Square today empty space that would usually be packed with visitors. San franciscos lack of tourists could mean cuts to programs that residents rely on. A brks krrbc 7 News Reporter me woodro has the story. Reporter suns around San Francisco say welcome, were open and visitors are few and far between. One of the campaigns is our gate is open. While that gate just got closed two days ago. Reporter steve rizzo is general manager at hotel g. The hotel has been closed for eight months. Rizzo estimates theyve lost 8 to 12 million in that time. I imagine that a lot of places are in the same boat as we are. Your cash flow runs out when you have no Revenue Source coming in. Reporter according to the quarterly status report released this month by the controllers office, the hotel tax is expected to drop 43. 4 million below the expected 126. 2 million. One of the things that visitors really do is help to pay the cost of living in San Francisco and without them, its going to be noticeable for all
In 40 californians or about the population of san jose. State Officials Say we are at 991,000 cases. The virus has now killed more than 18,000 people in california. That is roughly the population of moraga. Good evening. Thank you for being with us tonight. Alameda county meanwhile is pausing further reopening as it anticipates having to move to the more restrictive red tier. Daily new cases per 100,000 people are up to 4. 9 from the countys low of 3. 4. There has also been a steady increase in hospitalizations. Officials say if Current Trends continue the county may be put back in the most restrictive tier. Thats purple. And in Sonoma County people are frustrated that theyre still in the most restrictive purple tier even though test numbers are improving. But as abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman explains the county thinks it knows whats going on. Reporter another date another covid testing site in Sonoma County. Theyre still in the purple tier here highly restricted and residents are
With a case of massive fraud. Inmates across the state have stolen up to a billion dollars in unemployment money designed to ease the pain of the pandemic. The inmates include Scott Peterson convicted of killing his wife and unborn in 2004 and carrie stainer. State Officials Say the investigation is just getting starte started. Will be one of the biggest fraud taxpayer dollars in california history. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. The abc 7 news iteam broke the story in october. A reporter stefanie sierra is live with the latest developments. Steph . District attorneys representing five counties across california sent this letter to the governor explaining how this fraud is growing out of control. The worst part is, the vast majority say it should be in the hands of struggling families across the state will likely never be repaid. It is perhaps and will be one of the biggest fraud of taxpayer dollars in california history. Reporter a billion dollars worth of Unemployment Benefi
270 are needed to win the electoral college. Six states, alaska, arizona, georgia, nevada, North Carolina and pennsylvania rth onare the states that have not been called and will determine who wins the white house. Thanks for joining us. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Lets get to liz kreutz. Dan and ama, patience is the word of the week here, anxiously were awaiting results in five Battle Ground states including pennsylvania. This morning there was hope that we know the outcome of the race by tonight, but as the day has gone on, its looking more and more unlikely and now the president is claiming fraud. As the coup tntry waits on pinsd needles, all eyes are on five states, arizona, nevada, nk ort carolina North Carolina, pennsylvania and georgia. Vice President Biden needs two of the states and President Trump needs four and the final ballot counts that will make the difference are very, very slowly trickling in. Biden today said he has no doubt hell win once the votes are counted and ca
Georgia has not been called yet. The count continues to arizona, North Carolina and pennsylvania. Liz kreutz has been following the election closely and joins us with a look of the intensifying race for the white house. As you show there, we did just hear from President Trump minutes ago. I think hes still speaking now and hes been tweeting quite a lot over the past 24 hours but this is the first time we seen him publicly since his remarks the night of the election. Once again, hes claiming hes being cheated out of a win. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. If you count the votes that came in late, were looking to them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late. Again, we have to say no evidence for this right now. Patience is really the word of the week. Were anxiously awaiting results in those Battle Ground states including pennsylvania. There was hope we would know the outcome tonight. As the day