And scientists dont know why. Researches at cal state long beach have tagged 38 this year, nearly triple their total from last year. Scientists say the sharks have also stayed in the coastal waters longer in 2020, pointing out they usually move further south by this time of the year. Actor jeff bridges has revealed hes fighting lymphoma. The 70yearold tweeted yesterday that his prognosis is good. Hes row foundly profoundly grateful for the love and support of his family. The Academy Award winner is currently working on a drama set to air on hulu next year. Turning to the new research linking diabetes with covid19 comes amid new concern from Health Officials as cases continue to rise. I spoke earlier with dr. Alok patel. Good morning, dr. Patel. We have new figures showing another big increase in covid cases nationwide with deaths on the rise. What are you seeing right now and what is your biggest concern . What im seeing is, over 50,000 cases per day seven months into this pandemic. Im
Gus gusts mt. Hood 19 miles an hour that will change, 11 00 a. M. Sunday to 11 00 am tuesday. It covers valleys and hills. Gusts up to 50 at the lower elevation, 60 and 70 over the ridges and humidity 5 to 15 . Critical to extreme fire conditions are expected. Damaging winds are possible. A high wind watch until 10 00 am monday. There is a possibility of downed trees and power lines as you look at the hour by hour wind forecast, the winds pick up first in the north bay and then spread late sunday night into monday. Were going to toss to cornell bernard with more on how people are preparing for the upcoming fires. Reporter hey, sandhya, were in santa rosa where this air attack for cal fire is very busy. Check it out. This tanker just returning from fighting that wildfire in rural napa county. Planes have have been coming and going about every 15 minutes. Its about 4 00 p. M. Reloading with retar dent. Done the for but extreme fire danger is ahead for a lot of firefighters all over North
Gap, all falling very hard as you can see there. Well go shopping for opportunity in that Retail Sector later on, buy gold now thats the message from one top wall street firm we will debate if there is any shine left in that big trade we start first with breaking news out of disney the stock is moving lower in the after hours session as the Company Announces some very, very major job cuts. Lets get to our own Julia Boorstin with the details. These are tens of thousands. Thats right. Disney is laying off 28,000 domestic employees, hourly, sal rye e aried and executive roles. In light of the prolonged impact of covid19 on our business, including limited capacity due to physical distancing requirements and the continued uncertainty regarding the duration of the pandemic exacerbated in california by the states unwillingness to lift restrictions that would allow disneyland to reopen, we have made the difficult decision to begin the process of reducing our workforce at our parks, experiences
Oaklands monte claire neighborhood. How police made arrests. Another suspect. From ktvu fox 2 news this is mornings on 2. Welcome to thursday morning january 2nd, im dave clark. Lets talk about thursday weather with mark tamayo knows everything about your weather. Heres mark. Yeah, were trying to figure it out dave. At least the rainfree forecast watch out for patchy dense fog. Heres the plan for this afternoon, partly to mostly sunny skies. Forecast highs in the 50s and 60s. Weve been watching these visibility reports move around quite a bit. You can see a quarter mile in livermore. It looks like napa has improved a bit. It looks like these numbers arent too bad except at the Oakland Airport. Not widespread. But where it is it is dense. Even out in solano county. You can see the main storm track heading way up to our north. It is a dry Weather Forecast for today with hazy sunshine. Temperatures in the upper 30s to the 40s to right around 50 degrees. Time now 4 31. Lets check in with s
Mattier is here to discuss the Real Solutions to this classic california crisis. Michael finney investigates how consumers who lost money can get reimbursed and meteorologist drew tuma looks at the science and history of our weather patterns. Its all coming up. But first, a little perspective. In the last three years california has endured more than 23,500 wildfires and still counting. They have burned more than 3. 5 million acres and cost taxpayers and homeowners more than 600 billion. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman can talk about that and more for us tonight. Wayne, you live in the north bay and have been reporting on the fires and the fallout for decade. Reporter i have. Im afraid to admit it. Since 1981 here in the north bay and all my life in california. As a kid i grew up with these fires, but these are new. We have new levels of frequency and ferociousness. It is the time of year when the leaves turn and we should be taking comfort. But in the fall in california, its not wha