Upstate University Hospital say working this Holiday Season isnt an option. Part of their care now includes connecting patients with loved ones hoping with phone calls and video chats and their families. I also like to read a little message on a whiteboard which is not the way towards our for but i dont care on thanksgiving. All right happy thanksgiving on and try and draw that turkey, theyre feeling the same pain of missing family time even when given the opportunity to go home. Rachel nolan is working christmas but had thanksgiving off, im personally not seeing any of my family members unfortunately thats just how it i do have high risk family members of my own and for these nurses at odessa, Regional Medical center. They say the hardest part of the job is being honest with families. When you wants to see their family. You have to be the one to during their next place that them the reason to buy we can allow visitors up here as their hospital hit capacity, this month employees are in
Remarks from a 2019 shopper. Unemployment is down. More people are working and spending. Reporter this years spending. We were not allowed inside. For shoppers, in addition to looking for gifts, they are looking out. Decides looking for what youre looking for, yet to make sure you were not too close to somebody else. To it is different. You have to stand in lines and do all of this funky stuff. The funky stuff is wearing a mask, social distancing, and waiting outside of the store if it gets too crowded. There were no large crowds at bay street in emeryville, indicative of many shoppings lots in the east bay. Despite small crowds, the Holiday Shopping analysis by e marketer. Com, expects u. S. Retail sales to rise a most 1 above 2019. Theres a 4. 7 decrease in brickandmortar sales, but a 36 jump in Online Shopping. One worker sun valley mall describes foot traffic as steady. They added, do not come seeking santa claus, because he will not be here due to the pandemic. Some shoppers opted
Using Curbside Pickup here in the bay area some stores did not see the large crowds that were anticipated, but that depends on where you did your shopping today kron fours gayle ong talked to shoppers in walnut creek. She joins us now live with more gayle. Vicki and can i actually spoke to a manager at lululemon where the wait time was about 45 minutes and part of the reason was because they were following Covid Protocols and up staying under the Maximum Capacity to avoid those lines Health Experts are encouraging people to stay home and shop online get your deals that way at least one person i spoke to got that message. Looking at the lines and thinking were glad that will be done most of our shopping online on black friday lines out the door at Broadway Plaza in walnut creek still stores doing their best to make sure everyone stay safe in the age of covid19 theyre doing a very good job with the social distancing a lot of people Wearing Masks out here a different story in the morning
Santa clara county gets serious with retailers. Well tell you how many Health Violations they handed out on black friday. Today the city of berkeley reactivated its covid relief fund, hoping to help hundreds of struggling businesses and tenants. Im spencer christian. Mild weather of late november will continue into earlry december. Ill have the forecast. Abc7 news at 11 00 begins now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Scary. I mean, because covid. But the deals are good. Ahead of a busy Holiday Shopping season, Health Officials up and down the coast are cracking down. Some bay area retailers are being fined for covid violations. And tonight in los angeles, officials are strictly limiting any social gatherings to only people in the same household. It all comes as coronavirus cases continue to rise. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. And im dion lim. With the Holiday Shopping weekend in full swing, officials are trying
News station. Now with breaking news. Breaking news out of Sacramento Police responding to a deadly shooting at a mall on this very busy shopping day. Thanks for joining u. S. Attorney and im ken wayne and im Vicki Liviakis the shooting was reported about 7 oclock tonight at arden fair mall. At least one person was killed another suffered life threatening injuries. The suspect is still at large. Police say this was not an active shooter situation and there is currently no active threat. We are still working with our sister station in sacramento to bring you the latest details and well pass them along as soon as they come in. We first brought you this story on our kron 4 mobile app make sure to download it to get the latest breaking news sent straight to your smart device. To another big story that were following for you tonight covid19 cases are skyrocketing across the state. According to the state Health Department there were 12,000 new cases and 54 deaths in just the past 24 hours. T