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
Of potential outages right now. Amy hollyfield live in danville with more on this. Amy . Hi, yes. We are in a highrisk area. This is stone valley and green valley road. This neighborhood has been alerted that the lights may be getting turned off as early as tomorrow night. So, this is the section of Contra Costa County that is under the warning. Other county sections of these counties have been alerted by pg e. Alameda, napa, santa clara and sonoma. Residents in marin county are dealing with the closure of fairfax. Residents there tell us they will deal with road closures and outages if that is what needs to be done to keep people safe. It can be a busy road with people going through to the beach here but its never terrible. Its not like the road to stenson. Its a back way. But definitely less traffic when the gate is closed. People who live on this road or any open space area, were all thinking about it every day. So, we appreciate the red flag warnings. Definitely disappointed this i
Night. Lets our attention to why it is going to be warmer because of the winds blowing through the north bay. The red flag warning that continues until 8 00 wednesday morning and it is very dry and going to get breezy and that means anything that does ignite could spread rather rapidly. The winds are up to 32 Miles Per Hour st. Helena. As far as our temperatures we have this off shore breeze and more sunshine and feel more warmth. Near 70 at the coast and a bunch of mid to upper 70s around San Francisco, oakland and then richmond. Everybody else in the 80s around the bay and even some 90s showing up in the east bay. This is the first of two fire threats this week. Well talk more about that coming up. Heres kumasi. Thank you, mike. Here we go, again. Pg e is warning of another round of Fire Prevention shutoffs this week. 50,000 customers could lose electricity as early as tomorrow night. Here in the bay area 7,000 homes and businesses in six counties could see outages. The areas near mt
Solutions. No cheering france but major professional sport is back south koreas baseball is finally get to start the season. Because it t. V. Network in the philippines ordered to shut down after a lengthy dispute with the president we go to turkey. Now and santa how much snow have all the sporting clytie the n. F. L. Cancels its games in london in mexico city for the coming season because of the global pandemic. So that one of the toughest coronavirus lockdowns in asia is to be eased even further hong kong chief executive kerry lamb says cinemas and bars can reopen later this week or secondary schools will restart later this month a lockdown was imposed in march there have been no new domestic infections for 2 weeks elsewhere though the u. K. Is still in the grip of the pandemic it now has the highest number of deaths in europe and russia has reported more than 10000 new infections for the 3rd day in a row worldwide more than a quarter of a 1000000 people have died this is the. Hopkin
May or may not need to be revisited. One of those policies that came out during this discussion that i do believe needs to be revisited and i do believe needs to be rescinded. Fs sheriffs gag order that made him the last authority whether his department would communicate at all with federal immigration authorities. So on no. 2 there is a resolution that does three things. One, it confirmation this boards support for our existing sanctuary city law which has been a pilar of our Law Enforcement policy and Public Safety policy in San Francisco for decades. It also confirmation our support for the due process legislation that supervisor avalos sponsored in 2013. And third, calls on the sheriff because he asked for direction to rescind the memo that he issued this march 13, 2015, which amounted to the gag order on his department. One of the important pilars of our sanctuary city policy and its codified in federal law is referencing personnel Law Enforcement to give information to these enti