Average covid stays from 20 to eight days. Bay area hospitals say theyre prepared for a tough winter amhead starting now. Heartbreak for Small Business owners. They tell us why these latest orders could be their breaking point. A major setback for many Bay Area School districts. Making a switch from mild and sunny to cool and stormy tomorrow. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7nes news. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Tonight, Governor Newsom is pulling the emergency brake on reopenings as coronavirus cases spike. 41 counties will be in the mostrestrictive, purple tier. That means transmission is widespread. Restrictions include limiting indoor shopping and malls to 25 capacity. In addition, Indoor Dining stop. Alameda, contra costa, santa cruz will join Sonoma County in the most restrictive. Marin will move back to the red tier. The new tier restrictions go in effect in less than an hour n
First we have to talk about these cold temperatures this morning. It is a downright cold morning. It is and weve had to bundle up. Some of us had to turn on the heaters this morning. Some cool afternoons as well with a lot of sunshine. The rain has moved out. Im watching these freeze warnings that we have in effect for parts of the north bay and frost advisories. So the plants need to be taken care of. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, its looking great. Were looking at no problems on the big map as we showed you. The dumbarton bridge got wind advisories from chp saying they got gusty conditions overnight an issue for folks driving over i80. Marcus you have an issue some of my drivers might see. Breaking news, mike. This is a live look where firefighters are in the midst of battling a fire at the Georgia Pacific paper plant. Crews are pulling out what they can. That thick cloud of smoke and you can see there the waterspout right there. Smoke has cleared. New cardboard box
To try to avoid sliding backward. And marin restaurants being asked to reduce and what Indoor Dining to 25 occupancy. At 10 00, live with how that message is being received. Reporter they have seen about nine new cases a day jumped the past week, even doubled. Restaurants are being urged to scale back. Families celebrating his 60th birthday at their favorite restaurant, a milestone also because its the first and dining since march. The bug i might feel perfectly safe with the distancing. Even though we are inside. An steppes of utter heat lamps, other customers dining on a 50 degree evening. And they expect to ship more dining out here now that marin top officer once and for occupancy cut by half. If he thinks thats a good idea, we are happy to do that and go back to 25 . As long as we can stay there. Reporter arendt has been a 50 capacity in only a few weeks. The need to keep guests of part dictates how many can be served. There have been super spreader events described from restauran
Sleeping. Joe i say joe biden took the lead over from President Trump in the Early Morning hours. Georgia his lead is only by about a 1000 votes in pennsylvania about 5500 votes, but theres still a few more left to count. So the conventional wisdom is that joe biden leads will continue to grow. But well have to wait and see how were not calling anything in the a p is not calling anything until the votes are actually counted. Like joe biden was saying, lets just wait and see these votes come in its monumental with the number of people who voted even the popular vote is huge where you can joe biden with almost 4 million votes over President Trump and the counting continues. We can to take a live look right now to get matter fact because yeah like the president said in that sound bite at the top of the hour about how the vote was being conducted. In secret. Well thats not necessarily case happened you can go to any basically any secretary of states website many of them have live stream. C
Steadier rain moves in which is off the Mendocino County coast. Heres a look at your storm impact scale today. Light to moderate rain and then just some scattered showers as we head into the evening hours. Its going to be breezy especially this morning before the steady rain rolls in. Gusts could get up to around 35 Miles Per Hour and blowing southwest to northeast. They could affect some of our east west bridges and definitely our higher elevations. Temperatures mild even with the rain low to mid 60s today. Well take an hourbyhour look and what to expect coming up. Back to you. Thank you. Expect changes with businesses in your county and that starts today. Governor newsom says he had to pull the emergency brake on reopening because new cases of coronavirus nearly doubled in just ten days. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Heres a look at where the bay area stands. And look at all that purple. Heres the easiest way to put it.