Tonight. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Good evening. More than 18,000 californians have been diagnosed with coronavirus. Imagine the entire town of maraga getting sick. Its the second record in five days. On saturday the record was 15,442 new cases. For perspective, over the past seven days, weve averaged fewer than 14,000 new cases. Over the past two weeks, the average is roughly 11,000. Here is another way to understand whats happening in this graph you can see our summer spike right there in the middle and on the right, the current surge, which eclipses anything weve experienced so far. In many ways, the timing couldnt be worse. Today is expected to be one of the busiest days of thanksgiving travel despite numerous and repeated warnings from Health Agencies against traveling or gathering. Lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, San Francisco International Airport and 101 in san jose. Sky 7 was over 680 in the east bay. You can see plenty of cars on the road at 1 00 in the
Orders amidst new highs in covid19 case counts and hospitalization rates. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the warning. Reporter as the bay area prepares for a thanksgiving unlike any other, Santa Clara County has another urgent warning for the public. Do not have gatherings and do not travel. Period. Reporter today, 512 new cases of covid19 were reported county wide. A new record for the highest daily case count since the start of the pandemic. Perhaps up to 60 of the time when people are infecting others or infectious themselves, they have absolutely no symptoms. Reporter the county also saw its highest daily number of covid19 hospitalizations at just under 200 patients. Troubling numbers at a time of year when most hospitals are already busy because of the cold and flu season. Were extremely concerned about what this means for our hospitals ability to care for not only people with covid19 but for other people who need access to care in our hospitals. Reporter stanford hospital i
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are live on the rooftop of i am michelle griego. It is a 30. Good morning to you. We are glad to have you with us. We have a check on the forecast on this friday eve. And here is mary lee standing by with that. Happy thursday, almost friday. We are looking at another day of those clouds as we start off our day. We will see some clearing for most of us except for the coast with seasonal daytime highs. You can see those clouds, and we are in the 50s to low 60s at this hour. Through the afternoon, and through our day, mid 60s in San Francisco, low 80s in san jose and mid 80s for concord. We are right around where we should be. We are going to warm up as we look ahead to the end of the week especially into the weekend. Details on that are coming up in just a bit. California now has the most coronavirus cases in the country. Nearly 13,000 new cases in a single day. A top Santa Clara County Health Expert is making a grim prediction, covi
Prison time. And why next week may be another critical moment in this criminal case. Also helping more people make it in the bay. A new Community Fridge rolls out in one neighborhood. The new access it should provide no questions asked. This is today in the bay. Good morning to you. On this friday, im marcus washington. What was that last part friday. There you go. Marcus washington. Oh yeah, i know i was about to say that. Boy, i know you guys well. Good morning, im laura garcia. Were going to check in with mike inouye in just a moment for that morning commute. But carrie has a look at our forecast for today. Another great one. Were starting out with fog and clouds. And then as that clears out, for most of the inland areas, we are going to see our temperatures warming up. Right now, were in the low 50s in san rafael. Meanwhile, in the upper 50s for palo alto and in san jose, and then looking at our High Temperatures for this afternoon, really nice and comfortable, upper 60s for san ma
Have you ever wondered what makes the bay area coastline so foggy this time of year . Well, meteorologist kari hall is actually going to take an indepth look through the gloom. This is today in the bay area. And if you look through that gloom, you can see the weekend. It is friday morning for you want to say good morning to you . Im Marcus Washington and im laura garcia. Were going to check the morning commute with mike in just a little bit. But lets see if theres any gloom out there this morning. Yeah start out cloudy again. Its missing and drizzling in San Francisco. You can see it on the camera lens there as the temperature is now at 55 degrees. As you move away from the coastline, its still cloudy. We all see that marine layer pushing across the bay area, which will cause our temperatures to warm up a lot more slowly. Today and give us a nice and mild afternoon even after it clears. So right now were at 52, in san rafael. It is 58 in san jose and 55 in San Francisco. And were going