Today america reported a record high 136,000 new cases. Its the seventh consecutive day with 100,000 coronavirus cases nationwide and now, every state in the country is reporting an increasing number. Texas just became the first state with 1 million cases. In california, not far behind and at our current rate, well reach 1 million cases by the weekend. Bay area counties range from the best to the worst among the color coded coronavirus restriction tiers. San francisco is the only in the best category, yellow but preemptively going to shut down indoorining friday night as a precaution. Yesterday contra costa and santa cruz moved backwards from orange to red. A spike in new cases in napa county has Health Officials worried and for very good reason. Those numbers are rapidly moving in the wrong direction and could send napa county from the orange tier to the state most restrictive purple tier if things dont turn around. Cornell bernard found many people are suffering from coronavirus fati
Bernard shows us many may be suffering from covid messaging fatigue. Inside or outside . In. Reporter there is a busy lunch crowd at the tavern in downtown napa. This longtime eatery has went with the punches and restrictions brought on by covid. Gm john crane says finally, his customers are coming back. We just had our best week. Our best covid week so far ended on sunday. Reporter but that could change. Instead of going in the right direction, new covid cases county wide are spiking. Going backwards at an alarming rate. We saw our case rate more than double over the weekend with 118 new cases in 72 hours. We also saw our hospitalizations double. We now stand at 12. Reporter thats the highest weekend total ever. The spike could send napa county back two steps to purple as soon as next week. The states most restrictive tier. Purple tier would be a temporary closure until things got better. Reporter thats not good. Not good. Reporter it would mean no outdoor dining. They only have four
For humanitarian aid in gaza city. Doctors report a further 150 were injured in the same attack in the nabulsi area in the west of gaza. In a sign of continuing settlement expansion, the apartite regime has appropriated 650 acres of palestinian land, now designating it a part of maleadamum settlement east of jerusalem alcods. Dozens of ukbased journalists have signed an open letter to the egyptian and israeli embassies to allow onfetted access into gaza and better protection for journalists already working there. In january Israels Supreme Court rejected a request from International Media citing safety concerns. Meanwhile, in england voting has opened in the first polls that may well punish both the ruling conservatives and opposition labor parties for their progenocide stance as propalestine candidates look set to triumph. The us israeli bombing of gaza continues at pace. Since october last year, 30,00 palestinians have been killed, most of them women and children. So much to get thro
Is gaza under attack, with me, amina taylor. Welcome back. The death toll continues to rise after Occupation Forces killed at least 100 people who were waiting for humanitarian aid in gaza city. Doctors report a further 150 were injured in the same attack in the nabulsi area in the west of gaza. In a sign of continuing settlement expansion, the apartite regime has appropriated 600. 50 acres of palestinian land, now designating it a part of malay adamum settlement east of jerusalem alcods. Dozens of ukbased journalists have signed an open letter to the egyptian and israeli embassies to allow on fetted access into gaza and better protection for journalists already working there. In january, Israel Supreme Court rejected a request from International Media citing safety concerns. Meanwhile, in england, voting has opened in the first polls that may well punish both the ruling conservatives and opposition labour parties for their progenocide stance as pro palestine candidates look set to tri
And its an abc news exclusive. Heros homecoming. One of the americans who took down that terrorist on a train back on u. S. Soil this morning. [ applause ] the whole airport cheering. His parents in tears. Hes telling his incredible story in his first live interview this morning only on gma. And we do say good morning, america, on this friday morn and its a big morning because dan harris is here. Always an occasion. Great to be here. And Alek Skarlatos is here. Hes here live with us this morning. He is we dont throw this word around lightly. A true hero. And we have so much with him still ahead. He landed on thursday. It was quite a scene at the airport. Were going to talk to him coming up. But we want to start with that Tropical Storm churning. In the caribbean right now. Theres a live look at the radar. Erika hovering near puerto rico. The storm is already picking up strength and it could become, could become, the first hurricane to hit florida in a decade. It has caused problems in