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
Distance in a cathedral which normally seats 2,500. I think they have one policy for all churches. I would like to see something more reasonable that errs on the side of safety but also respected our First Amendment right to worship. Sometimes i dont feel as close to jesus when i dont come to his home. Im going to miss him again. Reporter gyms must close or operate outdoors. Thats almost impossible for planet granite indoor climbing gym in the presidio that is forced to make tough choices for the second time. They forced us to lower staff again. Hopefully, this shutdown is not as long as the previous one. It makes sense given the current climate of covid19 that it does have to reclose again. Its just pretty sad. Rock climbing is such a community sport. Reporter in golden gate park, top attractions like the Deyoung Museum and California Academy of sciences are locked up tight. The new sky star wheel has stopped turning. Closed after debuting only last month. I feel so sad. We came to se
Tonight in both counties. This means nonessential illnesses and social gatherings with stop between the hours of 10 00 at night and 5 00 in the morning. Flock it is absolutely essential and it is important people live by the rules and if more people to, we would have a lot shorter time period, and significantly fewer death. Meriden county is the only bay area county still in the red tear. The second most restrictive tear although that could soon change. Moderna is now the Second Company to apply for emergency use use authorization from the fda for the coronavirus vaccine. As casey reports with cases and hospitalizations on the rise across the country, plans are being made to get the vaccines distributed as quickly as possible. Reporter the numbers are staggering. The u. S. Adding more than for million new covid cases in the month of november. Help could be just around the corner corner with moderna announcing the have applied for emergency use use authorization from the fda for their v
Conspiracy theories. Thats not normal president ial behavior. We should be making it easier for everybody to vote. President obama campaigning in the battleground state of North Carolina this evening. A lot happening tonight. Reporter that is for sure, janelle and raj. Now we are seeing the final preparations under way for the final president ial debate. Its the last chance for voters to see the two candidates going head to head, to size them up side by side. Predictably, they are each going into this allimportant final debate with different approaches. President trump continuing his campaign blitz, while joe biden has been largely out of sight this week, preparing. With less than two weeks to go until election day, its all coming down to a handful of battleground states, including pennsylvania, where tonight former president barack obama makes his first appearance on the campaign trail for joe biden. The former president making a new appeal to young voters. Hope is not ignoring proble
Proud boys would know how to find them. The fbi says its an attempt to create chaos and undermine confidence in the election, but they insist our election systems are resilient. Do not allow these efforts to have their intended effect. If you receive an intimidating or manipulative email in your inbox, dont be alarmed and do not spread it. This is not a partisan issue. He added that russia and iran have independently obtained Voter Registration information but that data is already public. Our other top story this evening, thousands of people are gearing up for the lights to go out in a matter of hours. For some this will be the fourth pg e outage of the year. Pg e does confirm it will turn off the power to 4,200 bay area customers tonight because of dangerous fire conditions. You can see the yellow there on your map. Those are the yellow, those are the counties impacted by what will happen tonight. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez has the latest from napa county. This is my mothers rescues