Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Overnight, lightning strikes off the coast as a Severe Thunderstorm Warning moves across the bay area. Were bracing for another day of intense recordbreaking heat after more rolling Power Outages affect hundreds of thousands of people. Good morning, everyone. It is sunday, august 16. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Those thunderstorms were seen off the coast of santa cruz, on the peninsula, near pacifica, and all across the bay area overnight. From the lightning to the winds to the heat to now these brush fires were tracking, were following it all. Lets get over to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at whats happening right now. Lisa . Hey, liz. You know, when we had one of these thunderstorms around fairfield, the temperature went from the 80s to 100. That was a heat burst that came down from the upper levels of the atmosphere with a thunderstorm. Just amazing whether the around here. As we go in c
Spreading in several counties. Alameda county reporting a new single day record a 334 new cases of covid19 and santa clara and Contra Costa County also reporting more than 200 new cases each a running list of coronavirus cases and deaths can always be found on our website kron 4 dot com. And all 9 bay area counties are currently on the states watch list which has forced the closure of so many businesses that had temporarily reopened now one barry county, the Health Officer there. Well is now calling out the state saying how counties get on that watch list in the first place isnt accurate for more now on the story to kron fours dan kerman he joins us now live from san bruno. Good evening. Dan. Good evening just in San Mateo Countys Health Officer is apologizing to businesses that he was forced to close a week ago because this county went on the states a watch list actually the last county of the 9 to go on the watch list. He is saying that this one size fits all approach by the state to
By the weekend. We could have someone hundreds inland then. Maybe tropical clouds coming in. Today we start off with low clouds and livermore has even reported clouds pick thats a good push on the fog. Warming begins today. Breezy but not as witty as yesterday. More sunshine and temperatures will bump up after yesterdays call them. 50s and 60s this morning. Still an onshore breeze for most but not nearly as windy as it states that we had best of 35 miles per hour. Fog in morning and son in the afternoon. Temperatures are bumping up. I want to show you that the bay bridge is crowded as you might expect for this time of the morning. It is backed up for a 1015 minute delay. It may start clearing up. I can see signs that some of the reps are clearing so that could be good news. No problems on the san mateo bridge as you drive this morning through the area. If youre driving in the silken valley, northbound 280 traffic looks good as you drive up to highway 17. No problems on 101 or 85 either
Sudden resignation of the states top health official. Thank you for joining us at 5 im palmore the governor weighing in on where californias covid fi stands right now amid that tech glitch bound for us Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala joins us live from sacramento with the late details, ashley. Hi pam yeah, why exactly californias Public Health director resigned is still not completely clear. Governor Gavin Newsome accepted her resignation and less than a day later he staying tightlipped about the abrupt departure of doctor sonia angell. That right not to have personnel conversations in public. I dont know that it serves a larger good at the end of the the buck stops with me, im accountable reporters repeatedly pressed governor Gavin Newsome on the sudden step down of one of californias top Health Officers why she leave doctor sanya angels Resignation Letter sent sunday did not include a reason this is a fluid situation angels stood alongside new son at the start of the pandemic a
To put this fire out while this fire is an outer contain yet its looking much better than what we saw earlier today check out this video video that viewer sent in earlier now thankfully, no lives but there was one injury to firefighters. But were told that he is already out of the hospital recovering and the flames engulf 6 commercial buildings and one of those buildings housed 3 people through an Art Coalition housing project. Those residents are now displaced in addition to the number of workers who had jobs at these buildings. Some of the businesses inside include heartfelt sales, venice, auto body, a catering business in several others. I also talked to other Business Owners in all of them heartbroken after watching their businesses crumble in the fire. Firefighters say that this fire was extremely hard to fight because of how fast it was moving and they also talked about many of the hot spots inside this building now. Again they said that its very difficult because they couldnt ev