About taking quote, drastic action to spread slow the spread of covid19 interstate and hinting at the return of the stayathome owners we all experience back in march. Health officials warn the trends are alarming compared to previous searches this year. 40,000 daily new cases of the verse reported last week that its likely that at least 12 of those sick will need intensive care hospitalization. The high case numbers we seen in the last week have not even begun to impact hospitals yet. We know that it takes about two weeks. If these trends continue, will have to take much more dramatic drastic action. California hospitals could be overwhelmed and i sears out of space by the middle of this month. These are troubling signs. And we have not really, we dont know what happened at thinks giving it. That will take a few more days to manifest itself. We dont know exactly what a new stay at home order would include. But we can look to recent examples. We have a harbinger of what is to come in Lo
Afternoon. We do have the entire north a from the coast, valleys, as well as the hells last until 5 00 this afternoon. Associate to the east bay, the wind advisory expires for the bay area but the red flag warning continues for east bay hills as well as the valley locations until 5 00. One more shift along areas are the Santa Cruz Mountains stretching along the san mateo coastline in parts of the peninsula there. Also going until 5 00 this afternoon. We will check in with the winds briefly, we have lost almost road in the north reporting 21 relative humidity. The winds are sustained at 22. Not quite as gusty as early on, 65 degrees no. Santa rosa, take a look at that number, 27 degrees, 27 Miles Per Hour for the winds, relative committees 21 . Very warm, very dry and as we know, the winds are still blowing. Better details in what you can expect for today, the red flag warning set to expire later this afternoon and your extended forecast, coming up just a little bit. Millions of people
Enthusiastic about buying and giving gifts. More people are buying on line. A group of businesses have banded together. They fulfill orders and a pop up location for pick up snobbier 1500 products right now. Discovery is a huge component. Zonka toys are increasing sales. Its harder because our store is made for people coming in. Experiencing the new products we have. Were trying our best. Some say this year they are for going big box stores. Just because theres more people who are struggling. I love the Community Feeling of shopping and supporting local businesses. The Stores Tell Us if they have a chance to stay afloat they need shoppers to support them every day. There were long lines of shoppers looking for deals at the premium outlets, that are in livermore. Some of the shoppers said they are storm distancing and came out for the deals rather than shopping on line. Shopping on line, or shopping in the stores is nice sometimes. I try not to go out as much. If you shop on hype think
Violate state law. Reporter the California Public and produce a statement defending the unofficial ballot boxes this afternoon, saying the democrats anger is overblown, when state law allows organizations, volunteers or Campaign Workers to collect completed ballots and drop them off at polling places on election offices. So far no unofficial drop boxes had been found in Northern California but local Election Officials say they are aware it is happening and they said voters should only use official methods to return about. About me not be delivered to us. Reporter are very strict procedures, like always having to county workers gathering the ballots, secure lockboxes that can only be open with a special type of key in a barcode tracking system on every bag of ballots collected. There are three main ways you can track it. You can put it any one of the official ballot boxes, can find a list of those on the county registrar of voters website, at last you can take it any of the polling plac
Strank avantage of it while they can. The previous record was 14 days and that was in 2018 during the camp fire. Of course well continue to monitor the air quality as the potential for unhealthy air returns for us this weekend. Mike will have updates for you right here. You can always see the levels at abc7news. Com on our air quality tracker. President trump is once again challenging the nations top health officials, this time at odds with the head of the cdc. And they are disagreeing here on the time line for releasing a covid19 vaccine. While testifying under oath, dr. Robert red field told lawmakers no to distribution to the general public until late spring or summer of next year. Hours later President Trump said redfield was wrong, he claims that the government can start giving the vaccine as early as next month. The president also suggested that redfield misspoke when he said wearing a mask is the most effective way to fight the virus. It is not more effective by any means than a