Now, tents and field hospitals are being set up there to reduce hospital bed capacity. The number of patients in the hospital icu and respite raiders reached an alltime high over the weekend. In el paso, some patients are being airlifted out to make room for the sickest. In addition, six more temporary morgue trucks were being brought in after the first four buildup, for a total of 10. New york state is opposing sweeping new restrictions, as new positive cases and hospital admissions continue to rise. Gatherings will be limited known no more than 10 people starting friday. This is for restaurants, bars, gym people, health clubs, bowling alleys must all close by 10 00 p. M. , starting friday. Governor andrew cuomo said, further steps can be taken, including banning Indoor Dining at restaurants and bars. Here in california, the state is now closing out 1 million cases since the start of this pandemic. New numbers released today so the state has more than 184,000 cases, including more tha
Restrict activities that promote spread. Sacramento, stanislaus and san diego. In the red tear, amador, contra costa, and santa cruz. From yellow to orange, modoc, siskiyou and trinity, this is the first week that no county has gone into a lorer tier. When we identify cases today we expect to see some of the cases, 12 of the cases being hospitalized. As cold weather returns four things will cause the spread. People in small places being closed to. Staying in there for a long duration. Being with people from beyond the household. Lack of open doors, windows and ventilation. With we do it we see the rates come down. Weve seen it before. Another recommendation, get a flu shot to minimize the dangerous disease that did make you more vulnerable to covid. Dont tra kosta county is sliding backwards. And Santa Cruz County moved from the orange to the red tier. The boardwalk will have to close again and restaurants allowed to be open at 50 capacity have to scale to 25 . They are hoping the firs
Lets get you a live look right now from philadelphia where abc news expects the first drop of the morning there to come any minute now. Between now and 10 00 our time. Joe biden still holds nearly a 29,000 vote lead in pennsylvania. If he holds on, hed be the president elect of the United States. Lets zoom out to show you where the race to 270 currently stands, its been in hold for the past 48 hours, biden still with 253 electoral votes, the president with 214. Both campaigns are taking different approaches to the count. Abc 7 News Reporter matt boone starts us off with why the biden camp is feeling confident. Reporter all eyes were on wilmington, delaware as joe biden took the stage, still confident in his chances. Were going to win this race with a clear majority with the nation behind us. Reporter though he made it clear it was not his call to make. Never forget, the tallies arent numbers. They represent votes and voters. Men and women who exercise their fundamental right to have th
Days. Several reenforcing shots of cold air because a system is sinking to the south. You may have had a drop or two on your windshield, liz, maybe i did this morning, not really. But the system, there it is, higher elevations, maybe a Little Something out towards rio vista. As we look at the Bigger Picture you can see the circulation, all missing the bay area, and theres a Second System that will pretty much do the same thing tonight, 47 in santa clara, 48 in mountain view, 49 San Francisco, 42 in napa. With the cloud cover, in the 40s. Look at that temperature change, 9 to 16 degrees cooler. Upper elevations, its breezy, sunny and breezy afternoon. Its going to be brisk, lucky to reach the 60s out there and well let you know about the Second System, the week ahead, in a few minutes. Joe biden addressed the nation to say his prospects for taking the white house, are looking good. This morning he does lead in four critical battleground states yet to be called, were talking about georgi
Danger and the Power Outages have been a daily thing for many days so lets see if were going to get a little relief and when john yeah guys were still under those red flag warnings the good news is though there are as many of them as there were yesterday today its more isolated to or Higher Elevations because its a mixed bag, some of us are pretty windy other as of us are actually really nice and calm right now you look outside at the bay bridge behind me nice and clear and you look outside from suture tower also beautiful and clear there is really little marine layer affecting our bay area forecast today as these offshore winds continue keeping things dry. Breezy and yes high fire danger continues because of both of those factors sonoma calistoga petaluma atlas peak, vacaville and danville are all some of our breezy us to spots right now, especially the hillsides above each of these areas. Calmer conditions in Oakland Hayward San Francisco in livermore look at that hardly even detecti