Fitness centers cant open tuesday after all. Restaurants, indoor places of worship, museums, zoos and movie theaters must stay at 25 capacity, not 50 as planned. We have a look how this will impact businesses, anser. Reporter many San Francisco restaurants have been open for Outdoor Dining for the past few weeks. Many were gearing up for 50 indoor capacity next tuesday. Thats not going to happen. Many business hearleaders say t are not disappointed by the announcement but not surprised. This chef is heading into the weekend with a change of plans. Its pretty brutal having this come up again especially now. Reporter the chef and owner at the San FranciscoFerry Building says theyve been lucky during the pandemic. Theyve increased online catering and have Outdoor Dining but some businesses havent been able to open due to structural or Financial Issues such as no space for Outdoor Dining. Those businesses that are getting ready to open next week will have to stay closed. My heart goes out to everybody that needs to be open and have their doors open paying rent and for all the employees that are counting on work. Reporter businesses that are currently open wont face any roll backs. Many San Francisco restaurants are operating at 25 Indoor Seating but were getting ready to move to 50 next week. We understand why were doing this and we feel this is the right move from a conservative perspective. Reporter Laurie Thomas is the director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. She owns two restaurants in the city. She admits this new pause in opening is tough but says its important to play it safe. So there is a hardship in dealing with that but there will be more of a hardship if we have to shut everybody down thats open right now. Reporter the chef says everyone will likely take a hit but adds its important for the city to work as a community. I think its a smart thing for the city. Rough for our businesses, smart for us as a community. Reporter the Golden Gate Restaurant Association wants to remind customers if you made a rest serration for the coming weeks, check with the restaurant to make sure theyre not impacted. Reporting live, anser. Since covid19 came along, weve done stories about the struggles of restaurants and how they are trying to survive. The rainy season is coming. So now more adaptations. Here is abc 7 News Reporter wayne freedman. I need a little time. Reporter this morning the progress consumed much of kims attention. That is life in the Restaurant Business where success depends on advanced planning and not only about food. Winter is coming. Rain is coming. Cold is coming. So we knew wed have to reporter covid. Covid is not going away. Reporter here at bistro v, marin county limits inside dining to 50 capacity. Her partner confessed hes not comfortable about having people inside at all. Were in our 50s. We dont want to be inside and well be there for four hours at a time breathing the air that 40 other people are exhaling. Reporter and so this construction job above their outside patio, a tent. The latest covid19 adaptation and certainly a boom for people like nguyen haun who owns an awning company. Have you been busy . Yes, sir. Reporter what is the difference between having a tent over your head and a roof inside . Well, according to the state of california, it has to do with the number of walls. On one is allowed from floor to ceiling and the air has to be able to blow through. This place qualifies. What do you do when it rains in the winder and you have a busy saturday night with people that want to dine outside . Reporter with one more awning going up over the sidewalk, the restaurant figures it can seat and serve 24 people at one sitting, half the capacity. Best plans for proverbial and literal roof over their business. I think with Everything Else in the situation, im operating on a what happens will happen presumption. Reporter wayne freedman, abc 7 news. In all the bay area and Santa Cruz County recorded more than 120,000 confirmed cases of covid19. In california, there are 4,014 new cases today. Thats a half a percent increase from the day before and across the country, the u. S. Is reaching alarming new records every day. The nation averaging nearly 78,000 new cases per day. The bay area is expanding its role in testing for potential covid19 vaccines. Abc 7 news anchor dion lim is live with the details. Kristen, this is a big deal. Today stanford launched a Clinical Trial into one promising candidate. This is video of the first volunteer that received their initial dose a few hours ago. With the nations attention focused on the race to develop a covid vaccine, researchers at stanford are joining the effort to produce reliable and accurate data to move the most prom facing candidates forward. First up a trial vaccine from Johnson Johnson. Dr. Phil grant says the formula relies on a disabled virus to carry instructions for create y ing an ty covid proteins into the body like a trojan horse and he says it could have another important advantage. You get the body to produce a fair amount of spike protein on its own and the early studies show you only need one shot as opposed to initial shot and booster. Reporter Johnson Johnson used the virus technique during a recent Ebola Outbreak in africa delivering a successful vaccine. The Company Believes early safety data on the version is promising. The same trojan horse as you describe has been given for thousands of people and over a couple thousand are already in the phase one, two. Reporter this doctor helped organize a number of covid drug trials. She says the Stanford Team will boric to recruit a diverse pool of volunteers using their website and Strong Community out reach to neighborhood clinics and beyond. We may be going, for example, to