Reporter in San Francisco theyre hoping cell phones hold the key to contact tracing. The more people that answer the call or text, the better our chances of getting control of the spread of covid19 in San Francisco and speeding up the reopening of our city. Reporter after a positive test youll get a text asking you to fill in the blank for contact tracers. The city is now averaging 130 new cases of covid19 a day and more than 900 a week. Now we are in a large surge with infections that are more widespread across the city and reaching different populations and our numbers have been increasing sharply. Reporter its a surge that started before the Holiday Season thats expected to continue through december. We saw this spike in the summer and it was hard to get back down. So the quicker we get it under control, the better off well be in the long run. Reporter if you get a positive covid19 test in San Francisco, you should expect a test and Public Health officials hope youll answer it becau
Our restaurant is so small, it used to be filled in there, but it was cozy. So, you know, the tables were too close to try to go in there and space it out. Outside here we have the tables, the chairs six to seven feet apart from each other. Reporter retail stores, indoor malls, libraries and offices can now open at full capacity. But with the holidays around the corner and people wanting to gather, San Mateo County supervisor david can he pa wants everyone to not let up. We need are he main vigilant. We need to make sure that people wear their damn mask. We need to make sure that people are socially distant. Reporter in the next tier down from orange is yellow. At this point the only place in that category is San Francisco. Reporting live in redwood city, anoushah rasta, nbc bay area news. Thanks, anoushah. High schools across Alameda County got the green light to open their doors to students. It can begin november 9th. The schools need to come up with a covid19 health and safety plan.
With pacific gas and electric have been crisscrossing napa county repairing and inspecting power lines and poles. Before turning the power back on its getting kind of old yeah as usual residents who live west of the river in calistoga have been without power. This time since sunday afternoon. Some have been through it so many times that they bought a generator to make life a little easier. Ieeping one tv going. A light in my bedroom. Light in the kitchen. Wi fi. And the refrigerator. And its not just homes west of the river that have been without power. But weiner east to like castello di amorosa still after wine tasting continues, we had a generator. That is able to any. A gift card that whole castle not only is this winery had to deal with power shut offs but its warehouse and 10,000 cases of wine were destroyed by the glass fire at the end of last month. Still they keep pushing ahead because were so used having files for the last 4 years including the whole bay area. People are now
Is what it is of course the a heaviest rain going on right now extending on to the east bay usual notice off to the delta antioch san Ramon Fremont still in San Francisco, then somewhat moderate rain up in the north bay and peninsula to zoom in just a little closer here extending down to san mateo as well but the heaviest rain not your imagination. Yes, pounding pretty nicely on the east bay shoreline as we speak now, what rose everywhere, this is the shot from the golden gate little bit of fog going on for this morning as well as we talked about, but it still make out the north and tower putting into motion. Yes, there is a break upstream. So this heavier rain is really going to be pretty much an earlymotning phenomena with some scattered showers continuing with some clearing this afternoon to check out this fog year. Look at this we have this radiation fog all over the bay pretty much universal and it startv to break up as we approach around high noon into the afternoon look at that
Falls on man and woman in Presidio Terrace neighbor and these are cars at market and church in San Francisco, much of this came down in just an hour. Abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma and live doppler 7, lots of green still out there. Dealing with intense downpours earlier, line of showers 2 00 to 4 00. Live doppler 7 was tracking all the action that soaked San Francisco in particular. All the flooding that happened across the city earlier today, intersection of market and church, one to two feet of flooding estimated there. Now the sky has quieted down. Live doppler 7 showing scattered showers but not done with wet weather yet. Storm impact scale is level one tomorrow. Scattered showers. Best chance in the morning. Rainfall around quarter to half inch of rain. Hour by hour show you when you may find drier periods on sunday in full accuweather forecast in just a few minutes. And water was everywhere. Van ness metro station, see the rain that cascaded down the escalator. Muni was shut d