics.org. sarah's last tuition payment, sent off. feeling good? oh yeah. now i'm ready to focus on my project. ♪ ♪ this is why we plan. ♪ ♪ you never cease to amaze me, maya. see how investing with a j.p. morgan advisor can help you. visit your local chase branch. >>> check this out. there are fewer power outages in the bay area now. this is pg&e's current outage map which shows where people are without power. the purple icons indicate those shutoffs, the public safety power shutoffs. >> pg&e officials just finished updating the public on the latest power shutoff. as of right now 123,000 are still without electricity

you heard dan noyes asking about the fact that pg&e is coming under ne intense criticism for holding a party at a posh sonoma county winery this week while the utility planned those massive blackouts. >> dan wanted to know who paid for that party for some top pg&e executives and some of their top clients. and you heard the ceo bill johnson saying emphatically it did not come from us, the customers, but that it came out of shareholders. so that will still be under a lot of criticism. such an insensitive thing to do when people were getting their power shut off and on the anniversary of the devastating north bay wildfires. >> dan noyes has the complete story on this. >> reporter: pg&e held a wine tasting outside hillsburg on monday and tuesday of this week for the utility's top natural gas customers. 60 people in all. a spokesperson told me the event was funded by shareholders, not with rate payer dollars. jerry hill is not so sure. >> on political events, their shareholders pay. if you are thanking your customers, i'd think the rate payers would pay for that. >> reporter: san bruno, si

but they refused for the i-team, dan noyes, abc 7 news. >>> dan noyes also asked pg&e president and ceo for a response to state senator jerry hill's criticism that the company is too large. >> on the issue of breaking up pg&e, i actually think the scope and scale of the company is a great benefit to our customers. economies of scale, workforce, and i think breaking it up only makes the service worse and prietss higher. >> you can stay up to date on everything related to the outage at abc 7 .com. the website. >>> happening today, fleet week is kicking into high gear into san francisco. so where are the best places to take in all the action? from ship tours to the air show. abc 7 news reporter luz pena reports from the embarcadero. >> reporter: this is the show that attracts thousands to san francisco in weekend. >> just the way they fly out together and come in. >> on one side we have in couple. on the other andrew, they believe they have one of the best views for the air show this weekend. >> you have the best have you. alcatraz, golden gate. >> their spot self in the aacquatic park lot

we are. >> reporter: dan noyes, abc7 news. >>> it is 5:19. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. >> here is mike. >> you can tell it's fall when you look at walnut creek and you will run into more cloudiness up in the north bay along 101 and around san francisco. otherwise it's not nearly as cloudy this morning. it will be definitely more cloudy this afternoon. partly sunny is what i'll call it. a weak cold front brings us a chance of drizzle to rain tonight. cooler tha tnoday 80 rur back to the cast. hyou that in a second. 60 along the coast. 63 in san francisco. 64 to 68 around the bay shoreline. around 70 to 74 inland. now, for tonight, we have 40s up in the north bay. you will clear out first, mid to upper 40s there. the rest of us are milder, low to mid 50s with clouds and drizzle. here we are at 7:00. watch the high clouds just dominate our forecast during the afternoon. here comes the cold front. chance of rain at 7:00, northern sonoma and also lake and mendocino counties. the system just doesn't hav

. >> for the i-team dan noyes. >> dan noyes also asked the pg&e president and ceo for a response to the senator's criticism that the company is too large. >> on the issue of breaking up pg&e, i actually think the scope and scale of the company is a great benefit to our customers. economies of scale, economies of workforce. and i think breaking it up only makes the service worse and prices higher. >> and you can stay up to date on everything related to the outage at abc news.com. we have news stories resources and much more on the website. >>> happening today at fleet week is kicking into high gear in san francisco. so where are the best places to take in all the action? sfr ship tourso the air show. our reporter luz pena reports from the embarcadero. >> reporter: this is the show that attracts thousands to san francisco this weekend. >> just the way they fli out together and come in. >> on one side we have this couple and then this man. they believe they have the best views for the air sh you have the best view. alcatraz, golden gate. >> this is in the aacquatic park lot. >> and the oth

