Heres a look at the Golden Gate Bridge. We have an east wind at 11 00. Thats an offshore breeze. Its brought a little smoke from the valley. There may be a little fog developing in our north bay valleys. Weve been watching yosemite down around modesto yesterday and this morning. Look what its done to the south bay. We have unhealthy air for those most sensitive. We have moderate air just about everywhere else. Well keep an eye on it. Technically its not a spare the air day, but when they issue one, maybe it will stick around for the better part of the day. Mid60s around the coast. 70 in morgan hill and fairfield and up in ukiah. Its going to be a warm day. Governor newsom announced sweeping the restrictions in an aggressive move since march. This order will take effect by region, not by individual counties. The state is now broken into five regions and they are northern california, greater sacramento, the bay joaquin valley. Tis order kicks in by region when hospitals get under 50 capa
Thats due to more restrictive measures being instituted in california and other states to help stem the growing tide of covid19 cases. Today, the cdc announced its recommending against travel for the holiday. Ktvu southbound reporter jesse gary picks it up from there. Reporter with a week before thanksgiving, air travel is light at Oakland International and other bay area airports. We just wanted to break it up, so that we werent traveling with a bunch of other people. A little bit easier the week before. Reporter this as officials at Mineta San Jose International airport say travel during the 11 day thanksgiving holiday period is scheduled to be 1 5th less than it was the year before. This is the simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Reporter newsom says 94 of the states population is now in the purple tier, including six bay area counties. As a result, Officials Say people should forego gatherings with families and friendes this year. J
Take a quick break,ite, jump on a quick call. Next time you take a quick trip, how about this . Take a second, take your time, and slow the fast down. Go safely, california. Its cheap, simple to store, and now it appears to be effective. The excitement over the new data from Astrazenecas Covid vaccine trials. Officers get strict with businesses ahead of a busy shopping weekend. Were hearing from the brentwood man who was called a racist for hanging a dummy by a noose off the roof of his house. Another battleground round coming your way. Building a better bay area. This is abc 7 news. I was highly encouraged. I think this is most promising vaccine of all. Real excitement tonight from bay area astrazeneca vaccine trials. Its highly effective at preventing disease. As you well know, abc 7 is committed to keeping you fully informed about every development with the covid19 vaccine. He newsroom to explain why the data on this third potential vaccine is so encouraging. I have to admit when i
You can see just around napa American Canyon and vallejo about a half mile visibility. This is going to drift maybe slightly south and slightly east and the winds are light and variable this morning. Definitely not going to be a big player like it was yesterday. Sunshine will be this afternoon and look at these temperatures 58 the cool spot at Half Moon Bay and 61 in San Francisco and oakland 64 along with san jose and san rafael and napa and 67 today in concord and santa rosa. Ill give you an update on the thanksgiving forecast. Heres reggie. Californias Health Secretary is warning that more counties could go into the purple tier, which is the most restrictive as soon as today. We anticipate some tier movement. A handful of counties moving to a more restribbive tier. Three counties in the red tier but could slide back to purple. San mateo and marin counties. Dr. Mark ghaly defended the restrictions in the counties in purple. It is necessary to help curve the spread. Watch at abc7news.
The pandemic. Marine county is the only other in the red tier as of right now. And there has been no mention so far about marin county going into the purple tier. At this point right now, health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark ghaly is giving an update on the states response to covid19. Well monitor the briefing and bring you an update coming up at 12 30. Governor newsome gave his update yesterday afternoon while quarantining at home with his family. This is after his children were exposed to someone who tested positive for the coronavirus. He talked about vaccines yesterday, specifically how the state would store the keys and how they would distribute them as well. And his plan focuses on having people most at risk to receive the batch of vaccines, which might be available next month. Skilled nursing facilities, Residential Care facilities. Assisted living facilities. Of course, our First Responders and other critical infrastructure. Were making sure were protecting those that a