joining us i'm dion lynn. your watching abc 7 news at 6:00. a rise in new covid-19 infections has sonoma county officials considering a mandatory mask mandate in days. the 4th wave of covid-19 is blamed on the contagious variant. sonoma is one of seven counties that has a transmission rate as well as san mateo. reporter bernard cornell explains how how fears over the new strain may be convincing some to get vaccinated now. >> it is extra stress. >> lisa is expecting her first baby in a matter of weeks. she decided to get vaccinated at the santa rosa clinic after family begged her to. >> with the new variant it is scary. my family has emotional issues knowing i am

>> this clinic near the sonoma fair grounds has soon a rise in shots. fears about the delta variant providing incentive. >> 18 to 30-year-olds have come in to get vaccinated. >> 70% of sonoma people are vaccinated but there is 1400 new covid infections, the most since early march. >> this delta variant is changed that narrative and now we are having to be aggressive and be realistic and this is a much nasier component. >> hospital ers are filled with covid-19 patients and health care workers bracing for the surge. it means indoor mask mandate is any day for most bay area counties. we are definitely close to a mandate of wearing masks and i know people are tired of being told what to do but the fact is, this is where we are. >> delta is causing the vast majority of our covid-19 cases right now. and as i said this surge is

going faster than the surge we saw in the fall or winter. >> small business owners in santa rosa will comply with the new rules like they have been doing but for many it is frustrating because for every two steps forward, it is five steps back. really disappointed. i have to say. >> josh silverson says masks are optional in his restaurant but he'll require them if he is asked to. >> certainly not the direction i want to be going in. or most people want go get vaccinated. it is that simple. we are seeing a slight increase in vaccinations state. the average number of dosed climbed above 60,000. over 3.2 million people are partially vaccinated. the state has plenty of doses and reports having 76 days

worth of inventory. starting tomorrow bart is returning to prepandemic levels. trains will run later and more frequently and despite the delta variant bart board's vice president says riders can feel confident that their health is a priority. >> bart is safer because the air is circulated. every 70 seconds it gets circulated and bart has worked in the last year to install new better air filters that filter out smaller air particles. if you are going into an office building every day, bart is safer than that office building. here are the changes effective tomorrow. trains will run until midnight and they will come every 15 minutes during the day. there will be more direct trips to sfo on weekdays and masks are still required to ride. the white house is saying the country is seeing a steady increase in vaccinations over the past several weeks. but all of it comes as top

health officials including dr. fauchi are issuing an ominous warning about the 4th surge. elwin lopez has the story. the delta variant continues to spread across the country. the u.s. topping 100,000 cases saturday for the 1st time since early february. hospitalizations also on the rise. austin, texas a city of 2.3 million people has less than ten icu beds available. >> those people unvaccinated are overwhelmed by this. and having to go to the icus. >> growing concerns for children. many not eligible for vaccination. in louisiana a baton rouge hospital treating 11 kids with covid and six in intensive care. >> some need breathing tubes. >> in florida seeing the highest increase in cases since the pandemic began. health officials in palm beach county say many getting

vaccinated saturday at a mobile event were young people. >> covid is heating up and i think it is important that you know my kids get vaccinated. >> dr. fauchi does not think we will see a repeat of last year but warned that things will get worse. >> the unvaccinated by not being vaccinated allowing the propagation of the outbreak impacting everyone. >> the u.s. is seeing positive trends in getting people to roll up their sleeves. the white house saying four straight days of more than 700,000 vaccines being administered. as the country continues to grapple with the virus millions of americans are facing possible homelessness now that the eviction moratorium put in place last year to help people stay in their homes for the pandemic has expired. elwin lopez. abc news atlanta. new developments now with evander kane. the sharks player is responding to allegations by his wife that

he bet on his own games and threw them. the nhl has launched an investigation after a series of posts on social media yesterday by anna kain. he responded with a statement on twitter where he denied throwing a game or betting on sharks games or any hockey game for that matter. he says that he welcomes the nhl's investigation and will cooperate. cane and his wife mid of a divorce. >> a driver went down the wrong way in an effort to escape police. you can see the turns here. the vay layo police stopped pursuing him when he drove against traffic and continued the wrong way on i-780. the sparks flew and lost a tire. the driver turned around and went the wrong way on i-80. he attempted two carjackings in the middle of the freeways and

