For a total of 25,000 a day by the end of the month. A longterm goal is 60,000 tests a day. Abc7 News Reporter Lyanne Melendez live in the newsroom with details of the governors plan. Lyanne . Larry, if you ask me the headline today is clearly that the state will revamp testing. Were going show you some projected numbers in just a few. That will then determine when sectors of our economy will reopen. With that said, a lot of Business Owners and employees are disappointed but not surprised. California hospitals have not experienced the anticipated surge of covid19 patients. Guided by the number of empty hospital beds, governor gavin newsom said he would now allow hospit hospitals to perform elective surgeries. Tumor, heart valve, the need for people to gethe kind of care they need. If it gets delayed, it becomes acute. Any other decision to open parts of our economy will rely on two factor, testing and tracking the virus. The lack of swab testing has been a obstacle. Here are the number
Rio nito, duncan, mills, guerneville, forestville and parts of grayton. A satellite image shows the smoke pouring out of it. This is from 488 miles up, if you can believe it. Abc 7 News Reporter, luz pena is live with more on the evacuations from santa rosa at the Sonoma County fairgrounds. Luz. Thats right, governor gavin newsom is here visiting the Evacuation Center in santa rosa. He was just around here thanking many of the First Responders for their work. I want to point to an interview for a couple who evacuated at their home yesterday in santa rosa. Lets hear. My mom there in the tent taking care of cats, my son, my wife, my other son and his girlfriend are inside right now taking a nap. Yeah, thats the circus. Wind knocking everything over as were scrambling to grab whatever we could into the rv and cars, and then i just used this thing as a bulldozer going up the hill, pushing trees out of the way, and power lines that came down and down the hill, pushing trees out of the way a
Pg is slowly restoring power to millions of people affected by this latest round of preemptive power shut off. Only to warn customers it is likely to cut power again tomorrow when the high wind return some people might not get power back before it goes out again tomorrow which could amount to 4, 5, days of darkness. Good evening, thanks for joining us tonight at 5 everyone im grant lotus im Vicki Liviakis we continue to get updated information. On all 3 of these developin stories first was going to start with the latest numbers on the kincade fire. So far that fire has burned more than 66,000 acres. Containment it actually went down from 10 to 5 overnight. The blaze has destroyed 96 structures, including 40 homes. 2 firefighters have been injured nearly 200,000 people have been evacuated and 80,000 buildings are still being threatened tonight. And we have Team Coverage this evening of the kim k fire the bad air quality as well as the pjd angle with all the shops. Prince Charles Cliffor
Will tell you. I was concerned as well. Its a level anxiety you experience it its hard to explain. Thats the reason we do psps to make sure that the opportunity. For catastrophic wildfires to start. Associated with our provision of services not something thats acceptable. When we go to the numbers. And we 970,000 customer accounts that were energized. Its also important to know that those 970,000 account connected to over 20,000. Miles o electrified infrastructure. Thats the infrastructure that was taking down because it was putin is being to our analysis given where they were located in very high risk areas. The abundance of fuel. The wind conditions that any debris flying into those energize lies created the potential for admission. Thats why we do psps that was mark said so far weve noticed 50 in sun and some damage and what can say well. Millions of people impacted for 50 instances of damage. The thing that we have to keep in mind that any one incident and catastrophic wildfire. Re
74,000 acres. 123 structures destroyed, including 57 homes. 90,000 structures remain threatened, and containment stands at 15 . Nbc bay areas jean elle joins us now in santa rosa. Whats the latest, jean . Reporter raj and jessica, hundreds of fire engines are here, firefighters, they are going to have their hands full tomorrow when those winds pick up. Those dangerous winds blew the hot embers around yesterday, causing a lot of destruction. And then a big blow, looked like a big, big glow that you wouldnt believe. And then these arrows, like fire arrows started going reporter j. R. Cowan said gusty winds shot those embers far and wide yesterday. His home is surrounded by damage caused by dozens of spot fires. Every row was burned. Headed for this house. Reporter fire destroyed his brothers home next door. Lots of equipment and vehicles. I hosed the house down before i left, but now its really smokey. Couldnt hardly breathe. In fact, i got a sore throat over it. And my eyes are burning.