The experts weigh ip. And the rain is on its way. What you need to know before you head out the door tomorrow. But first we begin with breaking news in the president ial election. Nine days later, jessica, the wait is over in arizona. There is a winner and this is going to give joe biden an even bigger lead. Nbc news now projecting biden wins arizona. Hes flipped another red state blue. Biden receiving 11,000 more votes than President Trump. Arizona will award all of its 11 electoral votes to joe biden putting his total at 290. You see the map here. President trump has 217. Heres why it matters. Bidens win in arizona makes President Trumps fight to overturn the Election Results essentially impossible. If President Trump were to win in georgia and also overturn the results in pennsylvania biden would still have the 270 electoral votes to win. President trump is still refusing to concede. Tonight the Homeland Security department had a message for the country saying it was the most secure election in american history. Dhs says its not found any evidence of any Voting System being compromised. Quote, all the states with close results in the 2020 president ial race have paper records of each vote allowing the ability to go back and count each ballot if necessary. This process allows for the identification and correction of any mistakes or errors. So this chaotic and uneasy transition continues. White house aides say the president has a new strategy. 2024. The New York Times first reporting that the president told his staffers today if the election is certified for biden he will announce his campaign for 2024 shortly thereafter. This comes as the president is trying to slow the transition of power down to president elect biden. His administration is still blocking biden from receiving the daily intelligence briefings. Now, president elect biden says his top priority is the pandemic. And as cases surge across the u. S. The idea of locking down the country is being floated by some advisers. Nbc bay area cheryl hurd talked to experts on what a lock down would mean for our economy and whether its even plausible. Reporter president elect joe biden is moving forward with his plan to control the nations worsening pandemic. One of his top covid19 advisers dr. Michael oster hoem floating the idea. We could cover all the lost wages of individual works. If we did that then we could lock down for 4 to 6 weeks. Reporter since making that statement osterholm clarified it wasnt something he was recommending. While Health Officials warn working with the Upcoming Administration arent willing to say if the nation should be in a lock down the possibility is definitely on the minds of the public. Oh, i think thats all ive been thinking about lately. Coming to costco hoping to find a few things. Reporter sfeefb says hes worried about the rise in cases. The unifying thing is the virus. Youll never have control of the economy and never have control of safety. Reporter a biden transition official telling nbc news that a lock down is not part of the president elects plan. One Economist Says if a lockdown did happen it would be risky. The risk is that you nounce a lock down, people try to surcomvent it, the infections grow and it ultimately damaged does harm to the economy as well. Reporter and then theres the question of whether the lockdowns actually stop the spread of the virus. Thats something Stanford Medicine dr. Jason wang has been studying. Is it now we have a lock down for 3 or 4 weeks or that we mandate Wearing Masks . And this is until we have a good vaccine. Reporter cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. The numbers keep piling up. Heres another troubling record. Nbc news has confirmed more than 159,000 new cases of covid19 in the United States today alone. Thats 11,000 more than yesterday. This comes as california hit 1 million confirmed covid cases today since the pandemic began. Were the second state to hit this milestone. Texas was the first. We also hit a record for the most new cases since august. Now, because of this latest spike Alameda County is halting its reopening plans. Its currently in the orange tier, but it expects to move to a more restrictive tier in the coming weeks. That would mean that indoor businesses like gyms or restaurants would either have to close or move everything outdoors. For now, though, the hope is that a full stop on any additional reopenings will actually mitigate this. Several other bay area counties have announced similar changes in the recent weeks. So this is what Alameda County is concerned about. The graph shows the number of new cases per day since the pandemic began. The numbers at their peak were august 25th with 419 new cases that day. Then a steady decline for a couple of months. However, since midoctober the number of cases has started to go back up. Last friday was the highest day in november so far with 197 new cases. All right, lets get ready for the rain and for tahoe were talking snow. Our live cameras on this thursday night. Its beautiful out there, clear skies but things will be changing. And jeff ranieri with us. And whats