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Morning News


Jan.17   Oakland   Building Collapses  Hollow 4-story building collapsed, crushing a telephone pole, wires and parked vehicles

Evening News


  Apple   Loss worse than expecting  Apple lost $247 million, or 73 cents a share. It promised a return to profitability in 1st quarter

  UC Berkeley Aeronautical engineer dies  E. Laitone was an expert on experimental and theoretical aerodynamics

  AMD AMD falls short of forecasts  Computer chip maker was affected by the slowdown in sales of PCs

  Sun Sun: New Lower-End Servers  Sun is aiming to capture an market for plug-and-play machines for Internet services

  San Jose NorthPoint files for bankruptcy  DSL provider blames canceled merger with the regional telephone company

  San Francisco PG & E loses credit lines  Lenders cut up the utility's credit card. That could mean more rolling blackouts

  San Francisco City attorney sue power generators  The suit accuses of artificially manipulating supplies to keep prices high

  Palo Alto Retired nuclear physicist dies  D. Lawrence developed a patented cancer treatment

  San Francisco   Rolling Blackouts Start
  Stoplights went dark, store owners turned to pocket calculators, students were trapped on elevators
 Gov. Gray Davis declared a state of emergency. The outages affected 400,000 customers for between 60 and 90 min. at a time. The blackouts lasted about 2 hours, ending at 1:40 p.m. PG&E defaulted on paying $76 million to holders of the a form of short-term debt
World , January 17, 2001 Timeline