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 in the summertime how does second surge compared to the third one we are currently in . We look at the data, you can see towards the end of july, there were more than 2200 Covid Patients in the icu across california compared to now. Its a little more than 1500. But, Health Officials are certainly concerned because we do not know when the surge is ending. We are on the vertical upswing on the graph. So, we just do not know what the icu number will look like in a few weeks. Thank you. Thanksgiving morning from the state Health Secretary with covid cases on the up. He says activities that felt low risk before are now higher risk than many of us realize. You are more likely to get infected with covid just because its more available and more around the Community Even if you behave exactly like you did a month ago. Its just more prevalent in the community. We brought you the coronavirus updates from state Health Officials on cbsn bay area and stay updated by downloading the kpix 5. California Health Officers putting businesses i notice. Help officers issuing fines for any violations of the health order. Yes we are, we are following the county guidelines and making sure we can accommodate customers. Businesses must adhere to capacity limits and social distancing guidelines or else they will face a 250 fine. New details about thematic used of stabbing five people, killing two at a san jose church. The mercury news reports the suspect is Fernando Lopez was arrested r violence case back in june. The jail release was revoked before the sunday attack. We are also learning tonight a san joses to the employee was among the victims in the attack. A gofundme page says he was volunteering at the church thats night and is expected to recover. The san jose mayor was calling him a selfless volunteer. Its a scam that could be one of the biggest instate history. Hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment payments sent to california inmates. Its hard to believe. The scandal is still unfolding, how the San Mateo County officials first caught wind of this thing. Reporter wasnt covered herein San Mateo County at the jail. All because of a recorded phone call and an eagle eared investigator. The discovery of more than 140 million in unemployment fraud can be traced here to the San Mateo County jail. Back in july, the investigator with the District Attorneys Office was listening to a call recorded inside of the jail from an inmate when the scanner came into focus. It spread faster than the pandemic. A scam where you could gets money put into your account. Reporter next to a convicted murderer sentence to the state prison with a 95 years to life sentence its went beyond San Mateo County to the prison system. We found that he was spreading the word, spreading the gospel about how there was easy money. Reporter so far in San Mateo County, 22 inmates have been charged to the tune of 250,000 to half 1 million. Clearly, individuals that are not entitled to these benefits, that are so desperately needed by the working families here in this state. Reporter if you are wondering why nobody at a. D. D. Causes including checks and debit cards getting mail to actual prisons, here is one reason. There are only 17 investigators for the entirety of the edd. The state board of cosmetology has more. Its if he was too big, too much going on, too many people unemployed, no checks and balances. Reporter this was happening during march through august when tara left her tail of the california waiting on hold for days with edd were spreading. People ripping up the system, having no trouble getting their money put to them at the expense of these people out there who are truly suffering. Reporter the 140 million number maybe just the tip of the iceberg. There are still ongoing investigations at the county, state, and federal level. Before this is all said and done, investigators believe this could reach up to 1 billion. Live in redwood city, andria borba, kpix 5. San francisco seeing pretty good weather. Chief meteorologist paul heggen joining us with whether or not you can dine outdoors with your family. I asked you how warm it was outside and you said 70s. Spike up to 70 degrees for inland parts of the east bay, not quite that warm on thanksgiving because we get a cold front that sneaks through the bay area tomorrow. It wont give us any showers but it will produce cooler temperatures, windy conditions and its still going to be breezy on this coming. So, if youre going to have a small socially distance outdoor safe gather, i want to emphasize all of this point, make sure you wait the table coughed out to keep all the food from blowing away or the cloth itself. Otherwise it is looking pleasant, temperature slightly above average for this time of year, mid 60s were highs inland, low 60s around the bay with upper 50s along the coast. Plenty of sunshine overhead throughout the day, just breezy, especially during the afternoon hours on thanksgiving that is when everybody wants to be outside. Take a look at the complete thanksgiving week and, coming up at just a few minutes. Still had on kpix 5, no restaurants, no hotels, no weddings, the flower industry hit hard this year but the San Francisco flower mart is pivoting in a clever way. Plus, big waves out there about to slam bay area coastlines. What this stanford coach thinks about the tie. Awful, absolutely awful. Maybe not. But the coach is not happy about something. That is coming up. Kpix 5 wants to hear what you are thankful for, send us a short video and you may see it on air or online, email them to kpix. Com or attendant on facebook, twitter, or an iconic San Francisco business hit hard by the pandemic. But as emily turner shows us, the flower mart is shifting its Business Strategy in a pretty clever way. Reporter the holiday table will likely be smaller than ever before thanks to coronavirus. But, the floral industry and florists hope you will still decorate it. That it will be beautiful and you will be supporting their business. It has been bananas. Reporter 2020 has been a here for the record books but thats one for the bank ledgers unfortunate. Even in the flower industry. Restaurants, hotels, events. Celebrations, so, we lost close to 1 million of product when we had to shut down. Reporter that was just the month of march to the flower mart in San Francisco reopens just before mothers day. Even still, the general manager says they are doing only about 30 of the usual business. A similar story for florists. It winter having a whole season worth of weddings booked to know work. Nothing. Reporter as she did a big business pivot and resurrected the floral description service. Bloom tuesday. She also did socially