An AMBER Alert was issued Thursday night for a 14-year-old girl from Austin who police said was abducted by a 28-year-old man.

The Austin Police Department is searching for Hillary Salcedo, who law enforcement officials believe to be in grave or immediate danger.

Hillary is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 105 pounds. She has red hair, black eyes, and was last seen wearing a blue jean jacket and red shirt.

Police are looking for Hector Avila in connection with her abduction, a news release said.

Avila is 4 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds. He has brown hair, brown eyes and has multiple tattoos on his shoulder. He was last heard from in Austin, officials said.

Anyone with information regarding this abduction, call the Austin Police Department at 512-974-5250.

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Community Labs will resume COVID-19 testing on Friday at its public collection sites after temporarily suspending service on Thursday due to the wintry weather.

Since most of the locations require customers to line up outdoors, Community Labs, health and city officials didn’t want to put people at risk in the cold Thursday.

Testing will resume at 8 a.m. Friday at the locations listed below:

Alamo Colleges District Support Operations Building, 2222 N. Alamo St. 78215Palo Alto College Building 20, 1400 W. Villaret Blvd. 78224Building 20 – Performing Arts CenterSt. Philip’s College, 1801 Martin Luther King Dr. San Antonio, TX 78203Yates Community Center, 568 Rasa Drive, 78227Melendrez Community Center, 5919 W. Commerce St., 78237Copernicus Community Center, 5003 Lord Rd., 78220Wonderland Mall of the Americas, 4522 Fredericksburg Rd., 78201 (Lower level beneath Burlington.)Converse Old City Hall, 407 South Seguin. 78109

Community Labs is a San Antonio-based nonprofit organization that provides free COVID-19 PCR tests at six Metro Health sites and two Bexar County locations. All locations are walk-up only. Pre-registration at CLTEST.ORG is encouraged but not required. The wait times are averaging 15 – 35 minutes, with the longest lines evident during the opening hour at each location.

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As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in the San Antonio area, the estimated date of when the city may actually reach its peak keeps getting pushed back.

According to infectious disease specialist Dr. Ruth Berggren from the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio, with hospitalizations and infections skyrocketing, the latest projections and data show the potential peak for San Antonio may not be reached until the end of January.

“The hospitalization curve is going up, up, up… our weekly infections still going up. There’s no evidence that we’ve peaked,” Dr. Berggren said. “If I had to hazard a guess and try to project based on the slope of these curves, I don’t think we’re going to peak until the end of the month… I think we have maybe another 10 days of going up.”

Once the city reaches its peak, Dr. Berggren said it could still take some time for the case numbers to level off, even spanning to the month of March.

“I’m hopeful we’ll start to level off early February and come down. It took us roughly a month to get to here. So I imagine it’ll take us about that long to get back down, which means that we’ll start to see more acceptable rates, safer rates, at the beginning of March. That’s an estimate,” Dr. Berggren said.

If someone does come down with COVID-19, the quarantine period has been reduced to five days. However, if it’s someone in your household that falls ill, it may be unclear what the next step is for family members.

According to Dr. Berggren, the guidelines could vary based on a person’s vaccination status.

“If you’ve been exposed to somebody in your household who has COVID and you don’t have any symptoms, whether or not you have to stay home depends on if you’re vaccinated and boosted or not,” Dr. Berggren said.

If you’ve been fully vaccinated and boosted, Dr. Berggren said you won’t have to stay home and isolate just because people in your household have tested positive.

She adds that you should still isolate from one another, not eat together, wear masks in the home and even use a separate bathroom to help reduce transmission.

“You’re at home and people at home have COVID, but you are unvaccinated or you’re vaccinated but you didn’t get your booster yet. In that case, you are required to stay home for five days. Monitor your symptoms. If you can, get a test on about day five. Day five is probably the optimal day to get tested after a known exposure to COVID-19,” Dr. Berggren said.

If you test positive for COVID-19 and have symptoms, the protocol says you should isolate for five days. After five days, if you have recovered and have no fever for 24 hours without medication, you should be able to return to work, according to Dr. Berggren.

However, if you are still feeling sick, she recommends taking the full 10 days to recover.

You can watch the full interview with Dr. Berggren in the video player above.

Thursday’s COVID-19 Numbers

San Antonio Metropolitan Health District’s COVID-19 dashboard reported 5,841 new cases and a 7-day moving average of 5,970 cases. There were 10 new deaths reported, according to the data.

Twenty-two deaths have been reported over the past seven days, totaling 5,028 since the pandemic began.

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There are 1,263 COVID patients in local hospitals with 277 in ICU and 116 on ventilators. Metro Health’s dashboard shows there are 8% of staffed beds available and 63% of ventilators available.

See more of today’s COVID-19 statistics and city resources for the public here.

Progress and Warning Indicators

The progress and warning indicators — including two-week case comparison, hospital trends, average case rate and positivity rate — are critical. Hospital stress is severe. These indicators are updated on Tuesdays.

City health officials offer the following testing guidelines

Consider using a self-test before joining indoor gatherings with others who are not in your household.A positive self-test result means that you have an infection and should avoid indoor gatherings to reduce the risk of spreading the disease to someone else.A negative self-test result means that you may not have an infection. Repeating the test with at least 24 hours between tests will increase the confidence that you are not infected.Ask your health care provider if you need help interpreting your test results.

Click here to access more information about other city no-cost testing sites.

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The chilly temperatures are hardly the winter storm of 2021, but they bring back reminders of power outages and misery. So, as the thermometer drops, interest in portable home generators is heating up.

“A lot of it is residential people coming in because they (fear) they won’t have enough power to keep the essentials running — your fridge, your lights, your heating and all that kind of stuff,” said Dominic Rodriguez with Northern Tool + Equipment on Goliad Road.

One of the biggest questions buyers have is about the size of portable generator they should buy. The answer depends on your needs and some calculations, Rodriguez said.

The more high-demand appliances you want to run, the more wattage you’ll need. You also need to factor in startup or surge needs. A smaller, 2,000-watt portable generator will run a fridge, a few lights and a phone charger, but probably not much else. If you want to also power the heat or air conditioning, the water heater, clothes dryer and pretty much the entire house, you’ll want something more powerful, possibly in the neighborhood of 13,000 watts, according to Rodriguez.

Portable generators run on gasoline and can emit dangerous and deadly carbon monoxide fumes if they are not used correctly.

“These are never meant to run in an enclosed space or inside at all,” Rodriguez said.

Safety experts say that generators should be set up at least 20 feet from the house and should never be set up to run in a doorway.

Some newer models feature a built-in sensor that automatically shuts down the generator if it detects too much carbon monoxide.

If you already own a portable generator, maintaining it is critical.

Rodriguez says to be sure to use fresh fuel and don’t leave untreated fuel in the machine. Check the oil, spark plugs and air filters. It’s a good idea to crank it up once a month to be sure it will work if and when the power goes out.

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Chick-fil-A restaurants in the San Antonio area are thanking the community “for their continued support” with free nuggets.

From Monday, Jan. 24-Saturday, Jan. 29, local customers can get an 8-piece chicken nugget entree for free on the Chick-fil-A app.

The entree will automatically load to the customer’s “Rewards” tab, and the offer can be redeemed at checkout. The offer is limited to one entree per person while supplies last, according to a news release.

“We are so excited to offer free nuggets to the San Antonio community to thank them for their continued business,” local restaurant Operator Matt Arnet said in the release. “We hope to see our guests stop by their local San Antonio Chick-fil-A and redeem their free offer as a tasty treat to kick off the new year.”

The offer is also to encourage customers to download and use the Chick-fil-A One app, the release states.

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