. >> our dan noyes was at today's news conference that wrapped up a few minutes ago and is live now. dan, what's your take on what we heard here tonight? >> reporter: well, dan and ama, there's one huge headline that we are stuck in this weather system. those high winds and dry conditions they're saying now that we have another system this weekend. in fact the highest winds yet of this month. so now we're talking about the third power outage. and that really brings up a real concern that we're going to be stuck in this new norm of power outages again and again and ceo and president of pg&e bill johnson says this is going to be a ten-year process, a ten-year process where he can hopefully limit those number of power outages. but i sasked him here at this news conference just a few minutes ago, how did we get to this point? i talked to him -- i asked him how we got to this point. clearly there is a root cause. he likes to say that he's only been here -- he's only been here about six months so he really can't talk about the long-term history of this. but i pressed him on that point becau

dan noyes had had a chance to ask the pg&e president and ceo about the decision as a news conference yesterday afternoon. >> reporter: pg&e held a wine tasting at the silver oak winery on monday on tuesday this week for the utility top natural gas customers. 60 people in all. a spoke person told me the event was funded by shareholders not with rate payer collars. snorp jerry hill is not sure. >> on political events the shareholders pay. if you thank good customers i would think the rate payers pay for that. >> hill's district contains sand bruneau o cite of the horrific natural gas explosion in 2011 after the criminal conviction for sfrouks, hill said it looked like the utility gas division was cleaning up its act. >> then we saw a couple months ago they falsified over 100,000 records on their locate and dig reports. they've actually falsified that could have put people at risk and then they do something stupid like this. >> the timing of the pg&e party getting criticism on the same day as the utility was planning blackouts of historic proportions. and on the two-year anniversary of

for the i-team, dan noyes, abc 7 news. >>> and listen to this. another processingen emmit rate hike goes into effect at the beginning of next year. the average electricity bill is expected to jump by $9 a month. pg&e is projected to raise 1.1 billion in revenue hikes from the rate hikes -- revenue hikes. the that had will be money used upgrid and clear branchs from power line i suppose frmts keeping our neighborhoods protected from fire is a challenge in the effort to build a better bay area. we saw how dangerous they can get during the wildfires in moraga. anser hassan showing the technique firefighters use to get to the flames faster. >> in the early morning of october 10th as a wildfire burned in the hills of moraga a family friend pounded on the door of john drennan's home warning the family to get out. >> i thought for sure the house was going down. we could see the orange glow in the sky. and knew we were in danger. >> contra costa fire official steve hill says the fire fire came within 40 feet of some neighborhoods threatening more than 10

for the i-team dan noyes abc 7 news. >>> and another pg&e rate hike will be going into effect at the beginning of next year. the average electricity bill is expectedo by $9 a month. pg&e is projected to raise $1.1 billion in revenue from the hikes that money will be used to upgrade infrastructure and clear branches from power lines in fire prone areas. >>> now keeping ourp neighborhoods protected from fire is a major challenge in our effort to build a better bay area. we saw how dangerous they can get during the wildfires in moraga. abc 7 news reporter anser maasen shows the technique firefighters use more often to get to the dplams faster. >> in the early morning of october 10th as a wildfires burned in the hills of morgue an a family friend founded on the door of john drennan's home warning the family to get out. >> i thought for sure the house was going down. we could see the orange glow in the sky and knew we were in danger. >> contra costa county fire official steve hill says the fire came within 40 feet some neighborhoods. prompting mandatory evacuations. hill says prepositions

dan noyes was there. >> he asked about pg&e's efforts to improve the safety of overhead power lines. that much more quickly that's the key reason you are doing this because you can't trust your own equipment at this point, correct? >> we are not necessarily saying that we can't trust our equipment. the factor of safety that existed in the environment naturally when the electrical systems were compromised does not exist anymore. >> the utility says they restored power to 50,000 people in the sierra foothills. >>> it is 4:40. talking about that wildfire risk is something that our weather team has been tracking for the last few days and this morning. mike has a look at the day ahead and what the risk is now. >> the risk is there. it will be there until 5:00 this evening. we're in the height of it from about 4:00 this morning, 40 minutes ago, to 10:00. you still have to be vigilant even once the sun comes up. we're still in a danger situation, just not as dangerous as when it's dark. i want to talk about the forecast a little bit. if you're stepping out, this is what the winds do. look w

our i-team reporter dan noyes was in the meeting room and shares what they said and pg&e is promising to do better. >> the public utilities commission demanded that the top pg&e officials response responsible for ordering last week's blackouts and handling execution testify at this emergency hearing. >> i can attest that no one gets into in line of work with the dream of having to turn off the lights on customers. it runs counter to our nature. it's not in our dna and it's not what our customers expect. >> the blackouts, what pg&e calls public safety power shut office affected more than 70 oh thousand customers in 35 counties. >> i'm hearing we're going to, planning, going to have a playbook by the end of the year. you gave a very nice speech or a few words about anticipation. well i can tell you you guys failed on so many levels on pretty simple stuff. >> pg&e was criticized for ordering such a widespread blackout instead of targeting the areas at highest risk. for the website that crashed several times frustrating rate payers looking for information. for phone calls from customers t

