Contact tracers are struggling to keep up with the surge of covid cases and calls. The patterns theyve noticed in cases and when cooperation gets complicated. Love is in the air and you can see the tents are up as we approach thanksgiving. Ill let you know the best time for dining outdoors. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. The range of reactions are theyre really sick. Others are just, oh, i got it, and im still going to go back to that allinclusive place in mexico. Tonight the explosion in covid cases has made it nearly impossible for contact tracers to keep up. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larson spoke to a bay area Contact Tracing team about the unprecedented challenges theyre facing on a daily basis. In the last few weeks weve been slammed. Reporter prepandemic was a library. Now she leads a team of contact tracers in the city whos work load has increased to nine or ten calls a day. Some of whic
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
Were still looking at very warm numbers in the upper elevations. Picking up the fog along the coast. A red flag warning another hour this morning. Winds have been kind of gusty in the north bay and relative humidity 12 to 18 . Were still concerned about that. As we check the winds theyre gusty, somes gusting to about 30, mt. Tam and mt. Diablo, still out of the north up to 25 miles an hour. 82 degrees by the glass fire with 15 relative humidity. Winds out of the southsouthwest, so they have switched direction, and thats going to be allowing today some of the coast to be cleared on out. On tuesday unhealthy air will be pushed staying in the north bay but pushed to our east bay and south bay due to that light northwesterly wind. Were in the 50s in the inland east bay, so were cooler all around the bay today, and well talk about that modest cooling and still the warmth inland in detail in a few minutes. All right, lisa, thank you. Back to those new developments regarding President Trumps
The weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Hi, everyone. We have fog at the coast but still have those breezy northerly winds in our upper elevations where temperatures are pretty warm. Look at our fire danger index. The colors blue and yellow. Up in the north bay indicate the best chance of fires starting or spreading. And that area expands and look what happens at 5 00, another burst of wind. So were certainly watching this area once again as our ridge of High Pressure is still our dominant feature today. Look at the wind gusts. Mt. Diablo above 1,000 feet is gusting to 25 miles an hour, and its in the 80s where the glass fire is with 15 relative humidity. With the smoke a spare the air alert has been issued today through tuesday. So the worst air quality with slow improvements. It is 49 in santa rosa so we like those warmer nights and cooler evenings. Still going to be hot, though, in the 90s inland with hazy conditions. A look at better days with better autumn like weather coming u
Certainly an unexpected side, President Donald Trump cichlids covid19 out of the hospital and in a motorcade, waiting for his waving to his supporters, he briefly left Walter Reed Hospital to surprise a crowd waiting outside, there he is in the backseat of a black suv. The president and his secret service wore masks, he posted a video on social media hinting at this of us visited and said hes learned a lot about the virus. Its been very interesting i learned a lot about covid19, i learned it by really going to school, this is the real school. This is not the lets read the book school and i guess it is and i understand it. I think that joyride was massively irresponsible. Should be sitting in a car within a few feet of him as they take a ride around is for a photo of is, it actually makes me angry. It is a terrible idea. Reporter sunday his medical team gave an update on his condition and admitted he had been given supplemental oxygen at the white house friday before taking a helicopter