Can see from our east bay hills camera. Expect this light wind to keep pulling that fog to the west as we head through the morning commute. It will turn to hazy conditions and high clouds this afternoon. Temperatures pretty close to average with upper 50s along the coast and about 60 to 63 degrees for the rest of us. Reggie . Thank you. This morning another major announcement about a covid19 vaccine. Oxford university and a astrazeneca revealing the vaccine theyre developing shows a strong immune response in older people. Jobina, this is important since these are the people so vulnerable to the virus. Older people are more likely to have Underlying Health conditions that make coronavirus more dangerous. Having a vaccine just as effective in older and younger patients is significant here. Participants also showed few side effects. The last steps of oxfords phase three trial are under way now so they could be seeking approval for the vaccine in a matter of weeks. This comes as americas death toll popptopped 250,000 people. The Largest School district in new york city is going back to Virtual Learning in hopes of curbing the spread. Oregon, michigan an minnesota are joining the growing list of those ordering new restrictions. Governors are urging americans to rethink thanksgiving plans. You know what love is on thanksgiving . I love you so much thankful for you that im not going to see you. Tensions over the president ial transition continued to raise concerns about how quickly a vaccine could be distributed once it hits the market. The Trump Administration is still refusing to share critical information about the Pandemic Response with president elect biden. With Contra Costa County in the states most restricted tier, officials there have set up a task force to make sure businesses not only know the rules but are obeying them. Abc7 News ReporterAmy Hollyfield is live in walnut creek with more on how this will work. This county is in the purple tier. The District Attorney knows people will be watching and probably calling her office even more now with complaints that maybe businesses are not following the rules or citizens out on the street. Shes expecting a lot of calls to her office. She set up a task force that will be investigating those calls and looking into them and checking in and seeing if theyre credible. If they are, the businesses can be fined. She knows businesses are struggling, so her office is saying fining the businesses would be a last resort. We know businesses are struggling now. Were not trying to be punitive. Were trying to ensure the public is protected and were following our Public Health experts and our own Health Officer to ensure that the public and businesses understand the rules and how we can educate them on the importance of following them. Fines range from 100 to 1,000. They will be watching capacity inside businesses. Making sure that masks are worn and that people are keeping their distance. Reporting live in walnut creek. Amy hollyfield, abc7 news. In the knob anorth bay all e country in the most restrictive tier of purple. Daily covid cases per 100,000 people tripled in napa county since last month. One Wine Merchant we talked with said hes frustrated. Im upset the way this whole thing has been handled at every level. I feel like weve been told you have to do it this way, two days later its this way. Napa county is particularly vulnerable because it relies heavily on tourism. Under the purple tier restaurants cannot offer Indoor Dining and wineries are only allowed to operate outside. As the situation with the virus changes so does the response. Thats why we put together this tracker to see where your county stands. Our team is always updating it as new information comes in. You can find it at abc7news. Com. The u. S. Coast guard cutter stratten is back at its home port in alameda after 11 crew members tested positive for covid19. The coast guard says the sick crew members have mild symptoms. The stratten was on deployment and departed for the eastern pacific at the end of october. Prior to leaving crew members were required to selfquarantine and pass two covid tests. The entire crew was tested when they got back. All are quarantined now. Gathering with family for thanksgiving is an american tradition, this year Health Experts are warning even small gettogethers can be risky and you cant rely on testing. I myself got a test ready to go home. It was negative. I wanted to take that extra precaution, wait a couple days and do another one. Thank god i did, it ended up being positive. The advice from medical professionals is to plan on a different way of celebrating this year. Dan ashley has the recommendations. Were all in trouble. And in fact this is a potentially life threatening situation for our whole country. Reporter Top Health Officials and experts are pleading with us to take measures to stay safe over this holiday. This thing looks look a mask. Its actually a medical device that can be life saving. Think of it that way. You wouldnt hold back on that if you thought you could help somebody. Keep those distances where they need to be, six feet or more. Reporter other advice, have thanksgiving dinner outdoors, limit the amount of people and the amount of time youre together. San mateo county Health Officials say new evidence shows our covid risk increases the longer were together. Each time you talk you spew out a little bit of virus. Cumulatively if youre in a room more than two hours and youre taking on and off that mask, there seems to be a large increase. What you should do is have people eat in