. >>> pg nd >>> this is mornings on 2. welcome back. 1 november. i'm dave clark. >> good morning i'm sam koch. thank you for jo

and that it unlawfully allows the above market cost of generation assets owned by pg nd to be recovered. with this decision we expect they will have an ink -- have an increase of more than 200% since san francisco committed to beginning service in 2015. ultimately, it is expected the decision will increase the cost to c.c.a. customers must pay to pg&e verse above market power supply starting in january of next year. so what specifically are we expecting to happen as a result of the decision? as i noted, we are anticipating that as early as january 1 of next year the rate will increase for all clean power s.f. customers. we are also expecting pg&e it generation right to decrease relative to current levels. based on the best information we have available now, we estimate that existing clean power s.f. customers could pay 40- $50 million more per year as a result if no action is taken by clean power s.f. to absorb the change. i want to be clear about that. that is if nothing is done. but significantly, that is equivalent to about 25 -- it is a big, big chunk. these figures are based on the

. >>> pg nd -- pg&e had a meeting last night to address concerns. some said they lost thousands of dollars last month. pg&e had eight helicopters on standby overnight. last month they had 300. >>> 5:07. another shakeup at the white house. paws asked jeff sessions to resign. doug luzader joins us live. doug, the president also revoked the press credentials -- credentials at the white house reported. wear >>reporter: this is not exactly a shot. there is now an acting attorney general to temporarily take his place. former attorney general jeff sessions leaving work yesterday after president trump asked for his resignation. no one can say they didn't see this coming. >> i didn't get what happened before the votes were counted but he has been a proverbial dead man walking for several months. wear sessions was an early trump backer but his decision to recuse himself from the russia probe is something that the president never got over. sessions will be replaced with matthew whitaker who will oversee special counsel robert mueller. whitaker has been skeptic

pg&e filed an incident idreport. it on this major transmission line in the area of one ofhe small sort towns in beaut county. there was an outage. nd that tooklace a few minutes before the fire started. and then like you said, last night cal fire announced there might be a potential second origin of the fire. unclear if that second spot which is on con cal road. if you he been following the coverage it comes up a lot. people living there were pushed out and hurt. and also unclear to neh was a new fire that started there or somehow spot fires that were expanding from the major fire. so far in advance that was actually a new spot fire in cal fire hasn't clarified that. they emphasize the cause of the fire is still under investigation. these are cles at this point. >> meanwhile the head of the commission, mir pick is saying he'll expand an existing probe into pg&e safety structure practices. at the same time he doesn't want the company to declare ankruptcy. so what does this mean? will pg&e be allowed to exist in its current form. >> that will take months maybe years to untangle. this is aasoller cer of a week for pg&e. when it comes

recalls pg&e declared bankruptcy in 2001 during the energy crisis when it was saddled with $12 billion in debt. they'll have to review the risk mitigation efforts in the context of drought cycles nd dry vegetation, maintenance of power lines and other safety matters to ensure reliability. david louie, abc 7 news. >>> now to disaster relief and preparedness in the wake of the camp fire. >> "7 on your side's" michael finney is live at san francisco's irwin memorial blood center with more on that. hi, michael. >> reporter: hey, you guys. how are you doing? we're doing a virtual blood drive is what we're up to today. we want you to go online and set up an appointment and give blood near you. there's often these blood events that will come by a local school. they'll go where you live. and there's facilities like this one. we want you to sign up. now,ing now that we've got that taken care of, we want to talk about how we can make you and your family safer. here to talk about that is the lieu tej nant from the san francisco fire department. you work on this a lot with the public. >> it's really important to make sure we give the public the accurate information in a timely fashion so the

nd properly maintain its power lines. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. >>> in a statement to the mercury news, pg&e sas it is appear of the lawsuit. the primary focus is supporting first responders, helping communities. >>> in san francisco, we saw high emotions at the california public utilities commission meeting. >> many protesters voiced concerns about pg&e's possible role in the deadly camp fire. >> i will qualify a recess. >> a number of people spoke at the podium ahead of this demonstration. many said they believe pg&e is responsible for the camp fire and the tubbs fire, among other fires. they want to see the state take over the for-profit company. >>> classes will resume across several campuses in butte county on monday. district officials expect half the students with paradise unified to return are to school. >> the fires either destroyed or damaged most of the school. students will be bussed to different cities within the area. >>> turning to the damage left after this week's storms. rain apparently caused a roof to collapse in oakland. we brought you this on "abc 7 mornings" yesterday. the