Joe biden and Kamala Harris Transition Team not wasting any time. Whats in their new covid action plan . We are tracking one of the coldest nights so far this season for a lot of us. Ill have the chilly numbers in the accuweather forecast. As the temperature drops, restaurants are begging their diners, bundle up and come on in. Former jeopardy contestants and fans mourn the death of alex trebek. Abc7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. It is finally feeling like fall. Bay area residents seeing hail and rain today. Welcome relief after a hot, fiery summer. Abc7 news viewer john nguyen sent this video in from milpitas, and we have reports of hail in other parts of the south bay as well. Further north, San Francisco saw some brief showers pass through this afternoon. Our south beach tower cam caught a few raindrops while looking toward the bay bridge. With that, we say good evening and thank you for joining us. Im di
Acres in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Sadly, one person died. 925 homes destroyed. But firefighters did manage to save thousands of homes. Cal fire tweeted out this video, firefighters reading parts of the hundreds of thank you letters they received. Also tonight, progress in the fight against covid19. Three more bay area counties are now in the red. San mateo, solano, and alameda counties have moved into the red tier, which means increased capacity at a number of businesses and indoor customers for salons and tattoo parlors. One of the counties is saying not so fast. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney reports from Alameda County. Reporter its out of the purple tier and into the red in san mateo, solano, and here in Alameda County. But Alameda County Health Officials say there will be no immediate changes, and as with other reopenings, it will be important for Alameda County to take a measured and phased approach to avoid dramatic increases in disease transmission and reclosures. At s
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Still some arent complying. So the county says its time to take action. This is the scene at a clayton starbucks today where a worker says a covidrelated case closed the store to close temporarily for a deep cleaning. As Contra Costa County deals with a spike in covid19 cases county leaders say enough is enough. We have been in this since march 16th. By my count, thats four months tomorrow and you should know that this is serious and we need everyone to cooperate. Reporter county supervisor Karen Mitchoff said its time to step things off businesses are Wearing Masks or practicing social distancing so the board is considering passing an ordinance that will allow county staff to start writing tickets. We feel a citation, a ticket, will do the trick. You know . 100 fine, 200 fine. We are not looking to put businesses out of the order. We want them to continue but they have to continue in a safe manner. I think that writing the tickets to the people that arent complying, if that helps us g
Tomorrow night. The stricter rules are being implemented because theyre trying to slow the continuing spread of coronavirus infections. Ive been concerned at how quickly it has skyrocketed. Two weeks ago, we were seeing about 3. 9 to 4. 2 of everyone tested being positive, and we were very concerned that we reached this 8 benchmark. We set a cap at 8 , and now that weve reached that, we realized we need to scale back, keep the community safe, and really encourage people to take these additional safeguards so we can slow the spread. Reporter now, Health Officials are also keeping close tabs on the number of intensive care unit beds available in the county. Right now, about half of the 209 beds are in use either from covid cases or other cases and this recent spread of infections in the county obviously is prompting concerns about the future, the near future availability of those icu beds. Reporting live in lafayette, im sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Sergio, thanks very much. Lets