Good evening, everybody. Im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. Its especially urgent in santa clara county. New data reveals hospitals could exceed capacity by middecember. The county pleads with the public to follow covid19related rules and restrictions including the new 14day mandatory travel quarantine. Abc 7 News Reporter chris ngueyn has the story. Reporter the coronavirus rages on, a grim assessment this afternoon, hospitals in the areas of the county hit hardist by covid19 are nearing capacity as administrators scramble to ensure they have enough beds. More specifically the hospitals serving East San Jose collectively have less than a dozen icu beds available. Hospitals throughout the county are working together engaging in phone calls at least daily to redistribute patients as needed to ensure that we are continuing to provide safe and high quality care. Reporter with the growing number of patients being admitted to hospitals each day, county leaders are urging the public to
The fda, it will be the most reliable way to beat the virus. Certainly, the vaccine representing both our hopes and our fears and abc 7 News Reporter kris reyes spoke with a doctor about the worries that keep him up at night and kris, im really interested to hear what he had to say. He had a lot to say. The doctor is very confident about the vaccine calling it a bright light in this long, dark tunnel that weve been traveling through but he says distribution is far from a trivial matter and we need to prepare for dealing with plenty of complications. Neither the cdc nor the state of california are likely to get more granular than to say Health Care Workers and people over 65 in Long Term Care facilities are the first two groups. Reporter the question then becomes which Health Care Worker goes first . Take ucsf that is unlikely to get enough vaccines in the first shipment to cover the 30,000 staff. The complicated task deciding which employee gets the vaccine first and then falls on the
Alongside angels and now we know he is with them. Good evening. Im julie haener. And im frank somerville. A moving tribute today at the u. S. Capital for congressman john lewis. Hes a man who spent decade on the front line of the civil war lines. Were at washington, d. C. Where the public viewing is taking place outdoors because of the pandemic. Reporter right, frank and jewelarchy right now it is quiet outside the capital because the public viewing is over. Theyve moved john lewis casket out tomorrow. Amazing grace reporter a solemn ceremony honoring the life and legacy of gres man and civil rights leader june lewis. His body laying in state at the capital of the rotunda. He sturbernly treated every one with respect and love. Reporter among the visitors paying their respect is Vice President mike pence, and former propriety joe biden. He along with his wife holding their hands to their hearts as they pause to say goodbye. Notably absent, President Trump we says he wont be making his w
Business. Ktvs u has more. Reporter however, he needs to project others, especially his staff by enforcing the health order. Video taken from an elployee slow as cusmer getting into a heated confrontation with cafe owner brian halt sunday afternoon after the customer refuses to wear a face covering. I have to ask you to go outside. If not, they will shalt down by i respect your belief. Reporter the owner, a group of 5 friends, not regulars claim they had medical exemptions slowing a piece of paper. I feel more harassed than anything. I wasnt scared. I just wanted to protect my customers as well as my staffer. Reporter medical condition aside, procounty rules a limit of three people at the time in the store. Yet the man continued to do bait there owner. Im not having a problem breathing, im breathing perfectly fine right now. How much resource have you done in the cause of the media. Him calling plea ignorant is really limbeing ignorant to everything thats been going on. Reporter santa
Im running on pam cook. It is tuesday, july 20th. As we head over to steve paulson, i heard a lot of that thunder you were talking about in yosemite. Did not see any lightning likely because we heard some very big thunder and some ominous clouds we were seeing as we are at the very top of yosemite falls. It wouldnt have been good to see lightning. Yeah, they were very close. Moreover to the north of you, but they were close. Today looks a little quieter for the sierra nevada. There will be a very quiet pattern here that just has a grip on us, so if you like it enjoy, if you dont, i dont see much teacher going forward. Theres just a locked in pattern here. Thunderstorm activity was really widespread up in the northern sacramento valley. It looks a little choir today. San jose is cloudy. The low clouds of made it there to san jose. They have been hit and miss in this pattern but today they havent. Theres an onshore breeze out today. Vacaville hit 103 yesterday and travis mill was 91. We