Now, tents and field hospitals are being set up there to reduce hospital bed capacity. The number of patients in the hospital icu and respite raiders reached an alltime high over the weekend. In el paso, some patients are being airlifted out to make room for the sickest. In addition, six more temporary morgue trucks were being brought in after the first four buildup, for a total of 10. New york state is opposing sweeping new restrictions, as new positive cases and hospital admissions continue to rise. Gatherings will be limited known no more than 10 people starting friday. This is for restaurants, bars, gym people, health clubs, bowling alleys must all close by 10 00 p. M. , starting friday. Governor andrew cuomo said, further steps can be taken, including banning Indoor Dining at restaurants and bars. Here in california, the state is now closing out 1 million cases since the start of this pandemic. New numbers released today so the state has more than 184,000 cases, including more tha
Contact tracers are struggling to keep up with the surge of covid cases and calls. The patterns theyve noticed in cases and when cooperation gets complicated. Love is in the air and you can see the tents are up as we approach thanksgiving. Ill let you know the best time for dining outdoors. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. The range of reactions are theyre really sick. Others are just, oh, i got it, and im still going to go back to that allinclusive place in mexico. Tonight the explosion in covid cases has made it nearly impossible for contact tracers to keep up. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larson spoke to a bay area Contact Tracing team about the unprecedented challenges theyre facing on a daily basis. In the last few weeks weve been slammed. Reporter prepandemic was a library. Now she leads a team of contact tracers in the city whos work load has increased to nine or ten calls a day. Some of whic
Thats up from 335 a week ago. Reporter virtually every business thats allowed to stay open is trying to stay afloat and at the same time protect the customers and workers. The data shows a disturbing trend. Theres an essential business in San Francisco offering something new. Reporter in the past week cases have surged from 10000000 to 11 million. A rapidly deinvolving situation. The rate of increase in the United States has been breathtaking. Daily tasks like congressy shopping can bring grocery shopping. You feel nervous. In terms of covid and you care about the amount of people that you see at the supermarket. Rainbow grocery learned in a survey why customers were not coming to the store. The main thing our customers main reason why people are not shopping in person, they want to limit the amount of being poseur. Employees came up with a reservation system. On a limited bases the store offers after hours shopping where they are serve a spot. Its a great idea to have it to keep every
Assaulted on hall wean night. The attack left him up able to walk, talk and eat on his own. Here are details about the case. Reporter the loved one describe the fat ir as hoss tirr and hard working. His just starting to ohis eyes. Hits family knows what happened to him is hive changing. Hi loved his job. Theres photos of him smiling. Hi worked at good max for two yours and hi left the Meat Department and rethrived carts. A coworker called 911 after discovering him beaten. My mom called and told me my bother was in the hospital and he wasnt going to make it. Her brother was unrecognizable with a brain injury and fractures to his face. His head was distorted. His eyes were shut. Police dont have much on the suspect. They lehes ad photos have they women. A silver four door car with a sunroof and dent by the gas tank. Which strikes the family as odd. One woman had a actual pga in the card. Duff ill bag in the cart. He didnt deserve this. No one does. Up him. His financial high is devastate
But there is still a path to victory for both biden and President Trump as Battle Ground states continue to tally votes. Here is where we stand. Vice President Biden has 253 electoral votes. President trump has 214. 270 is needed to win. Were waiting on alaska, arizona, nevada, pennsylvania, North Carolina and georgia. Voter turnout is expected to be high in this unusual Election Year but how high in comparison to past president ial elections . Abc 7 news Leslie Brinkley looked into that question today in Contra Costa County that could be a micro cost m for the rest of the bay area. Reporter here in the east bay, there was a big push to register new voters. They received more on the roster than four years ago but no so much the sheer number of voters but the percent of those voters who actually vote. This machine takes pictures of signatures on ballots. First step in the process of counselling a vote. There are ballots dropped off at the polls and those that arrived in the mail today.