Tonight, we learned a city supervisor was also potentially exposed. The school says frat parties are to blame. How this could have a Ripple Effect on the rest of the students and the fall semester. Despite a surge in coronavirus cases across the country, the president is pushing schools to reopen this fall. How bay area teachers are reacting. Good evening. Im elizabeth cook. We begin with breaking news tonight in San Francisco. Looking live at San Francisco city hall. Tonight, mayor and a city supervisor are awaiting coronavirus test results. The Mayors Office says she came into contact with someone with coronavirus. Supervisor Shamann Walton was also exposed to an infected individual. The two were together at this event in the bay view yesterday. The mayor and the supervisor were both exposed to a person with coronavirus at an event later on in the evening. We reached out to the Mayors Office for comment tonight and we are still waiting to hear back. More breaking news tonight out of
Lot of sunshine. Thats going help to heat us up so theres your billing could a fog just right along the coastline, a very thin layer of low clouds that has pushed on into the bay area this morning temperatures right now are in the 50s and 60s a cool morning for coastal spots, 60s right along the bay. Go ahead open the window, let that cool breeze and while weve got it because yes later on nothing cool about it highs back into the 90s inland with bayside areas in the low 80s. James, all right john thank you at 8 oh one lets begin with the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Now by the way recording more than 3 million infections. And a 132,000 deaths and this map illustrates where the hardest hit areas are across the country. California as you can see along with all these other states in orange. Theyre showing a 10 to 50 increase in cases compared to last week and then you have the cases in red like you see there in montana theyve seen cases jumped by more than 50 from th
In california we have recorded our highest singleday death toll from coronavirus conference reyna harvey is live in alameda with more on that daria 149 people died yesterday because of coronavirus now youre now in the county weve got thousands of positive cases over 7,000 people have coronavirus that are living throughout Alameda County now Health Experts are saying there are some direct links as to why they may be seen an increase in numbers as well as the death she had a lot of people that are going out you have more people that are feeling comfortable all congregating with each other and not everybody thats out here is wearing a mask now we hit that high yesterday but we had another high that we hit on may 19 there were 132 deaths throughout california on that date so we top that number yesterday now again we spoke to residents out here in the county may have their own the lease as to why they feel or see more deaths take a listen. Its sad and a concerning obviously but thats dispir
Building a better bay area, this is abc7 news. Firefighters had their hands full last night due to illegal fireworks, from fires to one crew even having Bottle Rockets shot at its truck as it responded to a call. Im j. R. Stone. Eric thomas has the night off. Im dion lim. Its been no Holiday Weekend for bay area firefighters. They have been racing to keep up with the hundreds of fires in our region, mostly started by illegal fireworks. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard joins us live in san pablo with more on this story. Cornell . Dion, very scary night for firefighters no, professional Fireworks Shows in the bay area last night, but lots of amateur ones, just ask any firefighter. Many started firesis o in san pablo. The firework debris is just feet away. Fireworks lit up the skies over San Francisco on july 4th, but its a show firefighters didnt want to see. Illegal fireworks caused large grass fires like this one near hunters point, and this fire less than a mile away. We were virtua
Setting off fireworks in that area. Mean while, the smoke is prompting an air quality advisory for the far south bay. Residents with sensitivities to smoke are advised to stay indoors. Lets get a check with darren and our weather conditions. I want to add perspective to the air quality issue. Take a look at the High Resolution satellite. Im going to point out the smoke plume coming off the crews fire. There it is right down there to the south. If thats coming off the fire, thats a 600acre fire blowing that smoke down from the southeast and well away from us and wind is going to continue down here. Watch the increase. Those are 20 mileanhour gusts from gilroy, not far from the perimeter of that fire. And then well see things calm down once we get into the overnight hours there. Those winds are also responsible for a cool down for everyone tomorrow. Ill have more in a few minutes. Did illegal fireworks keep you up all night . You still got a lot more rest than bay area firefighters. The