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
Warnings from those Health Experts people are still packing airports. Kron fours terisa stasio has been monitoring the scene and open airports, tonights joins us now now. Whats going on out there theresa. Why cant am so travel here at Oakland International airport down about 60 but that still meant about 7,008 1000 people came in and out of this airport and Health Officials are now saying that we could see a fallout from that. Im going to virginia were going to land in seattle for thanksgiving, choosing to fly this thanksgiving, travelers heading off for the upcoming holiday. Despite recommendations from the cdc to stay home to slow the spread with covid cases also taking off flying past levels set in the spring when the pandemic first hit Health Experts warn about a turbulent future would expect seeing increased cases and continue to increase and haas lies asians Infectious Disease expert doctor, peter, chinhong with ucsf says if cases soar. We could be looking at more austere measure
Friends who wanted to visit on thanksgiving, they were out of town and looking for a place to stay and. I work with children so you can the around to meet people i guess its what Public Health officials have been pleading for people to stay home and take precautions this Holiday Season Record Number of air travelers already took to the skies calculating their risk area, san miguel of concord is not planning to travel by air or cause any of them its scary, i think everybody to be safe. But im looking forward to seeing family weve been getting says pretty often so were on the same page about things 95 of travelers are expected to be driving this Holiday Season, according to aaa officer brandon korea with the california Highway Patrol says while overall the roads in the bay area have been slow during the pandemic. Speeding has been a problems like speeding down that is a completely avoidable part of the crash is your speed you can control that right to encourage safe travel officers will
Be done without any precedent in the time at least ive been on this committee which is about 25 years. And its being done i guess to show power and push someone through really abrogate the value of hearings that this committee should treasure and respect so i very much hope this does not happen if theres no need for and is going to create a lot of bad will the doesnt need to be created. Today was the final day of confirmation hearings for judge Amy Coney Barrett judge barrett was not involved in todays hearings but it was still heated at times yes our washington correspondent Alexandra Limon joins us now live with details alexandra. And vicki good evening. And despite the opposition that we heard from Democratic Senators like senator feinstein there, the interactions between those senators and judge barrett were still pretty amicable all week long but today lawmakers did lose their patients with each other. Points. In the final day of hearings Democratic Senators continued to push agai
For some today and as we mentioned the number of customers without power in Northern California. Is about 30,000 around the bay area. Alameda napa sam, a tail Santa Clara Santa Cruz and sonoma counties all have more than a 1000 customers who are in the dark. Although people in some sections have been given the allclear and that means their power could be restored soon so lets get the very latest now from kron fours Justine Waltman shes in our newsroom just a well pamela allclear signal has been issued for portions of Monterey Santa Cruz and santa clara counties, which means. That pg e crews can now begin patrolling all these d energize lines whether thats by helicopter or by foot or by car. And once theyve confirmed that the lines have not suffered any when driven damaged and that hazards like trees are removed customers spent can have the power restored sort still a ways off but theyve been given the all clear so lets take a look at where the power is out right now thats the purple tr