Saturday. Of those nearly 500 were confirmed in the capital. The metropolitan government plans to raise the coronavirus alert to its highest level on thursday, but its unclear how that will directly affect residents. Translator im a little scare d but i have no choice bu to go out. There are things i need to do. Im worried. Translator im trying to stay home as much as possible. I especlly avoid crowded places. The northern prefecture has also seen numbers soar reporting around 20 cases over the past ten days. Residents are being urged to avoid travel to or from the capital. Officials are also asking residents to avoid nonessential outings. Translator its inevitable but strict measures are being tak taken. Translator i also think each of us needs to Pay Attention to necessary preventive measures. Experts are concerned about the spread of cluster infections outside of entertainment districts and workplaces. They say grouped infections are being identified in rural areas, medical institut
As they could at the time until the professionals rolled in. No homes had to be evacuated, but im told the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley was evacuated when the fires first broke out but it only lasted about ten minutes when crews realized they were going to get a handle on this pretty quickly. The Wildlife Center building was not damaged. Back out here lives, crews, as i said, getting a handle on this fire that made for a very scary afternoon for the homeowners here. Live in san jose, katy marzullo, abc 7 news. Nearby four separate fires burned at least 85 acres this afternoon. Firefighters attacked the flames from the ground and the air. Sky 7 was overhead that blaze earlier. Crews quickly brought the fires under control in about two hours. This map shows you the location of the fire zone along Mount Hamilton road near grant lake. The area burned had been targeted for a vegetation clearing to reduce fire danger this summer. Heres a live look at the area that burned. You can see la
Just off north capital avenue, a few blocks from mayberry road. Katy marzullo joins us there live after speaking with homeowners. Katy . Reporter matt, ama, im standing near the homes behind me so you can feel how close this fire was to all these homes. My photographer is going to turn around here and show you just how close the flames burned in this direction towards the homes. You can see crews still here on the scene, going around putting out hot spots. Weve been watching them in the last few minutes, break down larger branches of the trees that are smoldering at the base. The Fire Department said this fire is not contained, but crews have been able to stop the forward progression of the fire. And theyre not calling out any more crews. At this point, they dont have an estimate on the acreage, and thats in part due to the fact that the area is densely populated. But despite that, they tell me no homes had to be evacuated. Although we do know from watching sky 7 hd and from me talking
50s and 60s. We will be okay this morning. I think the roads are wet. Lets not there is no standing water i have seen. I hope you are right. So far things havent been that much different from a regular dry drive. If you are driving in tracy right now you see slow traffic on 580 and 205 as it normally is. Driving in through the area. You can see the traffic is going he be slow in some of these areas. 61, i put that an the other side. If you are going out the to tracy. 61. Lets sea what it looks like here. 22 miamis an hour. Westbound. Which is still not to bad getting in to livermore. Once you get to livermore. Lets put it on the westbound 580 and see what this feed says here. Im almost afraid. 68. Not to bad. Driving over to the 88 the 580, 680 interchange. Just a hair more than it should be im afraid. Lets move along and take a look at the drive at the bay bridge toll plaza. Traffic is light into San Francisco. Its wet out there. In san jose northbound 280 traffic is moving well getti
Taking statements from some people and here is the video of the scene we just witnessed. Tensions still running high from what we gathered in talking to the people involved in this fight. A young man a student here at the campus was standing talking to someone else. He was wearing a make great again hat and two people in a suv pulled up and one got out and according to the victim in this case he was punched at least once in the face. He was attacked by this person that he said he doesnt even know. He believe itself was a politic alli motivated assault in this case. We did see at least one person taken in to custody by Police Officers who responded here to the scene and i talked to i witness to all of this. Here is what he said. Im not sure where we are living right now this country of free speech. Its unfortunate to see how people are behaving way because the person just promoting his views. Reporter and again its not clear if arrests were made. We did see at least one person taken in