various places in the household with their own family pod. Reporter or as painful as it might be, experts say for many americans, it might be best not to come together for thanksgiving at all this year. My 100 medical opinion is that we need to sacrifice our holidays this year. We need to stay at home in our own personal bubble for thanksgiving, hanukkah, christmas and new years. That was dan ashley reporting. You can weigh the risks of didnt holiday traditions. Abc7 news has a holiday risk calculator on abc7news. Com and the abc7 news app. Lets look at the temperatures outside. Its significantly cooler, double digits cooler in many areas. Lets see if we can find San Francisco, 8 degrees cooler than yesterday. One of the few not in double digits. Up to the north bay, thats the big story. The fog up there being so thick. It is spreading to other areas. Its just as thick, more widespread across the north bay right now. Well see if the National Weather service adds anybody else to this dense fog advisory heading through the morning commute. Temperatures here in the low to upper 40s. You look around, weve got pretty much low to upper 40s elsewhere until you get to alameda and San Francisco where its 51. For your activity planners today, everything is pretty good. The rain is over other than the fog this morning. We have a quiet weather pattern on the way with high clouds and sunshine this afternoon. So heres a look at your planner for today. Temperaturewise, you can see by 7 00, not much of a change. We dont expect much of a change with the sun coming up so late. By 11 00, mid to upper 50s. By the time lunch is over, upper 50s to low 60s. About 58 to 62. And then as we head into the evening commute were still around 57 to 61. But notice were dropping off quickly into the low to mid 50s if youre heading out this evening. All right. Well take a look at a pretty nice weekend but some frost possible coming up in the accuweather. Heres jobina with a look at the morning commute. Hi, mike. Thank you. Good morning. Im just going to piggyback off of mike talking about that fog. The chp issued a fog advisory for the rinchmondsan rafael bridge. Where they also issued an advisory is for the Golden Gate Bridge. You can see that fog fairly thick through there. Also bringing in the map so you can see its patchy in the east bay and in the north bay. So for people riding along 101 and 80 out of vallejo, be aware of that low visibility, also coming out of the Altamont Pass along 580 into hayward and san leandro. Reggie . Thank you. We have new video this morning and it shows the disruption at a Fairfield City Council meeting. It ended with nine people arrested. One, two, three, four, let the people take the floor this is body cam video from the meeting on tuesday night. The disruption was over a Fairfield Police officer who previously worked in vallejo and was involved in a deadly shooting. Police say the group got increasingly disruptive. Eventually the Council Members left the room and the group was asked to leave. Nine people chose to stay and Police Arrested them. Coming up, the warriors holding out hope that Klay Thompson is okay. The pretty serious injury he may have suffered. And most people are shocked. You did what . A father daughter duo in Southern California doing their part to fight the pandemic. The tree in San Franciscos union square is lit up this morning. But the 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. Were back at 5 12. The Drought Monitor showing the bay area kind of sliding into thirds with a moderate in the southern third, the middle third gets more severe. The northern third its almost as bad as it can get. This will be updated in about an hour, hour and a half from now. The rain from the last two storms probably not putting a dent in this. Were so far behind for the rain. Im working on those numbers ill have those later on in the show if not on social media. Heres the sierra snow from that storm. 10 to 16 inches. Its cool enough at night that theyre making snow. If we could ever get up there and ski, hopefully well have a nice base waiting for us. Today, quiet across the state with 50s and 60s. 40s and 50s up in the sierra. You can see that snow was about the only snow well have for a long time in the sierra. Thank you. Today cal owe ssha will wor new workplace standards to prospect employees to covid19. Employers would have to notify all workers exposed to positive cases within one business day, mandate and enforce mask wearing at work, implement Safety Measures and employer provided housing and transportation and provide free testing in the event of positive cases at work. This is a standard and it would be a legally enforced standard, not just a guideline. If this is approved it could go into effect as early as november 30th. A father daughter duo participating in pfizers covid19 vaccine trial. They dont know whether they received the actual vaccine or placebo. They will be monitored for 26 months. The father is a cool district superintendent, and a colon cancer survivor. You have to lead from the front. Its not comfortable. You may or may not want to be there, but thats where you have to lead from. I want kids in the schools and communities to be safe. The opportunity to participate in this little medical moment in the small way i could was inspiring and worth while. Kirsten is a High School Junior and said seeing her fathers Cancer Treatment firsthand inspired her to participate in the trial. The pandemic forced many changes to the holidays this year. This was the Tree Lighting in San Franciscos union square last