Tonight. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Good evening. More than 18,000 californians have been diagnosed with coronavirus. Imagine the entire town of maraga getting sick. Its the second record in five days. On saturday the record was 15,442 new cases. For perspective, over the past seven days, weve averaged fewer than 14,000 new cases. Over the past two weeks, the average is roughly 11,000. Here is another way to understand whats happening in this graph you can see our summer spike right there in the middle and on the right, the current surge, which eclipses anything weve experienced so far. In many ways, the timing couldnt be worse. Today is expected to be one of the busiest days of thanksgiving travel despite numerous and repeated warnings from Health Agencies against traveling or gathering. Lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, San Francisco International Airport and 101 in san jose. Sky 7 was over 680 in the east bay. You can see plenty of cars on the road at 1 00 in the
Orders amidst new highs in covid19 case counts and hospitalization rates. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the warning. Reporter as the bay area prepares for a thanksgiving unlike any other, Santa Clara County has another urgent warning for the public. Do not have gatherings and do not travel. Period. Reporter today, 512 new cases of covid19 were reported county wide. A new record for the highest daily case count since the start of the pandemic. Perhaps up to 60 of the time when people are infecting others or infectious themselves, they have absolutely no symptoms. Reporter the county also saw its highest daily number of covid19 hospitalizations at just under 200 patients. Troubling numbers at a time of year when most hospitals are already busy because of the cold and flu season. Were extremely concerned about what this means for our hospitals ability to care for not only people with covid19 but for other people who need access to care in our hospitals. Reporter stanford hospital i
Now Brooks Koepka is going through the threepeat and he is one of 10 golfers tied for second place at 4 under par and we will have highlight and reaction tonight on the par 5 show at 7 30 with john. Tiger, is in the hunt. We always want to know what tiger is doing, obviously, but which Performance Today surprised you the most . Reporter there is a guy named bud cawley who joined the tour in 2011 and he is one of 10 players onestroke off the le7nd weighs 150 pounds and, everybody is infatuated with bryson and all you little folks at home, you can contend in a major Golf Tournament standing 57 and weighing 150 pounds. Right. All shapes and sizes can be good at golf. All right. Thank you. Wilson walker continue the coverage. While a crowd has been canceled because of the pandemteis is i hear and this puts me just off the 12th tee but determined. We came out to walk around the lake and we knew the pj was here so we are trying to see sp through. Reporter anybody who came to catch a glimpse
Good morning. We will check your forecast and meant but first a developing story. A wildfire burning near Anderson Lake in morgan hill forced the evacuations of tension comes from it. The fire burned 100 acres with their present content. The martinez joins us with more on what cal fire is doing with the park fire. Reporter the last update was just a few minutes ago. Evacuation started after midnight for 10 homes on finley ridge road and they are still in place. The first call came in at 11 pm last night for a grass and brush fire burning on the side of anderson like. But cal fire says that it does not pose a threat to the city of morgan hill. The park fire has since burned 100 acres. 1520 homes sit in the hills. Fire crews evacuated 10 homes early this morning. Evacuation center is at Live Oak High School. Cal fire is asking people to avoid the area but do not feel that the fire is likely to travel closer to the lake or to threaten more homes. It started a long gun avenue and moving up
Google. This investigation is separate from the Justice Department investigation of googles online dominance and employment of alleged practices. Here is a story from washington. Google is facing their biggest investigation ever today after 50 attorneys from 48 states and two u. S. Territories announced they are teaming up to investigate Google Business practices. Texas attorney general is leading the investigation, he says theyre starting with the review of googles ad practices and how consumer data they collect needs into the dominant but could be go beyond that. Many consumers believe the internet is free, certainly we know from googles products that the internet is not free. The Bipartisan Team is a show of force for google, the attorney general eric smit tells me there is strength in numbers. His date was the first to launch an antitrust probe into google and he says everything is on the table with this investigation. The district of columbia says this bipartisan is unprecedented.