A lucrative one for the globes. Billionaires watching the hawks has been crunching the numbers on their big show, begins greetings and sal you take from electric cars, the park and drive themselves to the ability to buy damn near anything your imagination desires from the comfort of your own home in just a click or 2, we must truly, truly be living in a brand new gilded age of prosperity. Yeah, not so much new. Not at all. Apart from all of our gadgets, of convenience and entertainment at our fingertips. The meat hook reality is that according to the u. S. Labor department, u. S. Jobless claims of risen over 800000 since august. Weve had more than 75000000. 00 claims for Unemployment Insurance since the start of the pandemic all the way back in march. In fact, the number of u. S. Citizens living in poverty has jumped from 9 percent back in june to over a leavened per cent in september. And that number is still rising, showing no signs of future decline. But things, things arent all bad
Now. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im anoushah roasta. And im terry mcsweeney. Doctors say cases continue to climb at an alarming rate. Take a look at this. These are the new cases reported today in the bay area. Santa clara county adding 335 cases. Alameda, San Francisco, sonoma countys all adding more than 100 cases. These new cases are pargts of the growing trend across the country. Tonight the United States has more than 11 million covid19 cases. As we mentioned, many bay area counties are tightening restrictions. Right now indoor operations in San Francisco are scaled back. Starting tuesday, marin, contra costa, santa clara counties, theyre all going to do the same. Some restrictions in Contra Costa County are being tightened even further, especially when it comes to indoor gyms. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana is in walnut creek where one gym owner plans on fighting the new rule. Reporter for the last several weeks, a night at the gym for walnut week resident maureen kosta h
37 in vallejo, 35 santa rosa, 50 downtown, 45 in livermore and a look at the Golden Gate Bridge where were looking at wet pavement, temperatures in the 50s by noontime, but were climbing still with plenty of sunshine by the afternoon. Some lower 60s on the east bay, and south bay. But we still have some clouds, maybe a sprinkle to talk about for the rest of the weekend, and then more measurable rain into the week ahead. Liz . All right, lisa, thank you. Right now, Indoor Dining in San Francisco is done for the foreseeable future, a decision motivated by Health Concerns amid the covid19 pandemic but it is another blow to the economy, were focused on both those issues as part of our effort to build a better bay area. Now, the city is also reducing capacity at gyms and movie theaters but abc 7 News Reporter luz pena explains, restaurants are in a particularly tough spot as we enter the cold months. Reporter heres tony marcell enjoying the sounds of his restaurant bustling, with 25 capacit
Like america. The battle to restore decency, defend democracy and give everybody in this country a fair shot. Democracy is not a state. It is an act. It takes sacrifice, but there is joy in it and there is progress, because we, the people, have the power to build a better future. A vision of unity as president elect joe biden and his running mate coined the daughter of oakland, v. P. Elect Kamala Harris echoing the words of the late john lewis, laying out their vision for the next four years, welcoming everyone together as americans. Good morning. Its sunday, november 8th. Im jovina fordson. I know all of you all in the bay area heard those celebrations way into the night. We are waking up to history made here and that message of healing from joe biden and california senator Kamala Harris. Speaking from will manageton delaware, last night president elect biden laid out his hopes for his presidency, introduced by the woman whose story you all know very well here. Vice president elect Ka
Tonight. Also breaking tonight, california has officially surpassed 1 million that is according to Johns Hopkins university. These new numbers coming just within the past hour. California is now the second state after texas to report at least 1 million covid cases and more than 18,000 people. Have died. And the Coronavirus Crisis is where we begin tonight on kron 4 news at 5. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus really a reality check on a night you have coronavirus cases surging across most of the country in some spots there really exploding and here in the bay area they are rising as well many counties, locally are now faced with the possibility of having to move back another tier into a more restrictive tier in the states reopening system in some Health Officials are choosing to pause their reopening plans with the hope of slowing the spread of covid and avoiding some of the economic consequences of being forced to go back and entire tier. Yeah today Alameda County announced that it