There continues to be concern that gatherings could lead to more transmission. Liz kreutz joining us live with the latest from the state on exactly where things stand, liz. Larry, yes, things continue to be not so great in california while San Francisco, marin and san mateo counties did not get moved into the purple tier today. Numbers continue to go up and another number on the rise, hospitalizations. With thanksgiving just two days away, californias covid19 cases are not showing any signs of slowing down. The 14day Positivity Rate is 5. 6 , a 51 increase from two weeks ago on november 10th when it was 3. 7 . At that point, there were 7,000 cases a day. Today there is more than 15,000. Hospitalizations have increased since then, too by a whopping 81 . Statewide, i dont believe weve ever seen as many hospital admissions increased like we did just in the past 24 hours. This message critical ahead of the Holiday Season. Today californias health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galle
A fire grew to three alarms overnight. Destroying a tampa business. It broke out at the big and deals supercenter on east hillsborough avenue just after 9 last night. Crews arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the single story as it was upgraded to a secondalarm because of the size of the building. The roof wasnt stable. So crews had to fight it from the outside. They also called in 2 helicopters. Nearly an hour in. The fire was upgraded once again to 3 alarms. No injuries have been reported. Fire marshals will start their investigation once its safe to go inside. Also developing this morning. A man is critically injured when two cars crashed. Causing one to hit a covered bus stop in saint pete. It happened on 4th street south. Just north of 21st avenue around 7 30 last night. The drivers of the cars were not seriously inju a step forward in the Punta Gorda Citizens Academy shooting investigation. You man remember the case from august. A woman was accidentally killed by a Punta Gord
Pregnancy store in st. Petersburg. From tampa bays number one news station, this is good day tampa bay. Hey everybody welcome its 8 oclock. Im russell rhodes. Im laura moody maternity, you know what i mean. What a pregnancy store. Whats thanks for waking up with us it is august 11th. Now it makes sense. Thank you. We will g you want to start over . Yeah. But go ahead you just finish it you just take it. Welcome everybody its 8 oclock here on good day tampa bay. A lovely thursday morning. I do have a little bit of fog, a couple of spots near sarasota, near brooksville, eastern pasco county, but no matter, its actually a very nice start to the day. Were up to 78 in tampa now. Same for clearwater 77 in sarasota. Mid 70s inland. But, we will finish with scattered late day storms. Rain chances 40 to 50 percent thanks, dave. If youre just joining we had two bigger crashes that were following with a delays one in hillsborough, one in pinellas, good news for folks tlavrlg along 75 northbound s
Thank you very much for starting your morning with us, on what can be a difficult morning for many people as they try to struggle through all of what is happening with the snow thats coming down. Lets go right now to Ashleigh Banfield from darian, connecticut. Ashleigh, how are you . Reporter well, it is very, very snowy here, marty. I was taking the drive because the media was allowed to be on the roads last night but everybody else wasnt. Between greenwich, connecticut, and darian, connecticut, on that 95 corridor as you look at your map all the way to new haven and beyond. And i have never been on a freeway like that, with five cars over the course of about a 45minute drive, driving about 25, 30 miles an hour. If youve ever imagined 95 looking like a farmers field, thats what it looked like, trying to make headway throughout the night. It was about 12 00 midnight, 1 00 am. Just look i said, absolutely remarkable to see that people really did, for the most part, heed the travel ban w
Hey, good evening again. Its 11 00 here on the east coast. We have two big breaking stories. The manhunt for a rogue excop and suspected triple killer. Crist fordorner is his name. These were taken january 28th outside a hotel in orange county, california. Theres also new video on the firing range as an lapd cadet. We have new information on the manhunt, and well look into what dorners grievance was with the lapd. We know he was fired from the force. The question is why . Why was he removed from the police force . He said it was due to corruption because he broke the blue wall of silence. Also here in the east, the punishing winter storm we have been covering a lot in the last hour. Just now reaching its peak, and many hours ahead. Not as bad in the new york region as it might have been. Hurricane force winds in some places. Power lines down. More than 130,000 customers without power tonight across new england. Thousands of flights, as you know, canceled. Even snow plows getting stuck.