our friday look like, jeff . I think well start off with the cloud cover, then once we hit the afternoon and evening thats when our rain chances would be the highest in my forecast. A look here across the west. Well show you the satellite radar picture and the best rainfall chances at least at the current moment continue to remain up near seattle and portland. Were just beginning to see those clouds increasing across the bay area. A closer look here at storm ranger, gives a more accurate scan because its closer to the ground, and were currently dry here across the bay area. Tomorrow morning 7 30 in the morning we have those clouds right here over over the north bay. And once we hit the afternoon, there we are in my forecast we have some light to even moderate rain beginning in marin, napa and sonoma counties. And we can use every drop out of this storm because were currently rupping anywhere from 1 to 3. 5 inches behind for the current rainfall season. Well go over that exact totals. Ill see you back here in about 12 minutes. Heres a great resource, by the way, before we bring jeff back especially with the wet weather coming. You can get updates on the rain as it moves in. Download our free nbc bay area app for forecasts tailored to your neighborhood. New at 11 00 tonight tiktok is staying. The Trump Administration had set a deadline tonight for a restructuring or shutdown of tiktok. The ban would have prevented the app from being downloaded in the u. S. Last month, though, a federal judge said the u. S. Government cant shut it down, and the Commerce Department agreed to abide by that order. All right, its a first of its kind plan that the warriors have been working on for months, pregame rapid covid testing for the fans. The nba season starts next month and the warriors want you back inside chase center. But this was no slam dunk. There are a lot of obstacles here. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana in San Francisco with the details. Reporter chase is one of the most stateoftheart Basketball Centers in the country. One of the features of the facility is an advanced air filtration system. That could be key for the warriors to eventually get as many as 9,000 fans into games. Thats 50 capacity. They could arrange for them to be tested beforehand. Reporter ucsf emdeemologist dr. James rutherford has been consulting with the warriors for their plan. Theyve been talking about testing everybody before walk in the door. Were not just talking players, coaches and referees. Were talking everybody. Reporter some of them will have to be rapid result tests conducted as fans enter the arena but many will be seize done from home and before the game. It does come at a time when coronavirus cases across the country are rising and the city of San Francisco is actually tightening restrictions. It seems a bit premature to look to open large sports arenas at a time when we are telling mom and Pop Restaurants that they cant reopen. Reporter chase center is in supervisor matt haynies district. While he questions the proposal now he says it could be useful in several months. Some of the things the warriors are doing and look at will be a model in the future. Reporter basketball fans we talked to tonight said theyre open to the idea. I would want to wait until the vaccine gets out, i would want to see more of it population vaccinated. While the sharks are involved in a political power play with the city of san jose over the new google village. As you look live at the shark tank there the team warned you it may have to leave dotown. The team sent a letter to its fans all about the google village project. The sharks say the influx of tens of thousands of tech workers combined with plans to narrow some streets and close parking lots could make it nearly impossible for fans to get to hockey games or concerts. So ewere worried that the viability for those who dont live nearby that drive from the peninsula or south bay of los gatos itll be they can no longer use it. Mayor samlocardo says hes confident the two sides will work it out. Theyre asking people to give their feedback during the Public Comments section. Quite the scene near levi stadium today. Thats a sinkhole and those are two cars that got swallowed up. Construction workers were just trying to cleanup the mess. A broken waterline is what caused that sinkhole. It also filled the parking lot with several inches of water, mud and just sludge there. Okay, still ahead. Santa claus is still coming to town despite the pandemic, but your visit will look different. New protocols in place for your kids who want that pic with jolly old saint nick. Also having a tough time what to do for the holidays . The new online tool that helps you calculate the risk of getting covid in specific locations and situations. Ill have an exact look at the rainfall totals tomorrow and also that sierra snow back here in about 6 minutes. