Stark contrast to most of the country now facing a new surge. Roughly 38 states have experienced a 10 increase over the last seven days of total number of cases. This is that dreaded third wave that some had projected for california. But with due diligence, that third wave hasnt couple. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dion lim. The bay area is also doing well. Abc7 news News Reporter stephanie sierra joins us live to break down the latest totals. Stephanie . Dion, 25,000 cases were reported nationwide each day. Now that daily average has doubled to 50,000 cases. Even though california isnt seeing as much of a spike, the governor was quick to point out today we could be there soon. A third wave of covid19 is moving quickly and broadly across the u. S. , but if you look closely at california, the r effective number, or rate of spread, shows it has declined slightly to 0. 96. In other words, it is considered stable. Epidemiologist george weatherford. We decreased the effective reproduc
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
Nay only ny has a napa book store for seven years, the store in downtown napa, it is one of three locations. Oh, my gosh, we are so ready to have people back in the store. In a safe way. Since the end of march, they have been fulfilling dozens of online orders and trying to figure out what it will look like when customers are eventually allowed back inside. Currently we have the computer with the counter that is right in front of the customer and we will have two registers towards the back of our, behind the counter space. Governor gavin newsom had hopeful words for Business Owners like naomi saying limiting the number of people inside stores, in a matter of weeks. And he had good news for owners of hair salons and those of us in a dire need of a cut. It can be done on a regional area, and it will be advanced, we believe, in the next few weeks, even statewide. Newsom is still leaving a lot up to individual counties, and craig smith, the executive director of the downtown napa associati
I would think napa county, solano, maybe concho pass and santa clara late in the day will get it. A little warmer today, yesterday unseasonably cool, they will start to bounce up of, in fact only 3 gross in the city. A lot of 40s popping up, even 40s and the peninsula, lakeport is 40, the system is still turning and that could wrap around, chances are probably not but we will magenta, highs today 60s and 70s, all right, lets send it over to sell right now it doesnt look like hesk unless something new has developed. It is pretty quiet, right now we have traffic that is moving along very well, and if you are driving out soon you will see traffic looks good. San mateo bridge is moving along nicely on westbound 92 heading out to the peninsula. All of the bridges are off to a nice start so we like what we are seeing so far. It is coming up on 5 8 02, lets go back to the headlights. Another bay area county moves into phase two of Governor News items road back to recovery. Contra county will
To it, we are almost done with rain, could be a little later this afternoon, we have partly cloudy skies, below has not kicked up yet, it is close. We do have mostly cloudy, partly cloudy skies, a little cool, especially toward areas toward santa rosa, mid 40s and low 40s there. Slightly warmer today, that 65 and the city will be one degree above average for this time of year, but most locations are still below. A couple showers could pop up later in the day, maybe near solano and contra costa, that is what we are holding onto for one more day. We will get toward average at the end of the week. We will get to that in about 10 minutes or so. Over to sal, who is playing great music. There is something new, a little bit here, we have slow traffic on 580 westbound, and i do want to mention that there was a crash at grant line road, but a lot of people on 205 and 580, looking like days before the pandemic your, as you can see, stop and go traffic. I bet people are surprised by this, acciden