that's when the police arrested two suspects. some people once threatened by the dixie return home today. a number of evacuation lifted. the fire in plum as county is a few miles from paradise where there was a deadly camp fire in 2018. there are 28 mandatory zones and eight new evacuations ordered. it has been burning since july 14th at 382 square miles. opponents of san francisco district attorney chase dubin worked to recall him. there are two recall efforts. they believe his approach has led crime rates. organizers say they have collected the number of required signatures but want to give another 5000 more as a buffer. the deadline for that group to

turn in signatures is august 11th. to the south bay where the reimagined gilroy garlic festival is coming to a close. an organizers say it was a huge success. the first time in the festival's 41 year history it was a drive-thru food event. preorder sales sold out every day. people got a glimpse of food alley and the chefs as they drove to pick up orders. organizers gave us a little tour today. >> doing this was a risk back in april when we were focusing in pause again we were still restricted and the county to see the response and the people coming through smiling, it just -- everyone loved the fact that we were doing it. >> yeah, apparently it was so successful organizers say that even if the traditional gilroy garlic festival is held next year it will still have a drive- thru food option. just ahead. someone really knew what they wanted. a burglar broke into a sacramento museum and went

straight to three specific cases. what was inside that was so coveted. and here he is. the newest giant, chris bryant arrives and he made quite a splash in bu the highlights later in sports. a beautiful start to the month of august today and the days ahead this unplugged device is protecting our beautiful coastlines and more. put off chores and use less energy from 4 to 9 pm

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san francisco honored its long time philanthropist. she cofounded the glide foundation that has helped san franciscoians for decades. the memorial was private that says janice's legacy will live on. >> she has done so much for women and minorities and i can't count how many people lives she changed by herself. she was quite a force. she published several collections of poetry and was the city's poet from 2000 to 2002. she is planning a public memorial for the coming weeks.

someone apparently broke in to the sacramento history museum and made off with several gold artifacts. the burglar was seen on surveillance video entering through the main entrance saturday. the man headed to the display cases with the gold and smashed them. the alarms did go off but by the time officers arrived, the bandit was gone. it is going for more than $1800 an ounce. the museum has not released a value on the items that is stolen. a lake tahoe beach may be getting too popular. what officials will experiment to cut down with traffic on visitors. will we have any beach weather this week? meteorologist drew tuma is up next with your accuweather forecast. coming up in sports. the a's wrap up a season in anaheim and

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and they played on the music concourse between the museum and the academy of sciences. they are scheduled each sunday up to october 3rd. visitors can be in for a surprise at the hidden beach. to ease the parking crunch officials are going to try out surge parking. it could cost up to seven dollars an hour to park. those that get there before 7:00 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m. would be able to park for free. there is another wrinkle to keep track of. the museums don't take cash so you will feed a credit card. hidden beach is at the northeast end of the lake on the nevada side of incline village. getting to our weather. maybe not quite beach weather for all of us. >> not all but i think over the next couple of days you will find the warmer weather moving in. today was beautiful. temperatures just slightly below average for a lot of us but that will change over the next 48 hours.

east bay hill camera a live look, a really gorgeous ous ous to august. high thin serous clouds. winds at 30 miles an hour. a high onshore breeze up to 20 miles an hour. that will reinfluence or keep the temperatures on the comfortable side as we speak. 65 in the city right now. 68 in oakland with a breeze. 74 in san jose and 71 in sa rosa. inland it feels nice. 78 in concord and also in livermore. here is live doppler. low pressure off of the coastline and brought the fog. keeps the onshore wind with us. we are watching to the south and east an area of high pressure that will gradually move to california over the next couple of days and bring with it that warmer weather but