distance floral arranging classes. She kept her business afloat by sprucing up the shelterin place. The act of bringing flowers into your home, changes the way you feel. Just trying to be positive and flowers make people happy. It really proof that string all of this. Reporter the next several months are some of the most important are the floral industry. They are also likely going to be some of the most locked down things to coronavirus restrictions during the holidays. So, if you cant sell great in person, florists say sending flowers is a great substitute. Emily turner, kpix 5. The san jose sacred Heart Committee service headed out 1000 turkeys and signed dishes just in time for thanksgiving. A lot of clients who have illness where they cant really leave their homes. They cant risk getting infected. With sacred heart we deliver groceries to them so they dont have to put their lives at risk. It dad and his two kids safe tonight, fire crews rescued the trio on a cliff at the San Francisco ft. Funston. It is dangerous if you gets near the edge. Chopper 5 over the scene while the three were being treated. This happened around four meioned all three are in good health to go none injured. Chopper 5 over San Francisco ocean beach earlier with big swells hitting bay area beaches and thanksgiving and could reach up to 12 feet, possibly up to 24 feet. What is driving the wave action . But the storm system will miss us the most part. It was sent wind kicking up the waves but in terms of a rain, not around here. It will stay in northern california, miller the pacific northwest. This storm system is going to pass through again, seattle, portland, they get additional rainfall, you just cant get any to dropped on farther along the coast. Or pay us a visit unfortunate. Is take a look at what we expect a future cast. An outside chance of a sprinkler the north bay. At midnight you can see showers trying to make their way to mendocino and the counties. In terms of making their way to sonoma county, they just fell apart, the collapse, clouds start the day tomorrow along with fog. More than a second. Even that will dissipate quickly and we should see plenty of sunshine throughout the rest of the day on wednesday and clear skies again tomorrow night which means chilly temperatures out there to start off thanksgiving morning. Gusty winds kicking it with this storm system, that is why the waves will be so tall, the winds starting to gust up a little bit by tomorrow morning. Especially on the coast. Watch how the colors kind of expand indicating where the strongest gusts will be, most of the bay area with 2030 mile an hour wind gusts along the coast, 35 mile an hour wind gusts. The sustained winds will not be that strong. Whenever the wind gets stronger, you cant get caught by surprise, especially driving a higher profile vehicle. Dont get your hopes up for rain for the north bay, word talking a whopping 10 chance overnight for santa rosa and the rest of us a 0 chance. A little bit of fog and cloud coverage trying to make its way in from the top of the hotel. 53 degrees downtown but the cool spot is santa rosa already dropping down to 51 degrees. Still clinging to 60 degrees in concord, this evening the job looking forecast, first lets check visibility tomorrow morning. They dropped on 20 but getting close in spots. But they improve rapidly, we should see obstructed visibility by late morning tomorrow. Here is the job looking forecast this evening. Watch you by shaggy, thank you shaggy and latoya for sharing the picture. Temperatures in the mid50s. A lets get a check it should be thrown on before you for the dog what. Nice weather again tomorrow. Really the rest of the week into the holiday weekend. Temperatures drop down to the 40s to low 50s by early tomorrow morning. Upper 30s in the valleys and the north bay. As the clouds slide through in the sun peeks through, 50s 260 by lunchtime on wednesday that into the low 60s for most spots for highs tomorrow afternoon. Cooler today but that is normal this time of year, we warm up a couple degrees on thanksgiving. Mid 60s inland through the holiday weekend, low 60s around the and upper 50s on the coast and not a drop of rain in sight. We see what we can do about that as we head into early december. Big game weeks mean the bans visits the newsroom but that was not the case this year. A little too hard. Yes. Definitely not. Still fighting for this. When you are coming out of your food, on friday, cal and stanford will be kicking off in the beginning. For the first time and david shaws career, he will not have this. I think after the game last year you have monitoring to sit with for a year, you have been sitting on it for a year, what has it felt like . Two answer you, not in coach speak and and or honestly, horrible. Absolutely awful. Shaw could be talking about a bunch of things in 2020. What is not awful, they actually get to play the football game. Even though fans will not be ads Memorial Stadium in berkeley. Both shot and will cant say the weirdness will be easy to forget. With a trophy on the line, so, yeah, once we start practicing, we are in game up. We know how much it means to us and everybody out there. We appreciate its for all that it is. Regardless of the circumstances. Reporter 45 former nfl players selected as hall of fame semifinalist today. For the first time, the raiders defense back wolfson is on the list along with manning. Both could be voted into cancer the day before the super bowl. Apparently lynch lives in hawaii now. He was spotted in paradise this on a busy street and honolulu. Going car to car with the birds. The oakland native gave away 200 turkeys while people set and traffic. Later this week. Steph curry and sir Charles Barkley with charity on national tv. You can bet a lot of trash talking will take place. They adore me, they look up what that means. We wont get trash talk so it wont make a difference. We cant hear you way over there. Yes. They team up against chuck and phil and yes, nothing but laughs about the terrible swing by Charles Barkley. Speaking of terrible questionable producing on my part, this should be blue and gold and not red. I have a couple questions about you, dennis. Where is your eye protection . Where are the gloves . That is a bad example you are setting for children who are watching this show. Can is a bit of a grinch i think. Just dont started swinging it around. The man with the acts. So novel. 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Considers shortening the length of quarantine if youre exposed to the virus. Four million passengers pass through airport checkpoints since friday, ignoring the warning to stay home. The new measures to keep travelers safe, including plexiglass and notouch bag scanners