And get a flex 4k streaming device with peacock premium included for no additional cost. Sonoma county bracing for big crowds this weekend. Amid a spike of coronavirus cases. How families are celebrating small here in the east bay. Getting a group together for july 4th, while you may be tempted Health Experts suggest you resist. Building a better bay area, this is abc7 news. We are facing a very different fourth of july this year. Coronavirus cases are surging and hospitalizations are on the rise. Bay area residents who hoped for return to normal will instead find beaches closed, wos, the officials are outdoor hoping all of us will just stay safe and stay at home. Tonight, marin county was added to californias watch list after an increase in transmission rates and hospitalizations. Many of them are from the outbreak at san quinton prison. And also added to the states list, montrae and san diego counties. Firefighters in San Francisco have already been busy. A house was damaged in a fir
City with the exception of the coastline. Were all getting a good dose of sunshine later on today in addition to that sunshine were going to be looking at temperatures a little on the cooler side with upper 50s to low 60s for todays daytime highs napa in petaluma at 61 degrees for your current temperatures. And oakland at 61 degrees now temperatures later on today. These are your daytime highs, rising into the upper 80s inland with 60s 70s near the coast and a james all right. Thank you very much john want to begin this morning with the latest on the coronavirus the numbers show that we have 33 states now seen cases on the rise week to week and this map shows you by just how much. Those numbers are going up there are 8 states that we see here in red those deep red states are where were seeing cases jumping more than 50 . From week to week and that includes as you can see california the states in orange, the 25 of them. Those are cases are going up 10 to 50 again week to week in total,
Fireworks explosion, this evening. The San Francisco fire drain pipe, it blew ice larger three windows out of the house, no injuries. 15 especially were displaced by fire in San Franciscos Mission District that may have been started by fireworks. Two buildings burned and no one hurt. Bu warning. San francisco, fireworks are illegal for a reason. We could lose entire communities by fireworks. In the east bay, contra costa fire crews are busy as well. Fireworks are blamed for a grass fire off of highway 4 and also they are fighting a barn fire. The cause of the fires is under sth up a hill side in san jose. It started at about 7 00. That is near the happy hollow zoo. You can see the flames burning the grass there. It took san jose firefighters a little more than an hour and a half to get it under control. The lack of legal fireworks venues and an increase in illegal fireworks has firefighters, police and residents on alert. From the peninsula, to the Oakland Hills there will be volunteer
Firefighters spent the day and evening busy fighting flames all across the bay area. A vigil here in richmond to honor murdered soldier Vanessa Guillen, and to fight back against Sexual Violence in the military. Confusion over restrictions and reopening plans. Business owners in the south bay are demanding answers. This breezy and cooler weather wont last much longer. Were tracking warmer weather on the horizon. Well have the details in the accuweather forecast. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area, for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. After a long weekend, bay area firefighters just are not getting a break tonight. Theyre already dealing with two fires in the south bay, and we saw multiple fires break out this afternoon. Some were smallhi oers raced dangerously close to homes and forced people to grab what they could and evacuate just in case. We counted at least eight fires today, and some are still going, including one in fairfield. Thats where
And both the increase of illegal fireworks and lack of open places for people to light their legal Francisco Fire Department says a device largen than an m80 was setoff in a drainpipe. It blew three windows out of a house. Investigators say there were no injuries. And also yesterday 15 people were displaced by a fire that hit two buildings in the mission district. Multiple witnesses saw and heard them just before smoke was seen at nearby buildings but no official cause yet. In San Francisco fires are illegal for a reason. We could lose entire communities by fireworks. Law enforcement is trying Something Different to catch sites of fireworks this year. From the peninsula to Oakland Hills volunteers are going to be stationed in parks and hilltops in the bay area this weekend. Theyll actually have binoculars to report any sights of flames or smoke to authorities. Well bring camp chairs as you say, well have our hand held radios. Well be scanning the horizon for fires, for telltale smoke.