Restrictive tier. Its not the news we want heading into the holidays. As weve seen reopening, which is anticipated we started to see more cases. Like much of the country, cases are on the rise california and now 11 1 counti are moving into a restrictive tier. Contra costa moved from orange into red meaning substantial spread. Californias health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley said most of the transmission is coming from high risk situations where masks are not worn the entire time. Imagine multiple people at a small table playing a board game or having and sharing a meal. Across the state, the 14day Positivity Rate is 3. 7 up from 2. 5 . You can see on this graph showing bay area covid cases going back to march, cases arent yet where they were during the summer surge but there is a significant increase since mid october. We anticipate if things stay the way they are, between this week and next week, over half california own counties will mo into a restrictive tier. Reporter they are reporting a 250 increase in cases since early october. London breed announced the restrictions starting friday. Eliminate Indoor Dining. We will need to reduce capacity at gyms and movie theaters. We will be putting a pause on opening additional high schools. Schools already open can remain open as can indoor retail but San Franciscosfranciscosfi co colfax says more closures are possible. The virus is not only still with us but more around than ever before. And no county in the state moved into a less restrictive tier this week, which gives an indication of where things stand. They believe much of the current transmission is from dining and people letting their guard down and socializing more with friends and family. Thank you. Restaurant owners we spoke with said the decision to shutdown indoor is devastating, especially for their employees. We may have to let them go again and thats not fair and now its christmas coming up, the holidays are coming up, and they have no jobs. They have to think this through. Its not just closing down, thre is a bigger ripple effect. Joe bets the house of prime ribs said hell be able to wait out the shutdown. He can operate including social distancing and great ventilation system. You can keep track of where your county stands and see which tier, which color your county is in and what that means for local businesses. Health officials are recommending that you stay home this Holiday Season, but if youre intent on traveling, covid19 test appointments right before thanksgiving may be hard to come by. Abc 7 News Reporter melanie woodro has the story. Reporter tis the season, but this season travel for thanksgiving could look vastly different. Just have thanksgiving within your own family group. You know, this is not the time to be flying around. Reporter u. C. San francisco professor dr. George rutherford says if youre going to be flying, get tested for covid19 before you leave and once you arrive at your destination ideally with three to five days in between tests. With many people traveling for the holidays despite the pandemic, booking a test in advance may be difficult. Anyone who tried to book a covid19 test with city test sf discovered appointments were extremely limited at the embar embarcadero location. The Covid Command Center says city tests sf limits the number of Appointments Available in advance to ensure that essential workers that have symptoms and those workers exposed are prioritized. They are working with the city to provide more than 1700 per day at the embark dcadero a its committed to expand testing in other locations. California health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley. We agree that pri for individuals that are symptomatic and concerned with a significant close exposure. Reporter that being said, dr. Galley says the goal is to test more broadly. That helps us not just from a surveillance perspective but it gives us confidence were finding the asimatic cases. Reporter in San Francisco, melanie woodro, abc 7 news. Stanford created a computer model to predict how covid19 spreads in cities. The University Says it studied the movements of 98 million americans in ten major cities using demdemographics, epidemioy and cell phone locations. It comes down to where people go for the day, how long they linger and how many other people were at the same place at the same time. They were able to accurately predict the likelihood of new infections. The study appears in the journal of nature. Joining us to discuss the latest developments is special correspondent dr. Patel. Dr. Patel, thanks for joining us. Hey, there, all right. Dr. Patel, can you hear me . Dr. Patel . I think were having some connection issues yes, i can hear you. Oh, yes, okay, great. Youll have to tell me what you were laughing about later no. But i see. Okay. Folks, hes not hearing me right now. Were going to take a short break and well come back and have this conversation, but Silicon Valley is definitely preparing for a reboot. Well hear from tech for people with Heart Failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. Entresto helped people stay alive and out of the hospital. