Think he should keep his house cat in from now on. A focus now on your health and in our effort to build a better bay area, we could see a new standard to help when counties can reopen. It involves measuring the difference between wealthy neighborhoods and low income areas and its creating controversy. Reporter counties in california are placed in one of four color indicators. Californias department of Public Health is still finalizing details, but a third metric, called the equity metric, is in the works. Dr. Mike reed, who helps run San Franciscos Contact Tracing program, explains what it is. A ratio of the covid test positivity in low income neighborhoods compared to high income neighborhoods in any given county. Reporter San Franciscos overall Positivity Rate is 2 . In august, a study in just the Mission District found a 9 Positivity Rate. The equity metric could mean the difference between the 2 and 9 would have to decrease to reopen the city. This is not just me making a morally
Building a better bay area, for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Nothing quite like this. A man searching for his cat looked outside and saw what hi thought was a large dog in his front yard. That is no dog. It was a big cat, aig cat stalking right near a group of children. We spoke to the man tonight and he shared a picture of a mountain earlier chasing after his pet. Ive never seen anything like that. There are close encounters, and then what timothy saw saturday evening. I went outside to look for my cat, who had gotten out earlier. When i went outside, i opened the door and i thought it was a German Shepherd at first. And i thought oh, somebodys dog. Then i looked at it and it turned and looked at me, and i was like oh, my god, thats a Mountain Lion. He noticed the big cat had its eyes on children and tried to alert them. So i started yelling for the id cans to go back inside. And thats when the Mountain Lion turned around and saw me coming starting coming at me and jum
At live doppler 7. You can see cloud cover around the bay area and not a lot of dense fog. In the east bay, we have 60 over in danville and closer to the bay numbers are in the low 5s, ro air quality moderate in the north bay today and tomorrow but the rest of you enjoying pretty good air quality. It was pretty nice yesterday, wasnt it . Today is the beginning of fall and you equinox. Were feeling like fall. In fact, temperatures climbing through the 70s bys highs and 60s at the coast. Thank you, lisa. Were expecting to get an update on the fall learning plan as experts give Distance Learning disappointing marks. Education is one thing were focused on to build a better bay area. Amy hollyfield is live in the Marina District with more on this. Amy . All right. Looks like were having some issues hearing amy and well get back to that update with San Francisco schools in just a moment. First, we want to tell you about more counties expected to move up to the next level in californias reope
You cant get through. The regular Customer Service line 8 00 to noon, forget it. Reporter Michael Hurley has been waiting since june. No faith in the system, none at all. Reporter the e. D. D. Blocked benefits saying they needed to prove they are who they say they are, like thousands of others they mailed in paper documents verifying their identity and then heard nothing back. I think im now in another reporter kim was told to wait eight weeks. I was upset. Because how would it be eight weeks to find my identity . I sent why eight weeks . Reporter the e. D. D. Required thousands of workers to verify their identities as it tries to weed out rampant fraud. But the Governors Task force found scammers still got paid while honest workers were blocked from benefits. During a twoweek reset, the e. D. D. Will install new technology that automatically verifies an k57pplicaapplicant identity and speed up new claims even as it doesnt address the old ones. Good afternoon, governor. Are you confide
Mathews. In manchester, New Hampshire. Its the night before the states legendary primary where some are expected to show up at midnight to cast their ballots. Candidates are fanned out making their appeals. Bernie sanders extending his lead here and nationally. A new Quinnipiac National poll shows sanders going from five points behind joe biden just two weeks ago to an eightpoint lead over him. Michael bloomberg who is skipping New Hampshire has doubled his support in that same time. Four years ago sanders defeated Hillary Clinton here by more than 20 points. The final cnn tracking poll ahead of tomorrows vote shows sanders leading with 29 percent followed by buttigieg at 22 , biden at 11, senator Elizabeth Sanders down at 10 and Amy Klobuchar at 7. But the final boston global track has sanders leading at 27 followed by buttigieg at 19, klobuchar jumped into third place at 14 after fridays debate followed by biden and warren who are now at 12 . Buttigieg and sanders went into overdrive