To quarantine. Good evening, everybody. Not too late to hit the pause button as many of us get ready for a covid thanksgiving. This wave could be the worst one so far. We are in san jose with the details. Reporter one of the more dire details is how quickly it is stretching the countys medical resources. Right now there are own a few dozen intensive care beds avail be availabe in santa clara county. Its its troubling. All the way from gilroy to mountain view, palo alto, here we have collectively very few number of beds. Reporter this afternoon, a team painted a disturbing picture of the coronavirus infection. Its the highest spike we have observed in the county. Every day there are now over 500 new cases diagnosed. Reporter and the only thing that will help right now is the public takes action to flatten the curve. What were asking people to do is call your family members. Enjoy them via the telephone. Enjoy people in 12 feet distance wearing your mask. Even if you know somebody well,
Electoral votes, President Trump has 214. 270 votes are needed. If any of the states that are still undecided go to biden he will have enough electoral votes to win the white house. President trump needs to hold onto pennsylvania, georgia and North Carolina and then take either arizona or nevada to take a second term. The closest race tonight is in georgia which is now a virtual type. That had not gone for democrat since 1982. Today several counties are again counting ballots into tonight. And in pennsylvania joe biden has steadily been gaining on the president but President Trump is Still Holding a small lead in a state he must win to keep the white house. Arizona has been called for joe biden although his lead is narrowing a bit as more votes are counted. Theres also a very close race in nevada, they will likely be counting ballots into the weekend. Biden has been building a small lead there, right now he has about a 12,000 point advantage. The tight race and unprecedented number of
To speak at saturdays rally, but the event was stopped soon after it began. Police say three officers were sprayed with pepper spray and several people participating in the rally were injured, including the organizer who was punched in the face and lost his front teeth. Abc 7 news iteam reporter dan noyes was there this weekend and has been speaking with both sides in whats turned into a national controversy. He joins us live. Dan . Reporter ama, the march on saturday was supposed to be an event at twitter headquarters. To protest the company banning some altright accounts but police had to shut it down just after it started. I interviewed Phillip Anderson at the daily city airbnb where he was staying just hours after a sucker punch knocked out his two front teeth at the rally he organized for this past saturday. What are we becoming that people are going to knock the teeth out of my mouth and punch me in the face and yell black lives matter at me. White people, okay . It doesnt make a
Reporter after months of shelter in place order San Francisco is now the first bay area county to achieve the lowest risk under the states blueprint for a safer e kick economy. A new county is benefiting, San Francisco county is moving from orange to yellow today. They are trending in the right direction. Cases are dropping. A few months ago the case rate was hundred 30 new cases per day. Now we are down to about 30 on average so that is very good news. Reporter those low numbers come even as the countys testing as many as 5000 people per day. Hospitalization rates are also low with just 25 people currently hospitalize with covid19. The county is also making major inroads in reducing coronavirus rates in the latino population. The yellow tear means the county can now proceed with its reopening plans. Starting next week nonessential Office Spaces will be allowed to open a 25 capacity. Health gyms will be allowed to open a 25 capacity if things continue to move in the right direction. Re
Good news containment is up to 62 . Crews expect to fully contain the fire by the 20th of this month. The glass fire has destroyed more than 600 homes and still threatens more than 13,000 structures. Many people like the ole has family there still just picking up the pieces and as kron fours taylor sackey tells us now the family still has not been able to return to their home to actually see the destruction for themselves, but. They say they hope to salvage whatever Little Things they can. The only his family lived in this Deer Park Community for 40 years for their kids its the place where they grew up in shared many memories, right now im on their property standing in one of the 2 homes. This is the smaller one in can see here behind me this fire just completely tore through the area. Now only charred appliances are Still Standing that moment there that sick to your stomach, youre so scared. Yeah. And theres like one spotted fire and then there was 3 and suddenly there was just the wa