261,000 americans of lost their lives due to the virus. Almost 13 million cases have been recorded in the country california just saw the biggest singleday increase in covid cases since the beginning of the pandemic in the last 24 hours, california has appointed more than 18,000 new cases. The States Health Department Says hospitalizations are up 88 over the last 2 weeks and icu admissions are up 57 over the last 2 weeks in total there are more than a million recorded cases in california and nearly 19,000 related deaths as cases continue to surge across california and the Latin X Community has become the hardest hit from the virus today Santa Clara County leaders issued a desperate plea for the Latin Community in particular to avoid large gatherings this thanksgiving well for Jonathan Mccall is here he has more on this story Jonathan Demme can heres something to keep in mind 26 of the population in Santa Clara County hispanic. They now make up nearly 60 of all the covid19 cases their l
Very popular spot for wineries and restaurants and she has more for a scale. Sonoma county not met all criteria to move past the states, not timeline but county leaders here they believe the science proves otherwise. 18 counties in california got the green light from governor Gavin Newsome to further ease covid19 restrictions Sonoma County is hoping to make that list the criteria is not the ballot by a u. S. Scientist or a doctor in the cdc. Developed by the state according to the governor to of the criteria to pass the states timeline must have no deaths from covid19 in 2 weeks and just one new case per 10,000 people for 2 weeks while the county has not met those criteria. They believe a request to further relax restrictions is reasonable because sonoma counties infection rate remains low youve been so conservative. In terms of our approach and keeping sheltering in place and froing down or businesses and then we very few infections because of that last week phase 2 of the states guid
Good afternoon im rahel solomon. Im jim donovan. Meteorologist matt peter son is in for katie live on the sky deck with our holiday forecast, good afternoon, matt good afternoon, guys. It is a sunny, warm, start to the afternoon and start to our Holiday Weekend, it is, a day where we need sunglasses heading east over toward jersey shore. South too. Folks down to delaware and heading up to the poconos it will be a really nice friday and good drive. So maybe leave a little bit early, and get there sooner. Outside right now in rehoboth, people filing on the beach and that beach has definitely been really kind of picked up with lots of people here, just, really, soon not that long ago with a lit built on the empty side but now we are looking at a full beach, down in rehoboth temperatures in the zero seven s for fill and ande and reading, still 70. Sixtynine in allentown. Seventythree in center city. Atlantic city 72. Cape may coming in at 72 degrees, down near wildwood as well. It will be
Coming up this morning on abc9 news. Iowa lawmakers are debating a speed increase on state highways. Details are up ahead concerns rise over the upcoming changes to iowas medicaid program. Well head to the state house later this morning. Plus. Hundreds of siouxland women came together for a special conference. Including our own Jenna Rehnstrom these stories and more. On abc9 news this morning. Lukas good morning and thanks for joining us this wednesday morning. Im lukas voss. Lawmakers in des moines are considering bumping up speeds on state highways. The change would increase the speed from 55 to 65 Miles Per Hour on two lane highways throughout iowa. But not everyone agrees. Abc9 News Reporter jess plue has more on the pros and cons of the potential increase. If all the roads were like this, then yes, speeds could be a little higher, but Woodbury County these roads, says officer todd wingert. The roads officer todd wingert is talking about are twolane highways in iowa. On tuesday, a
Jenna and im jenna rehnstrom. Iowa is trying to keep up with neighboring states. But when it comes to how fast you can go on the roads. Not everyone agrees that we should be pushing the limit. Tim lawmakers in des moinin are cocoidering bumping up speeds on state highghys. Abc9s jess pluehas more on the pros and cons. Jess that right. A bill has been sent to lawmakers proposing an increse in road speeds. More specifically, an increase from 55mph to 65mph on two lane highways throughout iowa. But while many are excited to quench their need for speed, others are more cautious about the potential increase. If all the roads were l le this, then yes, speeds could be a little higher, but woododry county only has three of these roads, says officer todd wingert. The roads officer todd wingert is talking about are twolane highways in iowa. On tuesd, a bill went into the hands of lawmakers to increase speeds from 60 to 65 mph. Gary worthan proposed this bill, keeping the state of iowa in check w