To 15 , yet they are still opting to shut down. On the other hand, Santa Clara County is down to 15 , which equals 31 empty icu beds remaining in the south bay. Marianne favro is in san jose to see how hospitals are handling the covid surge. Reporter Regional Medical center of san jose is now at capacity, but it continues to accept new patients here in the emergency department. There are at least 66 Covid Patients at Regional Medical center, and the surge is straining hospital resources. We are at capacity. Theres essentially no more beds in the hospital to rapidly put the patients into their inpatient unit. Reporter the hospital continues to perform surgery and accept emergency patients. But elective surgeries have been put on hold. The Medical Center is also using beds in the postacute care unit to accommodate additional patients. But it wont be using the pandemic tents set up in the parking lot back in april. We think its going to be better to circle the wagon, have our Team Togethe
Bernard shows us many may be suffering from covid messaging fatigue. Inside or outside . In. Reporter there is a busy lunch crowd at the tavern in downtown napa. This longtime eatery has went with the punches and restrictions brought on by covid. Gm john crane says finally, his customers are coming back. We just had our best week. Our best covid week so far ended on sunday. Reporter but that could change. Instead of going in the right direction, new covid cases county wide are spiking. Going backwards at an alarming rate. We saw our case rate more than double over the weekend with 118 new cases in 72 hours. We also saw our hospitalizations double. We now stand at 12. Reporter thats the highest weekend total ever. The spike could send napa county back two steps to purple as soon as next week. The states most restrictive tier. Purple tier would be a temporary closure until things got better. Reporter thats not good. Not good. Reporter it would mean no outdoor dining. They only have four
Mountains where well have more than an inch. You can see during the afternoon hours, the rain is looking pretty impressive and so are those temperatures low to mid 60s. An hourbyhour look at that wet weather coming up. Thanks. Expect changes with your businesses starting today. Governor newsom had to pull the emergency brake on reopening because new cases in the state nearly doubled in just ten days. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Look at all that purple. Every county in the bay area is in the purple tier except for marin, San Francisco and san mateo, theyre in the red tier. Purple tier means transmission is widespread and that includes limiting Retail Stores and shopping malls to 25 capacity and closing all nonessential businesses such as churches, movie theaters gyms. These restrictions just went into effect at midnight and that only gave businesses a day to adjust to everything. Abc7 News Reporter Julian Glover live in t
That woman in oakland tonight, one of many who feels the decision to clear those officers is unjust. Good evening, im julie haener. And im frank somerville. Here in the bay area we saw protesters making a statement tonight with their cars. Take a look, traffic on the bay bridge slowed to a crawl around 6 30 tonight as caravans of protesters collectively slowed the evening commute this video from scott fox shows the unusually heavy traffic on the upper deck headed into the city. Because of the backup some transit agencies, including muni , temporarily suspended their trans bay service. We also saw slow traffic on the dunbar bridge in another display of civil disobedience. This was shortly before 6 00 as a small caravan of slow moving cars made their way west across the bridge. In oakland protesters gathered outside city hall tonight to display their displeasure with the term events and also to recognize lives lost in california at the hands of police. Tran wants amber lee joins us now a
Alcohol. The board of supervisors are expected to give final approval meaning if the smoke is to that later today. Bothering you or if you have breathing problems you may still need to limit your time outside today. Other than that we are looking limited restaurants and give them the opportunity to apply at improvements today as our for liquor licenses which will temperatures head to the 60s near the coast and some upper be good for months. 80s inland. New streets that are closing mike, how is it looking for the are in and around the downtown drive . Area. The map will show you they are 13th, washington, highway 85 circled around telegraph and west webster. Winchester. A twocar crash. No injuries reported. All social distancing rules well track that. Still apply if youre heading out there. Happening today leaders in a nice easy drive at 5 01. San jose plan to vote on millions of dollars to help no delays through contra costa people during the pandemic. County. Back to you. If approved