Stores with reduced capacity could mean a 40minute wait. The National Retail federation on its website predicts online sales will be capturing 20 to 30 of the holiday market, up from last year. There are no corporate parties and reduced inventory and fewer employees are in many stores according to consumer expert and San Francisco State University marketing professor. The projections are that because the consumer demand has been suppressed so far, starting with today, which is black friday and the start of the Holiday Shopping season, there is some kind of penalty up demand that people, you know, they want to give gifts to family and friends to uplift their spirits in a very challenging year. Reporter walnut creek downtown there is a 20 vacancy rate right now but Property Owners say they are getting inquiries about renting the vacant sites according to the walnut creek Downtown Business association. Whats missing is probably, you know, the ice rink. Were unable to host the ice rink thi
Dr. Coal fox expects San Francisco could move to purple by then. A curfew would have to be implemented within 48 hours of that announcement. By the look of the citys latest case counts, we technically already qualify to be in that category. The third surge, there is no question. Its not a matter of if it will happen. It is happening. A stern warning from dr. Coal f colfax as covid is surging. What is really important is that curve, that steep slope of increasing cases. The 14day average of cases increased 152 since november 1st. Thats one of the highest spikes in the bay area. To put it in perspective, 217 new covid cases were reported in mid october. Nearly a month later, that number is 768. This rate of increase is higher than we experienced during our summer surge. On monday, San Francisco was safely in the red zone but todays data indicates the citys cases per capita is far past the threshold to be in purple. A surge that could overwhelm hospitals across the city that are already r
You can still sit outside and you wont get wet. Dont let me discourage y if i you dont want to beouide when it inin g, yeah, you might want to change those plans. San francisco right around noon is when the rain moves in. Hi, everybody, heres a look at our storm. I nicknamed it jason since its friday 13th. Heres what its doing around here. A few sprinkles in the north bay during the morning commute. The steadier light to moderate rain will move in after 9 00 and slide south and weaken as it hento the early i eveningad hours. In fact, its just mainly cloudy right now or increasing clouds if youre in the sbaouth bay. You can see in the afternoon hours, theres the rain rolling on in. Temperatures that could reach the 60s will fall into the 50s once the rain begins. Definitely going to be cooler today. Lets get over to reggie for todays first story. Thanks. This morning, Health Experts are worried about a lack of response from President Trump about the growing nationwide surge in coronavir
Santa clara county gets serious with retailers. Well tell you how many Health Violations they handed out on black friday. Today the city of berkeley reactivated its covid relief fund, hoping to help hundreds of struggling businesses and tenants. Im spencer christian. Mild weather of late november will continue into earlry december. Ill have the forecast. Abc7 news at 11 00 begins now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Scary. I mean, because covid. But the deals are good. Ahead of a busy Holiday Shopping season, Health Officials up and down the coast are cracking down. Some bay area retailers are being fined for covid violations. And tonight in los angeles, officials are strictly limiting any social gatherings to only people in the same household. It all comes as coronavirus cases continue to rise. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. And im dion lim. With the Holiday Shopping weekend in full swing, officials are trying
Everyone, yes, for california standards its frosty out there with temperatures at freeding in some locations, live doppler 7 shows that we are mostly clear, a few high clouds in the view from our roof camera, strong northerly winds in the upper elevations, thats driving the milder air down to Half Moon Bay at 57. 52 in oakland. Low 40s in san jose. The exploratorium camera, and look at these numbers, you know the protected valleys of the north bay, our east bay valleys, low 30s to upper 30s, yes, you certainly are feeling that dry air in place. 41 in livermore. So well look for those offshore winds to warm us up again today with numbers in the upper 50s by noontime, some high clouds, partly cloudy in the afternoon, with upper 60s inland, mid60s around the bay. And about 60 at the shoreline. Increasing clouds, maybe a milder night out there but well talk about the holiday, and if were going to see any rain at all for the upcoming week. Liz . All right, lisa, thank you. Californias new c