Thats due to more restrictive measures being instituted in california and other states to help stem the growing tide of covid19 cases. Today, the cdc announced its recommending against travel for the holiday. Ktvu southbound reporter jesse gary picks it up from there. Reporter with a week before thanksgiving, air travel is light at Oakland International and other bay area airports. We just wanted to break it up, so that we werent traveling with a bunch of other people. A little bit easier the week before. Reporter this as officials at Mineta San Jose International airport say travel during the 11 day thanksgiving holiday period is scheduled to be 1 5th less than it was the year before. This is the simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Reporter newsom says 94 of the states population is now in the purple tier, including six bay area counties. As a result, Officials Say people should forego gatherings with families and friendes this year. J
Since the pandemic began with more than 10,000 cases reported since yesterday. More than 18,000 people with the virus have now died in our state. Including 94 deaths in the past 24 hours. In the last week or so, a lot of items sold out early in the pandemic are selling out again amide this new second wave and rise in cases and the holiday rush. Ktvu has been looking into the increased demand and tells us what Grocery Stores are doing in the face of this second surge in sales. When the pandemic began, toilet paper, paper towels, disinfectants, sugar, rice, flour, and other items were swept from the shelves. Consumer Brands Association executive, katie denis says though actual pandemic sales went up only 21 above normal, that was enough to create months of shortages that forced rationing. Ultimately, putting in some of those restrictions is responsible in that people buy what they need and not more than what they need. Some over buyers bought massive amounts of items then resold them on
Live from dc with all the details. Hi alexandra. Hey vicky good evening throughout the week we saw the interactions between senators and judge barrett remain quite cordial. But today we did see lawmakers lose their patience with each other. Points. In the final day of hearings Democratic Senators continued to push against the nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court this is as sham democrats say republicans previously vowed not to move forward with filling Supreme Court seats in an Election Year louisiana senator john kennedy says he made no such promise you just accused me breaking my word i can. Name some names the record will confirm that the chairman. In fact made that. Commitment democrats pointed to statements made by senator Lindsey Graham and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell when republicans blocked the nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016, he said the American People should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice Republican Ut
For example one of the sas one of the accused spoke 109 times we thought one of the attackers between june 28th and september he said the other 2 accused also interacted with with the attackers. Also produced by prosecution was of a vehicle that was used to ferry the attackers with the prosecutors say that one of the accused was involved in pursuit of that vehicle the prosecution also produced evidence of a laptop they said one of the accused was found with this laptop they say contained material. Of terrorism nature material that was used to organize the carrying out of that attack in westgate on the defense the defense lawyers say that all this evidence is circumstantial and there is no direct link between their cues passons and and the attack that took place at the westgate mall. Leaders of the greek far right Golden Dawn Party have been found guilty of running a criminal Organization Thousands of protesters gathered outside the court to hear the verdict the police fired tear gas to
The bay area, richmond in downtown oakland set records while san jose it happened they match their previous high temperatures. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, a heat advisory remains in effect until 9 oclock tomorrow night. The extreme heat along with the windy and dry conditions forcing power shut offs or thousands of people in the bay area we have Team Coverage tonight on the heat advisory Taylor Bisacky live in the east bay where people are in the dark tonight because of the power shut off but first lets head over to the Weather Center where our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is standing by lauras the fire danger still exists. Yeah weve seen these kind of come in waves pam, we see these impulses one came through this morning and then it picked up in the afternoon over parts of the east bay now going to watch those winds ramp up again tonight youre seen highpressure already in place now weve seen those offshore winds, it felt the heat out there and certainly some ve