KBUU Newswire Wed July 25: 108 Today In SM Mtns – Malibu Towing Crisis Coming – SCE Blackout Plan Fallout –

This is KBUU News. The headlines:

•   Heat advisory continues … up to 86 beaches … 108 on the 101.
•   If you got stuck behind the crash yesterday … get ready .., it;’s going to get a lot worse.
•   Grumbling grows over Edison Company pre-emptive power cut plan.
•   Malibu’s plastic straw ban spreads to San Francisco.
•   And Beverly Hills has just banned electric scooters … as they are spotted on P C H.

This is Malibu’s only local daily news. It’s the   ((((  Wednesday   ))) edition of the news … from Radio Malibu  ….  F-M 99 point 1 K B U U.

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Good morning … I’m Hans Laetz reporting.

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The heat advisory continues.

Daytime high temperatures will range from 82-92 degrees at the immediate coast …  to 108 in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Overnight lows will be warm … too.

78 degrees for a low predicted for tonight in the hills.

And the high surf will continue to thunder ashore from near New Zealand.

Waves of up to 8 feet … through tomorrow night.

A 6 foot high tide will crest at 8:37 tonight.

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Malibu Towing Situation Critical – Local Firm Kicked Off Lot

Details:  https://www.radiomalibu.net/malibu-towing-situation-critical/

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You are listening to the latest news from Radio Malibu … F-M 99 point 1 K B U U.  ((( time  ))))

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There is grumbling in Malibu about the Southern California Edison plan to cut off electrical service in extreme wind events.

Los Angeles T-V reporters are discovering the story … that the California Public Utilities Commission has issued a statewide policy … allowing power to be cut if there’s a substantial fire danger.

And this is not just Malibu.

Southern California Edison is talking about cutting the power in Entire cities like Corona … in the inland Empire.

The reaction in Malibu has been talk about challenging the new rules in court.

California law requires electric companies to provide safe and reliable power.

It doesn’t say anything about providing the power part of the time .… and cutting it off in the name of safety.

Malibu mayor Rick Mullen says the power company is simply cutting ipower off in the name of reducing financial liability for causing fires.

Southern California Edison poles are believed responsible for the disastrous Thomas fire last year … which burned 440 Square miles … destroyed more than 1000 homes … and indirectly led to the death of at least 22 people.

The power company may be on the hook for more than $2 billion in damages … although official blame it has yet to be assigned.

And California Gov. Jerry Brown yesterday threw his weight behind the proposal to make it harder, but not impossible, for private property owners to collect damages from utility companies … when they unintentionally cause fires in California.

Brown’s proposal doesn’t entirely eliminate a California law known as inverse condemnation, which lets courts hold utilities financially liable for damage their equipment causes, even if they followed state safety and maintenance rules.

This change could make it harder for fire victims to collect money in cases where a utility’s equipment caused a fire but the company didn’t act negligently.

rown’s proposal would also increase potential fines for violating state safety laws.

And it would prohibit utilities from passing on to ratepayers the costs of those imposed fines.

Back in Malibu … Rambla Pacifico resident Scott Dittrich has been leading and effort to put the power poles in his neighborhood underground.

He told the city council this week that cutting off the power in storms …

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“that’s a horrid idea.

“But I think that Malibu … trying to take leadership in a number of areas … particularly in environmental areas, should consider implementing a .25 percent sales tax addition, that would fund undergrounding all utility poles in Malibu.”

But rough estimates show that putting power lines underground in all of Malibu may cost $600 million or more … far beyond the taxing ability of the city under current state law.

Edison meanwhile has two weeks left to draw up its contingency plans for Malibu and file them with the state.

After that … it has 60 days to explain these plans to the city and other affected agencies … and residents.

The power company has told the city it will appear at the next meeting of the public safety commission … tentatively scheduled for August 5th … to do just that.

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Beverly Hills has just banned electric scooters… but they;re spreading towards Malibu.

Details”  https://www.radiomalibu.net/electric-scooters-banned-in-bh/

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Malibu’s straw ban is catching fire.

A Japanese TV news crew interviewed the mayor Monday.

And yesterday … the San Francisco city/county Board of Supervisors prohibited the city’s restaurants, bars and retailers from providing customers with plastic items — such as straws, stirrers or toothpicks — beginning next year.

Boba shops are worried …. how to provide their customers with ways to slurp gelatinous globs without a straw.

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Malibu was apparently not able to see this morning’s rocket lau up the ocast at Vandenberg.

A Space-X Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 4:39 a.m.

The launch had a 1-second window because of the precision needed for the satellite insertion.

The launch went smoothly, even though fog obscured the view of the rocket until after liftoff.

The rocket carried 10 communications satellites … which were all sent off in good shape.

The first stage of the rocket landed on the recovery ship … which has the wonderful name “Just Read The Directions.”

But a piece of the rocket … called a fairing … was supposed to be caught on a gigantic trampoline … aboard a second ship.

That missed.

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Weather for the Malibu ….

Sunny and hot   )))) today … highs  ((((  86   )))) beaches … ((((   108   )))) mountains and canyons.

Cool winds will be helpful along the coast..

Downcoast winds …  (((  15   )))) miles per hour this afternoon.

Sunset tonight is at   ((((   8 straight.    )))).

After that … (((   mostly clear  )))) tonight … low (((( 69    )))) beaches …  ((((  78  )))) mountains and canyons.

Tomorrow should be   ((((  also hot   )))).

At 9 AM … at Trancas it’s ((((   71     )))) degrees.

In upper Malibu Canyon … ((((    85   )))) .

And at Civic Center Los Angeles … ((((    81   )))).

In the ocean … it’s ((((     67   )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.

Waves today are likely to back off just a bit during the afternoon, for a slight drop in size. 

But right now … they’re ((((  up to 8  )))) feet high ….

Those are ((((  good  )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.

(((((  A minor high  tide is at  8:54 this morning.

Low tide is at 2:20.

A 6 foot high tide will crest at 8:37 tonight.   ))))

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