Is growing every day. Chris ryes talked with two doctors on the front lines of the battle who are worried about losing ground. As the virus becomes more prevalent in the community, the chances that person sitting next to you at a dinner table or next to you in a store is infected is higher than it was, lets say, a month ago. Weve got to be super careful. New stats show thanksgiving could see the most air travel since the pandemic was declared. United Airlines Just added 1400 new flights. Add to that christmas and new years celebrations on horizon, dropping temperatures driving people indoors as numbers spike in the bay area and all over the country. Its a formula Public Health officials are extremely worried about especially considering everyones favorite holiday activity. Sit for many hours together with masks off because theyre eating. Thats a combination of all the things that are about as worrisome as you can imagine. You kind of get behind the eighth ball and you get to the point of no return and its once you start increasing y y increase exponentially. They are looking for spikes because of halloween and elections. The worries people are getting complacent as the virus remains as contagious. The problem is the virus doesnt care, and its the same virus as it was all along. Reporter the other warning from the doctors we talked to is the socalled third wave could be worse and last longer than the previous two, which lasted about two months. One reason is that the holidays could bring more people into the bay area traveling from covid19 hot spots. The thing that keeps me up at night is over running a hospital with patients and not having enough staff to take care of them, enough icu beds. Reporter doctors say you must remain vigilant and remember nine months into the pandemic, we have a long way to go and a lot more to lose. The good news about vaccines means if we hunker down for six or eight months, we may be in a better place next year. Of course, coronavirus doesnt care who you are or where you live. Were all at risk, but the risk level varies. So lets take a look at the situation where you live. Well start in the south bay. Santa cruz county just moved backwards from the orange to the red tier this week currently Santa Clara County is in the orange tier. Staffers with the Santa Clara County office of education staged a rally this morning to protest what they say is a rush to reopen schools. Members of the Services EmployeesInternational Union want more safety measures. A spokesperson provided a statement in response to an abc 7 news inquiry saying health and safety remain the top priorities. Fewer than 10 of students have gone back to in person class. Along the peninsula, san mateo is in the orange tier. San francisco is the only bay area county in the yellow tier with the fewest restrictions, however, San Francisco is going to shut down Indoor Dining after tomorrow night because case counts are rising. Also, indoor gym use will be more limited. Fewer people will be allowed in movie theaters and any high schools looking to reopen will have to wait. In the east bay, Contra Costa County moved from orange to red this week and alameda might do the same next week. Alameda county announced today any future reopenings are on hold. Case rates are rising so rapidly officials arent ruling out the possibility of proactive are things where gs that we people are actually taking off their mask indoors and thats going to be by in large things where people are eating. And so, you know, certainly, Indoor Dining is a possibility. The north bay is home to our only county in the bay area in the purple, worst tier. Thats Sonoma County. Napa is orange but may go to red. And there is a lot of frustration in Sonoma County because it cant improve the standing even though test numbers actually have been improving. And now the county thinks it knows why. Abc 7 News ReporterWayne Freedman explains it could lead to a testing recount. Another day, another covid testing site in Sonoma County. Theyre still in the purple tier here highly restricted and residents are still concerned. I dont have any fever, and im hoping its going to be negative. I want to see if im okay because there are too many people dead. Reporter the county will test another 200 people at this popup site today part of an effort to improve status with the health department. It may be stuck to the purple tier due to the countinger r er there was a company doing a significant amount of tests here in Sonoma County were not getting counted in sacramento. Were talking about 20,000 tests in all. They include 2500 a month through no fault of the kascasi the results never made it into the Health Departments database. Their recounting two weeks of the last testing and resubmitting. We werent getting the benefit we thought we should have for actions we were taking. Reporter in Sonoma County, covid19 has taken a terrible economic toll. It cost 20,000 jobs and more than a billion and a half dollars in lost income. Normally, we would have the patio full and probably about half of the inside. Reporter at the sky lounge in Sonoma County 5ir7, steve is fortunate to be working. 