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
Buildings there with upper 50s napa and that delta breeze up to about 30 miles an hour. We certainly have some smoke from the mineral fire from the Central Coast to the Santa Clara Valley so well notice some hazy skies today and its cloudy down along the beach. Temperatures there will be around 70. Were about 80 by noontime. Sunny skies for most, except along the coast, a few degrees cooler inland, and near 80 around the bay today. Liz . All right, lisa, thank you. Lets get to the latest coronavirus headlines this 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 691 deaths, that count does not include san quentin prison which has 967 active cases. The only bay area county not on the states watch list is san mateo. San francisco malls and nonessential offices must be shut down by tomorrow. To the
Does start to burn off you get your window of sunshine right across the day, coastal areas remain foggy inland areas just stay sunny and then it will stream right through the golden gate again on its its Late Afternoon today, skies are dry aside from coastal drizzle. Let you may want to watch out for your windshield wiper on if youre traveling along the coast or on some of our bridges are only really breezy spot this morning as fairfield sea breeze coming right into the delta this morning making for a very windy start for you we are going to be looking at winds relaxing into the afternoon and that means temperatures are really going to start to rise for inland areas as that marine influence has diminished diminishes later on today, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures Oakland Hayward pittsburgh, some of our warmer spots right now in the low 60s. Later on today our warmer spots will all be in our inland valleys were daytime highs will be well into the 90s even more 90s on the map t
Go ahead get those windows wide open. Let the cool air in before yet another hot afternoon just around the corner. Daytime highs are going to be climbing. Well back into the 90s for inland spots with 60s 70s along the coast in the bay. James all right john, thank you now lets get to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic one day after Governor Newsom gave his warning about a spike in covid19 cases the state actually saw its highest singleday total of coronavirus cases since this pandemic began. There were more than 5,000 new coronavirus cases yesterday. Heres a look at how the numbers shake out across the state were looking at more than a 191,000 confirmed cases of covid19 with more than 5600 deaths here in the bay area. Were now topping more than 20,000 confirmed cases with more than 500 confirmed deaths. Alameda county also reporting the most new cases in the past 24 hours with more than 250 new cases on their books kron fours reyna harvey live in Alameda County now with details on t
But, i will not be able to get that chance soon, it sounds like, because Yosemite National park is reversing course and extending one of its campground closures, and this is because of the recent spike of coronavirus cases in california. Park officials have started to reopen some campgrounds earlier this month. They were closed for 2 1 2 months during the pandemic. Reservations between now and july have been canceled and the park has already cut back the number of visitors by about half welcome to the 9, along with gasia, i am sal, and mike is currently off with some computer issues. But gasia, have you been to yosemite . And are you itching to go . Oh, i have been several times in the summer and winter. I was not thinking about going before the pandemic hit, but now i am so hungry for the Great Outdoors that absolutely we would take a trip to yosemite. We are also working to find and appreciate the beauty and nature all around us, even within a couple miles of our home. I am happy to