Hamas operations. Maurice and a stunning move, the u. S. Department of justice has filed criminal charges against hamas top leaders over a murdered americans including the October 7th attacks. The charges range from conspiracy to murder of u. S. Nationals to advancing terrorism. They murdered entire families. They murdered the elderly and they murdered young children. Maurice the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening. I am Maurice Dubois in tonight for norah. We begin with breaking news. Newly announced criminal charges against six senior leaders of the hamas and the deaths of dozens of americans in the October 7th terror attack. These charges come days after more hostages were executed including american Hersh Goldbergpolin adding new intense pressure to accelerate their ceasefire talks. One of the defendants now facing federal charges has a key decisionmaker in those negotiations. Cbss Scott Macfarlane has Details Tonight from the Justice Department. Reporter nearly 11 months aft
Compared to counties like los angeles were even Outdoor Dining has been shutdown. For example, Santa Clara County has 53 covid19 patient in the intensive care unit occupying about 10 of the county icu beds. It should not be a concern a. Reporter across california, more than 1500 Covid Patients are hospitalized and the icu accounting for more than 41 of covid beds. The total number of beds designated for Covid Patients can change. It sounds more alarming that it is. I am not saying we do not have a problem, obviously we have this type of denominator. The numbers we are looking at are bigger, compared to what the actual crisis is. We do know that we can bring on additional heads. Not infinitely but many more than we have today because of our efforts to plan around the surge. We have spaces identified in certain facilities to be brought on. Right now i think the Health System is doing very well. They may have Hospitals Trust more than others. Reporter we saw the spike in hospitalizations
Reporting its second highest single day covid death toll. In california shattering a record, nearly 21,000 cases in 24 hours. 113 deaths. And the Positivity Rate hovering around 7 lets take a live look at san jose were Santa Clara County appears to be in the worst shape this evening. There are only 44 intensive care beds left in the entire county. But there is some hope on the horizon for these vaccines. Reporter just a short time ago the county sent us the final draft of the Vaccine Distribution plan that just got uit is 65 pages long. No indication as to exactly how many doses they have or when they will get here but they are working on it. Before we get into that lets talk about hospitalizations, it is not looking good. These numbers are gravely concerning. The assistant chief medical officer development is sounding the alarm about hospitalizations. Currently there are more than 1900 and the hospital right now, 287 or covid patients. Santa clara county is at 80 capacity, only 44 icu
Moore its the season of giving but nonprofits say donations are not pouring in as usual. More and more San Francisco apartments are sitting empty but our Property Owners being upfront about just how many are unoccupied . Nobody should be scared of information or transparency. Now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area. A live look at the bay area airport where the cdc is extending the travel warning for the upcoming christmas holiday. Since Andrea Nakano joins us now from alameda as residents try to keep up with the changing guidelines this holiday season. Reporter here and Christmas Tree lane the holiday spirit is on full display with a view minor changes to deter large crowds from gathering here. Many say they have ruled out Holiday Travel but they admit that its been hard keeping up with the guidelines since they seem to change daily. Doug mckenzie grew up on Christmas Tree lane and now he is carrying on the family tradition. We are decorating more to bring happiness. They have been c
Is in a few minutes. Looking forward to that. Remover, you can use the kpix 5 app to stay on top of changing weather and breaking news alerts. Lets go live to kpix 5s wilson walker, liberty reservoir near livermore and wilson. The rain is great news on the fire danger front. What is he doing for the water supply . Reporter liz and lester, trying to keep a restaurant live outdoors. Yeah, this rain is fantastic news. For the reservoirs, a little bit longerterm store there. As far as the fire threat goes, this is fantastic news. If we could just get these systems where we get upwards of a half inch to an inch with enough time in between each other to saturate the soil, relieve our creeks. Reporter rainfall on santa rosas Skyhawk Community this afternoon, just right amount. Not hard enough to threaten the burn scars, but enough to lessen the fire threat. Yes, the system we had a week or so ago is not enough to end fire season. It was followed up with another round of warm sunny days. Repor