The much talked about surge in covid19 cases appears to be happening in california. New numbers show a shocking rise in infections hitting numbers not seen in months. With that, we say good evening and thank you for joining us. Im dion lim. Certainly not a good day at all for california with the coronavirus. The state reported nearly 11,000 diagnosed cases today, the highest since early august. The Positivity Rate continues to rise with the 14day rate jumping to 4. 4 . It was 4 on friday. That number is a strong indicator of the transmission rate of the virus. Nearly 3700 people are in the hospital getting treated for covid19 and about 1000 of them are in the icu. Now, the spike in covid cases is increasing the demand for testing right here in the bay area. But some testing sites are reaching capacity. According to abc 7 News Reporter cornell bernard, some advocates are calling for more testing sites to handle the load. Reporter across california, the need for covid testing is in high
Clean up the sand, its going to take hours look at this mess here is one big rig, heres a pickup truck in the middle heres another big rig that flipped over once again the 3 right lanes are closed. This is the spill thats a lot to clean up right so for those of you who are trying to get over to south 6 ad you can get by, but you will be delayed, im just recommending that you go ahead and hop off admission use mission to continue off to fremont darya and james, this is not what they meant when they said bring your own sand to the beach this is not what were talking you see that huge spill take hours to get this cleaned up and out of the way this is in fremont the adMission South a big mess want to look at dire that well thats all you a lapse thats thats not good and this is just one big rig. Thats of all we have at least 4 others that you can back and look at that theres a pickup truck in the middle another big rig on the right that left its going to be the is better than chickens. Beca
Its back to the heavy winter jackets we go hopefully not always the roads as far as see the hot spot. You know theres an issue out looks like this one is in the east bay robin to write east bay south the city of fremont several big breaks and several construction trucks. Thats not good yeah, we have several lanes closed by the way to southbound 6 ad adMission South. Heres 3 right. Lanes close. We have big rigs and trucks involved in this crash theres order to scattered across the lanes here so a big mess for south 6 ad which was quiet just 15 minutes ago now we have traffic backed up a few miles leading up to the scene so yeah, this is a hot spot, ill keep my eyes on you can get by with just get out there a little early because youre delayed 19 minutes and growing from dublin to fremont because of that crash also checking in for vasco road for my folks who commute into livermore for southbound vasco an accident here about a mile or so before old vasco road thats blocking the southbound
This is a special edition of the news with shepard smith. Hurricane delta makes landfall and good evening from cnbc the hurricane moments away from landfall right now and frankly, about to make history. Hurricane delta is closing in on the southwestern coast of louisiana as a very powerful category 2 storm delta is set to become the tenth named storm to strike the United States this year that has never happened in recorded history never have there been ten named storms i want to show you where we are right now. This is the radar. You can see part of the eye has already come ashore just south and east of lake charles, louisiana. The storm has been weakening throughout the afternoon it was 115 miles an hour four hours ago, maximum sustained winds now 100 miles an hour. The minimum pressure has risen that means the storm is getting weaker the higher the pressure, the weaker the storm, because its a low pressure center. Right now its moving toward land, and part of that eye is already over
Bridges, conditions definitely slick out there. Im allen martin and for kent. Im elizabeth cook. Live in coverage right now in the kpix 5 news, d streaming on cbsn bay area. Hagan, the south bay has been getting pounded this evening. Especially into the santa clara valley. There is rain into the valley once again, it is just not as intense as what we had last night period the wind is not as strong either period showers for the north bay right now, that is light activity, the heaviest rain has been further ts zoom in for a closer look at that and show you what we are looking at on high death doppler. Light showers, the rain has tapered off a bit, the heaviest rain indicated by yellows and oranges has been getting nudged a bit further to the east over the past 45 minutes or so. A hopeful sign is that we have seen a tapering trance to showers in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Here is where the heaviest rain is falling right now, just under half an inch per hour. That number is lower than it wa