Day Around the Bay: SF Officials Urge State Regulators to Investigate PG&E’s Reliability

Local:

• State regulators are being urged to launch a public investigation into PG&E’s reliability, citing at least 40 major outages in San Francisco this year, as well as recent electrical fires and delays in critical infrastructure projects. [Chronicle]
• SF Supervisor Myrna Melgar and other supervisors interrogated police officials Thursday over the department’s handling of sexual assault cases, while survivors and advocates criticized city leaders who continued to endorse District 8 candidate Manny Yekutiel after sexual assault allegations against recently him surfaced. [Chronicle]
• Citing cashier job security and theft problems, SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced legislation requiring larger grocery and drug stores to staff at least one employee for every three self-checkout stations. [KRON4]

National:

• Arizona congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia said she was raped while repairing a campaign sign in August, and she  decided to discuss it publicly after realizing she could not advocate for women who had survived sexual assault without speaking up about her own experience. [ABC News]
• SpaceX is asking satellite operators worldwide to share data about their spacecrafts’ locations and movements to prevent collisions as thousands of new satellites enter orbit, with Starlink performing about 1,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers daily. [Ars Technica]
• Thousands of sailors returned to San Diego aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on Thursday after a record 265 consecutive days at sea supporting the Iran war, reuniting with emotional family members and meeting babies born during their deployment. [Associated Press]

Video:

• This ‘80s-era San Francisco tourism ad almost looks like a demonstration of all the ways to get one’s self killed here, whether it’s turning a corner from a steep, angled street on a bike sans helmet, tap-dancing down the city’s iconic sidewalk steps, or clinging to a cable car for dear life — all while wearing matching ugly sweaters.