There, especially the peninsula coast and up into the east bay hills. I had a bit out at my house, about an hour later i went to take some video of it, it was gone. That gives you an idea of how light and random it is. Some fog is forming around petaluma. Highs today not quite as mild as they were yesterday because of the clouds being thicker. Well call it mostly cloudy to partly sunny up in the north bay. You may see more sunshine. Temperatures in the near 50s to 60 along the coast. 59 to 61 degrees for the rest of us. With he have a slight chance of rain tonight and a storm friday. Thank you. Its not the news any of us wanted heading into the holidays. Covid19 cases are rising across the state. That means well see more closures. The state moved nearly a dozen counties back into the more restrictive red tier that lists includes contra costa and santa cruz counties. A doctor said most of the transition is coming from highrisk transmissions where people are not Wearing Masks the whole time. So 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 three weeks ago. You can see on this graph showing bay area covid cases going back to march. You can see a significant increase since midoctober. In Contra Costa County the roll backs need to happen by friday. Amy hollyfield is live in walnut creek with the changes well be seeing. Amy . Here we go again. This is mostly going to limit the number of people inside a place. At the Movie Theater here they can only have 25 of their capacity inside before they were at 50 . Restaurants will also have to use that same formula. They will also have to limit their capacity to 25 instead of 50 . Many Restaurant Owners tell us they have installed heaters outside for the diners who cant fit inside. Religious Services Must scale down to 25 capacity. Health Officials Say they have been watching the number of cases and theyre doing this for the publics safety, but those who have to respond to that say its tough. Yeah. Its wearying. Its super wearying. But were pressing on because we want to make sure we serve our people. In the last two weeks, you know, numbers have increased dramatically. Weve seen hospital cases double in our county. So we need to act quickly. Indoor pools, swimming pools and bowling alleys will need to close again. This county was in the orange tier for two weeks, but now they are being pulled back. Theyre going back to red. Officials are worrying about many factors right now. Cold weather is pushing people indoors, holiday celebrations, and college kids planning to travel home. Theyre worried about this trend and say we all need to be more careful. Live in walnut creek, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you. San francisco is also tightening restrictions even though its still in the states least restritive yellow tier. The mayor says theres been a 250 increase in cases since early october. So that means on first thing saturday there will be no more Indoor Dining and gyms and Movie Theaters will have to reduce capacity. The city is pausing plans to reopen more high schools. In the north bay, Marin County Health officials are pleading with local restaurants to immediately cut back on indoor service. Restaurants there are currently allowed to operate indoors at 50 capacity. A plan to bring middle and High School Students back to the classrooms has been approved by the Palo Alto School board over the objection of teachers and parents. Students will be placed in cohorts of 30 to 60 people. English and history would be taught in person with a class size of 15 students. Parents have the choice to continue Distance Learning for the rest of the school year. Keep track of where your county stands at abc7news. Com. You can see which tier your county is in and what that means for local businesses. The nationwide surge of infections shows no signs of slowing down. Hospitalizations in the u. S. Hit a record of 62,000. Hospitals all over the country are feeling the strain. Close to 1 in 4 have more than 80 of their icu beds filled. The United States has averaged 118,000 cases a day over the last seven days. And deaths are also rising with more than 1,300 reported just yesterday. Thats the highest since the middle of august. It appears the Affordable Care act could survive the latest Supreme Court challenge. The trump adminisration and several republicanled states argue that the mandate requiring all americans to have Health Insurance should be struck down as unconstitutional. They want the whole law thrown out with it, but conservative justices say even if they strike down the mandate the rest of the law could stand. Its hard for you to argue that congress intended the entire act to fall if the mandate were struck down when the same congress did not even try to repeal the rest of the act. The Supreme Court has upheld the act twice already in 2012 and again in 2015. A decision on this latest challenge is expected by june. President trump could make his first public appearance in nearly a week today at a veterans day event. The appearance coming as the president continues to deny that he lost last weeks election to joe biden. Jobina is tracking that from the live desk. President trump has been active on twitter continuing to insist the election was stolen without providing evidence. The president s legal team has been filing challenges contesting the Election Results. Attorney general bill barr instructed the Justice Department to pursue allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities. Even barr has said no evidence of fraud