Good afternoon. Israel has carried out fresh attacks on hezbollah targets in Southern Lebanon after its Airstrikes Yesterday that killed 558 people, according to the latest figures from the lebanese government. It was the deadliest day in lebanon since the Civil War which ended in 1990, and its prompted a Mass Exodus of civilians from their homes, causing gridlock on the roads. Meanwhile, hezbollah has fired dozens of rockets towards Northern Israel this morning. Our middle East Correspondent Hugo bachega sent this report from beirut. The journey in search of safety. Thousands are still on the move, fleeing Southern Lebanon and Israels Air strikes that show no sign of easing. Its conflict with hezbollah now being felt all across the country. In beirut, this school is one of dozens now turned into shelters for the displaced. 6,000 are here without knowing when or if they will be able to go back home again. 65 year old maryam travelled all night with i2 relatives in just one car. They ha
A standoff with the government over crop prices shows no sign of being resolved. Plus a backlash and boycotts the nikkei it for its provoke debate about diversity in japan. And im he said with the sport and then pick organizers say the tokyo games will cost an extra 2400000000. 00 because of the delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Now more than one of the half 1000000 people have died from covert 1000 worldwide a 3rd of those deaths happened in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting Record Numbers of deaths in new cases among them italy which registered its highest daily death toll on thursday since the start of the pandemic its introducing new restrictions including limiting movement between regions in the worlds worst affected countries the United States hospital admissions and fatalities have also reached new highs the president elect joe biden says he will ask americans to wear masks during his 1st 3 months in office. Its on the 1st day im an arguer had
Taco tuesday. Look, im here for that, too. We can combine them, terrific taco tuesday. All right, well check the commute with mike in just a moment. Kari, how are we looking weatherwise . A cold one again . Yeah, its cold and its foggy, so were seeing the combination of two things well have to deal with heading out the door this morning. This is a live look outside in san jose and for the most part weve seen the visibility looking a little bit better near the ground level in the south bay but higher up weve seen some of those low clouds rolling by. We will see this clearing out for a mild day and theres still dry weather in the forecast, so well talk about that coming up. Mike, how is it looking as a lot of people deal with the foggy conditions for the commute . Well, kari, chp has two Traffic Alerts going on right now and one is near a foggy area over my shoulder. You see the yellow highlighting. Ive circled 121 which is closed for a crash up there in sonoma. No mention of fog in that
In napa and clear lake and weve seen cold temperatures elsewhere as well. Well continue to watch that as well as the fog. How is it looking for the commute . Things are changing right now. We do have that deadly crash at camino diablo. Fog registering in the south bay. The metering lights just turned on before 6 00. Quickly filled in all of these lanes right here and a bigger factor looking at the oakland camera with that fog. The low clouds creeping down across the nimitz, the peninsula, south bay and east bay. Stay with us. Well give you updates. Back to you. Thank you very much. We begin with the rising number of covid patients. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live in San Francisco this morning monitoring the already overloaded hospitals. And i know state Health Leaders there are being very clear the next few weeks could be critical especially as we move into the winter months which could make things worse. Reporter weve been talking about that surge expected after thanksgiving and
The western prefecture is also experiencing a medical care shortfall. The prefecture set is up a new facility with 30 beds equipped with ventilators to treat serious coronavirus cases the governor says 80 nurses have been cured to far, but this is not enough. Hes hoo asking for to be sent for reenforcement. 16 people including pashlts and nurses became infected. The hospital says the cluster sta started with a patient who tested negative in a cr test on admission. The patient was hospitalized with a different disease in october and discharged two days later. Ten days later, two nurses who looked after the patient reported fever and upset stomach and tested positive for the virus. Translator we must assume every patient may have contra contracted the virus the day before a pcr test and treat patients they may show covid19 symptoms any time until about two weeks after contracting the virus. A clustered infection on Remote Island is pushing medical workers to brink. 53 people or 2 of the