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way xfinity mobiles fast nationwide 5g network meets the first iphone with 5g. Get the new iphone 12 on xfinity mobile. And right now get 250 off. Learn more at an xfinity store today. Great day on the lake it is. Lunch is cookin and i saved a bunch of money on my boat insurance with geico. Fellas, can it get any better than this . Whoa my old hairstyle grew back. So did mine. [80s music] what . I was an 80s kid. It only gets better when you switch and save with geico. Okay, a rough return to sea. Thats what happened for the first cruise ship to resume sailings in the caribbean. Sea company Sea Dream Yacht Club had five passengers test positive for covid19 just days into their first voyage. The trip ended and the ship is docked at a port in barbados. What do we do about thanksgiving . Is there a safe way to gather with our friends and family, and do we know the risk factor . Theres a Risk Assessment map a lot of people are now using. Reporter people are traveling during the pandemic. Theyre flying home to chicago thinking about seeing family for thanksgiving. Ive heard a lot of stories from back home that people that my family knows got covid just from gatherings so reporter the covid19 event Risk Assessment planning tool developed by a team at georgia tech can tell her how likely it is that one person at a gathering has covid19. Just enter the group size and click on a county. Dinner for ten in cook county, illinois. 39 . A number that has her thinking. For sure wear a mask if i choose to go, but i would definitely id have second guesses onto go or not. Reporter the Risk Assessment includes covid case rates and population data. Developers say they wanted to give people a way to make informed decisions. We can say that in this event will covid be there or not. And in many places in the country right now there is a greater than 50 chance. So there is a likelihood, high likelihood greater than chance that covid will be at that event. I think thats something wed absolutely use, yeah. Reporter flying home to boston dr. Eli says its a tool family cans use to make decisions about the holidays. This is useful tool for people to decide whether or not they want to see their family safely for the holidays and to really judge the risk not just for themselves but to their relatives as well. Reporter jean elle, nbc bay area news. With all that you should note record low. Thats what holiday thanksgiving travel could look like this year. Aaa is expecting to see more than a 10 drop from last years travel. Thats the biggest drop in travel for thanksgiving since the Great Recession of 2008. High unemployment and the impact of coronavirus has caused many to opt for a thanksgiving at home. Health officials are telling the public that the safest thing to do is just to stay home just with your family. All right, jessica, i dont know if we like this one or not. Santa claus is here sort of. Yeah, santas here but with plexiglass. Thats not right. Its so strange. Nbc bay areas ian calumet with santa tonight in san jose with plexiglass. Reporter with so much fun canceled for 2020 you may be surprised santa is still coming to town. In fact, hes already at the Bass Pro Shops in san jose for pictures in a pandemic. We debated quite a bit about whether we should carry the tradition on especially being in santa clara county. But one thing we do is we do not want to let the children down. Reporter so now theyre up and running. Parents like theres no line this year because you have to make an online reservation to help with social distancing. The kids enjoyed it. Reporter the store made a long list of Safety Measures and they are checking it often. Every time a family comes on, every time a family comes out. Reporter there are temperature checks, then Hand Sanitizer right before meeting the big guy seated with a face shield behind plexiglass. But i felt really safe doing it. Weve been taking the quarantine very seriously, so being at home and spreading a little joy here behind plexi, he can still hear their wishes. Reporter the family had to make it. After such a long year the brother and sister couldnt wait. I dont think yarn tequarant the best for kids because theyre used to go out and not sitting at home. Reporter there will also be santa pictures at Valley Fair Mall and the Stanford Shopping Center that started a couple of week. Yes, there are changes this year but it wont be enough to damage any spirits. Being able to bring joy to everybody. Its not just the kids. Its not the young. Its for the young of heart as well. Reporter in san jose, ian cull, nbc bay area news. I think its very inventive. When my kids were little they did not like to sit on santas lap. So you get the picture without all the crying. And its free to take your photo with santa there at the Bass Pro Shops. Take it away. What do you got for us . Thats great. Ive got, well, some Christmas Decorations going up at my house. A little extra cheer here in 2020. I know some of you are going i didnt get my halloween stuff down yet. But i went there. So maybe ill share some photos on social media or maybe youll see my tree up here behind me sooner than your tree is up. Were talking about some rainfall. Just two weeks or so away from thanksgiving so the weather pattern is at least starting to feel like november. Tomorrow