emerged. When asked about a smooth transition, secretary of state mike pompeo said this. There will be a smooth transition to a second trump administration. The General Services administration is Withholding Services from the biden camp but the president elect said that wont hold them back. He will meet with transition advisers today. President trump will make a public appearance at Arlington National cemetery today in honor of veterans day. Today is veterans day. Theres several events planned around the bay area. Brisbane will hold a virtual flag raising event at 11 00 a. M. We mare island will have a rededication ceremony at 11 00 this morning. Petalumas parade has been replaced with a small procession to honor local veterans at 11 11 a. M. Tonight San Franciscos city hall will be lit up in red, white and blue lights at dusk. Many restaurants are saluting veterans and active duty military personnel with freebies today. Vets can get free coffee at starbucks and 7eleven. Bunken doughnuts and krispy kreme are giving away free doughnuts. Several restaurants including California Pizza Kitchen and b. J. s are offering a free meal from a special menu. Lets talk about how much different this morning is than yesterday morning and the morning before. We talked about the cloud cover would keep the temperatures up. Look at this, were up to 22 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. Lets go up to the north bay. We had the coldest temperatures the last couple of mornings. Youre looking at 40s and 50s in most neighborhoods under a cloudy sky, a little bit of fog starting to form there. Pretty much mid 40s to mid 50s, 46 to 5 4 f4 for the rest of us. You dont need that heavy coat this morning or to scrape any ice. Theres a bit of mist out there this morning. So watch out for that. As you head through your activity planner, my heater hasnt kicked on yet, hopefully yours wont either. So we have a little drizzle. You can see on future radar, just a few blips of green under the low cloud cover. High clouds is what you see in the left side of your screen. Thats going to come in as we head through the day. Well switch out the cloud cover so mostly cloudy today. But the high cloud signifies that it could bring us drizzle after the sun sets tonight and while a lot of us sleep theres the possibility. Because it is coming out of high level clouds, a lot of it will evaporate before it reaches the ground. On friday we have a better chance of wet weather reaching the ground. Well talk about the storm impact scale coming up. Lets talk about the traffic this morning. Hi, jobina, how is it going . Good news on the traffic front for everybody. Just taking an overall look at the map, the slowdowns have not started. We have a high wind advisory for the bay bridge. Checking in on live cameras here, starting in walnut creek, live look showing off 680. Those brake lights making their way south. A live look showing you the san mateo bridge, beginning to fill in as people make their way westbound. Everything is moving smoothly so far. There are new signs of progress for San Franciscos massive project to improve transit along van nuys avenue. Crews are paving the new bus lanes with red concrete. Once its complete muni will run its first bus Rapid Transit system along the center median. The 309 milli 309 million projed in 2016. It was supposed to be done last year. The date has been pushed back to 2021. All right. Coming up, the proposition that we know californians have said no to. Hes going to be the very first woman Vice President. A little girls adorable reaction when her mom explains Kamala Harriss new job. And a preview of the 54th annual cma awards on abc7. The big things to watch for tonight. And at 5 11, well take you outside right now to see what downtown San Francisco looks like from our 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. All right. Welcome back. Lets look at whats going on from our roof cam looking down the embarcadero towards the Ferry Building and also the bay bridge where you might run into a little mist this morning. Temperatures are running milder. In the afternoon theyre not going to be quite as mild due to the lack of sunshine compared to yesterday. Well be stuck mainly in the 50s. A few of us in the low 60s. Not like the mid 60s we had yesterday. You can see that swath of cloud cover hitting the Central Coast and bringing a little bit of light rain there. 50s and 60s across the state today. Keeping an eye on the early snow because we had such a dismal snow season last year. We have a chance friday and saturday and again tuesday, but snow levels will be rising with each one of those storms. Well have more on our chance of wet weather coming up next. California voters have said no to our proposition that would have raised the property taxes for a lot of businesses. Since 1978 the state has limited tax increases to 2 a year until a property is sold. Prop 15 would have changed that lifting the cap allowing properties to be reassessed every three years. Its estimated that change would have brought in more than 12 billion of revenue every year. A 4yearold girl in ohio had the best reaction when her mom showed her a photo of Kamala Harris and explained who she was. Thats joe biden, and thats Kamala Harris. And if they win, which its looking like theyre going to, shes going to be the very first woman Vice President. Like the boss. That looks like me. Yeah. That looks like you. Can you believe that . Yeah. Sonia parcel recorded this video of her daughter and she said it goes to show