Abc 7 news contributor and chronicle insider is here with his perspective. First though lets hear from abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz breaking down the debate. At least we had a debate tonight. We did. A total 180 from the debate a few weeks ago. The candidates were still as contentious and combative but did allow each other to speak in part because the mics could be muted which led to a healthy debate on several topics starting with coronavirus. The two sparred on how to reopen the country. If you have a restaurant you need plexiglas dividers so people cannot infect one another. You need to be in a position where you can take testing rapidly and know whether the person is in fact infected. You need to be able to trace. These are businesses with no money. Putting a plexiglas up is unbelievably expensive and its not the answer. Youre going to sit there in a cubicle wrapped around with plastic . The candidates also sparred over health care and national security. The president went after bi
Economic indicators are looking very poor right now and the figures relate to the 1st quarter of the year and of course the pandemic only really took hold in march so what about it begs the question what about whats happening right now what about whats going to happen in may and in june and if the rest of the year the u. K. Prime minister baraks johnson is leading his 1st weekly Cabinet Meeting since falling ill with coronavirus the government is under pressure after new figures pushed the number of deaths to more than 26000 or theres some positive signs in spain which has recorded its lowest daily increase in new cases since a state of emergency was declared 6 weeks ago the Health Ministry has also recorded 268 new deaths. And for the 1st time in 2 months theres been no new domestic cases recorded in south korea restrictions have eased down the british communities being allowed to hold events marking borders birthday Robert Wright is in seoul with more. Weve been seeing numbers of aro
Mid and upper 60s around the bay for a nice afternoon above average. Can we keep that trend going for the holiday and beyond . Ill let you know. Lisa, thank you. Hundreds of american Cruise Ship Passengers are waiting to evacuate and board 747 jets and bring them home. They have been on board the ship with coronavirus. Several crew members infected. Here is a live look in japan where americans are about to disembark. Some will be quarantined for 14 days when they arrive here at Travis Air Force base in firefield. Others flown to lackland in texas. Were pushing to find exactly arrival times. Overnight the death top climbed to 1600 people. First fatality was also confirmed this week in europe. The number of worldwide infections have climbed to 69,000, 15 of them are here in the u. S. Here is abc 7 News Reporter ty hernandez with the latest. Reporter nearly 400 americans who have been quarantined on this cruise ship off the coast of japan will soon be on their way home, but many are conce
Have been forced their homes. We have a map to show the entire evacuation area. There is essentially a concentrated spot in northern Sonoma County. The evacuation orders extend all the way out to the pacific ocean. The evacuation zone is massive. Sonoma county and cal fire officials are trying to figure out when people may be able to return to their neighborhood. At this point, all evacuation orders and warnings remain in effect. Allie rasmus joins us live on the windsor town line where the entire town remains under evacuation. Reporter evacuation orders are in effect and so are the road closures at the intersection shiloh road and old redwood highway. The National Guard on the parked behind me. Along shiloh road in this part of Sonoma County, the Windsor Santa rosa line is where the fire was very active overnight. Just about 100 structures have burned in the kincade fire since it started wednesday. Around 7 a. M. You could see smoke coming from the ridge near chalk line road. A short
Middle school. If you are in danger, dont wait. Evacuate. All others please avoid these areas to allow First Responders access. Another fire burning in east concord county rig contra costa county. Severely fast winds and tinder dry conditions toward the summer lake park subdivision. Homes and Mobile Home Park is being threatened. More information on the vicinity of Bethel Island and cypress roads in oakley. Task forces have been dispatched and the contra costa Fire District is asking to avoid that. Sorry. Moving on to this video you can see well peo a in the dark and so theyve been trying to prepare and deal with that. This is video overnight of grocery stores, folks at whole foods trying to move all of those fringe rated items into freezer trucks outside since they dont have power inside. This morning nearly 389,000 pg e customers across the bay area have no electricity like this whole foods in lafayette who are using flashlights to get by like so many of us here. Yes. Also we have me