Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. The group of employees works at Healdsburg District Hospital in several different departments. New at 10 00, ktvus Debora Villalon is live with the investigation underway. Reporter this showed up in routine screening and triggered an immediate response. 12 positive staffers sent home to isolate in the hospital on alert for more. I work night shift here. I have been here for 30 years and ive never seen anything like this. Reporter this housekeeper is frustrated to hear 12 of her colleagues at healdsburg hospital contracted covid. Apparently outside of work. I dont understand why people are not following the rules. Like wearing their masks when they should on the outside, or what they are doing. We have been using them for various reasons. Reporter now the hospital tent is running full tilt to get almost 300 staffers through. One round monday turned up one infected employee, but now positive patients. Everyone goes through
For a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. Well begin tonight with what happened after a simple request to wear a mask. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. And im dione lynn. This come is sharing this story to protect her family. In this story, you will see only on abc 7. Its really unacceptable to feel fear in your own home neighborhood. Reporter that fear is exactly the reason she is choosing only to use her first name in sharing the story behind this racist letter. It just basically says i wear my mask if i want, f word, asian. You create the virus. Reporter it all began with a walk with her twin infant girls when she spotted a man near by. He wasnt wearing a max. I asked when he came into ear shot that he wear a mask. Reporter what happened next was the beginning of a nightmare. He locked eyes with me and immediately started charging up the hill at me. Reporter she ran into her home terrified. Her husband then scared the man away. He came rushing out because he heard the
Now the red flag warnings will be continued for these areas through 5 00 on tuesday. The winds arent going to be as strong, but they will still be gusty. The humidity be very low to the north bay mountains, thats where we are talking about the red flag warning through tuesday evening and we have wind advisory that is in effect for the entire bay area through 11 00 tomorrow morning. Even if youre in a spot that doesnt have a high fire threat, youll still need to prepare for the potential of Power Outages as whole trees could get knocked down by those winds. Darren has a closer look at that part of the bay area. Yeah, paul, this is not going to hit the bay area equally. Itll hit some places harder than others. John ramos is in the Berkeley Hills talking about preevaccuations there for a reason. Well be showing you why the Berkeley Hills are one of the places that really need to take this seriously. Well come in for a close up look now. The week hasnt kicked in at this point, but once we
A red flag warning is going into effect right now because of some of these dry conditions. Ill explain how this could affect you. Multiple rounds of offshore winds and critical fire conditions this week. Just because the fda may approve a vaccine doesnt mean the state of california will. What the committee will control when it comes to a vaccine. Severely understaffed. San jose fire is looking to fill positions and a hero behind the headset. Abc 7 news starts right now. Here warning just went into effect for parts of the bay area as gusty winds are whipping back up. That means thousands of pg e customers could see power shut off due to the Critical Power weather. Wou we begin with sandhya patel on what we can expect over the next few hours. Yeah, those winds will be increasing. Right now theyre running low, you will notice gusts to 12 Miles Per Hour in mt. Helena. Wind gusts could reach as high as 40 Miles Per Hour. You combine that with low humidity and dry fuels and fires that develo
Minute push. She joins us from Contra Costa County theresa. Why we have been saying people rush here to make sure that they make that deadline as well as dropping their ballots here in Contra Costa County. Ive been doing elections for 25 years this is my 6th president ial election. Ive never seen. People so excited, enthusiastic and voting so early. Thats the assistant registrar of voters on what theyre seeing this general election here in Contra Costa County with today being the deadline for registration we expect to go over. 700,000 voters for the first time in our history today. We about a year ago yesterday that would be our weather account and here we are on the final day of registration. And were were going to hit that target, but its very very very big this year and everybody should vote do the right thing and outside all day long this people constantly pulling up and dropping off their ballots. This mom even turned the whole operation into a civics lesson for her young 3 daught