how much representation matters. Unlike past Vice President s, Vice President elect Kamala Harris didnt go to harvard or yale. She went to Howard University which is an hcbu or historically black college or university. Jobi jobina fortson is also a Howard University alum. Howard university is in washington, d. C. But gained a wealth of new attention recently. Thurgood marshal, chadwick boseman, Anthony Anderson and Vice President elect Kamala Harris have one place in common Howard University. Okay. So i have a disclaimer. I am also a Howard University alum. So this story is being told to you through the lens of experience as a proud bison. Vice president elect Kamala Harris graduated from howard in 1986. Her recent success is shining a bright light on the black university that we refer to as the mecca. I want kids to open their minds up to going to historically black college. Howard university is the leading university of black students going into the medical field in the u. S. It is said to be the greatest opportunity for minority students. Hcbus have done a find job of educating people. You do not have to be black to go to an hcbu but that he were created for us at a time when blacks were not allowed in white institutions. Being surrounded by black mentors, seeing that diaspora being represented, having friends who had grandparents who had graduate degrees blew my mind. It built up my overall confidence being a darkskinned woman. I dealt with a lot of colorism growing up in the bay area. It gave me a great sense of pride. Reporter Vice President elect harris said she gained her confidence at howard. Its also where she announced her run for president. As a student not uncommon of howard students, she was involved in activism, student governor and her sorority, alpha kappa alpha, the oldest sorority on campus. Harris has broke a glass ceiling. She smashed it with a hammer, its a hammer that a lot of lum have lifted. Reporter howards president , dr. Wayne frederick knows the hu family doesnt always agree on politics and policies. But when you go to you what ward or really any hcbu, you find family. So when you try to explain what that experience is that black College Experience especially coming from the bay area or coming from a predominantly white school, you feel like youre home. So, at the end there, i added some pictures of my friends and my sisters, a family there. But i think what we did not or i want to make sure we got across to people is you get to experience diversity within black people. We have students from 47 states, over 50 countries, and kumasi aaron is also an hcbu alum hailing from florida a m university. Though this is a big win for howard, its also a big win for the hcbu family. It definitely is. Theres so much pride. We have our little competition between the hcbu families, but it is all love. When one hcbu grad rises, we all rise. Its good to see everything that hcbu grads love about the hcbu experience being shared with the world this way. Yes. Yes. We made such a good point earlier that these white men who have been in these positions from the same time all came from the same couple of schools. Its nice to see diversity in a multitude of ways. Yes. Exactly. Its about time. All right, mike. What do you have for us this morning . I tell you what, i watched the show blackish, Anthony Edwards slips that in every episode that he went to school there. Hes proud of it. Thats awesome. Congratulations. Lets look at whats going on, from sutro tower, you can see cloudiness hanging around. These are low clouds, thats why theyre giving up mist and drizzle this morning. Theyll be replaced by high clouds as we head through the afternoon hours. Not quite as sunny or warm as yesterday. We have a chance of rain tonight and a better chance of rain friday. Heres the cloud cover. You can see there off the coast, thats coming in. Its going to be above about 20,000 feet. So the likelihood of some of that rain making it to the ground is going to be really difficult during the overnight hours. Heres the afternoon hours, you can see the thicker clouds to the south, maybe a little more sunshine to the north. Everybody around 59 to 62 degrees. Even a little bit cooler along the coast. Heres tonight. You can see the cloud cover across the southern half and milder temperatures, 40s across the north bay, a little clearer and no chance of sprinkles. Temperatures will be in the mid 30s. So definitely cooler than this morning. Heres a look at friday. As we head through, you can see the Morning Hours will be quieter into the evening hours and overnight. Thats when we have our best chance. Were getting a little bit smaller window on when that rain will fall. You can see its going to be the greatest amounts in th a bay. Once we get past that, a warming trend for sunday, monday, tuesday. Some 70s. Tuesday, possibly wednesday, thursday next week a couple storms on the way. Thank you. Coming up next, the 7 things to know this morning. And new details from inside the murder hor theres no bad time to start at amazon. I like the flexibility. It also allows for picking up shifts. Safety comes first, speed comes second. Safety. Safety. Safety. Were making sure that somebody is getting their very important items. It makes me very happy. If youre just joining us, heres 7 things to know this morning. Number one, Health Officials in Contra Costa County have moved back into the red tier. Indoor dining will be restricted to 25 of capacity. Movie theet theaters and gyms h operate at 10 . San francisco rolls bac