Mendocino County Battles Power Outages and Fraud Amid Atmospheric River

More than 5,300 Mendocino County residents were without power Friday morning, the majority of them on the coast, as part two of the atmospheric river toppled trees and brought down power lines. By Friday evening, PG&E had restored power to all but 300 customers. But even as the threat of the storm abated, scammers sought to swindle county residents with a masterful ruse.