. >> dan noyes was there and joins us live tonight with the latest. dan?: dan and kristen, pg&e got an earful from the pec members and the public. the hearing wrapped up here just about a half hour ago. now, these are the top officials. many of them have just arrived, just been on the job a few months. but the puc wants answers about last month's blackouts that affect 700,000 customers. the commission president has the strongest words for pg&e, other commissioners taking her lead. >> i'm hearing we're gonna, we're planning, we're going to have a playbook by the end of the year. this isn't hard. this is not hard. you've been in the business 41 years. you guys failed on so many levels on pretty simple stuff. >> seeing a path to getting to the point where these widespread events are not necessary is, i think, where we all need to be. so how are we going to get there? >> probably a ten-year

. >>> pg&e gave an outage update earlier this evening, and the i-team's dan noyes was there. >> we asked about pg&e's effort to improve the safety of overhead power lines. >> what steps are you taking to do that more quickly because clearly that's the key reason you're doing this because you can't trust your own equipment. >> not necessarily we can't trust our own equipment. i keep coming back to the fact that it's the coexistence of our equipment with the environment and the factor of safety that existed in the environment gnarl naturally when the systems were compromised does not exist anymore. >> reporter: pe ss restored power today to 50,000 people in the sierra foothills by isolating transmission lines from lines that may face a high wildfire risk. >>> some residents in humboldt got a sliver of good news. emergency services tweeted this around 7:00 tonight. pg&e is reporting that it has been given the all clear to immediately begin the process to restore power to the county. this does not mean electricity will be restored immediately, though. plan for another night without power. >>

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the i team's dan noyes shows us the damage done by some illegal activity. >>> and from 7 on your sideigerator problem leaves a puddle of water in an east bay home and a family improvising to keep their food from spoiling. that's all coming up on abc7 news at 6:00. >>> finally, this is pretty awesome, because the 49ers, they aren't just winning, they're also having a lot of fun doing it. >> check out the end of yesterday's victory over the redskins. nick bosa sacks the quarterback, and he and his teammates use the rain-soaked field as their personal slip and slide. >> why not. the team posted this video of several players celebrating the victory by gliding across that wet turf. coach kyle shanahan and the team have a reason to smile. they are 6-0, alone in first place in the nfc west. >> see, had they lost, they wouldn't have been doing slipping and sliding. >> "world news t >>> tonight, emergency evacuations. families running from their homes as flames move in quickly. more than 100 firefighters battling the raging fire in los angeles. and we're live on the scene tonight. >>> the deva

and dan noyes is there keeping track of all of this. >> we'll go out of these doors and go over to bechtel that's not safe, we'll go to the embarcadero plaza. this is earthquake country, much like it is wildfire country. we need to be prepared for that also. we need to be prepared to duck, cover and hold at any time. if there is an active shooter situation for some reason, we will get out, hide out and take out. so the format of tonight's briefing and then we'll g toans >> that's a officer briefing the media, getting this thing going. he did this yesterday, talked in the eventuality of an earthquake or active shooter situation. just some procedure they're getting to. we're waiting to hear for the first time since all this happened from the ceo of pg&e, bill johnson, who is attending this news conference and no doubt will speak here saying, s bay area communities are now getting their power back after the shutoffs. because of the red flag weather conditions, those shutoffs began tuesday. the most recent happened just last night. >> 600,000 customers were still without power around 10:00 thi

abc7 news i-team reporter dan noyes will have much more on this on abc7 news news at 6:00. >>> still ahead, arson investigators on the scene in southern california. did one of the massive fires start under a power pole? that's ahead. >>> plus, the dna test that helped reunite a california woman with a child she thought had died 30 years ago. >>> and commemorating an occupation. activists at alcatraz do something they have never done before. >> and i'm abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma. a really pleasant evening out there. but later this week, we'll find do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >>> firefighters continue to battle the so-called saddleridge fire that's burned nearly 8,000 acres in los angeles county. that fire now 43% contained right now. firefighters from the alameda county fire department are on the front lines. they posted this photo on twitter this afternoon. abc7 news reporter

. >> dan noyes has been on the pg&e beat, and he joins us with e

dan noyes joins us. >> they gave us details of issues that may have started with problems with its own equipment. one of the fires late last month torched acres in butte county. they have called for these massive blackouts because they can't trust their own equipment. they're supposed to be installing insulated wire in high-fire threatened areas. >> we need to get more information on where they're at with the infrastructure hardening so we really understand the priorities and risk and where to prioritize the work at a more grand level. >> they're sending safety experts to work inside pg&e headquarters. coming up at 5:00, there's a push for answers. i look at was it really necessary. a lot of questions there. >> a lot of people are asking that question specifically. >> exactly. >> thanks, dan. >>> all right. well, the shutdown is the third by pg&e in the last two months and by far the largest. the most recent happened on september 20th. the utility cut power to 50,000 customers in counties as well as limited outages. last may the california public utilities commission approved new guide

