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
Or your phone, our app on the phone to see the temperature, subtract about 3 to 6 degrees from that. Thats what the windchill will feel like. This afternoon, how about low to mid 60s from the coast to our inland neighborhoods. Lets get the news on this thanksgiving. Heres kumasi. Good morning, by day for staff and volunteers here at glide. Volunteers are busy setting up tables and putting up signs. The tables are set up to allow for social distancing, aside from those few changes it will be the same glide thanksgiving meal that thousands demand on each year. Glide has continued to serve food three meals a day since the start of the pandemic. That has not stopped. Organizers say there was never a doubt they would do thanksgiving, the issue was how. So moving the event outdoors solved that problem. Thankfully no rain. They plan to serve 2,300 meals. One of the organizers says because of covid19 this years thanksgiving brunch is even more necessary. Covid is affecting all of us, but its a
Option for telework or unscheduled leave. But there is a full list of closings on your screen and updating information on our wusa mobile app. Lets head over to the woman of the hour tracking the forecast and snow. We are in for the long haul at least until between 8 am and 10 pm looking at snow across the area. Some of the heaviest snow band outside of the ocean city area. We will show you what is happening. We have snow around the leonardtown area. Baltimore and all of the viewing area involved with this system. If we zoom into the dc area we can see around pentagon and parts of National Park and highway university, all of those areas getting a light snow. We go around Prince Georges County where billy and fedex field are seeing light snow showers along 50 and 495. Around rockville and gaithersburg, potomac, and germantown, these areas with light snow at this time. I know it is just starting around the northern tip of montgomery county. Quantico, stafford. Frac fredericksburg light s
In Northern Maryland too, going to watch out for some icy spots out west as well if you happen to be traveling between hagerstown and cumberland, please be careful. The good news is this stuff is going to wind down later this evening. I think were going to see sun and 40s on sunday. Turning now to the trump transition. Theres a fight underway between civil rights leader and congressman john lewis and president elect donald trump. The feud comes two days before Martin Luther king, jr. Day and less than a week before mr. Trumps inauguration. Wendy gillette has the latest. Reporter congressman john lewis says he will not attend the inauguration of president elect donald trump this friday along with 10 other democrats. Its the first time lewis has skipped the swearing in of a president in his 16 terms in congress. I dont see the president elect as a legitimate president. Reporter the congressman made the comments as part of an interview that will air the press sunday. Saturday he tweeted,
Just before we go dramatic pictures from Interstate 80 in the us state of wyoming were theyve recently been experiencing gusts of up to 90 miles an hour. Nobody was hurt in this, but it was all caught on a Highway Patrol car dash cam, as clear an example as you ever need to see of how dangerous cross winds can be. And everyone was fine. Now lets see what the weather is doing a little closer to home. Hello, we have had a dusting of snow in parts of the uk today. For most parts of the rain turning back to sleet. We have had a frosty start. It will feel raw in Southern Scotla nd it will feel raw in Southern Scotland and Southern England northern england. The wind will bring in more rain, drizzle, i sleet and health snow. The driest, clearest conditions in the far north of scotland. We will have a gloomy sunday. Lots of cloud around with drizzle and health snow. In scotland, some glimpses of sunshine. Maybe right across the south. The wind will make it feel even colder. Goodbye for now. He