Next 3 weeks it started 6 hours ago at midnight you can see the traffic heading into San Francisco. Yes, there are still thousands of people on the roadways but not the volume of cars that we used to seeing essential workers are still allowed to come and go and that includes obviously grocery workers will have a full breakdown and just a few moments from now, but a lot of places making adjustments including restaurants all over the bay area and san jose when they got the word in the afternoon that they would have to have a shelter in place for the next 3 weeks they to started preparing for the shutdown yes, some restaurants will still be open but forget about dining in thats not going to happen that was a possibility yesterday with 50 or fewer people now theyre just saying take out or home delivery. Take a look at your screen. This is historic people. This is not a lockdown so you can still get out and enjoy the fresh air. But you gotta make sure yes stay far away from each other. Thes
Legal owner limits activity travel and business functions to only essential means here is what that means all residents are ordered to shelter in place in their homes for 3 weeks leaving only for essential needs this order currently applies in the following counties, San Francisco more in santa clara, san Mateo Alameda and contra costa again Sonoma County announce a late today, its shelter in place will begin at midnight tonight this order closes places such as bars and jams movie theaters and dinein restaurants, essential services will say open those Services Include city and county Government Services such as police and fire and hospital, your trash will still be picked up new atm barred will continue to operate Grocery Stores pharmacies banks and gas stations will all stay open, Mailing Services including the post office plumbers electricians Hardware Stores laundromats and dry cleaners will all be able to say open restaurants can offer takeout and Delivery Service for a full list o
We go to our next video. We can see that there is a burned car along the road. That is exactly what the cal fire is saying caused this fire to break out this afternoon. So we have a situation here where the cal fire and other units, san jose fire is reponding. Other units are coming out to the scene. Theyre all out here responding, and theyre going to try to contain this as quickly as possible. The wind right now is not helping. We are live in southeast san jose, david louie, abc7 news. Thank you. More breaking news now. Martinez, a small brush fire broke out after a car crash. You can see a Police Officer there using a fire extinguisher to battle the flames just before 3 30 this afternoon. Arrived moments later and firefighters drenched the inferno quickly. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im kristen sze. The 2017 for season is already a destructive one. Fast start. The amount of acreage its burned stateside exceeds last years totals in california. Lonny rivera joins us live to explai
How is the firefight going . Reporter the fire is still raging out of control. It is not yet contained. What were looking at is a roadblock just off of 101. A lot of people are trying to get to their homes, but the area is cut off. We have aerial video of how the firefight is going. What youre seeing is an aerial drop from cal fire. They have tankers up there. They have water drop helicopters, as well, trying to get a handle on this fire. The wind is blowing. That means the flames could spread quickly. Thats why they said originally while there are 40 acres that burned, the potential could be for 500 acres. Lets take a look at a map. Metcalf road where i am is on the west side of the fire zone. San filipe is on the other side. People are being turned away and stay away. Only one structure so far, called a minor structure, has been threatened, but has the fire has not consumed anything so far. Lots of crews in this area trying to contain it. We are also aware of what started this fire.
Are leading with the story and even in washington you dont hear much about it. Manipulation, deceit and the moral decay within the va is running rampant within the entire system and the Obama Administration chooses to look the other way and not make this a priority for them. But they do not choose to focus this is a system in crisis, just as we saw with the hearings last night with the Veterans Benefits section of the va. This isnt an isolated incident went Health System with the va. There is manipulation of data systemwide. And this needs to be addressed and get fixed and unfortunately not seeing any leadership out of white house this. Im thinking many people watching until you referenced the fact there were hearings last night may not have realized that took place, that the attention, not that theres no developments, for example, the Watchdog Group made announcements that the backlogs have been cut down, they have work to do when you have 275,000 in the backlog list. But the point is