Thanks so much for joining us. Im Jonathan Mccall justine is enjoying the night off today the United States passing yet another mild grim milestone in the fight against covid19. The country now topping more 11 million cases just 6 days ago the United States had 10 million cases. The death toll from the virus dealt sits at more than 246,000. The rising case counts along with hospitalizations in the bay area now forcing local Health Officials to once again in force restrictions in order to limit the spread on tuesday alameda and warren counties are expected to move back into the red tier meaning that Indoor Dining will be banned. Currently both counties said in the orange here which is the moderate here also on tuesday napa county is expected to move back into the purple tier which is the most restrictive on the reopening map currently that county is in the orange here. Health officials in north bexar also urging the community to take proper steps in order to prevent further spread of th
Were still expecting highs, upper 90s to 110. That means the risk of heat related illness and heat advisory in effect for the coastal areas. We expect wind to increase tonight and tomorrow raising the fire concerns. A red flag warning for high fire danger will be effect for our hills and mountains from 10 00 p. M. Tonight until 8 00 a. M. Wednesday. We have a wind and vise ri in effect for the north bay and east bay hills and mountains. Ill have the full accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Well look forward to that. Thanks. People triped to save energy to avoid blackouts. Abc 7 News Reporter with more. Twice theyve said its leaking. Reporter he said his airconditioner has been broken its bad timing with the triple digit heat. My wife is a teacher. She teaches from home. My kids are home schooling and its an absolute mess. How do you keep cool in this heat . I notice the pool behind me was open. Reporter bryan wh lives in an apartment complex says he was glad to see the pool being us
Owners in San Francisco. Mid to upper 80s south of reporter we spoke with downtown. He 80s for retailers who say it took time another day. 70s in oakland. To prepare to have customers. They certainly understand that peninsula temperature around 72 Public Health comes first but and only low 60s from half moon they also hope that people take bay into San Francisco and notice the north bay, the sea precautions so that this doesnt breeze influence stops right last a long time. Around santa rosa and to the north toward lake county still reporter stefan jordan is 90s and higher fire danger around clear lake. Concerned about not being able to have people walk through the so whats interesting to point out, stratus here. Door after he reopened with thunderstorms over the sierra increasing mid level moisture during the day tomorrow. Precautions. Money walks is what we do more storms on the north side of interstate 80. And keep a big stay tuned on the here. So thats the devastate angle. Forecast
And figure out what we could do better because we dont want to remain on the this watch list forever. Reporter in san mateo, nbc bay area. Lets take a closer look at that uptick in cases and hospitalizations in spate county that is chart shows the number new cases each day. Look at how the numbers were in april, may and june, pretty low. And then a big jump in july and then when we get to the last three days, numbers close to 90. Those were three days of the cases over 90 of new cases each day, enough to trigger the watch list. Now, lets look at hospitalizations. This graph just shows the past few weeks. You could see on the 17th, a jump from the 30s to the 60s and then steady but again just last few days the number has gone up into the 70s, over the weekend, july 25th, San Mateo County has three days to lower the numbers to avoid further shut downs. They got tested so where the results. Were learning several people in the bay area just learned their s samples were lost. Jodi hernandez
Crack in the foundation, but that heat advisories still with us for Solano County until saturday at 8 oclock all right the breakdown today will put us about 68 by 09 00am by 12 were talking about 83. Yes, well see some 90s today probably the last day will see 90s until early next week after today. And a little micro cool down coming this weekend well be talking about it coming up marty back to you. All right, thanks a lot, lets get to our top story this morning of the u. S. Is now seen a disturbing new trend. In new Coronavirus Infections on thursday there were more than 37,000 new cases reported. And thats a singleday record. According to Johns Hopkins University Hospital there are currently over 9 million cases around the world and 489,000 deaths. The u. S. Has over 2 million cases in over 124,000 deaths and over 663,000 people have recovered from covid19 here in the u. S. At least 30 states reported increase in cases, new mexico, arizona and texas are all putting a hold right now on