For a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. Museums closed, churches no longer allowed to hold indoor services. A curfew forcing nonessential businesses to close. A new round of restrictions is taking effect in San Francisco and san mateo counties. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Im dion lim. It is a reopening rollback. San francisco and San Mateo County have moved to the purple tier today. The curfew we mentioned kicks in tomorrow night, and in the bay area only marin county remains in the less restrictive red tier. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard joins us live from Golden Gate Park in San Francisco where the ferris wheel and museum are now closed. Cornell, it seems like they just reopened not too long ago. Reporter youre right about that. So many people caught off guard, diane. Surprised to see their favorite attractions temporarily closed due to new purple tier restrictions including indoor worship. You teach us to love the things of heaven and hold fast t
Area, temperatures are near average to below and in the sierra, big time thunderstorms erupted yesterday. You can see that in tahoe and northeast california and also into the northern sacramento valley. So a typical july pattern. There is not much changing. Temperatures right now are in the 50s or low 60s. The city 55, the city has really been stuck. Lows in the 50s, highs in the mid text is mainly and overall this pattern is here to stay. It looks like subtle daytoday changes. Over to sal on monday, and still okay out there . It is still okay out there, steve, i like it. Theres no major issue. Right now traffic looks good though. No major problems there and traffic is moving along nicely. This is a time when, if youd you need to get out there early, take advantage of a nice commute. Lets go back to the headline. Thinks sal. Right now, the number of coronavirus cases in california has surpassed 450,000 with more than 8400 deaths. In the bay area, there are roughly 48,000 cases and 762
u.s. history. we are also live in texas now officially 100% open, during this covid crisis the state s mask mandate gone. the move being celebrated by some, slammed by others. and in minneapolis day two of jury selection in derek chauvin s murder trial now getting started. what we know about the three jurors already seated and what it might mean for the trial s outcome. i m hallie jackson in washington with you this morning, and we are live from both ends of pennsylvania avenue with nbc s leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill and carol lee at the white house. we ve been talking about this bill for months, it is set to pass within a matter of hours but may be a few hours longer. at this point we had expected debate to have begin, that is not the case at least as of 10:01 eastern time this morning. that s right, hallie. house speaker nancy pelosi and democratic leadership are so convinced that this bill is going to pass that they held a press conference yesterday touting the
Washington is one of the many states watches the number of new coronavirus cases shoot up this weekend. 34 states in all. Thats most of the country, reporting an uptick in new infections. Despite that somber news, the curve is not flattening let alone declining, americans across the country are celebrating Independence Day this weekend. Either by going out or staying in following distance and safety guidelines or in many cases not. President trump and the first lady playing hosts to one of the nations biggest holiday gatherings of people, music and fireworks on the National Mall and people who attend wd not required to wear a mask but were able, they were available to people who wanted one. This as Health Experts warn the july 4th Holiday Weekend could trigger even more spikes in coronavirus cases and we are hearing new reports of large holiday gatherings with many people not following social distancing guidelines. The videos are eyepopping. I bring in cnns reporter. Reporting on large
Mask im not blaming them im just saying what happens theyre playing with the mask, so the mask is over, and theyre touching it. And then theyre touching the plate. Thats cant be good face masks, these face masks, are the most important powerful Public Health tool we have and i will continue to appeal for all americans, all individuals in our country, to embrace these Face Coverings i have said it, if we did it for 6, 8, 10, 12 weeks, we would bring this pandemic under control. These actually, we have Clear Scientific evidence they work. And they are our best defense. I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covid than when i take a covid vaccine. That is a strong endorsement, again, unnamed waiters versus the head of the cdc. And just last hour, hhs spokesman Michael Caputo announced he will be taking a leave of absence caputos departure follow s his promotion of a dangerous and baseless Conspiracy Theory over the weekend accusing cd