48 of his coworkers lost their jobs here due to covid. It is californias only commercial restaurant in an airport that cannot have inside dining. Jim who owns the place is ham strung by that purple tier. Right now day to day and weather related. Were hanging on by threads. Reporter as is this county not down for the count yet but definitely recounting those tests and hoping for a better tier by thanksgiving. In Sonoma County, Wayne Freedman, abc 7 news. If you want to see where your county finds, youll find this interactive ma tivive map on ab. Tomorrow, were getting rain and boy, do we need it. Look at the latest drought map of california. It was just released today. We put it next to last weeks map and last years map. Were starting to get some rain hopefully tomorrow not a lot of rain. On the abc 7 storm impact scale, it will start early in the morning in the north bay and start splitting to other areas in the afternoon or evening. Light to moderate rainfall but periods of brief downpours forecast animation shows wet weather pushing into the north baby 10 00 tomorrow morning then by mid afternoon, it will be sweeping southward, eastward to other parts of the bay area and evening hours looks wet across the bay area. Well get some wet weather maybe not as much as we hope for but its a start. Ill have the full forecast a little later, dan and ama. Thanks very much. Oakland reached a milestone this year nobody wanted to see. Next, youll hear from the police chief who calls the rise in crime a perfect storm. An older woman has her cell phone snatched out of her hand in broad daylight. Im dion lim in San Franciscos china town with the Good Samaritans who do you recall, not long ago we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun all we needed somebody to lean on the volvo xc90 recharge plugin hybrid. Its made for this guy a veteran who honorably served and its made for her shes serving now we made it for all branches and all ranks whether they served one tour or made a career of it. We also made usaa for military spouses and their kids usaa is easy to work with and can save you money on auto, home and renters insurance. Become a member today. Get an insurance quote at usaa. Com quote usaa. 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Thats according to newly released data. Difficult time on main street, as well. Its the lowest number since march but still very high by historic standards. Roughly 21 Million People are still collecting some form of jobless aid. Joe biden continues to move forward in his transition to the white house even as President Trump refuses to concede the election. And today, abc 7 news spoke with former utah governor a republican, he planned the perspective transition for senator mitt romney in 2012. Here is his perspective. Transitions are substantially better planned now than they havent been in the past. This is a wrinkle i dont think anyone expected. Well transition because biden started four months ago, five months ago planning this. Thats different. It would clearly be better if there was cooperation between the two sides. And today, pope francis called biden to congratulate him. Mr. Biden is just the second catholic to be elected president in the united states. The first, of course, john f kennedy. In San Francisco a construction crew hit a gas main and sparked this fire. The flames did not spread to any buildings. This afternoons mishap injured at least one person and triggered evacuations for nearby homes. Pg e crews have been working to seal off the leaking 12inch main so people can return to their homes. Like major cities across the country, oakland seen an uptick in crime in the past six months especially when it comes to homicides. The crime surge comes amid a reimaging of the police force. Laura anthony spoke with the chief and those witnessing the fallout of the violence firsthand. Every funeral home got youngsters in it. Reporter todd has been a coach and funeral director for decades. Hes seen a crisis, especially among young people within a pandemic. Aint nothing for them to do, its easy to get misled into getting involved into something you dont need to be in, right now is killing. Reporter oakland homicides topp topped. Two men were shot and killed within 11 minutes. Last week the city saw vans of looters and armed robbers. I would say that were seeing really unique perfect storm right now because of the pandemic the anxiety along with the Early Release of prisoners to hold people in jail and giv d th them. Reporter it comes as the Community DemandsPublic Safety task force. Its an opportunity for the city of oakland to agree there are some things we should be looking at pulling off for Law Enforcement officers to work on the more serious life threatening issues. Reporter while the commission continues its work here to reimagine the department, a new poll shows among oakland residents their trust in their police force decreased but they dont necessarily want fewer of them on the street. I say keep the police where they are and Community Leaders that know these kids. Reporter in oakland, laura a group of people that saw an older woman getting robbed jumped into action. A story of china down Good Samaritans working together with San Francisco police to make an arrest. When you see someone especially like an older woman like yelling for help. You kind of just react. Help. During a routine trip to china town to buy groceries, lily and her partner tom house knew they hod to spring into action when a young man snatched a cell phone from an