Needed if we cant flatten the curve quickly. We know and have seen in the past covid goes from zero to 60 Miles Per Hour quickly that were in a place today but that can rapidly change. Maybe not statewide, maybe just in the hand full of counties but further restrictions is what we open to avoid. We hope todays actions, our collective coming together and resolve to, you know, keep our protective behaviors up will help us stem the tide and bring the surging numbers down. Now, the states 14day Positivity Rate is 5 . Two weeks ago, it was just 3. 3 . Dr. Galley says cases have risen higher and faster because of a combination of factors like colder weather, more mixing, more reopening and greater travel. It is still unclear how the limited stayathome order will be enforced but dr. Galley is asking residents for their compliance and try to stay home between 10 00 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. Live in the newsroom, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. Thank you, here is look where the coronavirus cases stand
On that picture that you showed, that was the cold front, the clouds, they are moving south right now. They dropped some rain in isolated areas near the coast, the peninsula and there was a report of light rain in napa earlier. The big story is this afternoon and this evening when the chance of showers and thunderstorms, lightning and hail rolls in. Locally heavy rain and gusty winds out there. The cloud cover is moving rapidly to the south. Behind it, 20mileperhour to 30mileperhour winds. We had gusts up to 54 Miles Per Hour on tamalpais. So the blustery conditions are, in fact, developing. As you head into the afternoon hours, temperatures wont change much. Upper 50s to low 60s. Notice the yellows and oranges in the north bay, those are the showers and thunderstorms. Ill put a timeframe on it coming up. You can track those showers today at any time on your abc7 news app. Im sure you will also be checking out the Election Results as we inch closer to knowing who the next president wil
Im grant lotus and im Ella Sogomonian in for Vicki Liviakis nearly 7,000 pg e customers across the bay area are bracing for another round of power shut offs pg reps say that customers across 19 Northern California counties have been notified about the potential shut up 6 of them right here in the bay area this is pg and es future outage map this is what they are predicting the areas with the yellow indicate that could lose power there in the bay area talking about alameda contra costa napa santa clara solano and sonoma counties all of this because of that. Hot and dry windy conditions expected tomorrow chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joining us now with all those details here lawrence they guys, yeah we may see their map get a just a bit too weve got a series of wind events headed toward the bay area fact red flag warnings posted by the National Weather Service Starting tomorrow, were going to see all the way to the coastline and the Santa Cruz County San Mateo County very gusty wi
9 00 p. M. For most of the bay area. So pretty much everyone except the immediate coastline under a heat warning or heat advisory as we head through the next several days. Due to the dangerous heat. Well talk about what you can expect specifically for your neighborhood coming up in a few minutes. Michelle . Mary, thank you. And due to the dangerous heat, state officials have issued a statewide flex alert for today and were all being asked to voluntarily conserve energy between 3 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Concord broke the record high yesterday at 101 degrees. We spotted some people taking advantage of the slightly cooler temperatures last night to get out and enjoy the plaza in downtown concord. Iethe day, an ice cream shop near the square had a line out the door. Its good. Its nicer out here than it is at home. Lets go downtown and get something to eat. When theres excessive pete like this theres a lot of air conditioning use and of course that drives up the electricity demand. Everyon
76 in oakland. 880s in concord, fairfield, low 80s for santa rosa and livermore. Look ahead to tuesday as well as wednesday. I will have the rest of the week forecast coming up in a few minutes. Im a anne makovec with a live news desk. Your big union eye on the wildfire threatening homes near vacaville. The good news is that the mandatory evacuations have been lifted. This is video from yesterday in the area. This is Solano County between vacaville and winters. It is called the quail fire and it grew to 1800 acres. It is 40 contained. That is the latest figure as of last evening. The National Weather service had issued a red flag warning yesterday. That was something the thhallengehere as well as steep, rugg ain ry dry o ealleyroad stil structures but calfire has not been able to tell us exactly what the structures are. If they are homes, outbuildings. The investigation into the cause of that fire continues. Firefighters are going to be back at it at first light today. Thank you. A new