Is appointing mike pence to lead to effort. Todays announcement comes after the World Health Organization comes after the announcement of more new cases outside of china than inside the country where the virus first started to spread. Chinese officials reported 412 new infections with 459 cases in the rest of the way including norway, pakistan and brazil. The total number globally has now reached 81,000 with more than 2,900 deaths. None so far in the u. S. Where 57 people are infected. Most are repatriated fraengs a cruise ship in japan. The question now is, is there anything had to do now . We went to the experts for advice. Reporter the coronavirus has infected people in 42 countries including the u. S. There is no treatment or vaccine. The citizens of San Francisco, theyll have to prepare as well. And a big part of it is understanding how to prevent the transmission of viruses between people. He is a San Francisco Public Health officer and epidemioligist. He said people can prepare
All b. A. R. T. Riders. Chief alvarez expected to address these concerns in a meeting with b. A. R. T. Officials later t in oakland. Reporting live outside of fremont b. A. R. T. , julian glover, abc7 news. It is now 4 31. If youre just waking up, heres an update on weather and traffic. Hi, mike. Hi, everybody. Lets look at the winds, theyre blowing offshore once again even though theyre very light, theyre Strong Enough that it will bring us another warm, sunny day. Heres a look from mount tam, you can see the lack of cloud cover that is out there. A few passing high clouds, there may be a patch of fog up in the north bay, for the most part, temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. By noon, 67 at the coast. Low 70s for the rest of us. And we keep warming, 68 at the coast by 4 00. 76 to 78 which will set new record high temperatures. Is thf eveninthis evening, even hi, jobina. It is 4 31. We have an overall look at the map, not many slowdowns at the moment. Coming out of tracy for the supe
Upper 60s, also watching out for a little bit that rain moving through, the bulk of the showers and storms have been well to the north of the viewing area and moving away from us. So as we go into the day, looking at temperatures reaching into the upper 70s in san jose, mid70s for oakland, upper 60s for San Francisco with lower 80s in the trivalley. Dev definitely cooler, and ill talk more about that coming up. Mike is track a crash. Thauz thats right pu mensed there may be a light sprinkle that went through the area. They do report two crashes, one southbound ive been tracking thats just before you get to the summit, and another one coming on the northbound side. The details on that late ef one do seem different enough nauf there maybe a second crash in the same area right around the santa cruz summit on highway 17. Meanwhile getting over to the bay bridge, easy drive as well. A light flow of traffic and well track this build. Back to you. Now to the Hurricane Irma coverage rare deadl
Word this fire right over my Left Shoulder has tripled in size and is now at 30 acres. Cal fire believes this is one of several fires caused by last nights light nick. Because its a relatively clear day, you can see this fire visible up and down the peninsula. You cab see smoke thats billowing from the top of skaggs mountain. We drove up there a couple hours ago to get a better look. Take a look at your tv screen. This is a view of the same fire from upper bear gulch road. Theres about as i mentioned 30 acres bushing. Its a heavily forested area. Because its very remote, no homes are threatened. But access is extremely difficult. Cal fire tells us that the nearest road is about a mile, a mile and a half away, which means their firefighters are having to hike in all of that diftance. Theres about is00 m100 men and on the ground. Plus two tankers and a spotter plane. Cal fire estimates there were about 1,000 light nick strikes. That started seven fires. This one being the biggest one and
Focusing on the mexican food vaunt. They say that is where the fire starts. They will be out here all day long. The fire was similar to another strip mall fire in the south bay just a few weeks ago, a five alarm fire that broke out at a Shopping Center on may 25th. We brought it to you right here. Six businesses were destroyed there and several others were damaged. There is no word on the cause of the fire. We will bring it over to meteorologist mike nicco traffic accidenting the rain headed for the bay area . Ought rain this time tomorrow. Especially in the north bay. I will have a look at that in about gone minutes. I focus on the winds in the south bay, look at hose and mountain view, about three Miles Per Hour, so that is good news. When you look at sfo, it is 20, and oakland is 28, concord is 16, and napa is 12, and livermore is 13. Breezy. Beautiful sunrise develop on the explore inform camera at pier 15 and the big story is it is breezy and below average with temperatures painly