Increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. The governor is now putting 94 of the state in the most restrictive purple tier, including alameda, contra costa, santa clara, napa and solano counties. The purple tier means cases are widespread and nonessential indoor businesses like churches, movie theaters and gyms must close and Indoor Dining must also close. Meanwhile, San Francisco, marin and san mateo are moving back to the red tier. That means cases are substantial and indoor operations are allowed at a reduced capacity. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. Thanks for joining us. Lets get right to liz kreutz with the latest announcement from the state including an apology from the governor. Yes. There was a lot of news from this briefing. We did get an apology from the governor and also saw every single bay area county but one get moved into a more restrictive tier. The only one that didnt is sonoma county. With just over a week until thanksgiving, no
Today america reported a record high 136,000 new cases. Its the seventh consecutive day with 100,000 coronavirus cases nationwide and now, every state in the country is reporting an increasing number. Texas just became the first state with 1 million cases. In california, not far behind and at our current rate, well reach 1 million cases by the weekend. Bay area counties range from the best to the worst among the color coded coronavirus restriction tiers. San francisco is the only in the best category, yellow but preemptively going to shut down indoorining friday night as a precaution. Yesterday contra costa and santa cruz moved backwards from orange to red. A spike in new cases in napa county has Health Officials worried and for very good reason. Those numbers are rapidly moving in the wrong direction and could send napa county from the orange tier to the state most restrictive purple tier if things dont turn around. Cornell bernard found many people are suffering from coronavirus fati
They can try to steal the election from us. The vote counting continues tonight. We heard from both president ial candidates this afternoon. Former Vice President joe biden is confident of a win, while President Trump claims fraud, though no votes have yet found to be illegal. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. There are six states abc news has not called. Alaska, arizona, georgia, nevada, north carolina, and pennsylvania. Former Vice President joe biden has 253 electoral votes. President trump has 214. Remember, it takes 270 electoral votes to win. Lets zero in on whats happening in some of those key states, battleground states that have yet to be called. In georgia, President Trumps lead continues to slip. Its now just under 35,000 votes i should say, 3,500 votes. In nevada, the candidates are split by about 11,000 votes with a current tally favoring biden by less than 1 percentage point. Clark county which includes las vegas is expected to release results from 51
Us will enjoy the warming trend but part of that system is going to sag to the south, bringing a few clouds to the north bay. Maybe even a sprinkle. Its 35 right now in santa rosa, 43 in oakland, 42 in santa rosa and a check of the fog youll notice livermore just one mile visibility, five miles in santa rosa. So the deal for your sunday starting out with partly cloudy conditions, lots of sunshine, low 60s around noontime, bay side and inland in the 50s at the coast and later on this afternoon in the upper 60s in parts of the south bay and east bay valleys. Clouds in the north bay and chance of a sonoma sprinkle. Well talk about that and the next rain chance for the entire bay area in a beau minutes. We begin way look at the surge in covid19 cases. California officially topped 1 million diagnosed coronavirus cases, the state reported more than 9,800 new cases yesterday, one of the largest single day counts we have seen since august. The 14day Positivity Rate is 4. 2 , 4 friday and 3. 7
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. With covid19 cases growing, millions of people here in the bay area will see indoor operations at restaurants and several other businesses come to an end. And with the holidays coming up, many are doing what they can to survive. Some are getting creative in expanding services in ways never seen before. Good morning, everybody, thanks for joining us. It is sunday, november 15. Im liz kreutz. Well have much more on the changes and restrictions many counties are facing this week. First, as always, a quick look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Hey, liz. Good morning, everyone. Its a beautiful start to the day although its pretty chilly out there. We have low dew points and a dry north wind. Thats also going to warm us up pretty quickly. As we look at the visible picture, check out the clouds in northern california. The top of mt. St. Helena shows you where that line is. East bay, 49 in San Francisco,