Crisis continues to worsen at an alarming rate. For the second time since the pandemic started, the number of daily cases topped 200,000 yesterday. More than 3100 people died from the illness, the singleworst daily death toll. And hospitalizations are also at an alltime high, passing the 100,000 mark for the first time. California has the highest number with just over 9300 covid cases. The state could run out of i. C. U. Beds by christmas. Debra joins us from washington. There is a disturbing prediction for death tolls in the coming months. Reporter yeah, annmarie, its heartbreaking to even say this. A top Government Official says 450,000 americans could die from the coronavirus by february. A dire warning from the head of the cdc. 200,000 americans may die from the coronavirus in just the next two months. I actually believe theyre going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. Reporter the number of americans currently hospitalized has passed 100,000
Temperatures even before you get out of bed and head out for work this morning. We will have some upper 30s and low 40s for most of us. But take a look at ukiah. Were just one degree above freezing and only a couple degrees above freezing in morgan hill. So, as we go into the rest of today after this cold start, it is going to warm up. You may have to get through some light, patchy fog. Overall visibility is looking pretty good. For the morning commute, have you seen any problems popping up, vi,aney . Yes, were still seeing a couple areas of concern near the 58 area near flynn. There is debris across the lane seeing traffic hazard from an earlier crash. Notice some slowing there and just as i was coming out to do this report, a new crash that popped up near the sunnyvale area. Ill definitely check in on that. A quick check of your rthbnond times 880 Marina Boulevard to broadway nine minutes. Ill have another look in just a few minutes. Lets go back to marcus. You know what, multiple de
Counties, including the purple counties here in the bay area in terms of restriction. And at some point throughout this week, hes mentioned those efforts going on in l. A. County. So, what exactly is being done there . Well, on top of ending Indoor Dining last week, the city of los angeles issued a modified stayathome order wednesday that echoed what the county issued on monday. That city order bans gatherings of people outside of immediate households with some exceptions such as religious service and protest. Governor gavin newsom hosted a Conference Call with members of various cabinets yesterday to work out a restriction and on that call representative with National Federation of independent businesses. He said they should expect that announcement within a day or two from the governor. So, some businesses working to adapt to changes since reinnei t reinterring the purple. One Business Owner we spoke with has kept his gym open after being ordered to close simply to make a stand. He s
Being closely watched as the clock ticks down on the ballot count clicks up before we go any further lets go to come out has the latest on the numbers come up thank you adrian yes so 300 hours g. M. T. It is now which means 10 pm on the u. S. East coast and these are the polls that are closing at this hour 4 of them for you montana nevada utah and iowa im not going to go through any projections just now because we dont have any at the moment too early to call in all 4 of those states the one swing state will be keeping an eye on is iowa in the midwest so with that in mind its a good chance just to step back and have a look at some of our swing states as well so lets start in ohio with nearly 60 percent of precincts reporting donald trump is edging further and further away from joe biden his latest 130000 out of 4. 4 almost 4400000 votes counted so its close but the gap widening for donald trump in ohio lets move on to michigan one of the important ones that donald trump picked up. 4 ye
90 percent effective. Meanwhile u. S. President elect joe biden unveils his covert 19 task force he warns itll be months until a vaccines widely available and says the u. S. Has a dark winter ahead. And as things go downhill for amusement parks because of the virus in japan one venue is mixing pleasure with work. Im rebecca richs welcome to the program protests have erupted in armenia after the Prime Minister agreed to a pace deal with as a vision on the troops end the fighting in the disputed region of nagornokarabakh and allows as a vision to kape its territorial gains at least a 1000 people have been killed since the longstanding conflict erupted again in september russia mediated the states fire which moscow says will enable a permanent end to the bloodshed. Thousands of armenians demonstrated outside government headquarters in the capital yerevan to show their displeasure over the countrys peace deal with azerbaijan that also includes russia as a peacekeeper hundreds of the protes