Parents and students protesting tonight in pleasanton. The big question, when will middle schoolers and High Schoolers get to come back to school . Rent relief and eviction protections on its way tonight to those impacted by covid. The storms heading out. Ill let you on up. Ski shops like this one busy as the rush is on to get to tahoe. Ill show you why that might be easier said than done. Abc 7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. I mean, if youre coming from the bay area and youre trying to head up to a ski resort tonight, you probably are not going to get through. That is the warning from caltrans tonight. If youre thinking of heading up to lake tahoe, just dont do it. Blizzard conditions are making the roads extremely treacherous. Right now 80 is closed because of several jackknife big riggs, multiple spinouts and heavy snow. There is no estimated time for its reopening. And 350 is open but with chain controls ove
Hundreds of or hindu refugees 20 isolated island despite concerns from the un and Rights Groups. Now the United Nations says its concerned about the situation facing refugees inside ethiopia is tikrit region about 100000 refugees from neighboring eritrea house there but they have reportedly been fleeing in search of safety ethiopias army has been fighting Regional Forces there for about a month. Ethiopia has hosted eritrean refugees now for almost 2 decades most of them are in the team grey region which borders eritrea many of them fled political persecution and mandatory military service the uns access to routes needed to for refugee camps housing refugees in tigray have all been blocked since the recent fighting began its been calling on the federal government to open up access and on tuesday the un said food has run out for nearly a 100000 refugees who were sheltered in tikrit. While malcolm where this following this for us from neighboring kenya. You and bill frist for the coordina
Hundreds of refugees to an isolated island despite concerns from the un and other Rights Groups. Now saudi arabias foreign minister says all of the nations involved in the gulf crisis are close to finalizing an agreement after a significant progress was made over the past few days katsa has been under an illegal land sea and air blockade by saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt since june 2017 present Senior Adviser Jared Kushner recently visited both riyadh and our hala the Foreign Ministers of council and kuwait also said theres been some progress. We hope that these. This progress can lead to a final agreement which looks in reach and i can say i am somewhat optimistic that we are close to finalizing. An agreement between all the issues in dispute to come to a resolution that we think will be satisfactory to all we have achieved set in for a better set certain point of time more than a year ago and then things has voted on and right now there are some movements that we hope th
Also coming up Box Office Battle odeon zone enters urgent talks with water brothers over its decision to make all of its films available to stream instantly next year. And our welcome to the program saudi arabias foreign minister says he is hopeful a deal could soon be reached to end the bass a dispute with qatar its been 3 years since saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt imposed a land sea an Arab Blockade on cata for ministers of Catherine Quaid also say theres been progress towards resolving the crisis. Now reports. Crucial days ahead for gulf nations talks aimed at and in the 3 and a half year blockade of qatar seem to have achieved significant progress kuwaits foreign minister whose country has been be generally mediate again and to the crisis says hes confident. A constructive and fruitful talks have taken place recently where all the parties have stressed their desire to reach a final agreement and resolutions to preserve the region stability and harmony maintain the inte
62,000 patients admitted with serious cases of covid19 that breaks the record of 60,000 patients that was set back in april. The u. S. Recorded an 8th straight day of more than 100,000 new cases and texas became the first state to top 1 million coronavirus cases surpassing all of italy. Governors across the country are urging people to stay home and limits, socializing. California could surpass 1 million confirmed cases by tomorrow. There were 7400 new cases today and 69 people died. While here in the bay area there were 300 new cases and one new death. Contra costa and santa cruz counties were forced to roll back their reopening plans due to a rise in covid cases and San Francisco has also halted reopening plants other bay area counties are on track to do the same. If they are unable to slow the spread. How about this if everybody wore a mask, the lockdowns might go away sooner and the pandemics impact on the economy might not be as bad yeah well thats the upshot of revised recommenda