Parents and students protesting tonight in pleasanton. The big question, when will middle schoolers and High Schoolers get to come back to school . Rent relief and eviction protections on its way tonight to those impacted by covid. The storms heading out. Ill let you on up. Ski shops like this one busy as the rush is on to get to tahoe. Ill show you why that might be easier said than done. Abc 7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. I mean, if youre coming from the bay area and youre trying to head up to a ski resort tonight, you probably are not going to get through. That is the warning from caltrans tonight. If youre thinking of heading up to lake tahoe, just dont do it. Blizzard conditions are making the roads extremely treacherous. Right now 80 is closed because of several jackknife big riggs, multiple spinouts and heavy snow. There is no estimated time for its reopening. And 350 is open but with chain controls ove
Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike has a look at that commute. First lets start out with meteorologist kari hall with a look at the terrific tuesday forecast for us. It is looking pretty good. Lets look at what were expecting. Were still under the red flag warning for today especially for the north and east bay hills. Were going to have some warm temperatures for this afternoon just slightly above normal. Overall very comfortable and youll be happy to know we do have calmer weather for the end of the week once these winds really start to go down. As we go through the forecast today we are going to have high temperatures reaching into the mid70s for much of the inner bay and our inland valleys. A few low 80s on the map. Well be tracking that red flag warning and our high fire danger. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking now . The dumbarton bridge looking slow. I did check no construction and we often see that headin
Question about that but if you want to know whats happening right now i think theres a gross distortion that has sort of been a typical of the reporting on this and that is that theres this frenzy of focusing on a number of cases when we see a lot of reasons to be sort of you know cautiously optimistic here rather than fearful and those reasons are very important for people understand 1st of all the cases number the case number is not the most important matter whats important to understand is that the vast majority of people that are getting these cases are lower risk healthier people were doing a better job of protecting the elderly and its you know the high risk people the diseases that really really only to the elderly and high risk people and what i mean by that is not that 0 people die but the risks to younger people is extremely low for any serious illness this is the data you know i mean 99. 997 percent of people do fine at r. s 018 for instance and so we we have we have a lot o
City of rochester an announced their retirements amid protests over the handling of the death of a black man. But we begin with breaking news out of greece several fires are currently burning in the countrys largest migrant camp located on the Eastern Island of less bus they were deliberately set after additional coronavirus restrictions were announced following months of lockdown families were seen feeling from their tents that overcrowded facility holds more than 12000 people thats 4 times its capacity well ali i spoke to Douglas Hammond hes the cofounder of refocused media labs an organization that hosts citizen journalists inside maria can he explains whats unfolding. If the current moment there are several fires that are kind of all over the camp. Yes corona has been identified in this camp in recent days and the number of confirmed cases have been rising many of the asymptomatic people have been put into a quarantine area on the far eastern side of the camp and that area earlier
That are kind of all over the camp. Yes corona has been identified in this camp in recent days and the number of confirmed cases have been rising many of the asymptomatic people have been put into a quarantine area on the far eastern side of the camp and that area earlier this evening was attacked by individuals who seemingly do not believe that corona is actually in the camp and that it is being seen as a reason to continue a 6 month lockdown in the camp some attacks on some vehicles to move people out of the camp or to move them around ensued and some of the people that were in this current team area were fleeing from that violence and in the process of that several fires were set on the perimeter and then now those fires have been set inside the camp also office for the asylum seeking process takes place is on fire our students living quarters are on fire. Numerous people have been evacuated from the area of their own accord or are now by authorities the space that was created for q