Here throughout the weekend to make the lake safe again in the meantime napa county deputies want to make sure that people stay away. Napa counties Lake Berryessa might seem like the ideal place to cool off an escape this weekends scorching temperatures but because of the hennessy fire. The lake is off limits through labor day the areas surrounding the lake. The infrastructure and some places the roadway itself. Suffered some pretty some pretty significant damage. A county under sheriff John Crawford says deputies will be patrolling the lake to keep people away. The closure is for safety and will allow hundreds of crews to remove trees clear around roads and put in new utility poles and lines all that work needs to happen without visitors flocking to the lake. Theres just a lot just a lot of things that need to be taking care of cleaned up prepared. Before people can really safely come back and recreate a late various, the head of the fire is the largest of the lnu complex fires, its b
Weekend hot and dry temperatures exceeding 100 a lot of the east bay portions of county as well little part like San Francisco to the and also along the coastline, not to are in a little bit. Were looking at excessive heat advisory, but this is an excessive heat warning and just about all the entire bay area for the weekend temperatures thus far come into the 60s we got some 50s up to the north bay feeling pretty good to start 61, san jose. Most readings inland are actually ahead of the ball game or only trailing a little bit around the coast. And up to the north bay a little bit as well not having a lot the way of winds just a minor little breeze here going on here is the breakdown word, 84 by 11 by 2 oclock 99. Again with numbers topping off well beyond 100. Well take a closer inspection of those temperatures coming up in just a bit marty. All right dave and we want to continue our coverage of this hot Holiday Weekend by taking a look the way to some cities are helping people stay co
For a visit will face consequences. M get away to the beautiful shores of South Lake Tahoe, the pristine mountain views are only accessible to property owners. If you are a second homeowner, it is okay to come here and live in your house. While we definitely love visitors, right now is not the time. The El Dorado County Public Health Office Issued an ordinance back in march, prohibiting visitors in an effort to help enforce shelter in place orders. If violated, any visitors are lodging facilities will face a 1,000 fine. That would effectively fine either guests and property or Business Owners in the city of South Lake Tahoe who offer lodging and actually have people stay. Jerry vindel is forest suites resort at heavenly village. His 115 suites spanning the fiveacre property remain empty. This is very difficult for someone in the Tourism Industry to say this, but we do ask that you not come up until were ready. But a few miles past the nevada state line, some small hotels not affiliated
Store on newell avenue near broadway and is now in quarantine. Whole foods sent out a statement that read in part, quote, out of an abundance of caution the store performed an additional cleaning and disinfection on top of our current enhanced sanitation measures. Oakland is opening a new drivethrough test site. But this is not for the general public. Only certain people will be able to get tested there. Nbc bay areas kris sanchez is live from home. Kris, i know you watched that press conference. What are the details surrounding this new test site . Reporter you may be relieved to hear there are more tests available in oakland. This is not for everybody, there are still a shortage of tests available so oakland is trying to maximize how they use the available tests. Speaking in the last hour or so, mayor libby schaaf, wearing a red bandanna to cover her mouth while out in public, she announced widening of testing. Up to now, oakland was first Testing Health care workers, police and fire
100 26,000 people have been tested for covid19 across the state of california, but he says that number is too low. Here in california there are nearly 14,000 cases and 322 people have died. The governor also announcing today the 2300 people are currently hospitalized and 1000 are in icu beds. That is 18. 9 increase from yesterday. 12,000 people tested positive for covid19 today, a 12. 4 increase from yesterday. The governor says the state is distributed more than 41 million n95 masks to healthcare workers. He governor has launche new task force to help speed up coronavirus testing here in our state. He hopes and says the goal is to increase testing fivefold by the end of the month. How the governor plans to make this work. Reporter one of the ways this is going to be done is by making more test kits available as well as testing sites. As of today, california has tested 126,700 people. The governor says that number is far too low and he has promised to do better. I am not going to expla