Nursing Homes and other areas. We will be trying to partner with our lower income clinics to see if we can recruit there. We want everybody to have access. Reporter nearby ucsf and the San FranciscoHealth Department are participate income a vaccine trial with astrazeneca and she says stanford has been engaged in on going talks to become a trial site for other vaccine candidates, as well. Potentially putting researchers and the bay area in the thick of the hunt for a vaccine agains covid19. The Johnson Johnson vaccine has the advantage of not requiring specialized deep cold refrigeration for storage making it easier to ship and distribute. Thank you. If you care about life, open up our churches. Covid19 and churches coming up at 5 00, the plea from Church Leaders today. In person voting, open up today across Contra Costa County in martinez and 16ther scattered across the country. Leslie brinkley checked out the lines. Traditionally ive always voted in person. Its what i like to do. It feels right to me. Reporter starting at 11 00 a. M. Voters lined up outside this hotel for a chance to vote in person on brandnew electronic poll pads. We can see if someone already voted or returned their vote by mail ballot and weve counted it. It going to prevent fraud and going to allow us to reduce the number of proversion l ballball anybody can go to any location because of the realtime connection. Someone in richmond can from alamo and have the correct ballot for local races. Here in walnut creek, the line wound around a parking lot. I expected a lot longer line. Im surprised its such a small area you can vote in person. Reporter of 17 early vote locations, 12 are outdoors like this one inside a tent from 11 0 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Another location of key interest, this sports court. This is where 140 workers and volunteers are ex track opening eloquent veopen envo envelop envelopes, there was another reason to come out. You feel comfortable with seeing everyone else thats voting, also. You know everyone is at least coming to vote. Reporter turnout so far is air above 54 . Im leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. The Oakland Coliseum will become alameda countys largest Voting Center starting tomorrow. County residents can cast ballots inside the arena and they can also drop off their mail in ballots. In addition to the coliseum, santa cla ra can vote or drop of and san jose home of the sharks and chase center in San Francisco new home of the warriors will serve as ballot dropoff locations. Still, a few more days to vote as we countdown to tuesday, go to abc7news. Com. We posted an interactive map and that shows you early voting and ballot dropoff locations across the entire bay area. New way to halladay, the changing halloween celebrations. Buy black friday, the initiative helping black businesses. Blue moon, you heard the term once in a blue moon. Its happening this weekend. And thats happening tomorrow. Just in time for halloween, no asof being stretched too thinar to do my job right. And its not Just Health Care workers. Our teachers and school staff are going the extra mile for our kids. Our firefighters are taking on unthinkable missions to keep us safe. How can we keep giving billions in tax breaks to rich corporations when our communities need that money . Prop 15 closes corporate loopholes and invests in our schools, health care, and public safety. Help us do our jobs. Vote yes on 15. Ev. Actress Lori Loughlin is spending her first day in prison in dublin. Shell serve four months for her role. She had until november 19th to turn herself in but opted to start serving early. She and her husband pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and accused of paying 500,000 in bribes to get their daughters into usc. Tomorrow is halloween but in the middle of a pandemic, what does that look like . Amy hollyfield has been on a mission to find out. Even during a pandemic, people still want to be scared on halloween. And they want to dress up. The Costume Store in walnut creek says business has still been good despite the unusual circumstances of this year. Theres been a lot of people getting costumes. Most people are still going to do something for halloween. Reporter what is there to do . Health officials advised against the usual halloween traditions. Its not cancelled, its reimagined. Reporter jonas says history is usually closed down to accommodate the trickortre trickortreati trickortreating. His pirates of the caribbean theme home is one of the Main Attractions on halloween night. This is what it looked like at night last year when he counted more than 1,000 visitors. Its like a huge street Party Everyone looks forward to every year. Reporter the city of lafayette wanted that spirit to live on somehow so the parks and Recreation Department created a dress up drive. Families will go to the website and dress up in their costumes and cars and drive around town and see decorated houses. Reporter he signed his house up. He says it wont be the same but hes determined to make sure it is memorable. Im going to be fully decked out sitting out here waving to the folks giving them a show because they desearch that and all of this, at least we can do that. Reporter his home is one of 40 that signed up to be a stop on the tour. In fact, the parks and Rec Department says other cities like the idea so much, they created their own dress up drives like in oakley, brentwood and walnut creek. Now you can weigh the risks of various holiday activities with abc 7s holiday risk calculator. See a common holiday scenario and guess the risk and see what our medical experts have to say about it. Find it on abc7news. Com and the abc 7 news app. A rare halloween blue moon will provide a spooky treat