night. There were less than 20 people there for a private ceremony. Its a far cry from what we saw last year. On the left in 2019, crowds of people gathered there. Last night on the right, not so much because of covid restrictions. As j. R. Stone shows us it was yet another sign that it was a year like no other. Not the same. Its bitter sweet we thought it was important to move forward. If i was describing 2020 and i said tis the season, if you could finish that sentence, how would you finish . To be over. To be over. Reporter tis the season to be over. But in the 2020 covid pandemic, anything can happen. There are signs of that in union square. Boards on the windows at victorias secret. The union strike continues outside of macys. Yes, very, very loud because of that. But the 83foot tree with 33,000 lights and 1,100 ornaments sure is a sight to see. As for the holidays it would be nice if covid would be over. Reporter there you have it, 2020 christmas Tree Lighting here in union square, and really not many people to actually see the tree all lit up. But it sure does look spectacular with the sweet sounds coming from the union strike. In San Francisco, j. R. Stone, abc 7 news. Wow. All right. So well go now from San Francisco all the way to new york city which has its Rockefeller CenterChristmas Tree up and it arrived with something extra. An adorable owl caught a ride all the way to the big apple. So this is a northern sawwhet owl. It survived three days stuck in the tree without food or water. The truck driver found the owl staring at him while they set it up. The owl will be released back into the wild. You know how mike wants captain cal . You want rockefeller . I want rockefeller. No kidding. We would have a good time. I was trying to figure out why it stayed in the tree. I think it was trying to warn us that the tree looks terrible. Have you seen it . I thought they fluffed it out. They fluffed it out. Theyre working on it. It did look it was a little struggle. Now its being fluffed. Yeah. I think he was there to say, this is not the tree. This is my home. This is not the tree you want. Were still going . I tried to warn you. Well, now you have me curious as to what that tree looks like. Look it up. I havent seen it yet. Its funny. My goodness. Theyre not known for funny trees, usually for glamorous and glorio glorious, centerpiece of movies. Okay. East bay hills camera, you can see the fog taking over San Francisco. Not quite as much right now in oakland and emeryville. But it is moving your way. Be careful. Mog on t fog on the move through the morning and well have temperatures close to average. Dry air rolls in during the afternoon and evening hours, that means less fog tonight. That also means cooler temperatures. Valley frost possible, the first of two nights, maybe three nights of that. Saturday is looking like our coldest morning also our warmest afternoon. You can see the high clouds were talking about moving in. Heres a look at the fog. Watch the winds as they come in from the north and eventually take most of the low clouds away from the coast as the sun sets. Look at that lack of low clouds overnight. Thats why it will be so chilly heading into tomorrow morning. For this afternoon, upper 50s along the coast. 60 to 64 degrees for the rest of us. Tonight, the 30st in the deepest valleys. My accuweather 7day forecast, not much of a change tomorrow. Even with a little more sunshine were starting off so much colder well take all day to make up for that. Coldest is saturday but also a couple degrees warmer. Sunday, monday, tuesday in the 60s. Minor warming trend for thanksgiving and the weekend. Warriors coach steve kerr and Team Trainers are going to l. A. To be with Klay Thompson as he gets an mri on his right leg. Thompson suffered the injury during a workout yesterday. Espn reports that thompson felt pain in the calf area when he landed on his leg. The warriors are worried its possibly an achilles tendon injury. Theyre holding out hope its not as serious. Its one of those deals where you dont know until you know it. Hopeful, concerned, all those things combined. Until we know more tomorrow ill save my ill hope for good news. Its been a rough go for thompson. He missed all of last season after tearing the acl in his left knee during game six of the 2019 nba finals against the raptors. Its going to be okay. Were sending him healing vibes. Im not the biggest sports fan in the world but for some reason i love Klay Thompson. I want him to be well. Coming up next, the 7 things to know this morning. And Lori Loughlins husband heading to prison today. How long the 57yearold Fashion Designer will spend locked up after. It is 5 22. Heres the 7 things to know this morning. Number one, Oxford University and astrazeneca announced overnight that the vaccine theyre developing shows a pretty strong immune response in older people. Thats really critical since they are often the most vulnerable to covid19. Number two, Contra Costa County about to get tough when it comes to following new covid safety restrictions. A task force is ready to investigate and issue fines if businesses are not playing by the rules. The spike in cases is forcing schools to rethink inperson learning. This includes districts like piedmont unified which has suspended its plans to reopen on the first week of december. Number four, the u. S. Coast gard cutter stratten was forced to return to alameda after 11 crew members tested positive for covid19. Number five, the tule fog is here. It will be dangerously thick. Visibility less than a quarter mile through 9 00. Its