elderly womans hands. We see a gentleman running by with something in his hand. I asked lily should we go after the guy . He said hell yeah. We took off of him. Reporter they chased the man in her car down stockton and a couple blocks later when tom, a 25year Service Member jumped out and gave chase on foot. I turned and i said hey, give me the phone back. I could tell it was a phone. He turned and looked and his eyes got big and he turned and through the phone at me. Reporter also witnessing the incident founders of the peace corps. They stood by to console the victim and jumped in themselves. We chased him down to turk murphy ally and we teamed up together and chased the thief down. Reporter thanks to Community Team work, sfpd arrested a suspect across from the China Town Police station. This image taken by one of the Good Samaritans. Police tell me they are appreciative of the Community Working together, but. We dont recommend citizens approach or confront suspects on their own accord. If he would have had a gun and turn and shot, it would have been bad. I dont know, i didnt think of it at the time. Reporter both groups of Good Samaritans have this request to others who might one day be witnesses to crimes themselves. We have seen so many of these cases that just go unnoticed, unarrested. What we all should do as a community, if you see something, Say Something or do something. Reporter in San Francisco, dion lim, abc 7 news. That is foranytitunate it tu out the way it did. Good of them to get involved but you have to be careful. Lets turn our attention to the weekend weather forecast, spencer. We got rain coming our way. Weve been talking about that for a couple days. Let me give you a look at the satellite radar looping image. You can see the storm pushing into the Pacific Northwest right now and trailing edge of it will swing through the bay area and bring us our anticipated much anticipated rain. Lets move along and take a look at the next image here and let me get my computer to cooperate. Here is a live view from the abc 7 explorery camera. Currently 53 here in the city, 57 oakland. We got 51 degrees out Mountain View and san jose 57 and 51 gilroy and 50 half moon bay. From emeryville, this say lovely view. 52 degrees in santa rosa and napa 48. Chilly. 50 thnavodo and looking across e embarcadero from the rooftop camera, we have dry conditions at the moment and these are forecast features. Rain will arrive in the north bay late tomorrow morning. Then the rain will be spreading to all areas of the bay area by the afternoon and evening. And we can expect sunny and warm this weekend. The approaching storm ranks one on the abc 7 storm impact scale. Light intensity but there could be some brief periods of downpours. Wet evening commute tomorrow and breezy to gusty at times. Here is the forecast animation. Notice by 10 00 tomorrow morning, wet weather will be spreading across the north bay then by early to mid afternoon, look for wet weather pushing south of the golden gate across San Francisco to the east bay down into the peninsula and by Late Afternoon into early evening, it will be pretty wet across the entire region so once again, well probably have some wet and slippery roadways for the evening commute and there will be snow in the sierra, Winter Weather advisory will be in effect from 10 00 a. M. To 10 00 p. M. Tomorrow. We expect three to six inches of snow above 6,000 feet and up to 9 inches over the peaks. Travel may be difficult if you think of going out that way. Even if youre not thinking of going that way, travel will be difficult back in the bay area, rainfall totals will range from a few hundredths of an inch up to about. 3 or more in others. Moving back to tonights conditions before the rain arrives, look for low temperatures mainly in the upper 30s and the inland valleys so it will be chilly especially in the north bay. Closer to the bay into the coast, it wont be quite so chilly with lows in the low to mid 40s. Highs tomorrow upper 50s on the coast. Up to about 60, 61 degrees right around the bay shoreline. Inland areas the fornorth bay c and chilly with highs in the 50s and other inland areas will see low to mid 60s tomorrow and we expect king tides saturday through tuesday. When we have higher than normal high tides we often have localized flooding in low lying areas like the park and ride area in mill valley so baear tht in mind. Here is the sevenday forecast. The weekend, we can expect mainly sunny skies saturday and sunday and a nice warmup begins on sunday that carries us through tuesday. Those three days sunday, monday, tuesday, inland highs low to mid 70s. Up to 70, maybe above around the bay shoreline then temperatures will taper off a little bit on wednesday as we have another system coming our way that may bring us showers or some rain on wednesday and thursday. Conditions just keep changing. No consistency at all. Dan and ama. We like the trend. A little rain. We need it. Thanks so much. Yeah. Coming up next, we take you into the abc 7 news archives. Its a story that started 50 years ago. Was revisited 25 years inflammation in your eye might be to blame. Ck, looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes overthecounter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. Ha these drops probably wont touch me. Xiidra works differently, targeting inflamma