Have protected the integrity of our democracy and to the American People who make up our beautiful country thank you for turning out in record numbers to make your voices heard. Of them and i know times have been challenging especially the last several months the grief sorrow and pain the worries and the struggles but we have also witnessed your courage your resilience and the generosity of your spirit. For 4 years you who marched and organized for equality and justice for our lives and for our planet. And then you voted. The of them and you delivered a clear message you chose hope and unity decency science and yes shrewd of the. You shallows joe biden as the next president of my the earth the. End joe was a healer a night or a tested and steady hand a person whose own experience of loss gives him a sense of purpose that will help us as a nation reclaim our own sense of purpose and a man with a big heart who loves with abandon its his love for jill wholl be ending credible 1st lady of
Stark contrast to most of the country now facing a new surge. Roughly 38 states have experienced a 10 increase over the last seven days of total number of cases. This is that dreaded third wave that some had projected for california. But with due diligence, that third wave hasnt couple. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dion lim. The bay area is also doing well. Abc7 news News Reporter stephanie sierra joins us live to break down the latest totals. Stephanie . Dion, 25,000 cases were reported nationwide each day. Now that daily average has doubled to 50,000 cases. Even though california isnt seeing as much of a spike, the governor was quick to point out today we could be there soon. A third wave of covid19 is moving quickly and broadly across the u. S. , but if you look closely at california, the r effective number, or rate of spread, shows it has declined slightly to 0. 96. In other words, it is considered stable. Epidemiologist george weatherford. We decreased the effective reproduc
It could be a very long weekend, and its already getting off to a busy start for firefighters in napa county. Thats where cheryl hurd is live tonight to begin our coverage. Reporter what youre looking at right now is a pg e base camp, an area where trucks are standing by if and when a wind event takes place. Tonight we got a preview of what could happen. Cal fire trucks lining up along the valley road in napa county after firefighters were able to stop a vegetation fire from jumping the roadway. The firefighters they got a lot of, you know, big dozers, theyre working on it really strong. Reporter working to control the fire that has salvador rios worried. We live on the same property, so hopefully, you know, it wont keep going. Reporter did you evacuate your family . Not yet. Reporter one witness tells me the fire started at around 3 00. It started out as a very small grass fire but quickly grew to over 30 acres. That acreage more than doubled tonight near the populated area of pope va
Positive. They played the vikings this a 28 in sonoma county, 18 past sunday, forcing both teams structures have been damage. To halt in person activities as of the fire has burned 43,000 a precaution. Acres. This afternoon, and 0 any person must be cleared by contained. Want to give you a live look Team Physician and then go from sky fox above the fire zone. You can see is an awful lot of undergo cardio testing. Smoke and a little bit of flames in the distance. Cal fire says the fires rolling through the area that has not heavenly Mountain Resort announces more plans for his burned. In fact, it did not burn and reopening. Coming up next on the for, when the devastating and deadly fires operations resume in november. Another warmup underway. Back into thousand 17. This area has no fire history. Officials say that is creating a lot of problems for the after the break. Firefighters. We have lined live team coverage. Meteorologist is tracking the later conditions as the hot water weather
Bazaar, surreal, ominous, how would you describe it . This day was different. Good evening, im julie haener. It was crazy, julie. Im frank somerville. Just when you thought 2020 might run out of surprises we are created with one of the most bizarre days in memory. Im 62, grew up in the bay area and never seen anything like it. Headlights on noontime, ash falling from the sky and body clocks wrist disrupted. For some, a sense of being completely out of sync. The dark sky during the daytime had folks grabbing their cameras. Ktvu was flooded with pictures from our viewers. Photographer kevin shane sent this picture from the embarcadero in San Francisco. And john warren sent this this picture from the Golden Gate National conservancy. It was taken on alcatraz island. You can see there is San Francisco completely disappearing in the background. And karen keller sent us this picture from hillsboro with trees creating silhouettes against the backdrop. We have Team Coverage tonight. Our chief