vo good feeds our connections. Good feeds us all. Hormel Natural Choice lunch meats. Kel inside a car, several businesses, gyms, salons and hotels are gearing up to reopen on monday. As Health Care Experts are keeping a close eye on covid19 cases in that county. After a rather hot weekend for many of us in the bay area, cooler weather is about to move in. Well have the detn the accuweather forecast. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. Good evening, and thanks so much for joining us. Im dion lim. And im eric thomas. Hundreds of people gathered today in martinez for a protest over recent racist incidents in the city. There were concerns of potential classes with counter protesters, but this demonstration remained peaceful. It started at the black lives matter mural outside the courthouse and ended with a rally at the waterfront. Abc7 News Reporter Lauren Martinez was there and spoke to the organizer. Reporte
After the state put it on its watch list because of the increase of covid19 cases. I think that its not a good thing. Tas huge wakeup call to the community to wear masks. An ongoing transmission among health workers. Today county Health Leaders issued this statement saying the magnitude of the change is above what would be expected as a result of the countys substantial expansion of testing. And we have been placed on the states monitoring list. Late friday Alameda County learned it was not approved by the state for Outdoor Dining. But now with the county on a watch list, it could be subject to state enforcement. Some people we spoke with say theyre going to play it safe. Its really hard right now. You know, me and my girlfriend, we havent been on a real date outside in so long. I miss it. You know . But if we have to do it, we have to do it. Id rather be safe than sorry. Reporter infection rates have doubled in recent weeks. In response, a newly revised health order requires stricter
Heyward enjoyed Outdoor Dining the worlds most bizarre home is classroom outweigh the risk of vote by mail is already very our sky ranger captured all from after the state put it on its disease. Most transmissions come from opening tomorrow. Now to our continuing familiar here in california overhead. Tours of the spooky mansion will adults to adults or adults to the Community Coming out to coverage of todays racial where 70 of voters use the mail watch list because of the now be selfguided. Increase of covid19 cases. Children. Support the black lives matter justice march in martinez. Movement after a high profile about a thousand people gathered or vote centers when they voted meaning, each group must consist in record numbers for a i think that its not a good alleged hate crime over there. Only of people in the same house downtown where earlier this month a couple defaced a black president ial primary back in sergio has more on an emotional hole. Masks are mandatory. Lives matter mura
Tomorrow night. The stricter rules are being implemented because theyre trying to slow the continuing spread of coronavirus infections. Ive been concerned at how quickly it has skyrocketed. Two weeks ago, we were seeing about 3. 9 to 4. 2 of everyone tested being positive, and we were very concerned that we reached this 8 benchmark. We set a cap at 8 , and now that weve reached that, we realized we need to scale back, keep the community safe, and really encourage people to take these additional safeguards so we can slow the spread. Reporter now, Health Officials are also keeping close tabs on the number of intensive care unit beds available in the county. Right now, about half of the 209 beds are in use either from covid cases or other cases and this recent spread of infections in the county obviously is prompting concerns about the future, the near future availability of those icu beds. Reporting live in lafayette, im sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Sergio, thanks very much. Lets
Theres now also concern about overwhelming hospitals. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana has details on this weekends new rules. Reporter when Contra Costa County rolled back some of its restrictions last month, it was on the condition that infections seemed to be slowing. Unfortunately thats not the case anymore. Infection rates have doubled over the last couple weeks. We set a cap at 8 , and now that weve reached that, we realize we need to scale back. We need to keep the Community Safe and really encourage people to take these additional safeguards. Reporter the newly revised health order now requires stricter rules for Outdoor Dining, members of social bubbles will have to keep their masks on at all times while theyre together, and Indoor Worship Service will be temporarily prohibited after tomorrow night. A church service, usually youre there for a while. Reporter for outdoor diners, the experience will have to be adjusted. Customers had been allowed to sit at their tables without a ma