In napa the rising numbers surprise no one. They have been watching them. Those numbers are two weeks behind reality but to go from orange tier to the purple in a day. People will lose their jobs this week. Businesses are going to consider whether they keep the doors open. From supervisor alfredo, that is the hard abstract. So it has a hint of sweetness on sister wine. For adam housley, its a tough reality. Purple means no Service Inside and limited tasting outside. Hes frustrated by the state sending mixed messages how to keep people safe in his business. Its a dangerous thing were facing. At the same time, with e kne kn were facing. Let us live and figure this out. Reporter napa county is particularly vulnerable because it relies so heavily on tourism. Good for business but not so much for health. Were doing turkey breast. Reporter toe knny owns a ba. She cant count how many times shes had to tell customers to wear masks. Everybody is tired of it. I get it. Were tired of it. Everyone was getting a little complacent, i think. Reporter and now theyre purple and winter is coming. In napa, wayne freedman, ab k b news. With that, panic buying is back. Store shelves are running out of things like toilet paper. Are you stocking up, buying what you need or just ordering online . Go to abc7news. Com slash vo voth in. Well check the answers of chris nguyens story looking into the problem. With covid19 cases on the rise, the phenomenon of panic buying is back to some stores. We have to try to remind ourselves to push back on fear and to be logical and not overly psychological. Reporter Santa Clara University psychology professor dr. Thomas plant says when people are under stress, they might be more likely to buy basic goods like toilet paper or nonperishable foods. When they are scared, they circle the wagons and find coping stratd gegies that may b more psychologically consolinco reporter not all stores are seeing the kachaos which is a relief for shoppers. Were all in it together. Reporter at zanottos market, carter king stopped to shop ahead of going into quarantine. I think about what you would want other people to do for you. Reporter Company Executive says theyve had no problem keeping items in stock. Very careful how many people are in our stores. We kept six feet markers this whole time. Were eliminating displays to allow people to spread out. Reporter they extended the operating hours to make it easier for folks to shop and encouraging customers to buy shelf stable items like boxed stuffing or canned vegetables this week rather than next. That way when we come into thanksgiving week, we have a little bit smaller basket sizes and maybe missing miscellaneous dry goods so people can move faster through the lines. Reporter a reminder to take a deep breath, simple steps to take now to make your holiday a little more pleasant. Afollow Public Health gree guidelines and if we do, there will be enough toilet paper and supplies for everybody. Just try to remember that, all right . Checking back in on the poll right now. You can see most people are saying i just buy what i need at 88 . Very few of you, only 4 saying im stocking up. South bay hospital is making an urgent plea to address its shortage of ppe. That is personal protection equipment. Officials at the Santa Clara ValleyMedical Center say the current spike in covid cases is causing staff to burn through supplies like gloves and surgical masks and short on funds to buy more. Thats prompted the Nonprofit Community fundraising of the hospital to ask for donations. If somebody is sitting on a stockpile of ppe and have not given it by now, they probably wont. The most important thing to give is dollars because we can source the things we need. The numbers here are astou astoundi astounding. According to officials, the staff at valley med is going through an average of 7,000 surgical masks and 30,000 gloves per day and thats just one location. Well, were all having those tough conversations with family members and relatives right now that we wont be there passing the sides at the thanksgiving dinner table this year. Oakland mayor libby shaft broke the news to her family right here on our air air today on midday live. Im sorry im doing this over tv, hanna, but husbacousin hann were not coming. Oh. We had narrowed it down to my cousin and her daughter, beautiful bionca from your aunt libby, my family, my sister, but were cancelling that. Yeah, speaking with us as she always does each wednesday on midday live at 11 00 a. M. She also always spends every christmas at her motherinlaws at pennsylvania but shes cancelling that, as well. San Francisco Mayor london breed has a new campaign to keep people healthy at home while helping the city recover during the holidays. Its broken down into three tools. Holidays at home gives pham will families ideas for recipes and arts and crafts. Shop and dine in the 49. Com has a map of all outdoor businesses and restaurants and the holiday decorated neighborhoods that closed off to traffic. Sf. Gov help your neighbors has easy and safe ways to volunteer around the city. Nancy pelosi today signalled shell likely serve one more term as speaker of the house if reelected to that post. I consider this a gift and i cant wait to be working with joe biden and preparing us for our transition into the future. So i dont want to undermine any leverage i may have but i made the statement. Pelosi made the comment today after House Democrats nominated her to retain the job shes held since 2019, the now 80yearold pelosi had been dodging questions in recent months about her future role but today she said shell stick by a pledge she made to step down at the end of the next term, the house will vote on leadership positions for the 117th congress january 3rd. Pacific gas and electric has a new chief executive officers, patricia poppy will take over for interim ceo on january 4th. Poppe earned a masters in management and the president and ceo of cms energy. She is honored and looking forward to work alongside pg es employees. Tourism trouble, hotels facing an uphill battle to get past the pandemic. A moms story, a 25yearold got to meet her newborn for the first time after battling covid19 for months. Saving santa, obviously, this year no more sitting on santas lap but that doesnt mean santa cant pay a visit this year. Im spencer christian. 