dan noyes found from court today. >> reporter: workers failed to identify dead gray pine tree for removalt fell into the power line sparking a fire. three months before inspector s was not repaired in time. it is near the origin of last year's deadly campfire. >> pg&e right now should not have confidence in the safety of its equipment because it is proven to fail. >> reporter: public policy steve weissmann told me about one fundamental law. pg&e gets a budget for operation and maintenance of the power each year. >> it gets to keep that money and share it with its shareholders. >> reporter: most of the power grid is uninsulated and could spark when comes in contact with dry trees. pg&e was supposed to insulated wires. >> pg&e have said they started this but really where they're a and what the plan is. >> reporter: state lawmakers have questions about pg&e pulling a massive black out this week. >> this is a true tragedy. this is not something we can take lightly. senator squor jerry hill is draa letter today degetting others t signed. we'll make sure that the public find the root cause of >

dan noyes has the story. >> there's a dangerous defect on the door the family contends. the automaker says it operated correctly in this case. >> we have an -- >> when tesla founder elon musk debuted the model x, the power automatic doors drew cheers. to this day, many model x owners and many salespeople don't know about one function called the icebreaker. if it senses the front door having difficulty opening, this black cube pops out to -- it's supposed to retract. the issue brought up in the lawsuit, the icebreaker has a hole in the middle large enough to fit a human finger. that's what happen to this little girl. the 5-year-old got her finger stuck in her father's tesla. it took emergency crews two hours to -- she's afraid to enter any car, but especially the model x. >> i'm afraid to get inside the car now. i think that nobody will be able to get inside it after such the accident. >> he's a serious tesla fan. there's no tesla dealers in ukraine where they live. they brought it 1200 miles away in the czech republic. now he says the company should warn owners worldwide

. >> pg&e gave us an outage update last night and dan noyes was there. >> he asked about pg&e's efforts to improve the safety of overhead power lines. >> what steps are you taking to do that much more quickly that's the key reason you are doing this because you can't trust your own equipment at this point, correct? >> we are not necessarily saying that we can't trust our equipment. the factor of safety that existed in the environment naturally when the electrical systems were compromised does not exist anymore. >> the utility says they restored power to 50,000 people in the sierra foothills. they have isolated transmission lines from other lines that may face a high wildfire risk. >>> some residents in humboldt got a sliver of good news. the office of emergency management tweeted this saying pg&e's reporting that it has been given the all-clear to immediately begin the process to restore power to the county. this doesn't mean electricity will be restored immediately. plan for another night without power. at least that's some timeline. >> right. but it doesn't say you won't have power fo

. >> abc 7 news i-team reporter dan noyes questioned them about what it would take to end the blackouts. >> what is the answer to end these? >> what's the value of human life would be my response. as i said when i concluded, that's why i'm here to try and make this better. now we can work, and we need to work. we cannot live in a society where this happens frequently. >> pg&e has scheduled a 6:00 p.m. media availability to answer more questions from reporters and we will be there. >>> meantime, here's the latest on how power restoration is going. 74% of customers impacted by the planned outages have had their service restored. that means fewer than 195,000 customers still need to get their power back. the utility says it's found 23 instances of weather related damage to its infrastructure. this map gives you an idea of which communities are still without electricity. we're going to put that up right there. pg&e says they're inspecting lines and working to restore power to those affected customers. >> leslie brinkley is in the east bay where some residents are still without power. >> let

and there has been a lot of criticism today from governor newsom as you gathered from our reporter dan noyes. this is what he asked pg&e about during this news conference. governor gavin newsom was highly critical of pg&e, saying the utility company failed to modernize its grid over the years, leading us to these widespread power outages. >> this is not from my perspective a climate sustain story as much as it is a story about greed and mismanagement over the course of decades. neglect, a desire to advance not public safety but profits. over the course of years and years and years, the kind of hardening of the grid was not done. those were decisions that were made by pacific gas & electric. they chose not to modernize their grid over the course of many -- >> it's mismanagement and greed several times late today and says he will demand pg&e fulfill its commitments to turn the lights back on. asked about that just moments ago, ceo of pg&e bill johnson said he did not want to address the past. he is here to talk about the future. so he did not address the governor's comments directly, although

bill noyes asked dan johnson about work to reduce the risk. >> 25,000 miles of wire and in high firee're replacing 100 miles of that with the hardened wire. 700 miles next year. that leaves 24,000 miles untouched. are you speeding up that process? >> we are. we have ten s and tens of thousands of miles of wire. this is a huge undertaking and it will take some time. >> johnson said they will make every effort to get the power back on to affected communities. >> i'm monitoring the power outage man from the live desk this morning during the last power shutoff there were problems with the website crashing. it is working now. the pink area at the top, that's where the public safety power shutoff is happening. if you zoom in closer here and tap an area. i will try sonoma again. you can see here customers affected, 95. it has the cause, status and last time it was updated, which was yesterday, october 23rd, 6:37 p.m. now to another portion of the website if you want to get more specific about your home specifically. go to the portion that says get current information. when that loads, you c