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
Now at 11 00 countless urgent warnings didnt stop people from gathering this thanksgiving. So now what . Tonight the new strategy from Bay Area Health officials to slow the next covid surge. Plus shots fired at a packed Northern California mall sends black friday shoppers running for their lives. At least one person dead tonight, the manhunt underway to find the gunman. This is stupid. This was dumb. This was cowardly. For whatever reason it had to end up being violent and it had to be tragic. Holiday shopping during a pandemic, well show you what popular spots in the south bay look like this black friday. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area tonight, Bay Area Health officials preparing for a major coronavirus surge. Good evening. Im brian hackney. Im andrea nakano. Theyre crafting a new strategy after people ignored warnings not to gather over the thanksgiving holiday. Tonight Alameda County became the first in the bay area to top 500 covidrelated deaths. Those numbers are expe
Witnesses say it happened in an instant. The girls father tried to save her, but he could not. Good evening everyone, i am frank somerville. I am Heather Holmes in for julie. The girl drowned at the beach, at a remote outpost on the west side of the bay in marin county. We have live coverage from deborah the spoke with First Responders about what happened. Reporter they said the dad couldve easily drown as well, trying to save his daughter. This is a tragedy for the parents and the two Little Sisters on a beach outing. This is the northernmost beach on the seashore. From skyfox, it is remote and secluded. The shoreline drops in the ocean. It came in as a water rescue. Reporter water rescue rushed in, expecting to save someone in the ocean. Instead, the park ranger, first arrived on the 4yearold victim had already washed ashore. He started cpr. First responders also took turns until she could be airlifted. About 45 minutes until we could get her loaded and moved toward a hospital. The e
Reporter in San Francisco theyre hoping cell phones hold the key to contact tracing. The more people that answer the call or text, the better our chances of getting control of the spread of covid19 in San Francisco and speeding up the reopening of our city. Reporter after a positive test youll get a text asking you to fill in the blank for contact tracers. The city is now averaging 130 new cases of covid19 a day and more than 900 a week. Now we are in a large surge with infections that are more widespread across the city and reaching different populations and our numbers have been increasing sharply. Reporter its a surge that started before the Holiday Season thats expected to continue through december. We saw this spike in the summer and it was hard to get back down. So the quicker we get it under control, the better off well be in the long run. Reporter if you get a positive covid19 test in San Francisco, you should expect a test and Public Health officials hope youll answer it becau
Enthusiastic about buying and giving gifts. More people are buying on line. A group of businesses have banded together. They fulfill orders and a pop up location for pick up snobbier 1500 products right now. Discovery is a huge component. Zonka toys are increasing sales. Its harder because our store is made for people coming in. Experiencing the new products we have. Were trying our best. Some say this year they are for going big box stores. Just because theres more people who are struggling. I love the Community Feeling of shopping and supporting local businesses. The Stores Tell Us if they have a chance to stay afloat they need shoppers to support them every day. There were long lines of shoppers looking for deals at the premium outlets, that are in livermore. Some of the shoppers said they are storm distancing and came out for the deals rather than shopping on line. Shopping on line, or shopping in the stores is nice sometimes. I try not to go out as much. If you shop on hype think