Heavier. So that is more than likely send thoif indications on any reaching the ground. Power outages or other breaking and you can see just off the news as it happens. Happening today, we expect coast, this is a rapidly forming governor newsollpowim ekal tut t thunderstorm, those six or seven waveovid1 lightning bolts within just the last few minutes. So our action is igniting a ind mi ancht live here and ool throughout the morning. These will stay off the shore and head more towards the north also on our website and app. Education is one of the five bay, but more is developing south and they could roam off key areas that were focusing on as we work to build a better bay into other parts of the bay. Area and this week thousands will start the new school year but it is definitely near the with distance learning. Coast in the north bay that has the best chance of those showers the San Francisco unified school and thunderstorms today. District will have its first all of us will be hot on
Easy. Tonight at 11 00 well have the details of a drug ucf doctors are adding to their trial for covid19 patients helping them fight this virus. Hundreds of thousands of cases stuck in a county backlog. Not just a technical issue experts say it presents a Greater Health issue. Welcome to the new normal. Live music at the Alameda County fair grounds. Youll feel the heat this weekend. Ill have the temperatures coming up. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. California now the third state where covid19 deaths have exceeded 10,000. More than 8,400 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours but the states numbers have been inaccurate for a week. Thats because of a Testing Backlog thats in the hundreds of thousands. You deserve better. The governor demands better of us, and we are committed to doing better. Reporter abc 7 reporter amanda del castillo has more on this technical glitch. California Health Leaders are blaming the states massive backlog of test results on two issues. A july 25
To 48 hours that the backlog that is between 250,000 and 300,000 records will be resolved giving us a better sense of the total number of tests that were delayed. California health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley admits most of the unreported records are most likely covid19 test samples but not all. However, without a resolution two very important metrics. Total cases and percent positivity remain unclear for counties across the state. What were getting is correct but were not getting all of it. Reporter Santa Clara County testing officer says meantime its business as usual while flying blind. The state says it put a freeze on its coronavirus watch list. That means no county is being added or dropped until state Health Officials are confident the data is correct. Salono county Public Health officer dr. Balum says his office noticed the difference ins numbers july 23rd. They immediately notified the state. He says at its core the massive delay presents a Greater Health issu
Possible throughout the day. So we are not out of this yet. Not by a long shot. Good morning, it is monday, august 17th. Lets get straight to mike nicco. Mike, i know the north bay is experiencing some of this, but as far as the heat goes, this is something that lasts through much of the week. Yeah, wednesday especially inland. And now for the bay and the coast, hopefully we got our fingers crossed that it ends after this afternoon. And then we still have the red flag warning too, so the high fire danger. The hottest spot right now is san rafael. So right on 101, we cou hava heavy downpour right now. For sure moderate rain and you can see the thunder right there. And it also goes down to the Marin Headlands and more developing. You can see the moisture moving in to the area. And the lighter green stuff that you see probably just sprinkles right now. But lack at what is developing to the south. More moisture on the way. So this is not like yesterday, it is starting later and it will end
And we do still see some fog as well. In fact, its causing some limited visibility at some of the coastline like Half Moon Bay 3 mile visibility right now. Petaluma a bit lower as well at 5 miles and youll find some of that fog across the golden grate bridge with this live shot. Low clouds, limited morning fog, temperatures in the 50s and 60s. By lunchtime warmer sunshine for everyone except only partial le clearing at some of the beaches. And at the coast mid60s. Sun sets at 8 10. We have gorgeous weekend ahead before a cooling trend next week. Thank you, frances. California is now the third state where covid19 deaths have exceeded 10,000. More than 8,4man new cases were reported in just 24 hours, but the states numbers have been inaccurate for a week, and thats because of a Testing Backlog thats in the hundreds of thousands. Abc 7 News Reporter amanda del castillo has more on that technical glitch. Reporter California Health leaders are blaming the states massive backlog of test resu