Tonight. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Good evening. More than 18,000 californians have been diagnosed with coronavirus. Imagine the entire town of maraga getting sick. Its the second record in five days. On saturday the record was 15,442 new cases. For perspective, over the past seven days, weve averaged fewer than 14,000 new cases. Over the past two weeks, the average is roughly 11,000. Here is another way to understand whats happening in this graph you can see our summer spike right there in the middle and on the right, the current surge, which eclipses anything weve experienced so far. In many ways, the timing couldnt be worse. Today is expected to be one of the busiest days of thanksgiving travel despite numerous and repeated warnings from Health Agencies against traveling or gathering. Lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, San Francisco International Airport and 101 in san jose. Sky 7 was over 680 in the east bay. You can see plenty of cars on the road at 1 00 in the
Orders amidst new highs in covid19 case counts and hospitalization rates. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the warning. Reporter as the bay area prepares for a thanksgiving unlike any other, Santa Clara County has another urgent warning for the public. Do not have gatherings and do not travel. Period. Reporter today, 512 new cases of covid19 were reported county wide. A new record for the highest daily case count since the start of the pandemic. Perhaps up to 60 of the time when people are infecting others or infectious themselves, they have absolutely no symptoms. Reporter the county also saw its highest daily number of covid19 hospitalizations at just under 200 patients. Troubling numbers at a time of year when most hospitals are already busy because of the cold and flu season. Were extremely concerned about what this means for our hospitals ability to care for not only people with covid19 but for other people who need access to care in our hospitals. Reporter stanford hospital i
Or your phone, our app on the phone to see the temperature, subtract about 3 to 6 degrees from that. Thats what the windchill will feel like. This afternoon, how about low to mid 60s from the coast to our inland neighborhoods. Lets get the news on this thanksgiving. Heres kumasi. Good morning, by day for staff and volunteers here at glide. Volunteers are busy setting up tables and putting up signs. The tables are set up to allow for social distancing, aside from those few changes it will be the same glide thanksgiving meal that thousands demand on each year. Glide has continued to serve food three meals a day since the start of the pandemic. That has not stopped. Organizers say there was never a doubt they would do thanksgiving, the issue was how. So moving the event outdoors solved that problem. Thankfully no rain. They plan to serve 2,300 meals. One of the organizers says because of covid19 this years thanksgiving brunch is even more necessary. Covid is affecting all of us, but its a
Help. Through a translator, a mother makes a plea from San Francisco while her 10yearold daughter is stuck overseas. The little girl is in egypt and her family is in originally from yemen, they had to leave the girl behind on their journey to the bay area because of a visa problem they havent been able to fix. Nbc bay areas jean elle has more on the difficult decision to separate and the painful months of waiting. Translator pain. Im in pain every day. Every day crying. Reporter with only three of her four children by her side, through ahi woman talks about the pain of leaving her 10yearold daughter, rahad. Translator it was the hardest moment of my life. I left her, and she was crying and was saying, please wait a little bit, wait a little bit. Reporter this is video of the tearful 10yearold who is waiting for a visa in egypt. As the San Francisco chronicle first reported, after years ofp family left wartorn yemen to join the childrens father in San Francisco earlier this year. Their
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are live on the rooftop of i am michelle griego. It is a 30. Good morning to you. We are glad to have you with us. We have a check on the forecast on this friday eve. And here is mary lee standing by with that. Happy thursday, almost friday. We are looking at another day of those clouds as we start off our day. We will see some clearing for most of us except for the coast with seasonal daytime highs. You can see those clouds, and we are in the 50s to low 60s at this hour. Through the afternoon, and through our day, mid 60s in San Francisco, low 80s in san jose and mid 80s for concord. We are right around where we should be. We are going to warm up as we look ahead to the end of the week especially into the weekend. Details on that are coming up in just a bit. California now has the most coronavirus cases in the country. Nearly 13,000 new cases in a single day. A top Santa Clara County Health Expert is making a grim prediction, covi