More than 1,000 without power in East Bakersfield

More than 1,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers are without power Thursday  morning.

According to PG&E's website, the outage was first reported just before 5 a.m.

The outage stretches from as far west as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard and as far east as Mount Vernon and stretches from Edison Highway to the north and down to near Virginia Avenue to the south.

Power is expected to be fully restored by 8 a.m.