the coast will stay cool and comfortable. overnight despite the mainly clear skies we have we will find our marine layer growing overnight. a lot of us waking up to cloud cover first thing on our monday. temperatures slightly cooler tonight compared to last night. upper 40s to upper 50s first thing tomorrow morning. hour by hour we go future weather the cloud cover first thing. breaking down for some afternoon sunshine. even getting a good dose of sunshine along the immediate coastline. highs in the microclimate in the south bay, 80 and sunny in san jose and santa cruz 74 degrees. 79 in redwood city. 65 for pacifica and down san francisco it is nice. 67 with afternoon sunshine. 65 is the high for daly city. for the north bay it is is is i but not excessively hot. 79 in petaluma and the east bay sitting pretty in the 70s.

73 oakland and 78 for fremont and inland warmer tomorrow seeing more 90s pop up. 90 in walnut creek and 92 in pittsburg. for the next seven days a few more sunny days. the warming continues and the temperatures get knocked down on wednesday, the coolest day of the week before another warming trend by thursday and friday. >> ab c 7 sports sponsored by river rock casino. >> chris brian made his debut. the las vegas native was a huge giants fan and barry bonds favorite player growing up. today bryant took the field in the orange and black for the first time. >> i was talking to my white. when it happened we thought i would end up here somehow, some way going from one historic franchise to another. i feel super grateful and i don't know why i deserve this but it has been really cool for

me to you know experience this so far. >> 3rd baseman, number 23. chris bryant. >> you see goa standing ovation. the second at bat his first homer, the giants, whoa, all three former cubs traded. brian and baez homered that is the first time that has happened injured list major league baseball. sey slesgabe kapler to left cen giants win it 5-3 and go to 66 and 39. next up a four-game series in arizona. brian settling in and enjoying every minute. >> the first homer is weird. you don't know what teams do

when they celebrate the dugout. i was lost. i didn't know what to do. but the whole game just picking people's brains and sitting next to buster and crawford. i can't say i feel giddy. it felt like chase morning. 1-0 with me here. everyone was telling me that and it made me feel good. a great day. another hot deep dive to here is yans gomes. first homer as an a. dalton jeffrey making his debut.

a jam. his mom looking on. does not like the cameras says go away but next pitch, watch, jefffrey gets toni to groundout and mom of course fired up. let's go. a's win 8-3 and her son gets his first major league win and the giants pick up a the astros. espn reports that miami decline the option here. iguodola is 37 years old that is the combined draft picks. olympic men's wins. shabatee with silver. chinese taipei ct pan earning

bronze. sports on abc 7 sponsored by river rock city. chris bryant goes to chicago and d.c. and now san francisco and then milwaukee before he gets back. did you keep up with that? >> his schedule is more taxing than yours, chris. >> i had to get from oracle park but it was tough. always a challenge. thanks. coming up, the ultimate ride. ♪ unlock a summer of possibilities in a new chevy. expand your options... nd yinewhevy. oa expand your options... and make no monthly payments for the rest of the summer on select popular chevy suvs. plus, get interest free financing for 72 months when you finance with gm financial.

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tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00. within three days of being back to school 15 people in the brentwood union school district tested positive for covid. what contact tracing has revealed. the leading gop candidate in the gubernatorial elections talk to us tonight at 11. a group of bicyclists have kicked off their journey to ride from the bay area to new york. doing it in honor of the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attack. the bay to brooklyn ride is 3000 miles and cyclists aim to arrive in new york before the anniversary. abc 7 news caught up with them today on route to san

francisco. one rider told us what makes es this ride so rewarding. >> being able to stop and talk to the community and talk to individuals and hear their stories about what 9/11 was like for them. >> firefighters and first responders in vay layo welcomed the cyclists with a dj. they will spend the night there before hitting the road tomorrow. you can follow the journey at bay to brooklyn 2021.com. what a ride. that's california, did you know our homes share power? but when we try to stay cool in a heat wave our supply is pushed to the limit. but you have the power to keep us up and running! “i do?” yup, we all do! with flex alerts. they notify us when to shift our energy use if our power supply is stretched. so from pre-cooling our homes, to using less energy from 4-9pm, together, let's flex our power to save our power.

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