Died. We will keep an eye on that and bring you breaking news as that come in. Welcome to midday. Im marcus washington. A red flag warning for the north bay mountains and the east bay hills still in effect until this afternoon. Our coverage continues now at this hour. Nbc bay area bob redell is live in lafayette and meteorologist kari hall is tracking the dangerous conditions. In Oakland Hills the concern was the fire spreading to other homes. What about the wind conditions in that area a little bit earlier . We are still seeing winds gusting as we check out oakland and the weather conditions there. We head to the hills. Winds up to 30 to 32 Miles Per Hour. The temperature at 60 but the relative humidity is still critically low and dry vegetation it was good they were able to get a handle on that before it did continue to spread into more of the vegetation in that area. Overall we are seeing a lot of winds in the valleys calming down. Its gusty in hills and upper elevations. We were ta
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
Harrowing escapes and daring rescues. And convicted cult leader Keith Raniere will be sentenced today. Well speak to a victim of nxivm who said he should never be allowed to go free. First your eye opener your world in 90 seconds. The newest member of the United States Supreme Court, Justice Amy Coney barrett. Its official. Amy Coney Barrett sworn in to the Supreme Court. Today will go down as one of the darkest days in the 231year history of the United States senate. Waved the white flag. Biden told supporters the president still does not have a plan for the coronavirus and has waved a white flag. Hes waved a white flag on life if he doesnt leave his basement. New coronavirus cases hitting records every day. Activities that were brought indoors has resulted in pretty Significant Community spread. Fastmoving wildfire in Southern California forced thousands of people to leave their homes. Flames coming over the back wall. I couldnt see the back yard. Breaking news out of philadelphia wh
Ahead because with low temperatures this virus responds differently than what is on it ive just come out of the corona cabinet where we have again had a look at the situation we have in a moment we are concerned by that 12700 new cases reported by the robert carr institute which is traveling in 2 weeks 5 times the amount it made october. So this is exponential growth and we are heading straight for an acute emergency in our hospitals if we do not do anything and we see this when we look at the number of covered 1000 patients in our i. C. U. Nurse again theres been a doubling the rate from 1030 beds on the 22nd of october weve covered patients to 2000. 61 ice you bet occupied by 1000 patients on the 1st of november and we know that the number of patients in our i. C. U. Is always. Downstream its a bit later so that means that the cases who are reported now as in fact it will only end up in our i. C. U. Patients is just 6 in 2 weeks it takes a while for new cases to be in i. C. U. So wha
Im white and blue cross welcome to the program its been 24 hours since voting ended in the u. S. President ial election and there remains no clear winner democratic challenger joe biden and President Trump along with america and the rest of the world are waiting for results as ballot counting continues in a few key battleground states this election is demanding patience and call from everyone but the president has already claimed victory and hes alleging voter fraud even without presenting any evidence for it meanwhile joe biden has called for patience and his supporters are confident hes on track to win. So heres a look at the results with one significant change in the last hour our figures show biden currently on 248 President Trump at 214 electoral votes putting joe biden just 22 Electoral College votes away from that magic number 270 that hell need to win the presidency now in wisconsin were seeing that that state has gone to joe biden and its 10 electoral votes that go with it wit