In Critical Condition including a child after a fire broke out inside this home. A bay area man is flying to idaho and back in order to get a covid test quicker and results faster. Flags at half staff as San Franciscos city hall lit up in memory of civil rights icon john lewis. More on the tributes that continue to pour in tonight for the tireless champion of equal rights. It was a bright and breezy start to the weekend and tracking cooler weather arriving in abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. I feel like im taking a risk definitely but were taking a risk every day that we cant get an appointment and cant get results. A bay area man says hes trying to do the right thing but has waited more than a week for covid19 test results. The drastic measures hes now taking to get some answers. Good evening to thanks for joining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. We begin with the latest coronavirus headlines. More than 9,000 new cases reported in california today and Officials Say the Positivity
Its cloudy in oakland at 62. Its 60 in hayward. Taking you back closer to the coast, mid50s in pacifica as well as santa rosa so we still have that air quality advisory for the so some of the hazy pconditions from the coast to te central bay and santa clara valley, this is from the smoke from the mineral fire as the smoke drifts up to the north and west. As we look at live picture outside from our roof camera we begin to see sun after 9 00 for some of you, the rest of you maybe 10 00 and noontime 808 inland. Mid70s around the bay and it will stay warm throughout the afternoon inland but the sea breeze picks up and well talk about a setup for cooler days for the week ahead. Liz . Lisa, thank you. Lets get to the latest coronavirus headline this is morning. More than 9,000 new cases were reported in california yesterday and Officials Say the Positivity Rate is trending upwards over a 14day average. A key indicator of community spread. In the bay area there are at least 39,000 cases and 6
Camera here showing all the overcast conditions but that things are going to start to clear as we get closer of course to the afternoon hours. So what temperatures are going to be very similar to what we saw as a matter of fact yesterday so getting into the afternoon. Its going to be a little bit nicer once we get the visibility better right more sunshine out there couple miles of visibility. Wise for oakland and through hayward through atc are going to get some of the patchy fog. Pretty severed fog here along the coast but already were starting to see Clear Conditions, especially if youre more inland like concord right now, but we are going to see it for everybody as we get closer to midday today. And yes temperature were looking pretty good very even in some versus what we saw yesterday as well and then temperatures anywhere from mild to warm but some hot ones are going to return to us once again all those details coming up in just a bit back to the news, thanks rebecca, lets get to
Congressman john lewis it is just about 6 00 a. M. On sunday july 19th, good morning im devin fehely. Lets check out the weather with meteorologist darren peck. Another gloomy start it looks like . Im sure everybody remembers how saturday morning, was saturday looks the same as today. A couple of other views the scene from the roof of the bay bridge, that is an important one because it tells us these clouds have pretty much the entire bay, looking at the clouds until they burn out midmorning. Were not going to change things much at all, we range from 60 in most locations, santa rosa is 55. A couple of headlines, besides the gray start were going to e seeing hazy skies this afternoon mainly off to the east from a wildfire builder burning from the south. Were going to show you much more this hour. Cooler temperatures are coming back this week, but before we get to those cooler temperatures this week were going to repeat tomorrows, pretty much right on the mark for where we should be this
Inland. Its a good sign of a strong case of ocean air conditioning. You see San Francisco or you cant see it. Mist and drizzle. We do have low clouds and a little bit of smoke in the air which well talk about in about 15 minutes. That smoke advisory for the inland valleys. The low clouds never leave the coast. Temperatures trending down from yesterday. 50s and 60s to start the day. By noon well see the 70s and 80s inland. Instead todays highs for most of our valleys in the mid80s. Warmest spot today san martin and morgan hills. Cooler temperatures ahead, a look at air quality and sierra thunderstorm ihen. The rise of coronavirus cases here in the bay area now has state and local leaders scaling back reopening plans. Nearly the entire bay area is on the states watch list because of the covid surge. Yesterday morning the only exclusion is San Mateo County. Because of that businesses there are becoming a big draw for people looking for services they cant get in their counties. Some people