Briefing but we are keeping an eye on the governors movements today. Lets start in the bay area. Another county moving into phase two of the gavin newsom road to recovery. Contra costa county loosening up earlier restriction rules and is paid Business Owners could not be more excited and we go to ktvu Sara Zendehnam for details. Took a while to get here. Moving into phase two gets Contra Costa County one step closer to feeling somewhat normal again. At 6 00 a. M. The lucent shelter in place orders went into effect. A few hours later the protect you and Body Piercing and walnut creek open for Curbside Pickup zebra can only sell jewelry and the like for now. It is a step in the right direction. We are having limited staff, obviously. But slowly, we bring more employees back on. Hopefully opening up our perky location. Part of the counties entering the first part of phase two. Reporter businesses can offer Curbside Pickup. Manufacturers can also reopen with strict guidelines being in plac
By the brunt of the storm. Powerful winds reached speeds up to 185 miles an hour in the bahamas, ripping off roofs, tearing down power lines. Good evening, im julie haener. Now late today Southern California or South Carolinas governor ordered a mandatory evacuation of residents along the coast. Evacuations will go into effect for georgias coast tomorrow afternoon. Evacuations are also underway in some counties in florida tonight in Daytona Beach, people are bracing for the worst, boarding up stores, stocking up on supplies. A hurricane shelter opened in boynton beach, florida today 100 miles west of the baa a mas. Fox news Lauren Blanchard in Daytona Beach. But we begin with chief meteorologist bill martin for where the storm is headed now. Thats the big question mark here. Where is this storm headed . Its a massive storm and a record setting storm. In many cases it will be a historic storm in many different categories. This is a category 5 not seen in the atlantic. Raking in the baha
Elsewhere in the storms path. Authorities are also just beginning to assess the damage. Dorian isnt expected to affect the u. S. Until late tomorrow or early wednesday. Mandatory evacuation orders go into effect in florida, South Carolina later today. , ifema sent search and rescue late last week. That gave them time to prepare. There is stash to support any medical evacuations that are needed. We have been at this for five or six days preparing. We have been activated in the National Response Coordination Center which you can see behind me. We have food, water, generators, staff, helicopters, ambulances from florida all the way to north carolina. Reporter the federal government also deployed special teams to help the 169,000 people in florida who rely on medical equipment powered by electricity. It is 4 32. Lets check in with steve. The fact that it is moving very slowly gives more people time to evacuate or plan. It is not moving at all. It is not moving at all now. One mile per hour
Abc 7 news at 4 00 because we will bring you the News Conference as soon as it happens. You can see flowers out there for the fallen officer today. We will get you that News Conference as soon as it begins. Lets go to abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony live at the shooting scene. Reporter we are expecting the update from Hayward Police at any time. In the meantime here at the shooting scene in this neighborhood investigators have left the scene. This happened right behind me here in this quiet neighborhood where a veteran officer lost his life during a vehicle stop that was anything but routine. Witnesses say the shots came in rapid succession just after 3 00 a. M. One burst a brief pause and a longer burst of gun fire. I heard shots for sure. The shots were so rapid fire that it was war like almost. Bam bam, bam. Reporter when the shooting stopped a veteran Police Sergeant scott lunger lay wounded. This is a tragic day for the Police Department, family of the department and men and wom
Structures are we guesstimating about at this point might be threatened . I dont have an exact number on the structures at this time. It is a really remote area so we are still working on getting that number. Thanks for taking the time to keep everybody informed. We will keep you updated with the latest on this on twitter on abc 7 news bay area. Good evening and thank you for joining us on this wednesday. Im ama daetz in for cheryl jennings. And im larry beil in for dan ashley. Lets check in with our meteorologist sandhya patel to see what the conditions are and how strong the wind is blowing around that Lake Berryessa area. It is gusty in the area where the brush fire is burning. Temperature 73 degrees. Relative humidity is about 35 but the wind out of the southwest to 23 gusting to 31 is no help to firefighters. This is generally an area that tends to get windy and this is the closest reporting site to the Lake Berryessa fire location. As we take a look at our radar signature you see