Abruptly close today an east bay das office ready to investigate complaints on covid restrictions. Schools in new york city abruptly close day while local School Districts adjust their reopening plans. Why one district still wants to bring cases back. The annual Christmas Tree lighting was held in union square. Ill tell you why you probably didnt know about it. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. Tonight an east bay county is about to get tough when it comes to following new covid safety restrictions with cases spiking in Contra Costa County. Yes, a task force is ready to investigate and fine businesses not following the rules. Cornell barnard is getting the information tonight. Reporter burger loft, a surge in covid cases has put Contra Costa County in the purple tier. Employees know the rules. Make sure theyre wearing masks. Wash their hands 200 times a day. Reporter not every business plays by the rules. The Contra
The worlds most gold medal awarded tequila. Abruptly close today an east bay das office ready to investigate complaints on covid restrictions. Schools in new york city abruptly close day while local School Districts adjust their reopening plans. Why one district still wants to bring cases back. The annual Christmas Tree lighting was held in union square. Ill tell you why you probably didnt know about it. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. Tonight an east bay county is about to get tough when it comes to following new covid safety restrictions with cases spiking in Contra Costa County. Yes, a task force is ready to investigate and fine businesses not following the rules. Cornell barnard is getting the information tonight. Reporter burger loft, a surge in covid cases has put Contra Costa County in the purple tier. Employees know the rules. Make sure theyre wearing masks. Wash their hands 200 times a day. Reporter not e
Acres scorched in the atlas fire near napa. Lets turn to anser hassan at Carson Newman high school, one of the buildings devastated by that fire. Reporter they say 50 of the classrooms have been destroyed. Lets show you one right here. This is the roof that collapsed on to this. If we look on this side, another portable. What you are seeing burned out, chairs and benches. Here are before and after pictures of the school, which gives you an idea of how badly and how much of the campus has been destroyed. This is a small campus. This is a private school. The schools principal estimates up to 18 of the 35 classrooms have been destroyed. That includes the library, main office and portable classrooms. The challenge over the next few days will be to determine how much of the school is usable and to figure out where the rest of the students will go for class. In a statement, they said we are learning the impact of this devastating fire in our community. I urge everyone to make safety their to
Hour. There are at least 10 confirmed deaths. This is related to those fires. Seven in Sonoma County, two in napa and one in mendocino county. At least 100 people are reported injured. There are dozens of missing persons reports. The firefighters are not sure how many of the reports have to do with spotty cell service in affected areas. The fire destroyed at least 1500 stru structures. That includes wineries and buildings in santa rosa. 20,000 people are evacuated. A map of the notable fires this morning. 60,000 acres are destroyed so far in sonoma and napa county. 30,000 acres burned in the socalled tubbs fire. 25,000 acres scorched in the atlas fire near napa. We are expecting updates from cal fire on the acreage burned anytime now. Lets turn to anser hassan at the high school in santa rosa, which was partially spared, but is really hard to see. Good morning. Reporter yeah, good morning, laura. Right now, School Officials say 50 of the structures on campus have been burned. This is o
Border. Jackie ward is live near the area right now. Jackie. Reporter were on Bennett Mountain road and this is as far as we could get on the way to glen ellen right now. We got stopped at sonoma Mountain Road because of road closures. I just spoke to cal fire. They have a station just down street here. Firefighters have been at this now four days straight without any sleep. And right now, behind me, it looks like a black hole but up on the ridge, thats highway 12. And when we got here earlier, could you see how intense the flames were. Right now, that fire is moving southeast towards glen ellen and they have already had a tremendously terrible time with this fire. Chopper 5 got some amazing video of homes being destroyed one after the other. This was we also got access to cavedale road. Its a narrow single lane and you can see the magnitude of the fire as it took down everything in its path. Some people said this is a terrible time. [ pause ] reporter right now, glen ellen has some ma