Preparing for the possibility pg e could cut their power. Good evening and thanks for joining usmism im. Im dion lim. That red flag warning will last for two days. Now in effect and it will continue to remain in effect until 9 00 p. M. Monday evening. As you see offshore winds begin to develop. Were tracking those winds out of the north and northeast will gust anywhere from 35 to as high as 50 Miles Per Hour in our hills. And these winds this time of year we know this pattern, they drop humidity levels very low, and they drag in some very warm air, which does increase our fire danger. So its in effect in the north bay, the inland east bay and the east bay hills. Look at the winds right now in our hills. Already gusting to 40 atop mt. Diablo. We do expect these winds to strengthen in the Early Morning hours tomorrow. Future weather show you these wind gusts early tomorrow morning at 5 00 a. M. We do expect winds to strengthen especially in the north bay with frequent gusts over 30 Miles
California has performed more than 13 million coronavirus tests. The sevenday and 14day average test Positivity Rate are both 3. 6 . Thats the lowest in a very long time. Optimism is warranted in the bay area. This graph shows the number of cases every day. The yellow line is on the declin good evening. Thank you for joining us. Coronavirus impacts every bay area county but in different ways. In the south bay, private Health Care Providers are being threatened with fines if they dont make coronavirus testing more accessible. Chris has that story now from san jose. With Santa Clara County in the red tier as part of the color code framework for reopening the economy, experts say any improvement theres largely depend on the expansion of covid19 testing throughout the region. It is really foundational to Community Wide safety and foundational to being able to reopen more and get people back to work and back to school. This afternoon, county leaders called on local Health Care Systems to do
Change. Nearly 30 degrees cooler in some spots than it was yesterday. Look at santa rosa. Even as temperatures dropped, the winds are picking up intensity and we have a red flag warning in effect for all the Higher Elevations in the bay area until 8 00 tomorrow morning. The relative humidity is dangerously low as the winds intensify with wind speeds, gusts in the Higher Elevations up to 32 miles an hour in st. Helena. 17 miles an hour at atlas peak. And we have a wind advisory for virtually all the Higher Elevations. Now we go to drew tuma. Reporter you can see the sky behind me. It has that yellow hue once again as the sun is setting and we will find that sunset with the yellow orange sky like it was early this morning when the sun was rising. Lets look at where all the smoke was coming from. You can see the august complex fires to our north. Well add the winds to the satellite picture were seeing and the winds that we have, those offshore gusts that had developed and prompted the red
Easy. Tonight at 11 00 well have the details of a drug ucf doctors are adding to their trial for covid19 patients helping them fight this virus. Hundreds of thousands of cases stuck in a county backlog. Not just a technical issue experts say it presents a Greater Health issue. Welcome to the new normal. Live music at the Alameda County fair grounds. Youll feel the heat this weekend. Ill have the temperatures coming up. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. California now the third state where covid19 deaths have exceeded 10,000. More than 8,400 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours but the states numbers have been inaccurate for a week. Thats because of a Testing Backlog thats in the hundreds of thousands. You deserve better. The governor demands better of us, and we are committed to doing better. Reporter abc 7 reporter amanda del castillo has more on this technical glitch. California Health Leaders are blaming the states massive backlog of test results on two issues. A july 25
To 48 hours that the backlog that is between 250,000 and 300,000 records will be resolved giving us a better sense of the total number of tests that were delayed. California health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley admits most of the unreported records are most likely covid19 test samples but not all. However, without a resolution two very important metrics. Total cases and percent positivity remain unclear for counties across the state. What were getting is correct but were not getting all of it. Reporter Santa Clara County testing officer says meantime its business as usual while flying blind. The state says it put a freeze on its coronavirus watch list. That means no county is being added or dropped until state Health Officials are confident the data is correct. Salono county Public Health officer dr. Balum says his office noticed the difference ins numbers july 23rd. They immediately notified the state. He says at its core the massive delay presents a Greater Health issu