Healthy. Thats a challenging goal during a pandemic. The coronavirus keeps coming back threatening to beworse than before. California is approaching a million diagnosed cases total and the new cases are rising once again as you can see on the graph. We added more than 5300 in the past day and the state just reached another milestone, more than 18,000 deaths from coronavirus. However, there is optimism about a vaccine being ready but that wont fix everything as were reminded by dr. Patel. When its time to get the vaccine, we need to be in a much better place than we are right now to make sure that we go and get the vaccine and we can get back to normal faster. Because of the pandemic, Health Officials recommend you stay home this Holiday Season but for those intent on traveling, covid19 test appointments right before thanksgiving may be hard to come by. Melanie woodro did the research. Reporter tis the season but this season travel for thanksgiving could look vastly different. Just have
Degrees warmer. Then at the same time yesterday so do enjoy this mild start. Im talking more in your forecast ahead. Rob, thank you john were off to a pretty good started traffic to its very quiet out there with no major issues a live look westbound 92, this is your drive out of hayward over to the peninsula. And you know its a little busy right here on the flat section thats completely normal so no problems just picking up and quickly so were looking at 12 minutes off to one o one were checking in on 80 your trip into San Francisco moving well looking good. No problems so far so easy 7 minutes off to one oh one or 2 the to downtown San Francisco and they were checking in on one oh one out of san jose to menlo park thats 26 minutes. The highway for all smooth and at the limit will check more traffic coming up in a bit back to you. Thanks a lot rob. And our top story parts of the bay area are having to roll back on reopening because covid is on the rise and we showed you this map yester
One possible snag. The signature test. Its something all ballots must go through, especially right now as mailin ballots pour in by the millions to election offices. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. In the 2018 general election nearly 23,000 mailin ballots were rejected across the bay area. The big three mistakes, no signature on the ballot or envelope, signature doesnt match Voter Registration card, or ballot isnt returned in time. As President Trump erroneously claims that mailin ballots are not reliable, we wanted to look at the verification process, especially the signatures. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Friedman is on the story. Reporter youre looking at the largest early voter turnout in marin county history with more than 100,000 ballots cast already. Thats more than half the registered voters. Panner lowe was one of them today but after talking with us she did have some questions. Are you worried . Well, now i am. Reporter and all because of he
For a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. Well begin tonight with what happened after a simple request to wear a mask. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. And im dione lynn. This come is sharing this story to protect her family. In this story, you will see only on abc 7. Its really unacceptable to feel fear in your own home neighborhood. Reporter that fear is exactly the reason she is choosing only to use her first name in sharing the story behind this racist letter. It just basically says i wear my mask if i want, f word, asian. You create the virus. Reporter it all began with a walk with her twin infant girls when she spotted a man near by. He wasnt wearing a max. I asked when he came into ear shot that he wear a mask. Reporter what happened next was the beginning of a nightmare. He locked eyes with me and immediately started charging up the hill at me. Reporter she ran into her home terrified. Her husband then scared the man away. He came rushing out because he heard the
Fours dan thorn joins us live after hearing from the family and the Community Dan this is so sad. Right the family telling us tonight that this was truly. Senseless killing they are hoping that whoever is responsible is eventually caught and caught soon. Meanwhile, the city of berkeley as a whole is dealing with an uptick in gun violence has city officials grapple with ways to solve this problem. Balloons float and candles lane were a berkeley woman was gunned down in a driveby shooting the victim 19 yearold serenity henderson, a mother of a 9 monthold who was also expecting another baby just help us find these People Killed mine it needs. She was 11 heritage. She had all heard any lunch henderson was shot while driving along prince street near Malcolm X Elementary School her family says her mother and 9 monthold child were in the car. Police say more than a dozen shots were fired. No one else was hit since this matters is nice time rainy wooten remembers her cousin serenity as an affe