Contact tracers are struggling to keep up with the surge of covid cases and calls. The patterns theyve noticed in cases and when cooperation gets complicated. Love is in the air and you can see the tents are up as we approach thanksgiving. Ill let you know the best time for dining outdoors. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. The range of reactions are theyre really sick. Others are just, oh, i got it, and im still going to go back to that allinclusive place in mexico. Tonight the explosion in covid cases has made it nearly impossible for contact tracers to keep up. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larson spoke to a bay area Contact Tracing team about the unprecedented challenges theyre facing on a daily basis. In the last few weeks weve been slammed. Reporter prepandemic was a library. Now she leads a team of contact tracers in the city whos work load has increased to nine or ten calls a day. Some of whic
Or your phone, our app on the phone to see the temperature, subtract about 3 to 6 degrees from that. Thats what the windchill will feel like. This afternoon, how about low to mid 60s from the coast to our inland neighborhoods. Lets get the news on this thanksgiving. Heres kumasi. Good morning, by day for staff and volunteers here at glide. Volunteers are busy setting up tables and putting up signs. The tables are set up to allow for social distancing, aside from those few changes it will be the same glide thanksgiving meal that thousands demand on each year. Glide has continued to serve food three meals a day since the start of the pandemic. That has not stopped. Organizers say there was never a doubt they would do thanksgiving, the issue was how. So moving the event outdoors solved that problem. Thankfully no rain. They plan to serve 2,300 meals. One of the organizers says because of covid19 this years thanksgiving brunch is even more necessary. Covid is affecting all of us, but its a
As a community we will create an alternative safety plan and a transparent. Any intentional way including stop. Students community and board and books. Now at 9 the Oakland Unified School district is looking to join the Police Free Schools movement. Thank you for joining us tonight, everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis this renewed push to eliminate Campus Police comes in the wake of George Floyds death were educators held a meeting tonight to introduce the proposal kron fours gayle ong has live with us now to talk about what was discussed kale. Grant and making it is called the george floyd resolution and its demanding the School Districts Police Department be eliminated. The board of educators held a zoom meeting tonight where superintendent kyla johnson trim l announced the new legislation to push Oakland Unified School Districts Police department, the Districts Police department is separate from opd and according to district unit consists of more than 100 sworn personnel
Today daytime high still warm inland but cooling off near the coast talking a much cooler weekend in the works still to come back to you. Thanks a lot john 6 oclock and the top story, a grim outlook for the coronavirus there are now more than 2 million cases in the u. S. And doctors are afraid that we could see a spike of new infections over the next few months. Right now we have between 800 and a 1000 people dying every single day in america. And all of the models all the data suggest that things are going to get worse in have increases the virus hasnt gone away. Its not like were looking for for the second wave, the first wave isnt gone. The Harvard Global Health Institute predicts a 100,000 more people are going to die of the virus by september in this country and 12 states including california have seen or hospitalizations for coronavirus increase since memorial day. Plus theres been at least a 10 spike in week to week cases reported in 19 states. Despite that outlook more bay area
Coming down towards hilltop drive, and no slowing has showed up just yet. And theres the bay bridge toll plaza, and they had a little slowdown. Theres a trash reported that i will check on, and not as bad as 580, which is fine. Your ride on bart could soon become safer. Bob is live with the details. I am hearing a lot of Police Officers are ready to roll out . Reporter bart tells us they hired 40 new Police Officers this year alone, to give you perspective, thats the same number of new hires at the previous two years combined. Look at the numbers on your tv screen. Bart has been recruiting more officers after an independent review, and they want to hire 94 more officers over a fiveyear period and the report recommends they create a team to patrol just the bart stations. Under the most recent fouryear labor contract, new recruits receive a 15,000 signing bonus, and bart Police Officers received a onetime 6 Salary Increase and annual raises ranging from 2. 5 to 2. 75 . Many wouldbe hires