The cdc is worried that small get togethers could turn into super spreaders. There are 88,000 people in the hospital with covid19 in the u. S. Thats a record according to the covid19 tracking project. The number of deaths yesterday topped 2100. The most since early may. And Johns Hopkins says the u. S. Has recorded 22 Straight Days of at least 100,000 daily cases. We have a reporter in washington. Health officials fear its going to get worse. Yes, tom. Because even though thanksgiving travel is way down this year over last, still, a Million People a day packed airports across the country last weekend. Many americans are scaling back thanksgiving this year. Were going to do a zoom call or face time. Well make some type of contact and, you know, give thanks just to be over the phone. Health Officials Say small gatherings are the biggest spreaders of the coronavirus. The risk is high for families. There is just no way to sugarcoat that. Still, triplea expects up to 50 million americans to
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Remarks from a 2019 shopper. Unemployment is down. More people are working and spending. Reporter this years spending. We were not allowed inside. For shoppers, in addition to looking for gifts, they are looking out. Decides looking for what youre looking for, yet to make sure you were not too close to somebody else. To it is different. You have to stand in lines and do all of this funky stuff. The funky stuff is wearing a mask, social distancing, and waiting outside of the store if it gets too crowded. There were no large crowds at bay street in emeryville, indicative of many shoppings lots in the east bay. Despite small crowds, the Holiday Shopping analysis by e marketer. Com, expects u. S. Retail sales to rise a most 1 above 2019. Theres a 4. 7 decrease in brickandmortar sales, but a 36 jump in Online Shopping. One worker sun valley mall describes foot traffic as steady. They added, do not come seeking santa claus, because he will not be here due to the pandemic. Some shoppers opted
Yesterday. In fact, it is going to evaporate much quicker today. Enjoy sunshine just about all day today and slightly milder temperatures from like 68 in fairfield to 58 in Half Moon Bay. Most of us in the low to mid 60s this afternoon. Update on the thanksgiving forecast coming up. Heres reggie with the news. Mike, thank you. Californias Health Secretary is warning that more counties could move into the purple tier. And, of course, thats the states most restrictive. We anticipate there will be some tier movement. Handful of counties likely moving to a more restrictive tier. Here in the bay area, three counties in the red tier right now but they could slide back to purple and that includes San Francisco, san mateo and marin counties. Dr. Mark ghaly defended the curfew restrictions that are already in the purple tier. He said it is necessary to help curve the spread. You can watch him live today at noon on our abc7news. Com. California is pulling back on reopenings as the number of covi
Francisco is using the california app. San francisco has a team of 200 contact tracers tracking the coronavirus progress. Weve been proud to say at host times we reach 80 of those who test positive. Were working hard to keep that going, were seeing it slip. Were in a surge. Now the city is using the california connected system. Using phones to help in the tracking efforts. Today San Francisco is rolling out a tool that other counties are using. Rather than replacing the team of contact tracers they will stretch their reach. How to quarantine properly and who that patient may have come in contact with recently. This is porsche. Were asking important. Were asking people to share the nams and mobile number of the close contacts. This allows us to reach out to those people and support them. Just as with the center tracers this will be confident. The aim is making sure they get the information about who may have been exposed. This is someone that people need to opt in to . When you get your