Im dion lim. A huge swell of covid19 cases has prompted several counties to implement a new stayathome order. It goes into effect at 10 00 tomorrow night for San Francisco, santa clara, and contra costa county. Monday at midnight in Alameda County, and noon on tuesday in marin. The new rules will stay in effect until at least january 4th. We turn to abc7 News Reporter luz pena now who spoke to people who are out for what may their very last meal out until next year. Luz, as we can imagine, some businesses really concerned here. Dion, i spoke to several Business Owners who tell me these are going to be very challenging weeks. Theyre planning to lay off some of their staff after tomorrow night as they gear up to survive the stayathome order. Unless something changes, this is what the last saturday of Outdoor Dining of 2020 looked like in San Francisco. Packed. Yeah, the last hurrah. Reporter this family heard the news and are going on a food tour. We started at the ferry building, and th
Is also going away. Cases continue to rise as hospital beds run dangerously low in other parts of the state. Now those areas also pulling back. The news at 11 00 starts right now. Life is about to change for many across the bay area. Businesses bracing for big losses, hospital workers continued to be stretched to the limit. Sergio quintana begins our coverage from San Francisco. In San Franciscos castro neighborhood cocktails alfresco has become a regular part of many peoples saturday night ritual. So sad. I dont know what were going to do for the next couple of weeks. Reporter at the cost ko in the south market neighborhood some people have already started stocking up. They didnt have any toilet paper, they were already out of bottled water. The things from last time in march those are gone again. Reporter San Francisco and four other bay area counties have decided to enforce the states stay at home order before the region as a whole is required to. The bay area region still has 21. 7
Temperatures right now are in the north bay with the fog. They are not terribly cold. Youre doing okay in santa rosa. Forty fort in novato and heading over to the eastway, 51 and oakland. 41 and walnut creek. 43 in dublin. And heading further south, 46 in sunnyvale. Today will be another mile today after we kick the fog. Mostly sunny skies. 68 the coast. 73 in the bay and 82 inland. Very similar to yesterday. Lets head over to sell and see how we are doing at the road. We are off to a good start if you are driving on the commute on 580 through the altamont pass. We are starting with the super commute and unity traffic moving along okay. 205 has a little slowing approaching 580 and then you go to livermore and dublin it looks good, with no major problems traffic and oakland is fine. Eastbound 580 harvard there is Police Activity because of an earlier fatal accident. It is a hit and run eastbound 580 heading away from the Richmond Bridge and towards berkeley on 580. Right now aed traffic
Power went out in piedmont, says she is less concerned about the money and would prefer that pg e do things like improving their powerline, underground and when it is necessary, and all we know they would profit by. Reporter within the past hour, the ceo did issue and statement and it is also a review of the utilities. Live in the oakland hills, ktvu fox 2 news. The Federal Ridge fire has burned close to 8000 acres in the San Fernando Valley and has damaged or destroyed at least 75 structures. Investigators now say the wildfire started under a high voltage transmission power. Southern california, edison, had shut off power in some areas due to dry, windy conditions. The fire is not about 43 contained, 23,000 homes had to be evacuated. One woman says she has lived in that area for more than 30 years and says this is the fourth wildfire. This is the only one we really could not prepare for, the other ones we had time to pack our cars and get things ready. All we did was get our dogs and
Result of your utility prioritizing profit over Public Safety for decades. He said the rebates should be funded by shareholders, not rate payers. We did it with book lights and candles. Reporter kathleen kept her bookstore open in the dark. The business plunged 75 that day. I think it is right. I think that a lot of people lost a lot of money this week. It was totally unnecessary having the entire Business District shut down. Reporter she says a rebate or credit would not be enough. I think 250 is a start, but i think that pg e also owes us an apology. Reporter this moment, whose power went out in piedmont, says she is less concerned about the money and would prefer pg e do things like improving their powerline, underground and when it is necessary, and all the other measures that we know they would profit by. Reporter pg e issued a statement acknowledging it fell short in acknowledging the outage to its customers. The cpuc also ordered pg e to minimize the size appear future Public Sa