Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Did you see it or hear it . Thunder and lightning here in San Francisco and across the bay area. Rumbling in the north bay,va, p widespread wildfires. Flashing across the night sky in the east bay, lighting up the oakland skyline. Streaking across the south bay where its blamed for sparking on apartment fire. As someone who grew up on midwestern thunderstorms, it was both intense and unusual here. Yeah, eric. You got that right. Abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma joining us now. Right away with what to expect because, drew, this has been wild weekend of weather. Yeah. Certainly this morning is a morning a lot of us are not going to forget anytime soon. Hundreds of lightning strikes lighting up the morning sky earlier today. Live doppler 7 along with satellite showing you the bay area was basically the bullseye for all of the storm activity. Right now the current lightning strikes are in the sierra. But what is h
With about 55 in Half Moon Bay. From mt. Tam beautiful view there for a warmer day in store for you, but 40s right in petaluma, 50 in santa rosa, 59 in concord. You can see how low the cloud deck is here in the city where well have a warmer day as well. By 9 00 partly cloudy, looking at a sunny and warmer midday, 60s along the coast. Its breezy there. The warmup comes around the bay and inland as were in the 80s and 90s. Looking at a warm day tomorrow but will it be as warm . Ill let you know coming up. All right, lisa, thank you. California has passed the half million mark in coronavirus case, the first state in the country to do so. More than 8,000 cases were reported here in just the last day, and this morning an east bay doctor is not holding back forcefully saying it is time to take the virus more seriously. Our rights not wear a mask, that [ bleep ] is going to kill us. Nationwide july was the worst month so far of the pandemic. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larson has more on that do
A bay Area Business owner is selling her house thats been in the family for over 100 years just to stay afloat. Then ordered to shut down businesses in san mateo count county. It starts at midnight. We talk to the disappointed Business Owners. It was a bright and breezy start to the weekend. And soon those winds will bring cooler weather. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Good evening and thanks ojoining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. A couple of grim milestones today for california. The state set record 19 deaths. That broke the record set just a few days ago. There are more than half a million confirmed covid19 cases in the state, by far the most in the u. S. And the sevenday positivity rate, which is an indicator of testing and transmission, is now a 6 1 2 . On the peninsula in about an hour indoor businesses like hair salons and gyms will be shut down in San Mateo County. It was the last ba
California and visibility 2 1 2 miles santa rosa, and 5 miles on the coast. There is a look at emeryville shrouded in the clouds as we go through the next few hours into the 60s at 9 00. Mostly cloudy skies, becoming sunny and mild with 70s and 80s around the bay and inland by noontime. Another hot day inland, with temperatures in the low to mid90s, with 80s around the bay, and well look for that fog to come back into play but warm, warm, warm day before much cooler air arrives for the week ahead. Liz . Thank you. Our goal at abc is to build a better bay area through the pandemic in five key areas, a crucial one being the economy and local towns and cities where the coronavirus is forces businesses to adapt in major ways. As of this morning all indoor businesses are shutting down completely in San Mateo County. Nail salons and gyms were open for weeks but san mateo was the last bay area county to added to the watch list this past week, after staying on it for three days this is the res
Building a better yay for a a safe and secure future. In is abc 7 news. As you wake up, another bay area is closing down part of its economy. Beauty salons and bar der shops and gyms have closed signs once again but this morning, theres one way they may still be able to operate. Good morning, everyone. Its sunday, august 2nd. Im liz kreutz. Thanks for joining us. Well have a closer look at the new expanded Health Orders in a moment. Lets start with a quick look at the weather, heres meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, lisa. Good morning to you. Even though were starting out with low clouds and fog, today is going to end up a lot like yesterday, so were going to have warm weather once again as High Pressure to the south of us is going to bring in temperatures a bit above average, fourmile visibility, petaluma, a half mile in santa rosa with three miles on the coast so the low clouds and fog retreating to the shoreline by about mid morning but this morning were a little bit warmer an