Coronavirus california is turning the corner. The number of new infections, hospitalizations and the percent of coronavirus tests coming back with a positive result, all of those categories are down and have been steadily declining for weeks. Look at the graph of cases in the bay area. Our rolling average is represented by the yellow line and you can see its distantly lower from a peak set in mid august. Health is just one participant of our life thats been impacted by the pandemic and its one of five areas where were working to build a better bay area. The economy is another. Youve probably seen the struggle many Small Businesses like restaurants are going through. It been unbelievable. After surviving with only delivery and takeout, some restaurants are allowed to serve customers without door dining. Diners alternated eating, drinking and putting their masks back on. Its a struggle that is not easy for anyone anywhere. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen looking at the big picture from
As hot and dry conditions combined with expected. Strong wind gusts posen increased risk for damage to the electrical system which could potentially ignite a fire majority of those customers affected are in napa county and thats where we find kron 4 taylor bisacky. Who is live in calistoga with more taylor people must be exhausted by all of this. Grand for parts of calistoga this could be the second time without power within just one week. You know really seems to this area. Its been one thing after the other. These power shut offs come just a couple of weeks after folks he returned home from those glass fire evacuations. Another round of pge Public Safety power shutoffs could sweep parts of the bay area the napa county being the most affected. Pg says the possible psps is slated to affect more than 4,300 customers in napa county. Including those living in parts of calistoga were filling some gas for tomorrow because theyre going to shut off the power. Again chad taylor isnt the only o
On the forecast absolutely guys its the weather. The hot weather the dry conditions were still in the midst of. And then of course the winds that have been persistent so far this week and will remain throughout the rest of the week too clear skies towards the coast than we have seen in previous days. But a little less marine layer means that we even do have red flag warnings now in effect for summer coastal spots like Half Moon Bay, upper elevations on the peninsula. All of the inland east bay and those same areas as we had been saying up in the north bay so more red flag warnings as winds do gradually spread across the rest of the bay area, north northeast winds at 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour mostly but upper elevations that are more exposed to those higher gusts could see gusts as high as 40 Miles Per Hour all the way through friday. Maybe calm right now, but look at where we had this afternoon widespread windy conditions breezier for upper elevations, windy or even tomorrow for your thu
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Seat on the court, just about 50 days before election day. Nbcs tracie potts has a look at Justice Ginsburgs life. Reporter Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg spent more than a quarter century on the u. S. Supreme court and spent much of her career fighting for equality. How wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like. Reporter born in brooklyn, new york, she tied for first in her class at columbia law. But with no job offers from law firms, this was the late 50s, she taught at columbia, then worked on the womens rights project in the 70s. As their lawyer she won five of six cases before the us Supreme Court. Her ultimately goal was to get sex discrimination treated by the Supreme Court the same way race discrimination was treated. Reporter president clinton made her the second female on the nations highest court where she continued to even the playing field, supporting reproductive rights and the lgbtq community. While her rulings leaned liberal, off the bench she was Clo