Dr. Coal fox expects San Francisco could move to purple by then. A curfew would have to be implemented within 48 hours of that announcement. By the look of the citys latest case counts, we technically already qualify to be in that category. The third surge, there is no question. Its not a matter of if it will happen. It is happening. A stern warning from dr. Coal f colfax as covid is surging. What is really important is that curve, that steep slope of increasing cases. The 14day average of cases increased 152 since november 1st. Thats one of the highest spikes in the bay area. To put it in perspective, 217 new covid cases were reported in mid october. Nearly a month later, that number is 768. This rate of increase is higher than we experienced during our summer surge. On monday, San Francisco was safely in the red zone but todays data indicates the citys cases per capita is far past the threshold to be in purple. A surge that could overwhelm hospitals across the city that are already r
it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey rise e and we are following a whirlwind of breaking news this hour, including on capitol hill where norfolk southern s embattled ceo will be in the hot seat at a hearing that begins in moments facing tough questions from senators about the toxic train derailment in ohio. what he plans to say about the numerous derailments, cleanup efforts, and his promise to a community in fear from the toxic fallout. also breaking overnight, 81 senator mitch mcconnell, the longest serving senate leader ever is in the hospital this morning after a fall. what we know about how he s doing. and more breaking news overnight. a fiery onslaught across ukraine as russia launches its biggest missile and drone attack in weeks. reporter: these are targets that were largely civilian infrastructure, and he s trying to knock out the lights. he s trying to turn off the heat, and he s trying to do it all over the country. why there are new concerns about euro
Vallejo, abc7 news good evening, im dan ashley. Im cheryl jennings. City officials estimate damage to private homes and businesses at 300 million. That does not include public roads or utilities. And patrol has released 911 calls in the moments after that 6. 0 quake hit early sunday morning. We had put them outside. And this tour our house up. My daughter in law and son cant get through to 911. Shes passed out. Chp received 449 calls during the first hour after the quake. They stress 911 calls should be restricted to emergencies only. Not just information requests. A Major Internet Service took a hit in sundays quake. Officials are allowing it to remain opened because its in the central service. Dan noyes is here with an investigation youll see only on 7. When a building is red tagged, there is too much danger but here, the site is too important to close. At and T Central Office highest classification because its required for emergency response, providing 911 and Wireless Service to na
The earthquake on sunday you can see danger appears to be all but over. The fire is off highway 37 near highway 29 junction along the napa river. When it looked like theyve had the upper hand, this piped back up about 15 minutes ago. Theyve been dropping water on this. Its been burning since 4 00 here and firefighters have been protecting a row of homes were flames burned up to the homes the problem is that the grass is very dense, and 7 to 8 feet high in places. It takes a lot of water to douse, and there are no hydrants here, theyve been trucking in water. The fire captain tells me this area is a known homeless encampment. We make contact with a couple individuals who are exiting. They did say there are homeless still in the camp that couldnt get out. That did not seem to be the case. And it was a negative on this search. No official cause of the fire, but they do expect someone in the encampment. So far, no structures have burned and the smoke is not affecting traffic out here. Im a
Good evening, im ken wayne and im heather holmes. Fires across the area, damaging businesses kristina updates on the investigation. Reporter a string of fires lit up the sky in alameda early sunday, sending bay area firefighters racing from one scene to the next on the trail of a couple of fire bugs. This man watched his dry cleaning business of 30 years go up in flames. Its one of eight sites set ablaze in the city in a matter of hours. I always think of alameda at being real request safe and quiet, last night, apparently, it wasnt, eight fires within a few hours and its startling. Reporter an Arson Task Force is assessing the damage among it, melted garbage cans in burnt homes. I never thought it would happen to me. Reporter francisco, thankful to have his family by him after a scary night. I looked around for my kids. They are all okay. Reporter alamedas fire chief credits newual aid for their help and said its no doubt the fires were suspicious. There were so many fires, relatively