Announcer building a better bay area for a safe secure future. This is abc7 news. The coronavirus pandemic continuing to hurt bay area workers. Tonight were tackling unemployment. The new relief bill some workers say cant come soon enough, and the red tape some Restaurant Owners are running into as they try to reopen. Good evening, and thanks for joining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. Taking a look at where california stands right now with the coronavirus, the number of confirmed cases in the state is down significantly with more than 8200 cases over there were over 10,000 cases yesterday. The seven day Positivity Rate went down to 7. 8 which is under the states threshold of 8. Santa cruz county was added saturday to the states watch list. That means in cases dont drop in three days it will have to roll back its reopening. Tonight bart board dufty. They said they failed to comply with the health orders. The pandemic including the economy, a big part of that is record numbers of unemp
Cooler than yesterday. Exactly. We will see a rebound but they will still be below average except for San Francisco and oakland they are still near average. That i hit the wrong map, i got the wrong map. Lets get to the right map. There we go. We do have temperatures that will be a little warmer today after the amazingly cool temps. It was almost 20 degrees below. More son and the little warmer. 50s and 60s. That includes livermore and san jose. A little bit of an east southwest wind and yesterday was 15 to 20 selfies. But its a little bit below average for this time year. Except again, San Francisco and oakland and santa rosa. Anything to report were still pretty quiet . Its still pretty quiet steve. If youre out there right now you should be getting a decent commute. We dont see a lot going on. I want to show you what we have here. You can see the eastshore freeway is looking very good. And no major issues as you drive to the bay bridge or for that matter in the east bay. Even on the
County is nearing its peak of cases. For the first time, we havecodye in san jose with some new inform us. Damian . Reporter well, janelle, this is the Emergency Operation centers where a lot of tough decisions are made. Dr. Cody told me that although the numbers appear to be leveling off, we are still not out of the woods. We still dont have widespread testing. This is what the new normal looks like. Todays interview done remotely, over the computer, from the back of my pickup truck. We started with a question on the top of everyones list . Have we bent the curve, doctor . I dont think we peaked. What i can tell you is that we have slowed things down. So for example, it you look at the beginning, like right around where we put the shelter in place order, the curve, it was growing fast, right . It was, the numbers were going up quite a bit every day, and now that weve had that order in place, for more than two weeks, what you can see is that the growth has slowed. So were still growing
And one who drives thats a danger to our community and it is important that someone be kept in a place that they can do that to anybody else. She did something that was not justified regardless. It was not in her power to do that. Is that her powers to and my brothers life. A statement of facts describing Video Surveillance of dissidents as well as an eyewitness. The next step in this case is february 4th, that is when the chairs would face a pretrial hearing. In san jose, fox 2 news. Places him in the beginning after mama shot and injured at la hacienda market this afternoon. Happened around the 13 the parking lot on the boulevard right around have a onetoone. The victim tried to generally afterimage up. Here at niacin stable condition the sufferer, no information on aspect. Interstate 80 remains shut down video both westbound and eastbound. Do an investigation in this area. Right now, the chp has no information on the reason for this Police Action here. The closure started around chi
It is a cool morning, 41 degrees and santa rosa and san jose, 45 degrees in oakland and 40 degrees in livermore, i will have more on your new years eve forecast coming up. Here is a quick look at the bay area roadways. That is highway 24 in lafayette, that is looking good in both directions, so if you do have to work today, it looks like some people are up and they do have to go to work if they are on 24, heading to the east bay, you are looking just fine this morning. There is the approach to the toll bridge, bay bridge toll plaza right there, a few more cars coming in, and 880 and oakland, going right by the coliseum, down the interstate right now. Several bay areas are celebrating to make your new years eve fun, caltrain, the transit, bta are also providing rights. They are still charging fares, and charging by more than 5 starts tomorrow. We are following breaking news, thousands of angry protesters gathered outside of the u. S. Embassy and the group that made it inside the compoun