Charles Clifford Kron 4 news and its not just bay area businesses bracing for potential unrest. Rodeo drive in Beverly Hills will be closed to cars and pedestrians tomorrow election day and the day after to prevent the possibility of protests and damage. This move came as city hall encourage some businesses to board up those high end stores. Take a look at this video this is out of new york city protesters clashing with Police Yesterday police say the demonstrators were trying to confront a caravan of President Trumps supporters the confrontation escalated when Police Arrived to clear the protesters on the streets at least 11 people were arrested likely charged with disorderly conduct. Is your local election headquarters and we are now less than 24 hours away from election day and if youve been feeling a little bit of election thanks or anxiety. You are not alone youre not alone. In fact a study led by ucsf is. Tyne a dip in Mental Health to backing a losing candidate. Catherine heenan
Return to work. And to stay ahead of the pandemic, america will need an additional 100,000 contact tracers, according to Johns Hopkins university. By one count, states have hired or announced plans to hire about 66,000 so far. Does the lack of a federal standard put your state at risk and surrounding states at risk . I certainly think if the feds were to participate, if the feds were to establish, as you say, National Standards or some rules around compatibility with respect to one state to another because youre right, there is a lot of back and forth between states. And people move. They dont just work, they move. I think that could be very helpful. Reporter as more americans test positive for the virus, researchers say confidentiality is key for contact tracing. That means shielding the identity of every covidpositive patient. Even from the people they may have infected. Contact tracing is critical. Virtually nobody disagrees with that. But out there in the public, there is a concern
Water. Early today starts right now good monday morning im phillip mena and im dara brown. We begin with wild weather that has been sweeping across the country. Dangerous storms tore through the midwest and northeast. At least nine people were injured after a Lightning Strike sent a tree crashing down on a tent for more on the latest round of Severe Weather heres nbcs kathy park reporter bursts of lieening lit up parts of kansas while two hours away 80 mile per hour winds toppled trains dozens of railcars had to be turned up right with the help of y chery. Those severe s tormthroug dumping heavy rain and snapping tree limbs onto cars and homes just sleeping and woke up to this mess. That tree came down, went through the tc the garage. Water pouring in the house reporter dangerous weather stranded passengers at both airports in chicago, with hundreds of Flight Cancellations and delays and just outside the city, a jolt for golfer Phil Mickelson forced out of his hotel by mother nature. N
Match to light a cigarette. Reporter the lamptons are glad they didnt have to leave home. Its a vibrant, great place to live. Reporter there were no injuries due to this fire. Embers from the fire did cause two of additional small fires in the area. Live in oakland, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. Thank you. There have been several other suspicious fires at apartment complexes being built across the east bay. Two of those burned at the same job site on the oakland, emeryville border. It took place Florida State may of last year following another in july of 2017. A sevenstory building under construction burned on valdes street in oaklands Uptown Neighborhood also in july of 2017. A massive fire caused at least 55 million in damage when flames destroyed an apartment being constructed in april of last year. Abc news is committed to building a better bay area. The problem of homelessness extends well i dont want big cities in the bay area. The city of walnut creek found a new approach to polic
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