It took just half as long to go from 3,000 to 4,000. And in just ten days, this month, we went from 5,000 to 6,000 cases of covid19. Dr. Colfax says 107 coronavirus cases are in San Francisco hospitals. That is the highest number since the pandemic began. 58 people have since died. Dr. Colfax says at the current rate of spread, it is estimated more than 750 people will be hospitalized by mid pocket and there will be more than 600 deaths by the end of the year. He says we all should behave as if we have covid19 and continue to wear masks, wash our hands and avoid gatherings. With every bay area county on the monitoring list and orders to shut down businesses, what exactly does it take to get off that list and can counties even meet the guidelines any time soon . Heres abc7 news report he chris reyes. Solano county was the first to be put on the list june 29 and every county followed after. San mateo was put on the list. Dr. Grant cold fafl admitting, theyre not getting off the list any
To minimize that impact. Day one has been a challenge. That was the pg e Vice President essentially acknowledging the inconvenience. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Pg es big concern has been the red flag fire conditions and potential for high winds later tonight. The first phase of the Power Outages started in parts of sonoma, napa, and marin counties for this morning. That is the red on the map that included some 2000 pg e customers. Phase two involves the east bay and south bay, and another 169,000 homes and businesses. It was supposed to start at noon, then it was pushed back to 8 00 tonight, then it was pushed back again until right now at 10 00. Jana katsuyama live from downtown orinda where the power can go out at any moment. Jana, is there any sign of wind out there tonight . Reporter not very matchup here, frank and julie, and weve been throughout the county. You can see there are still some businesses open that have lights on, but it has been
Reporter good morning. There is no power at this church where evacuees have been told to go. You can see people are gathered around candles and have flashlights. The red cross is here providing blankets, food and coffee. With me i have one of the evacuees, eric, you said your family was asleep and he woke up you live in this neighborhood that had to be evacuated. What happened . We were fast asleep. We went to sleep early because of the blackout. There was really nothing much to do besides go to sleep. My mom who lives next door came banging on the door and she has a key so she came in and said wake up. Weve got to go. There is a fire. We have to evacuate. So we got dressed in a little bit of a panic. We werent sure what to take and in the end we just left. Reporter did you see the fire or smell the smoke . Smell the smoke when we went outside. Could not smell it from inside. Could not see the fire. It was on the other side of the neighborhood. Reporter described her was the neighborho
Its 70 contained. Before we show you the fire and give you the updates i want to point out that behind us is st. Monicas church. This is were some of the evacuees were told to go to get updates. A short time ago they got the word that half of the people who were told to evacuate ca w return home. We are seeing a little bit of traffic. People who just got the notice are leaving this Evacuation Center and heading up the hill. Up the hill from us in the distance you can see some of the fire trucks and vehicles on standby, watching this fire. Merrill fire broke out around 1 00 last night. It spread to 40 acres but is now 70 contained. At one point it was threatening 140 homes in the Sanders Ranch neighborhood, one mile south from st. Marys college. The university was not threatened. Firefighters say they have a good handle on the fire and will start to switch to mop up mode, and watching things. The spokesperson want to thank the residents were evacuating so quickly. When police came to th
Facebook, on your phone because some of you will not have power at some point, so you might want to have that ready to go on your phone, load it up so you can refresh it and look for the is the Facebook Page just the county . Is that all it is or Something Special i need to be looking up . Supervisor, are you there . Are you there . Yes. Okay. Do i need to look up anything special on facebook, or am i just looking up the county . Look up napa county, napa county, california. Youll see our county seal, and we have people monitoring and posting every minute, whenever we get new information were posting it right there. Were working closely with incident commands of cal fire to get you the most uptodate information. The most important thing regarding that information if you feel unsafe, leave. Supervisor, just one more quick question. As all of these evacuations are happening so quickly is there any fear that First Responders may not be able to get to those doors and knock and give this ma