This is abc7 news. [ chanting this is what democracy looks like] many of them ready to vote for the very first time and want to make sure their voices are heard at the ballot box. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Im dion lim. Count them down, only two days left before the election, and the final push is on to get out the vote across the bay area. Youth voter turnout could be pivotal on tuesday. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard joins us live at San Francisco city hall where young people took to the streets today to make sure their voices are heard. Cornell . Reporter yeah, dion, they really did take to the streets of San Francisco. Many of them are firsttime voters, and they say that they know that they have the ability to make a change on tuesday. [ chanting ] reporter election day closing in fast, young voters are feeling empowered. This event called march for our future made its way through San Francisco sponsored by youth advocates for change. We are two days fro
Good evening everyone and welcome to the special election coverage. All eyes are on the president ial race, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden made one final push for votes today wrapping up what has been an incredibly contentious battle for the white house. Polls are just closing moments ago in iowa, montana, nevada, and utah. Here is a look at that map. This is from fox and it is updating at all times. Estates in blue have gone to joe biden, biden has one colorado, illinois, virginia, maryland, the district of columbia, delaware, new jersey, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, new york, vermont, and a portion of maine, for a total of 129 electoral votes. President trump has one wyoming, north and south dakota, part of nebraska, kansas, missouri, oklahoma, louisiana, arkansas, mississippi, alabama, tennessee, kentucky, indiana, and west virginia, and also just lay there, South Carolina for a total of 109 Electoral College votes. 270 is the magic number needed to win f
The state forcing 2 counties back into the red tonight and new rollbacks, right now in San Francisco even though it is still in the yellow tier. Were live in San Francisco with this big setback. Reporter the restrictions were state imposed and self imposed as the virus continues to rage around the country. California and the bay area are no longer immune to the rising tide of coronavirus cases across the country, the county moved from the states orange deer to the more restrictive red tear, the new tier means reduced capacity for Indoor Dining and churches, worrying some business owners. The landlord is helping us as much as we differed or later we still have to pay for it. Reporter the Public Health officer begged people to stop gathering. Even if we have not seen them for a wildest because they are close to us personally does not mean that they have lower risk of passing it on to you or having it come from you to them. Reporter while San Francisco has not officially sloped on the ind
Pandemic thank you so much for joining us on this friday right here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman it was during a press Conference Today that mayor london breed announced covid19 hospitalizations are up in the city, causing city leaders to take action and slowdown reopenings some services that were scheduled to increase capacity to 50 . Instead will remain at 25 capacity. Kron fours dan kerman is live for us now in San Francisco is at city hall this afternoon with all the details good afternoon. Dan. Good afternoon just in the main thing to keep in mind is nothing is going backwards. Its just not expanding in San Francisco is saying that they knew this was always a possibility, especially as we get more into the winter in the fall that rates would be going up. But theyre putting the word out to people that now is the time to buckle down and continue to do with San Francisco has been doing and as a result city leaders are doing the same and putting a pause on future reopening.
Story. Reporter this is part of an online form hosted by the Silicon Valley leadership group. The conversation lasted 45 minutes. Invest time the moderator and dr. Fauci covered a lot of ground. Which means we should be able to get an inkling of whether or not we have a safe and effective vaccine. Sometime in middle to end of november. Beginning of december. Reporter dr. Fauci the nations top Infectious Disease expert told Silicon Valley leaders in an online forum by the end of the year we will know more about a covid 19 vaccine. Im optimistic based on preliminary data from the phase 1 study. That we will in fact have a safe and effective vaccine. If we are successful we will be able to start administering vaccine doses by the end of this calendar year or more likely in the beginning of 2021. For dr. Faucis at the process of getting americans back to take 4 to 6 months. Clinics and medical provider should start planning logistics now. He acknowledged skepticism about the safety of a co