in covid-19 cases spike, health officials are now requiring new changes for outdoor dining and churchings. some cities in alameda county are pushing back and proceeding with outdoor dining after the county said they were not allowed to. it was a hot afternoon today. but we re tracking hotter temperatures for your sunday. we ll have the details in the accuweather forecast. abc 7 news at 11:00, starts right now. building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is abc 7 news. good evening. thanks for joining us. i m eric thomas. and i m dion lim. more concerning numbers tonight 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, also, set a new record today, topping 6,300. now, the bay area also set a record today with its numbers of hospitalizations, with 567. also, of concern. the positivity rate over the past two week
fog will return by late tonight. we ll 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 didn t 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 co
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 county s 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. i m 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 state s guidance prohibits outdoor dining in nonvariance counties which includes alameda county. the county said they re obtaining variance from the state and it s the agenda for tuesday s board of supervisors meeting.
be them running away with the backpack and the two had threatened not return it unless the man gave them 100 euros and one gram of cocaine. i ve never seen violence in him. the elder family put this note on the door of their san francisco home, requesting privacy. but told us, in a statement, we are shocked and dismayed at the events that have been reported, but have very little independent information about these events. we have not been able to have any communication with our son. both elder and yorth, graduated from tamalpais high school in mill valley in 2018. pretty crazy to hear that it happened to people from my high school. i doesn t really expect that. charley and his friends new gabriel at tam high. i saw him maybe a bit sketchy, but nothing obviously this bad. a shocking crime, half a world away, now becoming all too real. and those who knew the two men tell us that they were both on vacation in italy together. officer mario rega was 35 years old and
first we are following breaking news. eastbound lane to the bay bridge are closed right now after there was a deadly crash. this is the emeryville camera. the crash happened around two hours ago just before the toll plaza. this is causing quite the backup. look at the red on the traffic map. nothing moving at this point. there were at least two cars involved. no word on when it will be opening. we will continue to monitor this on-air and online. hundreds of thousands in san francisco to celebrate one of the biggest pride parades returning to market street today for the first time since 2019. this comes on the date that same-sex was marriage seven years ago. celebration was cut short when someone sprayed mace near the stage. here is stephanie mike i own on the very unhappy ending to this upbeat celebration. reporter: a security guard i spoke with said the crowd was running for the exit and then there was rumors of a gun. it turned out to be a false alarm but with real cons