Ramped up earlier this year. You called it also a significant step. Why is that . You know, this is the first drug in the eightmonth history pesky virus that is f. D. A. Approved, which certainly has benefit, i think, if used in the right setting. The key is the right setting. But its not a home run. Reporter the experimental drug was previously authorized only for emergency use, and was used to treat the president. The news coming as coronavirus hot spots worsen. El paso reporting more than 1,100 new cases today. Unless we do something to control this this high increase in covidpositive exposures, well quickly run out of resources. Reporter 39 states report their average number of new cases is rising. Hospitalizations are climbing in 36 states, and straining resources. For all the numbers, its the names and faces that best illustrate the devastating toll. 33yearold Patrick Buchanan worked at an Elder Care Center in indianapolis when he contracted covid. He was hospitalized only a day
Next. Plus, Bed Bath Beyond coming clean. What it revealed about all those coupons. And shes for biden. Hes for trump. Can their love survive this president ial election . We meet the husband and wife who say, yes, it can. Good thursday morning, everyone. Im mona kosar abdi. And im trevor ault in for kenneth moton. We begin with the damage on the gulf coast. Hurricane zeta slamming into louisiana with new orleans in the bullseye. Winds topping 100 miles per hour. Flooding and now up to 8 inches of rain as the storm barrels northeast. The storms caused at least two deaths including one in mississippi and Power Outages are now widespread. But first the new video from the region. Overnight, hurricane zeta barreling into the gulf coast after making landfall in louisiana as a category 2 storm. Zeta is now the strongest hurricane to hit the continental u. S. This late in the season in more than a century. Authorities preparing for a storm surge of up to nine feet in mississippi and alabama.
The fire season. Good evening, everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Red flag conditions are back with the highest warning for fire danger set to go into effect at 11 00 tonight. Debbie begins our coverage. Well, julie, this red flag warning runs through 8 00 wednesday morning, and Governor Newsom said the next week is critical. Up there you can see just solid brush field and stuff that would really burn. Reporter climbing a fire road on marin countys mount, we top out at 2600 feet, where the winds whip hardest during red flag conditions. You can hear it just walking around. Reporter and where fuels are dry, even this close to the ocean, during august, lightning, a free strike, started a fire, kept small, but crews worry about this canopy with homes in the forest and what could happen. The wrong fire on the wrong day would be something that would be almost impossible to stop if it got going. Reporter the woodward fire was impossible to stop for a fire, burning more than a
Night. Lets our attention to why it is going to be warmer because of the winds blowing through the north bay. The red flag warning that continues until 8 00 wednesday morning and it is very dry and going to get breezy and that means anything that does ignite could spread rather rapidly. The winds are up to 32 Miles Per Hour st. Helena. As far as our temperatures we have this off shore breeze and more sunshine and feel more warmth. Near 70 at the coast and a bunch of mid to upper 70s around San Francisco, oakland and then richmond. Everybody else in the 80s around the bay and even some 90s showing up in the east bay. This is the first of two fire threats this week. Well talk more about that coming up. Heres kumasi. Thank you, mike. Here we go, again. Pg e is warning of another round of Fire Prevention shutoffs this week. 50,000 customers could lose electricity as early as tomorrow night. Here in the bay area 7,000 homes and businesses in six counties could see outages. The areas near mt
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