for us. Actually, there is nothing blue about it. It refers to the phenomenon of two full moons showing up in the same month. The last was october 1st. Its rarer for a full moon to appear on the spookiest night of the year, the last time a blue moon showed up on halloween was in 1944. So its been a minute as we bring in sandhya patel. Sandhya is trying to explain to me kristen, waxing and waning so when it comes to the moon, i leave everything. Sandhya, you know larry only understands wax on, wax off. Thats right. Thats right. [ laughter ] so true. He gives me such a hard time about waxing and waning. We have a full moon so we dont have to talk about waxing and waning tomorrow as you both just mentioned, larry and kristen. Here is a look at that halloween forecast with that blue moon. 6 11 is when the sunsets tomorrow. Temperatures in the low 60s to mid 70s. All treats in the evening. Were looking at it being a little cooler around 8 00 p. M. Mid 50s to the mid 60s and spooky cool by 9 00 p. M. Low 50s to the low 60s. So the weather couldnt be better. As we take a look at live doppler 7, we have fog sitting right near the coastline right now and the air quality is still being impacted by the fires around the state of california. So some parts reporting moderate air quality as you will notice. San francisco, santa rosa and Santa Cruz Mountains seeing good air quality. Here is a look at the forecast. No spare the air alerts over the next four days but expect pockets of haze at times, moderate air quality the next three days and good on tuesday. Here is a live look from the mount tam cam. Low 70s from oakland to san jose, certainly cooler than yesterday thanks to the sea breeze and the fog returning. The tower cam showing you a lovely view but you can see the haze in the distance. Upper 70s santa rosa, that votto and one last view from the emeryville camera. Nothing but sunshine there. No tricks, all treats for halloweens. Sunny and warmer this weekend. Reminder change your clocks back one hour sunday morning Daylight Saving time ends. So first thing tomorrow morning, youll see the fog around the coast and locally inland. Temperatures anywhere from the low 40s to low 50s. It will be cool. I dont think it will be quite as chilly as it has been. Tomorrow afternoon a mild sunny day. 72 in San Francisco. Warmer than today. 77 in oakland, 78 san rafael and low 80s san jose and 84 in fairfield. If you are going to the coast this weekend on sunday and on monday, watch out. There is a beach hazard statement from sunday afternoon through monday evening. They are expecting a risk of rip currents and sneaker waves especially for those west, northwest facing beaches this upcoming weekend. Accuweather sevenday forecast, halloween is looking bootiful. Cant ask for better weather. Set your clocks back one hour on sunday or saturday night before going to bed. We have warm weather to start off november. Dry for voters on tuesday with above average temperatures. On friday, i am looking for rain but i will say, one model is aggressive with the wet weather, the other one is scaling back a bit. Ill keep you posted. Kristen and larry . All right. Sandhya, thanks so much. Since were talking trickortreat, this is a real treat because we had Something Special to do. The family lost their home recently in the creek fire in l. Among the belongings lost, the 9yearolds baseball cards. Shes a huge giants fan. Her favorite player is catcher buster posey. We put in a call to the giants and arranged this really special surprise moment. So many people are coming to try to help and to see everybody at the fire station with those baseball cards, what kind of emotions are you going through now . Reese, reese, ill hop in. I was wondering, who is your favorite baseball player . You. Me . I heard you got this huge collection of cards coming your way, like 25,000 or something . Wow. I think whats cool about that is it seems like youre going to be able to share the game with so many different people now, right . Yeah. Thats speechless . Yeah. [ laughter ] her parents were laughing because they never seen reese this shy but it was because of buster. She was so overcome with emot n emotions as soon as we hung up on the zoom call. Buster and the giants sent her a nice big gift package including an autographed baseball and she also got another surprise, were all going to start tearing up watching the video but well have more tonight at 6 00. Oh my god, there is more . Larry, that was the nicest thing you did. That was awesome. Okay. Im crying. Okay. Im crying. Were going to move on. Hitting the rails, what the newest caltrain cars, well give you a look inside and a special celebration for its rising. The pain is coming. A fanfavorite venue ever since they got gigspeed internet. Xfinity gives them the ultimate home field advantage. Its their 12th man. Protector. Hey, amy . Want to grab a seat . Julie, were live. Its game on with gigspeed internet from xfinity. Start him, sit him, trade him. Simple, easy, awesome. Get started with xfinity internet for 19. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, learn about gigspeeds from xfinity. Click, call, or visit a store today. Give james a big round of applause. [ applause ] huge applause for a little guy. Ames tren at the San Francisco zoo today. James was the alert youngster who spotted maki. The zoo honored james with a lifetime membership for his good dead. Today is a day of celebration for maki, t t t t tail tail tailed lemur. Hes back in his habitat after being stolen. I didnt know it was a little boy that found him. Very alert. 400 workers at a factory in utah are making electric trains that caltrain plans to have rolling down the peninsula. We got a look inside and Virtual Reality look inside. David louie