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The faa grounded the max jets in march 2019 following crashes in indy kn indonesia and ethiopia. It will be the first u. S. Airlines to return the max by next month. 7 on your side Michael Finney joins us with tips on how to boost your wifi, michael . Hey, kristen. Lets start with apple because we just learned today that apple will spend 113 million to settle claims over battery issues dealing with its old iphone. Now, this may sound familiar to you, let me explain what is going on today. More than 30 states had filed a lawsuit including california, the states accuse the iphone maker of hiding issues with batteries by slowing down phone performance. Now earlier this year, apple settled or agreed to pay up to 500 million to settle a private class action suit over the exact same issue. I see what im doing wrong here, you guys. Im so sorry. I got ahead of myself. Lets move into the tape. Rich oversees Electronics Testing at Consumer Reports and has been working with routers and wifi for decades but rich had issues with wifi at his home. We had a dead zone on the deck in my backyard where we would hang out and barbecue. He wasnt sure if a wifi extender would fix the problem. Not long after the coronavirus pandemic began, Consumer Reports started testing some products at employees homes making sure to maintain strict testing proto l protocols so when it came time for Consumer Reports to test wifi extenders, rich realized it was a perfect opportunity to use his home as a test lab. After i put the extender half way between the router and deck, i had a really good signal out there. Two that did well in all of Consumer Reports test, the night hawk and a less expensive option, this model from tplink. One thing to keep in mind, cr says internet speeds from the extender may be slower than you are used to because the extenders cut speeds in half. Getting the most from your wifi extender is the speed of your Internet Service providers connection. The distance from your router to where youre putting your wifi extender and the areas of your home youre trying to cover. For rich, an extender brought wifi to the dead spot but if youre having issues all over your home, to see a significant improvement in your wifi, you may need a mesh network. Thats a system of two or more units that Work Together to blanket your home with a strong wifi signal. But many good mesh networks cost anywhere from 2500. A less expensive network recommended by Consumer Reports is a tplink deco whole home. Now, all of this is a built complicated because we dont deal with the wifi every day so i got a bunch of information. Goabc7news. Com. Great information. Thanks, michael. Got a lot of warriors news to get to. This past year was not very worwa warriors months of losing steph and clay. Espn reported clay suffered a leg injury in southern california. Severity unclear. Espn is reporting its the other leg, not the left leg where he tore his acl back in 2019. So does this change the warriors strategy going into tonightsnba draft . Well see. Kr the chronicle reports they will allow fans back in chase center at half capacity was just rejected by San Francisco health officials. Earlier in the day the team owner was espns first take pushing his proposal. I and George Rutherford from ucsf believe we can do 100 . That sounds crazy, im sure to the Public Health officials but its not what the level of whats going outside in the community thats important but what will happen inside the arena. He says the team is ready to spend upwards of 30 million to test every fan, employee and player at each home game. Meanwhile, the nfl is stepping up their own covid19 safety protoc protocol. Starting on saturday, masks will be mandatory at all times including during teams practices and in their weight rooms, meetings must be held virtually or in the largest indoor space the team has. Time spent in the locker room also has to be limited and meals have to be made available for grab and go to keep people from congregating in cafeterias. The nfl getting serious, as they should. Absolutely. We have more spray showers, stray showers as spencer predicted. How much longer will these kris like spray showers, too, because they are getting lighter and lighter. You can see that the weather is quiet right now. A little isolated thunder and lightning in the sierra foothills and some stray showers across the Higher Elevations of the south bay including Santa Cruz Mountains and the Mount Hamilton area. Basically, our storm is winding down. Its pretty much over. Its breezy outside but not terribly windy and the strongest breezes are generally up in the north bay and over in the inland east bay. Lets move along and take a look what is happening in the sierra where its more than just a stray shower. Its getting heavy wet snow. So the winter storm warning thats been in effect since yesterday is still in effect until 6 00 p. M. This evening in the sierra for about another eight to 12 inches of snow before that system winds down. Looking across the embark decad 59 in San Francisco, oakland 63. Mountain view 61. 