Thursday Morning What's Up: Power Shutoffs Begin

31-year-old Kelvin Chiu, an athletic trainer at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, was arrested last week on suspicion of sexual battery of a student in his care. Police say that child sexual abuse material was found on Chiu's phone, and they believe there may be more student victims besides the 16-year-old girl who came forward. [KPIX]
PG&E public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) began in parts of four Bay Area counties on Wednesday night, and around 11,000 customers in Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties may have their power shutoff during this week's wind event. [KTVU]
The fired OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device inside OpenAI's offices, Abdulrahman Alfozan, is a Saudi national who was apparently working to advise the Saudi Arabian government on technology. [New York Times]
A group of protesters demonstrated Wednesday in front of City Hall as the SF Police Commission took a vote to approve new drone-use guidelines for the SFPD, guidelines that opponents say don't do enough to protect privacy. [KTVU]
A Bay Area nurse, Angela Wulbrecht, became a vaccine skeptic after a suspected adverse reaction to the Moderna COVID vaccine, and now she's a full convert to MAHA and is helping defend an Idaho woman who's suspected of suffocating her toddlers and blaming their deaths on a vaccine. [Chronicle]
A 30-year-old woman was swept out to sea by a rogue wave in Ventura County, and her husband, who was with her at the time and was also swept up in the wave, has shared a haunting final photo. [California Post]
President Trump has caved to pressure from both Republicans and Democrats, as well as military leaders, who condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plan to have the execution by firing squad of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan livestreamed, and now the livestream isn't happening. [New York Times]

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