An update on a strong atmospheric river across Northern California

Note: Insight airs live at 12pm with a rebroadcast at 7pm

CapRadio Reporter Chris Nichols provides a live look at conditions in parts of Sacramento County, where at its peak, hundreds of thousands of customers went without power. 

Diana Crofts-Pelayo, Assistant Director of Crisis Communication with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, provides a statewide look at the emergency response. 

Gamaliel Ortiz, a spokesperson for SMUD (the Sacramento Municipal Utility District) discusses widespread power outages that impacted more than 200,000 customers. 

Paul Moreno, a spokesperson for PG&E, discusses power outages  that impacted more than a million of its customers across its entire service area, which covers most of Northern and Central California. 

Jeremy Linder, a Public Information Officer with Caltrans District 3, updates road conditions across its 11 county region– which includes Sacramento, Yolo, Butte, Placer, Nevada and El Dorado counties. 

Jessica Gonzalez, a Public Information Officer with Sacramento Regional Transit, updates light rail being shut down due to the winter storm. 

Dr. Andrew Schwartz, Lead Scientist of the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab located at Donner Summit, gives an update on the snowpack and where it stacks up to the historical average. 

Craig Shoemaker, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Sacramento, provides a look at the forecast for the week.