63 also san jose and 59 gilroy and 55 at half moon bay. The setting sun is in our picture as we look westward from emeryville. Temperature readings 60 in santa rosa and napa 63, 64 fairfield, 61 concord and 59 degrees at livermore and here is the view of the golden gate looking northward, the skies are getting brighter up north. The forecast features are these, isolated showers are possible this evening. They muchmemuch. Areas of fog dense and well have a drier pattern into the weekend. Here is the forecast animation at 7 00 this evening. Notice how we dont expect any more measurable precipitation but fog will press up against the coastline overnight and will linger there in some spots and across the bay during the morning commute but it will pull back to the coastline during the daytime hours tomorrow and well see some high clouds passing over but it should be a mainly bright day tomorrow, certainly a dry one. Overnight low temperatures will be mainly in the mid 50s around the bay shoreline, mid 40s, rather, mid 40s around the bay shoreline and also mid 40s on the coast. Upper 30s to low 40s in the inland valleys. Tomorrows highs will be in the mid to upper 50s on the coast and low 60s around the bay shoreline and low to mid 60s inland. Here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. We have a couple cold or chilly mornings coming our way on friday and saturday but skies will be mainly sunny friday, saturday and right on through the weekend. May see a few extra clouds come into the picture on monday and then brighter skies with milder conditions on tuesday and wednesday. No rain in sight but a couple of chilly mornings at the end of the week so bundle up if youre going out early, larry and kristen . Thank you. San francisco hotels struggling to survive. The economic look at the pandemic. He said there is nothing you can do for your now to a really touching story of mother hood and recovery. A woman got to meet the child he gave birth to after being hospitalized for two months. The reunion and her fierce fight against covid19. [ applause ] reporter this is the day 25yearold gabriella has been dreaming of for the last two months. And after fighting a fierce battle against the coronavirus, shes finally going home. I felt like weve talked about this for like forever and its finally here. Reporter but shes leaving with more than just a story of survival. Inside Community RegionalMedical Center, she found unconditional love when she laid ore e her eyes on her baby girl. Madeleine rose. My love and motivation for her. Im focus on her. Reporter this moment was never guaranteed for her but the bought of it helped her push through the darkest of times. She was about 30 weeks pregnant and diabetic when covid19 rav vehicl took her body and life. The doctor sat me down and said i want to prepare you for this before you go in there. Im thinking what is going on . He says there is nothing i can do for your daughter. Reporter they refused to give up. Doctors said they would keep fighting for her as long as they could but as her condition worsened, doctors had to deliver her baby with an emergency c section. I was more scared for my baby than myself because i was like what if this happens and something happens to her . At that moment, i didnt know what was going to happen. Reporter her chances of survival dropped to 10 . At one point she was unresponsive for 45 minutes. To keep her alive, they started a treatment called echmo. A huge tube that divert 80 of your blood out of the body to load it with oxygen and inject it back. Reporter slowly, she started ill provi improving and her lungs started to recover. She couldnt talk or write but needed to name her baby girl. He family started coming up with names and manos would shake her head yes or no. I said madeleine. Are you sure . The first name. I cant remember what the first name was. I said madeleine again. I love the name now. At first, i was like so like oh, ill wait until shes born to name her. But it goes with her now. Reporter nearly a month later, she was taken off echmo and met her Little Madeleine for the first time. It took a month for me to finally get to see her and when i seen her, i was like i cant believe shes here. Reporter after overcoming to much, shes ready to move forward and embrace her next challenge of mother hood. Gabby says she and madeleine 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. Its beginning to look a lot like christmas. Check out the tree thats up at San Franciscos union square but this year things are already looking different. Youll see there is no ice skating rink there and very few tourists but with San Franciscos tourism suffering, that could mean cuts to programs or taxes as abc 7 News Reporter melanie woodro found out, the Hotel Industry in particular has taken a big hit. Reporter suns around San Francisco say welcome, were open but visitors are few and far between. One of the campaigns is our gate is open. While that gate just got closed two days ago. Reporter steve rizzo is general manager out hotel g. The hotel has been closed for eight months. He estimates they lost 8 to 12 million in that time. I imagine a lot of places are in the same boat as we are, that, you know, your cash flow runs out when you dont have a revenue source. Reporter according to the quarterly San Francisco budget status report released this month by the controllers office, the hotel tax is expected to drop 43. 4 millio