hotel workers may be coming to a close. tonight live team coverage on the latest changes. the drums are silent, the lines are empty by the strike is far from over. i m dion lim in san francisco with the personal stories of employees and people who stay at these hotels. plus, another suspicious device is found. this one shutdown a bay area post office today. tllive where you live, thiss abc 7 news . i ve had to work two jobs just to make ends meet. i have also done tons of overtime so i worked 24 hours straight on multiple occasions. once i even worked 32 hours. this is the reality of what it takes for some to survive here in the bay area. it is why marriott hotel workers have been on strike for weeks and we are just now getting word of negotiations that could send some of those people back to work soon. good evening. i m dan ashley. i m ama daetz. abc 7 news has a new commitment called building a better bay area highlighting issues and finding solutions to make
cases. nationwide, hospitalizations of children are also near their september peak. right now, an average of just over 300 children are fighting covid-19 in a hospital on any given day and that s a stunning jump of nearly 50% in just one week. and as health officials warn of a long winter ahead, cautioning that cases will skyrocket during the first few months of the year, president biden now says vaccine requirements for domestic travel could be imposed if his medical team recommends it. we have a lot to get to this morning. we have reporters covering all the angles, let s begin with cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen on the news that the fda says at-home covid-19 antigen tests, the rapid tests, may have a reduced sensitivity in detecting the omicron variant. wow. wow. so let me tell you what that means, poppoppy. pregnancy tests are a little bit like antigen tests. if a pregnancy test says you re pregnant, you re pregnant. right. you re pregnant. yes. y
a pretty low lying area. that storm surge they re preparing for, what exactly might that look like when it comes to the businesses and the homes in that area? reporter: well, to give you a sense of howe things look where we are right now, we re at a park that s surrounded by three bays, the old tampa bay, the tampa bay and then that third bay. what they re worried about, especially the folks in pinellas county, that storm surge is going to flood things no matter what. even if that forecast track ends up having ian moving parallel to tampa bay and the tampa area, they still believe we re going to see a lot of that water making its way inland. so they want folks to go ahead and come out and get these sandbags. the lines at these three locations were pretty long. it s our understanding they re going to continue to do this today and tomorrow and most likely into wednesday. however, emergency officials again have been telling folks, try to get this done early because we could
president himself played a critical role in getting the deal across the finish line. his message, emphasize the harm that families, businesses and communities would feel if a shutdown went ahead. the final hurdle to come, and that is a full union vote. also this, an immigration battle escalating near the vice president s doorstep. buses of migrants sent from texas dropped off just feet from her residence in washington overnight. this happening a day after officials on martha s vineyard were sent scrambling after dozens of migrants unexpectedly arrived there. the office of florida governor ron desantis says it was he who sent two planes to the massachusetts island with more than 50 migrants on board. you see a picture there. cnn s steve contorno live in washington. i saw a group of migrants dropped off in front of the vice president s residence in d.c. this morning as well. what s happening? reporter: the governor of florida has been promising for months really that he i
kamala harris, critics say has done nothing to solve the problem. john roberts in washington. happy fridayie. sandra: two bus loads of migrants arriving on the vice president s doorstep from the texas del rio sector, in direct response to her claims over the weekend that the border is secure. meanwhile, trouble in paradise. border crisis making its way to the ritzy island of martha s vineyard, two planes of migrants were dropped off there yesterday. desantis citing massachusetts status an a sanctuary state to send them there. the white house to face questions moments from now on all of this. highlights from that as theyp ha. but griff jenkins, he is live at the naval observatory talking to the migrants as they step off the busses, so griff, what have they been telling you? well, they are saying something very different, sandra, than what vice president harris said. now governor abbott has been sending nearly 200 busses of nearly 8,000 migrants to d.c. since april but