The wait is over. Many businesses are finally allowed to reopen for Indoor Services. Including gyms and restaurants. Because of the county decision, this gym and dozens of others are closed. How that decision could put people out of business. The move to have Mental Health experts on hand. How several bay area cities plan to improve policing. Tracking heat, high winds and fire danger. Ill have your forecast coming up. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Tonight, a sobering and Unthinkable New coronavirus milestone. More than 200,000 people in the United States have now died because of the virus. Here in the bay area, there is some good news. The numbers are stabilizing. Thats allowed three more counties to join most of the region in loosening covid19 related restrictions. S tier to the red tier status on the states color coded blueprint for reopening. But the counties are taking very different approaches to re
The wait is over. Many businesses are finally allowed to reopen for Indoor Services. Including gyms and restaurants. Because of the county decision, this gym and dozens of others are closed. How that decision could put people out of business. The move to have Mental Health experts on hand. How several bay area cities plan to improve policing. Tracking heat, high winds and fire danger. Ill have your forecast coming up. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Tonight, a sobering and Unthinkable New coronavirus milestone. More than 200,000 people in the United States have now died because of the virus. Here in the bay area, there is some good news. The numbers are stabilizing. Thats allowed three more counties to join most of the region in loosening covid19 related restrictions. Today, these three counties eached a vamsed from the purple tier to the red tier status on the states color coded blueprint for reopening. B
Were in the 70s to low 80s in our warmest spots. And later in the afternoon, well be in the upper 70s to upper 80s. And so breathe easy, across the board it is good air quality no matter where you live. But this weekend turns much hotter. Details in a few minutes. Petaluma police are investigating a deadly dui crash. Officers responded to the roundabout on bay wood drive last night. It looks like a car drove on to the sidewalk hitting a 53yearold man who later died. Police arrested the 41yearold twrifer suspected of being under the influence. The Department Tells us the driver has a pending court day for a duirelated crash in Sonoma County from 2018. And a tevstif devastating m in the pandemic. The coronavirus has now taken more than 200,000 lives in the u. S. Cases are now on the rise in 33 states, washington, d. C. , and puerto rico. Officials are warning at least 18 states are in the socalled red zone. Here at home, the cases appear to be stabilizing. So now more indoor businesses a
Rapidly. Yet here in california, were seeing the number of new cases decline. Today three bay area counties improved their standing on the states restriction list. Alameda, san mateo and solano counties moved. That means restaurants can open. Only two bay area counties remain in the purple tier. The most restrictive in the states system. Contra costa and sonoma. There is hope for parents who want to get their children back in school. Two San Francisco private schools have been given the green light for holding inperson trucks. They applied for and were granted permission to open classrooms. Health officials are reviewing the applications for 40 other San Francisco private charter and parochial schools. Abc7 news report he kate larsen looks at what a difference the changes make or dont make. Reporter with most bay area county in the red, it meansle businesses can reopen indoors with limited capacity including restaurants, retail, museums, places of worship, movie theaters and gyms. Out
To respond to any issue. Pg e also mobilizing crews in the north bay. To restore power. One place you can always find information is robs twitter page. He posted possible winds for this storm. That is at found alive in her car under a pile of snow. A woman with dementia missing for a week. She went missing last thursday. Last seen at her home. Her family thought she driven off in her and got disoriented and lost. Today around noon sheriffs say one of the helicopters spotted the car in the snow. Were told shes alive. And crews are working to get her out. A historic bay in washington. House of representatives hand off of the impeachment articles against President Trump. Live in washington where the senate received a lot of new evidence. Thats right. Good evening. This all comes nearly a month to the day after the house voted to impeach President Trump. The process in the happened of the senate after the ritual like ceremony this afternoon that dates back before email or facts entered the