Bay area keep an eye on that as youre stepping outside to enjoy are slightly cooler temperatures, san jose, a touch of a cooler day for you down to 82 degrees. After yesterdays mideighties more on your forecast still ahead darya. All right, lets start with the coronavirus pandemic which has been a record setting day and triggering rollbacks in nearly 40 states. The u. S. In 24 hours had the most infections in a single day and california led the way with more than 9700 new cases texas behind us had 8,000 and there were more than 50,000 about 52,000 new cases across the country in 24 hours bringing the total number of positives now to 2. 6 million. And a 128,000 deaths in the u. S. Experts are worried if we dont turn things around. We could see a 100,000 new cases at day in the bay area. We are now 25,000 positive tests in total and 584 deaths have happened linked to covid so far so because this fight the governor has had to take action to slow the spread. He is rolling back reopening pl
Noon and cooler by 7 00, 52 to 56 degrees. Bay bridge toll plaza lets get an update. No metering lights at all yet, but we do have a couple of cars stacked up to pay cash, otherwise its a good commute for you. If you can carpool we always see these carpoolers whizzing on by when everybody else is stacked up so its always a great idea. Not for everybody, but if you can. We are seeing some slowing out of tracy into livermore up and over the altamonte pass. We have this accident still blocking the slow lane north 17 near the summit thats for your commute coming from the coast up into san jose. A little bit of slow traffic there and we will check back once that tow gets on the scene to see when its cleared out. People in the biggest city in the bay area will once again fight today for rent control changes. If sounds familiar san jose already lowered rent increases last year, some renters as you can see protesting that what happened last year didnt go far enough. Abc 7 News Reporter matt ke
The east bay but we begin with drew tuma. Its been raining for the better part of our day today and it continues right now. Live doppler 7 active this afternoon. Lets get you right down to street level, got a lot to talk about. Some light rain still falling around San Francisco, over the bay bridge, emeryville and berkeley. To the south weve seen pockets of dry weather but its beginning to fill in once again. Andersony veil, san mateo, fremont, some light showers. A couple of isolated downpours just to the east of san ramon. The roadways are damp and a couple of downpours around penn grove and santa rosa. But just in the past five minutes a flood advisory has been issued for the entire bay area until 8 15 this evening. What this means, the big concern is that smaller streams and creeks could overflow their banks, so be careful of ponding, especially on our roadways. This is still a moderate storm this evening, still scattered downpours, some strong winds and the possibility of Power Ou
Been sit there is for months. Kpix 5s Jessica Flores shows us what is taking so long to fix it. Reporter right now were here in orinda. I want to take you to the sinkhole we are at the edge of it. Its 22 feet deal. And workers are here right now. There is not the only sinkhole causing a headache in the east bay. The massive hole stretches across miner road in orinda swallowing up every raindrop today. Crews working in the storm stabilized a 16 water main to be sure this sinkhole doesnt go from bad to worse. Well have pumps and manpower, and well just see how bad it gets. Reporter a few miles away the nearly year old sinkhole in moraga is covered in tarps. Moraga is a wealthy community. Why does it take so long to fix this . We dont have any restricted funding specifically for storm drains. Reporter public works director says the town is waiting for the federal government to approve funding for the project. We worked diligently with my team to get the plans and everything ready to bid a
Viewers have also been sending us flooding pictures from along highway 395 in newberry. Our mike desumma has been checking out flooding all along the Newberry County area this afternoon. Newberry. Charles, sam the city shows no signs of drying out at this point. Over the last hour another another heavy downpour made its way through. Thats been happening frequently since late this morning. Here you can see scotts creek off wheeler street where the water levels been much higher today. Higher waters been the common thing along several creeks and streams in and around the city. In one part of silverstreet today theyve been keeping their eye on the saluda river. It topped its banks months ago during the historic floods causing a lot of damage to homes that sit at the saluda river resort. Residents told me there are several people who are still left trying to recover from that. Larry bennett silverstreet uhh it got bad. Campers right there. They was all under water. It was all messed up. Tab