we have our storm system lining up and dropping down from the north. I still think overall its going to be breaking up as a moves through the bay area, but were good for rain chances here from 2 00 p. M. Tomorrow to 10 00 p. M. If youre doing anything tomorrow morning who knows maybe going out to get some Christmas Decorations or youve got to go grocery shopping, whatever youve got to do here some cloud cover to start at 7 30 in the morning and 2 00 in the afternoon napa, sonoma, a few isolated pockets of heavier rain will be possible. Then as you roll through the day by about 7 00 those shower chances move to the south bay, peninsula and also for the east bay. Breaking up as it moves to the south, and then by 11 00 tomorrow night we should see a lot of that rainfall move on out. So the total with this one not really as big as id like to see but at least were going to get something and around 0. 10 for san jose. We had around a foot of snow last weekend. Now were going to be good about for 9 inches here. Kingville, twin bridges, 5 inches. South lake tahoe, 3. So what about temperatures . Getting up early we have those clouds. 40s here for the south bay, peninsula, trivalley down to the east bay 46 and for the north bay 42. My extended forecast keeps those 50s to 60s in San Francisco. Most of the weekend will be dry and then next tuesday, wednesday and thursday some additional chances of rainfall. So for the inland valleys also 60s next seven days. I think saturday just a slight chance of a spotty showers from 1 00 a. M. To 6 00 a. M. And after that the weekend looks good, too. Maybe start putting up your Christmas Decorations. Im trying to get a trend going here r here or do you guys have a scale . Too early. December 14th is usually my day. The Christmas Lights are outside, but no tree yet. I like that. As soon as jeff puts that Christmas Tree up were going to see it, and hes going to bully us. I would never. Thank you, jeff. Just ahead caught on camera the bold breakins that have the attention of the u. S. Postal inspector. Happening now a new Incentive Program in san jose to cleanup the city and help get Homeless People involved in keeping the city clean. Theyll be paid 4 for each bag of trash bundled and they can make up 20 a day at participating sites. The cards are restricted so they cant be used to buy tobacco or liquor. Were back in a moment. An nbc bay area exclusive. A rashf break ins has the attention of the u. S. Postal inspector. Heres why. Usually its mailbox theft or porch pirates, but now thieves are smashing their way into mail trucks. This is Surveillance Video from a home. It was turned over to the u. S. Postal inspector. Weve seen vehicle breakins in other parts of the bay area. Stealing mail is a federal crime that carries five years in prison. The post office offers a 10,000 reward for anyone who identifies a suspect that they ultimately convict. The utitle is ready to cut them down and the city says not so fast. Pg e informed lafayette itll begin removing 17 trees on east bay district property as early as next monday. The city voted to sue the utility because pique pg e signed an agreement in 2017 it cant remove the trees within city limits until it meet certain obligations. All right, pretty wild night for thursday night football. Well show you the game and the warriors. Could they be trading away their top pick . Back in a moment. Cal Football Team cannot catch a break. They still dont know if theyre going to play this saturday at Arizona State. The bears are still dealing with players in quarantine while Arizona State didnt practice today reportedly because of covid issues. In the nfl, though, the games go on. The the titans and colts. The turning point, though, came courtesy of a bay area guy. Thats t. J. Curry flying in there, scoops up the block punt and scores a touch down. Kerry is from antioch. He started his career with the raiders and now with the colts. And the colts beat the titans 3417. Next wednesday is the nba draft, and for the First Time Since 2012 the warriors will have a top ten pick. After five straight seasons in the nba final the warriors as you know had a dismal 2020 mostly because of injurywise steph curry going down. Now with a second overall pick the team is deciding whether to draft a top prospect or trade that pick. We want to win as much as anybody else. So if theres a player to make sense or deal to make sense well go after it. The last time the warriors had a top ten pick they drafted harrison barns back in 2012. Were back in a moment. [ whispering ] whats this . Oh, are we kicking karly out . We live with at t. It was a lapse in judgment. 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In San Francisco the Christmas Tree in union square will be lit next week along with a light show to project snowflakes on the all surrounding buildings. I like our tree better. I like our tree as well. So if jeff gets his tree up, that means we really do have to get our act together. I will not be peer pressured by ranieri. Thats going to do it for us here at 11 00. Have a great friday. Good night. Stay safe. [ cheers and applause