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto. Or high blood potassium. Abundant wind and solar energy, we have the power to take on Climate Change. Use less from 4 to 9 pm to keep california golden. All otc pain relievers including volthave one thing in common none are proven stronger or more effective against pain than salonpas patch large theres surprising power in this patch salonpas dependable, powerful relief. Hisamitsu. We are back and well talk to dr. Patel about covid developments. Please tell me you hear me this time. Fingers crossed. Ill give you another chance. I no longer hear her. We may have to go for try number three in a little bit. For now, we may have to move onto the next story. Im going to tell you in the east mbay, five people escaped from a fire. It took about 45 minutes for firefighters to get this fire under control. Our media partner the Bay Area News Group reports that authorities deemed the fire suspicious and investigating reports of a shooting at the building a couple hours earlier had anything to do with the fire. No wounded victims were found. The San Francisco school board is considering resuming in Person Learning at the end of january. A proposal was introduced this afternoon and the board plans on holding a discussion and vote next week. Mayor london breed has been pushing for students to return to the classroom and this plan would have them back starting the week of january 25th. Its not clear yet what Impact Todays pause on the citys reopening will have on schools. Tonight, the Palo Alto School board is announcing plans to open middle and high schools. The proposal including bringing groups of 30 to 60 students back for in Person Learning four days a week. Students wouldnt have lockers and will be in assigned seats. Families would have until next wednesday to choose between this model or full Distance Learning for the rest of the school year. As the hiden harris transition understand folfolds, signs of better relations that could boost the economy, thats a pillar of building a better bay area. David louie sat down with two executives talking about their hopes for change. They are tidialled in. They always were. Reporter john fisher cohosted two bay area fundraisers for joe biden last fall tapping into a network of tech colleagues from startups and small companies. It was a smaller room. Only 50, 60 of us after his speech he went around. He talked with everyone. He heard their ideas. It was remarkable to see him operate with such care. Reporter that gives him hope that the president elect will study the key issues that matter to tech and support them. The issues such as immigration policy, which impacts the ability to attract top talent from overseas. Privacy, perhaps the thornest of all, google under the Trump Justice Department that could snarl other dominant companies. The Silicon ValleyLeadership Group looks at the Vice President elect cam mikamala has an ally. The persistent lack of blacks and women in Tech Leadership roles. Its about invasion and market share lost when the Leadership Teams dont reflect the communities we serve. I know she gets it. I know she leads from a place of authenticity. Reporter thomas is hopeful that bidens belief in science will also lead to a change in Climate Change policy. An important issue in the valley. We truly hope well look at data and the climate and how its changing, seeing the threat, which is a real threat to our economy as well as our longterm livelihood. Reporter a reboot could be on the horizon. David louie, abc 7 news. All right. Time for consumer news. 7 on your side Michael Finney is here with a look at todays headlines. This affects everyone, michael. Sure does. Check your refrigerator. There is another recall of romaine lettuce. Now, its beiing done just in case but the food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about potential e. Coli contamination. Salinas based is recalling nearly 4,000 cartons of bagged lettuce under an abundance of caution distributed in california with a packaged or i should say pack on date of october 15th or 16th. No illnesses have been reported. Zoom is increasing its apps security measures as part of a settlement over to accepted practices. The federal trade Commission Said zoom engaged in deceptive and unfair practices that misled users about the security of their communications on the platform. The ftc said some users were put at risk when zoom undermined a security feature built into the safari web browser. Uber will let users in some cities reserve a ride up to 30 days in advance and you can choose your favorite driver. If your car doesnt arrive on its scheduled time, youll get a 50 credit. Uber reserve will be offered in 20 cities at first and none of those at first are in california but the feature will be rolled out throughout the u. S. In the coming months. You can get your favorite driver, i certainly have a couple of mine here in the bay area. That would be very nice especially being able to schedule that far out if you had a big night out you knew was coming up needing that sort of thing. Adds a degree of comfort for sure. Cool, thank you. Michael, ill be right over to pick you up. [ laughter ] all right. Save the date. Well check in with Spencer Christian now. Boy, its getting chilly out there, spencer. It is chilly, kristen and larry. Actually, a couple of degrees milder today than yesterday, but you probably didnt notice because its not a big