Without power. At the height of the shutoff, 345,000 customers had their power turned off. Most areas are expected to have their lights turned on today. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live in orinda this morning with how residents are dealing with this and also businesses. Good morning, amy. Hi, jobina. You cant help but feel bad for the businesses and i ammic looilo looking at them in orinda and a second day and morning of not being able to light. Its the same situation in lafayette and also in moraga. Their downtown areas do not have power and, of course, some homes also have had their lights turned out. We have seen Grocery Stores bring in lights to stay in business. Some people are frustrated. You can go on nextdoor and read how hard this is for people as they try to distance learn and work without power. The Hardware Store now say they plan for these. After last years one we restocked and held stock on things like generators and cords for generators, oil for y generators and
House in downtown lafayette. The couple used wooden boards to cover cover up the ugly symbol of hate. Its really frightening and of deep concern to see this symbol of whites pharmacy being displayed. Reporter its clear this house was targeted. There is a flag supporting joe biden outside and on the second floor window, a sign that says grab him by the ballot box. A notsosubtle dig of President Trump about his comments on women. We have seven days until the next election, seven days to choose love over hate, unity over division and bravery over fear. Seven days to protect our childrens future and to make our parents proud. There was more graffiti, swastika equals trump sprayed on the Saint Stephens overpass on highway 24 in orinda. Its the same spot biden supporters have rallied each week. I was lost for words. Reporter the woman who hosts to these events told ktvu if there has to be a connection. It feels very targeted, given the visibility of the bridge and where we have been every fr
Reporter after months of shelter in place order San Francisco is now the first bay area county to achieve the lowest risk under the states blueprint for a safer e kick economy. A new county is benefiting, San Francisco county is moving from orange to yellow today. They are trending in the right direction. Cases are dropping. A few months ago the case rate was hundred 30 new cases per day. Now we are down to about 30 on average so that is very good news. Reporter those low numbers come even as the countys testing as many as 5000 people per day. Hospitalization rates are also low with just 25 people currently hospitalize with covid19. The county is also making major inroads in reducing coronavirus rates in the latino population. The yellow tear means the county can now proceed with its reopening plans. Starting next week nonessential Office Spaces will be allowed to open a 25 capacity. Health gyms will be allowed to open a 25 capacity if things continue to move in the right direction. Re
Doctors, many of them from the bay area. What is your groups ultimate mission . So first i do want to agree with you that the governors staff have put together a really superb group from experts from southern california, nourn california, academic institutions, health departments, so it is a great group of people with a lot of expertise. My understanding is that our committee and there are other advisory committees relating to covid and the vaccine. Our committee is primarily being asked to review all the information as it comes out, about what we know about these new vaccines and to look very carefully at their safety, at their effectiveness and make recommendations to the state of california regarding their use. Ok. So essentially getting your sale seal of approval before its released to californians. What steps will you be for the efficacy. The trials that are currently being done and we dont know exactly when those data will become available, but presumably sometime in the next one
Kari, you have had sky ranger to look out for and track downed power lines. It looks like its over off the shoulder there right around high street, coming up in through the Oakland Hills where highway 13 got a wind advisory from chp. Well watch for the traffic moving smoothly. At least part of a tree down inside this freeway. Outside the bay bridge toll plaza in the east bay and the oakland area metering lights turned on earlier than necessary because of the volume. I think theyre keeping folks on the shoreline to keep volume on the span lighter as we look at the map. That would make things easier to handle if there are problems. High wind advisory reported for many of the spans there and this traffic incident is the only problem because of the crash over into sunol and west 84, around the ge plant and that may be clearing lanes right now. Back over to you, kris. This morning about 225,000 pg e customers are without power across northern california. Look at the map. The north bay and e