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Thousands Without Power Due to Bay Area Storm

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PG&E crews were kept busy by a powerful storm that caused many outages reported in the Bay Area. Cheryl Hurd reports.

PG&E reported tens of thousands of power outages in the Bay Area due to inclement weather Thursday morning.

In San Francisco, at its peak, more than 100,000 customers are without power due to a blown substation at the downtown Civic Center location. By about 6:45 p.m., the number had been reduced to about 4,200.

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Here are the power outage totals for the Bay Area (as of about 10:45 p.m.):

San Francisco: 630

East Bay: 1,990

North Bay: 2,200

South Bay: 1,330

Peninsula: 9,000

Bay Area Total: 15,170

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The roof of a flooded car can be partially seen in an underpass of Ashby Avenue in Berkeley, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014.

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