It is the only bay area county allowed to have hair and nail salons open, gyms too. But that could change just as it did in santa cruz over the weekend. The governor today also points 0 you a new hot spot hes concerned about, but there is also encouraging news. Nbc bay areas ian cull has the very latest. Reporter tonight, new numbers have San Mateo County Health Officials expecting it will be put on the governors monitoring list soon, specifically because of one of the indicators. The average cases per 100,000 people is now 127 over the last 14 days. It needs to be below 100. Supervisor david canepa worries it will be devastating to many businesses. Do i want to be on the watch list . But remember we started this pandemic, its about saving lives. Reporter 93 of the states population now lives in the county on the list. Thats 37 counties, including santa cruz, which starting tomorrow also has to shut down indoor operations of hair and nail salons, indoor malls, places of worship, and gy
A boutique in the Mission District may have to close its doors for the second time now because of the pandemic. On the coronavirus watch list and facing closures. Now Business Owners in Santa Cruz County are looking to operate outdoors. A major new testing plan in San Franciscos Mission District. Who its geared towards and how it could affect the entire city. Were in a seasonal summer pattern. Whats changing this week coming up. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Take a good look at this map right now because in about an hour, Santa Cruz County will join the eight bay area counties on the states watch list. The only count not being monitored is san mateo. Landing on that list means a number of indoor business also have to close at 12 01 a. M. Or come up with a way to shift their operations indoors. And the biggest impact will be on hair salons and gyms. Amanda del castillo explains how some gyms are already p
And you end the. Five i cant contact got 50 i to i visited in the and that officers did not respond for 15 hours. With some of the Violent Crime that we get daily, it takes our officers away from responding to this property crimes. Reporter he says police need to do better. Every time they give you some reasons. We are busy, we had shooting somewhere. Thats not a public service, because i am a citizen. Reporter the owner tells me he would like oakland to hire more Police Officers who live in oakland so they are invested in the community. In the meantime hes considering moving out of state. Staying in oakland right now, firefighters are trying to figure out what sparked a house fire that destroyed one home and badly damaged another. Crews responded to airport of a fence on fire around 5 45 near sycamore street and dr. Martin luther king jr. Way. The fire started outside and quickly spread to two comes. One person was rescued from one of the homes and taken to the hospital for treatment.
Robberies assaults and burglaries kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from san leandro what the police union is saying about these alarming numbers stand. Well ken and pam this warning from the police union comes up in the city of san leandro voted in june to slash the budget of the Police Department by more than a Million Dollars is also having the union come out and say that because of the spikes in crimes theyre going to need all the funding that they could gain but advocates for defunding. The Police Department say. That they should addressing the its not its not money thats the problem here. Its how these crimes are addressed. The San Leandro Police Officers Association is warning people over a significant jump in Violent Crimes, new numbers from the citys Police Department show from june to july there was a 500 increase in armed robberies, a 125 increase in assaults with a Deadly Weapon a 100 jump in shoplifting and a 75 increase in home burglaries is very concerning for us th
Nationwide. And tonight a key model is predicting covid will kill nearly 300,000 americans by december 1st, currently 160,000 americans have died from covid19. But if the data from the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation plays out that would mean an additional 136,000 people will lose their lives to this virus over the next 4 months. In a statement, researchers at the institute say consistent maskwearing could save about 70,000 lives a message that was echoed by the nations top Infectious Disease expert. Now is the time. To accelerate the fundamental preventive measures that we will talk about masks social distancing avoiding crowds out to his grade than indoors, washing hands, et cetera. Those kind of simple things can actually prevent that uptick from becoming a surge. Earlier this week doctor deborah birx warned of an uptick in the covid19 test Positivity Rate in several cities as well as in californias central valley. But the severity of the pandemic in california is now mu