Alive today. Our political power house Team Standing by to break it all down. This special edition of nightline, your voice, your vote, starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Tonight the unprecedented move by the Democratic Party, launching the political tradition held every four years and going virtual in the pandemic. The coronavirus and other tough issues taking center stage on the first night of the dnc, wrapping up moments ago and for the latest we go straight to mary bruce reporting from our nations capitol. Mary . Juju, the democrats kicked off a Convention Like none other. No packed floor or cheering or applause, instead, a series of speeches and videos, from across the country and party. The goal was to show that joe biden can speak to all americans, not just democrats. Tonight was a chance for the Democratic Party to show they were united so we heard from bidens rivals, senator Bernie Sanders and while we briefly heard from the candidate himself in a conver
Fog will return by late tonight. Well talk about your monday and what it looks like for next week, which includes some seasonal temperatures, in a few minutes. Liz . All right, lisa, thank you. More concerning numbers with the surge of coronavirus cases in california. More than 8,000 new cases are being reported in the state. The number of deaths also is trending upward, rising by 94. Hospitalizations set a new record yesterday topping 6,500 and the bay area set a record with a number of hospitalizations with 567. Also of concern is the Positivity Rate over the past two weeks continues to rise. The sudden spike in cases has led to more dialing back of reopening plans in the bay area. In Alameda County, confusion after restaurants were abruptly told to stop Outdoor Dining because the county didnt have a variance. Abc 7 citiesushing back. And letting people eat outside wed, cities in Alameda County shut down streets and replaced grass to expand Outdoor Dining, but the county issued a cur
To participate. City councilmembers even visited restaurants to give their personal support. Mike salinas did come and other members of the city as well. They dropped off different gifts and gave us verbal support. Reporter this was the first time owner Michael Leblanc opened his patio for Outdoor Dining since the pandemic. I did not know i was going to open up today until maybe 30, 40 reporter he said the countys press releasing absolutely caused confusion. He spent a lot of money preparing for this. We bought food, we bought extra food. We changed the menu up a little bit. Im hoping the city, state, county, they all get together, based on what happened this weekend, and we have some clear guidelines as we go into next week. Reporter the states guidance prohibits Outdoor Dining in nonvariance counties which includes Alameda County. The county said theyre obtaining variance from the state and its the agenda for tuesdays board of supervisors meeting. Elsewhe Alameda County, many Restaur
Threatening people. Thats when the officer open fired killing the suspect. Well have more on this developing story tonight on the 10 00 news. And now to the latest on the coronavirus. California has now secured more than 11,000 hotel rooms to help the homeless safely isolate during the pandemic. And much more will soon be available. We had a goal a few weeks back of identifying 15,000 hotel rooms that would be made valleyable as a subset of our larger strategy, homeless strategy to get people off the street. Im pleased today to announce a milestone that 10,974 hotel rooms have been procured. Speaking at a present Conference Today in campbell, Governor Newsom said project room key has secured thousand of hotel rooms many of them through an agreement with motel six. They are always making rooms available 19 counties in the state. So far project room key has provided more than 45 00 Homeless People with a place to stay. There are more than 726 thousand ,000 cases across the u. S. With alm
Others warnings of continued outbreak headwinds plus mobile merger revision, why softbank is cutting its stake in the Overall Company that will be created between sprint and tmobile, and why its so much more likely to happen and shares of deere are up, reporting abunexpected rise in profits, shows an early sign of stabilization for the farm sector coronavirus worries putting stocks on track for a negative week theres a spike in new cases both in and outside of china you got cocacola joining the list of Companies Impacted by the outbreak, saying it expects it will cut quarter earnings by one to two cents a share they coupled that with a 2. 5 div hike and we heard from lulu, daimler and others as the list is getting longer and will get longer from here one of the things people took the cue was from proctor said it was going to hurt us, the stock was up and climbed form the rest of the sector. Why dont we tell the truth . A little too premature, they all presume it will be solved within a