difference. Lets take a look at current conditions. Here is a view towards San Francisco where its 55 degrees. Thats pretty chilly. San jose 62, 57 gilroy, 55 Half Moon Bay looking down on San Francisco and ocean beach from mount tam. Low 60s now,,, the view looking down on to San Francisco from sutro tower. These are forecast features, chilly overnight but not quite so cold. Nonetheless, frosty in the north bay. Rain returns near the end of the week and well have an unsettled pattern from that point on through the weekend. Overnight, well see a few clouds push up against the coastline and then sort of dissipate going into the overnight hours. So it will be partly cloudy for the morning commute and clouds will return to the coast especially south of the golden gate tomorrow evening. Now, the frost advisory i mentioned earlier will be in effect from 3 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. For most of the north bay and again, not quite so freezing cold as last night but low temperatures will drop into the low 30s, there will be patchy frost and good idea, i think, to protect pets, pipes and plants. Im going to go to specific lows, 42 san rafael, 33 santa rosa, 41 concord, 44 san jose. Oakland will have a low of 46, San Francisco low of 47. Tomorrow under high clouds it will be clouds ranging mid 50s at the coast and 60 around the bay shoreline. Most inland locations will top out at only about 60. Well see low 60s in the north bay. On friday, we get our first wave of showers into saturday. This storm ranks one on the impact scale. Light scattered showers starting in the north bay and moving southward, tapering off as they move southward. It will be breezy at times. Here is the forecast animation. Starting thursday afternoon and evening, taking us into friday morning well see the first wave of showers, they will sort of sweep on through friday and then redevelop friday night into early saturday and taper off on saturday. Leaving us rainfall totals that are not very impressive. Generally a few hundredths of an inch but perhaps up to a quarter of an inch. Here is the switevenday foreca. Showers continuing friday and saturday with unsettled weather into sunday. Lingering clouds and early next week a little milder. Temperatures will rise a few degrees but another chance for showers on tuesday of next week. Its beginning to look more like what we consider a typical unsettled winter pattern. Larry and kristen . You just proved im insensitive, spencer. 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We know suggesting reducing crowds is huge but give us the sexu actual percentages cultitting t capacity and the study is camp katomplica. They are looking what happens when you cut maximum occupancy from 50 to 25 or 25 to 10 , which is something were way too familiar with in the bay area. The reason this is so important, this study isnt necessarily looking at Human Behavior on its own, its looking at all these factors involved when you go to a place of interest or, you know, a place you have to go to, such as a Grocery Store, but they also included restaurants, bars, gyms, even Car Dealerships and the big variable that Everyone Needs to understand is this involves a place people will go throughout the day, how long they spend there and how many other people will be congregating there. Not every business is created equal and every population has the same type of mobility. So its a couple other factors for people to take into account. I was going to say, not all Grocery Stores are created equal. What did this finding or this study show about the s economi can soes owe economic factor . Some areas with a disadvantaged population, lower Economic Group may not have the same infrastructure in a place like a Grocery Store. Perhaps not the same type of ventilation or people tend to have a smaller space they cant physically distance as well. Thats something everyone can relate to if you go to a fancy huge Grocery Store versus than a smaller store. This is something to keep in mind as we talk about reopening because not all Grocery Stores are exactly the same. Not all businesses you cant put a stamp on all businesses and say reduce the size from 50 to 25 . Policy makers, Public Health officials have to pay closer attention to a specific neighborhood, patterns that people are going in and what the actual businesses look like. So given that, do you think San Franciscos move today to eliminate indoor capacity and dining for now made good sense . I think it makes sense given what were talking about with this commuter model. If youre going to look at businesses that could be scaled back with regards to how long people are spending in there and other risk factors, you would put indoor establishments first like restaurants or gyms and the study found Grocery Stores actually had the lowest rate of spread in comparison to other businesses so those should stay at the came pa gpacity. Its still frustrating that we are still stuck right now, but i do think not even stuck, 11 california counties moved backward today in into a more restrictive tier. That is concerning. I want to talk about the pfizer vaccine. It showed it was 90 effective in preliminary data but dr. Fauci today says maybe it could be widely available by the end of april. What do you know about the Distribution Plan