Contact tracers are struggling to keep up with the surge of covid cases and calls. The patterns theyve noticed in cases and when cooperation gets complicated. Love is in the air and you can see the tents are up as we approach thanksgiving. Ill let you know the best time for dining outdoors. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. The range of reactions are theyre really sick. Others are just, oh, i got it, and im still going to go back to that allinclusive place in mexico. Tonight the explosion in covid cases has made it nearly impossible for contact tracers to keep up. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larson spoke to a bay area Contact Tracing team about the unprecedented challenges theyre facing on a daily basis. In the last few weeks weve been slammed. Reporter prepandemic was a library. Now she leads a team of contact tracers in the city whos work load has increased to nine or ten calls a day. Some of whic
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
Now at 11 00, thousalain. Tonight, wait until you hear how many citations are being issued for health order violations. If we dont get serious, we all fall down. The giants game ended less than two hours ago, will it be their last of the season . A san quentin inmate dropped off to quarantine and no one was notified. I am diabetic. I am sick because i have not had anything to eat. Restaurants in crisis. A shocking new estimate about how many could close for good because of the pandemic. And why the cbc is warning us to throw out onions if you dont know where they came from. Now streaming, california is closing in on half a million cases of coronavirus. Nearly 270,000 were recorded this month alone. New at 11 00, friday night is not nearly as busy as it used to be, this was the scene in north beach and san francisco. And it is estimated that a third of restaurants are facing permanent closurbecausof covid19. There are fixed costs. There are labor costs that are going to go up by 20 in n
Group told bloomberg that we could see 230,000 restaurants go out of business. And top duchess disease experts tell us we could see a vaccine in a matter of months. Ultimately through 2021, i think we will have a safe and effective vaccine and americans will be able to get it. If researchers create an effective vaccine, it would be distributed in phases. For the first time in 30 years there are fewer than 100,000 californians behind bars in part due to the pandemic. An Early Release program was implement to prevent infections. The goal, to release 8000 inmates by the end of the next month. Andrea reports a send Clint Quinton and made claims he was dropped off at a hotel to quarantine for two weeks, only to be left stranded without support or a single meal. He told me he was dropped off at this hotel on tuesday, since then he has been scrambling to find something to eat. I feels hopeless, his cries for help have gone unanswered until now. Are not free now, it has gotten worse. He traded
People are dead 3 are wounded, including at 10 yearold child. A celebration of a toddlers birthday erupted into gunfire tuesday night outside this will lay her home and sent the avenue its deeply disturbing that they would target a small children and women like this and the men that were there, but it was a toddlers birthday party. And weve got this level of violence is just its disturbing multiple gunman opened fire in a 63 yearold woman and a 37 yearold woman were killed a 10 yearold child was wounded along with 2 other adults, those 3 are expected to survive. The 192 shootings in vallejo just last year alone folios police chief says bringing down gun violence is a top priority. We need your support we need to be united with our residents with our Faith Based Community with her. On nonprofits we need to come together to to reduce violence. But the chief says police cannot do it alone and it will take the community to come together. But i think the pilots and middle schools, high scho