Moves in. Melissa colorado has more on the demand for heat lamps and fire pits and whether it will be enough to encourage foodies to dine out in the cold. Reporter downtown walnut creek transferred into rows and rows of restaurant patios. Take main street. On some weekends, theres more tables and chairs set out than parked cars. How will the restaurants adjust in the winter . Theyll be bracing for rain, wind and hail. So right now its beautiful weather. We enjoy the weather. But the rainy season reporter the owner, eric zang knows his restaurant in walnut creek, cant rely on sunny skies forever. Everybody worry about the winter, our rainy season. How can we do it . How can we survive . Reporter many restaurants, especially along the bay are already stocking up on electric and gas heaters says the owner of alfresco heating in novato. Theres been this before. Eric can says propane heaters are flying off the shelves because theyre portable and dont need to be plugged in. Alfrescos outdoor
Think he should keep his house cat in from now on. A focus now on your health and in our effort to build a better bay area, we could see a new standard to help when counties can reopen. It involves measuring the difference between wealthy neighborhoods and low income areas and its creating controversy. Reporter counties in california are placed in one of four color indicators. Californias department of Public Health is still finalizing details, but a third metric, called the equity metric, is in the works. Dr. Mike reed, who helps run San Franciscos Contact Tracing program, explains what it is. A ratio of the covid test positivity in low income neighborhoods compared to high income neighborhoods in any given county. Reporter San Franciscos overall Positivity Rate is 2 . In august, a study in just the Mission District found a 9 Positivity Rate. The equity metric could mean the difference between the 2 and 9 would have to decrease to reopen the city. This is not just me making a morally
Building a better bay area, for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Nothing quite like this. A man searching for his cat looked outside and saw what hi thought was a large dog in his front yard. That is no dog. It was a big cat, aig cat stalking right near a group of children. We spoke to the man tonight and he shared a picture of a mountain earlier chasing after his pet. Ive never seen anything like that. There are close encounters, and then what timothy saw saturday evening. I went outside to look for my cat, who had gotten out earlier. When i went outside, i opened the door and i thought it was a German Shepherd at first. And i thought oh, somebodys dog. Then i looked at it and it turned and looked at me, and i was like oh, my god, thats a Mountain Lion. He noticed the big cat had its eyes on children and tried to alert them. So i started yelling for the id cans to go back inside. And thats when the Mountain Lion turned around and saw me coming starting coming at me and jum
In the glass fire, 2,500 acres burned so far. The night sky in the north bay lit by an ar roing glow. Flames tearing through the rugged terrain. Conditions are extremely dry. The winds continue to fan the flames. Thousands of people under evacuation orders in napa and sonoma. Lets bring in rob now who is tracking everything for us. Rob . At the very latest, very challenging conditions. What is unique about the situation tonight is this area has not burned, considering its a narrow wedge between the tub fire and the nunn fire. Lets show you the conditions again. Somewhat dry as you see. Numbers in the 90s still with some gusty winds at times, up to 25 miles an hour. Humidity down to about 15 . And you can see the area. It is beginning to impact there. This is the urban wild fire interface as we sometimes refer to there. These blue areas are structures in the populated areas. You can see the shady fire in that zone of unburned terrain to the southeast of the tub fire and to the north of
Burned so far. The night sky in the north bay lit by an ar roing glow. Flames tearing through the rugged terrain. Conditions are extremely dry. The winds continue to fan the flames. Thousands of people under evacuation orders in napa and sonoma. Lets bring in rob now who is tracking everything for us. Rob . At the very latest, very challenging conditions. What is unique about the situation tonight is this area has not burned, considering its a narrow wedge between the tub fire and the nunn fire. Lets show you the conditions again. Somewhat dry as you see. Numbers in the 90s still with some gusty winds at times, up to 25 miles an hour. Humidity down to about 15 . And you can see the area. It is beginning to impact there. This is the urban wild fire interface as we sometimes refer to there. These blue areas are structures in the populated areas. You can see the shady fire in that zone of unburned terrain to the southeast of the tub fire and to the north of the none fire burn scar from a