Today america reported a record high 136,000 new cases. Its the seventh consecutive day with 100,000 coronavirus cases nationwide and now, every state in the country is reporting an increasing number. Texas just became the first state with 1 million cases. In california, not far behind and at our current rate, well reach 1 million cases by the weekend. Bay area counties range from the best to the worst among the color coded coronavirus restriction tiers. San francisco is the only in the best category, yellow but preemptively going to shut down indoorining friday night as a precaution. Yesterday contra costa and santa cruz moved backwards from orange to red. A spike in new cases in napa county has Health Officials worried and for very good reason. Those numbers are rapidly moving in the wrong direction and could send napa county from the orange tier to the state most restrictive purple tier if things dont turn around. Cornell bernard found many people are suffering from coronavirus fati
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. With covid19 cases growing, millions of people here in the bay area will see indoor operations at restaurants and several other businesses come to an end. And with the holidays coming up, many are doing what they can to survive. Some are getting creative in expanding services in ways never seen before. Good morning, everybody, thanks for joining us. It is sunday, november 15. Im liz kreutz. Well have much more on the changes and restrictions many counties are facing this week. First, as always, a quick look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Hey, liz. Good morning, everyone. Its a beautiful start to the day although its pretty chilly out there. We have low dew points and a dry north wind. Thats also going to warm us up pretty quickly. As we look at the visible picture, check out the clouds in northern california. The top of mt. St. Helena shows you where that line is. East bay, 49 in San Francisco,
Had yesterday. Heres a live shot of alcatraz was San Francisco behind it to just a little bit that was behaves there do want point out a little bit up north you might get a stray shower potentially were talking north of Sonoma County. Getting up there. It may drift a little bit to the south you might see some scattered clouds throughout the day but basically want to go with mostly sunny for much of the geography. Chilly 30s up there in the north bay again this morning, although not quite as bad as yesterday 35 up there to napa 36 santa rosa, 37 in 40s fell out much of the rest of the geography of the 37 Half Moon Bay at 11 00am were at 6068 by 2 oclock coming up a little bit were time out what you can expect into early next week marty sounds good dave get to the news this morning. We have the latest for you on the coronavirus pandemic that continues to surge across the country over the past week, the virus has claimed the lives of more than 1000 people a day. The u. S. Has recorded its
56 in lake port. Our cool spots. Everybody else 56 in San Francisco, fairfield at 66 degrees. A much brighter day and warmer after such a chilly start. Lets get back to reggie for the news. Could the u. S. Be headed to a National Lockdown . Depends on who you ask. This morning jobina fortson is hearing the answer from dr. Fauci. Thank you. As the u. S. Faces a massive surge in cases, dr. Anthony fauci says americans need to wear masks and continue social distancing to avoid another lockdown. He was talking to Robin Roberts this morning. The idea of a four to sixweek nationwide lockdown has been floated to control the spread of the virus. The idea includes slotting down businesses and paying people for lost wages, but dr. Fauci says it is not likely to happen. Dr. Fauci says vaccines will start being distributed in december and will become more widely available to the public in the spring and early summer. He also stresses the importance of continuing to do things like Outdoor Activitie
However, our First Priority is always to protect the publics health, and the way that we do that is by preventing spread of this virus. Reporter today really is its bad those news, but it is a call to action. Its our time to act. And i know a lot of people feel like theyve done everything they can. Were asking those who have done everything you can to do a little more. Reporter still at this restaurant, they worried about how to keep the staff, that are like family, and as the weather gets worse, theyre hoping diners will still consider outdoor seating with heaters an option. We need people coming to the restaurant asks dining, and if we dont have that, we will not have that revenue, so it is hard. Reporter the new rules take effect tuesday at 12 01 a. M. Santa clara said they will be in the purple tier not long after, unless they get this surge under control. Contra costa county putting some of its coronavirus restrictions back in place because of a spike in days of virus. 50 team in