Rosemary is standing by with a look at weather. If you are up in the sierra, you may not be coming home for a day or two. The snow is piling up. For us, we have seen a good amount of rain. The Santa Cruz Mountains picking up 2 inches of rain in the last 24 hours or so. We have got mostly cloudy skies and a very gray outlook. We do begin to get daybreak by the afternoon. Here is a look at Storm Tracker where you can see it is widespread. Some light rain falling over highway 101 and then in true the central part of the area we have the peninsula covered from San Francisco all the way to san mateo. East bay, scattered showers. Into the north bay, widespread here as well. Nevada, petaluma, and just about areas over sanapa getting at the moment. We will continue with the possibility of showers throughout the morning. By the second part of the day, a bit of a break. Today, Sonoma County officials will be disrupting details about the countys First Community spread of the coronavirus. Sonoma c
Second in the Santa Clara County and six in california. There are at least 247 covid19 cases up and down the state right now and more than 2100 nationwide including at least 50 deaths. Concern about covid19 as well as rules restricting large gatherings is putting a serious damper on San Franciscos nightlife. Amber lee is live in the city where a friday night would normally be bustling, and it really doesnt look too busy behind you. Reporter there is some foot traffic along fillmore street but nothing like you would see on a normal friday night. Balboa cafe on a friday night is a neighborhood hotspot, but managers say business is noticeably down this week with coronavirus fears of spreading. Still, some regular patrons say they want to toast the weekend. We are still going out, going to restaurants, grabbing a drink. The owner of tonic, says starting this week establishments such as his across the city have seen up to an 80 loss in business. We like to think of ourselves as resilient. B
On the final weekend of winter. Rain in the bay area and snow in the sierra and it looks like it will last the next judaism were giving a look across the south bay where there is a cloudy and mainly dry start in areas over the north bay pick up a few the last hours. As he rolled through the second part of the morning and early afternoon youll notice it pick up over the central and south bay receipt a few scattered showers. In and around santa rosa and towards napa and American Canyon and over towards iad is a wet when from vallejo into fairfield and stretching towards richmond and the Richmond San Rafael bridge. This will be the start, temperatures will be falling, it will be breezy with often on rain not only for today but into sunday, monday and maybe into to stay, better details coming up in just a little bit. 167 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the bay area and Santa Clara County has seen the largest jump at 79 total, two of died in the county including a person in the 8
That 335 people have now tested positive for coronavirus in california. Six have died including four here in the bay area. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. Im julie haener. There are a lot of coronavirus updates tonight. The cdc is now recommending that all gatherings with more than 50 people should be limited for the next eight weeks. Also the Federal Reserve took Emergency Action today and lowered its benchmark Interest Rate to essentially zero and another person died of the coronavirus in the bay area, this time in San Mateo County bringing the total number of covid19 deaths in the bay area to four. Life will look very different for many families starting tomorrow as dozens of School Districts around the bay area bill be closed. Governor newsom said everyone over age 65 should isolate themselves from those with chronic illnesses. As the number of people who tested positive for coronavirus grows to 335 in california, a 14 increase from the last count, now six people have
Developing news, attorneys for thousands of the victims shared their questions and concerns about pg es settlement offer. Abc 7 News Reporter is live where they met. And that meeting wrapped up just a short time ago. What did you learn. Reporter the lawyers say theyre representing between 35 and 40 victims. Some of the victims say theyre still trying to understand the very complicated details of this 13. 5 billion settlement. The settlement comes after two years of intense negotiations on behalf of the victims of the wildfires that occurred. It also includes v warehouse fi oakland. As i mentioned the victims will get 13. 5 billion. It has to be paid in cash, the other half paid in stock. The stock will be monetized which means itll be turned into a money and then paid out to the victims. Lawyers say once pg e emerges from bankruptcy the victims will be given stock from the new Company Clear of any past pg e liabilities. So theyre actually drawing upon the future value of pg e to compen